Touch Panel Patents (Class 345/173)
  • Patent number: 12266312
    Abstract: A display driving system, configured to control a scan operation of a display, comprising: a scan control circuit, configured to receive a start position signal and to generate a switch selecting signal according to the scan start position signal; and a scan switch circuit, coupled to the display and the scan control circuit, and comprising a plurality of switches, configured to turn on one of the switches according to the switch selecting signal, to control the display to start the scan operation at a scan start position; wherein the display comprises N scan lines, wherein the scan start position is one of the scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Wei-Hong Du, Chuan-Chien Hsu, Han-Shui Hsueh, Yen-Hua Lin
  • Patent number: 12267454
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the mobile terminal are discussed. The mobile terminal includes a wireless communication unit configured to communicate with a display device external to the mobile terminal, a first display unit, and a controller configured to control the wireless communication unit and the first display unit. The controller generates a first input process and a second input process different from the first input process. Further, in response to the second input process, the controller receives a user input signal from the display device, and outputs a second input method editor (IME) for displaying on a second display unit of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Hyeongkoo Park
  • Patent number: 12265748
    Abstract: According to an example embodiment, an electronic device outputs, on a second display screen, a page layout output on a first display screen along with another page layout grouped together with the page layout in response to a screen switch from the first display screen to the second display screen having a greater display area than a display area of the first display screen, and switches the grouped page layouts in response to a swipe input being detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gisoo Lee, Sangheon Kim, Changdo Kim, Taeyong Moon, Hyeongtaek Im, Yeunwook Lim
  • Patent number: 12267447
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application is a mobile terminal having a flexible display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngil Kim, Sungdo Kim, Jiwoong Yang
  • Patent number: 12265687
    Abstract: A computer system displays, in display area outside of a system user interface region, a first user interface. In accordance with a determination that the system user interface region is displayed in a first display state, the computer system displays the system user interface region with a first visual edge treatment and displays a background of an interior portion of the system user interface region with a first appearance. In accordance with a determination that the system user interface region is displayed in a second display state distinct from the first display state, the computer system displays the system user interface region with a second visual edge treatment that is distinct from the first visual edge treatment and displays the background of the interior portion of the system user interface region with the first appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Chanaka G. Karunamuni
  • Patent number: 12265669
    Abstract: A pressure touch pad, a pressure touch pad assembly, and an electronic device are provided. The pressure touch pad includes a printed circuit board, a pressure sensor, a pressure sensor bracket, and a touch controller. The printed circuit board is stacked on the pressure sensor bracket, a touch electrode layer is provided on the printed circuit board, the touch electrode layer is configured to output a touch sensing signal when a finger touches the touch pad; the pressure sensor is configured to deform and output a pressure sensing signal when the finger presses the pressure touch pad; and the pressure sensor bracket includes a reinforced region, a non-reinforced region, and a flexible arm, the reinforced region is fixedly connected to the printed circuit board, the non-reinforced region is fixedly connected to an outer case, and the flexible arm is connected to the reinforced region and the non-reinforced region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yiping Guo
  • Patent number: 12265672
    Abstract: A touch detection device may include a touch area including a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of detecting electrodes, a plurality of touch driving integrated circuits (ICs) electrically connected to and supplying driving signals to the driving electrodes, a plurality of touch detecting ICs electrically connected to the detecting electrodes and receiving touch detection signals from the detecting electrodes, and a touch control IC controlling the touch driving ICs and the touch detecting ICs. The touch area may be divided into a plurality of sub-touch areas, the touch driving ICs may be provided to correspond to the plurality of sub-touch areas, respectively, in a one-to-one manner, and the plurality of touch detecting ICs may be provided to correspond to the sub-touch areas, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jung Hak Kim
  • Patent number: 12265676
    Abstract: A touch sampling control module, a touch sampling control module method, and a display touch device. The touch sampling control module includes a touch sampling flag generation circuitry and a sampling time control circuitry. The touch sampling flag generation circuitry is configured to generate a touch sampling flag in accordance with a fluctuation time point of a data voltage applied to a touch display panel. The sampling time control circuitry is configured to control a touch sampling time in accordance with the touch sampling flag, so that the touch sampling time is different from the fluctuation time point of the data voltage. The data voltage fluctuates when an absolute value of a voltage change of the data voltage is larger than a voltage change threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ping Luo, Guiyu Zhang, Zhiqiang Wang, Hang Min
  • Patent number: 12265704
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising one or more touches on a region of the touchscreen display that includes the application content of the first application. In response to detecting the input comprising the one or more touches, the electronic device, in accordance with a determination that the one or more touches correspond to a system gesture for switching applications, replaces display of the first application with a second application without delivering information corresponding to the one or more touches to the first application; and in accordance with a determination that the touches do not correspond to a system gesture, delivers the information corresponding to the one or more touches to the first application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Joshua H. Shaffer, Kenneth L. Kocienda, Imran A. Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 12265660
    Abstract: Disclosed are a haptic feedback method, a driver circuit of a haptic feedback film layer, and a haptic feedback apparatus. The haptic feedback method includes determining a touch position corresponding to a touch operation received by the haptic feedback film layer; determining a target driving signal corresponding to the touch position, wherein the target driving signal includes a plurality of sub-signals with different signal parameters; and driving the haptic feedback film layer to vibrate through the target driving signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuju Chen
  • Patent number: 12259751
    Abstract: A display control device includes: a processor configured to: acquire a folding angle of a foldable display portion; and display a receiving portion configured to receive input by a user, on the display portion in different modes according to the folding angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Momoko Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 12260033
    Abstract: A control unit of an operation detection device detects an operation on a ring-shaped guide member is started on the basis of a detection result of a sensor panel, excludes a resting region corresponding to a region where the finger rested on an upright portion can be positioned from a region where a touch is enabled before the start of the operation on the ring-shaped guide member is detected, and includes the resting region in the region where the touch is enabled after the start of the operation on the ring-shaped guide member is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Amano
  • Patent number: 12260047
    Abstract: Touch sensing device and touch sensing method are disclosed. A touch sensing device according to the present disclosure may include a receiving circuit configured to receive a first sensing value generated in a differential mode using a first input signal input to the first sensing electrode and a second input signal input to the second sensing electrode; and a noise determination circuit configured to receive a reference sensing value generated using the second input signal and determining the amount of noise of the first sensing value using the reference sensing value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youngeun Lee, Chinwan Lee, Sangmin Choi
  • Patent number: 12260152
    Abstract: An audio output method applied to a mobile terminal, the screen of the mobile terminal comprises a first screen area provided with a first vibration unit, and a second screen area provided with a second vibration unit. The method includes: detecting a first folding state of the first screen area relative to the second screen area; and controlling working states of the first vibration unit and the second vibration unit according to the first folding state in a scenario that audio output is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianxing Shi
  • Patent number: 12260456
    Abstract: Various implementations directed to price time priority queue routing for a multi-dimension map tile data exchange linked database are provided. In one implementation, a method may include receiving origin location data and destination location data. The method may also include generating routes based on the origin location data and the destination location data. The method may further include determining virtual hubs along the routes, where the virtual hubs include a first virtual hub based on the origin location data and a second virtual hub based on the destination location data. In addition, the method may include receiving market depth data for a geolocation exchange for the geolocation exchange units based on the routes. The method may also include selecting an optimized route of the routes for the geolocation exchange units based on an objective function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: CIRCLESX LLC
    Inventor: Erik Mowery Simpson
  • Patent number: 12260041
    Abstract: A touch panel and a touch driving method are provided. The touch panel includes a touch sensing unit set, wherein the touch sensing unit set includes touch sensing units; a driving signal line set, wherein the driving signal set includes driving signal lines, and one of the driving signal lines is electrically connected to one of the touch sensing units; and a touch circuit corresponding to the driving signal line set, wherein the touch circuit includes a plurality of thin film transistors (TFT), gates of the thin film transistors are connected to each other, sources/drains of the thin film transistors are connected to each other, and the drain/source of the thin film transistors is electrically connected to one of the driving signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignees: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanan Wang, Yalong Ma, Zengjian Jin
  • Patent number: 12260143
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first screen and a second screen. A high-power sensor of the electronic device is in a disabled state, and a low-power sensor of the electronic device is in an enabled state. The electronic device includes a foldable device. Based on this, after the electronic device receives a screen-on trigger signal from the low-power sensor or a processor of the electronic device, the electronic device determines a to-be-lit-up first target screen based on the screen-on trigger signal, and then controls the first target screen to be lit up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing Cheng, Qi Sun, Huajian Tian, Xiaoxiao Chen, Qingyu Cui
  • Patent number: 12259758
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates a display device including a first support member, a second member and a flexible display module. The second support member has a gap with the first support member. The flexible display module is arranged on a first surface of the first support member and a third surface of the second support member. The first surface includes a first mating surface close, the third surface includes a third mating surface, and the first and third mating surfaces are arranged symmetrically. A distance from the first mating surface to the flexible display module increases as a distance from the first mating surface to the second support member decreases, and a distance from the third mating surface to the flexible display module increases as a distance from the third mating surface to the first support member decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Cui, Boyang Shi
  • Patent number: 12262604
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display panel and a display device. According to the display panel, a fracture is provided on each gate signal line, so that the each gate signal line does not transversely extend through a display area. In this way, an abnormal invalid gate circuit area in a range of the display area at a left part below a dashed line formed by connecting the plurality of the fractures does not affect transmission of a gate signal, thereby reducing a reject ratio of products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventor: Chaofan Liu
  • Patent number: 12262116
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a vibration device and a control substrate for outputting vibration. The control substrate controls the vibration device to vibrate during a period including a readout period of an image signal from an imaging device in an image capturing sequence. A vibration direction of the vibration device is arranged so as to be parallel with a direction of a readout wiring line (vertical signal line) of the imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12262111
    Abstract: While an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface is in a locked, passcode-protected state, the device displays a lock screen user interface on the display. The lock screen user interface includes a plurality of restricted application launch icons, each restricted application launch icon corresponding to an application. The device also detects user input to activate a respective restricted application launch icon; and, in response to detecting the user input to activate the respective restricted application launch icon, starts a restricted session for a respective application that corresponds to the respective restricted application launch icon, wherein the respective application is configured to generate one or more content items while in the restricted session, and maintains the device in the locked, passcode-protected state for applications in the device other than the respective application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Richard R. Dellinger, Nikhil Bhogal, Greg Christie, Scott J. Forstall
  • Patent number: 12260055
    Abstract: Disclosed by embodiments of the present application are a touch display panel and a touch display device, in a display area of a special-shaped touch unit, a first special-shaped touch lead is connected with a first special-shaped touch electrode block or a first touch electrode block, and a second special-shaped touch lead is connected with a second special-shaped touch electrode block or a second touch electrode block, and the first special-shaped touch lead and the second special-shaped touch lead cross and are insulated from each other to form a special-shaped touch compensation capacitor, thereby avoiding a channel of the first touch electrode or the second touch electrode is cut off due to the slotting or edge cutting of the special-shaped touch unit, that is, avoiding the poor touch performance of the special-shaped touch unit, and ensuring the touch performance of the special-shaped touch unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiangmei Xiao, Shengzu Zhu
  • Patent number: 12260039
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to displaying a visual representation of a stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Allen Anzures, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Nicholas V. King, Kevin Lynch, Gregory Novick, Daniel Trent Preston, Monica Jenkins, Lawrence Y. Yang
  • Patent number: 12260144
    Abstract: In some exemplary processes for controlling an external device using a computer-generated reality interface, a view of a physical environment that includes the external device is provided through the display, and information specifying a function of the external device is received from the external device. While the view of the physical environment is being provided, an affordance corresponding to the function is displayed at a position on the display that overlays at least a portion of the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Justin D. Stoyles, Michael Kuhn
  • Patent number: 12262583
    Abstract: A display device includes a bending area at which the display device is bendable; an organic light emitting element disposed on the substrate; an encapsulation layer covering an upper surface and a side surface of the organic light emitting element; and a bending area protection layer covering the bending area of the substrate. The upper surface of the encapsulation layer includes a nano structure defined by nano sized protrusions and depressions of the upper surface, and along the substrate, and the bending area is disposed separated from the encapsulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Wook Kwon, Woo Yong Sung, Hyoung Sub Lee
  • Patent number: 12251639
    Abstract: A game system according to various embodiments of the subject disclosure may include a game piece and a game piece manipulator configured to hold the game piece. The game piece manipulator may include a first surface comprising a first electrically conductive portion and a controller configured to control an electric stimulus emitted by the game piece manipulator. The game piece manipulator may emit the electric stimulus by the first electrically conductive portion. The game piece may further include a power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Inventor: Jeffrey Scott Larson
  • Patent number: 12254140
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for sharing a content item from a secondary computing device to a primary computing device based on a tilt position of the secondary computing device. A sensor on the secondary computing device determines that the secondary computing device has a first tilt position that is associated with a non-sharing mode. The sensor senses that the secondary computing device is tilting from the first tilt position towards a second tilt position that is associated with a full sharing mode. In response, the content item is shared with the primary computing device. An amount of the content item that is shared continues to be increased as long as the sensor continues to sense that the secondary computing device is tilting. Once the secondary computing device has reached the second tilt position, the entire content item is shared with the primary computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth P. Hinckley, Michel Pahud, Nathalie M. Riche, Molly Nicholas, Chunjong Park, Nicolai Marquardt
  • Patent number: 12254151
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a touch sensor, a processor, and a memory. The processor may determine a touch input from a user as at least one of a force-touch input or a long-touch input, based on received touch data, determine whether a result of determining the touch data matches an intention of the user, store data that does not match the intention of the user as a result of determination among the touch data in the memory, and determine a type of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based pre-learning model to be used in the electronic device, based on touch input accuracy and the data that does not match the intention of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junhyuk Lee, Hyunbin Park, Seungjin Yang, Jin Choi
  • Patent number: 12254144
    Abstract: The present application discloses a touch display panel and a display device. In the touch display panel, a driver chip includes a plurality of first output terminals and a plurality of second output terminals; the first output terminals output display signals during a display stage, and the second output terminals are connected to touch traces in a one-to-one correspondence. Each of detecting lines is connected to an end of a corresponding one of the touch traces close to the driver chip, and a plurality of the detecting lines extend from two sides of the driver chip along a direction of the driver chip away from touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jian Ye
  • Patent number: 12254152
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure may provide a touch display device in which in a structure in which touch electrodes are separately disposed in a first sub area and a second sub area of an active area, X-touch electrodes disposed in the first sub area and the second sub area are electrically connected with each other, and Y-touch electrodes are electrically separated from each other. It is possible to reduce the load by a structure in which touch electrodes are divided for each sub area and to reduce the number of channels by driving the X-touch electrodes in the first sub area and second sub area by the same number of channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruda Rhe, DeukSu Lee, JaeGyun Lee
  • Patent number: 12254135
    Abstract: Simulation of a physical interface utilizing touch tracking, force sensing, and haptic feedback is presented herein. A system tracks, via a touch sensing device of a tactile sensor of the system, a movement of a finger across the tactile sensor; in response to a location of the movement being determined to correspond to an interactive surface of the tactile sensor, the system generates, at the location, a first haptic feedback representing a defined type of simulated physical interface; based on the defined type of simulated physical interface, the system detects a force that has been applied to the tactile sensor; and in response to the force being determined to satisfy a defined force condition representing that an action is to be initiated, the system generates, via the interactive surface, a second haptic feedback representing that the action has been initiated by the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Sensel, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Rajanna, Darren Lochun, Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, Tomer Moscovich
  • Patent number: 12254788
    Abstract: The present invention provides a product with an operation display panel incorporated therein, which naturally harmonizes with the environment to not create visual noise for a user and allow the user to operate the operation display panel intuitively while feeling a natural material. A thin layer, made of a natural wood, natural fiber, natural leather, or natural stone, or a resin, synthetic fiber, synthetic leather or artificial stone created by imitating the appearance and touch of a natural material, is provided on the peripheral surface of a housing so that the thin layer covers at least the entire front surface of a display panel. A touch sensor incorporated comes in contact with the front surface of the panel. The thickness of the thin layer and the luminance of the panel are designed to allow the user to view the content displayed on the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: MUI LAB, INC.
    Inventors: Kazunori Oki, Nobuyasu Hirobe, Fumiaki Shibayama, Shinji Horii, Takanori Yamamoto, Makoto Nomura
  • Patent number: 12254162
    Abstract: Provided are a touch sensing unit and a display device including the same. The touch sensing unit includes a substrate including glass or a polymer resin, and a sensor electrode layer including sensor electrodes and sensor lines disposed on the substrate and a sensor insulating film configured to cover the sensor electrodes and the sensor lines. The sensor electrodes emit an electromagnetic wave according to transmission signals of the sensor lines. The sensor electrodes transmit reception signals to the sensor lines according to the electromagnetic wave received from the outside. The electromagnetic wave has a frequency of 10 GHz to 100 GHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Won Sang Park
  • Patent number: 12254814
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a drive apparatus and a display apparatus. The drive apparatus includes: a first controller configured to generate and output a data control synchronization signal after being energized, the data control synchronization signal is configured to control whether to load a data voltage onto a data line in a touch display panel to be connected; and a second controller connected with the first controller, and configured to directly output a first set level signal and a second set level signal before being energized; where the first set level signal is configured to control the selection of a display drive mode from a plurality of drive modes supported by the touch display panel to be connected; and the second set level signal is configured to control the output of a drive signal corresponding to the display drive mode to the touch display panel to be connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: Chongqing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Wang, Kangpeng Dang, Hong Chen, Ming Gao, Xiong Guo, Kuan Li, Zhongli Luo, Xingyu Pu, Yuansheng Tang, Hebing Xu, Cheng Zuo, Yaokun Zheng
  • Patent number: 12254156
    Abstract: A method of operating a touch screen panel includes initiating a communication between the panel and an active pen and determining a touch zone of the panel. The touch zone includes communication channels that are operating by touch while bi-directional communication is occurring between the panel and active pen. Communications channels within the touch zone are disabled and communication between the panel and the active pen can occur while the communications channels within the touch zone are disabled. When it is determined that the communication between the panel and the active pen has stopped, communications channels continue to be disabled within the touch zone for a set time delay while no communication occurs between the panel and the active pen. After the set delay time, the communication channels within the touch zone are enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
    Inventors: Bin Fan, Pengcheng Wen
  • Patent number: 12255863
    Abstract: The present technology includes systems and methods for managing electronic messages on a display device. A vertical list of graphical elements each corresponding to an electronic message can be displayed on the display device and user input can be detected. A graphical element can be associated with an attached electronic file or an embedded link. The user input includes an indication to select a particular electronic file or embedded link among the graphical elements. In response to the gesture, the display device can display a preview of the electronic file or embedded link without opening the electronic file or embedded link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: Whitehead Investments, LLC
    Inventors: Erik N. Lukas, Gregory O. Peet
  • Patent number: 12256622
    Abstract: A display device includes: an electronic module; and an electronic panel including: a base layer including an upper surface having a recessed portion and a dam portion; and an alignment mark disposed on the base layer, wherein the electronic panel includes: a first area including the electronic module; a second area surrounding at least a portion of the first area in a plan view; and an active area surrounding at least a portion of the second area in a plan view, wherein: the recessed portion and the dam portion are disposed in the second area, the second area includes a pattern area surrounding the first area and a line area surrounding the pattern area, and the alignment mark includes a conductive pattern and is disposed in the pattern area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jongsoo Lee, Jong-Won Choo
  • Patent number: 12256036
    Abstract: A mobile terminal comprises: a body frame that is expandable in a first direction and shrinkable in a second direction; a flexible display in which the area of a display unit positioned on the front surface of the body frame is expanded according to the expansion of the body frame; a driving unit that changes the size of the body; a sensing unit that senses a user command; and a control unit that controls the driving unit to expand or shrink the body frame on the basis of the user command sensed by the sensing unit. Thus, a screen of the display unit positioned on the front surface can be expanded through size adjustment. Because a part of the screen always faces the outside, a separate secondary display unit is not required, and the screen may be expanded step by step as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ilhyun Kim, Changhwan Choi
  • Patent number: 12247332
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and techniques for seamless and scalable piezoresistive matrix-based intelligent textile development using digital flat-bed and circular knitting machines. Disclosed embodiments allow for combining and customizing functional conductive and polyester and spandex yarns, thus allowing for designing the aesthetics and architecting and engineering both the electrical and mechanical properties of the pressure sensing textile. In addition, by incorporating a melting fiber, disclosed embodiments allow for shaping and personalizing a three-dimensional piezoresistive fabric structure that can conform to the human body through thermoforming principles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Joseph A. Paradiso, Irmandy Wicaksono
  • Patent number: 12248642
    Abstract: A method for sensing contactless touch using a touch sensor structure that senses contacting touch by operating some of touch electrode lines operating as touch driving electrodes and some of touch electrode lines operating as touch sensing electrodes upon contacting touch driving, as touch driving electrodes for sensing contactless touch, in a contactless touch driving period distinct from a contacting touch driving period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeonghoon Lee, DeukSu Lee, Sangkyu Kim, SeungRok Shin, Yoonnara Jang
  • Patent number: 12250334
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments of the disclosure may include: a first housing, a second housing, a hinge assembly comprising a hinge disposed between the first housing and the second housing, and including a hinge plate and a hinge module disposed at both ends of the hinge plate in a longitudinal direction of the hinge plate, a first circuit board disposed in the first housing, a second circuit board disposed in the second housing, a flexible display disposed on the first housing, the second housing, and the hinge assembly, a first waterproof member comprising a waterproof material disposed between the first housing and the flexible display, a first adhesive member comprising an adhesive disposed between the hinge module and the flexible display, an electrical component disposed between the first waterproof member and the first adhesive member, an electrical component waterproof member comprising a waterproof material disposed between the electrical component and the flexible display, a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoung Jung, Woosung Chun, Jungchul An, Seungki Choi, Hyunju Hong
  • Patent number: 12248647
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, a plurality of control signal lines, a plurality of first reading signal lines, and a plurality of second reading signal lines. The plurality of control signal lines are disposed on a first surface of the substrate and spaced from each other. The plurality of first reading signal lines are disposed on a second surface of the substrate and spaced from each other. The second surface is opposite to the first surface. The plurality of second reading signal lines are disposed on the first surface of the substrate. Each of the plurality of second reading signal lines is located between adjacent two of the plurality of control signal lines. An electronic device including the above touch panel is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventor: Chun-Fu Lin
  • Patent number: 12248340
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10) according to the present application includes: a detection unit (151) that detects a stretching operation on a display device having flexibility so as to be able to be stretched from a state of being wound in a tubular shape; and a display control unit (153) that displays a plurality of pieces of content in parallel in a stretching region stretched by the stretching operation, in accordance with a mode of the stretching operation detected by the detection unit (151). Furthermore, the detection unit (151) detects a size of the stretching region that changes in accordance with the stretching operation. The display control unit (153) displays the plurality of pieces of content in parallel in the stretching region in accordance with the size of the stretching region detected by the detection unit (151).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuya Otomasu
  • Patent number: 12248669
    Abstract: To allow a user to more intuitively grasp processing executed in accordance with an operation. There is provided a control device including: a reception unit that receives an operation on at least one operation unit, and a control unit that sets, as a specific function, a function of executing at least one processing in accordance with contents of the operation received by the reception unit, and controls a notification unit to perform a notification in accordance with each of processing executed by the specific function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Keiji Nomura, Toshihito Takai, Kenji Murata, Keita Nakane
  • Patent number: 12248650
    Abstract: A touch structure includes first touch electrodes with first electrode blocks and an adapter bridge and second touch electrodes with second electrode blocks, first and second touch electrodes are grid-shaped structures with grid lines, and the grid lines of the adapter bridge and the first and second electrode blocks are adapter lines and channel lines; the adapter bridge is connected to a guide portion overlapping with channel line(s) of a boundary of the first electrode block or the second touch electrode, partial adapter line overlaps with partial channel line of a boundary of the first electrode block and/or the second touch electrode; the adapter line connected to the guide portion overlaps with partial channel line of the boundary of the first electrode block or the second touch electrode; at least partial edge of orthographic projection of the guide portion is outside edge of orthographic projection of the channel line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanqi Zhang, Yi Zhang, Chang Luo, Shun Zhang, Tianci Chen
  • Patent number: 12245889
    Abstract: An ultrasound imaging system (10) comprising probe (20), a processing unit (30) for processing an image, a display (50) for visualizing the image, and a control panel (40) for configuring and controlling the processing unit. The control panel comprises input control elements (41) and a touch pad (42). The touch pad is a multi-touch device providing multi-touch information of at least two or more touch of user on the touch pad for determining a gesture and an associated system function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SUPERSONIC IMAGINE
    Inventors: Jessica Bercoff, Matthieu Valentin, Pascal Roncalez
  • Patent number: 12248644
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement for a touch sensor includes a plurality of capacitive sensors, an ADC, a switch arrangement, and a controller. The capacitive sensors measure over a respective sampling period for detecting a touch event on a surface and provide an output. The ADC receives the output and determines a digital value over a conversion period. The switch arrangement selectively provides the output from the capacitive sensors to the ADC. The controller activates a first capacitive sensor to measure the capacitance for detecting a touch event, and activates a second capacitive sensor for detecting a touch event such that the respective sampling periods are at least partly concurrent. The controller also controls the switch arrangement to cause the ADC to receive the output of the first capacitive sensor after its sampling time and receive the output of the second capacitive sensor after its sampling time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Chao Wan
  • Patent number: 12248353
    Abstract: A method of performing power saving control on a display device includes: generating, by a timing controller of the display device, a power saving start indication and a power saving end indication in response to changing of a refresh rate of the display device; receiving, by a source driver of the display device, the power saving start indication and the power saving end indication; in response to the power saving start indication, allowing a part of circuitry of the source driver to be powered down during a vertical blanking interval; and in response to the power saving end indication, allowing the powered down part of circuitry of the source driver to be woken up during the vertical blanking interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Hung-Yu Huang, Shu-Ming Chang, Chia-Hui Wang, Shiang-Wei Wang, Sheng-Wen Huang, Tsung-Yi Tsai
  • Patent number: 12242668
    Abstract: A method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, a display, an extremity tracking system, and a communication interface provided to communicate with a finger-wearable device. The method includes displaying a computer-generated object on the display. The method includes obtaining finger manipulation data from the finger-wearable device via the communication interface. The method includes determining a multi-finger gesture based on extremity tracking data from the extremity tracking system and the finger manipulation data. The method includes registering an engagement event with respect to the computer-generated object according to the multi-finger gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Aaron M. Burns, Adam G. Poulos, Arun Rakesh Yoganandan, Benjamin Hylak, Benjamin R. Blachnitzky, Nicolai Georg
  • Patent number: 12242688
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including a display panel that, in operation, displays an image or video, a touch sensor of a capacitive type and having a plurality of sensor electrodes, the touch sensor being arranged above the display panel separately with a gap between the touch sensor and the display panel, and an integrated circuit that, in operation, acquires a signal distribution correlated with a capacitance formed between an indicator approaching the touch sensor and the sensor electrodes, and performs signal processing on the signal distribution to detect the indicator, in which the integrated circuit, in operation, varies the signal processing according to a detection result of an overload on the touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Kitahara, Yuhi Hatano