Patents by Inventor Joseph Kurth Reynolds
Joseph Kurth Reynolds has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20210294462Abstract: A system and method for capacitive sensing comprise acquiring first capacitive sensor data and second capacitive sensor data from a plurality of sensor electrodes, and determining positional information from one or more input objects based on the first capacitive sensor data and the second capacitive sensor data. The plurality of sensor electrodes are driven with transcapacitive sensing signals for capacitive sensing during one or more transcapacitive sensing blocks to acquire the first sensor data. Further, the plurality of sensor electrodes are operated for absolute capacitive sensing during one or more absolute capacitive sensing blocks to acquire the second capacitive sensor data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Nickolas V. Fotopoulos, Katayoun Goudarzi, Tracy Scott Dattalo, Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Jonathan Losh, Renuka Vidyut Shenoy, Derek Solven
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Patent number: 11093093Abstract: A processing system includes a sensor module configured to receive first and second signals from first and second sensor electrodes, respectively, and generate a combination signal. The processing system further includes a determination module configured to determine, using the first sensor electrode, an absolute capacitive coupling to an input object; determine, using the first and second sensor electrodes, a transcapacitive coupling; determine a ratio of the absolute to transcapacitive coupling; determine, using the combination signal, in absence of a predetermined low ground mass state, and when the ratio fails to exceed a predetermined threshold, first positional information regarding a location of the input object; and determine, when the ratio fails to exceed the predetermined threshold and in presence of the predetermined low ground mass state, second positional information regarding the location of the input object in the sensing region using an absolute capacitive scan.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: John Weinerth, David Sobel, Derek Solven, Adam Schwartz, Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Tracy Scott Dattalo, David Hoch
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Publication number: 20210223911Abstract: A semiconductor device for an input device comprises sensor circuitry, a plurality of contacts and a sensor bus. A first contact of the plurality of contacts is configured to be coupled to a first sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes, a second contact of the plurality of contacts is configured to be coupled to a second sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes, and a third contact of the plurality of contacts is configured to be coupled to a third sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes. The sensor bus comprises a plurality of traces. A first trace of the plurality of traces is configured to couple the first contact and the second contact to a first transmitter of the sensor circuitry and a second trace of the plurality of traces is coupled to the third contact to a first receiver of the sensor circuitry.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventor: Joseph Kurth Reynolds
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Patent number: 11061521Abstract: A system and method for capacitive sensing comprise acquiring first capacitive sensor data and second capacitive sensor data from a plurality of sensor electrodes, and determining positional information from one or more input objects based on the first capacitive sensor data and the second capacitive sensor data. The plurality of sensor electrodes are driven with transcapacitive sensing signals for capacitive sensing during one or more transcapacitive sensing blocks to acquire the first sensor data. Each of the transcapacitive sensing signals is based on a respective one of a plurality of codes. Further, the plurality of sensor electrodes are operated for absolute capacitive sensing during one or more absolute capacitive sensing blocks to acquire the second capacitive sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Nickolas V. Fotopoulos, Katayoun Goudarzi, Tracy Scott Dattalo, Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Jonathan Losh, Renuka Vidyut Shenoy, Derek Solven
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Publication number: 20210208651Abstract: This disclosure generally provides an input device that includes multiple sensor and display electrodes and a processing system. The processing system includes a plurality of local receivers coupled to respective ones of the sensor electrodes, where the local receivers are configured to acquire first resulting signals from the sensor electrodes. The processing system also includes a central receiver coupled to the sensor electrodes and configured to acquire second resulting signals from each of the sensor electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Stephen L. Morein
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Patent number: 11054908Abstract: A method may include obtaining, using a first set of resulting signals from various proximity sensor electrodes, positional information regarding a location of an input object in a sensing region. The method may include obtaining, using a second set of resulting signals from various force sensor electrodes, force information regarding an input force that is applied to an input surface. The method may include loading, using a loading actuator and in response to the positional information or the force information, energy in a spring element coupled to a buckling element. The spring element may apply a compression force to the buckling element based on the energy in the spring element. The method may include generating, using a buckling actuator and in response to the positional information or the force information, a haptic event by applying a force to the buckling element to trigger the haptic event.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Doug Krumpelman
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Patent number: 11048367Abstract: A capacitive sensor device comprises a first sensor electrode, a second sensor electrode, and a processing system coupled to the first sensor electrode and the second sensor electrode. The processing system is configured to acquire a first capacitive measurement by emitting and receiving a first electrical signal with the first sensor electrode. The processing system is configured to acquire a second capacitive measurement by emitting and receiving a second electrical signal, wherein one of the first and second sensor electrodes performs the emitting and the other of the first and second sensor electrodes performs the receiving, and wherein the first and second capacitive measurements are non-degenerate. The processing system is configured to determine positional information using the first and second capacitive measurements.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Phillip Acker, Kirk Hargreaves, Shahrooz Shahparnia
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Publication number: 20210191564Abstract: A capacitive sensing array includes a first transmitter electrode, a plurality of first receiver electrodes, a second transmitter electrode, and a plurality of second receiver electrodes disposed in a first row of the array. The first transmitter electrode is disposed in a first column of the array and is coupled to a first transmitter channel. The first receiver electrodes are disposed in a second column of the array, adjacent the first transmitter electrode, and are coupled to a respective one of a plurality of first receiver channels. The second transmitter electrode is disposed in a third column of the array and is coupled to a second transmitter channel. The second receiver electrodes are disposed in a fourth column of the array, adjacent the second transmitter electrode, and are coupled to a respective one of the first receiver channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: David HOCH, Adam L. SCHWARTZ, Joseph Kurth REYNOLDS
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Patent number: 11003291Abstract: A semiconductor device for an input device comprises a die body comprising sensor circuitry, a plurality of pads and a sensor bus. The sensor circuitry is configured to operate a plurality of sensor electrodes disposed in a single layer for capacitive sensing. A first pad of the plurality of pads is configured to be coupled to a first sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes, a second pad of the plurality of pads is configured to be coupled to a second sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes, and a third pad of the plurality of pads is configured to be coupled to a third sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes. The sensor bus comprises a plurality of wires. A first wire of the plurality of wires is configured to couple the first pad and the second pad to a first transmitter of the sensor circuitry and a second wire of the plurality of wires is coupled to the third pad to a first receiver of the sensor circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventor: Joseph Kurth Reynolds
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Publication number: 20210134221Abstract: A system and method for encoding, transmitting and updating a display based on demura calibration information for a display device comprises generating demura correction coefficients based on display color information, separating coherent components from the demura correction coefficients to generate residual information, and encode the residual information using a first encoding technique. Further, the image data may be divided into data streams, compressed and transmitted to from a host device to a display driver of a display device. The display driver decompresses and drives subpixels of the pixels in based on the decompressed data. The display driver updates the subpixels of a display using corrected greyscale values for each subpixel are determined from the decompressed data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2018Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Damien BERGET, Hirobumi FURIHATA, Joseph Kurth REYNOLDS, Takashi NOSE
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Patent number: 10990225Abstract: A method for optically imaging an object using a display device includes: illuminating, by the display device, an object at a sensing region corresponding to an optical sensor of the display device; conditioning, by the display device, light from the sensing region, wherein conditioning the light includes focusing and reflecting the light; receiving, by the display device, the conditioned light at photodetectors of the optical sensor; and generating, by a processing system associated with the display device, an image of the object based on the conditioned light received at the photodetectors of the optical sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventor: Joseph Kurth Reynolds
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Patent number: 10991304Abstract: A host device divides original data into first to Nth stream data for N being an integer of two or more, generates first to Nth compressed stream data by sequentially compressing the first to Nth stream data with a variable length compression, divides the first to Nth compressed stream data into fixed-length blocks, and sequentially transmits the fixed-length blocks to the display driver. The display driver includes a memory storing therein the fixed-length blocks and a decompression circuitry reading out the fixed-length blocks from the memory. The decompression circuitry includes first to Nth processing circuits. The first to Nth processing circuits each perform a predetermined process on the fixed-length blocks received to generate processed data. The host device sorts the fixed-length blocks so that the fixed-length blocks are supplied in the order in which the first to Nth processing circuits require the fixed-length blocks.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Hirobumi Furihata, Damien Berget, Takashi Nose, Joseph Kurth Reynolds
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Patent number: 10990158Abstract: An example method of capacitive sensing includes: transmitting a first waveform over a first time period; transmitting a second waveform over a second time period, wherein the second waveform is independent of the first waveform, and wherein at least a portion of the second time period does not overlap the first time period; receiving, from sensor electrodes, a first resulting signal in response to capacitive coupling of the first waveform and a second resulting signal in response to capacitive coupling of the second waveform; and processing the second resulting signal over at least a portion of the first time period, and the second time period, to obtain independent capacitive measurements.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATEDInventor: Joseph Kurth Reynolds
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Patent number: 10990148Abstract: This disclosure generally provides an input device that includes multiple sensor and display electrodes and a processing system. The processing system includes a plurality of local receivers coupled to respective ones of the sensor electrodes, where the local receivers are configured to acquire first resulting signals from the sensor electrodes. The processing system also includes a central receiver coupled to the sensor electrodes and configured to acquire second resulting signals from each of the sensor electrodes simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Stephen L. Morein
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Publication number: 20210117065Abstract: An input device comprises a plurality of sensor electrodes and a processing system coupled to the plurality of sensor electrodes. The processing system comprises a sensor driver. The sensor driver comprises clock synchronization circuitry, a blocking pulse generator, and a sensor module. The clock synchronization circuitry is configured to receive an external clock signal, and synchronize an internal clock signal with the external clock signal. The blocking pulse generator is configured to generate a first blocking pulse based on the internal clock signal. The sensor module comprises sensing circuitry and is configured to pause acquisition of a resulting signal from a sensor electrode based on the first blocking pulse.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Guozhong Shen, Xiaodan Mei, Yongqian Tang, Ozan Ersan Erdogan, Joseph Kurth Reynolds
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Publication number: 20210117644Abstract: Optical sensing systems and devices include a display substrate, a plurality of display elements for displaying visible images, a sensor light source for illuminating a sensing region, wherein the sensor light source is separate from the plurality of display elements, a detector for detecting light from the sensing region, and one or more aperture regions defined in the display between the display elements to facilitate and/or enhance illumination of the sensing region by the sensor light source. The displays may include OLED or LCD displays.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2019Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventor: Joseph Kurth Reynolds
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Patent number: 10969916Abstract: A capacitive sensing array includes a first transmitter electrode, a plurality of first receiver electrodes, a second transmitter electrode, and a plurality of second receiver electrodes disposed in a first row of the array. The first transmitter electrode is disposed in a first column of the array and is coupled to a first transmitter channel. The first receiver electrodes are disposed in a second column of the array, adjacent the first transmitter electrode, and are coupled to a respective one of a plurality of first receiver channels. The second transmitter electrode is disposed in a third column of the array and is coupled to a second transmitter channel. The second receiver electrodes are disposed in a fourth column of the array, adjacent the second transmitter electrode, and are coupled to a respective one of the first receiver channels.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATEDInventors: David Hoch, Adam L. Schwartz, Joseph Kurth Reynolds
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Patent number: 10970511Abstract: A system and method for correcting distortions within a biometric image. The biometric image is generated from first sensor data acquired from a sensing device. The first sensor data may include distortions generated in response to a change in distance or tilt between elements of a corresponding electronic device. Further, second sensor data corresponding to a calibration image is acquired from the sensing device. A corrected biometric image is generated based at least in part on the biometric image and the sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventor: Joseph Kurth Reynolds
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Publication number: 20210065622Abstract: Aspects described herein include a method and associated processing system for a display having a plurality of pixels. The method comprises driving, using display circuitry, a plurality of pixels of a display device to display one or more test patterns. The display device is integrated into a manufactured input device. The method further comprises receiving field-set mura compensation data that is based on one or more images of the plurality of pixels. The one or more images are acquired responsive to displaying the one or more test patterns. The method further comprises writing the field-set mura compensation data to a memory of the input device. The field-set mura compensation data replaces or is stored along with factory-set mura compensation data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Xi CHU, Joseph Kurth REYNOLDS
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Publication number: 20210064090Abstract: A semiconductor assembly for a display device comprises a display driver integrated circuit (DDIC) chip and an interposer coupled to the DDIC chip. The DDIC chip comprises a plurality of output pads and a plurality of input pads. Further, the DDIC chip is configured to drive a plurality of data lines of the display device to update an active region of the display device. The interposer comprises a plurality of output pads coupled to the plurality of output pads of the DDIC chip and is configured to be coupled to the plurality of data lines of the display device. The interposer further comprises a plurality of input pads coupled to the plurality of input pads of the DDIC chip pads. Further, a width of the interposer is at least as large as a distance between outermost data lines of the plurality of data lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Shengmin WEN, Qing XIAO, Jason GOODELLE, Joseph Kurth REYNOLDS