Patents Examined by Temesghen Ghebretinsae
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Patent number: 11726596Abstract: A controller for use in a device which comprises at least two force sensors in a given arrangement, the controller operable, based on input sensor signals derived from the force sensors, to carry out an arrangement-related operation in which an output sensor signal is generated based on at least two said input sensor signals and the arrangement of the force sensors in the device so that the output sensor signal is dependent on said arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.Inventors: Pablo Peso Parada, Tom Birchall, Hamid Sepehr
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Patent number: 11714287Abstract: A display device includes a display, an optical assembly, and a display-moving assembly connected to the display for moving the display between a first position and a second position. When in the first position, the display outputs image light in a first direction substantially parallel to an optical axis of the optical assembly. When in the second position, the display is positioned away from the optical axis of the optical assembly. The display device also includes a partial reflector and a partial reflector-moving assembly connected to the partial reflector for moving the partial reflector between a third position and a fourth position. When the partial reflector is in the third position, the display is in the first position and the display is disposed between the optical assembly and the partial reflector. When the partial reflector is in the fourth position, the display is in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Brian Wheelwright, Jacques Gollier, Ying Geng, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Weichuan Gao, Kieran Connor Kelly, Stephen Choi
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Patent number: 11714491Abstract: A method, a feedback-enabled device and a computer-readable memory are provided, for generating haptic feedback. The actuators of a tactile surface are vibrated for producing vibration bursts based on a sequence of an adaptive friction grain signal. The adaptive friction grain signal comprises a plurality of grains corresponding to the vibration bursts, each grain being defined by an amplitude. The adaptive friction grain signal has a grain density that is variable over the sequence.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Roya Cody, Alice Jing Fei Liang, Da-Yuan Huang, Wei Li
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Patent number: 11715444Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for a gesture-based method for specifying a region of a display in which to show shared content. Also disclosed are pairing methods for associating the region of the display with a content source device, methods for sharing content within the region, and methods for providing input from the region back to the content source device. Also disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for notification handling for user interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Wei-Chen Chen
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Patent number: 11714488Abstract: A controller apparatus attached to a hand of a user and having a plurality of sensors, the controller apparatus includes: a determination section configured to determine whether or not each of the sensors meets a predetermined condition specifying that a finger of the user is not touching the sensor; and a calibration section configured to calibrate the sensor found to meet the predetermined condition as a result of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Kiyotaka Ishikawa, Shin Kimura, Masaaki Tonogai, Takuro Sawada, Kazuyoshi Enomoto
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Patent number: 11710447Abstract: A display device includes a first switching element including a second electrode and a first gate electrode, a second switching element including a third electrode connected with the first gate electrode, a third switching element including a fifth electrode connected with the second electrode, and sixth electrode, a fourth switching element including a seventh electrode connected with the second electrode, and an eighth electrode, a fifth switching element including a ninth electrode connected with the second electrode, and a tenth electrode, a first light emitting diode connected with the sixth electrode and the eighth electrode, a second light emitting diode connected with the eighth electrode and the sixth electrode, and a switch selectively connecting a common power source line with the sixth electrode or the eighth electrode. The first light emitting diode and the second light emitting diode have different polarities from each other with respect to a same direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Se Hyuk Park, Hyo Jin Lee
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Patent number: 11705049Abstract: The present application provides a differential signal interface and a display device adopting the differential signal interface. A plurality of different differential signals are transmitted between a transmitting end and a receiving end of the differential signal interface by a plurality of differential pairs. A plurality of moderating modules are disposed between the transmitting end and the receiving end. Each moderating module is connected to a corresponding differential pair and is configured to adjust the impedance of the transmitting end and/or the receiving end such that the impedance of the transmitting end and/or the receiving end matches the impedance of the corresponding differential pair.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Hanxian Liu
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Patent number: 11703954Abstract: A touch input display system includes a display device and a touch input device. The display device includes a display, a frame enclosing the display, and a light receiver that receives infrared light emitted from an external operation device. The touch input device has a touch inputter and a frame body that encloses the touch inputter. The touch input device is attached to the display such that the frame body overlaps on a front side of the frame. The frame body has an infrared light guide. The infrared light guide guides infrared light emitted from the external operation device to the light receiver.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hirotaka Shigeta
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Patent number: 11693510Abstract: A touch panel system includes a touch panel including a drive electrode, a position detection electrode, and a pressing detection electrode, and a controller configured to impart a drive signal to the drive electrode and acquire signal values from each of the position detection electrode and the pressing detection electrode. The controller detects a position of an indicator on the basis of the signal values obtained from the position detection electrode and calculates a magnitude of pressing of the indicator on the basis of signal values in a pressing detection range corresponding to the detected position of the indicator among the signal values obtained from the pressing detection electrode.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Takenori Maruyama, Kazutoshi Kida, Shinji Yamagishi, Takuma Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
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Patent number: 11693497Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Gerald Dale Morrison, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Michael Shawn Gray, Kevin Joseph Derichs
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Patent number: 11686943Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: JeongWoo Park, Jaejoong Kwon, Hyun Sup Lee, Subin Jung, Juhwa Ha
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Patent number: 11682369Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: IMAX Theatres International LimitedInventors: Steen Svendstorp Iversen, Steven Charles Read, Anton Leonard Baljet
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Patent number: 11681380Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Andrew Kiernan, Frederick Jaccard, Pete Vavaroutsos
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Patent number: 11681375Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Cirque CorporationInventors: David Taylor, Tyler Smith
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Patent number: 11681381Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 9, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Rahul R. Marwah, Bradley Edgar Clements, Brady James Toothaker
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Patent number: 11675438Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Eun Kyung Yeon, Ga Na Kim, Jung Hun Noh, Yi Joon Ahn
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Patent number: 11675436Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC.Inventors: Frederico Marcolino Quintao Severgnini, Ercan Mehmet Dede, Paul D. Schmalenberg
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Patent number: 11675448Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: TPK Advanced Solutions Inc.Inventors: Chi-Mei Yan, Jin-Hui Zhang, Fang Fang, Kang-Yu Liu
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Patent number: 11669177Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Gerald Dale Morrison, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Michael Shawn Gray, Kevin Joseph Derichs
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Patent number: 11662862Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Woo Hyung, Seung Ho Baek