Touch Panel Patents (Class 345/173)
  • Patent number: 11968479
    Abstract: A method of tracking a mobile device comprising at least one camera in a real environment comprises the steps of receiving image information associated with at least one image captured by the at least one camera, generating a first geometrical model of at least part of the real environment based on environmental data or mobile system state data acquired in an acquisition process by at least one sensor of a mobile system, which is different from the mobile device, and performing a tracking process based on the image information associated with the at least one image and at least partially according to the first geometrical model, wherein the tracking process determines at least one parameter of a pose of the mobile device relative to the real environment. The invention is also related to a method of generating a geometrical model of at least part of a real environment using image information from at least one camera of a mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Meier, Sebastian Lieberknecht
  • Patent number: 11968338
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display unit, a first detection unit that detects a position of an object located in a vertical direction with respect to the display unit and that interacts with the display unit in a contactless manner, wherein detecting the position results in detecting an instruction associated with the at least one input object that is displayed on the display unit and corresponds to the position of the object, a second detection unit configured to detect confirmation of the instruction detected by the first detection unit, and an input unit configured to input data corresponding to the at least one input object in a case where the second detection unit detects confirmation of the instruction associated with the at least one input object in a state where the first detection unit detects the instruction associated with the at least one input object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akitomo Fukui
  • Patent number: 11967010
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for providing angular snapping guides to efficiently, accurately, and flexibly align user interactions and editing operations to existing angular linear segments of digital design objects in a digital design document. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems determine target angular linear segments for presentation of angular snapping guides by generating angular bin data structures based on orientation and signed distances of angular linear segments within the digital design document. Accordingly, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems can efficiently search these angular bin data structures based on angles and signed distances corresponding to user interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Arushi Jain, Praveen Kumar Dhanuka
  • Patent number: 11968602
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a device comprises a memory, which, in operation, stores data samples associated with a plurality of data sensors, and circuitry, coupled to the memory, wherein the circuitry, in operation, generates synchronized output data sets associated with the plurality of data sensors. Generating a synchronized output data set includes: determining a reference sample associated with a sensor of the plurality of sensors; verifying a timing validity of a data sample associated with another sensor of the plurality of sensors; identifying a closest-in-time data sample associated with the another sensor of the plurality of sensors with respect to the reference sample; and generating the synchronized output data set based on interpolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l., STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Karimuddin Sayed, Chandandeep Singh Pabla, Lorenzo Bracco, Federico Rizzardini
  • Patent number: 11966533
    Abstract: A device for use with a touch surface digitizer, the device comprising: a sensor configured to receive uplink signals emitted by a grid of antennas in the digitizer; and a controller configured to detect the uplink signals via the sensor; wherein the controller is further configured to determine a speed of the device based on a detected sequence of the uplink signals as received at the sensor from one or more junctions of the antenna grid relative to a predetermined spatial pattern of the uplink signals as emitted across the grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Assaf Bar-Ness, Shoham Dekel
  • Patent number: 11968791
    Abstract: A sliding display device includes a housing assembly and a flexible display screen. The housing assembly includes a bottom case, a first support body, a second support body, and a linkage mechanism. The linkage mechanism is configured to drive the second support body to slide out of the bottom case into an expanded state or slide into the bottom case into an unexpanded state. Part of the flexible display screen is hidden between the bottom case and the first supporting body in the unexpanded state. The flexible display screen includes a flexible display panel, a backplate, an adhesive layer, and at least a third support body. The third support body and the second support body collectively form a network structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhuo Zhang, Wen Han
  • Patent number: 11964650
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a Wi-Fi communication module, a processor, a controller that controls a component of a vehicle, and a memory, wherein the memory stores at least one piece of position information corresponding to a position in the vehicle, and at least one registered pattern of a gesture, face, or shape, the Wi-Fi communication module transmits a transmission signal to the position corresponding to the at least one piece of position information by a Wi-Fi communication method at a preset frequency and receives a reflection signal reflected from an object in response to the transmission signal, the processor acquires an input pattern of a gesture, face, or shape of the object by analyzing the reflection signal, and retrieves a registered pattern matching the input pattern from the at least one registered pattern, and the controller controls the component according to an instruction corresponding to the retrieved registered pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Sok Kim, Byung Kwan Kim, Woosuk Kim, Min Sung Eo, Hyunwoong Cho, Sungdo Choi
  • Patent number: 11966534
    Abstract: The present disclosure of the disclosure are related to a touch driving circuit and a touch display device, in a touch sensor structure performing a touch sensing based on a mutual-capacitance, as performing a touch sensing based on a self-capacitance and a touch sensing based on the mutual-capacitance, a performance of a touch sensing may be improved. Furthermore, as driving channels of X-touch electrode line of Y-touch electrode line partially in a period performing a touch sensing based on the self-capacitance, the number of channels driven in each period is reduced and a noise according to a display driving may be reduced when performing a touch sensing based on the self-capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: DaeUk Jeong
  • Patent number: 11966540
    Abstract: A computing system includes a touch-sensitive display and one or more processors. The touch-sensitive display is configured to detect a run-time touch input from a user. The one or more processors are configured to execute instructions using portions of associated memory to implement a touch driver of the touch-sensitive display and an artificial intelligence model. The touch driver is configured to process the run-time touch input based on a plurality of calibration parameters and output a touch event and a plurality of run-time touch input parameters associated with the touch input event. The artificial intelligence model is configured to receive, as input, the run-time touch input parameters. Responsive to receiving the run-time touch input parameters, the artificial intelligence model is configured to output a personalized user touch driver profile including a plurality of updated calibration parameters for the touch driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yotam Livny, Nir David, Yael Livne
  • Patent number: 11966549
    Abstract: Disclosed is a touch sensitive display apparatus which decreases a load of each of a plurality of touch electrodes and reduces a load deviation between the plurality of touch electrodes, thereby enhancing image quality. The touch sensitive display apparatus comprises a touch sensitive panel. The touch panel comprises a plurality of touch electrodes comprising at least a first touch electrode. The first touch electrode comprises a plurality of first touch electrode lines that are parallel to each other. A first touch signal line is connected to the plurality of first touch electrode lines of the first touch electrode, and the first touch electrode is driven for image display and touch sensing via the first touch signal line. A first connecting line is in a different layer than the first touch electrode lines, and the first connecting line is connected to the plurality of first touch electrode lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ju Han Kim, Yong Chan Park, Jin Seong Kim, Seung Kyeom Kim
  • Patent number: 11966539
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and a device for adjusting a touch capacitance data, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring the touch capacitance data; calculating a variation of a compensation capacitance value required to adjust the touch capacitance data to a target value according to a configured compensation step value; judging whether the touch capacitance data is in a nonlinear range; according to the judgment result, performing a corresponding compensation operation with the variation of the compensation capacitance value. The method enables the touch capacitance data to be automatically adjusted to being close to the target value, thus improving the accuracy of adjusting the touch capacitance data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CHIPONE TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junchao Yan, Peng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11966541
    Abstract: A compensation circuit, a touch screen, and an electronic device are provided in the disclosure. The compensation circuit includes a logic circuit, a selection circuit, and a switch circuit. The logic circuit is configured to obtain a first selection signal, a second selection signal, and a third selection signal according to an enable signal and a timing signal. The selection circuit is configured to obtain a first control signal according to the first selection signal, obtain a second control signal according to the second selection signal, and obtain a third control signal according to the third selection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Dehuai Li, Huiqi Wang, Changfu Liu, Haijiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11966558
    Abstract: An application association processing method includes detecting a first operation instruction entered by a user; and when it is determined that the first operation instruction is to perform, by the user, a first preset operation on first content displayed on a display interface, displaying prompt information of second content associated with the first content, where the first preset operation is an operation gesture preset by the user, and the prompt information is used to inform the user that an association relationship exists between the first content and the second content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Kunshi Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Yue, Peng Qian
  • Patent number: 11966551
    Abstract: Disclosed are a metal mesh touch screen and a method for manufacturing a metal mesh touch screen. The metal mesh touch screen includes the first functional electrode layer, a first adhesive layer, a second functional electrode layer and a second adhesive layer placed sequentially. The first functional electrode layer includes the first metal mesh wiring extending in a first direction and a metal material for preparing the first metal mesh wiring is a metal foil with a first rough surface and a second rough surface. The second functional electrode layer includes a second metal mesh wiring extending in a second direction and a metal material for preparing the second metal mesh wiring is the metal foil with the first rough surface and the second rough surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Su, Guoliang Zhang, Shourong Hu
  • Patent number: 11966559
    Abstract: Utilization of a selection ring to select icons is provided herein. The selection ring is presented in a first graphical user interface. In response to receiving a first selection of the selection ring by a user, a plurality of icons are presented in the first graphical user interface. User manipulation of a position of the selection ring within the first graphical user interface is received, where that manipulation occurs without altering a location of the plurality of icons being presented within the first graphical user interface. In response to receiving a second selection associated with the selection ring, an icon from the plurality of icons is selected based on the position of the selection ring within the first graphical user interface. A second graphical user interface is then presented to the user based on the selected icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PEER INC
    Inventor: Thinh Tran
  • Patent number: 11968255
    Abstract: A group definition is received via a network interface. Communications are transmitted to destinations, the communications comprising an invitation to associate with the a content sharing group. Authentication data associated with users that accept the invention is encrypted. The accepting users are associated with the content sharing group. A content gallery definition is received. A communication is received that the content gallery is to be shared with the content sharing group. The content gallery is caused to be instantiated on devices of users associated with the group. A content request for the content sharing group is received and the content request is transmitted accordingly to users associated with the group. A content item is received in response the request and the content item is transmitted to user devices associated with the group and enabled to appear in instantiations of the content gallery on the user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Greenfly, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn David Green, Daniel Brian Kirschner, Marshall Raymond Greer, III
  • Patent number: 11960679
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel displaying an image, an input sensing layer disposed on the display panel and including a plurality of sensing electrodes, and a sensing controller electrically connected to the input sensing layer and operating in at least one of a first mode and a second mode. A position of a first external input applied to the input sensing layer is sensed in the first mode, biometric information of a second external input applied to the input sensing layer is measured in the second mode. The sensing controller converts a sensing signal sensed from the input sensing layer based on a correction value determined based on parameters of surrounding environment to generate a correction sensing signal, and the sensing controller measures the biometric information from the correction sensing signal in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Boram Choi, Yuna Kim, Soojung Lee, Seungwook Chun
  • Patent number: 11960684
    Abstract: A light-emitting touch panel includes a circuit board, a plurality of light-emitting elements, a shading plate and a cover plate. The light emitting element has a first height in a first direction. The shading plate has a plurality of spacing regions corresponding to the light emitting elements, respectively. A first width is provided between two partition walls of each spacing region in a second direction. Each partition wall has a second height in the first direction, and the second height is greater than the first height. The cover plate has a light-transmitting region, the light emitted by the light-emitting elements passes through the light-transmitting region, and a bright region is formed on the top surface of the cover plate away from the shading plate, wherein a second width of the bright region in the second direction is related to the second height and the first width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: CHICONY POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chen-Hao Chiu
  • Patent number: 11960688
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a touch sensor and a touch input device and, more specifically, to a touch sensor formed of a circular single layer and a touch input device comprising same. A touch input device, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises a circular touch sensor, wherein the touch sensor includes a plurality of electrodes disposed on a single layer and spaced apart from each other on a plurality of virtual circles having a common center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HiDeep Inc.
    Inventors: Hojun Moon, Bonkee Kim, Seyeob Kim, Inseob Kim
  • Patent number: 11960686
    Abstract: A control device with haptic feedback includes a vibrating plate having a touch surface provided with touch sensors and capable of being vibrated at an ultrasonic frequency by electromagnetic actuators controlled by a control electronics, so as to generate an ultrasonic lubrication effect on the touch surface. A three-dimensional touch interface is fixed to and integral with the touch surface, configured to communicate vibrations of the ultrasonic lubrication effect from the touch surface to the finger of a user by means of the three-dimensional touch interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HAP2U
    Inventors: Cedrick Chappaz, Matthieu Rupin
  • Patent number: 11960693
    Abstract: A resistive touch sensor includes a base layer, a sensor top sheet positioned in spaced apart relation to a base layer, and a peripheral edge seal formed between the sensor top sheet and the base layer. The sensor further includes a first adhesive layer bonded on a peripheral edge portion to the sensor top sheet, and a second adhesive layer, inset relative to the peripheral edge seal, positioned between the first adhesive layer and the sensor top sheet. The second adhesive layer is bonded on one side to the first adhesive layer and an opposing side to the sensor top sheet corresponding to a portion of a touch active area. The second adhesive layer causes a planarity change in the sensor top sheet proximate the peripheral edge seal thereby increasing the usable area and improving uniformity of touch force across the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron T McCalley, Alyssa A. Groth
  • Patent number: 11960691
    Abstract: A technique for reading the columns (12) and rows (14) of a touch sensor (10) provides several advantages, including scalability to touch sensors with high column/row counts. A simultaneously applied set of column input signals (24) yields a corresponding set of column output signals (34) that are combined into a combined column signal (38) that is transformed into the frequency domain after digitization, to yield column values (48) corresponding to the respective touch sensor columns (12). The same process applied with respect to the touch sensor rows (14) yields a set of row values (50), with evaluation of the frequency-domain column and row values (48, 50) providing the basis for detecting touch inputs to the touch sensor (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Mohammed Zourob, Alexander Hunt, Andreas Kristensson, Mohammed Abdulaziz
  • Patent number: 11962561
    Abstract: A system can cause display of a mixed reality interface including multiple graphical tiles in a particular chronological order. The system can detect a motion-based gesture of a user relative to the mixed reality interface while displaying the multiple graphical tiles, and correlate the motion-based gesture of the user to the display of the mixed reality interface to move a particular graphical tile to a new location among the multiple graphical tiles. In response to the motion-based gesture, the system can virtually displace another graphical tile of the multiple graphical tiles to accommodate the new location of the particular graphical tile and cause display, through the mixed reality interface, of the multiple graphical tiles arranged in a new order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: DEBORAH A. LAMBERT AS TRUSTEE OF THE DEBORAH A. LAMBERT IRREVOCABLE TRUST FOR MARK LAMBERT, WHITEHEAD INVESTMENTS, LLC
    Inventors: Erik N. Lukas, Gregory O. Peet, Mark Lambert
  • Patent number: 11960656
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for contact-minimized automated teller machine (“ATM”) use and transaction processing using Doppler-radar based gesture recognition and authentication. The apparatus and methods may include an ATM including a millimeter-wave radar transmitter and receiver. Movement of one or more objects, including fingers, within a radar field may be analyzed and translated into gestures and authentication passcode(s). By utilizing the radar field instead of physical buttons or a touchscreen, contact with the ATM may be minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventor: Shailendra Singh
  • Patent number: 11963425
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display overlapped by a cover layer. Portions of the surface of the display and cover layer may have curved profiles. The display may include a flexible substrate and may have bent edge portions protruding from a central region. Gaps may be formed between regions of pixels on a common substrate or between separate display panels. Gap-overlapping structures may overlap the gaps to hide internal components from view or to blend the appearance of gaps with the appearance of adjoining portions of a display layer. The gap-overlapping structures may include light sources such as crystalline semiconductor light-emitting diodes. The diodes may emit light through light diffusing structures. Protruding display layer fingers and other structures may be used to accommodate display cover layer surfaces with curved profiles such as corner surfaces of compound curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael B. Wittenberg, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Tyler R. Kakuda, Christopher D. Prest, Marwan Rammah, Rasamy Phouthavong, Richard H. Dinh, David A. Pakula
  • Patent number: 11960672
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes signal line; pixel electrode; drive electrode opposed to pixel electrode; scanning lines; and display periods and a detection period in frame, wherein during one of display periods, common voltage is applied to drive electrode, scanning signal is applied to some scanning lines, pixel signal is applied to pixel electrode, wherein, during detection period, AC drive or pulse signal is applied to drive electrode, AC drive or pulse signal having pulses, wherein pulses during the detection period is less than number of some of scanning signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Yoshitoshi Kida, Kohei Azumi
  • Patent number: 11962743
    Abstract: A 3D display system and a 3D display method are provided. The 3D display system includes a 3D display, a memory, and a processor. The processor is coupled to the 3D display and the memory and is configured to execute the following steps. As a first type application program is executed, an image content of the first type application program is captured, and a stereo format image is generated according to the image content of the first type application program. The stereo format image is delivered to a runtime complying with a specific development standard through an application program interface complying with the specific development standard. A display frame processing associated with the 3D display is performed on the stereo format image through the runtime, and a 3D display image content generated by the display frame processing is provided to the 3D display for displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Lin, Chao-Kuang Yang, Wen-Cheng Hsu, Hsi Lin, Chih-Wen Huang
  • Patent number: 11960680
    Abstract: A touch controller includes a noise detection circuit that respectively provides a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage for detecting display noise to a first electrode and a second electrode arranged on lines except a line on which touch sensing is performed, among sensing electrodes, the second reference voltage being different from the first reference voltage, a driving signal generation circuit that receive a first noise voltage and a second noise voltage generated based on the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage and alternately selects the first noise voltage and the second noise voltage as a driving signal, and a receiving circuit that receives the driving signal, a touch sensing signal generated based on the driving signal from a third electrode arranged on the line on which touch sensing is performed, among the sensing electrodes, and generates a sensing voltage based on the touch sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heejin Lee, Jinbong Kim, Sanho Byun, Jinchul Lee, Yunrae Jo
  • Patent number: 11960687
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a touch panel includes steps of sequentially forming a metal layer and a blackening layer on a base layer in a multi-chamber, patterning the metal layer and the blackening layer in a mesh pattern, and etching the metal layer and the blackening layer to form a metal mesh electrode with the blackening layer formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Jin Noh, Ki Joon Park, Jungu Lee
  • Patent number: 11960664
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen which communicates with a position detection sensor through electromagnetic induction, including a coil, a columnar magnetic core including a through hole in an axial direction of the magnetic core, a capacitor constituting a resonant circuit together with the coil, and a rod-shaped core body inserted through the through hole of the magnetic core, in which the magnetic core includes a front portion, a back portion, and a middle portion interposed between the front portion and the back portion, an outside diameter of the middle portion is smaller than an outside diameter of the front portion of the magnetic core and an outside diameter of the back portion of the magnetic core, and the coil is wound around the middle portion of the magnetic core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11963414
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a display area on which an image is displayed, a substrate, and an electrode located over the substrate and disposed in the display area; and a camera photographing a front of the display panel without being exposed to the front surface of the display panel, being disposed under the display area of the display panel, and overlapping with a first area in the display area, wherein the electrode overlaps with the first area, and wherein the electrode comprises a semi-transmissive layer positioned over the substrate, an optical path compensation layer positioned on the semi-transmissive layer, and a metal layer positioned on the optical path compensation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoyoung Jeong, Harkjin Kim
  • Patent number: 11954282
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to methods and computing devices for determining a distance of an input device from a surface of a computing device. In one example, a method comprises receiving a plurality of input device signals via the input device. A portion of the input device signals are used to determine an effective voltage of the input device. Adjusted input device signals are generated by adjusting another portion of input device signals using the effective voltage of the input device. The method further comprises providing the adjusted input device signals as an input to a distance model, and receiving and outputting the distance of the input device from the surface of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Igor Grebnev, Jonathan Westhues
  • Patent number: 11954276
    Abstract: A touch panel including an oxide semiconductor film having conductivity is provided. The touch panel includes a transistor, a second insulating film, and a touch sensor. The transistor includes a gate electrode; a gate insulating film; a first oxide semiconductor film; a source electrode and a drain electrode; a first insulating film; and a second oxide semiconductor film. The second insulating film is over the second oxide semiconductor film so that the second oxide semiconductor film is positioned between the first insulating film and the second insulating film. The touch sensor includes a first electrode and a second electrode. One of the first and second electrodes includes the second oxide semiconductor film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hajime Kimura, Masami Jintyou, Yasuharu Hosaka, Naoto Goto, Takahiro Iguchi, Daisuke Kurosaki, Junichi Koezuka
  • Patent number: 11951833
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive pixel data of an interior of a vehicle. The processor may be configured to process the pixel data arranged as video frames, perform computer vision operations to detect objects in the video frames, extract characteristics about the objects detected, associate movement of a body part to a particular person and generate a control signal in response to the movement of the body part. A device is configured to operate in a locked mode that prevents input when the vehicle is in motion. The control signal is configured to enable the device to receive the input when the device is in the locked mode. The control signal may be generated only when the particular person associated with the movement corresponds to an occupant in the vehicle that is not a driver of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Ambarella International LP
    Inventor: I-Chieh Wu
  • Patent number: 11954324
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device comprising: a communication unit comprising communication circuitry configured to communicate with an input device; a camera; and at least one processor operably connected to the communication unit and the camera, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: determine whether a condition for generating a virtual input interface is satisfied, generate the virtual input interface on based on the determination, acquire information about the movement of the input device through the communication unit and/or the camera, and transmit, to the input device, feedback information about the movement of the input device, generated on the virtual input interface, through the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungnyun Kim, Hyunjun Kim, Yongsang Yun, Heonjun Ha, Chanmin Park
  • Patent number: 11953952
    Abstract: An input device includes a touch plate having a central axis and a top surface with three outer points evenly spaced away from the central axis. A touch sensor is used to detect a user touch on the top surface at the first outer point, and a support mechanism supports the touch plate and is configured to translate the touch plate at the second and third outer points upon application of the user touch and translation of the touch plate at the first outer point. Translation of the three outer points is substantially equal along the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Brett W. Degner, Thomas R. Matzinger, Bradley J. Hamel, Ryan P. Brooks, Scott J. Krahn, Arka P. Roy
  • Patent number: 11954288
    Abstract: In some examples, touch data can include noise. Machine learning techniques, such as gated recurrent units and convolutional neural networks can be used to mitigate noise present in touch data. In some examples, a gated recurrent unit stage and a convolutional neural network stage can be arranged in series, such as by providing the output of the gated recurrent unit as input to the convolutional neural network. The gated recurrent unit can remove noise caused by a first component of the electronic device and the convolutional neural network can remove noise caused by a second component of the electronic device, for example. Thus, together, the gated recurrent unit and the convolutional neural network can remove or substantially reduce the noise in the touch data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lichen Wang, Behrooz Shahsavari, Hojjat Seyed Mousavi, Nima Ferdosi, Baboo V. Gowreesunker
  • Patent number: 11957034
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a base substrate including a display region and a peripheral region that is a non-display region surrounding the display region, a plurality of data lines disposed in the display region on the base substrate and extending to the peripheral region, a bypass data line disposed in the display region and the peripheral region on the base substrate and electrically connected to at least one of the data lines, and a dummy pattern spaced apart from the bypass data line and disposed on a same layer as the bypass data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Jae Jeong, Jae-Yong Jang, Gyung-Soon Park, Kyung-Hoon Chung, Chong-Chul Chai
  • Patent number: 11954270
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including an inner space, a hole formed through the housing to the internal space, a stylus pen insertable into the internal space through the hole, wherein the stylus pen includes a first wireless communication circuit and a wireless charging receiver circuit, a wireless charging transmitter circuit positioned inside the housing and configured to provide charging to the wireless charging receiver circuit when the stylus pen is inserted into the inner space, a second wireless communication circuit positioned inside the housing, at processor operatively connected to the wireless charging transmitter circuit and the second wireless communication circuit, and at least one memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein when executed, cause the processor to detect whether the stylus pen is inserted into the inner space, and start to provide charging for a first duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byunghoon Kang, Joohoon Lee, Changbyung Park, Jongwu Baek, Hyunsuk Choi
  • Patent number: 11954305
    Abstract: The present application discloses an operation method of an interactive flat panel. The method includes starting a slide play mode of the interactive flat panel, displaying a play mode interface of a slide document and an interface of an annotation application on a display screen of the interactive flat panel, wherein the interface of the annotation application is a transparent layer covering the interface of the slide document, and the play mode interface plays a first image of the slide document, and receiving, via a touch sensing device of the interactive flat panel, a touch operation on the interface of the annotation application, wherein the touch operation is a sliding operation of one or more fingers on the interface of the annotation application, and the sliding operation is a horizontal or vertical sliding action relative to a border of the interface of the annotation application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventors: Ruiqiang Wu, Zeming Cai
  • Patent number: 11954284
    Abstract: Provided is a position detection circuit that uses a touch sensor of a capacitance type including sensor electrodes to detect a first position indicated by a first indicator that communicates with the touch sensor to indicate the first position and a second position indicated by a second indicator that indicates the second position without communicating with the touch sensor, the position detection circuit including a first detection circuit that detects a touch of the second indicator to an input surface arranged on the touch sensor, a second detection circuit that detects the first indicator when proximity information indicating a proximity of the first indicator to the touch sensor is equal to or greater than a threshold, and a changing circuit that changes the threshold to a larger value when the first detection circuit detects the touch compared to when the first detection circuit does not detect the touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Nomura
  • Patent number: 11954398
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments of the disclosure comprises: a foldable housing, a flexible display, a communication circuit, a sensor module, a processor, and a memory. The memory can store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to sense whether an event configured to display a user interface has occurred, identify an angle between a first housing and a second housing using the sensor module, determine, based on the identified angle, at least one area for displaying the user interface from among at least one edge area or folding area of the flexible display, and control the display to display the user interface in the determined at least one area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taeyong Moon, Sangheon Kim, Wooyoung Park, Youngseung Seo, Gisoo Lee, Jiwoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11952304
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to forming methods, systems, apparatuses and resulting displays that represent improvements in various key areas. The disclosed methods, systems and apparatuses can include a backing configured to support the glass substrate. In one embodiment, the backing can comprise a plurality of linkages. The one or more of the plurality of linkages are selectively moveable to interface with and correspond to a radius of curvature of the curved portion of the glass substrate. However, other embodiments contemplate segments, mesh or other construction for the backing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventor: James Edward McGinnis
  • Patent number: 11954257
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed relating to providing haptic feedback in a stylus while the stylus crosses a gap between two displays. In one example, a method comprises detecting one or more haptic triggering criteria, and at least on condition of detecting the one or more haptic triggering criteria, actuating the haptic feedback component to produce haptic output. Using a width of the gap between the displays, a stylus velocity, and a stylus direction, a crossing time for the stylus tip to cross the gap is calculated. At a first time after actuating the haptic feedback component, the method determines that the stylus tip crosses an inside edge of one of the displays. At least on condition of determining that the tip of the stylus crosses an inside edge of a display, the method continues to actuate the haptic feedback component for the crossing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Shoham Dekel, Uri Ron, Assaf Bar-Ness
  • Patent number: 11947754
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a capacitive touch screen device, a reading method thereof, and a display device. A plurality of pixel units is divided into a plurality of touch detection regions. A touch sensing unit is configured for each touch detection region to detect charges in the touch detection region, thereby reducing a number of touch sensing units and independently collecting the charge detected by each touch sensor unit, further improving sensing accuracy. A plurality of read lines is added to correspond to each column of read units, simplifying in-plane lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sijia Wu, Zhitao Lu
  • Patent number: 11947760
    Abstract: A display device with a position input function includes a pixel electrode, a common electrode, position detection electrodes, a position detection line, a pixel connection line, and a shield electrode. The common electrode is overlapped with the pixel electrode on an upper layer side or a lower layer side. The position detection electrodes are formed by dividing the common electrode by a partition opening and form a capacitance with a position input body and detect an input position. The position detection line is arranged on an upper layer side or a lower layer side with the common electrode and connected to the position detection electrode. The pixel connection line extends in parallel with the partition opening and is connected to the pixel electrode. The shield electrode extends overlapping with the partition opening and is on a same layer as the position detection line and connected to the position detection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11947756
    Abstract: A correction unit for use in a sensor system, the sensor system comprising a force sensor configured to output a sensor signal indicative of a temporary mechanical distortion of a material under an applied force, the correction unit configured, based on the sensor signal, to: estimate an effect of the applied force on how the material will return towards an undistorted form upon a substantial reduction or removal of the applied force; and generate a corrected signal based on the estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.
    Inventors: Josh Sanz-Robinson, Siddharth Maru, Tejasvi Das
  • Patent number: 11947725
    Abstract: A force sense presentation device that presents a force sense force by forming a dynamic quantity distribution on a skin of a person includes a plurality of stimulation elements and a controller. Each of the plurality of stimulation elements stimulates the skin of the person. The controller controls the plurality of stimulation elements such that a dynamic quantity distribution for generating a target force sense is formed on the skin. An interval between the adjacent stimulation elements is an interval enabling presentation of a spatially continuous force sense. The force sense generates a self-kinesthetic sense of the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY
    Inventors: Arata Horie, Masahiko Inami
  • Patent number: 11945969
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an anti-glare film including: a light-transmitting substrate; and a hard coating layer containing a binder resin and inorganic fine particles dispersed in the binder resin, wherein the anti-glare film has a specific reflection intensity ratio (R), and a polarizing plate and a display device including the anti-glare film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Hanna Lee, Jung Hyun Seo, Yeongrae Chang, Jaeyoung Kim, Intaek Song
  • Patent number: 11947766
    Abstract: A touch panel device includes a first conductive film having first and second regions, at least a part of the first conductive film between the first and the second regions being removed, a second conductive film laminated on the first conductive film across a gap, first and second terminals that output signals, a first electrode electrically connected to the first terminal, a second electrode facing the first electrode across the first region, a first resistor provided on the first conductive film in the second region and having a pair of electrodes, the pair of electrodes facing each other across a first resistance region in the first conductive film, one of the electrodes being electrically connected to the second electrode, the other of the electrodes being electrically connected to the second terminal, and a first switch electrically connecting the first conductive film to the second conductive film, in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuta Nakamura, Yutaka Ueno, Masaya Morohashi, Takuya Ozawa, Hideyuki Hagihara, Yuji Makiuchi