Patents Examined by Temesghen Ghebretinsae
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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
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Patent number: 11656711Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Lorenz, Anthony Stephen Doy
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Patent number: 11650675Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Preh GmbHInventors: Michael Martin, Benedikt Schmidt, Markus Klein
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Patent number: 11650664Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: CHUNG-YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYInventors: Yung Ting, Sheuan-Perng Lin, Jun-Hong Lin, Zih-Jie Lin
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Patent number: 11644908Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chih-Feng Chen, Chien-Shuo Chen
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Patent number: 11640210Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 27, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: TPK Advanced Solutions Inc.Inventors: Chien-Hsien Yu, Zi-Jun Ding, Yun-Guo Xu, Jian-Hua Fang, Li-De Lv
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Patent number: 11630531Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kairan Liu, Wei Cao
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Patent number: 11630542Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Takuma Yamamoto, Takenori Maruyama, Shinji Yamagishi, Kazutoshi Kida, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
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Patent number: 11625100Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 5, 2018Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS LIMITEDInventors: Andrew Benjamin David Brown, James Howarth, Thomas James Powell, Eugene Yu Jen Ho, Jonathan Morgan
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Patent number: 11625106Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: YewSavin, Inc.Inventor: Makarand Prabhakar Gore
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Patent number: 11620005Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Chin Chung Lai, Yung-Hsiang Chen
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Patent number: 11614793Abstract: An augmented reality or virtual reality (AR/VR) system can include a virtual input device that can be rendered by an HMD, and a wearable impact detection device, such as a ring, smart watch, wristband, etc. with an inertial measurement unit (IMU), that can be used in conjunction with the HMD to track a location of the user's hands relative to the perceived location of the rendered virtual keyboard using, e.g., vision-based tracking via the HMD and determine when an intended input (e.g., button press) is entered by the user by detecting an impact of the user's finger(s) on a physical surface. The AR/VR system can then determine which key is pressed based on the physical location of the user's hands (e.g., using the vision-based tracking) and, more precisely, the user's finger(s) causing the detected impact and the closest key of the virtual input device to the detected point of impact.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Denis O'Keefe, Aidan Kehoe, Damien O'Sullivan, Fabien Zellweger
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Patent number: 11616214Abstract: A display device includes a display layer including an active area including a plurality of pixel areas, and a peripheral area adjacent to the active area, an insulating layer disposed on the display layer, the insulating layer including at least one first opening overlapping the plurality of pixel areas, and at least one second opening in the peripheral area, a refractive index layer disposed on the insulating layer, having a refractive index greater than a refractive index of the insulating layer, and spaced apart from the at least one second opening, and a polarizing layer overlapping the refractive index layer. At least a portion of the polarizing layer overlaps the at least one second opening.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Il-Joo Kim, Gunwoo Ko, Yong-Hwan Kim, Taekon Kim, Hyunyoung Kim, Jong-Ryuk Park, Wangwoo Lee, Hyungjun Lim, Youngbae Jung, Jung-Hyun Cho
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Patent number: 11609428Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes a line-of-sight information acquisition unit which acquires line-of-sight information related to a line-of-sight direction of a user, a movement information acquisition unit which acquires a center-of-gravity movement information related to a center-of-gravity movement direction of a body of the user, and a display control unit which performs a first display control for controlling a display device by moving a viewpoint of the imaging unit in the center-of-gravity movement direction while substantially maintaining the imaging posture of the imaging unit when the line-of-sight direction and the center-of-gravity movement direction are substantially parallel and performs a second display control for controlling the display device by rotating the imaging posture of the imaging unit and moving the viewpoint of the imaging unit in the center-of-gravity movement direction when the line-of-sight direction and the center-of-gravity movement direction are nType: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Soichiro Inatani, Kenji Sugihara, Mari Saito
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Patent number: 11609653Abstract: A touch apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a touch sensor; and a touch controller that operates in a resonance driving mode during which a first driving signal is output for generation of a resonance signal of a stylus pen to the touch sensor and an idle mode during which the driving signal output to the touch sensor is stopped, and obtains first touch coordinate information from a detection signal input from the touch sensor during the resonance driving mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: HIDEEP INC.Inventors: Seyeob Kim, Bonkee Kim
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Patent number: 11610287Abstract: A motion trail update method includes: receiving first pose information for a target device transmitted by a first sensor at a first frequency; selecting second pose information meeting a preset condition from a second pose information queue as target second pose information to obtain a target second pose information set; performing trail smoothing on adjacent pose information and the first pose information by using the target second pose information set to obtain a smooth pose information sequence; performing mapping on each piece of smooth pose information in the smooth pose information sequence to obtain a target pose information sequence of a virtual object, corresponding to the target device, in a virtual space; and updating a motion trail of the virtual object in the virtual space.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: HANGZHOU LINBAN TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.Inventor: Tao Zeng
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Patent number: 11604548Abstract: A display with a curved portion is provided. The display includes a capacitive sensor mesh layer including a plurality of cells, wherein at least a cell of the plurality of cells includes at least one cell face that has a discontinuity in the cell face based at least in part on a position of the cell on the curved portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Hyungsoo Kim, Rajesh Manohar Dighde, Younghun Paik, Hyun Woo Koo, Ying Zheng
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Patent number: 11604531Abstract: According to one aspect, a trackpad includes: a substrate; a stiffener plate; a circuit board between the substrate and the stiffener plate, the circuit board comprising position detecting circuitry configured to detect a position of an object adjacent the substrate, the circuit board including an inductive element; a grounding element that electrically connects the stiffener plate and the circuit board to each other; and force sensing circuitry configured to detect force applied to the substrate, the force detected using the inductive element.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jianxun Wang, Diego Rivas, Igor Markovsky, Debanjan Mukherjee