Patents Examined by Stephen T Reed
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Patent number: 12223119Abstract: A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. The keyboard assembly includes a membrane having plural input sensors, each aligned with a key assembly having a key cap coupled with a scissors to a holder plate, the holder plate configured to couple to a coupling extension extending up from a housing cover upper surface. A flexible planar sheet couples between the membrane and plural keys so that a lifting force applied to the flexible planar sheet separates the plural keys from the housing cover.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: John Trevor Morrison, Jace W. Files, Chiu-Jung Tsen
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Patent number: 12223905Abstract: A display apparatus includes plural pixels, a scan driver, a data driver, and a read-out circuit that reads out an electrical characteristic of each of the pixels. Each of the pixels includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor including a first electrode connected with a power node, a second electrode connected with a first node, and a gate connected with a first emission control line, a fifth transistor including a first electrode connected with a third node, a second electrode, and a gate connected with a second emission control line, a sixth transistor including a first electrode connected with a read-out line, a second electrode connected with the third node, and a gate connected a the read-out/initialization control line, a capacitor connected between the first node and the second node, and an organic light-emitting diode.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2024Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Uijong Song, Sunkwon Kim, Hyungjoong Kim, Seongyoung Ryu, Yilho Lee, Heejin Lee
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Patent number: 12223132Abstract: According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a display device includes a sensor driver receiving firmware from an host in which the firmware is stored, the sensor driver including a second memory storing the firmware supplied from the host and initialized when a reset signal is supplied from the host, and a sensing unit for supplying a recovery signal corresponding to an abnormal state of the sensor driver to the host while sensing at least one of an internal voltage and a clock signal of the sensor driver.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Min Hong Kim, Tae Joon Kim, Jung Mok Park, Jin Woo Park, Hyun Wook Cho
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Patent number: 12216820Abstract: A method for compensating for a visual impairment in a virtual reality environment, by multiple computer systems associated with a head mounted display, including, rendering an initial image for display in a virtual reality environment, determining a first visual adjustment to the HMD based on an input received by the HMD, the input being associated with a visual impairment of a user of the HMD, determining that the first visual adjustment does not satisfy a threshold measure of compensation for the visual impairment of the user, determining a second visual adjustment to the HMD, and rendering an adjusted image for display in the virtual reality environment based on the first visual adjustment and the second visual adjustment.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2024Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Penumbra, Inc.Inventors: William Ka-Pui Yee, Jeffrey Peter Bellinghausen
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Patent number: 12216835Abstract: A method for positioning and electronic devices in a virtual space comprising: imaging, by a camera of a second electronic device, a reference object displayed at a first electronic device; obtaining, from the first electronic device, a pointer to information pertaining to position of the first electronic device in a virtual space; obtaining physical dimensions of the reference object; obtaining current position of the first electronic device in the virtual space; determining a relative distance of the second electronic device to the first electronic device based on the physical dimensions of the reference object and dimensions of the reference object as imaged by the camera of the second electronic device; determining position of the second electronic device in the virtual space based on the current position of the first electronic device in the virtual space and the determined relative distance of the second electronic device to the first electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Auki Labs LTDInventors: Nils Pihl, Andy Lau, Gustav Pihl, Ted Östrem
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Patent number: 12216863Abstract: 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: March 5, 2024Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshio Nomura
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Patent number: 12217684Abstract: Provided are a pixel configured to receive a first initialization voltage during a first period between a writing period of a first scan period and a first emission period of a frame and to receive a second initialization voltage different from the first initialization voltage from a start time point of a second period before a second emission period of a second scan period subsequent to the first scan period, a display apparatus including the pixel, and a driving method of the display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2024Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jaehoon Lee, Jihyun Ka, Seokje Seong, Joosun Yoon
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Patent number: 12204719Abstract: A touch input device includes M drive lines; N sense lines; (M×N) electrostatic capacitances; and a signal processor configured to output a first drive signal and detect a change in a plurality of electrostatic capacitances of the (M×N) electrostatic capacitances. The signal processor outputs the first drive signal to the at least one first drive line and outputs a second drive signal having a phase opposite to the first drive signal to each of at least two second drive lines. The signal processor outputs the first drive signal and the second drive signal so that a first amplitude total, which is obtained by multiplying an amplitude of the first drive signal by the number of first drive lines, is substantially equal to a second amplitude total, which is obtained by multiplying an amplitude of the second drive signal by the number of second drive lines.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2024Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventor: Kohji Nagasaka
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Patent number: 12197254Abstract: An electronic device includes a display, a housing, a glass panel provided on the display, and a shielding printed layer provided on a second surface of the glass panel in a region corresponding to a space between a side face of the electronic device and an edge of the display. The glass panel includes a flat portion and a curved portion, which includes a first region having a curvature of the curved portion, a second region perpendicular to the first region and covered by the shielding printed layer, and a chamfer region constructed between the first region and the second region. A ratio of a height of the chamfer region with respect to the first region and a length of the chamfer region with respect to the second region has a value in a range of 2 to 4.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2024Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seungjae Jung, Jeongeun Kim, Sanghoon Han, Byungsun Kim, Dongjun Oh
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Patent number: 12198630Abstract: A display includes a light emitting element that emits light, a driving transistor that controls a driving current flowing through the light emitting element, a light sensing element spaced apart from the light emitting element and generating a photocurrent according to external light, a first sensing transistor that controls a sensing current flowing to a readout line according to a voltage of a gate electrode of the first sensing transistor, which is electrically connected to an electrode of the light sensing element, and a shielding electrode disposed around a side of the gate electrode of the first sensing transistor in plan view.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2024Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hee Rim Song, Hee Jean Park, Cheol Gon Lee
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Patent number: 12189139Abstract: A near-eye display apparatus, including: a display screen including pixel island groups each including at least one pixel island which each includes pixel units; a micro-lens array disposed on a light-emitting side of the display screen, and including micro-lenses each corresponding to one pixel island, each micro-lens being configured for imaging an image displayed by the pixel island corresponding thereto; an imaging lens group disposed on a side of the micro-lens array away from the display screen and configured for collimating imaging light of the micro-lenses, the pixel island groups are configured for displaying partial images which form a complete image, and imaging field of view angles formed by outgoing light rays, of the pixel island groups adjacent to each other, passing through the micro-lenses corresponding to the pixel island groups and the imaging lens group are continuous with each other. A display method is further provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Qiuyu Ling, Wei Wang, Tiankuo Shi, Yifan Hou, Xianqin Meng, Weiting Peng, Xiaochuan Chen
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Patent number: 12190762Abstract: A display device includes liquid crystal panels, and displays an image, based on emission light from each of the liquid crystal panels. A display control circuit of the display device supplies image data of respective colors R, G, and B to the corresponding liquid crystal panels. A panel pixel having the lowest transmittance of three panel pixels corresponding to white-side pixels at domain boundaries is regarded as a reference panel pixel. The display control circuit reduces a gray scale level of pixel data supplied to two panel pixels other than the reference panel pixel of the three panel pixels. With this, coloring of the white-side pixels can be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Seiji Osawa, Kazuhisa Mizusako, Daigo Hokazono, Hiroyuki Hosaka
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Patent number: 12189885Abstract: A display device includes a display panel which includes a display area in which a plurality of subpixels are positioned and a non-display area positioned around the display area, a metal line positioned in the non-display area of the display panel, a first pin electrically connected to one end of the metal line, an operational circuit electrically connected to a first pin and configured to sense a characteristic value of the metal line, and a capacitor to be charged with a voltage applied to the first node, thereby providing a display device and an integrated circuit capable of effectively removing electric charges generated by a touch.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Beom Jeong
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Patent number: 12189892Abstract: A method of detecting an application or removal of one of a first touch and a second touch on a capacitive touch screen is provided. The method may include storing respective first touch data for a first set of nodes at a first cycle, storing respective second touch data for a second set of nodes at a second cycle after the first cycle, determining a first total touch data by summing the respective first touch data for the first set of nodes at the first cycle, determining a second total touch data by summing the respective second touch data for the second set of nodes at the second cycle, and determining whether a touch has been applied or removed from the capacitive touch screen based on a comparison between the first total touch data and the second total touch data.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2024Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Microchip Touch Solutions LimitedInventor: Shazia Maqbool
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Patent number: 12185602Abstract: A display device comprises a substrate; a circuit array layer comprising pixel drivers, data lines, first dummy lines, and second dummy lines; and a light emitting array layer. The display area comprises middle, first side, and second side regions. The data lines comprise first, second, and third data lines disposed in the middle, first side, and second side regions, respectively. The first dummy lines comprise a first data detour line disposed in the first side region and adjacent to a part of the second data line, and auxiliary lines. The second dummy lines comprise a second data detour line configured to connect the first data detour line to the third data line, and additional lines. The auxiliary lines comprise a bias auxiliary line to which a bias power is applied; and a second power auxiliary line to which a second power is applied.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2024Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Sung An, Sung Ho Kim, Yong Jae Kim, Yun Hwan Park, Yoon Jee Shin, Sug Woo Jung, Hyun Wook Choi
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Patent number: 12175935Abstract: A display apparatus includes a pixel row including a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a driving transistor that provides a driving current to a light emitting element, and includes a gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The first transistor includes a gate electrode that receives a first scan signal, a first electrode receives a data voltage, and a second electrode. The second transistor includes a gate electrode that receives a second scan signal, a first electrode that receives an initialization voltage, and a second electrode. A ripple detection unit detects ripples that occur in pixel rows in the display apparatus. A compensation image data calculation unit calculates the magnitude of the compensation image data based on the difference between the voltage level of the initialization voltage of a pixel row in which the ripple occurs and a reference initialization voltage level.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyunkyo Lim, Dongsup Sim
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Patent number: 12170055Abstract: A compensation method for a display panel, which first selects a rectangular test area in a display area of the display panel, and then obtains a first average current value flowing through all sensing transistors and a second average current value flowing through all driving transistors in the rectangular test area, and then obtains a first current curve and a second current curve flowing through the driving transistors based on the first average current value and the second average current value under different driving voltages, and then determines a transmission loss coefficient of a data signal data according to the first current curve and the second current curve, and then compensates a driving voltage of each pixel circuit in the rectangular test area based on the transmission loss coefficient.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yuchao Zeng
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Patent number: 12164718Abstract: An electronic device including: a display panel having an active area in which a plurality of pixels are disposed and a peripheral area disposed around the active area; a plurality of sensing electrodes disposed in the active area; and a first sensing line connected to one of the plurality of sensing electrodes and including a first portion disposed in the peripheral area, a second portion extending from the first portion and disposed in the active area, and a third portion extending from the second portion and disposed in the peripheral area.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wonjun Choi, Il-Joo Kim, Deokjung Kim, Wonkyu Kwak, Youngbae Jung
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Patent number: 12165567Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display device. The display device includes: a first source driver IC configured to receive pixel data to be written into sub-pixels of a first display area and a gamma compensation voltage for each grayscale and output a data voltage to be supplied to data lines of the first display area; a second source driver IC configured to receive pixel data to be written into sub-pixels of a second display area and the gamma compensation voltage for each grayscale and output a data voltage to be supplied to data lines of the second display area; a first programmable gamma IC configured to supply a first gamma reference voltage set to the first and second source driver ICs; and a second programmable gamma IC configured to supply a second gamma reference voltage set to the first and second source driver ICs.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong Kyu Lee, Yong Won Jo
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Patent number: 12159583Abstract: A display substrate and a display apparatus are provided, and the display substrate includes a pixel circuit with a light emitting module configured to emit light; a driving module configured to drive the light emitting module to emit light based on a driving voltage in a luminescence stage; a storage module configured to maintain and provide the driving voltage to the driving module in the luminescence stage; a first transistor, having a first electrode coupled to a position from which the driving module acquires the driving voltage; a second transistor, having a first electrode coupled to the first electrode of the first transistor, and a second electrode being not directly coupled to a signal source; and a voltage stabilizing capacitor, having a first electrode coupled to the second electrode of the second transistor, and a second electrode coupled to a constant voltage signal source.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2024Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jingwen Zhang, Yunsheng Xiao, Miao Wang, Yuqian Pang