Portable (i.e., Handheld, Calculator, Remote Controller) Patents (Class 345/169)
  • Patent number: 12254531
    Abstract: An electronic device for image color adjustment includes a display and a processor. The processor includes a display processing unit (DPU). The DPU obtains a to-be-displayed image, obtains, based on a first color mode, a target three-dimensional (3D) lookup table used to adjust the to-be-displayed image, maps a color of the to-be-displayed image based on the target 3D lookup table, to obtain an adjusted image, and sends the adjusted image to the display for displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiufeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12254172
    Abstract: Embodiments according to examples aspects of the present disclosure provide for an example computer-implemented method. The example method can include obtaining a data structure configured for rendering a plurality of content containers on a user device, the plurality of content containers providing a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The example method can include rendering, based on a first rate parameter descriptive of a user input associated with the user device, one or more of the plurality of content containers according to the collapsed configuration. The example method can include rendering, based on a second rate parameter, at least one of the plurality of content containers according to the expanded configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ramprasad Sedouram, Safia Ali, Shailly Kishtawal, Merlyn Fraga Francis Xavier, Bhavinee Vyas, Jaunani Sriramachandran, Manasi Rajan Kothari, Apoorv Gupta
  • Patent number: 12228433
    Abstract: Disclosed are a mouse encoder and a mouse with the same. The mouse encoder includes a housing provided with a mounting cavity; a rolling bearing member arranged in the mounting cavity and an outer ring of the rolling bearing member is fixed to an inner wall surface of the mounting cavity; a grating member including a rotating cylinder and a grating disk sleeved on the rotating cylinder, the grating disk has a plurality of light transmitting slots arranged along a circumference thereof at intervals; a circuit board with a light emitter and a light receiver, and the circuit board is electrically connected with a main board of the mouse; and the light emitter is conductive with the light receiver to form an optical path, when the rotating cylinder is rotated, the grating disk can block or expose the optical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Dongguan Zhongchi Photoelectricity Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ling Li
  • Patent number: 12226688
    Abstract: A hand operated game controller for controlling a game console. Multiple push buttons are arranged on the surface of the game controller. The push buttons are placed in an arrangement that approximately matches the natural position of the fingers of the user's hands. As the user presses the buttons, control signals are sent from the buttons to the game console via wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Hit Box, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Dustin Huffer, Shawn Huffer
  • Patent number: 12222775
    Abstract: An information handling system housing has an opening at one side with a transparent cover through which processing components of the information handling system are visible. A member rotationally couples in the housing interior across the opening in a spaced parallel relationship with an upper side of the opening and includes lights that direct illumination from an interior side of the member towards the processing components. In one embodiment, the member has a logo opening that passes light through to illuminate a logo, or alternatively the logo may have its own illumination to present at the front face. In an alternative embodiment, the member has a display panel that presents visual images, such as operating conditions of the processing components. The member rotates out of the interior and up above the opening upper side to provide end user access to the housing interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gregory L. Henderson, Jason T. Minehart, Timothy R. Graham
  • Patent number: 12223108
    Abstract: A controller is communicatively coupled to the one or more user input devices, such as sensors or electrodes, a user interface device, and one or more switch-controlled devices. The controller presents a configuration user interface on the user interface device including selectable configurations for access modes. The controller assigns one or more of the user input devices according to a current selected configuration of an access mode. The controller detects a volitional user input corresponding to a change in a particular signal detected by a particular user input device and switches the switch-controlled device based on the detected user input. In one or more embodiments, the system includes one or more biosignal electrodes attachable to a user and/or mechanical, positional, or other switch technologies. In one or more embodiments, the system includes one or more sensors for detection of movement, gestures, eye tracking or other input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Control Bionics Limited
    Inventors: James E. Schorey, Peter S. Ford
  • Patent number: 12223134
    Abstract: A sensor unit including a housing and a contact element movably mounted along a first axis and configured to come into contact with a touch display surface. The contact element is moved along the first axis when coming into contact with the touch display surface. An acceleration sensor is movably mounted in the housing at least along the first axis. A biasing element is located on one side of the acceleration sensor and configured to bias the acceleration sensor in one of two directions along the first axis. The contact element is movably mounted on the other side of the acceleration sensor opposite the biasing element and is coupled to the acceleration sensor to move the acceleration sensor against the bias of the biasing element in the other of the two directions along the first axis when contacting the touch display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systens GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Brandt, Joerg Welke
  • Patent number: 12216293
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a prism apparatus, and a camera apparatus including the same. The prism apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include: a prism configured to reflect input light toward a first reflected direction; a first actuator configured to change an angle of the prism about a first rotation axis to change the first reflected direction based on a first control signal; a lens configured to output the light reflected by the prism toward a second reflected direction; and a second actuator configured to change an angle of the lens about a second rotation axis to change the second reflected direction based on a second control signal. Accordingly, it is possible to implement the optical image stabilization (OIS) for the prism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyungjoo Kang, Kwanhyung Kim, Dongryeol Lee, Samnyol Hong
  • Patent number: 12219078
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, a first functional device, a second functional device, and a light transmissive portion. A mounting hole is provided on the housing. The first functional device and the second functional device are both located inside the housing. The light transmissive portion includes a light transmissive plate, a first shading member, and a second shading member, is mounted in the mounting hole, and is connected to the housing. The first shading member is arranged opposite to the second functional device in a second direction. The first shading member is configured to block visible light and transmit preset light. The second shading member is located on the inner surface of the light transmissive plate, surrounds the first shading member, and is configured to block visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Honor Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kangle Xue, Jiuliang Gao, Yan Wang, Yihe Zhang
  • Patent number: 12204732
    Abstract: A method is performed at a server system associated with a media streaming service. The method includes providing, a first client device, playback of a first media content item; and receiving, from the first client device, a second media content item to be associated with the first media content item. The method includes, after receiving the second media content item from the first client device: providing, a second client device, a user interface that includes graphical representations of a plurality of media content items that have been uploaded by other users of the media streaming service as related to the first media content item; receiving, from the second client device, a user selection of a graphical representation of the second media content item; and in response, providing the second media content item concurrently with playback of the first media content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Frank Conway, Robert William Wood, Arvind Suresh, Tobias Heinrich Schneider
  • Patent number: 12204706
    Abstract: A device having a first side; a second side; a display configured to display any of a plurality of images on the first side; and a touch-sensitive input device disposed on the second side, wherein the touch-sensitive input device comprises a mapped touch area and an adjustment touch area. The device operation comprises obtaining an initial mapping that relates touch points of the mapped touch area to corresponding display points of a mapped area of the display, wherein the mapped area of the display is smaller than a total area of the display and has an initial position with respect to the display. First touch input data is received from the adjustment touch area, and a current position of the mapped area of the display is produced by adjusting the initial position of the mapped area of the display based on the first touch input data. A current mapping is produced by adjusting the initial mapping based on the current position of the mapped area. Second touch input data is received from the mapped touch area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)
    Inventors: Fredrik Dahlgren, Alexander Hunt, Andreas Kristensson
  • Patent number: 12204711
    Abstract: An attachment is attachable to and detachable from a touch panel of an input device including the touch panel, and supports user operation on the input device by being attached to the touch panel. The attachment includes one or more operation units that receive user operation and transmit the user operation to a corresponding position of the touch panel when attached to the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Takenori Maruyama, Shinji Yamagishi, Takuma Yamamoto, Kazutoshi Kida, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 12200983
    Abstract: The invention relates to: a light-emitting device which includes a first flexible substrate having a first electrode, a light-emitting layer over the first electrode, and a second electrode with a projecting portion over the light-emitting layer and a second flexible substrate having a semiconductor circuit and a third electrode electrically connected to the semiconductor circuit, in which the projecting portion of the second electrode and the third electrode are electrically connected to each other; a method for manufacturing the light-emitting device; and a cellular phone which includes a housing incorporating the light-emitting device and having a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction, in which the light-emitting device is disposed on a front side and in an upper portion in the longitudinal direction of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hatano, Satoshi Seo, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 12197717
    Abstract: A data processing device which includes a flexible position input portion for sensing proximity or a touch of an object such as a user's palm and finger. In the case where a first region of the flexible position input portion is held by a user for a certain period, supply of image signals to the first region is selectively stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hajime Kimura, Hideaki Kuwabara, Koji Dairiki
  • Patent number: 12189940
    Abstract: Techniques for fingerprint encoded gesture initiation of device actions are described and are implementable to perform a variety of functionality based on touch-based gestures that are fingerprint encoded. For instance, a mobile device receives an input including a touch-based gesture. The mobile device generates fingerprint identity information based on the touch-based gesture, such as by a fingerprint sensor area that is operable to detect a pattern of a fingerprint in contact with the fingerprint sensor area. Based on the fingerprint identity information, the mobile device determines that the fingerprint identity information is associated with a user of the mobile device. The mobile device then performs an action that corresponds to the touch-based gesture, e.g., based on a shape of the gesture. In one example, the action includes display of a customized user interface associated with a user profile that corresponds to the touch-based gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal, Manoj Jain, Varun Shrivastava
  • Patent number: 12182345
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a communicator wirelessly connected to a stylus pen, a processor, and a memory storing instructions that cause the processor to acquire motion information of the stylus pen, in response to the motion information matching with a plurality of motion commands, output a plurality of command images corresponding to the plurality of motion commands, respectively, based on a user feedback command to select one of the plurality of command images, determine the motion information as a motion command corresponding to the selected command image, output a tutorial image, acquire motion information of the stylus pen corresponding to the tutorial image, and determine the motion information of the stylus pen as a motion command corresponding to the tutorial image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Inhyung Jung, Sangheon Kim, Yeunwook Lim
  • Patent number: 12179092
    Abstract: A game controller configured for a mobile device. The game controller includes a connection mechanism, two control handles, and at least one first pad. The control handles are respectively coupled to two opposite sides of the connection mechanism. Each of the two control handles has an accommodation recess, and the two accommodation recesses of the two control handles are configured to accommodate the mobile device. The first pad is removably disposed on one of the two control handles and located in the accommodation recess of the one of the two control handles, and the at least one first pad is configured to be located between and clamped by the mobile device and the one of the two control handles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: DEXIN CORP.
    Inventors: Ho Lung Lu, Min-Chien Chang
  • Patent number: 12177995
    Abstract: A remote control with a waterproof function includes a case including an upper case having button holes and a lower case assembled to the upper case at a lower portion of the upper case, a printed circuit board PCB embedded between the both cases, and a rubber keypad embedded in the case so as to be positioned between the upper case and the PCB and having buttons passing through the button holes. Barriers protruding upward or downward along the edges of the rubber keypad are provided, and when the both cases are coupled with the rubber keypad interposed therebetween, the side portions of the lower case and the lower ends of the barriers are in close contact with each other and the inner surface of the upper case and the upper ends of the barriers are in close contact with each other, thereby providing waterproof function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: KYUNG IN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Bum Seok Kim, Jung Il An
  • Patent number: 12164712
    Abstract: An electronic device and an operation method for controlling an operation of an electronic pen device may be provided. According to an embodiment, the process for controlling an electronic device may include controlling a communication module to establish a communication connection with the electronic pen device; switching an operation state of the electronic pen device into an air pointer operation state based on a first signal by a button input of the electronic pen device; acquiring location information of a display module when the button input is released and an air pointer operation is maintained; controlling the display module to display an object indicating the air pointer operation, based on feature information of at least one object displayed on the display module and the location information; and executing an operation corresponding to an action event of the electronic pen device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sangheon Kim
  • Patent number: 12152788
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a control unit for a household appliance, in particular for a cooking appliance (1). The control unit comprises at least one input/output device (UI) for the entry of control commands and for the visualisation of information, particularly status information, and at least one control element (S1, S2, S3, S4) comprising a plurality of touch-sensitive switching elements positioned in a straightlined arrangement. At least a part of the input/output device (UI) is touch-sensitive and/or formed as a touch screen. The control element (S1, S2, S3, S4) is adapted to assign a power level to an electrical load depending on the activated switching element. At least one first special function, in particular a first special operating program, is assignable to at least a first one of the plurality of switching elements. The input/output device (UI) further comprises at least one selection button (13, 15), which is adapted to provide the selection of the at least one first special function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: ELECTROLUX APPLIANCES AKTIEBOLAG
    Inventors: Elina Westman, Katharina Baumgartner, Walter Frost, Alexandra Abalada, Kim Rogvall
  • Patent number: 12154144
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically inserting content into webpages. A computing device can receive an information resource. The computing device can receive a content item for insertion at one of the candidate content insertion locations of the information resource. The computing device can identify candidate content insertion locations for insertion of the content item based on locations of one or more elements on the information resource. The computing device can monitor for a scroll event on the information resource. The computing device can identify a portion of the information resource to be displayed within the viewport of the application subsequent to processing the event. The computing device can determine that one of the candidate insertion locations is within or below the viewport. The computing device can set a content slot at the determined content insertion location. The computing device can insert, at the content slot, the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Burriesci, Keith Wright, Willa Angel Chen, Joshua Nedelka
  • Patent number: 12144081
    Abstract: A load control system may include load control devices for controlling power provided to an electrical load. The load control devices may include a control-source device and a control-target device. The control-target device may control the power provided to the electrical load based on digital messages received from the control-source device. A user device may discover load control devices when the load control devices are within an established range associated with the user device. The user device and the load control devices may communicate via a wireless communications module. The established range may be adjusted based on the configurable transmit power of the user device or the wireless communications module associated with the user device. A discovered control-target device may be associated with a control-source device to enable the control-target device to control the power provided to the electrical load based on digital messages received from the control-source device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Jordan H. Crafts, William Bryce Fricke, Stephen M. Ludwig, Jr., Jonathan T. Lenz, Bryan Robert Barnes, Kyle Thomas Barco
  • Patent number: 12141418
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to adaptive content control and display for internet media. A playback component provides for playback of media content. An input component detects user inputs during playback of the content. In response to the user inputs being detected, a menu component displays a level of a pivot menu during playback of the content. The pivot menu is displayed on top, or in front, of a portion of the content during playback, and the pivot menu can be at least partially transparent to enable consumption of the content to continue without complete obstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Shivakumar Littoo Rajaraman, Stein Eldar Johnsen, Jonas Yngvesson, Jasmine Kent, Elena Kaschner, Jun Li, Matias Cudich, Thomas Robinson Purnell-Fisher
  • Patent number: 12135692
    Abstract: A file sharing method includes that a first mobile terminal establishes a connection to a second mobile terminal. The first mobile terminal displays at least two windows. One of the window includes at least one first file stored in the first mobile terminal, the other window includes a file directory of the second mobile terminal, and the file directory includes at least a first folder. The first mobile terminal sends the first file to the second mobile terminal in response to an operation performed by a user on the first file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bin Liu
  • Patent number: 12135670
    Abstract: A method of operating a plurality of driving units for powering electronic units is described. The method includes interchanging a data frame including a bit sequence, between a master control unit and at least one of a plurality of driving units at slave nodes. The method includes applying an ID field for addressing at least one driving unit, and applying a data field comprising information and/or instructions regarding the status of the electronic units. Applying the ID field comprises indicating the driving unit address using a first bit sub-string comprising N bits, allowing the master control unit to identify whether data should be received or transmitted, performing a data length decoding step, and adding a further bit string to the data field including information for carrying out an action by the driving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES NV
    Inventors: Kevin Berlit, Jorgen Sturm
  • Patent number: 12130966
    Abstract: A shortcut function enabling method and an electronic device, where the electronic device collects an air gesture of a user using a camera, recognize the air gesture of the user, obtain a facial feature of the user, and verify whether the facial feature is a facial feature from the user or a stored facial feature. When face verification of the user succeeds and the air gesture is a preset air gesture, an application or a shortcut function is quickly enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang Hu, Jie Xu, Xiaoying Cui
  • Patent number: 12124293
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first body with a base and a movable member, a second body, a lifting member, and a linkage mechanism. The movable member is located on an upper surface of the base and includes a first side and a second side. The first side is pivotally connected to the base. The second body is pivotally connected to the second side by using a first rotary shaft. The lifting member is pivotally connected to the movable member by using a second rotary shaft. The linkage mechanism is disposed on the movable member, is linked to the second body by using the first rotary shaft, and drives the lifting member to rotate by using the second rotary shaft. When the second body is opened upward, an air outlet on a rear side of the first body is prevented from being covered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Yung-Hsiang Chen, Li-Wei Hung
  • Patent number: 12111696
    Abstract: A flexible display module includes a cover, a flexible display panel, a rigid backplane component, and an optical device that are sequentially disposed. The optical device is disposed on a side of the rigid backplane component and is away from the flexible display panel. The rigid backplane component includes a rigid backplane body and a rigid light-transmitting component. The rigid light-transmitting component is disposed between the optical device and the flexible display panel, and the rigid light-transmitting component has a light transmission feature and is rigid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liangyu Pan, Lei Wang, Yuan Yan, Haiyan Li, Yongqiang Pang, Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 12112339
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a compliance evaluation system, which may implement a software-based compliance evaluation tool for accurate notation, capture, and reporting of all potential compliance problems within a technical, a procedural or a process domain associated with a software program. The compliance evaluation system may enable a rapid and pro-active response to reported potential compliance problems by routing the reported potential compliance problems to appropriate analyst computers before the potential compliance problems become real and serious for company and vendors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Jeffrey Walton Easley, Kenneth Thomas, Dennis Gudenau, Edward Michael Rizzolo, Charles Sullivan Heath, Jr., Abram Alian Maldonado
  • Patent number: 12106605
    Abstract: A portable electronic device and an operation method are provided. The portable electronic device includes a body, a screen, a camera, an image sensor and a main system. The image sensor continually captures a first image outside the body with a first resolution and a first power consumption. The camera is turned on in the first state of the portable electronic device by the main system to capture a second image outside the body with a second power consumption and a second resolution only when the face image information appeared for over two seconds on the screen is detected by the image sensor from the first image. The second resolution is higher than the first resolution, and the second power consumption is higher than the first power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Guo-Zhen Wang, Han-Chang Lin
  • Patent number: 12097425
    Abstract: The description relates to input devices that can be secured to and used to control various devices. One example input device can include a housing defining a top surface that includes controls. The housing can define a recess that includes generally opposing upper and lower surfaces that extends at least partially under and parallel to the top surface. A self-adjusting gripping mechanism can extend into the recess through the lower surface and can be biased toward the upper surface. The self-adjusting gripping mechanism can be configured to be contacted by devices having a range of thicknesses and configured to grip individual devices within the range of thicknesses between the self-adjusting gripping mechanism and the upper surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: James A. Trzaskos, Ryan Whitaker, Brian Claire, Casey Cook Zelig
  • Patent number: 12093504
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling a plurality of work processes in a multitasking mobile terminal, and more particularly, a method for selecting a second work process during a first work process and controlling a predetermined function of the selected second work process. In the controlling method, icons corresponding to the respective work processes are displayed in response to a user command, and a desired work process is selected through the displayed icons. A predetermined function of the selected work process is controlled through a pop-up menu activated in response to the user command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: PANTECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seul Ki Choi, Sang Jin Yoon
  • Patent number: 12087184
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel; a chip on film attached to an end of the display panel; a printed circuit board electrically connected to an end of the chip on film and including a connector portion; a rotation shaft including the printed circuit board and extending in a direction; and a flexible cable having an end electrically connected to the connector portion of the printed circuit board. The connector portion of the printed circuit board does not overlap the display panel in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hae Ju Yun, Soo Hyun Moon, Jun Seok Min, Woo Guen Jang
  • Patent number: 12086221
    Abstract: Authenticating for a virtual reality (VR) system using a plurality of factors of authentication, including: collecting a password entered into a virtual keyboard for a first factor of the plurality of factors of authentication, wherein the password is entered by a user selecting a series of data including numbers, letters, or images on the virtual keyboard displayed on a display of the VR system; and collecting a biometric fingerprint from movements of the VR system for a second factor of the plurality of factors of authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignees: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Diehl, Scot Barbour
  • Patent number: 12079386
    Abstract: An example assembly includes a core module including a processor, a display, a touch user interface (UI) element extending around at least a portion of an outer periphery of the display, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions; a housing configured to removably receive the core module; and a cover selectively positionable in a first position to expose the touch UI element and the display, and in a second position to cover at least a portion of the touch UI element and at least a portion of the display, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the core module to: when the cover is positioned in the first position, operate the display and the touch UI element according to a first functionality UI mode and, when the cover is positioned in the second position, the display and the touch UI element according to a second functionality UI mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Mark Thomas Fountain
  • Patent number: 12073040
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including pixels, a touch panel including electrodes, a proximity sensor which is adjacent to the touch panel and detects proximity with respect to an object based on a capacitance variation, a display driver which drives the display panel and a touch controller which drives the touch panel and the proximity sensor. Here, the touch controller provides a negative voltage to the proximity sensor when the proximity sensor detects that the object approaches the proximity sensor such that a shortest distance from the object to the proximity sensor is equal to or less than a first reference distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junseong Lee, Bogeun Yuk, Min-Hong Kim, Taejoon Kim, Eungkwan Lee, Hyun-Wook Cho
  • Patent number: 12073503
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for animating a graphical object based on animation parameters, the graphical object comprising an element comprising a frame comprising a trajectory defining at least a part of the shape of the graphical object wherein the trajectory comprises a first side and a second side, and the frame comprises a plurality of pairs of points, each pair comprising a first point on the first side of the trajectory and a second point on the second side of the trajectory. The method comprises receiving, a request to animate a graphical object in a design space based on one or more animation parameters; and determining an animation path for the frame in the design space by determining a moving path from a first pair of the plurality of pairs of points to a second pair; and displaying the animation path on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Inventors: Achim Helmling, Bas Jacobs, Sami Kortemäki
  • Patent number: 12063577
    Abstract: A method and system share data amongst a group of a plurality of mobile devices without requiring a database or server to centrally store the shared data. The shared data is instead stored by each group member individually while controlling the manner in which the shared data is updated. To manage updates, the shared data is atomized such that individual databases in the shared data are separated or otherwise delineated into one or more records. To maintain a common copy of the shared data at each device, any update is sent to all group members using an intermediate message exchange service that is capable of transmitting a sent message to more than one recipient if necessary. In this way, the updates are multicast to the group. To manage the content of the shared data, each update comprises one or more changes to a current copy of a corresponding record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Hin Kai Hung, Herbert Anthony Little, Michael Stephen Brown
  • Patent number: 12061747
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a keyboard with a key position layout and an input method thereof applied to an electronic device. The keyboard with the key position layout includes a keyboard body, where the keyboard body is provided with a main key area formed by nine keys, and twenty-eight letter key positions are arranged within the main key area, and used for displaying twenty-eight input method letters. The input method letters are Chinese phonetic letters, calligraphical code letters, or English Latin letters. On virtual keys of a virtual keyboard, the input method letters on the letter key positions are dynamically replaced to display an input method which is currently used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: MIHUAN TECHNOLOGY (CHANGCHUN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Misheng Zhao
  • Patent number: 12063406
    Abstract: Methods and systems for routing key commands received from a remote-control device are provided. The method and/or system may include receiving, at a device, a key command from the remote-control device, generating a first message that includes the key command, sending, from the device, the first message to a keystroke router, and determining, at the keystroke router, a system network controller associated with the device. Moreover, the keystroke router may send the key command to the system network controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: SONIFI SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Derin Michael Zerr, Joel Walter Zdepski, Christopher Paul Wollmann, Shaun Eugene Marko, Daniel A. Dirks, Joshua H. Pulford
  • Patent number: 12056321
    Abstract: Touch electrode architectures for reducing the occurrence of negative pixels in mutual capacitance touch sensor panels that are caused by poorly grounded objects are disclosed. A touch electrode architecture can utilize mutual capacitance unit cells, each of which include a drive electrode, a sense electrode, and one or more ground bars. The one or more ground bars can provide an increased capacitive path to ground for a poorly grounded finger, which can result in a larger reduction in mutual capacitance between the drive and sense electrodes, improving touch detection. In addition, the increased capacitive coupling between the object and ground reduces the amount of charge that couples back onto nearby sense electrodes, which can reduce the negative pixel that can occur at those electrodes and reduce the number of touch detection errors. The one or more ground bars can be formed in the same layer as the drive electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Karan S. Jain, Santosh Pokhrel
  • Patent number: 12056311
    Abstract: Computing devices and methods for performing touch detection on a touch screen display and trackpad are disclosed. In one example, a trackpad input signal from a trackpad is received at a processor of the device. Using at least the trackpad input signal, a touch screen touch detection algorithm is modified. A touch screen input signal is then received at the processor from the touch screen display. The touch screen input signal is processed with the modified touch screen touch detection algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Gilad Pundak
  • Patent number: 12043940
    Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus includes: a cabinet; a drum; a driver rotating the drum; a control panel including a manipulation portion receiving a selection command for selecting a course or an option triggering an operation of the driver, a display portion displaying state information including at least one of a name, a selected state, or an executed state of the course or the option, and a setting portion disposed at an outside of the manipulation portion and the display portion and receiving a change command to change the option; a communication module communicating with a home appliance; and a switch disposed at the cabinet and receiving a connection command that causes the communication module to communicate with the home appliance, where the setting portion is deactivated, based on the switch receiving an input, to thereby restrict at least a part of the setting portion from receiving the change command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dami Choe, Eunsoo Jung
  • Patent number: 12045171
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system method for bulk copying data from a cell grid to a workspace memory, such as a clipboard. According to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, the method includes displaying, in a user interface, a plurality of cell rows and a plurality of cell columns arranged in a grid form, a user selecting a plurality of rows of cell entries by selecting a respective selector indicator of all rows to be copied, the selected plurality of rows including a subset of a total number of rows displayed and a noncontinuous group of sequential rows where at least one nonselected row is located and displayed between two selected rows; and displaying, in the user interface, a drop-down menu including a plurality of user selectable options, the user selectable options including a user selectable command to copy the plurality of selected rows and a common predetermined subset of the associated column entries to a workspace memory such as a clipboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: DATTO, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Stewart, Hemant Sharma, Jason Michael Winkler, Eric Compton Stolzenbach
  • Patent number: 12039754
    Abstract: An optical position determination and identification system is for environments having a multiplicity of identically constructed objects. The system includes: a mobile image acquisition unit; and texture elements that are configured to be applied onto the objects. Each of the texture elements has a pattern that respectively comprises pseudorandom deviations from a predetermined basic pattern, which are not visible with the naked eye at a distance of 1 m. The image acquisition unit is configured to identify the texture elements uniquely with the aid of their pseudorandom deviations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: LUFTHANSA TECHNIK AG
    Inventors: Pawel Piotrowski, Tsen Miin Tran
  • Patent number: 12032930
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a method and a system for generating a description code of a user interface, and the method includes the steps of displaying a programmable user interface having a first object and a second object; grouping the first object and the second object to form a grouping block; cutting the grouping block into a first sub-block and a second sub-block; setting a first interval between the first object and the second object as having a first display attribute or a second display attribute; displaying a first attribute element; detecting whether the first attribute element is selected; when the first attribute element is detected as selected, switching the first interval between having the first display attribute and having the second display attribute; and generating a first description code corresponding to the first object and the second object according to the first display attribute or the second display attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: MIRACLE MOBILE CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Chuan Chang, So-Fong Hsieh
  • Patent number: 12023573
    Abstract: Content of an application is presented for display. A virtual controller module receives information relating to keyboard characters for controlling operation of the application. The virtual controller module presents, based on the received information, a first set of buttons for display, where the buttons are to control operation of the application, and where the buttons are mapped to corresponding ones of the keyboard characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited
    Inventors: Tudor Coman, William Alexander Cheung, Matthew Nicholaos Staikos, Michael Thomas Winkler, Joshua Rodney Pantony
  • Patent number: 12028467
    Abstract: A terminal with an adjustable screen size includes: a first body; a second body disposed opposite to the first body; one or more stepping motors disposed on the first body or the second body and configured to drive a relative movement of the first body and the second body; a rotating shaft disposed on the second body; a chain plate driven around the rotating shaft, wherein a side of the chain plate is fixedly connected to the first body; and a flexible display screen flatly fixed onto the chain plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: JRD Communication (Shenzhen) LTD.
    Inventors: Shiuanhung Lee, Yan Zhu, Fuqiang Ye, Jianwei Wang, Tianyuan Shi, Luqian Zhou, Shipeng Li
  • Patent number: 12022017
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided, including: a display screen, a device shell, an accommodating cavity, a first opening, a protective cover, a camera and a transmission mechanism being located in the accommodating cavity, the camera being connected to the transmission mechanism, wherein the camera moves from the inside of the accommodating cavity to the outside of the accommodating cavity under the action of the transmission mechanism; in a case that the camera is located in the accommodating cavity, the protective cover is located in the accommodating cavity and between the first opening and the camera, and the camera is located under the display screen; and in a case that the camera is located outside the accommodating cavity, the protective cover is located outside the accommodating cavity, and the camera is located in an inner cavity of the protective cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jin Li
  • Patent number: 12010252
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a foldable phone case, including a front protective case, a rear protective case, and a stylus pen holder. An accommodating cavity suitable for accommodating a stylus pen is provided in the stylus pen holder. The stylus pen is arranged in a pen sleeve. The pen sleeve is arranged in the accommodating cavity. By arranging the pen sleeve, the stylus pen holder can adapt to different sizes of stylus pens. By arranging an alignment structure at a bottom of the pen sleeve, the stylus pen will be aligned automatically when inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Yinhao Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mou Feng