Patents Examined by Tony O Davis
  • Patent number: 11068099
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a sensor unit having a first region including at least one pair of a first electrode and a second electrode, and a second region including at least two pairs of first electrodes and second electrodes, a plurality of sensing channels each including first and second input terminals, wherein the first input terminals of the sensing channels are connected to different ones of the first electrodes, an amplifying circuit connected between the second input terminals of the sensing channels and the second electrodes, and an input control unit connected between the amplifying circuit and the second electrodes, the input control unit including a first resistor connected to the second electrode of the first region, and a second resistor commonly connected to the second electrodes of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Hak Kim, Do Ik Kim, Young Sik Kim, Sang Chul Lee
  • Patent number: 11061527
    Abstract: The invention is directed towards wearable devices and operating wearable devices in a visual mode when a display device of the wearable device is within a line-of-sight (LOS) of a user and operating the wearable device in an audible mode when the wearable device is outside the LOS of the user. The position of the display device, relative to the user's LOS, is automatically determined. The operational mode of the wearable device is automatically transitioned when a transition of position of the display device is detected. The wearable device may be a head-mounted display (HMD) device. A visual mode provides visual-based presentations of UIs, content, information, and data, via the display device. In contrast to a visual mode, an audible mode provides audio-based presentations of UIs, content, information, and data, via one or more audible speakers included in the wearable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: REALWEAR, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Iain Parkinson, Sanjay Subir Jhawar, Stephen A. Pombo, Kenneth Lustig
  • Patent number: 11061558
    Abstract: A touch operation response method and device in the field of human-computer interaction. The method includes: determining a first operation area and a second operation area in the touch display screen; receiving a first touch operation and a second touch operation acting on the touch display screen within a preset time period; determining an operation area on which the first touch operation acts, where the touch display screen includes the first operation area and the second operation area; determining an operation area on which the second touch operation acts; based on the operation area on which the first touch operation acts and the operation area on which the second touch operation acts, determining whether to respond to the first touch operation and/or the second touch operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunqiao Hua, Guojun Sun
  • Patent number: 11062648
    Abstract: A display device includes M sets of light emitters and (M+1) sets of drivers, wherein M is a positive integer. Each set of the (M+1) sets of drivers is coupled to at least one set of the M sets of light emitters. When a first set of drivers among the (M+1) sets of drivers are configured to perform a sensing operation, M sets of drivers other than the first set of drivers among the (M+1) sets of drivers are configured to drive the M sets of light emitters, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Chun-Chi Chang
  • Patent number: 11062631
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including signal lines in a display area and a peripheral area, the signal lines extending in a column direction and spaced apart; and test lines electrically connected to the signal lines in the peripheral area, extending in the column direction and arranged to be spaced apart. The peripheral area includes: a first peripheral area; and a second peripheral area located between the display area and the first peripheral area. The test lines include: a first test line including: a 1-1 testing portion disposed on the first peripheral area; and a 1-2 testing portion disposed on the second peripheral area; and a second test line including: a 2-1 testing portion disposed on the second peripheral area. A width of the 1-1 testing portion of the first test line is larger than a width of the 1-2 testing portion of the first test line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Inventors: Kwan Yup Shin, Jun Ho Bae, Jae Hyoung Youn, Da Young Lee
  • Patent number: 11054940
    Abstract: A touch sensing device includes a touch switching unit including first and second touch members, an oscillator circuit generating a first oscillation signal having a variable resonant frequency based on an application of a touch to the first touch member, and generate a second oscillation signal having a variable resonant frequency based on an application of a touch to the second touch member; a detector circuit generating a first count value by converting the first oscillation signal to a first digital value, and generating a second count value by converting the second oscillation signal to a second digital value, detect an individual touch input based on the first count value and the second count value, and detect a slide touch input when a first touch input to the first touch member and a second touch input to the second touch member are detected within a predetermined slide reference time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung Joo Hong, Joo Yul Ko, Je Hyuk Ryu
  • Patent number: 11054952
    Abstract: A touch panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The touch panel includes a substrate, peripheral leads, a touch-sensing electrode, and first covers. The peripheral leads are disposed on the substrate. Each peripheral lead has a sidewall and an upper surface. The first covers cover the upper surfaces of the peripheral leads. The touch-sensing electrode includes a plurality of modified metal nanowires. The modified metal nanowires have first surfaces in direct contact with each other at an intersection. The modified metal nanowires have second surfaces with a covering structure, and the second surfaces are at non-intersections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Cambrios Film Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Chen Tsai, Wei-Chia Fang, Chun-Hung Chu, Meng-Yun Wu, Chung-Chin Hsiao
  • Patent number: 11054957
    Abstract: Disclosed is a touch display device capable of reducing deterioration in touch performance. The touch display device includes a plurality of first touch electrodes disposed in an active area of a substrate and a plurality of second touch electrodes disposed in the active area of the substrate, the plurality of second touch electrodes having different shapes from the plurality of first touch electrodes, wherein at least one of the plurality of second touch electrodes is formed by connecting at least two sub-electrodes having smaller areas than each of the first touch electrodes to each other. Consequently, the areas of the first and second touch electrodes are similar to each other, whereby it is possible to reduce touch performance deteriorated due to deviation in area between the touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoonnara Jang, Jae-Gyun Lee, Jung-Ho Jo, Jeong-Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11056543
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, the display panel includes a packaging structure, and the packaging structure includes a first inorganic layer, a color filter layer, a second inorganic layer. The color filter layer is disposed between the first inorganic layer and the second inorganic layer, and the color filter layer includes a red photoresist, a green photoresist, and a blue photoresist; and the red photoresist is disposed on a light-emitting side of the red light-emitting pixels, the green photoresist is disposed on a light-emitting side of the green light-emitting pixels, and the blue photoresist is disposed on a light-emitting side of the blue light-emitting pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Yuanhang Li
  • Patent number: 11049451
    Abstract: A display device including: a controller including: a zone splitting block configured to divide input image data into a plurality of partial image data respectively corresponding to a plurality of partial panel zones of the display panel; a plurality of panel zone frequency deciding blocks configured to determine a plurality of driving frequencies for the plurality of partial panel zones by analyzing the plurality of partial image data, respectively; a non-driving period setting block configured to classify a plurality of frame periods into a driving frame period and a non-driving frame period based on a maximum driving frequency of the plurality of driving frequencies; and a scan driver control block configured to provide the scan driver input signal to the scan driver in the driving frame period, and to not provide the scan driver input signal to the scan driver in the non-driving frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sehyuk Park, Sangan Kwon, HongSoo Kim, Jinyoung Roh, Hyojin Lee
  • Patent number: 11050803
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for collaborating in the discovery of Head-Mounted Devices (HMDs) configured for hosting a co-located virtual, augmented, or mixed reality (xR) session. An HMD issues a request to join a co-located xR session. Participating in a co-located xR session requires a joining HMD to obtain authorization from a host HMD. A joining HMD may be located such that direct communications between the joining HMD and the host HMD are either unreliable, or beyond the capabilities of two HMDs. The joining HMD may collaborate with neighboring HMDs to obtain authorization from a host HMD. The host HMD aggregates information from joining HMDs to determine the authorized HMDs and to determine the most reliable forms of direct communication between each pair of HMDs participating in the xR session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Vivek Viswanathan Iyer, Anantha K. Boyapalle, Philip M. Seibert, Karthikeyan Krishnakumar
  • Patent number: 11042345
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for visual displays are described. Such visual displays may be used in a retail environment to provide interactive presentations to customers. The visual displays may include a display panel, a visual source, and a controller. The display panel may present images and/or video to a user, in which the images and/or video are generated by the visual source. The controller may determine the types of images and/or video to be presented based upon communications received from a user via a communication device or a user kiosk. The display panel may be a variable height and may be offset from the floor or a shelf by a variable distance. A plurality of display panels may be arranged on a display floor to provide retail experiences to customers and/or may be received by one or more docks placed in the display floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Kyle Glackin, Nairey Keshishian, Lisa Marie Zane, Walter J. S. Hermsen, Cheryl Eng, Bridget Cinquegrano
  • Patent number: 11042241
    Abstract: A display device including a touch sensor and a driving method thereof, and more particularly, a curved display device including a touch sensor and a driving method thereof, are presented. The display device includes: a touch sensor unit including a plurality of touch sensors; and at least one touch surface curved to along a first direction, wherein the touch surface includes a center region and edge regions positioned at both sides of the center region along the first direction, and wherein a sensitivity of the touch sensor in the center region is higher than a sensitivity of the touch sensors in the edge regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventors: Seung Lyong Bok, Won Ki Hong
  • Patent number: 11043188
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a driving method for pulse width and voltage hybrid modulation, a driving device and a display device, the method including: after receiving a frame image to be displayed, generating N sub-frame images from the received frame image to be displayed; then controlling a display panel to display each sub-frame image in turn, and controlling, when each sub-frame image is displayed, the sub-pixel that needs to emit light in the sub-frame image to emit light according to the corresponding light-emitting brightness in the light-emitting period corresponding to the sub-frame image. In one sub-frame image, the light-emitting brightness of the sub-pixel is determined by the display brightness corresponding to the sub-pixel in the frame image to be displayed, and the light-emitting time configured for the sub-frame image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI AVIC OPTO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingteng Zhai, Liang Xing, Tianyi Wu
  • Patent number: 11043165
    Abstract: The application relates to an active-matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) panel cell testing circuit and a method for repairing data lines via the AMOLED panel cell testing circuit. The application not only can achieve a screen detecting function of the cell testing circuit, but also achieve to repair the circuit and to improve panel yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chao Li
  • Patent number: 11036336
    Abstract: A display input device has a touch screen, which includes a touch panel for accepting a touch operation, and a control portion. The control portion detects contact position on the touch panel with a contact body, contact size on the touch panel with the contact body, and contact pressure on the touch panel with the contact body, judges whether calibration is necessary based on the contact position, contact size, and contact pressure, and performs calibration when it is judged that calibration is necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Fumiaki Takiguchi
  • Patent number: 11036456
    Abstract: Various embodiments set forth a computer-implemented method of displaying content of a visualization environment, comprising receiving, by a display controller coupled to a display device included in a plurality of display devices, a configuration that includes a display mode and identifies a dashboard to be displayed, determining a position of the display device relative to positions of other display devices, retrieving a set of values associated with the dashboard, where the set of values is provided by a remote data source based on a query executed on raw machine data associated with the dashboard, determining, based on the position, at least a portion of the dashboard to display in the display device, and causing, by the display controller, the display device to display at least a portion of the set of values within at least the portion of the dashboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventors: Jesse Chor, Varun Gupta, Tuba Rafi, Benjamin Weaver, Glen Wong
  • Patent number: 11039195
    Abstract: Cable (200) for connecting an image displaying device (133) to a digital computer network (120), which cable (200) comprises only a first end (201), arranged to receive a digital network signal, and a second end (202), arranged to be connected to the image displaying device (133) and deliver a digital image signal to the image displaying device (133).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: INNSPIRE INTELLIGENT HOTELS AB
    Inventors: Mathias Adolfsson, Martin Chevalley
  • Patent number: 11017729
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a first correction circuit configured to perform, using a gamma correction value, a gamma correction for first image data; a second correction circuit configured to receive the gamma-corrected first image, and to generate second image data by performing gray-scale compensation for the gamma-corrected first image data; and a data driver configured to provide a data signal corresponding to the second image data to the plurality of pixels, wherein the second correction circuit performs the gray-scale compensation based on the gamma correction value and a threshold value measured for each of the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyun Ho Kim, Sung In Kang, Ki Hyun Pyun
  • Patent number: 11016572
    Abstract: A system may include a tactile actuator for providing tactile feedback and a resonant phase sensing system. The resonant phase sensing system may include a resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor and a measurement circuit communicatively coupled to the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor and the tactile actuator. The resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor may be configured to measure phase information associated with the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor, based on the phase information, detect an indication of human interaction with the system proximate to the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor, and trigger the tactile actuator to generate tactile feedback responsive to detecting the indication of human interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Srdjan Marijanovic, Drew Kinney, Luke Lapointe, Siddharth Maru, Tejasvi Das, Anthony S. Doy, Zhong You