Including Impedance Detection Patents (Class 345/174)
  • Patent number: 11968877
    Abstract: A transparent display device is provided, which may reduce loss of light transmittance due to a touch sensor and a touch line and may make sure of separating a touch sensor electrode of a touch sensor from a cathode electrode of a light emitting element. The transparent display device includes a substrate provided with a plurality of transmissive areas and a non-transmissive area including a plurality of light emission areas, a plurality of light emitting elements respectively disposed in the plurality of light emission areas on the substrate, including an anode electrode, a light emitting layer and a cathode electrode, a plurality of touch sensors respectively disposed in the plurality of transmissive areas on the substrate, including a touch sensor electrode, and a first undercut structure disposed along an edge of the transmissive area to separate the cathode electrode from the touch sensor electrode, including a plurality of eaves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeonggi Yun, Taehwan Kim, Jonghan Park, Yong-Il Kim
  • Patent number: 11967169
    Abstract: A capacitive fingerprint sensor is configured to be integrated in a display. The capacitive fingerprint sensor includes a plurality of transmitter electrodes. Each respective transmitter electrode including at least one transmitter conductor formed in a first metal layer of a sensor stack and disposed between pixels of a display. The capacitive fingerprint sensor further includes a plurality of receiver electrodes. Each respective receiver electrode including at least one receiver conductor formed in a second metal layer of a sensor stack and disposed between pixels of the display. The receiver electrodes have an orientation different from the transmitter electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Xi Chu, Guozhong Shen
  • Patent number: 11968318
    Abstract: In a control method for an electronic apparatus according to the present invention, in which a mobile terminal comprises a camera comprising a plurality of lenses and a first display unit combined to a case, the case comprising a first body where the mobile terminal is accommodated and a second body where a second display unit is arranged, the control method for an electronic apparatus comprises the steps of: displaying first screen information on the second display unit and displaying a preview screen on the first display unit in response to driving of the camera; detecting a pre-set touch input received by the first display unit; executing an expanded preview mode in response to the pre-set touch input, generating a control signal for displaying, on the second display unit, second screen information corresponding to a camera function related to the preview screen of the first display unit, and transmitting the control signal to the second display unit; and while the preview screen of the first display unit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyungrak Choi, Hyerim Ku, Eunyoung Noh, Seungmin Yang, Jieun Lee
  • Patent number: 11966552
    Abstract: A touch substrate manufacturing method, for manufacturing a target touch substrate to be assembled with a display substrate, is provided. A size of an active display region of the display substrate is a first preset size. The method includes: providing a touch substrate to be processed having a second preset size, the second preset size being greater than the first preset size; and cutting, in at least one cutting direction, the touch substrate to be processed to obtain the target touch substrate, the cutting direction being parallel to an extending direction of a touch channel on the touch substrate to be processed. A manufacturing method for touch module, a touch substrate and a touch module are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Tian, Xintao Wu, Zouming Xu, Chunjian Liu, Jie Lei, Shaoyi Zhan, Jie Wang, Jianying Zhang, Jiacheng Ding
  • Patent number: 11967585
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a first electrode, and a second electrode spaced from each other on the substrate, a first insulating layer on the first electrode, a first light emitting element between the first electrode and the second electrode, a second light emitting element on the first insulating layer and spaced from the first light emitting element, and a second insulating layer on the first insulating layer and covering at least a portion of the second light emitting element, wherein the first insulating layer includes at least one first opening penetrating the first insulating layer to expose a portion of the first electrode, the second insulating layer includes at least one second opening penetrating the second insulating layer to expose a portion of the first insulating layer, the at least one first opening and the at least one second opening do not overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bum Soo Kam, Eui Kang Heo
  • Patent number: 11966535
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including a display panel, an input sensor that is disposed on the display panel and that includes sensing electrodes, a master readout circuit that is electrically connected with a first portion of the sensing electrodes and that generates first reception signals corresponding to a signal received from the first portion of the sensing electrodes, and a slave readout circuit that is electrically connected with the a second portion of the sensing electrodes and that generates second reception signals corresponding to a signal received from the second portion of the sensing electrodes. The master readout circuit provides a synchronization signal to the slave readout circuit, and the slave readout circuit operates in response to the synchronization signal and provides a sensing signal corresponding to the second reception signals to the master readout circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sanghyun Lim, Youngsik Kim
  • Patent number: 11966543
    Abstract: An operating device contains a sensor surface, a signal generator for providing a control signal with a predetermined frequency for the sensor surface, an evaluation device which is configured to provide a sensor signal which is dependent on the capacitance of the sensor surface, and a control facility. In this process, the control facility is configured to determine measuring noise on the evaluation device at different frequencies and to select the frequency of the control signal in order to determine the sensor signal as a function of the determined measuring noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Dominik Stadler, Carsten Zei, Oliver Fischer, Florian Rötzer
  • Patent number: 11961822
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a plurality of emission areas respectively corresponding to a plurality of subpixels for displaying an image, a plurality of light emitting elements respectively located in the plurality of emission areas of a first surface of the substrate and respectively corresponding to the plurality of subpixels, a first planarization layer on the first surface of the substrate and covering the plurality of light emitting elements, and an array layer on the first planarization layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Joon Kim, Jung Hwan Hwang, Kye Uk Lee, Sang Jin Jeon
  • Patent number: 11960689
    Abstract: A touch-control display panel and a preparation method therefor, and a touch-control display apparatus. The touch-control display panel includes a substrate, a first metal layer provided on the substrate, an insulating layer provided at the side of the first metal layer away from the substrate, and a second metal layer provided at the side of the insulating layer away from the first metal layer, one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer comprises a plurality of connection bridges, and the other one comprises a first electrode, a second electrode and a through hole; at least one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer further comprises compensation electrodes surrounding the through hole; and the compensation electrodes comprise a first compensation electrode and a second compensation electrode, the surface of the first compensation electrode adjacent to the second compensation electrode is a first end face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cong Fan, Fan He, Kemeng Tong, Xiangdan Dong
  • Patent number: 11960670
    Abstract: A display panel, a touch control structure and a display device. The display panel includes a display structure layer and a touch control structure layer having a plurality of mesh pattern units in polygonal shapes composed of metal wires. The touch control structure layer includes a Boundary region, and each mesh pattern unit in the Boundary region is provided with a cut that disconnect the metal wires of the mesh pattern unit. The mesh pattern unit includes at least two parallel first sides. The cuts include consecutive cuts and the quantity of cuts in a set of consecutive cuts is less than or equal to three. The consecutive cuts are cuts provided on both the two sides of each mesh pattern unit of at least one mesh patterns units arranged continuously in a first direction and the first direction intersects the first side of each mesh pattern unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuefei Sun, Xinxing Wang, Liyan Liu, Jaegeon You
  • Patent number: 11960677
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sensor device includes a panel and a control circuit. The panel includes an insulating layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The control circuit including a first circuit including a timing control circuit and a first amplifier, and a second circuit including a detection circuit connected to a floating ground line. During a first sensing drive period, the first output unit outputs a first synchronization signal, the timing control circuit outputs a second synchronization signal, the first amplifier provides the amplified second synchronization signal to each of the floating ground line and the first electrode, and the detector reads a change in a sensor signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Takada, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kisho Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11960681
    Abstract: A method of capacitive sensing includes obtaining a capacitive touch profile from multiple receiver electrodes disposed in a sensing region of an input device and obtaining an active pen profile, different from the capacitive touch profile, from the multiple receiver electrodes. The method also includes adjusting, using the capacitive touch profile, the active pen profile to obtain a corrected active pen profile and determining a position of an active pen in the sensing region, using the corrected active pen profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Tom Vandermeijden, Guozhong Shen, Ching-Hsung Wang
  • Patent number: 11960676
    Abstract: A transparent display device with a touch sensor is provided, which may minimize or reduce loss of light transmittance due to a touch sensor and a touch line and may detect a defective touch sensor among a plurality of touch sensors provided in a touch block. The transparent display device comprises a substrate provided with a transmissive area and a non-transmissive area, a touch sensor provided in the transmissive area over the substrate, including a touch sensor electrode, a pixel provided in the non-transmissive area over the substrate, including a plurality of light emitting elements comprised of an anode electrode, a light emitting layer and a cathode electrode, a reference line provided in the non-transmissive area, a plurality of switching transistors connecting the reference line with each of the plurality of light emitting elements, and a touch transistor connecting the reference line with the touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JaeHee Park, MiReum Lee
  • Patent number: 11960673
    Abstract: A display device including a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a form of a matrix in a plane parallel with the substrate, a display functional layer exerting an image display function on a basis of an image signal supplied to the plurality of pixel electrodes, a driving electrode opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of detecting electrodes arranged in a form of a plane opposed to the driving electrode, separated and arranged at a pitch of a natural number multiple of an arrangement pitch of the pixel electrodes in one direction in the arrangement plane, and each capacitively coupled with the driving electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Kouji Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11954285
    Abstract: One variation of a method for detecting an input at a touch sensor—including a force-sensitive layer exhibiting variations in local resistance responsive to local variations in applied force on a touch sensor surface and a set of drive and sense electrodes—includes: driving a drive electrode with a drive signal; reading a sense signal from a sense electrode; detecting a alternating-current component and a direct-current component of the sense signal; in response to a magnitude of the direct-current component of the sense signal falling below a threshold magnitude, detecting an input on the touch sensor surface during the scan cycle based on the alternating-current component of the sense signal; and, in response to the magnitude of the direct-current component of the sense signal exceeding the threshold magnitude, detecting the input on the touch sensor surface during the scan cycle based on the direct-current component of the sense signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sensel, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, John Aaron Zarraga, Vijay Rajanna, Tomer Moscovich
  • Patent number: 11953771
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a detection device includes a substrate and a plurality of sensor electrodes provided on the substrate, extending along a first direction and arranged to be spaced apart from each other along a second direction intersecting the first direction. The sensor electrodes form a plurality of detection areas extending in the first direction and a plurality of non-detection areas adjacent to the plurality of detection areas along the second direction, and a boundary between each of the detection areas and each respective one of the non-detection areas is not linear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Koichiro Adachi
  • Patent number: 11947790
    Abstract: An interface display method and a terminal are provided. The interface display method is applied to the terminal and includes: receiving a first input performed by a user on a target control in a case of displaying a user interface of a first application in a first region of a screen of the terminal, and the target control being used to indicate the first application and/or a second application; and responding to the first input and displaying a user interface of the second application in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yanjie Cao
  • Patent number: 11946742
    Abstract: In an example, a display device includes a rollable display including a display side and an opposite non-display side. The rollable display includes a conductive material with a pattern disposed on the non-display side. The device includes a housing configured to house the rollable display and configured to roll in and roll out the rollable display along a first direction, and a capacitive sensor including a transmitter and a receiver electrode disposed within the housing and configured to sense the pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae-gil Kang, Sung Kyu Kim, Sa Hyang Hong, Chang Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 11947768
    Abstract: A method for multi-touch detection in a touch input device comprising a grid based sensor, the method comprises sampling outputs from a grid based sensor over a first stage of detection, selecting sensor lines based on the sampled outputs, scanning the selected sensor lines along one axis of the grid based sensor over a second stage of detection, and determining positions of user interaction based on outputs sampled in response to scanning the selected sensor lines during the second stage of detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Rafi Zachut, Haim Perski, Jonathan Moore
  • Patent number: 11947764
    Abstract: An input sensing unit includes a touch sensing unit, which includes a plurality of driving electrodes, a plurality of sensing electrodes, and a driving signal generating unit which provides driving signals to the driving electrodes. The sensing electrodes are insulated from and intersect the driving electrodes. The driving signal generating unit includes touch drivers connected to driving electrodes and a digital-to-analog converter configured to provide a first signal or a second signal, and each of the touch drivers is connected to a preset number of driving electrodes among the driving electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Woong Kim, Oh Jo Kwon, Kyung Tea Park, Keum Dong Jung, Sang Hyun Heo
  • Patent number: 11947755
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit having pixels, a touch sensing unit including touch electrodes disposed on the display unit, and a touch driver configured to supply a touch driving signal to the plurality of touch electrodes and receive a touch sensing signal from the touch electrodes. The touch driver supplies a first touch driving signal having a first phase to one or more first touch electrodes, and supplies a second touch driving signal having a second phase opposite to the first phase to one or more second touch electrodes, at least a part of which is disposed across a specific point from the first touch electrodes. The touch driver receives a first touch sensing signal having the first phase from at least one of the first touch electrodes, and receives a second touch sensing signal having the second phase from at least one of the second touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Hyun Lim, Ga Young Kim, Young Min Park, Hyun Jee Jeon
  • Patent number: 11950355
    Abstract: The flexible circuit board includes: a substrate layer; a first conductive layer; a second conductive layer; a first cover film, a second cover film, a first electromagnetic shielding layer, and a second electromagnetic shielding layer. The part of the first cover film overlapping a first conductive portion has first hollow portions. The part of the second cover film overlapping a second conductive portion has second hollow portions. The orthographic projection of each first hollow portion on the substrate layer has an overlapping area with the orthographic projection of at least one second hollow portion on the substrate layer. The first electromagnetic shielding layer is coupled to the first conductive portion through the first hollow portions. The second electromagnetic shielding layer is coupled to the second conductive portion through the second hollow portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hui Wen, Lianbin Liu, Hengzhen Liang, Xu Lu, Zhaolun Liu
  • Patent number: 11942686
    Abstract: An apparatus may include a substrate including a capacitance sensing electrode, an antenna on the substrate, and a shield feature between the electrodes and the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Cirque Corporation
    Inventor: David Taylor
  • Patent number: 11941196
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel; a bracket opposite the display panel; a sensing electrode to form a capacitance with the bracket; a first pad connected to the sensing electrode; a first printed circuit board overlapping with the first pad; a first adhesive contacting the first pad and the first printed circuit board; and a second adhesive contacting the display panel and the first printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changwoo Kahng, Dongik Koo
  • Patent number: 11941205
    Abstract: In a display system, a display device includes a plurality of common electrodes commonly used for image display and touch detection. A second drive circuit supplies a touch drive signal to each of the plurality of common electrodes. A touch detection circuit detects a touch by an object on the display device based on a detection signal received from each of the plurality of common electrodes. The touch drive signal includes a harmonic having a frequency different from a designated frequency and does not include a harmonic having the designated frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Hatano
  • Patent number: 11941214
    Abstract: Touch sensor panels/screens can include metal mesh touch electrodes and routing in the active area. In some examples, the touch sensor panel/screen can include row electrodes and column electrodes disposed over the active area of the display. In some examples, the routing traces for the row electrodes and/or column electrodes can be disposed in a border region and some of the routing traces for the row electrodes and/or column electrodes can be disposed in the active area. In some examples, some row electrodes can be shaved down to create an offset from the edge of the active area to accommodate routing traces in the active area. In some examples, the row electrodes can be formed in a first metal mesh layer and some routing traces in the active area can be formed in a second metal mesh layer, different from the first metal mesh layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ashray Vinayak Gogte, Christophe Blondin
  • Patent number: 11942018
    Abstract: A display device is described including a display panel for displaying an image and an input sensing unit disposed on the display panel for sensing a user input. The input sensing unit includes: an electrode unit including first electrodes and second electrodes which intersect each other and a control unit for determining the proximity of an object or the shape of the object, based on capacitance change values of the first electrodes and the second electrodes. In a first mode the input sensing unit is driven using a self-capacitance method. The control unit may merge the capacitance change values, and determine the proximity of the object based on the merged value. In a second mode based on mutual capacitance, the control unit may determine the shape of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Woo Choi, Tae Joon Kim, Eun Sol Seo, Hyun Wook Cho
  • Patent number: 11941218
    Abstract: The invention relates to an input device comprising: a touch-sensitive input surface facing towards an operator (B); a detection device for the spatially resolved detection of an approach towards and touch on the touch-sensitive input surface having a sensor array for capacitive and/or inductive detection, which extends parallel to the input surface; an input part, which is disposed on the input surface and mounted so as to be movable from a rest position (X0) into an actuation position (XE) along an actuating direction (B1) extending perpendicularly to the input surface, for enabling a performance of an operating input by the operator (B) through a manual displacement of the input part along the actuating direction (B1); a position indicator for contactless position detection, which is attached to the input part and cooperates with the detection device; restoring means for generating a restoring force (F) with snap haptics counteracting the manual shifting from the rest position (X0); wherein the detection d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: PREH GMBH
    Inventors: Norbert Bauer, Thomas Kleffel
  • Patent number: 11943879
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a lower member disposed below the display panel. The display panel includes a first non-folding region, a second non-folding region, and a folding region disposed between the first non-folding region and the second non-folding region. The lower member includes a support layer and a digitizer. The support layer comprises a first support part disposed below the first non-folding region, and having insulating property, and a second support part disposed below the second non-folding region and having insulating property. The digitizer is disposed below the first support part and the second support part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaiku Shin, Sung Chul Choi
  • Patent number: 11943519
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device coupled to a device which a user operates with a hand of the user and on the surface of which a plurality of sensors that each output information associated with a spatial positional relation with the surface of the hand of the user are arranged, the information processing device being configured to receive output from each of the sensors included in the device and generate an image in which an image element having been drawn with a pixel value determined on the basis of a value represented by the output from each of the sensors is arranged at a position corresponding to a position at which each of the sensors is arranged, on a mapping space obtained by plane-unfolding a portion that constitutes the surface of the device and on which the sensors are arranged, Further, the information processing device is configured to, upon receipt of input of the generated image, estimate information associated with the position of each of joints of the hand of the user who operat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Arimatsu, Hideki Mori
  • Patent number: 11934608
    Abstract: A touch screen display is operable to operate in a first mode during a first temporal period based on activating exactly one set of drive-sense circuits of a plurality of sets of drive-sense circuits to generate a corresponding one set of sensed signals during the first temporal period, and processing the corresponding one set of sensed signals to generate first proximal interaction data for the first temporal period. The touch screen display is operable to operate in a second mode during a second temporal period after the first temporal period based on activating more than one set of drive-sense circuits of the plurality of sets of drive-sense circuits to generate a corresponding more than one set of sensed signals during the second temporal period, and processing the set of sensed signals to generate second proximal interaction data for the second temporal period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SigmaSense, LLC.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Michael Shawn Gray, Patrick Troy Gray, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11934601
    Abstract: A touch display device includes a first horizontal electrode including a plurality of first electrode parts spaced apart from one another in a horizontal direction and a plurality of first bridge parts connecting the plurality of first electrode parts; a second horizontal electrode including a plurality of second electrode parts spaced apart from the first horizontal electrode in a vertical direction and spaced apart from one another in the horizontal direction and a plurality of second bridge parts connecting the plurality of second electrode parts; a third horizontal electrode including a plurality of third electrode parts spaced apart from the second horizontal electrode in the vertical direction and spaced apart from one another in the horizontal direction and a plurality of third bridge parts connecting the plurality of third electrode parts; a first horizontal touch line electrically connected to the first horizontal electrode and disposed to extend in the vertical direction; a second horizontal touch l
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haewon Lee, Jinseong Kim, JuHan Kim
  • Patent number: 11933863
    Abstract: The application provides a method for measuring a shortest distance between capacitances and a method for evaluating a capacitance manufacture procedure. The method for measuring the shortest distance between the capacitances includes: obtaining a distance between tangent lines of adjacent surfaces of two adjacent capacitances, and taking the distance between the tangent lines of the adjacent surfaces of the two adjacent capacitances as the shortest distance between two capacitances. The tangent lines of the adjacent surfaces of the two adjacent capacitances have a same direction, and the direction of the tangent lines is perpendicular to a preset arrangement direction of the capacitances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Changxin Memory Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Weigang Wang
  • Patent number: 11933607
    Abstract: A capacitive imaging glove includes electrodes implemented throughout the capacitive imaging glove and drive-sense circuits (DSCs) such that a DSC receives a reference signal generates a signal based thereon. The DSC provides the signal to a first electrode via a single line and simultaneously senses it. Note the signal is coupled from the first electrode to the second electrode via a gap therebetween. The DSC generates a digital signal representative of the electrical characteristic of the first electrode. Processing module(s), when enabled, is/are configured to execute operational instructions (e.g., stored in and/or retrieved from memory) to generate the reference signal, process the digital signal to determine the electrical characteristic of the first electrode, and process the electrical characteristic of the first electrode to determine a distance between the first electrode and the second electrode, and generate capacitive image data representative of a shape of the capacitive imaging glove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Gerald Dale Morrison, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Shayne X Short, Timothy W. Markison
  • Patent number: 11928282
    Abstract: The driving method includes: inputting a first scanning signal to each of the first touch electrodes at a same time, and receiving a first sensing signal of each of the second touch electrodes to determine a suspected column according to the first sensing signal; inputting a second scanning signal to each of the second touch electrodes at a same time, and receiving a second sensing signal of each of the first touch electrodes to determine a suspected row according to the second sensing signal; determining a suspected touch region according to the suspected column and the suspected row; and sequentially inputting a third scanning signal row by row to each of the first touch electrodes in the suspected touch region, and receiving a third sensing signal of each of the second touch electrodes in the suspected touch region to determine a touch position according to the third sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui Guo, Lihui Han, Junning Su, Zhanchang Bu, Hetao Wang
  • Patent number: 11927854
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a liquid crystal display body and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) electrically connected with the liquid crystal display body. The liquid crystal display body includes: sensing electrodes Rx, upper display screen glass, driving electrodes Tx, a color filter with a black frame, liquid crystals, a thin-film transistor drive array and lower display screen glass, where the liquid crystals are filled between the color filter with the black frame and the thin-film transistor drive array; and the liquid crystal display body comprises special-shaped regions at a lower edge of two sides of the liquid crystal display body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG CHANGXING HELI OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Xiao, Guohua Liu, Rao Huang, Junhai He
  • Patent number: 11928277
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first touch sensing layer, a second touch sensing layer, a reflective display panel, and multiple light sources. The second touch sensing layer is disposed between the first touch sensing layer and the reflective display panel. The light sources are disposed on a surface of the first touch sensing layer facing the second touch sensing layer. The lights emitted by the light sources enter the second touch sensing layer, and then are transmitted to the reflective display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pei-Chun Chung, Yi-Chun Wu
  • Patent number: 11928273
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an array substrate and a display device. The array substrate includes a touch substrate, the touch substrate includes a plurality of touch electrodes and a plurality of touch electrode wires disposed in an array, each touch electrode includes a plurality of touch sensors disposed in an array, common electrodes of all pixel cells of the array substrate are reused as the touch sensors, and the array substrate includes data wires for providing display data to the pixel cells; the array substrate includes a base substrate and a thin film transistor which are stacked, the touch electrode wires and the data wires are provided on the same layer where a source and a drain of the thin film transistor are located, and the touch electrode wires are abreast provided on the two sides of each data wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: Wuhan BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fang Hu, Ning Zhu, Yujie Gao, Peng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11928281
    Abstract: An electronic device, includes: a sensor layer having an active region and a peripheral region adjacent to the active region, the sensor layer including a plurality of sensing units on the active region and a plurality of wiring lines on the peripheral region, wherein each of the plurality of sensing units includes a plurality of sub-sensing units, wherein each of the plurality of sub-sensing units includes: a first portion extending in a first direction; a plurality of second portions protruding from the first portion; a plurality of cross patterns spaced apart from each other across the first portion; and a bridge pattern insulated from the first portion and electrically connected to the plurality of cross patterns, the bridge pattern intersecting the first portion, wherein the plurality of wiring lines include a first wiring line and a second wiring line that are electrically connected to the plurality of sub-sensing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gyeongnam Bang, Deokjung Kim, Eunyoung Kim, Hyeyun Han
  • Patent number: 11928280
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel, an input sensor disposed on the display panel and including a plurality of sensing electrodes and a plurality of sensing lines connected to the sensing electrodes, and a driving circuit that drives the input sensor and generates a control signal based on a type of input applied to the input sensor. The sensing lines include a first sensing line electrically connecting first ends of the sensing electrodes adjacent to each other among the sensing electrodes, and a second sensing line connecting at least one of second ends, which are opposite to the first ends, of the adjacent sensing electrodes to the driving circuit and selectively connecting other sensing electrodes to the driving circuit or a reference electric potential in response to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaeuk Choi, Yun-Ho Kim, Chul Kim
  • Patent number: 11928289
    Abstract: A touch sensing method for a touch panel includes following operations: entering a first touch sensing process and performing a non-water mode; determining whether there is water on the touch panel in the first touch sensing process; entering a second touch sensing process and performing a water mode when there is water detected on the touch panel in the first touch sensing process; determining whether there is water on the touch panel in the second touch sensing process; and entering the first touch sensing process and performing the non-water mode when there is no water detected on the touch panel in the second touch sensing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Huang Chen, Ting-Yu Chan
  • Patent number: 11921938
    Abstract: A stylus includes a first sensor configured to receive a first receive signal from a touch sensor of a device, and a second sensor configured to receive a second receive signal from the touch sensor of the device. The stylus includes an amplifier coupled to the first and second sensors and configured to produce a third signal by amplifying the difference between the first receive signal and the second receive signal. The stylus includes a controller configured to decode information encoded in the first receive signal and the second receive signal by processing the third signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Thomas Bell
  • Patent number: 11921953
    Abstract: An apparatus for sensing a touch includes: a sensor array including a plurality of sensor groups, each of the plurality of sensor groups including sensors adjacent to each other; a first switch circuit configured to connect each of the plurality of sensor groups to a first channel or a second channel according to a first control signal; and a second switch circuit configured to select one of the first channel and the second channel according to a second control signal, wherein the first channel includes first signal lines connected to respective sensors included in a first sensor group of the plurality of sensor groups by the first switch circuit, and the second channel includes a second signal line commonly connected to the sensors included in the first sensor group by the first switch circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunrae Jo, Jinchul Lee, Sungyong Cho, Bumsoo Kim, Yoonkyung Choi
  • Patent number: 11921955
    Abstract: A proximity sensitive display element (1) is provided that comprises a light guide (10), at least one light emitting element (30) and at least one infrared radiation sensor (40). The light guide (10) comprises a substrate (11) with a first and a second mutually opposite main sides (12, 14), respectively having a first and a second reflective layer (22, 24), with a reflective inner surface (222, 242) facing inside the light guide. At least one window (16) is defined in the first main side to allow optical radiation to enter and to leave the light guide. The at least one light emitting element (30) is typically embedded in the substrate at its second main side to generate optical radiation in said light guide. The at least one IR-sensor (40) is arranged at the second main side of the substrate and faces the first main side through a semi-transparent patch (240) in the second reflective layer (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Stephan Harkema, Jeroen Franciscus Marinus Schram
  • Patent number: 11923882
    Abstract: A hybrid communication device, an operation method thereof, and a communication system including the same are provided. The hybrid communication device includes a contact unit that includes an antenna for receiving a first communication signal and an electrode for receiving a second signal, a switch controller that includes a first switch and a second switch and controls the first switch and the second switch based on a change in capacitance of the electrode, and a signal processing unit that receives at least one of the first communication signal and the second communication signal from the contact unit via the first switch and processes the received signal. The first switch is connected to the contact unit, and the signal processing unit is connected to the first switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Tae Wook Kang, Sung Eun Kim, Hyung-Il Park, Jae-Jin Lee, Hyuk Kim, Kyung Hwan Park, Mi Jeong Park, Kyung Jin Byun, Kwang Il Oh, In Gi Lim
  • Patent number: 11921963
    Abstract: A touch structure, a touch display substrate, and a touch display device. The touch structure includes a touch region and a peripheral region surrounding the touch region, wherein the touch region includes a first edge and a second edge opposite to each other, and a third edge and a fourth edge opposite to each other. The touch structure further includes a first touch electrode and a second touch electrode, which are mutually crossed with and insulated from each other, and located in the touch region. The touch structure further includes a first touch trace and a second touch trace, located in the peripheral region. The first touch trace is electrically connected with the first touch electrode at the first edge and the second edge, respectively; the second touch trace is electrically connected with the second touch electrode at the third edge and the fourth edge, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ping Wen, Shun Zhang, Yi Zhang, Tingliang Liu
  • Patent number: 11914826
    Abstract: The present application provides a touch display panel and a display device. A plurality of touch units of the touch display panel includes a plurality of first electrode sets, a plurality of second electrode sets, and dummy electrodes. The first electrode sets include a plurality of first electrodes, the second electrode sets include a plurality of second electrodes. The first electrodes, the second electrodes, and the dummy electrodes are disposed insulatively from one another. The dummy electrodes are disposed in dummy electrode regions surrounded and formed by the first electrode sets and the second electrode sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jian Ye
  • Patent number: 11914804
    Abstract: A touch display device is provided in this disclosure. The touch display device includes a substrate, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a stacked structure, an inorganic light emitting unit, and a touch sensing circuit. The first conductive layer is disposed on the substrate. The first conductive layer includes a gate electrode. The second conductive layer is disposed on the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer includes a source electrode and a drain electrode. The stacked structure is disposed on the substrate. The stacked structure includes a conductive channel and a sensing electrode. The inorganic light emitting unit is disposed on the stacked structure. The inorganic light emitting unit is electrically connected with the drain electrode via the conductive channel. The touch sensing circuit is electrically connected with the sensing electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Yang Chen, Hsing-Yuan Hsu, Tzu-Min Yan, Chun-Hsien Lin, Kuei-Sheng Chang
  • Patent number: 11914815
    Abstract: A display with integrated touch screen includes pixels distributed in an array of rows or pixels connected by row wires and columns of pixels connected by column wires defining a display area on a display substrate. The pixels can comprise mutually exclusive subarrays of pixels forming clusters. Each cluster can be independently controlled and can comprise a touch controller for sensing touches. Each pixel can include one or more micro-iLEDs. A first row wire can be driven with a display signal at the same time the touch controller senses one or more second row wires different from the first row wire. The touch controller can sense multiple row wires at a time or can receive a control signal at a frequency of no less than one MHz on a row wire. In some embodiments, the touch controller comprises a capacitance circuit in an integrated circuit separate from the display substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Display Company Technology Limited
    Inventors: Murat Ozbas, Ronald S. Cok
  • Patent number: 11914809
    Abstract: An illuminated trackpad includes a substrate, a light guide plate disposed under the substrate, a circuit board disposed under the light guide plate, and light-emitting elements disposed on the circuit board. The light guide plate includes light guide units and through holes. Each light guide unit is composed of light guide microstructures and substantially in the shape of a strip or a line. The through holes are respectively arranged on one side of the light guide units. The circuit board has a touch surface and a non-touch surface. The touch surface has a touch area on which sensing electrodes are disposed. The light-emitting elements are respectively accommodated in the through holes. After entering the light guide plate through inner walls of the through holes, the lights emitted by the light-emitting elements are guided upward through the light guide units to pass through the substrate and exit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Chicony Power Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chen-Hao Chiu