Patents Examined by Temesghen Ghebretinsae
  • Patent number: 11789550
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a nib which is disposed in the housing, includes a pen tip protruding to the outside through the second end, and includes a dielectric coil wound multiple times therein, a printed circuit board electrically connected to the dielectric coil, a board seating part which is at least partially coupled to the nib and in which a printed circuit board is seated, an elastic member seating part disposed in the housing such that the elastic member seating part and the board seating part are at least partially fitted to each other, and an elastic member disposed between the elastic member seating part and the board seating part, when the nib is pressed in a direction toward the inside of the housing by the pen pressure, the pen pressure is transmitted to the elastic member via the board seating part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongmin Kim, Juwan Park
  • Patent number: 11789540
    Abstract: A haptic controller includes a conventional user interface having a plurality of touch surfaces, a shaped strain plate having a plurality of strain surfaces, each strain surface corresponding with one of the plurality of touch surfaces, a strain gauge mounted on each of the plurality of strain surfaces and a microcontroller electrically connected with the strain gauges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Kostal of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven R. Hoskins, Xiaozhong Duan, Kenneth S. Koscielniak
  • Patent number: 11789557
    Abstract: A touchpad and an electronic device are disclosed. The touchpad includes a touch panel; a plurality of pressure sensors fixed to an elastic bracket and configured to detect a pressure applied on the touch panel; a piezoelectric ceramic assembly including a piezoelectric ceramic plate configured to provide a vibration feedback to a user, where the piezoelectric ceramic assembly is fixed below the touch panel in a suspended manner and spaced from the elastic bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rong Zhang, Zhongbo Luo, Xiaoxia Yan, Xu Lu
  • Patent number: 11783794
    Abstract: A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a display area, a driver transistor array substrate, a plurality of scanning lines and a control electrode driver chip. The driver transistor array substrate and the plurality of scanning lines are located on the display area; each of the scanning lines is connected to at least one driver transistor; the control electrode driver chip is connected to the scanning lines through output ports; the display area is divided into a first display area and a second display area according to one diagonal line of the driver transistor array substrate; the control electrode driver chip includes a plurality of amplifying circuits, each output port of the control electrode driver chip is for controlling at least one scanning line, and each output port with the number of controlled pixel greater than a first preset value is connected to the scanning line through one amplifying circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Wenxin Li, Xiaoyu Huang
  • Patent number: 11775098
    Abstract: A flexible electronic device is disclosed. The flexible electronic device includes a protruding unit, a flexible substrate and a plurality of sensing units. The flexible substrate is disposed on the protruding unit and has a deformation region corresponding to the protruding unit. The sensing units are disposed on the flexible substrate, and at least one of the sensing units is overlapped with the deformation region. A ratio of an area of the deformation region to an area of one of the at least one of the sensing units is greater than or equal to 1.4 and less than or equal to 2222.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan-Lin Wu, Yu-Chia Huang, Kuan-Feng Lee
  • Patent number: 11778871
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to mitigating unintended OLED display emissions arising from a proximity sensor emitter located behind an OLED display panel. One example provides a display device comprising an OLED display panel, a proximity sensor having a proximity sensor emitter positioned behind one or more OLED pixels of the OLED display panel with respect to a viewing surface of the OLED display panel, and a proximity emitter mask positioned between the proximity sensor emitter and the one or more OLED pixels to shield the one or more OLED pixels from the proximity sensor emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Eliyahu Barel, Ying Zheng, Eran Arbel
  • Patent number: 11769431
    Abstract: A projection display device includes an image display control unit configured to perform a first display control for generating image data in accordance with information received from a control unit that controls the vehicle, and a second display control for generating image data in accordance with the measurement information acquired from the information measuring device without passing through the control unit, and a warning determination unit, wherein the image display control unit performs the second display control when the warning determination unit determines that the warning is necessary, and performs the first display control when the warning determination unit determines that the warning is not necessary, in a first mode in which driving of the vehicle is performed in accordance with an internally generated instruction or an instruction externally and wirelessly received, the image display control unit performs at least the second display control without passing through the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Oshima
  • Patent number: 11763756
    Abstract: A display device includes first pixels in a first pixel area, and second pixels in a second pixel area. The first pixels are electrically connected to first signal lines, second signal lines, and data lines. The second pixels are electrically connected to third signal lines, fourth signal lines, and the data lines. The fourth signal lines include a first conductive line crossing at least one of the third signal lines, and a second conductive line that does not cross any of the third signal lines. The first conductive line is not in contact with the third signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Wan Kim, Sun Ja Kwon, Byung Sun Kim, Hyun Ae Park, Su Jin Lee, Jae Yong Lee
  • Patent number: 11762490
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with an active area configured to display images and an inactive area that is free of pixels and that does not display images. Touch sensor sense lines may have portions located in the active area and portions located in the inactive area. The active and inactive areas may be characterized by respective reflectivity values. To match the reflectivities of the active and inactive areas and thereby avoid undesired visually distinguishable differences in the appearances of these areas, the touch sensor circuitry in the inactive areas may be configured to match the reflectivity values of the active and inactive areas. Sense line portions in the inactive area may have metal traces of enhanced reflectivity and/or uneven surface topology to enhance ambient light reflections through a circular polarizer that overlaps the active and inactive areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kyounghwan Kim, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Chia-Hsiang Chen, Chien-Ya Lee, Ching-Sang Chuang, Jae Won Choi, Jonathan H. Beck, Ming E. Tai, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Wen-I Hsieh, Yuchi Che
  • Patent number: 11763766
    Abstract: A novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. A pixel circuit includes a first switch, a node, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a second switch. The first switch includes a first terminal to which a first signal is supplied and a second terminal electrically connected to the node. The first capacitor includes a first terminal electrically connected to the node. The second capacitor includes a first terminal electrically connected to the node and a second terminal electrically connected to the second switch. The second switch includes a first terminal to which a second signal is supplied and a second terminal electrically connected to the second terminal of the second capacitor. In addition, the second switch has a function of changing from a non-conducting state to a conducting state when the first switch is in a non-conducting state and a function of changing from a conducting state to a non-conducting state when the first switch is in a non-conducting state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouhei Toyotaka, Kei Takahashi, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe, Susumu Kawashima
  • Patent number: 11756487
    Abstract: A display device may include a first pixel coupled to an emission control line, and an emission control stage for selectively coupling the emission control line to a first or second supply voltage line. The emission control stage may include: a first emission control transistor including a first electrode coupled to the first supply voltage line, a second electrode coupled to the emission control line, and a main gate electrode coupled to a first node; a second emission control transistor including a first electrode coupled to the emission control line, a second electrode coupled to the second supply voltage line, and a main gate electrode coupled to a second node; and a third emission control transistor including a first electrode coupled to the first supply voltage line, a second electrode coupled to the first node, a main gate electrode coupled to the second node, and a sub-gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Min Wang, Young In Hwang, Jin Woo Park, Yong Ho Yang
  • Patent number: 11755102
    Abstract: An eyewear device presents, via an image display, an initial displayed image. The initial displayed image has an initial field of view corresponding to an initial head direction or an initial eye direction. Eyewear device detects movement of a user of the eyewear device by: (i) tracking, via a head movement tracker, a head movement of a head of the user, or (ii) tracking, via an eye movement tracker, an eye movement of an eye of the user of the eyewear device. Eyewear device determines a field of view adjustment to the initial field of view of the initial displayed image based on the detected movement of the user. Field of view adjustment includes a successive field of view corresponding to a successive head direction or a successive eye direction. Eyewear device generates a successive displayed image based on the field of view adjustment and presents the successive displayed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, David Meisenholder, Jonathan M. Rodriguez, II
  • Patent number: 11747950
    Abstract: A device configured to determine the location and magnitude of a touch on a surface of the device. The device includes a transparent touch sensor that is configured to detect a location of a touch on the transparent touch sensor. The device also includes a force-sensing structure disposed at the periphery of the transparent touch sensor. The force sensor includes an upper capacitive plate and a compressible element disposed on one side of the upper capacitive plate. The force sensor also includes a lower capacitive plate disposed on a side of the compressible element that is opposite the upper capacitive plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jonah A. Harley, Peter W. Richards, Brian Q. Huppi, Omar Sze Leung, Dhaval N. Shah, Martin P. Grunthaner, Steven P. Hotelling, Miguel C. Christophy, Vivek Katiyar, Tang Yew Tan, Christopher J. Butler, Erik G. De Jong, Ming Sartee, Rui Qiao, Steven J. Martisauskas, Storrs T. Hoen, Richard Hung Minh Dinh, Lee E. Hooton, Ian A. Spraggs, Sawyer I. Cohen, David A. Pakula
  • Patent number: 11747920
    Abstract: A compound-operation input device includes an operating member; a rotary mechanism configured to hold the operating member such that the operating member is rotatable; a slide mechanism configured to support the operating member such that the operating member is slidable in a sliding direction intersecting a rotation axis of the rotary mechanism; and a noncontact detector including a plurality of noncontact sensors and configured to detect a direction of movement and an amount of movement of a detection object, the detection object moving together with the operating member. The noncontact detector is one of a pair of noncontact detectors provided across the rotation axis from each other on a rotation locus of the detection object, the pair of noncontact detectors being at respective positions on a straight line orthogonal to the sliding direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yokoyama, Hiroki Utagawa, Takayuki Hirano
  • Patent number: 11747906
    Abstract: A gesture detection system comprising a virtual button structure for mounting in an outer frame of a mobile device for detecting finger gestures by a user. First and second piezo-electric actuators are in contact with the virtual button structure, and configured to generate first and second varying electrical signals, respectively in response to a dynamic force application to the virtual button structure. A processor is configured to execute instructions stored in memory to i) determine a magnitude and a position of the dynamic force application on the virtual button structure over time, based on the first varying electrical signal and the second varying electrical signal, ii) determine a gesture corresponding to the magnitude and the position of the dynamic force application over time; and iii) provide a response signal based on the gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Boréas Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Chaput, Guillaume Chauvette
  • Patent number: 11747974
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores a program that makes it easy to operate a numerical value input and a character in a virtual space by changing an orientation of a device. By setting a rotation axis of a device, the program calculates an arbitrary numeral value input from inclination of the device. Moreover, by making it possible to perform a moving operation for a character in a virtual space by using a numerical value according to the inclination, mainly in a device that includes a touch panel, the program provides a user with an operation of a character with a higher degree of freedom in particular in a first-person perspective or a third-person perspective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventor: Leona Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11740716
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing including a first surface facing a first direction and a second surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction; a transparent substrate forming at least a portion of the first surface; a display disposed between the transparent substrate and the second surface of the housing and including a third surface facing the first direction and a fourth surface facing the second direction; at least one sensor disposed between a portion of the second surface of the display and a portion of the second surface of the housing; an electrical structure disposed between the sensor and a portion of the second surface of the housing; and a control circuit electrically connected to the electrical structure, wherein the control circuit detects an electrical signal occurring by a pressure from the second direction to a portion of the transparent substrate using the electrical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seunghyun Hwang, Minyong Song, Silkyu Lim, Seungmin Choi, Kwangtai Kim, Hyungsup Byeon
  • Patent number: 11740654
    Abstract: A handheld communication device includes first and second screens, a hinge to rotate the first and second screens between open and closed positions, and a position sensor to determine the relative position of the first and second screens. The position sensor can be a Hall-Effect sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventor: Charles Becze
  • Patent number: 11733802
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a plurality of first electrodes overlap a display area, extend in a first direction, and are arranged in a second direction, a plurality of second electrodes overlap the display area, extend in the second direction, and are arranged in the first direction, a plurality of conductive lines are provided along the first electrodes, and connected to the second electrodes, respectively, and a touch detection driver is configured to detect contact or approach of an object with respect to the display area. In a case where a distance between a conductive line and one of the first electrodes near the conductive line is less than a predetermined value, a shielding portion is formed in the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Japn Display Inc.
    Inventor: Naoki Takada
  • Patent number: 11737330
    Abstract: A tiled display device includes: a first display device including: a first display substrate having a plurality of light emitting areas; and a second color conversion substrate comprising a plurality of light transmitting areas respectively corresponding to the light emitting areas and comprising a light scattering material and a plurality of light blocking areas between the light transmitting areas; a second display device comprising a second display substrate and a second color conversion substrate, the second display device being at a side of the first display device; and a light scattering member between the first display device and the second display device and comprising a light scattering material, wherein an external light reflectance of the light scattering member is higher than an average value of an external light reflectance of the light transmitting areas and an external light reflectance of the light blocking areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Jin Kong, Ock Soo Son, Kang Young Lee, Xin Xing Li