Patents Examined by Yaron Cohen
  • Patent number: 11954286
    Abstract: Techniques are described for low-noise self-capacitor sensing in a capacitive touch panel array integrated with a display panel. Each channel of the array has a self-capacitance (Ci) that changes responsive to presence or absence of a local touch event local. Each channel is read by an analog front-end (AFE) by using a locally noise-suppressed discharge current for a discrete discharge time to discharge Ci to obtain a discharge voltage level that differs with presence or absence of the local touch event, and outputting a voltage output for the channel based on the discharge voltage level by passively mixing at least the discharge voltage level to produce a pair of up-converted channel signals, sampling the pair of up-converted channel signals to obtain a differential voltage sample, and amplifying the differential voltage sample to generate the Vout as indicating absence or presence of the touch event local to the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chao Yang, Dazhi Wei
  • Patent number: 11947108
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that renders a plurality of virtual monitors to a head mounted display (HMD), detects a change in gaze direction with respect to the HMD, and conducts a modification of one or more of a refresh rate or a texture capture rate associated with at least one of the plurality of virtual monitors based on the change in gaze direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: William Hux, Mario Palumbo
  • Patent number: 11947790
    Abstract: An interface display method and a terminal are provided. The interface display method is applied to the terminal and includes: receiving a first input performed by a user on a target control in a case of displaying a user interface of a first application in a first region of a screen of the terminal, and the target control being used to indicate the first application and/or a second application; and responding to the first input and displaying a user interface of the second application in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yanjie Cao
  • Patent number: 11941908
    Abstract: An optical fingerprint module and a method for processing a signal includes a light sensing unit, a signal processing unit and a control unit. The light sensing unit is configured to collect a light signal. The signal processing unit is connected to the light sensing unit and is configured to process the light signal collected by the light sensing unit to generate at least one of a fingerprint signal and a health signal. The control unit is connected to the signal processing unit and is configured to generate fingerprint information for fingerprint recognition based on the fingerprint signal output by the signal processing unit, and generate health parameter information based on a health signal output by the signal processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhongsheng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11941245
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing method and apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The information processing method includes: displaying a second control in response to a first operation on a first control; receiving a second operation on the second control, and determining, based on a position of the second control, target information corresponding to the second operation; and setting the target information as input information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Fanxiu Kong
  • Patent number: 11935468
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a plurality of driving circuits, wherein each of the driving circuits includes: a first sub-circuit, respectively coupled to a gate signal terminal, a data signal terminal and a light-emitting power source terminal, and configured to store a drive voltage based on a voltage at the data signal terminal when the gate signal terminal receives a gate drive signal, and output a drive current to a light-emitting device based on the stored drive voltage under power supply provided by the light-emitting power source terminal; and a second sub-circuit, configured to regulate an equivalent resistance value of the second sub-circuit in an output path through which the drive current is output to the light-emitting device, based on a voltage division control signal received by the voltage division control signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengji Yang, Xue Dong, Xiaochuan Chen, Hui Wang, Pengcheng Lu
  • Patent number: 11934651
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal which has a touch screen including a plurality of regions classified by software, or which is linked to another touch screen, the mobile terminal comprising: a first touch screen for displaying screen image information about an application being executed; a communication unit for performing a communication connection with a second touch screen linked to the first touch screen; and a control unit which generates a multi-touch event by combining a first touch event formed by a first touch input and a second touch event formed by a second touch input when the second touch input is applied to either the first or second touch screen in a state in which the first touch input is applied to the other one of the first and second touch screen, and which performs a function according to the multi-touch event with respect to the screen image information displayed on the touch screen to which the first touch input has been applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Taeoh Ahn, Taehwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11920764
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display apparatus and an in-vehicle display device. The display apparatus includes at least two display modules. The display modules are arranged in sequence along a first direction and includes at least one user front-view display module and at least one user side-view display module. A difference between a luminous angle of each user side-view display module and a viewing angle of the user side-view display module is within a preset difference range. The viewing angle is formed by a second direction and a normal direction of a corresponding display module, the second direction being from a point on the corresponding display module toward the user position; the luminous angle is formed by an emission direction and a normal direction of the corresponding display module; for each user side-view display module, an angle formed by the second direction and the emission direction is within a preset angle range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Guofei Ji, Haijiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11922756
    Abstract: A parking meter may incorporate a touchscreen display assembly that uses a low-power wake trigger, which may be a proximity sensor overlaid on the display, that can power on the display and touch sensor when a user's proximity is detected. The parking meter may incorporate a replaceable panel insert that allows user interface components to be easily retrofitted or upgraded by simply replacing the panel insert. Additionally, the parking meter may incorporate multiple solar panels on the exterior of the parking meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: J.J. MacKay Canada Limited
    Inventors: George Allan MacKay, James George MacKay, Adrian Ignatius O'Neil, Gregory Emile Chauvin, Neil Stuart Erskine
  • Patent number: 11921548
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a detection method of a first or second state of a foldable electronic device including a first and a second hardware element tiltable to each other and accommodating a first and a second electrode which are in contact with each other when the foldable electronic device is in the first state and at a distance from each other otherwise. The detection method includes: acquiring a first and a second charge variation signal indicative of environmental electric/electrostatic charge variations detected by the first and second electrodes; generating a differential signal indicative of a difference between the first and the second charge variation signals; generating, as a function of the differential signal, one or more feature signals; and generating, as a function of the one or more feature signals, a contact signal indicative of the first or second states of the foldable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Stefano Paolo Rivolta, Roberto Mura, Lorenzo Bracco, Federico Rizzardini
  • Patent number: 11915893
    Abstract: A multi-directional operation switch device that can smoothly move a slider that is movable in four directions back to a neutral position is provided. The multi-directional operation switch device includes: a slider movable in the four directions; four push switches provided in the four directions to detect a movement of the slider; and four pressing members provided between the slider and the push switches. The slider includes four side face portions, each intersecting a first axis or a second axis, each axis extending in at least one of the four directions. Each side face portion includes a sloped region sloped toward a center of the slider. The push switches include movable portions, each movable portion self-returning and moving to an original position when pressing is released. Each pressing member is in contact with a corresponding one of the movable portions and a corresponding one of the side face portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Sagara, Takeshi Miyaoka, Hideyuki Murakami
  • Patent number: 11914809
    Abstract: An illuminated trackpad includes a substrate, a light guide plate disposed under the substrate, a circuit board disposed under the light guide plate, and light-emitting elements disposed on the circuit board. The light guide plate includes light guide units and through holes. Each light guide unit is composed of light guide microstructures and substantially in the shape of a strip or a line. The through holes are respectively arranged on one side of the light guide units. The circuit board has a touch surface and a non-touch surface. The touch surface has a touch area on which sensing electrodes are disposed. The light-emitting elements are respectively accommodated in the through holes. After entering the light guide plate through inner walls of the through holes, the lights emitted by the light-emitting elements are guided upward through the light guide units to pass through the substrate and exit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Chicony Power Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chen-Hao Chiu
  • Patent number: 11899926
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for generating a combined instruction during an application operation. The method includes: generating an instruction recording layer corresponding to a target application, the instruction recording layer covering a target interface corresponding to the target application; receiving trigger operations for the target interface via the instruction recording layer, and generating a combined instruction corresponding to the target interface according to a trigger sequence and trigger locations of the trigger operations; and issuing the trigger operations to the target application, to cause the target application to execute operations corresponding to the trigger operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chumou Guo
  • Patent number: 11889050
    Abstract: An image display control method and apparatus, and a head-mounted display device (200). The head-mounted display device (200) includes an optical imaging apparatus (210), an image source apparatus (230), a displacement apparatus (220) and an image display control apparatus (240). The image source apparatus (230) is optically aligned with the optical imaging apparatus (210), and has a plurality of source images. Each source image has a different virtual scene depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MATRIXED REALITY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bing Xiao
  • Patent number: 11884509
    Abstract: A holographic external call device for an elevator, which includes a device shell. One side of the device shell is provided with a sensor mounting hole, and a gesture sensor is installed in the sensor mounting hole. An optical module is installed, one side of the optical module is provided with two screen installation grooves, the two screen installation grooves are both installed with a screen, and the bottom side of the optical module is provided with a main board. The screen produces an image after power on, which affects the light reconstruction in the optical module to generate an image in the air, and then the finger clicks on the image in the air. The gesture sensor will sense the gesture and send the command for the main board, addressing cross-contact infection problem caused by using the elevator outbound button to call the elevator without actual physical contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Yesar Electronics Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jinghua Shi
  • Patent number: 11880549
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a hinge configured to foldably connect a first housing to a second housing; a display including a first display area disposed on the first housing, and a second display area and a third display area arranged on the second housing; and at least one processor configured to: in a first state in which the hinge is unfolded, display a first application in the first display area and the second display area, and display, in the third display area, at least one default button, in a second state in which the hinge is folded, control the display to display a panel button, in the third display area, and based on a selection of the panel button in the second state, display the first application in the first display area, and display, in the second display area, a first panel including at least one control button and at least one system button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinkyo Chung, Eunah Jang, Minwook Na
  • Patent number: 11880524
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display touch device and a control method. The display touch device includes a display panel, a display touch driving circuit and a touch operation processing circuit, wherein the display panel includes a plurality of gate lines; the touch operation processing circuit is configured to provide a first touch enable signal to the display touch driving circuit when it is detected that the display touch device is in a touch-only detection state, to control the display touch driving circuit to perform touch detection. The present disclosure can conveniently perform touch detection when the display touch device is in the touch-only detection state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cuilan Huang, Yuan Zhang, Jieqiong Wang, Lei Liu, Wei Wang, Jianlong Gao, Bohao Chen
  • Patent number: 11880565
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed relating to computing devices and methods for performing touch detection within a virtual trackpad area of a touch screen display. In one example, a non-trackpad touch input signal is received from outside the virtual trackpad area and processed with at least one touch detection algorithm applying a non-trackpad threshold value. A virtual trackpad touch input signal is determined to be received from within the virtual trackpad area. On condition of determining that the virtual trackpad touch input signal is received from within the virtual trackpad area, the virtual trackpad touch input signal is processed with the touch detection algorithm applying a virtual trackpad threshold value different from the non-trackpad threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Matan Slassi, Dmitry Birenberg, Gilad Pundak, Nadav Linenberg, Andrew Pyon Mittereder
  • Patent number: 11836313
    Abstract: An input device including a touchscreen sensor that detects a touch operation from a user, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium including a program, and a hardware processor that executes the program to operate as: an area determination unit that determines whether a detected touch operation is performed in a first detection area; a trajectory determination unit that, when it is determined that the detected touch operation is performed in the first detection area, determines whether or not the detected touch operation indicates an operation drawing a linear trajectory; and a detection control unit that, when it is determined that the operation drawing a linear trajectory is indicated, controls the area determination unit to determine whether a next touch operation is performed in a second detection area that is larger than the first detection area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masafumi Aikawa
  • Patent number: 11836323
    Abstract: A display device includes (i) a substrate having a first area, a second area, and a bending area located between the first area and the second area, where the substrate is bent along a bending axis in the bending area, the substrate includes a thin portion at an edge portion of the bending area, and the thin portion extends from the second area to the first area and has a thickness less than a thickness of the substrate at a center of the bending area; and (ii) an inorganic insulating layer over the substrate, where the inorganic insulating layer exposes the thin portion in the bending area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyongjun Kim, Sungsik Yun, Juyeon Seo, Jinsuk Park, Jaebok Lee, Sungho Cho