Patents Examined by Temesghen Ghebretinsae
  • Patent number: 11686943
    Abstract: A display device comprising: a lens module comprising a lens and a reflective module in the lens; and a display module on at least one side surface of the lens, the display module being configured to display an image, the lens comprising: a side surface facing the display module and configured to receive the image; and an exiting surface configured to emit the image reflected by the reflective module, wherein the side surface comprises one or more inclination surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JeongWoo Park, Jaejoong Kwon, Hyun Sup Lee, Subin Jung, Juhwa Ha
  • Patent number: 11681380
    Abstract: This application is directed to a capacitive sense array including a two-dimensional array of capacitive sense elements. Each capacitive sense element is formed by a respective intersection of (i) a respective row electrode in a first electrode layer and (ii) a respective column electrode in a second electrode layer. Each column of the capacitive sense elements includes two or more interdigitated column electrodes. Each row electrode forms two or more rows of capacitive sense elements at intersections with the column electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Andrew Kiernan, Frederick Jaccard, Pete Vavaroutsos
  • Patent number: 11682369
    Abstract: A light emitting display can be formed from tiles mounted within a certain distance range with respect to each other and with an established blending region positioned towards the edges of the tiles. A tile can be a matrix of light emitting elements, such as LEDs, OLEDs, quantum dots, or other element that emits light. The tolerance of spacing between tiles can allow for less precision in alignment during installation in a theatre, thereby reducing display assembly cost but still maintaining a display for displaying an image at a high quality with reduced or eliminated appearance of visual artifacts between tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: IMAX Theatres International Limited
    Inventors: Steen Svendstorp Iversen, Steven Charles Read, Anton Leonard Baljet
  • Patent number: 11681381
    Abstract: An active stylus includes an elongate housing having a tip end and a secondary end, opposite the tip end. An inductive charging coil is mounted within the elongate housing, between the tip end and the secondary end. A magnet configured to magnetically hold the inductive charging coil in a charging position and orientation relative to an inductive charger is moveably mounted within the elongate housing between the tip end and the inductive charging coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Rahul R. Marwah, Bradley Edgar Clements, Brady James Toothaker
  • Patent number: 11681375
    Abstract: A capacitance sensing module may include a capacitance sensor; a pressure sensor in mechanical communication with the capacitance sensor; a processor and memory; programmed instructions stored in the memory to cause the processor, when executed, to determine, with the capacitance sensor, a location of a user input; determine, with the pressure sensor, a pressure value of the user input applied to the capacitance sensor; and determine whether the pressure value exceeds a non-uniform actuation threshold value where the non-uniform actuation threshold value is based, at least in part, on the location of the user input on the capacitance sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Cirque Corporation
    Inventors: David Taylor, Tyler Smith
  • Patent number: 11675436
    Abstract: Dynamically adjustable EDA measurement device may include: a dynamically formable base comprising a soft robotics material, wherein the dynamically formable base comprises a formable surface configured to be dynamically formed in response to input signals; and an EDA sensing layer affixed to the formable surface of the dynamically formable base, the EDA sensing layer comprising a plurality of electrodes arranged on a flexible substrate and configured to be connected to a power supply; wherein, in response to input signals, the formable surface of the dynamically formable base and the EDA sensing layer affixed thereto are reformed into a desired contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC.
    Inventors: Frederico Marcolino Quintao Severgnini, Ercan Mehmet Dede, Paul D. Schmalenberg
  • Patent number: 11675448
    Abstract: A touch panel having a visible area and a non-visible area disposed at least on one side of the visible area. The touch panel includes a substrate, a nano-metal conductive layer, a trace layer, a first passivation layer, and a second passivation layer. The nano-metal conductive layer is disposed on the substrate and at least in the visible area. The trace layer is disposed on the substrate and in the non-visible area. The trace layer is electrically connected to the nano-metal conductive layer. The first passivation layer covers the trace layer. The second passivation layer covers at least a portion of the first passivation layer. The first passivation layer has a different Young's modulus than the second passivation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: TPK Advanced Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Chi-Mei Yan, Jin-Hui Zhang, Fang Fang, Kang-Yu Liu
  • Patent number: 11675438
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a bracket disposed on a first surface of the display panel, and a first vibrating device disposed between the first surface of the display panel and a first surface of the bracket which faces the first surface of the display panel. The first vibrating device is configured to output a first sound and provide a haptic feedback by vibrating the display panel and the bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun Kyung Yeon, Ga Na Kim, Jung Hun Noh, Yi Joon Ahn
  • Patent number: 11669177
    Abstract: An e-pen includes e-pen sensor electrodes (including a first and a second e-pen sensor electrode) and drive-sense circuits (DSCs) (including a first DSC and a second DSC. The first DSC drives a first e-pen signal having a first frequency via a first single line coupling to the first e-pen sensor electrode and simultaneously senses, via the first single line, the first e-pen signal. Based on e-pen/touch sensor device interaction, the first e-pen signal is coupled into at least one touch sensor electrode of the touch sensor device. The first DSC process the first e-pen signal to generate a first digital signal representative of a first electrical characteristic of the first e-pen sensor electrode. Similarly, the second DSC drives a second e-pen signal having a second frequency via a second single line coupling to the second e-pen sensor electrode and simultaneously senses, via the second single line, the second e-pen signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Gerald Dale Morrison, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Michael Shawn Gray, Kevin Joseph Derichs
  • Patent number: 11662862
    Abstract: An input sensing device includes a base layer. A first electrode member includes first sensing electrodes arranged along a first direction on the base layer. Each of the first sensing electrodes includes a first opening exposing the base layer. A first pressure sensing electrode is disposed in the first opening and is insulated from the first sensing electrodes. The first pressure sensing electrode includes a first sensing cell and a second sensing cell. The first sensing cell includes first branch electrodes each extending in a third direction. The second sensing cell includes second branch electrodes each extending in a fourth direction intersecting the third direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Woo Hyung, Seung Ho Baek
  • Patent number: 11656711
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatuses for configuring a plurality of virtual buttons on a device. For example, each of the plurality of virtual buttons may be activated or deactivated based on a mode of operation of the device. By activating and deactivating different combinations of the plurality of virtual buttons depending on the mode of operation of the device, the inadvertent engagement of virtual buttons which would otherwise not be used in that mode of operation may be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Lorenz, Anthony Stephen Doy
  • Patent number: 11650675
    Abstract: A rotary knob having (inter alia, adjustable) a coupling electrode and capacitive coupling devices for placing on a touch screen is provided. Depending on the position of the rotary knob or of the coupling electrode, contact of a corresponding partial region of the touchscreen is detected. The rotary knob is designed detect and ignore disturbing influences such as drops of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Preh GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Martin, Benedikt Schmidt, Markus Klein
  • Patent number: 11650664
    Abstract: A piezoelectric vibration module has a first soft circuit board and a plurality of piezoelectric units. The first soft circuit board includes a plurality of cutting areas. Two adjacent cutting areas are spaced with a cut through groove. Each piezoelectric unit is respectively configured below each cutting area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: CHUNG-YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yung Ting, Sheuan-Perng Lin, Jun-Hong Lin, Zih-Jie Lin
  • Patent number: 11644908
    Abstract: A stylus including a pen body and a magnetic attraction assembly is provided. The magnetic attraction assembly includes a magnet and a magnetic conductive structure. The magnet is disposed at a first position in the pen body. The magnetic conductive structure is disposed in the pen body and connected to the magnet to be magnetized by the magnet, and two end portions of the magnetic conductive structure are respectively located at a second position and a third position in the pen body. The magnetic attraction assembly is adapted to magnetically attract an electronic device at two of the first position, the second position and the third position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Feng Chen, Chien-Shuo Chen
  • Patent number: 11640210
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, a raised structure, a touch sensing electrode layer, and a peripheral circuit layer. The substrate has a visible region and a border region surrounding the visible region. The raised structure is disposed on the substrate and located in the border region, in which the raised structure and the substrate constitute a step area. The touch sensing electrode layer is disposed in the visible region and partially extends to the border region to cross over the raised structure and cover the step area. The peripheral circuit layer is disposed in the border region, and overlaps the touch sensing electrode layer at least on the raised structure and the step area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: TPK Advanced Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsien Yu, Zi-Jun Ding, Yun-Guo Xu, Jian-Hua Fang, Li-De Lv
  • Patent number: 11630531
    Abstract: A nanopaper and a fabricating method thereof, a method of graphic processing and an electronic device are provided. The nanopaper includes: a transparent substrate, wherein the transparent substrate includes a micro-nano-fiber; a plurality of pressure sensing units, wherein the pressure sensing units are located on one side of the transparent substrate, and resistances of the pressure sensing units are able to vary with deformation of the transparent substrate; and a plurality of leads, wherein the plurality of leads are connected to the pressure sensing units, and are configured to be able to separately output a sensing signal of each of the plurality of pressure sensing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kairan Liu, Wei Cao
  • Patent number: 11630542
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a transmission electrode layer that includes a transmission electrode to which a drive signal is supplied, a reception electrode layer that includes a position detection electrode and a pressing force detection electrode that form capacitance between the transmission electrode layer and themselves, in accordance with the capacitance, at least one of touching and pressing force is detected. The touch panel further includes a pressure-sensitive layer interposed between the transmission electrode layer and the reception electrode layer. The pressure-sensitive layer includes a first dielectric layer of which dielectric constant exhibits negative temperature properties in a predetermined temperature range, and a second dielectric layer of which dielectric constant exhibits positive temperature properties in the predetermined temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Takuma Yamamoto, Takenori Maruyama, Shinji Yamagishi, Kazutoshi Kida, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11625100
    Abstract: Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present techniques provide apparatus and methods for providing haptic feedback, and in particular to user-operated buttons for electrical and electronic products that provide haptic feedback to the user when operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Benjamin David Brown, James Howarth, Thomas James Powell, Eugene Yu Jen Ho, Jonathan Morgan
  • Patent number: 11625106
    Abstract: Various implementations of the invention comprise a surface or film having a plurality of three-dimensional structures embodied on or within the surface or film, each of the three-dimensional structures having a reflecting surface configured to retro-reflect radiation from a radiation source back to a detector located at the radiation source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: YewSavin, Inc.
    Inventor: Makarand Prabhakar Gore
  • Patent number: 11620005
    Abstract: A stylus pen for use with a charging base is provided. The stylus pen includes a pen body, a pen tip, a battery, a first receiving end conductive structure, and a second receiving end conductive structure. The pen body includes an opening to connect to the charging base. The pen tip is connected to the pen body. The battery is disposed in the pen body. The first receiving end conductive structure and the second receiving end conductive structure are disposed in the opening, and are respectively electrically connected to the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Chin Chung Lai, Yung-Hsiang Chen