Patents Examined by Stephen T Reed
  • Patent number: 11921947
    Abstract: A touch function setting method is provided. The method comprising: receiving a sequence parameter which includes multiple clicks, each of the clicks is corresponding to one of areas of a touch panel or screen; receiving a function parameter corresponding to the sequence parameter, the function parameter is corresponding to activate a function; and storing a group of touch function parameters, which includes the sequence parameter and the function parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Fu Chang, Shang-Tai Yeh, Chia-Ling Sun, Jia-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11914821
    Abstract: A touch sensitive processing method, comprising: performing capacitance sensing by a touch panel to gather an approximating or touching position of an external conductive object with regard to the touch panel; determining whether the approximating or touching position is within a non-report area, wherein a shape of the non-report area is a circle or an ellipse; when the approximating or touching position is determined outside the non-report area, reporting the approximating or touching position to a host; and when the approximating or touching position is determined inside the non-report area, ignoring the approximating or touching position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Hsiang Chao, Chun-Jung Huang
  • Patent number: 11907473
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel configured to display an image, a sensing panel configured to at least partially overlap the display panel and that includes a sensing area and a non-sensing area, a sensing panel controller configured to drive the sensing panel, a plurality of sensing electrodes disposed in the sensing area, and a plurality of sensing lines electrically connected to the plurality of sensing electrodes, respectively. The sensing panel controller is configured to apply the same sensing voltage to each of the plurality of sensing lines or to apply a reference voltage different from the sensing voltage to at least some sensing lines among the plurality of sensing lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyun Park, Sang Kook Kim, Tae Joon Kim, Hyung Bae Kim, Ji Yeong Lee, Hyun Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 11904689
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a display unit, a surrounding member, and a cover member. The surrounding member is disposed to surround a periphery of the display unit and has an opening at an end on a viewing side. The cover member is disposed on a display surface of the display unit on the viewing side and covers the opening of the surrounding member. The surrounding member does not cover a surface of the cover member on the viewing side in a direction normal to the surface of the cover member. The surrounding member includes an upper surrounding portion located above the display unit. An upper viewing side end of the upper surrounding portion projects from the surface of the cover member in the direction normal to the surface of the cover member by a length of 0.1 mm or more and 2.0 mm or less relative to the surface of the cover member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kimihiro Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11906735
    Abstract: A head-up display device (10) includes one picture generation unit (20) that emits both first light (L1) and second light (L2) and includes an optical path adjuster (40) disposed in an optical path of at least one of the first light (L1) and the second light (L2) and having light transmission properties and substantially zero optical power. The optical path adjuster (40) gradually separates the first light (L1) and the second light (L2) as compared with a state before at least one of the first light (L1) and the second light (L2) enters the optical path adjuster (40) in such a manner that the first light (L1) creates a first virtual image (V1) in a position closer to an operator and the second light (L2) creates a second virtual image (V2) in a position farther from the operator than the first virtual image (V1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuri Hamada, Kazuomi Murakami, Takanobu Toyoshima, Hideaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11900712
    Abstract: A fingerprint image capture system comprises an electro-optical material which captures a static fingerprint image and an apparatus for converting the static fingerprint image into an electronic signal. The image capture system includes an electrode for contacting a finger, and a bias supply for creating an electric field where epidermal ridges contact the electro-optical material. A transistor array senses charge or optical density variations in the electro-optical material to create an electronic representation of the fingerprint image. An initialization electrode places the electro-optical material into a uniform condition prior to acquisition of the fingerprint image. A physical artifact of the fingerprint image can be archived by removing the electro-optical material from the system following the fingerprint image acquisition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Integrated Biometrics, LLC
    Inventors: Edward John Bawolek, Douglas E. Loy
  • Patent number: 11903269
    Abstract: A touchscreen display device includes: a display; a flexible printed circuit; touch sensing electrodes connected to the flexible printed circuit; and a multi-functional ambient light sensor package mounted on the flexible printed circuit. The multi-functional ambient light sensor package includes: an ambient light sensor; transmitter and receiver circuitry connected to the touch sensing electrodes via the flexible printed circuit; and a controller configured to obtain capacitance information from the touch sensing electrodes and ambient light information from the ambient light sensor via a single chip. The multi-functional ambient light sensor package may be packaged as a wafer-level chip-scale package (WLCSP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Albert Y. Lee, Qing Xiao
  • Patent number: 11900874
    Abstract: The pixel circuit of the present disclosure includes: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jingwen Zhang, Yunsheng Xiao, Miao Wang, Yuqian Pang
  • Patent number: 11893168
    Abstract: A double side-scroll mouse device includes a housing unit, a main button unit, and a side scroll unit. The housing unit has a lower casing and a casing side skirt. The lower casing has spaced-apart first and second lateral face portions. The casing side skirt has a first operating wall extending upwardly from one of the first and second lateral face portions, and a second operating wall portion extending upwardly from the first operating wall portion. The side scroll unit includes a first scroll wheel member that is disposed on the first operating wall portion and that is rotatable about a first axis, and a second scroll wheel member that is disposed on the second operating wall portion and that is rotatable about a second axis being substantially perpendicular to the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Sunrex Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Chieh Chen, Che-Hsun Chang, Chi-Shu Hsu, Chang-Cheng Lee
  • Patent number: 11893926
    Abstract: Embodiments provide an emissive display device including a driving transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a driving gate electrode, a second transistor including a first electrode electrically connected to a data line, a transfer capacitor including a first transfer electrode electrically connected to a second electrode of the second transistor and a second transfer electrode electrically connected to the driving gate electrode; a fifth transistor electrically connecting the first electrode of the driving transistor and the driving gate electrode; a ninth transistor including a second electrode electrically connected to the second electrode of the driving transistor; and a light emitting diode including an anode and a cathode receiving an output current outputted to the second electrode of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Chang Yu, Hae Min Kim, Myunghoon Park, Dong-Hoon Lee, Kyung Hoon Chung
  • Patent number: 11887542
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee Rim Song, Hee Jean Park, Cheol Gon Lee
  • Patent number: 11880244
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungjae Jung, Jeongeun Kim, Sanghoon Han, Byungsun Kim, Dongjun Oh
  • Patent number: 11874968
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device that has a positional relationship between a plurality of attaching parts and a plurality of actuators of an operation panel that generates local vibration in the operation panel. The electronic device includes a holding member; an operation panel on which a user performs an operation input; a plurality of attaching parts that attach the operation panel to the holding member; a plurality of actuators each of which is provided between adjacent attaching parts among the plurality of attaching parts in plan view and generates vibration in the operation panel; a position detection part that detects a position where the operation input is performed; and a control part that drives at least one of the plurality of actuators in accordance with a position detected by the position detection part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: Hiroshi Wakuda
  • Patent number: 11872887
    Abstract: A display system and a vehicular head-up display system using the same is disclosed. The display system includes an image generating device, a polarization reflection film, a light-transmitting substrate, a curved wave plate, a curved reflector and a transparent substrate. The image generating device emits polarized light. The curved wave plate adheres to the reflective curved surface of the curved reflector through an optical adhesive. The curved wave plate and the reflective surface have the same curvatures. The reflective curved surface faces towards the polarization reflection film. When the curved reflector reflects the polarized light sequentially passing through the polarization reflection film and the curved wave plate to the polarization reflection film through the curved wave plate, the curved wave plate converts the polarization direction of the polarized light. Finally, the polarization reflection film reflects the polarized light to the transparent substrate to generate a virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: Interface Technology (Chengdu) Co., Ltd., Interface Optoelectronics (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Interface Optoelectronics (WuXi) Co., Ltd., General Interface Solution Limited
    Inventors: Wei Hung Tsay, Kun Da Lu
  • Patent number: 11867995
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes display panel including first substrate, lower electrode on first substrate, lower alignment layer with first alignment direction on lower electrode, second substrate, upper electrode on second substrate, upper alignment layer with first alignment direction on upper electrode, and liquid crystalline polymers with striped structure and liquid crystal molecules which are aligned in first alignment direction, and which are disposed between first and second substrates; light source unit disposed at side of display panel and configured to emit incident light which is not polarized; and light guided structure disposed between side of display panel and light source unit, wherein light source unit is disposed in parallel to first alignment direction and light which is emitted from display panel is polarized in first alignment direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro Okuyama, Akira Sakaigawa
  • Patent number: 11861129
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel having a light emitting region and a non-light emitting region defined in the display panel, and including a light emitting device disposed in the light emitting region, an input sensor disposed on the display panel and including a first sensing electrode extending in a first direction and a second sensing electrode extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a heat generating module disposed on the input sensor. The heat generating module includes a heat generating electrode disposed in a layer the same as a layer for the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrode, and a heat generating device disposed on the heat generating electrode and the second sensing electrode to electrically connect the heat generating electrode to the second sensing electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunjee Jeon, Sanghyun Lim
  • Patent number: 11862060
    Abstract: A shift register, a gate drive circuit and a display device. During forward scanning, the first input circuit supplies a signal of a first reference signal terminal to a first node in response to a signal of a first input signal terminal at an input phase, and the second input circuit supplies a signal of a second reference signal terminal to the first node in response to a signal of a second input signal terminal at a reset phase; and during reverse scanning, the second input circuit supplies the signal of the second reference signal terminal to the first node in response to the signal of the second input signal terminal at the input phase, and the first input circuit supplies the signal of the first reference signal terminal to the first node in response to the signal of the first input signal terminal at the reset phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yan Yan, Xu Wang, Weitao Chen, Yu Ma, Zhiqiang Ma, Shunsha Lu
  • Patent number: 11862114
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel having a display surface that includes a first region and a second region. The display panel outputs a first light in the first region and a second light in the second region. The first light has a first normal brightness in a first orthogonal direction and a first oblique brightness in a first inclined direction. The second light has a second normal brightness in a second orthogonal direction and a second oblique brightness in a second inclined direction. The included angles between the orthogonal directions and the corresponding inclined directions are acute angles. 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 is defined as a second ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Chia Huang, Yuan-Lin Wu, Kuan-Feng Lee, Tsung-Han Tsai
  • Patent number: 11861096
    Abstract: A control device comprising a front portion, at least one button cap, and a controller. The front portion comprises a plurality of button zones each comprising a tactile switch and at least one touch sensor. The at least one button cap is adapted to attach to the control device over at least one of the button zones such that the at least one button cap is positioned over the at least one touch sensor and interacts with the tactile switch in the at least one of the button zones. The controller determines which button zone and which location of the button zone is actuated in response to a combination of signals received from at least one of the tactile switches and at least one of the touch sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin M. Slivka
  • Patent number: 11854457
    Abstract: A method includes: (a) receiving initial image frame data to display an image frame on a display panel, a luminance of each pixel of the display corresponding to a gray level; (b) identifying dark pixels at or below a first threshold gray level; (c) identifying pixels to be modified as a subset of the dark pixels neighbored by at least one bright pixel exceeding a second threshold gray level; (d) increasing by an incremental amount the gray level of the pixels to be modified, providing modified image frame data composed of: (i) the dark pixels that are neighbored by at least one bright pixel having gray levels that have been increased by the incremental gray level amount, and (ii) other pixels that have gray levels from the initial image frame data; and (e) displaying the image frame using the modified image frame data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Daniel Solomon