Patents Examined by Wing H Chow
  • Patent number: 12135853
    Abstract: What is proposed is an ultrasonic touch sensor having a contact surface for attaching the ultrasonic touch sensor to a casing, having a first ultrasonic transducer element, having a first semiconductor chip, wherein the first semiconductor chip comprises the first ultrasonic transducer element, wherein the first semiconductor chip is potted into a potting compound in such a way that a first cutout is formed from the first ultrasonic transducer element to the contact surface of the ultrasonic touch sensor, and wherein the potting compound forms the housing of the ultrasonic touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Klaus Elian, Horst Theuss
  • Patent number: 12127453
    Abstract: A display device includes a display substrate, a main circuit board, and first and second connection circuit boards. The display substrate includes a base layer, an insulating layer on the base layer, a first signal line on the base layer, a second signal line on the base layer, a first pad exposed from the insulating layer and connected to the first signal line, and a second pad connected to a side surface of the second signal line and disposed on a side surface and a bottom surface of the base layer. The first connection circuit board electrically connects the first pad and the main circuit board, and the second connection circuit board electrically connects the second pad and the main circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joonho Oh, Seungjae Kang, Myung-Seok Kwon, Yun-Tae Kim, Jin-Ki Kim, Hasook Kim
  • Patent number: 12118166
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device including a narrow bezel and a proximity sensing method for the electronic device. The electronic device includes: a first sensor configured to be arranged in a first area which is at least part of the non-display area of a front surface including a display, and to detect first capacitance between a first object in front of the front surface and the first sensor; a second sensor configured to be arranged in a first side surface adjacent to the first area, and to detect second capacitance between a second object in front of the first side surface and the second sensor; and a processor configured to generate sensing information by compensating the first capacitance based on the second capacitance, and to determine the proximity of the first object based on the sensing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ABOV SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Jin Seo, Seok-Hyun Jee, Seo Han Lee
  • Patent number: 12094885
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel having a first side and a second side facing the first side in a first direction, the display panel including a recessed portion having a recessed shape from the first side of the display panel toward the second side in the first direction, the recessed portion including a side extended from the first side of the display panel; a pad portion disposed on a front surface of the display panel, the pad portion being adjacent to at least one side of the recessed portion; and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) connected to the pad portion, the FPC being bent to a rear surface of the display panel around the at least one side of the recessed portion, the rear surface opposing the front surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Min Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 12061742
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first display unit that displays a first image at a remote position; a second display unit that displays a second image and a third image at a position different from a position of the first image, the third image having luminance different from luminance of the second image; a detection unit that detects an operation performed by a user with respect to the first image; and a display control unit that adjusts a display mode for at least either one of the first image displayed by the first display unit and the second image displayed by the second display unit, based upon the operation detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidenori Kuribayashi
  • Patent number: 12057092
    Abstract: An information processing device (1) according to an embodiment includes a display control unit (34) and a decision unit (31). The display control unit (34) displays a content image on a head-mounted display. During display of the content image by the display control unit (34), the decision unit (31) decides whether or not a surrounding person exists in a front direction of the head-mounted display on the basis of a camera image obtained by capturing an image of a surrounding environment of the head-mounted display. In a case where the decision unit (31) decides that a surrounding person exists, the display control unit (34) moves a display position of the content image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotake Ichikawa, Atsushi Ishihara, Ryosuke Murata, Hajime Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 12046077
    Abstract: A method can include determining an assistance-initiating characteristic corresponding to a user. Determining the assistance-initiating characteristic can be based, at least in part, on a user action by the user. The method can further include generating an adaptation corresponding to the assistance-initiating characteristic. Generating the adaptation can include automatically adjusting an adaptable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Spencer Thomas Reynolds, Raden Tonev, Tessa Rodes, Janelle Michiko Janyen Arita, Danchen Sun
  • Patent number: 12041388
    Abstract: The invention is directed towards a system where a head-mounted display (HMD), or other head mounted computing device, may annotate video data captured by the HMD. When a video is annotated on the computer processor, the data packet associated with that digital marker is encoded as an operation-encoded audio packet and sent over a secure audio link to the HMD. Sending the operation-encoded audio packet over the secure audio link requires the HMD to decode the packet into a data packet which may then be used to annotate a display on the HMD. The user of the HMD may be able to view his own recorded field of view on a display device which may then be annotated using the data in the data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: REALWEAR, INC.
    Inventor: Chris Parkinson
  • Patent number: 12032404
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a layer disposed on one surface of the display panel and including a substantially flat member to induce a magnetic field; and a support spaced apart from the display panel with the layer interposed therebetween and having a fixed magnetic field generation member disposed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: So Young Yeo, Yi Joon Ahn, Jae Been Lee
  • Patent number: 12025807
    Abstract: A system projects a user-viewable, computer-generated or -fed image, wherein a head-mounted projector is used to project an image onto a retro-reflective surface, so only the viewer can see the image. The projector is connected to a computer that contains software to create virtual 2-D and or 3-D images for viewing by the user. Further, one projector each is mounted on either side of the user's head, and, by choosing for example a retro angle of less than about 10 degrees, each eye can only see the image of one of the projectors at a given distance up to 3 meters, in this example, from the retro-reflective screen. The retro angle used may be reduced with larger viewing distance desired. These projectors use lasers to avoid the need for focusing, and in some cases these projectors use instead of lasers highly collimated LED light sources to avoid the need for focusing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Inventors: Gerard Dirk Smits, Dan Kikinis
  • Patent number: 12001747
    Abstract: An electronic shelf label system, comprising a number of display devices to display content on its screen or its screens, each device comprises a memory stage to store content data, and a control stage to control the display of the content on its screen; wherein the screen is a video screen and realizes a shelf rail or covers a front of a shelf rail or a part of it to which it is attachable, and the content is a video and the memory stage stores the entire video data of the video, and the control stage is designed to define a display window for the video and to display only the video content within the display window on its screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: VusionGroup GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Oosthoek, Andreas Roessl
  • Patent number: 11942015
    Abstract: A source driver, including a plurality of channel circuits, each of the plurality of channel circuits including a first digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a second DAC, a first switch, a second switch and an output buffer circuit, is provided. The output terminal of the output buffer circuit is configured to be coupled to a data line of a display panel. An output terminal of the first DAC is coupled to a first input terminal among the input terminals of the output buffer circuit. An output terminal of the second DAC is coupled to a second input terminal among the input terminals of the output buffer circuit. The first switch is disposed along a first signal path between the output terminal of the first DAC and the output terminal of the output buffer circuit. The second switch is disposed along a second signal path between the output terminal of the second DAC and the output terminal of the output buffer circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yen-Cheng Cheng, Hsiu-Hui Yang
  • Patent number: 11893190
    Abstract: The logic of a handheld controller system may use a clustering algorithm to determine which sensors of a touch sensor array, such as capacitive pads, to assign to individual fingers of a user's hand. The clustering algorithm disclosed herein allows for dynamically determining the controller configuration on-the-fly for a given user. An example process includes receiving data generated by a plurality of sensors of a touch sensor array of the handheld controller, generating a covariance matrix that indicates correlations between pairs of sensors, determining a plurality of feature vectors based at least in part on the covariance matrix, each feature vector corresponding to an individual sensor and describing that sensor's correlation(s) with one or more other sensors, clustering the feature vectors using a clustering algorithm, and configuring the touch sensor array according to a controller configuration that assigns sensors to respective fingers of a hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: VALVE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Scott Douglas Nietfeld
  • Patent number: 11830461
    Abstract: A display driver comprises an interface and signal supply circuitry. The interface is configured to receive image data. The signal supply circuitry is configured to supply at least one drive control signal to a display panel based on a detection of a data error in the image data associated with a first horizontal line in a first vertical sync period, causing a first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit hold, in the first vertical sync period, first hold voltages based in part on at least one drive control signal and second hold voltages held in a second vertical sync period prior to the first vertical sync period. The first pixel circuit is associated with the first horizontal line, and the second pixel circuit is associated with a second horizontal line and driven after the first pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kuroiwa, Hirokazu Hatayama, Takefumi Seno
  • Patent number: 11800046
    Abstract: A video transmission system is disclosed. The video transmission system comprises a multi-drop bus, a first source driving chip, a second source driving chip and a timing controller. The first source driving chip comprises a first source driving circuit and a first terminal circuit. The first terminal circuit is coupled to the multi-drop bus and the first source driving circuit for providing a first terminal resistor. The second source driving chip comprises a second source driving circuit and a second terminal circuit. The second terminal circuit is coupled to the multi-drop bus and the second source driving circuit for providing a second terminal resistor. The timing controller is coupled to the first source driving chip and the second source driving chip via the multi-drop bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Jhih-Siou Cheng, Yi-Chuan Liu, Hung-Cheng Hsiao, Ying-Wen Chou
  • Patent number: 11790072
    Abstract: A system for a touch screen interface that includes a coating including a plurality of a touch activated microchips; and a projector for projecting a light image onto the coating that is applied to a touch screen substrate. The system also includes an image calibrator that calibrates touch activated microchips in the coating to features of the light image projected onto the coating. The system further includes a receiver for receiving signal from the touch activated microchips when said feature of the light image is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Maryam Ashoori, Benjamin D. Briggs, Justin A. Canaperi, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Leigh Anne H. Clevenger, Michael Rizzolo, Spyridon Skordas
  • Patent number: 11788677
    Abstract: A hanger hanging multiple display modules is provided. Each display module has at least one rolling receiving portion. The hanger includes a hanger base and a first hanging structure disposed on the hanger base and including at least one first hanging slot corresponding to the rolling receiving portion of the display module. A rolling receiving portion of a first display module passes through the first hanging slot to hang the first display module on the first hanging structure. The first hanging slot includes a first guide section extending along a first direction and a second guide section extending along a second direction. The second guide section is connected to the first guide section. The rolling receiving portion reaches a first position by guidance of the first guide section and a second position by guidance of the second guide section. A display device using the hanger is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: Optoma Corporation, Lighthouse Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Chia Yu Li, Justin Nicholas Halls, Tin Po Chu
  • Patent number: 11789578
    Abstract: Present disclosure provides a touch display device comprising a display panel including an inner area forming a first step between a first touch electrode metal with first critical dimension and a lower electrode layer, and an edge area having at least one of CD compensation area, which is located outside of the inner area, forming a second step between a second touch electrode metal with second critical dimension larger than the first critical dimension and the lower electrode layer; and a touch circuit for sensing touch presence or touch location by using a touch sensing signal received from the touch electrode metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: MinSeob Song
  • Patent number: 11755119
    Abstract: A scene controlling method, a device and electronic equipment are provided, which relate to the field of scene controlling. The scene controlling method includes displaying a scene in a first modality, recognizing a trigger object, determining a motion of the trigger object, and switching the scene from the first modality to a second modality based on the motion. The first modality of the scene is associated with the second modality of the scene. Predetermined scene information is retrieved based on the motion of the trigger object so as to switch between scenes or control an element in the scene. By associating the motions of the trigger object with the scenes, the scene displayed on the electronic equipment can be controlled without any hardware upgrade of the conventional electronic equipment, thereby reducing the cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING MICROLIVE VISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xugang Li, Yufei Feng, Yangguang Liu
  • Patent number: 11740723
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels configured to display images for a user. The electronic device may have an ambient light sensor for gathering ambient light information. A set of the pixels may overlap the ambient light sensor so that ambient light measurements may be made on ambient light passing through the set of pixels. Control circuitry in the electronic device may control light transmission through the set of pixels so that different light transmission levels can be used in different ambient light conditions. Directional light measurements may be made by moving transparent pixels dynamically across the surface of the display overlapping the light sensor and/or by using pixelated light modulators to vary the angle of light rays measured by the ambient light sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Vampola, Joshua A. Spechler, Weili Chen, Christopher M. Dodson, Mahdi Nezamabadi