Patents Issued in January 2, 2024
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Patent number: 11861073Abstract: An athletic performance monitoring system, including a gesture recognition processor configured to execute gesture recognition processes. Interaction with the athletic performance monitoring system may be based, at least in part, on gestures performed by a user, and may offer an alternative to making selections on the athletic performance monitoring system using physical buttons, which may be cumbersome and/or inconvenient to use while performing an athletic activity. Additionally, recognized gestures may be used to select one or more operational modes for the athletic performance monitoring system, such that a reduction in power consumption may be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Manan Goel, Kate Cummings, Peter Laigar, David Switzer, Sebastian Imlay, Michael Lapinsky
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Patent number: 11861074Abstract: The present utility provides a keyboard, including a first operating area, a second primary key area, and a third shortcut module area which are provided on a keyboard carrier from the bottom up. The second primary key area is used for three rows of alphabet keys. The first operating area is used for setting of a space bar, and the bottom of the second primary key area and the left and right sides of the first operation area constitute left and right palm support positions. The third shortcut module area is divided into left and right sections corresponding to the left and right palm support positions of the first operating area, the left and right sections being provided with shortcut modules respectively. When a palm is on a palm support position, the palm can reach over the second primary key area to operate the shortcut module, the palm can reach over the second main key area to operate a shortcut module without lifting the wrist.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventor: Xiangpeng Ding
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Patent number: 11861075Abstract: A personalized emoji dictionary, such as for use with emoji-first messaging. Text messaging is automatically converted to emojis by an emoji-first application so that only emojis are communicated from one client device to another client device. Each client device has a personalized emoji library of emojis that are mapped to words, which libraries are customizable and unique to the users of the client devices, such that the users can communicate secretly in code. Upon receipt of a string of emojis, a user can select the emoji string to convert to text if desired, for a predetermined period of time.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Karl Bayer, Prerna Chikersal, Shree K. Nayar, Brian Anthony Smith
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Patent number: 11861076Abstract: Methods and systems for providing computer implemented services using user input are disclosed. To obtain the user input, a passive human interface device may be used. The human interface device may include a magnet that may produce a magnetic field used to discern the user input. The magnet may be mechanically coupled to actuatable portions of the human interface device thereby facilitating both translation and rotation of the magnet responsive to actuations by a user. The translation and rotation of the magnet may be sensed and used to identify user input provided by the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2023Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Loo Shing Tan, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Gerald Rene Pelissier, Thomas Marcus Hinskens
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Patent number: 11861077Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to interacting with an electronic device without touching a display screen or other physical input mechanisms. In some examples, the electronic device performs an operation in response to a positioning of a user's hand and/or an orientation of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Lukas Robert Tom Girling, Julian Missig, Golnaz Abdollahian
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Patent number: 11861078Abstract: An electronic pen central rod is provided. The electronic pen central rod includes a connection member having a front end and a back end, and a front-end member having a pen tip part and a back-end extension part that extends in an opposite direction from the pen tip part to be detachably held by the front end of the connection member with a first level of holding strength. The electronic pen central rod further includes a back-end member having an attachment part to be attached to an electronic pen interior and a front-end extension part that extends in an opposite direction from the attachment part to be held by the back end of the connection member with a second level of holding strength. The second level of holding strength is higher than the first level of holding strength.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ryoji Kamiyama
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Patent number: 11861079Abstract: A luminous touch pad module includes a touch member, a touch sensing circuit board, a first light guide plate, a second light guide plate, a first light-emitting element, a first light-guiding element and a second light-emitting element. The touch member, the second light guide plate, the first light guide plate and the touch sensing circuit board are sequentially arranged from top to bottom. The first light-emitting element is aligned with the first light guide plate. The second light-emitting element is located under the touch sensing circuit board. The second light-emitting element is aligned with the first light-guiding element. A light beam emitted by the first light-emitting element is transmitted to the touch member through the first light guide plate. A light beam emitted by the second light-emitting element is transmitted to the touch member through the first light-guiding element and the second light guide plate sequentially.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2023Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.Inventor: Ming-Hui Yeh
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Patent number: 11861080Abstract: Provided is a method for unlocking by use of a knob. The method is applied to an electronic device provided with an operation knob. The method includes the following steps: detecting (1) an action of the operation knob in a screen locked state in real time; and starting (2) an unlocking program in response to rotation of the operation knob: calculating the rotational circumferential distance of the operation knob along the current rotational direction, determining whether the rotational circumferential distance of the operation knob reaches a preset circumferential distance, controlling the electronic device to unlock in response to the rotational circumferential distance of the operation knob reaching the preset circumferential distance, and unlocking failed and returning to step (1) in response to the rotational circumferential distance of the operation knob not reaching the preset circumferential distance.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: GUANGDONG COROS SPORTS TECHNOLOGY JOINT STOCK COMPANYInventors: Haotian Niu, Yu Tang, Guofeng Yang
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Patent number: 11861081Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments may comprise: a panel configured to identify the position of a stylus pen; a communication module configured to transmit/receive a communication signal with the stylus pen; at least one containing space coil disposed in a position corresponding to the position of a containing space capable of containing the stylus pen; and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to control the communication module so as to apply, according to a first communication scheme, a signal having a pattern for controlling the stylus pen to the containing space coil on the basis of confirming that the stylus pen is inserted into the containing space, and to transmit, according to a second communication scheme, a communication signal including information for controlling the stylus pen to the stylus pen on the basis of confirming that the stylus pen is removed from the containing space. Various other embodiments are possible.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Changbyung Park, Byunghoon Kang, Joohoon Lee, Hyunsuk Choi
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Patent number: 11861082Abstract: An e-pen includes e-pen sensor electrodes (including a first and a second e-pen sensor electrode) and drive-sense circuits (DSCs) (including a first DSC and a second DSC. The first DSC drives a first e-pen signal having a first frequency via a first single line coupling to the first e-pen sensor electrode and simultaneously senses, via the first single line, the first e-pen signal. Based on e-pen/touch sensor device interaction, the first e-pen signal is coupled into at least one touch sensor electrode of the touch sensor device. The first DSC process the first e-pen signal to generate a first digital signal representative of a first electrical characteristic of the first e-pen sensor electrode. Similarly, the second DSC drives a second e-pen signal having a second frequency via a second single line coupling to the second e-pen sensor electrode and simultaneously senses, via the second single line, the second e-pen signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Gerald Dale Morrison, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Michael Shawn Gray, Kevin Joseph Derichs
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Patent number: 11861083Abstract: The invention relates to an input device comprising capacitive detection device having detection surface including first array of array electrodes; electronic evaluation unit electrically connected to array electrodes to form associated electric measuring field array for spatially resolving detection of capacitive influence on detection surface; handling means disposed on detection surface to be movable along an adjustment path parallel to detection surface, in order to perform an operating input; position indicator; and coupling device with a first surface on which a second array of coupling electrodes is formed, and with a second surface on which a third array including spaced-apart contact surfaces is formed. Based on the position of the handling means, contact surfaces are touch-contacted by the position indicator. The coupling device includes several electrically conductive connections to capacitively influence the measuring field array.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Preh GmbHInventors: Benedikt Schmidt, Manuel Wittwer, Markus Klein, Thomas Rauch, Elmar Greulich, Stefan Menninger, Thomas Kleffel
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Patent number: 11861084Abstract: An embodiment for splitting a mobile device display is provided. The embodiment may include receiving configuration criteria regarding mobile device display splitting and content mapping from a user. The embodiment may also include identifying a first location of a first finger and a second location of a second finger of the user on a frame of a mobile device. The embodiment may further include in response to determining the user is moving the first finger in a first direction, creating a plurality of split displays on the mobile device. The embodiment may also include identifying a contextual situation of the user. The embodiment may further include displaying a plurality of content adjacent to the second finger of the user. The embodiment may also include mapping one or more items of the plurality of content to one or more of the plurality of split displays.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Asha Velayudham, Chaitanya Korupolu, Sudeep Brajabasi, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Venkata Vara Prasad Karri
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Patent number: 11861085Abstract: A touch panel is disclosed. The touch panel includes a substrate, a touch layer positioned on the substrate, and a photochromic layer positioned on the touch layer. The photochromic layer includes a photosensitive resistor layer positioned on the touch layer and connecting to the touch layer, and a color-changing cathode layer, positioned on the photosensitive resistor layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dongchen Huang, Chingyuan Cheng
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Patent number: 11861086Abstract: A touch display panel, driving circuit board, touch display device and driving method thereof are provided. The touch display panel includes: a plurality of first data lines; a plurality of touch-control lines; a plurality of first contact pads; a plurality of first selection switches connected to the plurality of first contact pads in an one-to-one correspondence manner; each first selection switch is electrically connected to one first contact pad, one first data line and one touch-control line, and the first selection switch is configured to receive a first control signal and, according to the first control signal, electrically connect a first contact pad and a first data line during a first time period and electrically connect the first contact pad and a touch-control line during a second time period, and the first time period and the second time period do not overlap.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenchao Han, Hong Yang
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Patent number: 11861087Abstract: Foldable touch screen display devices with a flexible display including foldable segments to configure from a compact state to an expanded state, and a fold over camera window are described. The form factor of the compact state can be the size of a handheld phone. The form factor of the expanded state can be the size of a tablet computer, and can include the mechanical functionality of a laptop. Both states include an integrated speaker and microphone. The fold over camera window allows symmetrically folding so that edges of each segment are tangent with each other in a fully folded state. The device includes sensors indicating the state of configuration and mechanisms for alignment, locking, and further structural support. A module attached to at least one segment of the flexible display or rigid display contains all processing and memory, and a communications system to be used in any state.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: LEPTON COMPUTING LLCInventor: Stephen E. Delaporte
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Patent number: 11861088Abstract: The disclosure provides a display device and a display panel. The display panel includes an array substrate, a driving circuit, a touch electrode layer. Each of the touch electrode blocks includes a touch electrode and a compensation electrode which are disposed to be insulated from each other. The touch signal line and the compensation electrode are disposed on a same layer. The orthographic projections of the touch electrode and the compensation electrode projected on the array substrate have an overlapping area, and the overlapping area on the touch electrode block close to the driving circuit is larger than the overlapping area on the touch electrode block away from the driving circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Liang Fang, Ding Ding
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Patent number: 11861089Abstract: A driving circuit configured to drive a touch display panel is provided. The driving circuit includes a signal generating circuit and a sensor driving circuit. The signal generating circuit is configurable to be coupled to gate lines of the touch display panel via a gate control circuit. The signal generating circuit modulates a plurality of voltage signals on a first driving signal and a second driving signal, and provides the modulated first driving signal and the modulated second driving signal to the gate control circuit to drive the gate lines during a sensing period. The sensor driving circuit is configurable to be coupled to sensor pads of the touch display panel. The sensor driving circuit modulates the voltage signals on a third driving signal, and drives the sensor pads with the modulated third driving signal during the sensing period. A method for driving a touch display panel is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Sheng-Wen Hsiao, Liang-Chi Cheng
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Patent number: 11861090Abstract: This application provides a touch display panel for reducing capacitive load. A package substrate includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The second metal layer includes conductive patterns that are arranged in a matrix form. The conductive patterns each output a first sensing signal when sensing a touch operation. Each conductive pattern includes a first area and a second area. The first area includes first metal sub-conducting wires extending in the first direction. A plurality of second metal conducting wires extending in the second direction, any second metal conducting wire is connected to one conductive pattern and is configured to transmit the first sensing signal to a touch controller.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Tawei Kuo, Junyong Zhang
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Patent number: 11861091Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a plurality of sub pixels; a first touch electrode on the substrate and overlapping at least one subpixel from the plurality of sub pixels; a second touch electrode on the substrate and spaced apart from the first touch electrode and overlapping the at least one sub pixel; an insulating layer covering the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode; a plurality of charging transistors on the insulating layer and electrically connected to one of the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode; a plurality of sensing transistors on the insulating layer and electrically connected to one of the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode; a planarization layer covering the plurality of charging transistors and the plurality of sensing transistors; and a light emitting diode on the planarization layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: CheolSe Kim, SungChul Kim, HoonBae Kim, SunYeop Kim, Jinseong Kim, JuHan Kim, Haewon Lee
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Patent number: 11861092Abstract: A display device includes a display substrate in which a plurality of sub-pixel areas is defined, a light-emitting diode (“LED”) on the display substrate, a touch sensor electrode on the display substrate and including at least one touch electrode, and a bank separating the plurality of the sub-pixel areas, where each of the plurality of the sub-pixel areas may include a first area in which the LED is disposed and a second area in which the touch sensor electrode is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Seunglyong Bok, Mugyeom Kim
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Patent number: 11861093Abstract: A charge source circuit, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) touch panel are disclosed. The charge source circuit includes a reference current generation block, a current mirror block and a charge output block. The charge output block is configured to provide an amount of charge as current times time, rather than voltage times capacitance as conventionally done. This dispenses with the use of a voltage division technique, a drive operational amplifier or a great number of capacitors, resulting in circuit simplicity, reduced cost and circuit layout area savings. Moreover, current and time interval sequences can be designed to enable, with a very small area and voltage, continuous adjustability of the amount of charge within a desired range at a higher resolution. An equivalent capacitance corresponding to the amount of charge can be adjusted within a range from tens to hundreds of pF.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SILEAD INC.Inventor: Jingze Huang
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Patent number: 11861094Abstract: A display device comprises a substrate including a display area having subpixels and a non-display area excluding the display area, an encapsulation layer that covers the subpixels, a first touch electrode line including a plurality of first touch sensing electrodes in a first direction on the encapsulation layer and spaced apart from each other in the first direction, a second touch electrode line in a same plane as the first touch electrode line and disposed in a second direction, a plurality of pads on one side of the substrate, a first touch routing wiring that connects some of the first touch electrode line and some pads among the plurality of pads and disposed between the plurality of first touch sensing electrodes in the second direction, and a second touch routing wiring that connects the second touch electrode line to some other pads among the plurality of pads.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bumhee Han, JiWon Kim, MinSeob Song
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Patent number: 11861095Abstract: An electronic device and related operating methodology are disclosed here. The device includes a touchscreen display, at least one memory storage device, and at least one processor. The at least one storage device has instructions stored therein and configurable to be executed by the at least one processor to: control display of a media player on the touchscreen display; control display of an interactive lock element on the touchscreen display; detect occurrence of an activate lock trigger event; and, in response to detecting the occurrence of the activate lock trigger event, lock or disable at least some touchscreen functionality of the media player during playback of media content.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventor: Rashmi Ranjan
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Patent number: 11861096Abstract: A control device comprising a front portion, at least one button cap, and a controller. The front portion comprises a plurality of button zones each comprising a tactile switch and at least one touch sensor. The at least one button cap is adapted to attach to the control device over at least one of the button zones such that the at least one button cap is positioned over the at least one touch sensor and interacts with the tactile switch in the at least one of the button zones. The controller determines which button zone and which location of the button zone is actuated in response to a combination of signals received from at least one of the tactile switches and at least one of the touch sensors.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2023Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Benjamin M. Slivka
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Patent number: 11861097Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device including a display panel; a touch panel; a polarizer; a touch flexible printed circuit board, which includes a first portion, a second portion and a bending portion connecting the first portion and the second portion; a cover plate; a first adhesive layer; and a cushion layer, which is disposed between the first portion and the first adhesive layer. An orthographic projection of the polarizer on a reference plane falls outside an orthographic projection of the first portion on the reference plane, and the reference plane is a plane in which a touch surface of a touch panel is disposed. The polarizer and the first portion of the TFPC are arranged separately.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Chao Wang, Binfeng Feng, Fei Li, Zijie Zhang, Yonghui Luo
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Patent number: 11861098Abstract: The present application provides a touch display panel, which includes: a display panel; and a touch component, wherein the touch component has a first area and a second area corresponding to the display area, and the touch component includes: a plurality of first touch electrode lines disposed in the first area; a plurality of touch electrodes disposed in the second area; and a plurality of second touch electrode lines disposed in the second area, and the second touch electrode lines are connected between the first touch electrode lines and the touch electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jian Ye, Pengfei Liang
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Patent number: 11861099Abstract: A light emitting display apparatus can include a substrate including a display area, and a non-display area outside of the display area; a power supply wiring part disposed in the non-display area; a first power supply wiring disposed in the power supply wiring part; a second power supply wiring disposed on the first power supply wiring; and a third power supply wiring electrically connected to the second power supply wiring.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: HyoYoung Jun
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Patent number: 11861100Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of touch electrode disposed in the display area; a touch connection electrode which connects two adjacent touch electrodes which are spaced apart from each other, among the plurality of touch electrodes; and a crack detecting electrode which surrounds the camera area and is disposed on the same layer as the plurality of touch electrodes, the plurality of touch electrodes include a plurality of first touch electrodes extending in a first direction and a plurality of second touch electrodes extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, wherein the crack detecting electrode includes a first crack detecting electrode which surrounds the camera area and a second crack detecting electrode which is disposed in the display area and extends in the second direction, and the second crack detecting electrode has a zigzag pattern.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: MinKyu Kim
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Patent number: 11861101Abstract: A touch sensing device configured to be installed in an electronic device, the electronic device including a side unit and a touch switch unit, the side unit including a non-conductive cover and a conductive frame coupled to the cover, the touch switch unit including a first touch member that is a portion of the cover, the touch sensing device including a first sensing electrode configured to be disposed inside the electronic device near the first touch member; a first sensing coil configured to be disposed inside the electronic device; and a first connection wire including one end connected to the first sensing electrode and another end connected to the first sensing coil, thereby electrically connecting the first sensing electrode to the first sensing coil.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joo Hyoung Lee, Joo Yul Ko
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Patent number: 11861102Abstract: A method for operating a capacitive touch-sensitive switch having a capacitive sensor element and a sensor circuit includes initially setting a scanning frequency of the capacitive touch-sensitive switch with a good signal-to-noise ratio and then operating the capacitive touch-sensitive switch at a scanning frequency which has been set to detect switch actuation. The process of setting the scanning frequency includes operating the touch-sensitive switch using a first measurement method and at a selected scanning frequency, detecting the measurement signals from the sensor circuit and checking whether the detected measurement signals contain or could contain a critical alias effect. If no critical alias effect and no possibility of a critical alias effect are detected during the check, the scanning frequency can be set as the selection frequency for detection operation of the touch-sensitive switch. A capacitive touch-sensitive switch is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KGInventors: Krzysztof Kierys, Adrian Podsiadlowski
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Patent number: 11861103Abstract: In general, in one aspect, one or more embodiments relate to an input device that includes a proximity sensing panel including sensor electrodes, and a proximity sensing circuit. The proximity sensing circuit is configured to determine that an image refresh rate to an equal or lower frequency than a beacon signal rate. The input-display device is configured to align transmitting a beacon signal on proximity sensing panel to during non-refresh period of a display or perform an additional image refresh frame on the display panel immediately before a next Vsync signal and a corresponding non-refresh period.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Masaaki Shiomura, Hirokazu Hatayama, Makoto Takeuchi, Takayuki Noto, Nobukazu Tanaka, Daisuke Ito, Tomohiro Hirakawa
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Patent number: 11861104Abstract: A touch sensing device is connected to a plurality of touch sensors to drive the plurality of touch sensors and to receive a sensing signal. The touch sensing device includes an input unit generating pieces of sensing data by using a sensing signal input from each of the plurality of touch sensors and a correction unit dividing the pieces of sensing data into a plurality of groups and applying different correction values to the sensing data of each of the plurality of groups to generate correction data.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.Inventors: Jung Min Choi, Jin Yong Kim, Jae Hyun Cho, Jae Duck Kim
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Patent number: 11861105Abstract: A touch apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a touch panel that is disposed on a display panel of a display device that drives a plurality of pixels according to a vertical synchronization signal and a horizontal synchronization signal, and includes a plurality of first touch electrodes for sensing a touch input in a first direction and a plurality of second touch electrode for sensing a touch input in a second direction; a driver/receiver that applies a driving signal to at least one of the plurality of first touch electrodes and the plurality of second touch electrodes during a first section, and receives a detection signal from at least one of the plurality of first touch electrodes and the plurality of second touch electrodes during a second section after the first section; and a controller that generates touch information by using the detection signal, wherein the driving signal is synchronized with at least one synchronization signal of the horizontal synchronization signal and the vType: GrantFiled: October 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: HIDEEP INC.Inventors: Seyeob Kim, Bonkee Kim, Youngho Cho, Sein Lee
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Patent number: 11861106Abstract: A detection device includes a sensor including a driving electrode and detection electrodes and a controller detecting a non-contact target from signal waveforms acquired from the detection electrodes by applying a voltage to the driving electrode, the signal waveforms each indicating a change in signal strength over time. The controller discriminates a peak caused by the non-contact target on the basis of a time width from a rising start point of a peak to a peak top of the peak, a height from the rising start point of the peak to the peak top of the peak, and a slope of a rising side of the peak.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuki Ito, Yukihiro Ito
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Patent number: 11861107Abstract: Disclosed is an input sensor which includes a plurality of sensing parts, an amplifier circuit that is connected to the sensing parts, a rectifier circuit connected to the amplifier circuit, an analog-to-digital converter that is connected to the rectifier circuit, an output switching element that controls a connection of the rectifier circuit and the analog-to-digital converter, a first connection switching element that controls a connection of the amplifier circuit and the rectifier circuit, a second connection switching element that connects a first voltage line to the rectifier circuit, and a third connection switching element that connects a second voltage to be applied to the rectifier circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sanghyun Lim
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Patent number: 11861108Abstract: A display device having a touch sensor of the present disclosure includes a display panel including a plurality of touch electrodes, a touch sensing circuit configured to apply a touch driving signal to the touch electrodes and amplify charges flowing from the touch electrodes based on an amplifier reset signal so as to generate an amplifier output voltage, and an amplifier output control circuit configured to adjust at least one of a toggle timing of the amplifier reset signal and a voltage amplitude of the touch driving signal so as to differentially control a level of the amplifier output voltage depending on positions of the touch electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyun Woo Jang, Ki Yong Kim, Jae Kyu Park, Young Woo Jo
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Patent number: 11861109Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a touch panel on the display panel, a host processor, and a display panel driver. The host processor receives proximity data of the touch panel. The display panel driver receives an input control signal from the host processor and drives the display panel based on the input control signal. The touch panel includes a proximity area and a non-proximity area. The host processor counts a rise of the proximity data in the proximity area to generate a first count value. The host processor resets the first count value when the proximity data in the non-proximity area increase.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2023Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Woomi Bae, Jinwoo Kim, Soongyu Lee, Hyojin Lee
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Patent number: 11861110Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with touch sensors. One or more shielding layers may be interposed between the display and the touch sensors. The shielding layers may include shielding structures such as a conductive mesh structure and/or a transparent conductive film. The shielding structures may be actively driven or passively biased. In the active driving scheme, one or more inverting circuits may receive a noise signal from a cathode layer in the display and/or from the shielding structures, invert the received noise signal, and drive the inverted noise signal back onto the shielding structures to prevent any noise from the display from negatively impacting the performance of the touch sensors. In the passive biasing scheme, the shielding structures may be biased to a power supply voltage.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rungrot Kitsomboonloha, Donggeon Han, Jason N Gomez, Kyung Wook Kim, Nikolaus Hammler, Pei-En Chang, Saman Saeedi, Shih Chang Chang, Shinya Ono, Suk Won Hong, Szu-Hsien Lee, Victor H Yin, Young-Jik Jo, Yu-Heng Cheng, Joyan G Sanctis, Hongwoo Lee
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Patent number: 11861111Abstract: A touch sensing display device and a driving method thereof for improving touch noise characteristics during moving image driving are discussed. The touch sensing display device can include a display panel including touch electrodes and subpixels defined by data lines and gate lines, and a timing controller configured to output an average data value and a touch synchronization signal in which display driving periods and touch driving periods are alternately time-divided, a touch controller configured to output a charge remover capacitance compensation value, a charge remover voltage compensation value, and a gain compensation value according to the average data value. Further, the touch sensing display device can include a power controller configured to output a charge remover voltage according to the charge remover voltage compensation value, and a touch driving circuit configured to sense a touch signal from each touch electrode and output a touch sensing value.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Kil Tae Kim
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Patent number: 11861112Abstract: A touch sensor panel according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a touch sensor panel in which a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of receiving electrodes are arranged on the same layer, in which the plurality of receiving electrodes is arranged along a plurality of rows and columns, the plurality of driving electrodes is arranged such that at least one driving electrode is disposed at each of both sides with respect to each receiving electrode, and the driving electrode arranged at the left side and the driving electrode arranged at the right side with the receiving electrode interposed therebetween are electrically connected with each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventors: Seyeob Kim, Bonkee Kim, Jongsik Kim
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Patent number: 11861113Abstract: A contactless touchscreen interface has a digital display to display digital information; the proximity detector and a proximity detector comprising an image sensor to detect user interaction at a virtual touch intersection plane offset a distance from the digital display and to resolve the interaction into XY offset-plane interaction coordinates with reference to the digital display. A gaze determining imaging system comprising an image sensor determines a gaze relative offset with respect to the digital display using facial image data captured by the image sensor. An interface controller comprising a parallax adjustment controller to convert the XY offset-plane interaction coordinates to XY on-screen apparent coordinates using the gaze relative offset and the distance and an input controller generates an input at the XY on-screen apparent coordinates accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventor: Marthinus Van Der Merwe
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Patent number: 11861114Abstract: The electronic equipment includes a display, an ultrasound emitter, an ultrasound receiver, and a processor. The ultrasound emitter can be adapted to emit a first ultrasound signal into at least a space the display faces. The ultrasound receiver can be adapted to receive a second ultrasound signal. The second ultrasound signal is an echo of the first ultrasound signal reflected by an object. The processor can be connected respectively to the ultrasound emitter and the ultrasound receiver. The processor can be adapted to acquire a floating touch signal by locating the object in three-dimensional space according to charactering information charactering the first ultrasound signal and the second ultrasound signal, and execute an instruction corresponding to the floating touch signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Guilin Zhong
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Patent number: 11861115Abstract: Acoustic touch and/or force sensing system architectures and methods for acoustic touch and/or force sensing can be used to detect a position of an object touching a surface and an amount of force applied to the surface by the object. The position and/or an applied force can be determined using time-of-flight (TOF) techniques, for example. Acoustic touch sensing can utilize transducers (e.g., piezoelectric) to simultaneously transmit ultrasonic waves along a surface and through a thickness of a deformable material. The location of the object and the applied force can be determined based on the amount of time elapsing between the transmission of the waves and receipt of the reflected waves. In some examples, an acoustic touch sensing system can be insensitive to water contact on the device surface, and thus acoustic touch sensing can be used for touch sensing in devices that may become wet or fully submerged in water.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost, Giovanni Gozzini, Brian Michael King, Marcus Yip, Ehsan Khajeh, Aaron Scott Tucker
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Patent number: 11861116Abstract: A display device includes a display unit including a plurality of emission areas, a plurality of touch electrodes that sense a touch, a plurality of code patterns that cover a part of a front surface of at least one of the plurality of touch electrodes, and a plurality of light-blocking dummy patterns formed on some of the plurality of touch electrodes on which the plurality of code patterns is not formed. Each of the touch electrodes includes at least one portion disposed between adjacent emission areas among the plurality of emission areas. A thickness of the plurality of code patterns is different from a thickness of the light-blocking dummy patterns, and a light-blocking rate of the plurality of code patterns is different from a light-blocking rate of the light-blocking dummy patterns.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Gi Na Yoo, Ju Yeon Kim, Won Sang Park, Chang Woo Shim, Seong Jun Lee
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Patent number: 11861117Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, and a touch sensing unit on the display panel, the touch sensing unit including a first conductive pattern on the display panel, an insulating layer covering the first conductive pattern, and a second conductive pattern on the insulating layer, partially crossing the first conductive pattern, and having a thickness that is greater than a thickness of the first conductive pattern.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chiwook An, Doyeon Kim, Sunghyun Park, Jaehyun Lee, Sung-woong Cho
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Patent number: 11861118Abstract: A touch display panel at least includes a plurality of touch signal lines, the touch signal lines includes a first type touch signal line and a second type touch signal line, and a distance between a first end of the first type touch signal line and a touch integrated circuit is less than a distance between a first end of the second type touch signal line and the touch integrated circuit. The first type touch signal line includes a single sub-signal line, and the second type touch signal line includes at least two sub-signal lines.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Liang Fang, Ningkun Peng
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Patent number: 11861119Abstract: A display panel has a display area and a frame area located on a side of the display area, and the frame area includes a bonding region. The display panel includes: a display substrate, a touch structure disposed on the display substrate, and a protective layer disposed on a side of the touch structure away from the display substrate. The touch structure includes a plurality of conductive pins located in the bonding region. The protective layer has an opening, the opening is located in the bonding region and serves to expose the plurality of conductive pins. The opening includes a border proximate to the display area and extending in a direction in which the plurality of conductive pins are arranged, and at least portion of the border has a curved shape.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Zewen Li, KwangGyun Jang, Hongqiang Luo
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Patent number: 11861120Abstract: A detecting device includes a plurality of drive electrodes arrayed in a first direction, a plurality of detection electrodes arrayed in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a drive signal supply circuit configured to supply a drive signal to the drive electrodes, and a plurality of switch elements configured to switch between coupling and decoupling between the drive electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Toshinori Uehara
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Patent number: 11861121Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electronic device comprising a metal mesh touch electrode. The electronic device may include: a display panel comprising an active area in which data is displayed, and an edge area formed along the outer peripheral surface of the active area; a substrate positioned on the display panel, the substrate comprising a first area corresponding to the active area and a second area corresponding to the edge area; a metal mesh electrode pattern formed in the first area and the second area; and multiple trace wires positioned on the substrate and electrically connected to the metal mesh electrode pattern. The metal mesh electrode pattern may comprise a first electrode pattern having a lattice structure, and a second electrode pattern having a lattice structure, the second electrode pattern being positioned on top of the first electrode pattern and disposed so as to crisscross the first electrode pattern.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Minuk Kim, Jihwan Kim, Hoondo Heo
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Patent number: 11861122Abstract: A mesh structure is provided. The mesh structure includes a first insulating layer; one or more mesh lines on a first side of the first insulating layer; and one or more protruding structures on a second side of the first insulating layer, the second side being opposite to the first side. An orthographic projection of a respective protruding structure on a projection plane containing a surface of the first insulating layer at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of a respective mesh line on the projection plane. A refractive index of the one or more protruding structures is greater than a refractive index of the first insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jian Zhou, Feng Wang, Yanzhao Li, Feng Qu