Patents Examined by Towfiq Elahi
  • Patent number: 11287887
    Abstract: A flexible finger-wearable haptic feedback device includes a fingertip sleeve sheathing a distal phalanx of a finger, a middle sleeve sheathing a middle phalanx of the finger, a proximal sleeve sheathing a proximal phalanx of the finger, outer and inner transmission rods having bending elasticity. The outer transmission rod is fixed on the fingertip sleeve at one end, positioned at a back of a hand at the other end and connected with an outer driver. The inner transmission rod is fixed on the fingertip sleeve at one end, positioned at a palm at the other end and connected with an inner driver. The fingertip sleeve is provided with first and second contact pressure sensors respectively connected with the ends of the outer and inner transmission rods, and an inner wall of the fingertip finger sleeve contacting the finger is provided with a film pressure sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Aiguo Song, Yiting Mo, Huanhuan Qin, Huijun Li, Hong Zeng, Baoguo Xu
  • Patent number: 11288990
    Abstract: A display apparatus including: image renderer having array of pixels; liquid-crystal device comprising: liquid-crystal structure, wherein portions of liquid-crystal structure are arranged in front of corresponding pixels of said array; and control circuit including circuit elements employed to electrically control corresponding portions of liquid-crystal structure to shift light emanating from corresponding pixels to corresponding target positions; and processor(s) configured to: generate individual drive signals for circuit elements, based on corresponding target positions to which light emanating from corresponding pixels are to be shifted upon passing through corresponding portions of liquid-crystal structure; and send individual drive signals to control circuit to drive circuit elements to address corresponding portions of liquid-crystal structure separately, whilst displaying output image frame via image renderer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Varjo Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Mikko Strandborg, Klaus Melakari
  • Patent number: 11275494
    Abstract: The system comprises the ability to detect certain gestures made by sliding a finger or stylus on a touch sensitive screen on a handheld device, even when a so called “screen lock” is active where the gesture is used to unlock the device and trigger the desired function associates with the gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Karl-Anders Johansson
  • Patent number: 11269439
    Abstract: A touch panel comprises a first substrate (1), a second substrate (2) opposite to the first substrate (1), and spacers (5) between the first substrate (1) and the second substrate (2). At least one of the spacers (5) comprises a piezoelectric material. The piezoelectric material is a graphene-polyborosiloxane composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shirong Yu, Qingyong Meng, Chunhui Wu
  • Patent number: 11257416
    Abstract: A circuit. In some embodiments, the circuit includes: a drive circuit having an output and including: a pre-emphasis circuit; and an output stage connected to an output of the pre-emphasis circuit. The pre-emphasis circuit may be configured to generate, during a first interval of time, a pre-emphasized signal. The output stage may be configured to produce, at the output of the drive circuit, a constant signal based on the pre-emphasized signal during the first interval of time, and to disconnect the pre-emphasis circuit from the output of the drive circuit during a second interval of time, the second interval of time beginning at the end of the first interval of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anup P. Jose, Younghoon Song
  • Patent number: 11250765
    Abstract: A display driving circuit is provided. The display driving circuit includes a multi-stage driving unit, and each stage of the driving unit includes a pull-up control unit and a pull-up unit. The pull-up unit is electrically connected to a second high voltage signal input terminal, so that high voltage signal input from the second high voltage signal input terminal is directly transmitted to a cascade signal output terminal through the pull-up unit, which further enables the display driving circuit to output a high voltage driving signal while a gate of a thin film transistor inside the display driving circuit is kept at low voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haiming Cao, Chao Tian
  • Patent number: 11249606
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for controlling a flexible capacitive touch display panel and a corresponding touch display apparatus. The capacitive touch display panel is provided with a plurality of signal lines arranged in a grid shape, and a signal line extending in a first direction and a signal line extending in a second direction are electrically insulated from each other. In this method, for each of the plurality of signal lines, a drive signal is applied to the signal line as a drive signal line. An induction signal is received from a signal line parallel to and adjacent to the drive signal line as an induction signal line. If an intensity of the induction signal is increased, it is determined that the capacitive touch display panel is bent at a bending location between the drive signal line and the induction signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Tian, Lei Zhang, Zouming Xu, Xiaodong Xie, Jing Wang
  • Patent number: 11241963
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a configurable user interface for a vehicle (V). The configurable user interface includes a plurality of control devices for controlling a first set of vehicle systems (S-n). The control devices are each associated with at least one of the vehicle systems (S-n) in said first set. At least one processor is provided for identifying a subset of the first set of vehicle systems (S-n) consisting of the vehicle system(s) (S-n) installed on the vehicle (V). A memory is connected to the at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to enable any of said control devices associated with the vehicle systems (S-n) contained in said subset; and/or to disable any of said control devices associated with the vehicle systems (S-n) not contained in said subset. The present disclosure also relates to a steering wheel of a vehicle (V) incorporating a configurable user interface. A vehicle (V) and a method of configuring a user interface are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITED
    Inventor: Richard Darby
  • Patent number: 11237648
    Abstract: The present application provides a touch sensitive processing method for a tethered stylus. The method comprises selectively driving two of three circuit components of the stylus in three shorter time periods, sensing induced signals from electrodes of a touch panel, and calculating coordinates of a tip electrode and a surrounding electrode of the stylus accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Fu Chang, Shang-Tai Yeh
  • Patent number: 11237684
    Abstract: A touchscreen includes a plurality of X electrodes extending in a first direction and arranged in parallel in a second direction, a plurality of Y electrodes extending in the second direction so as to intersect the X electrodes and arranged in parallel in the first direction, and pedestal layers formed at respective intersections between the plurality of X electrodes and the plurality of Y electrodes, wherein an intersection portion of each Y electrode is formed under the pedestal layer, wherein a part of an intersection portion of each X electrode is formed on the pedestal layer and both ends thereof are electrically connected to adjacent electrode portions of the X electrodes, and wherein a profile of a portion of the pedestal layer intersecting the intersection portion of the X electrode has a nonlinear shape when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Masahiro Teramoto
  • Patent number: 11226486
    Abstract: Disclosed is a head-up display (HUD) device for providing three-dimensional (3D) augmented reality (AR). The HUD display includes a display disposed in an upper region of a windshield of a vehicle, the display configured to output a light corresponding to a panel image in a direction of a dashboard region in a vicinity of a lower portion of the windshield, and an optical element disposed in the dashboard region, the optical element configured to reflect the light corresponding to the panel image in a direction of an intermediate region of the windshield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinho Lee, Elena Gennadievna Malinovskaya, Igor Vitalievich Yanusik, DongKyung Nam, Yoonsun Choi
  • Patent number: 11227521
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a gate driving circuit applied to a foldable display panel comprising B display areas arranged in order. The gate driving circuit may include B gate driving subcircuits and a control circuit. Each of the gate driving subcircuits may correspond to one of the display areas and each of the gate driving subcircuits may comprise a plurality of stage gate driving units. The control circuit may be configured to, when the foldable display panel is in a full screen display state, control a type of an input signal in a last stage gate driving unit of a bth gate driving subcircuit to be the same as a type of an input signal in a first stage gate driving unit of a (b+1)th gate driving subcircuit, where B is an integer greater than 1 and b is a positive integer less than B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Can Zheng, Libin Liu, Li Wang, Tian Dong, Guangliang Shang, Xinshe Yin
  • Patent number: 11221715
    Abstract: A method for calibrating the intensity of touch input pressure according to an input position in a touch input device. The method includes a step in which the touch input device detects a touch input through a touch panel; a step in which the touch input device determines the position of the touch input on the touch panel; a step in which the touch input device measures a degree of change in capacitance corresponding to the intensity of pressure according to the touch input; and a step in which the touch input device calibrates the intensity of the pressure according to the position of the touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: MELFAS INC.
    Inventors: Sung Sik Nam, Jin Tae Kim
  • Patent number: 11217179
    Abstract: Provided herein is a scan driver including scan stages. A first scan stage includes a first transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a first node, a first electrode coupled to a first power clock line, and a second electrode coupled to a first scan line; a first capacitor connected between the first node and the first scan line; a second transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a second node, a first electrode coupled to the first scan line, and a second electrode coupled to a first power line; a third transistor including a gate electrode coupled to the second node, a first electrode coupled to a third node, and a second electrode coupled to a first control clock line; and a second capacitor connected between the second node and the third node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Inventor: Hwan Soo Jang
  • Patent number: 11209937
    Abstract: A hover touch controller device includes a touch sensor having a touch surface and a proximity sensor. The touch sensor provides two-dimensional position information on when and where a user's finger touches the touch surface. The proximity sensor provides three-dimensional position information on pre-touch events. The pre-touch events corresponding to the user's finger hovering over the touch surface within some maximum depth. The hover touch controller device further includes a processor. The processor determines from the three-dimensional information a hover point projected on the touch surface and determines from the two-dimensional information a touch point on the touch surface. The processor communicates the hover point and the contact point to a display device. This can include correcting for any perceived user interaction issues associated an offset between the hover point and the touch point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Arun Rakesh Yoganandan, Jee Hoon Kim, Chang Long Zhu Jin
  • Patent number: 11209655
    Abstract: A system for displaying, on a see-through display located within a moving platform, a frame, while at least partially correcting a rolling display effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventors: Johai Amati, Vadim Neimark, Sharon Kedem
  • Patent number: 11209868
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including: a bottom member; a display panel on the bottom member, the display panel configured to emit light; a top member on the display panel; a touch screen panel on the top member; and a groove region formed by removing at least a portion of at least one of the top member and the bottom member at a bent portion of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Namkung, Soon-Ryong Park, Seok-Gi Baek, Chul-Woo Jeong
  • Patent number: 11194413
    Abstract: A display device for a vehicle includes a stretchable display panel and a touch sensor on a first surface of the stretchable display panel and configured to sense a user's touch. The stretchable display panel includes a plurality of pixels and has a button display area and a display area adjacent the button display area. The stretchable display panel is integrally arranged on a center fascia of the vehicle that as a plurality of curved surfaces, and a step is defined between the button display area and the adjacent display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Jong Ho Hong, Da Young Ju, Keun Kyu Song, Jae Min Shin, Young Hoon Oh, Joon Hak Oh, Ji Min Ryu, So Yon Jeong, Hye Jin Joo, Ju Yeong Kwon
  • Patent number: 11181994
    Abstract: The present application provides a transmitter including a first sensor and a processing module electrically coupled to the first sensor. The processing module is configured to transmit a first electric signal during a first time period. The first electric signal represents at least one part of a digital sensing value of the first sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Fu Chang, Shang-Tai Yeh
  • Patent number: 11179136
    Abstract: A system and method for providing image guidance for placement of one or more medical devices at a target location. The system can determine one or more intersections between a medical device and an image region based at least in part on first emplacement data and second emplacement data. Using the determined intersections, the system can cause one or more displays to display perspective views of image guidance cues, including an intersection indicator in a virtual 3D space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: InnerOptic Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Luv Kohli, Sharif Razzaque, Andrei State, Brian Heaney, Kurtis Keller, Caroline Green