Patents Examined by William Boddie
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Patent number: 12386470Abstract: A touch sensor includes a substrate, an insulating layer, a sensor, and sensing lines. The substrate includes: a sensing region, and a peripheral region at a periphery of the sensing region. The insulating layer is on the substrate. The insulating layer includes contact holes. The sensor is on the substrate and overlaps the sensing region. The sensing lines are on the substrate and overlap the peripheral region. The sensing lines are connected to the sensor. Each of the sensing lines is formed as a multilayer structure. The multilayer structure includes a first electrically conductive layer on the substrate, and a second electrically conductive layer connected to the first electrically conductive layer via a contact hole among the contact holes. Widths of the sensing lines are different from one another.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2023Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Su Yul Seo, Yu Jin Choi, Yeon Ju Kang, Ki Hyuk Kim, Gyeong Nam Bang
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Patent number: 12386440Abstract: An information handling system mouse includes a position sensor that detects movement of the mouse and reports the movement to generate cursor movement at plural displays interfaced with the information handling system. The mouse automatically changes between a first position resolution and a second position resolution to generate cursor movement based upon a resolution of a display at which the cursor is presented. As the cursor moves between each of plural displays in response to mouse movement, the mouse automatically changes the position resolution so that cursor movement relative to the mouse movement remains consistent even where the cursor is presented at displays having different display resolutions.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Peng Lip Goh, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
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Patent number: 12387686Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel rows, a driving controller that generates a clock signal and a gate driver that provides scan signals and sensing signals to the plurality of pixel rows in response to the clock signal, wherein the clock signal includes a plurality of first pulses in an active period of a frame period and a plurality of second pulses in a vertical blank period of the frame period, and a width of at least one of the plurality of second pulses is different from a width of each of the plurality of first pulses.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sooyeon Kim, Taegon Im
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Patent number: 12380698Abstract: An information processing terminal including a communication device, which transmits a control command to a controlled device via the communication device to remotely control the controlled device, comprises: a virtual remote control generator configured to identify the controlled device and a desired control operation that is a control operation desired to be performed from a surrounding image which is an image around the information processing terminal, and generate an acceptance object for accepting an operation instruction to the desired control operation from a user; an operation acceptance section configured to accept the operation instruction from the user via the acceptance object; and a command transmitter configured to transmit the control command corresponding to the operation instruction accepted by the operation acceptance section to the controlled device.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Mayumi Nakade, Tamotsu Ito
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Patent number: 12382586Abstract: The present application provides a display panel and a display device, the display panel is provided with two driving chips disposed side by side in a first border of a non-display area, and a flexible circuit board is disposed between the two driving chips. Compared with the prior art, a longitudinal distance between the driving chip and the flexible circuit board on the display panel border can be reduced, so as to reduce a length of the lower border of the display panel and increase a space of a display area.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Bo Liu
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Patent number: 12379783Abstract: An electronic device displays one or more views. A first view includes a plurality of gesture recognizers. The plurality of gesture recognizers in the first view includes one or more proxy gesture recognizers and one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers. Each gesture recognizer indicates one of a plurality of predefined states. A first proxy gesture recognizer in the first view indicates a state that corresponds to a state of a respective non-proxy gesture recognizer that is not in the first view. The device delivers a respective sub-event to the respective non-proxy gesture recognizer that is not in the first view and at least a subset of the one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers in the first view. The device processes the respective sub-event in accordance with states of the first proxy gesture recognizer and at least the subset of the one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers in the first view.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Joshua H. Shaffer
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Patent number: 12373067Abstract: A display device with a position input function includes a pixel electrode, a common electrode, position detection electrodes, a position detection line, a pixel connection line, and a shield electrode. The common electrode is overlapped with the pixel electrode on an upper layer side or a lower layer side. The position detection electrodes are formed by dividing the common electrode by a partition opening and form a capacitance with a position input body and detect an input position. The position detection line is arranged on an upper layer side or a lower layer side with the common electrode and connected to the position detection electrode. The pixel connection line extends in parallel with the partition opening and is connected to the pixel electrode. The shield electrode extends overlapping with the partition opening and is on a same layer as the position detection line and connected to the position detection line.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2024Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masahiro Yoshida
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Patent number: 12363272Abstract: A head-mounted device may have left and right optical modules that present images to a user's eyes. Each optical module may have an optical module support structure and a lens and display coupled to the optical module support structure. The head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing that supports the optical modules. A cover on a rear face of the head-mounted housing may have a pair of openings configured to receive the left and right optical modules. The cover may have a cover layer and left and right cover layer mounting rings respectively configured to engage with the optical module support structures of the left and right optical modules. Sets of magnets in the left and right optical modules may be configured to attract corresponding left and right vision correction lenses. Gaskets may surround the lenses in the optical modules and may prevent environmental contaminant intrusion.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ivan S. Maric, Forrest C. Wang, Jeremy C. Franklin, Phil M. Hobson, Wey-Jiun Lin, Yoonhoo Jo
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Patent number: 12361848Abstract: A display device includes a display panel which displays an image, where a plurality of areas, in each of which a plurality of pixels is positioned, is defined in the display panel, and a controller which generates image data based on an image signal received from the outside and compensates for deterioration of the display panel. The controller includes a stress information generator which generates stress information of the display panel corresponding to the deterioration and a deterioration compensator which changes at least one selected from a spatial resolution and a bit-depth of each of the plurality of areas based on the stress information of each of the plurality of areas.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Seokha Hong
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Patent number: 12361855Abstract: The disclosure relates to a gate drive circuit and a display panel. The gate drive circuit includes signal conversion circuits; the signal conversion circuit is for converting an input signal to be processed into a control signal and transmitting the control signal to a GOA circuit; and the GOA circuit performs a corresponding operation according to the control signal. The signal conversion circuit is added into the gate drive circuit in the present disclosure, thereby saving the signal lines for transmitting a gate high-level signal or a pull-down control signal, reducing the complexity of a GOA circuit region.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Bing Rao
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Patent number: 12361898Abstract: An LCD device includes: a display panel, one display frame of the display panel corresponds to multiple scan cycles of a backlight source, a light-emitting diode array of an arbitrary one of backlight partitions has a first brightness and a second brightness under controlling of a timer control register in the scan cycles, wherein the first brightness is lower than the second brightness, and the timer control register controls the light-emitting diode array of at least one of the backlight partitions to have the first brightness in each of the scan cycles.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Guangxing Xiao, Yu Wu, Tao He, Xuebing Zhou, Xinghai Zhao
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Patent number: 12361890Abstract: A scanning control circuit configured to be applied to a display panel including Q display areas, includes: Q gate initization signal lines, Q light-emittig initialization signal lines and Q scanning control sub-circuits. Each scanning control sub-circuit corresponds to a display area. The scanning control sub-circuit includes a gate scanning control unit and a light-emitting scanning control unit. The gate scanning control unit is configured to be turned on under control of a gate initialization signal from a gate initialization signal from the gate initialization signal line. The light-emitting scanning control unit is configured to be turned on under control of a light-emitting initialization signal from a light-emitting initialization signal line coupled thereto, and to be turned off under control of another light-emitting initialization signal from the light-emitting initialization signal line.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Lu Bai, Bo Zhang, Yang Zhou, Junxiu Dai, Yi Qu, Song Liu, Huijuan Yang
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Patent number: 12360722Abstract: A method of healing an image in a display system having a host device and a display control device includes generating healing updates corresponding to a region of the image and generating other display data at the host device, allocating, by the host device or the display control device, at least a portion of a resource of the display system to be used at least preferentially for at least one of encoding, decoding, transmitting and/or storing the healing updates rather than the other display data, encoding the healing updates and the other display data at the host device, transmitting the encoded healing updates and the other encoded display data from the host device to the display control device, decoding the encoded healing updates and the other encoded display data at the display control device, and healing the image using the decoded healing updates at the display control device.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: DisplayLink (UK) LimitedInventor: Matthew Parks
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Patent number: 12353702Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for projecting interfaces on a surface. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to scan a surface around a display device connected to an electronic device, determine a usable area of the scanned surface for projecting at least one graphical interface of the electronic device, and project the determined at least one graphical interface on the usable area of the scanned surface using at least one projector.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Kevin Wayne Beck, Russell Speight VanBlon, Thorsten P. Stremlau
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Patent number: 12340036Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for selectively activating and suspending control of a graphical user interface by two or more electronic devices. A portable eyewear device includes a display projected onto at least one lens assembly and a primary touchpad through which the user may access a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display. A handheld accessory device, such as a ring, includes an auxiliary touchpad that is configured to emulate the primary touchpad. The eyewear processor temporarily suspends inputs from one touchpad when it detects an activation signal from the other touchpad.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2023Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Yu Jiang Tham, Stephen Pomes, Jonathan M. Rodriguez, II, Nir Daube
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Patent number: 12340725Abstract: A display method, including: determining a gray tone compensation parameter of a target sub-pixel in at least one sub-display area of a display area by at least one photosensitive device arranged in the display area; determining a gray tone voltage of a target sub-pixel in a display stage by using the gray tone compensation parameter of the target sub-pixel and a gray tone value to be output in the display stage; and determining a gray tone voltage of the remaining sub-pixels in the sub-display area in the display stage according to the gray tone voltage of the target sub-pixel in the display stage.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yu Wang, Yicheng Lin
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Patent number: 12340726Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a processor. The electronic device includes a display including a display panel and a display driver circuit that includes memory. The display driver circuit is configured to identify an event for a display on the display panel. The display driver circuit is configured to, in response to the event of a first type that executes the display through the memory, change, at a timing before a reference time from a start timing of a scan for the display, a state of a signal provided from the display driver circuit to the processor from a first state indicating to enable an image transmission to the display driver circuit to a second state indicating to disable the image transmission.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2023Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jaesung Lee, Kyounghwan Kwon, Jongkon Bae, Donghwy Kim, Byungduk Yang
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Patent number: 12340061Abstract: A user-worn device (100) comprising an ultrasonic transducer configured for contacting a first body-part (116), e.g., a wrist, of a user and a touch-device (250) comprising an ultrasonic transducer (201) configured for contacting a second body-part (112), e.g., a finger, of the user are provided. The ultrasonic transducer comprised in the user-worn device (100) is further configured for transmitting data between the user-worn device (100) and the touch-device (250) encoded in ultrasound (121) via the second body-part (112). The user-worn device (100) is operative to receive, from the touch-device (250), an indication identifying data to be transmitted to the touch-device, select data for transmission to the touch-device (250) based on the received indication, and transmit the selected data to the touch-device (250).Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2016Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Till Burkert, Lars Andersson, Matthew John Lawrenson, Julian Charles Nolan
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Patent number: 12340758Abstract: A source driving circuit includes a first source driver and a second source driver. The first source driver is configured to convert latched first image data into a plurality of first data voltages in response to a first triggering moment of a first data transmission control signal, and output the plurality of first data voltages based on a second triggering moment of the first data transmission control signal. The second source driver is configured to convert latched second image data into a plurality of second data voltages in response to a first triggering moment of a second data transmission control signal, and output the plurality of second data voltages based on a second triggering moment of the second data transmission control signal. The second triggering moment of the first data transmission control signal and the second triggering moment of the second data transmission control signal have a time difference.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Fei Yang, Yi Chen, Tianji Li, Mingi Chu, Zhiqiang Dong, Lirong Wang, Jingbo Xu
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Patent number: 12340730Abstract: A display device includes an input port, an output port, a data port, a detection circuit, a processor, and a connection tips circuit. The detection circuit generates a first state value according to a connection state of the input port, and generates a second state value according to a connection state of the output port. The processor generates a third state value according to a connection state of the data port. The processor determines a connection between the display device and an audiovisual source and provides a connection tips signal according to the first state value, the second state value, and the third state value. The connection tips circuit controls the display device to display a connection tips image in response to the connection tips signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2023Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Wistron CorporationInventors: Wenzhi Wang, Jiasheng Chen, Yongqiang Li, Junxin Qiu