Patents Examined by Stephen T Reed
  • Patent number: 11327310
    Abstract: The present application discloses examples of various apparatuses and systems that can be utilized for augmented reality. According to one example, a wearable device that can optionally comprise: a frame configured for wearing by a user; one or more optical elements mounted on the frame; an array having a plurality of light emitting diodes coupled to the one or more optical elements, wherein the one or more optical elements and the array are mounted within a field of view of the user when the frame is worn by the user; and additional onboard electronic components carried by the frame including at least a battery that is configured to provide for electrically powered operation of the array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Matthew Bates, Ilteris Canberk, Brandon Carrillo, David G. Fliszar, Adam Douglas Greengard, Kenneth Kubala, David Meisenholder, Jonathan M Rodriguez, II, Amit Singh, Samuel Thompson
  • Patent number: 11320939
    Abstract: A touch panel has a substrate having first and second surfaces, and defines a touch surface. A first portion of a touch system includes a first plurality of echelons on the first surface in a first array along a first centerline. Each echelon is formed at an angle to the first centerline, and a first shear transducer assembly on the edge of the substrate that generates a shear wave in a source wave mode in a first direction along the first centerline. A second portion of the touch system includes a second plurality of echelons on the first surface in a second array along a second centerline, each echelon at a second angle to the second centerline. The second centerline is orthogonal to the first. A second shear transducer assembly is mounted on the edge and generates a shear wave in a source wave mode in a second direction along the second centerline. The first sensing mode is different from the second sensing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Texzec, Inc.
    Inventors: Terence J. Knowles, Charles F. Bremigan, III
  • Patent number: 11308894
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display, a display panel and a manufacturing method of a display device are disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a backlight module and a display panel including a first region and a second region with different curvatures. The display panel receives a light from the backlight module, outputs a first light in the first region and outputs a second light in the second region. The first light and the second light respectively have a first normal brightness and a second normal brightness in a normal view angle, and respectively have a first oblique brightness and a second oblique brightness in an oblique view angle. A ratio of a difference between the first normal brightness and the second normal brightness to the first normal brightness is less than a ratio of a difference between the first oblique brightness and the second oblique brightness to the first oblique brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Chia Huang, Yuan-Lin Wu, Kuan-Feng Lee, Tsung-Han Tsai
  • Patent number: 11307727
    Abstract: A touch control display panel is provided. The touch control display panel includes a base substrate; and a black matrix layer on the base substrate and in an inter-subpixel region of the touch control display panel. The black matrix layer includes a non-sensing portion, and a plurality of sensing portions spaced apart from the non-sensing portion. The touch control display panel further includes a first electrode layer including a plurality of first electrode blocks respectively between the plurality of sensing portions and the base substrate; and a second electrode layer including a plurality of second electrode blocks respectively on a side of the plurality of sensing portions away from the first electrode layer. A respective one of the plurality of sensing portions is configured to undergo a restorable change in electrical resistivity in response to a pressure from a touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuedi He, Guoqiang Tang
  • Patent number: 11307672
    Abstract: In some examples, an electronic device includes a first part comprising a touch-sensitive surface, and a mechanical keyboard pivotally attached to the first part, where the mechanical keyboard is pivotable between a first position where the keyboard is away from the touch-sensitive surface, and a second position where the keyboard is engaged to the touch-sensitive surface. The touch-sensitive surface is to detect actuations of keys of the mechanical keyboard when the mechanical keyboard is at the second position and engaged with the touch-sensitive surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Bradley Neal Suggs
  • Patent number: 11301055
    Abstract: A keyboard device having a wireless charging function and a peripheral device are provided. The keyboard includes a casing module, a processing module, a key module, a first secondary resonant circuit and a second secondary resonant circuit. The processing module is electrically connected to the key module. The first secondary resonant circuit is disposed on a first side of the casing module. The second secondary resonant circuit is disposed on a second side of the casing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: DEXIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ho-Lung Lu, Pai-Yang Chou
  • Patent number: 11301082
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a fingerprint recognition unit and a fabrication method thereof, a fingerprint recognition module and a display device. The fingerprint recognition unit includes: a bearing substrate; a receiving electrode layer on the bearing substrate; a piezoelectric material layer on a side of the receiving electrode layer away from the bearing substrate; and a driving electrode layer on a side of the piezoelectric material layer away from the receiving electrode layer. A density of the driving electrode layer is greater than 5 g/cm3, and a thickness of the driving electrode layer, a thickness of the piezoelectric material layer and a thickness of the bearing substrate are configured such that a vibration nodal plane of the piezoelectric material layer is within the piezoelectric material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenqu Liu, Qi Yao, Feng Zhang, Zhao Cui, Libo Wang, Dongfei Hou, Xiaoxin Song, Zhijun Lv, Liwen Dong, Detian Meng, Jalil Ryu, Yang Yue, Haitao Huang
  • Patent number: 11287903
    Abstract: A novel method is proposed to operate a stylus product. In this method, inertial measurement unit (IMU) signals are used to estimate a tilted angle of the stylus product. On the other hand, acceleration signals measured when a finger taps a stylus are collected to train a deep neural network as a tap classifier. A combination of the tilted angle and the tap classifier allows a user to interact with a peripheral device (e.g. a touchscreen) by rotating and taping the stylus product. A tap classifying system and a stylus product are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Tsung-Hua Tsai, Ying-Jyh Yeh
  • Patent number: 11287968
    Abstract: Systems and methods for interactive objects including conductive lines are provided. An interactive object may comprise a capacitive touch sensor comprising two or more non-crossing conductive lines that form at least a first conductive line pattern. The first conductive line pattern may comprise a first, second, and third sequence of the two or more non-crossing conductive lines relative to a respective first, second, and third input direction. The interactive object may be configured to detect touch input to the capacitive touch sensor based on a change in capacitance associated with the two or more non-crossing conductive lines, identify at least one of the first, second, or third line sequence based on the touch input to the capacitive touch sensor, and determine a respective gesture corresponding to the first, second, or third sequence of two or more non-crossing conductive lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Tong Wu
  • Patent number: 11281342
    Abstract: A touch control structure is provided. The touch control structure includes a first touch electrode including a plurality of first touch control blocks; a second touch electrode including a plurality of second touch control blocks; and one or more reversibly deformable elastic supports between and in direct contact with a respective one of the plurality of first touch control blocks and a respective one of the plurality of second touch control blocks. When the touch control structure is in a first state without a touch, the respective one of the plurality of first touch control blocks includes a first overlapping portion and a first margin portion abutting the first overlapping portion, and the respective one of the plurality of second touch control blocks includes a second overlapping portion and a second margin portion abutting the second overlapping portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Liu, Yueping Zuo, Qiuhua Meng
  • Patent number: 11281328
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to display devices which include data lines for transferring driving signals, gate lines for transferring scan signals, a plurality of pixel electrodes respectively disposed in a plurality of subpixels, common electrodes supplying a display common voltage upon display driving, readout lines connected with the common electrodes, and photo transistors including a gate, a first, and a second electrode. The second electrode of each of the photo transistors is electrically connected with the common electrode. The first electrode and gate electrode of each of the photo transistors is electrically connected with a common electrode or a gate line for display driving. Thus, it is possible to operate photo sensors to perform photo sensing even without all or some of the signal lines necessary for the operation of the photo sensors, thereby increasing the aperture ratio and transmittance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: DukKeun Yoo, HyunGon Kim
  • Patent number: 11276358
    Abstract: A display panel and a method for manufacturing the display panel are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels disposed on a substrate of the display panel. Each of the sub-pixels includes a drive transistor including a gate dielectric layer; a storage capacitor including a capacitance dielectric layer; a first insulating layer disposed between a data line of the display panel and a scan line of the display panel; a second insulating layer disposed between the data line and a common line of the display panel. The gate dielectric layer, the first insulating layer, the capacitance dielectric layer, and the second insulating layer are insulating films with different thicknesses integrally formed through a halftone masking or grayscale masking process, and a thickness of the gate dielectric layer is smaller than a thickness of the first insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMIIED
    Inventor: Huai Liang He
  • Patent number: 11269465
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mutual capacitive touch panel including a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer. The first electrode layer includes a plurality of electrode strings extending along a first direction. The second electrode layer includes a plurality of electrode strips extending along a second direction, in which one of the electrode strips include a plurality of electrode portions connected in series, one of the electrode portions includes a main part and at least branch part, the main part crosses a corresponding one of the electrode strings, the branch part is connected to a side of the main part, and no branch part exists between the branch part and the outer side of the corresponding electrode string. A spacing between a side of the branch part adjacent to the outer side and the outer side is greater than twice a width of the branch part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ILI TECHNOLOGY HOLDING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsien Hsu, Tzu-Wei Liu, Hu-Chi Chang
  • Patent number: 11269474
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a touch device, including a display region and a transmission region. The transmission region is arranged on at least one side around the display region. The touch device includes a first flexible film, a first low-resistance conductive layer, a first adhesive layer, a second flexible film, a second low-resistance conductive layer, a second adhesive layer, and a transparent cover plate sequentially from bottom to top. The first low-resistance conductive layer includes a first touch conductive layer and a first wire integrally formed. The second low-resistance conductive layer includes a second touch conductive layer and a second wire integrally formed. The first touch conductive layer and the second touch conductive layer correspond to the display region. The first wire and the second wire correspond to the transmission region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Zenithnano Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yuchun Zhang, Shudong Zhong, Mao Li
  • Patent number: 11269414
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Neurable Inc.
    Inventors: Ramses Alcaide, Dereck Padden, Jay Jantz, James Hamet, Jeffrey Morris, Jr., Arnaldo Pereira
  • Patent number: 11256363
    Abstract: A sensor system includes a receiver circuit including a receiver electrode, a transmitter electrode, and control logic. The control logic is configured to determine that an amplitude of a transmitter electrode output signal is greater than an amplitude threshold. Based on this determination, the control logic is configured to whether a frequency of the transmitter electrode output signal is within an allowed frequency range. Based on a determination that the frequency of the transmitter electrode output signal is not within the allowed frequency range, the control logic is configured to determine that noise is present in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Attma Sharma
  • Patent number: 11256416
    Abstract: A button device and a manipulation structure thereof are provided. The manipulation structure includes a plurality of brackets and a plurality of transparent keys respectively fixed to the brackets. Each bracket has an elastic segment, a fixing segment, and a placing segment, the latter two of which are connected to two opposite ends of the elastic segment. Each transparent key includes a press portion and an abutting portion. The press portion is fixed to the fixing segment of the corresponding bracket, and has a touch surface arranged away from the corresponding bracket. The abutting portion extends from the press portion along a displacement direction away from the touch surface, and a width of the abutting portion is less than that of the press portion. The touch surface of each of the transparent keys can be moved along the displacement direction to deform the corresponding bracket by being pressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: QUIXANT PLC
    Inventor: Chih-Chi Hung
  • Patent number: 11256375
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an input sensor that senses an input from an outside source to obtain a sensing coordinate. The input sensor has a plurality of sensing units defined therein. A memory stores a first modeling data obtained from first and second sensing units and a second modeling data obtained from first and third sensing units. A controller corrects the sensing coordinate to obtain a calculated coordinate. The controller comprises a first reference point moving unit that converts the sensing coordinate into a first middle coordinate based on a coordinate system having a plurality of coordinate units. A coordinate correction unit obtains a second middle coordinate by correcting the first middle coordinate based on the first and second modeling data. A second reference point moving unit obtains the calculated coordinate based on the second middle coordinate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaseung Ku, Soowon Kim, Suyul Seo, Suhyun Jeong, Dong-Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 11249551
    Abstract: An electrostatic feedback display array, an active driving method, and a circuit. The array includes a substrate, an insulation layer on the substrate, a passivation layer on the insulation layer, a dielectric layer on the passivation layer, an inductive TFT and a driving TFT in the insulation layer. The passivation layer has an LED and electrically connects to a first electrode of the LED. The dielectric layer has a second electrode. The source of the inductive TFT electrically connects to the second electrode. The driving TFT has a source electrically connected to the first electrode device, and a gate electrically connected to a source of inductive TFT. The invention utilizes TFTs to control a touch electrostatic feedback switch, integrates electrostatic feedback, capacitance sensing and display functions, realizes boundary perceptible haptic feedbacks, avoids direct connection and harmful consequences of high voltage source to the human body, and improve safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nian Liu, Macai Lu
  • Patent number: 11238788
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an OLED panel, a driving method thereof and a display device. The OLED panel has pixel units arranged in rows and columns, and each including an OLED device. The OLED panel includes regions arranged in column direction, and each including at least one row of pixel units and a cathode layer, the OLED devices in each region share the cathode layer therein, and the cathode layer of each region is disconnected from the cathode layer of any other region. The OLED panel includes a cathode voltage supply circuit configured to output a cathode voltage including an operating level to the cathode layer. The cathode voltage supply circuit is configured to start outputting the operating level to the cathode layer of at least one region at a time at least later than a time when all pixel units in the region receive a scan signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Qin, Kuanjun Peng, Chengchung Yang, Xiaolong Li, Zhiqiang Xu