Touch Panel Patents (Class 345/173)
  • Patent number: 12386887
    Abstract: An audio recommendation system adds a “recents” tab in a memory accessible to a messaging system including any audio tracks (songs or sounds) encountered by applications in order to allow quick access to any recently played songs or sounds provided in a message to/from another user or encountered during activities of the user. The displayed “recents” tab enables the user to revisit songs or sounds that the user may wish to use later in another message or to include in the user's music playlist. The “recents” tab also enables the user to browse an audio history in received messages without needing to explicitly save the music or sounds upon receipt. The system determines the source of the encountered sound or song and stores the source of the sound or song in a playlist associated with the recents tab with identifying information for the sound or song.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ranidu Lankage, Christie Heikkinen, Andrew Grosvenor Cooper
  • Patent number: 12386457
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a display panel; a light-emitting element layer providing a light source to the display panel; a touch element overlapping the display panel; a timing control unit electrically connected to the display panel and providing a first synchronization signal; a light source driving unit electrically connected to the light-emitting element layer and receiving the first synchronization signal; and a touch processing unit electrically connected to the touch element and receiving the first synchronization signal. The display panel is displaying a first frame, and a duration of the first frame includes a duration of the first synchronization signal, a first duration, and a second duration. Within the first duration, the touch processing unit receives a touch signal from the touch processing unit. Within the second unit, the light source driving unit has the light-emitting element layer perform scanning. The first duration and the second duration are separated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chih-Yi Chen, Yu-Sheng Kao, Chun-Li Chu, Wei-Kang Ji
  • Patent number: 12386471
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a display panel including: a base substrate; a touch electrode disposed on the base substrate; and a connection wire that connects the touch electrode to a touch panel driver, wherein a width of a first conductive pattern forming the touch electrode is different from a width of a second conductive pattern forming the connection wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Cheol Kim, Won Jun Choi
  • Patent number: 12387647
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including a controlling unit, a display driver electrically connected to the controlling unit, a sensor driver electrically connected to the controlling unit, a display element electrically connected to the display driver, and a sensor element electrically connected to the sensor driver. The display element comprises a first group of sub-pixels having a same color. The sensor element is sensing a biometric feature in a sensing time period, and the sensing time period comprises 3 to 120 frame times. All the first group of sub-pixels are turned on one time in each of the 3 to 120 frame times by the display driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Chandra Lius, Kuan-Feng Lee
  • Patent number: 12386443
    Abstract: An electrode structure includes a substrate and a silver nanowire electrode disposed on the substrate. The electrode structure can be changed from an expanded state to a bent state with a bending radius of about 2-4 mm. The electrode structure includes a bending region and a first non-bending region and a second non-bending region respectively adjacent to the bending region in the bent state. The silver nanowire electrode has a change rate of a resistance value between the bent state and the expanded state of less than 10% in an electrode section of the bending region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: TPK Advanced Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Zhang, Si Qiang Xu, Mei Fen Bai, Wei Chuan Chao, Jun Hua Huang, Song Xin Wang, Feng Ming Xue, Long Yun Zhan, Jin Shou Huang
  • Patent number: 12386463
    Abstract: A touch sensing unit includes first touch electrodes, a first touch signal line, and a second touch signal line. The first touch electrodes are disposed in a touch sensor area. The first touch signal line is electrically connected to some of the first touch electrodes arranged in a first column. The second touch signal line is electrically connected to some of the first touch electrodes arranged in a second column different from the first column. The second touch signal line includes a first bent portion bent at least once in an intersection region of the first touch signal line and the second touch signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Jin Yang, Tae Ik Kim, Hyun Sik Park, Chun Gi You, Sung Ho Cho
  • Patent number: 12386415
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of promoting utilization of an input device used for operations in the XR. The information processing apparatus includes a memory device that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to: detect an action of a user to change a holding hand that holds an input device as a re-holding action when the user holds the input device that allows a one-hand operation in cross reality, and determine the holding hand based on the re-holding action detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kohei Shogome
  • Patent number: 12386437
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic stylus and an electronic device. The electronic stylus includes: a pen body provided with a control mainboard; a pen core detachably connected to the pen body and configured to make a touch screen produce an electrical signal in response to being in contact with the touch screen; and a plurality of electrodes integrated in the pen core and provided at intervals, and the plurality of electrodes are electrically connected to the control mainboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN QIANFENYI INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yanxin Huang, Liangwu Chen, Ziyu Zhan
  • Patent number: 12386460
    Abstract: Provided is a position detection circuit for detecting a position of an electronic pen and a position of a passive pointer on a touch surface disposed on a capacitive touch sensor constituted by a plurality of sensor electrodes arranged two-dimensionally, the electronic pen being configured to be capable of transmitting a pen signal, the passive pointer not transmitting any signal, the position detection circuit configured to detect a touch position indicative of the position of the passive pointer, and output the touch position if a size of a region forming the touch position is within a predetermined range, in which, if the electronic pen was in contact with the touch surface and becomes detached therefrom, the output of the touch position is temporarily inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Nomura
  • Patent number: 12387686
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel rows, a driving controller that generates a clock signal and a gate driver that provides scan signals and sensing signals to the plurality of pixel rows in response to the clock signal, wherein the clock signal includes a plurality of first pulses in an active period of a frame period and a plurality of second pulses in a vertical blank period of the frame period, and a width of at least one of the plurality of second pulses is different from a width of each of the plurality of first pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sooyeon Kim, Taegon Im
  • Patent number: 12386455
    Abstract: An input sensor including: a sensor including a sensing electrode for sensing a touch input and a pen sensing electrode for sensing a pen input; and a sensor controller configured to acquire a first coordinate based on a touch sensing signal received from the sensing electrode and acquire a second coordinate based on a pen sensing signal received from the pen sensing electrode during a first sensing frame, wherein the first sensing frame includes a first blank period, a touch sensing period for sensing the touch input, and a pen sensing period for sensing the pen input, wherein the first blank period, the touch sensing period, and the pen sensing period are sequentially arranged, and wherein a duration of the first blank period and a duration of the pen sensing period are adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyowon Ku, Gwang-Bum Ko, Kangwon Lee, Sanghyun Lim
  • Patent number: 12386466
    Abstract: An active stylus is provided, which can reduce battery power consumption and reduce the time required for its signal transmission. A position detection device includes a tablet and the stylus having a built-in power source, which are capable of bi-directional transmission and reception of signals through capacitive coupling therebetween. The tablet is configured to transmit a trigger signal US_trg and then transmit a command signal US_cmd to the stylus. The trigger signal US_trg causes the stylus to start its command information receiver to receive the command signal US_cmd including information for controlling the stylus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Katsurahira, Hideyuki Hara
  • Patent number: 12386469
    Abstract: An input sensor and display device including the same are capable of sensing a touch (or touch interaction) by a user's body and a touch by an electronic pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jungmok Park
  • Patent number: 12379788
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to a keyboard for a touch-sensitive display device. One example provides a touch-sensitive display device comprising a touch sensor, a display, a wireless receiver, a logic subsystem, and a storage subsystem. The storage subsystem comprises instructions executable by the logic subsystem to, in a first mode in which a keyboard satisfies a detection condition of the touch sensor, detect, via the touch sensor, input applied to the keyboard, and, in a second mode in which the keyboard does not satisfy the detection condition of the touch sensor, receive input from the keyboard via the wireless receiver, the input being detected at least in part by the keyboard operating in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Henri A. Autio, Joni Kristian Arola
  • Patent number: 12379806
    Abstract: Provided is a sensor controller connected to a capacitive touch sensor. The sensor controller includes a scan execution circuit which, in operation, repeatedly performs a first scan and a second scan on the capacitive touch sensor in a time-division manner, a first calculation circuit which, in operation, calculates a first pen position from a first detection signal acquired through the first scan performed by the scan execution circuit, a second calculation circuit which, in operation, calculates a touch position and a second pen position from a second detection signal acquired through the second scan performed by the scan execution circuit, and an output processing circuit which, in operation, outputs a pen position that differs depending on a result of a comparison process in which the first pen position calculated by the first calculation circuit is compared with the second pen position calculated by the second calculation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Nomura
  • Patent number: 12377348
    Abstract: This application provides a method and apparatus for using a virtual item, a device, and a storage medium, and belongs to the field of application programs that support a virtual chessboard. The method includes displaying a virtual chessboard and a virtual item bar in a user interface, a virtual chess piece located on the virtual chessboard and being a virtual character having permission to use a first virtual item, and the first virtual item being displayed in the virtual item bar; moving the first virtual item on the user interface following a drag operation, the drag operation being on the first virtual item; and assembling the first virtual item to the virtual chess piece and performing a first vibration reminder in response to the drag operation being stopped in a display range corresponding to the virtual chess piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Wenyuan Fu, Lin Lin
  • Patent number: 12380486
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a system that is capable of tracking user activities of the user across one or more distribution channels; selecting one or more item providers based at least in part on the geo-location of the client device associated with the user; and determining an inventory of items offered by the selected one or more item providers. The system may also be capable of selecting an item for providing to the user based at least in part on at least the tracked user activities of the user and the geo-location of the client device associated with the user; and providing the item to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Lisa M. Knight, Scott Seese
  • Patent number: 12379736
    Abstract: A configurable power monitoring system for electronic devices is described herein. In an example, a device can include a first circuit that can receive a first voltage signal from a voltage bus and output a second voltage signal that is lower than the first voltage signal. An electronic system can be coupled to the voltage bus. A second circuit can be coupled to the electronic system and can output a third voltage signal corresponding to current flow through the electronic system. An amplifier can amplify the third voltage signal to generate an amplified voltage signal. An accumulator can determine a power consumption value of the electronic system based on the second voltage signal and the amplified voltage signal. A data communication system can transmit the power consumption value to the electronic system and can receive configuration data usable to adjust an accuracy and/or a dynamic sensing range of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Linfei Guo, Mahesh Hooli, Sagnik Kar, Avinash Hosamalangi Mahadeva
  • Patent number: 12379792
    Abstract: A touch pad, on which a pointing operation is performed by a hand, includes: a sensor board configured to recognize a touch position by a hand; an outer frame configured to be fixed to the sensor board; an arm portion configured to be disposed on an inner side of the outer frame; a switch configured to be provided between one end of the arm portion and the sensor board; a shaft support portion configured to support the arm portion to be capable of being inclined in a pitch direction at an intermediate portion; and an elastic body configured to bias the sensor board upward with respect to a base. The other end of the arm portion is supported to be displaced in a lifting/lowering direction together with the sensor board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihisa Okuni, Issei Kurosawa, Kazumi Nakaju
  • Patent number: 12377005
    Abstract: A patient support apparatus including a support deck with a support surface and a deck section configured to move between a first position and a second position, a barrier to limit egress from the support surface operatively attached to the deck section for concurrent movement, and a user interface coupled to the barrier and configured to receive input from a user. The user interface includes a screen to display visual content to the user, and an input device to generate an input signal in response to receiving user input. An orientation sensor determines an orientation of the screen based on movement of the deck section between the first position and the second position. A controller is configured to perform a function in response to receiving the input signal, and maintain a predetermined orientation of the visual content displayed on the screen as the screen moves with the deck section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Krishna S. Bhimavarapu, Madhu Thomas, Christopher A. George, Sujay Sukumaran, Ammon K. Wright, Marko N. Kostic, William Dwight Childs, Richard A. Derenne
  • Patent number: 12379794
    Abstract: A system and method for synchronizing a stylus to a capacitive sense array. The system including a capacitive sense array which includes a plurality of electrodes. A magnetic field is generated using the plurality of electrodes. The magnetic field is used to synchronize the operation of the stylus and the capacitive sense array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Viktor Kremin, Andriy Ryshtun
  • Patent number: 12379433
    Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to particles that can move in response to a magnetic field. A system can include a container, particles within the container, and a magnetic structure integrated with the container. The magnetic structure can magnetically interact with both an external magnetic field and the particles. Related methods are disclosed including magnetic field detection methods based on detection of particles within a container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Alan J. O'Donnell, Javier Calpe Maravilla, Shaun Bradley, Jan Kubík, Jochen Schmitt, Stanislav Jolondcovschi, Padraig L. Fitzgerald, Michael P. Lynch, Alfonso Berduque, Gavin Patrick Cosgrave, Eoin Edward English
  • Patent number: 12379813
    Abstract: A display apparatus is disclosed that includes a first touch sensor including first driving electrodes and first sensing electrodes arranged in a first area, a second touch sensor including second driving electrodes and second sensing electrodes arranged in a second area, a first touch integrated circuit configured to generate a first sensing signal, a second touch integrated circuit configured to generate a second sensing signal, and a control unit configured to select a touch area including a touch location from among the first area and the second area, based on the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal, and control the first touch integrated circuit and the second touch integrated circuit to sense the touch area in a first sensing mode and the remaining area in a second sensing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Choonhyop Lee
  • Patent number: 12379808
    Abstract: A timing control circuit includes a receiving circuit and a line memory coupled to the receiving circuit. The line memory is configured for outputting a first data signal during a first frame period, and outputting a second data signal during a second frame period. An end time point of the first frame period coincides with the start time point of the second frame period. One of the first data signal and the second data signal is corresponding to a long H mode; the other of the first data signal and the second data signal is corresponding to a long V mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Huan-Teng Cheng
  • Patent number: 12379814
    Abstract: A capacitance module may include a capacitance electrode on a first substrate, shielding material disposed on a second substrate where the second substrate is aligned with the first substrate, an antenna where the shielding material is between the antenna and the capacitance electrode, and a continuous opening defined in the shielding material. The continuous opening may include a branching shape, the branching shape having a stem and multiple branches extending from the stem; and the continuous opening may overlap with the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Cirque Corporation
    Inventors: Jon Bertrand, Paul Glad
  • Patent number: 12379816
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel, a preparation method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes a display substrate and a touch panel. The touch panel includes multiple touch electrodes. At least one of the touch electrodes includes multiple grid patterns enclosed by metal wires. At least one of the grid patterns includes a first edge, second edge, third edge and fourth edge that form a ring. The first edge and the third edge extend in a second direction. The second edge and the fourth edge extend in a first direction. A shape of the grid pattern includes a first curved ring, a second curved ring, a third curved ring, or a fourth curved ring. A first edge and third edge of the first curved ring are curves curved towards a direction opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shun Zhang, Yi Zhang, Ping Wen, Peng Xu, Chang Luo, Linhong Han, Weiyun Huang, Youngyik Ko, Yuanqi Zhang, Cong Fan
  • Patent number: 12380996
    Abstract: Software of devices, such as medical devices or other constrained devices configured to implement specific functions, can use content files to determine text strings or other content values to present in association with user interface elements. Devices can receive relevant content files, such as new versions of previously-stored content files or new content files containing text in different languages, from a remote content file repository. The software of the devices can accordingly update content values presented in user interfaces based on newly received content files, without the software being re-coded, the software being restarted, or the devices rebooting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Welch Allyn, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Paul Fenster, Robert Christopher Rogers, Alexander Dennis Fries, Allen R. Hart, Eric P Jensen
  • Patent number: 12373073
    Abstract: A touch panel display includes a display panel and a touch panel disposed on a side of the display panel. The touch panel includes a touch structure layer. The display panel includes an anode layer. The touch structure layer includes a plurality of touch lines, and the plurality of touch lines define a plurality of touch meshes. The touch display panel includes a first region and a second region, and the plurality of touch lines include a plurality of first touch lines located in the first region and a plurality of second touch lines located in the second region. A line width of at least one first touch line in the plurality of first touch lines is smaller than a line width of at least one second touch line in the plurality of second touch lines. Reflectivity of the first region is equal to reflectivity of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qian Jia, Liyan Liu, Yingtao Wang
  • Patent number: 12373056
    Abstract: A touch detection circuit includes: a touch sensing unit including a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes arranged to intersect the driving electrodes; first through n-th unique signal generators transmitting first through n-th unique signals, which have different voltage or current characteristics, to bodies of first through n-th users, respectively; at least one motion detection circuit detecting a touch direction and touch position of each of the first through n-th users; and a touch driving circuit driving the driving electrodes and the sensing electrodes to detect touch detection signals and generate touch position coordinate information, wherein the touch driving circuit selects any one user, of the first through n-th users, who performed a touch operation on the touch sensing unit according to a preset priority, and generates and outputs touch position coordinate information according to the touch position of the selected user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dong Chun Lee
  • Patent number: 12373057
    Abstract: A touch sensing display device includes a first touch block including a plurality of first touch electrodes and a first additional electrode pattern, a second touch block including a plurality of second touch electrodes and a second additional electrode pattern, a first touch circuit configured to individually drive a first touch block division line connected to the first additional electrode pattern and a second touch block division line connected to the second additional electrode pattern, and a second touch circuit configured to sense each touch line in synchronization with a driving timing of each of the first touch block division line and the second touch block division line, wherein each touch line electrically connects one of the plurality of first touch electrodes to one of the plurality of second touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Yong Kim, Jae Kyu Park
  • Patent number: 12373157
    Abstract: A mirroring method performed by a source terminal, includes: identifying, according to a first communication protocol, a first terminal having a mirroring function that is deactivated; outputting a terminal list including identification information of the first terminal; based on the first terminal being selected from the terminal list, transmitting a request for activation of the mirroring function to the first terminal according to the first communication protocol; and transmitting, according to a second communication protocol, content to the first terminal with the mirroring function that is activated in response to the request for the activation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jongin Lee, Yongwoo Shin, Sehyun Kim
  • Patent number: 12373065
    Abstract: A computing device comprises a touchpad, a processor, and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to track a contact on a touchpad. A measured velocity and a measured force of the contact on the touchpad are determined. The measured velocity is normalized to a normalized velocity and the measured force of the contact is normalized to a normalized force. Based at least in part on the normalized velocity and the normalized force, a reported position of the contact on the touchpad is temporarily frozen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Shiran Barnea, On Haran, Hila Malihi, Adar Daniel Englert, Eviatar George Zweigenberg
  • Patent number: 12373093
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to providing control functionality of a display of an electronic device. The method includes determining, by the electronic device, an event and partitioning, by the electronic device, a rear side of the electronic device into dynamic tiles based on multiple parameters associated with the display, based on determining the event. The method also includes detecting, by the electronic device, a user gesture on the dynamic tile on the rear side of the electronic device and classifying, by the electronic device, the detected gesture into a gesture category. Further, the method includes determining, by the electronic device, a functionality based on the gesture on the rear side of the electronic device and the corresponding gesture category. The method includes controlling, by the electronic device, the functionality on the display of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Choice Choudhary, Ankit Agarwal, Shivam Singh Rajput
  • Patent number: 12373822
    Abstract: A mobile device is provided. The mobile device includes a display unit, a sensor configured to sense user's touch done on a surface of the display unit in a disabled state of the display unit, a storage unit configured to store preset gesture information, a controller configured to enable the display unit when a user's touch operation matched with the gesture information is sensed, execute a wallet application, and display an execution screen, and a communication unit configured to transmit information for a selected payment option to an external apparatus when the payment option is selected on the execution screen and perform a payment. The payment is simply done.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-ho Rhee, Jae-hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12375794
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises: a housing; at least one camera disposed inside the housing; at least one door unit disposed between the housing and a lens of the at least one camera and a driving unit configured to slide the door unit such that the lens of the at least one camera can open/close, wherein the driving unit can comprise a linear actuator moving linearly according to an application of voltage. Other embodiments in addition to the various embodiments of the present invention are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunje Cho, Kichul Namgung, Yoobong Chun, Sunggeun Joo
  • Patent number: 12373066
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device including a touch sensing device, a control chip and a post operation system. The touch sensing device is used to output a detection signal associated with an object. The control chip is used to identify a contact area, a contact position, an operation status of the object according to the detection signal to send a corresponding report packet to the post operation system. When identifying that the contact area changes from a small area to a large area, the control chip actively sends a reset report packet to reset a current operation status to an initial contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventor: Tse-Chung Su
  • Patent number: 12373064
    Abstract: A sensor device includes: a sensor panel including sensors arranged in a matrix, and sensor lines electrically connected to the sensors on a one-to-one basis; and a sensor driver configured to receive, using a reference signal having at least two or more duty cycles, sensing signals from the sensors through the sensor lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Woo Kim, Ja Seung Ku, Jung Ha Son, Dong Chun Lee, Jin Taek Hong
  • Patent number: 12373092
    Abstract: An electronic device, with a display and an input device, displays, on the display, a user interface for an application. While displaying the user interface, the device receives a user input. In response to the user input: the device provides to the application a first input event having a phase field with a first phase value, the first input event corresponding to an input proximate to but not in contact with a touch-sensitive surface. After providing the first input event, the device provides to the application a second input event having a phase field with a second phase value, the second input event corresponding to the user input being in contact with the touch-sensitive surface. The device displays, on the display, an update to the user interface for the application that is based at least in part on the first input event and the second input event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Michael T. Turner, Raleigh J. Ledet
  • Patent number: 12367787
    Abstract: A communication system includes a server apparatus, and a terminal apparatus connected to the server apparatus and capable of communicating with the server apparatus. The terminal apparatus is configured to transmit, to the server apparatus, response information, which is responsive to provided information and which is generated according to a position indication input performed by a user of the terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus includes a position detection sensor that receives the position indication input from the user, and a control unit that controls, based on a predetermined time limit, an area for receiving the position indication input in a detection area of the position detection sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshihiko Horie
  • Patent number: 12366947
    Abstract: To improve the S/N ratio of a pen signal received in a sensor controller, without decreasing the frequency of position detection or increasing the circuit scale of the sensor controller, a method according to the present invention is executed by a sensor controller of an electromagnetic resonance system, and in each of a plurality of pen signal detection periods T1 to T3, three loop coils LCxn?1 to LCxn+1 are connected in connection modes having different connection polarities for each pen signal detection period, a result value indicating a level of a pen signal is detected via the three loop coils LCxn?1 to LCxn+1, and the level of the pen signal corresponding to each of the three loop coils LCxn?1 to LCxn+1 is separately acquired by performing a restoration operation according to the connection polarities on a plurality of the result values detected in the respective pen signal detection periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Akira Ito, Yoshihisa Sugiyama, Joo Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 12366934
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and media for sensing a touch on a display panel including an array of pixels. A method includes controlling first pixels to operate in an illumination state; controlling second pixels to repeatedly switch between operating in the illumination state and operating in a sensing state; generating sensing signals indicative of levels of light detected by the second pixels; detecting a touch input to the display panel based on the generated sensing signals; and in response to detecting the touch input to the display panel, changing at least one of (i) a frequency at which the second pixels switch between operating in the illumination state and in the sensing state, (ii) a duty cycle for operating the second pixels in the sensing state, or (iii) which of the pixels in the array of pixels are controlled to switch between operating in the illumination state and in the sensing state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Paul Joseph Silberschatz
  • Patent number: 12366946
    Abstract: An electronic device including a display unit including a hole area, an active area surrounding the hole area, and a peripheral area adjacent to the active area; a sensing unit disposed on the display unit and including first and second sensing electrodes; a module hole through which the display unit and the sensing unit overlap the hole area; and a crack detection circuit including a crack detection pattern disposed in the hole area and surrounding the module hole, a crack detection line disposed in the peripheral area, and connection lines disposed in the peripheral area and connecting the crack detection pattern and the crack detection line, in which the connection lines and a routing pattern of at least one of the first and second sensing electrodes intersect on a plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonjun Choi, Il-Joo Kim, Deokjung Kim
  • Patent number: 12367006
    Abstract: A method includes: a first electronic device displaying a first interface, and sending first information to a second electronic device, where the first information includes one or more interface elements on the first interface and tag information of the interface elements; and the second electronic device displaying a second interface based on the tag information of the one or more interface elements on the first interface, where the second interface includes a first display window and a second display window, at least some interface elements of the one or more interface elements on the first interface are displayed in the first display window, the second display window displays a display interface associated with a first interface element, and the at least some interface elements include the first interface element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xilin Sun, Min Liu, Jie Li, Yinzhu Cheng
  • Patent number: 12366932
    Abstract: A system may include a resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor, a driver configured to drive the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor at a driving frequency, a measurement circuit communicatively coupled to the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor and configured to measure phase information and amplitude associated with the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor, and a noise detection circuit communicatively coupled to the measurement circuit and configured to determine a presence of external interference in the system based on at least one of the phase information and the amplitude information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory C. Yancey, Michael Kost, Tejasvi Das, Siddharth Maru, Matthew Beardsworth, Vadim Konradi
  • Patent number: 12368470
    Abstract: A near-field communication (NFC) reader is integrated with a display panel in a passenger cabin of a vehicle by constructing a hidden antenna of the reader into a portion of the display panel. The display comprises a touchscreen display providing a display surface coincident with a touch-sensitive input detector. A trigger monitor is configured to detect a user activity by a user which is indicative of a potential for the user to attempt pairing of a mobile NFC device with the hidden antenna. A positioning messenger is configured to generate a depiction on the display surface indicating a region to be covered on the display surface by the mobile NFC device to align a mobile antenna on the mobile NFC device with the hidden antenna. The NFC device may be a smartphone, a key fob, or an NFC transponder card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: John R. Van Wiemeersch, Jayanthi Rao, Mark W. Larry, Eugene Karpinsky
  • Patent number: 12366051
    Abstract: In a control method for actuating a manually actuated lever provided for actuating an operation and/or work function, the manually actuated lever includes a device for hand detection, which releases an actuation of the operation and/or work function when a sensor-based evaluation of the positioning of a palm resting on a handle piece of the manually actuated lever surmises an activating intent on the part of an operator. In the event that the manually actuated lever is deflected from a neutral or rest position, an operating command corresponding to the current deflection state is generated, wherein a control command intended to execute the operation and/or work function is matched, according to a predefined transition function and via a control unit, to the operating command resulting from the deflection state, as soon as the actuation of the operation and/or work function is released by the device for hand detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Kamlesh Gaikwad, Christoph Wagner, Sebastian Jung
  • Patent number: 12361053
    Abstract: A user can submit a visual query that includes one or more images with user free-form selected visual features of interest. Various processing techniques such as optical character recognition (OCR) techniques can be used to recognize text (e.g., in the image, surrounding image(s), etc.) and/or various object detection techniques (e.g., machine-learned object detection models, etc.) may be used to detect objects and particular visual features of objects (e.g., dress, sleeves, color, pattern, etc.) within or related to the visual query. Content related to the detected text or object(s) in combination with the user free-form selected visual feature of interest can be identified and potentially provided to a user as search results. As such, aspects of the present disclosure enable the visual search system to more intelligently process a visual query to provide improved search results and content feeds, including search results which are personalized to account for user search intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Erica Bjornsson, Heidi Wong
  • Patent number: 12361841
    Abstract: An overlay for a touch-sensitive display. An example overlay includes a substrate defining a substantially smooth area and a textured area wherein the textured area corresponds to a displayed key entry area of the touch-sensitive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: NCR Atleos Corporation
    Inventors: Liam Mccafferty, Steven Birnie, Roderick George Paterson
  • Patent number: 12361901
    Abstract: An anti-lost device based on an electronic ink screen is provided, the anti-lost device based on the electronic ink screen comprises a button, a circuit board and an electronic ink screen; the circuit board includes an ink-screen driving Bluetooth sensor and a find my Bluetooth sensor; when the anti-lost device is lost, a APP of a mobile phone sends a lost signal to the circuit board, the Find my bluetooth sensor sends the location information to the APP, when the button is pressed several times, the electronic ink screen driving Bluetooth sensor controls the electronic ink screen to display a preset contact information or a QR code of the preset contact information. The anti-lost device is low power consumption, multi-function display and convenient operation, and can be widely used in multiple scenarios, and can better meet the needs of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Inventor: Haiqi Wang
  • Patent number: 12354542
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a display layer which includes an active area for displaying an image and a peripheral area disposed adjacent to the active area, pixels each of which includes a driving transistor and a light emitting element, a memory that stores a plurality of maps, a driving controller connected to the memory and including a control unit. The plurality of maps includes a first map, a second map, and a third map. The control unit includes a first current output unit that outputs the first current value corresponding to the data voltage based on the first map, a voltage output unit that outputs the voltage based on the second map, and a heat generation characteristic output unit that outputs the power based on the third map and outputs a heat generation characteristic for each location within the active area based on the power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dae-Gwang Jang