Patents Examined by Stephen T Reed
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Patent number: 11977700Abstract: A touch detection drive circuit in an electronic device inputs a touch excitation signal to a touch electrode, and receives a detection signal of the touch electrode. An isolation power supply circuit: receives the touch excitation signal and a primary power supply voltage; based on the touch excitation signal in a non-touch detection phase, short-circuits a first reference ground and a second reference ground, stores the primary power supply voltage, and transmits the primary power supply voltage to the touch detection drive circuit; and in a touch detection phase, disconnects the first reference ground from the second reference ground and discharges to the touch detection drive circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhengyuan Hu, Fengxin Wang, Jian Shen, Nanxue Gong
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Patent number: 11978401Abstract: The embodiments of the application provide a display panel and a driving method thereof and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a first pixel circuit and first light emitting element. The first pixel circuit is electrically connected with M first light emitting elements which are connected in series, M and M is an integer. The first pixel circuit includes: a driving module configured to drive the first light emitting elements to emit light; and at least one first switch module connected in parallel with N first light emitting elements, 1?N<M and N is a positive integer.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Shanglong Wang, Tianchun Zheng
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Patent number: 11977698Abstract: A control device including a control section configured to cause a sound output section to output sound in a case where it is determined that an operation is performed on an input section by a target object coming into contact with a contact region, the input section having the contact region touched by the target object, wherein the control section adjusts a sharpness peak as a control parameter for performing control in such a manner that the sound output section outputs the sound, the sharpness peak being a maximum value of sharpness indicating sharpness of the sound.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHOInventors: Takeshi Ohnishi, Fumiaki Hirose, Yuma Nakai
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Patent number: 11971548Abstract: A system having a camera to capture a scene image of a scene having an object as viewed from a perspective of an operator through a windscreen; a computer vision circuit to identify an object image corresponding to the object in the scene image captured by the camera; a marker generator circuit to generate a marker indicative of the identified object image and to determine a marker position in the operator's line of sight between the object and the operator; and a screen to display the generated marker in the marker position to appear associated with the identified object as viewed from the perspective of the operator through the windscreen. Also, methods for marking objects.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Microchip Technology IncorporatedInventors: Cristina-Georgeta Radu, Valentin Stoia
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Patent number: 11972072Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device including a first sensing circuit, a second sensing circuit and a power line. The first sensing circuit includes a first sensing unit and a first transistor, and a first end of the first sensing unit is coupled to a control end of the first transistor. The second sensing circuit includes a second sensing unit and a second transistor, and a first end of the second sensing unit is coupled to a control end of the second transistor. A first end of the first transistor and a first end of the second transistor are coupled to the power line.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: InnoLux CorporationInventors: Shu-Fen Li, Chuan-Chi Chien, Hsiao-Feng Liao, Rui-An Yu, Chang-Chiang Cheng, Po-Yang Chen, I-An Yao
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Patent number: 11972049Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to systems, devices, and methods for use in the implementation of a brain-computer interface that integrates real-time eye-movement tracking with brain activity tracking to present and update a user interface that is strategically designed for high speed and accuracy of human-machine interaction. Embodiments described herein also relate to the implementation of a hardware agnostic brain-computer interface that uses real-time eye tracking and online analysis of neural signals to mediate user manipulation of machines.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Neurable Inc.Inventors: Ramses Alcaide, Dereck Padden, Jay Jantz, James Hamet, Jeffrey Morris, Jr., Arnaldo Pereira
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Patent number: 11972056Abstract: A method is provided. The method comprises obtaining, by a processing system and using a piezoelectric device, piezoelectric signals associated with user input on a sensing region of an input device; obtaining, by the processing system and using a corrective device, corrective signals associated with the user input on the sensing region of the input device; determining, by the processing system and based on the piezoelectric signals and the corrective signals, one or more events to be performed in response to the user input; and performing, by the processing system, the one or more events.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Patrick A. Worfolk, Stuart W. Hutson
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Patent number: 11970117Abstract: A display system includes: an outputter that is provided behind a windshield of a conveyance in a front-back direction of the conveyance and includes an output surface from which image light is outputted toward the windshield; a reflector that is provided between the windshield and the output surface and includes a reflecting surface at which the image light outputted from the output surface is reflected; and optics that includes a polarizing plate and is provided on the windshield or between the windshield and the reflector, the polarizing plate absorbing or reflecting the image light outputted from the output surface and not reflected at the reflecting surface, and allowing outside light that is light outside of the conveyance to pass through the polarizing plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Nagatomi, Norihiro Imamura
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Patent number: 11972074Abstract: This display device includes: a drive processing unit inputs an input signal with respect to a plurality of drive lines; an output detection processing unit that detects an output signal that is output from a plurality of sense lines; a grouping processing unit that groups the plurality of drive lines into a plurality of groups each having a set grouped number of adjacent drive lines; and a touch operation detection processing unit that detects a touch operation made with respect to a touch panel based on a linear element sequence calculated by a matrix operation of an input sequence and an output sequence. The drive processing unit inputs the input signal having the same pattern to each of the grouped number of drive lines that have been grouped by the grouping processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kuniaki Matsui, Koichi Sugiyama
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Patent number: 11972706Abstract: An image display system includes semiconductor light sources that output optical signals including modulated signal portions at timings different from each other, optical fiber cables that respectively transmit the optical signals, a light synthesizer that synthesizes the optical signals to output a synthesized optical signal, a light amount detector that detects an output light amount of the synthesized optical signal, a modulated signal detector that detects the modulated signal portions from the detected output light amount, an image modulator that modulates the synthesized optical signal according to an input image signal to output a modulated image light, and a light source controller that outputs drive control signals for respectively outputting the optical signals respectively including the modulated signal portions according to the image signal, and detects a failure of the optical fiber cables based on whether a modulated signal portion among the plurality of modulated signal portions is detected.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Takaaki Gyoten
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Patent number: 11966532Abstract: A touch sensor device includes a first panel, a second panel, and a drive-sense circuit (DSC). The first panel that includes first electrodes arranged in a first direction and second electrodes arranged in a second direction. The second panel includes third electrodes arranged in a third direction and fourth electrodes arranged in a fourth direction. The DSC is operably coupled via a single line to a coupling of a first electrode of the first electrodes and a first electrode of the third electrodes. The DSC is configured to provide the signal, which is generated based on a reference signal, via the single line to the coupling and simultaneously to sense the signal via the single line. The DSC generates a digital signal representative of the at least one electrical characteristic associated with the first electrode of the first electrodes and/or the first electrode of the third electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.Inventor: Kevin Joseph Derichs
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Patent number: 11960675Abstract: The application provides a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a touch panel, configured to receive a touch operation and comprising a touch film and a display panel configured to display an image; a backlight module configured to provide a backlight source to the touch panel and including a backplane, a reflective sheet, a light guide plate, an optical film and a light source located on one side of the backplane; a touch pad, configured to drive and control the touch film; and a plurality of flexible circuit boards, through which the touch film is electrically connected with the touch pad, and which are located on a same side of the touch film.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Hisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dongxin Qi, Aichen Xu, Ying Chen, Caixia Zhao, Yuxin Zhang
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Patent number: 11954272Abstract: An information processing device includes a first display, a touch sensor on a screen of the first display detects a position of an object on the screen and detects approach of a pen within a distance above the screen, a pen input processing acquires a position of the pen on the screen by switching between a first input mode for displaying a movement locus of the pen on the screen based on the position of the pen and a second input mode for making a second display sets to a specific arrangement relation with the first display displays the movement locus of the pen and an input switch processing which switches between the first input mode and the second input mode alternately in accordance with a movement of the pen performed in a non-contact state based on the specific arrangement relation after detection of the pen.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Yoshitsugu Suzuki
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Patent number: 11954284Abstract: Provided is a position detection circuit that uses a touch sensor of a capacitance type including sensor electrodes to detect a first position indicated by a first indicator that communicates with the touch sensor to indicate the first position and a second position indicated by a second indicator that indicates the second position without communicating with the touch sensor, the position detection circuit including a first detection circuit that detects a touch of the second indicator to an input surface arranged on the touch sensor, a second detection circuit that detects the first indicator when proximity information indicating a proximity of the first indicator to the touch sensor is equal to or greater than a threshold, and a changing circuit that changes the threshold to a larger value when the first detection circuit detects the touch compared to when the first detection circuit does not detect the touch.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshio Nomura
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Patent number: 11947753Abstract: The present application provides a touch driving circuit, a driving chip and a touch display device.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Long Huang, Chenyang Kong
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Patent number: 11942491Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light sensing unit, a gallium nitride (GaN)-based image sensor, and a display apparatus thereof. The light sensing unit includes: red, green, and blue light sensing sub-units, where materials of a light sensing layer of each of the light sensing sub-units are GaN-based materials containing indium(In). The materials of the light sensing layers may contain different contents of In, such that the light sensing sub-units are enabled to generate or not generate light sensing electrical signals according to different wave lengths of received light. During a GaN-based material growth process, the contents of In in different regions are controlled to prepare the light sensing sub-units at the same time to increase integration degrees of the light sensing unit, the GaN-based image sensor, and the display apparatus containing the light sensing unit to achieve miniaturization.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: ENKRIS SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.Inventor: Kai Cheng
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Patent number: 11942018Abstract: A display device is described including a display panel for displaying an image and an input sensing unit disposed on the display panel for sensing a user input. The input sensing unit includes: an electrode unit including first electrodes and second electrodes which intersect each other and a control unit for determining the proximity of an object or the shape of the object, based on capacitance change values of the first electrodes and the second electrodes. In a first mode the input sensing unit is driven using a self-capacitance method. The control unit may merge the capacitance change values, and determine the proximity of the object based on the merged value. In a second mode based on mutual capacitance, the control unit may determine the shape of the object.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae Woo Choi, Tae Joon Kim, Eun Sol Seo, Hyun Wook Cho
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Patent number: 11935182Abstract: An information processing apparatus performs first determination of determining whether a blurring state of a region in a captured image corresponding to an element of three-dimensional shape data of an object satisfies a condition and performs second determination of, in a case where the blurring state is determined to satisfy the condition, determining whether the region is visible or invisible from an image capture apparatus having captured the captured image and, in a case where the blurring state is determined not to satisfy the condition, determining that the region is invisible. The information processing apparatus generates information used in generating a virtual viewpoint image, based on a determination result by the second determination.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasufumi Takama
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Patent number: 11934615Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch power management circuit and a touch driving system comprising the same, and more particularly, relates to a touch power management circuit to generate signals required for a touch driving by using voltage sources different in a pen touch driving period and a finger touch driving period in order to reduce power consumption of a display device and a touch driving system comprising the touch power management circuit.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.Inventors: Seong Sik Yoon, Seong Wha Hong
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Patent number: 11935479Abstract: According to some aspects of the disclosure, an organic light-emitting display device including a display panel including a driving thin film transistor (TFT), comprises a sensing unit configured to perform a sensing operation for external compensation of the display panel, and an analog-digital converter (ADC) configured to perform a conversion operation of converting an analog value held in the sensing unit into a digital value, wherein the sensing unit comprises a basic sensing unit configured to perform a sensing operation on the driving TFT, and a dummy sensing unit configured to perform a sensing operation on changes in a gain and an offset of the ADC, and the basic sensing unit and the dummy sensing unit are in a cascade connection to each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: DB GlobalChip Co., Ltd.Inventors: Cheon Wi Park, Jung Il Seo, Jae Hong Ko