Including Optical Detection Patents (Class 345/175)
  • Patent number: 11387290
    Abstract: A photodetector (300) includes a first electrode (313) and a second electrode (314) on a base substrate (100); a light-sensitive layer (311) between the first electrode (313) and the second electrode (314); and a light-trapping layer (312) between the light-sensitive layer (311) and the base substrate (100), wherein a surface of the light-trapping layer (312) opposite from the base substrate (100) comprises a plurality of first recessed portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Guoqiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11379048
    Abstract: An input panel for an electronic device, including an arrangement of buttons, wherein each button is actuated when pressed, providing input to an electronic device, and a sensor, detecting location of a user's finger above the buttons, the sensor including a housing, a printed circuit board, light emitters and photodiode detectors, lenses mounted in the housing in such a manner that, when the housing is mounted along an edge of the arrangement, the lenses direct light from the emitters along a plane above the buttons, and direct light from the plane, reflected toward the lenses by an object inserted into the plane, onto the detectors, a processor configured to identify a location in the plane at which the object is inserted based on the detections of light reflected by the object, and a communications port configured to output the identified location to the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Neonode Inc.
    Inventors: Björn Thomas Eriksson, Björn Alexander Jubner, Rozita Teymourzadeh, Håkan Sven Erik Andersson, Per Carl Sture Rosengren, Xiatao Wang, Stefan Johannes Holmgren, Gunnar Martin Fröjdh, Jan Tomas Hartman, Per Oscar Sverud, Sangtaek Kim, Rasmus Dahl-Örn, Tom Richard Berglind, Karl Erik Patrik Nordström, Lars Bertil Sparf, Erik Anders Claes Rosengren, John Elis Gösta Karlsson, Remo Behdasht, Robin Kjell Åman, Joseph Shain
  • Patent number: 11379173
    Abstract: A method and system for a displaying content that makes LED real-time 3D displays possible. The 3D image formation includes multi-screen display color correction and multi-camera infrared positioning technology. The present invention presents the display effects of a simulation environment in a better way through switching and moving and ensures that while in movement, the display effects of LED screens taken by video cameras from different angles can be maintained the same, so as to create a vivid simulation environment for television programming and film shooting. The system for maintaining accuracy in a 3D image formation includes a multi-screen display color correction system, a multi-screen display color correction system comprising a large-size screen server, a video camera and a large-size display screen wherein the large-size screen color correction server includes an image input module, a position data module, a comprehensive color correction server and an image output module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Jiang Chang, Xingchen Liu, Dahooo USA
    Inventor: Jiang Chang
  • Patent number: 11379083
    Abstract: A projector includes: an illumination device casting one detection light and another detection light onto an operation surface; a first image pickup device having a higher sensitivity to the one detection light than to the another detection light; a second image pickup device different from the position of the first image pickup device, the second image pickup device having a higher sensitivity to the another detection light than to the one detection light; and a detection device detecting that an object is in contact with the operation surface when a position of a pointing unit specified based on a first picked-up image picked up using the first image pickup device and a position of the pointing unit specified based on a second picked-up image picked up using the second image pickup device are within a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto Otani
  • Patent number: 11379109
    Abstract: A setting value change device is provided whereby change operations to correct temperature setting values or hot water amount values by drag operations are easy. A controller causes a display to display a drag button and a movement path on which the drag button moves. Additionally, the controller provides, on a touch sensor, a drag area for detecting a drag input on the drag button and a reference point disposed at a location off the movement path. Moreover, the controller is configured to set the drag area larger than the display range of the movement path, move the drag button to a crossing point where a straight line or specific curve connecting the reference point to a drag operation position in the drag area crosses the movement path, and change the temperature setting value to the value corresponding to the position of the drag button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomomi Kukita, Hiroko Kashimoto, Hiroyasu Kosuge
  • Patent number: 11379081
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch system. The touch system includes a window glass having a touch area and a display apparatus spaced apart from the window glass and having a display area corresponding to the touch area of the window glass. A plurality of subareas are defined on the touch area. The display apparatus includes a planar invisible light source configured to emit a first invisible light toward the touch area of the window glass. The touch system further includes a camera device configured to detect a second invisible light reflected from a subarea of the plurality of subareas. The touch system further includes a processor electrically connected to the camera device and configured to retrieve an electrical information of the detected second invisible light. If the electrical information of the detected second invisible light exceeds a threshold, the processor determines that a position on the display area corresponding to the subarea of the plurality of subareas is touched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: DYNASCAN TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Tsun-I Wang, Ching-Chun Wu, Chih-Chin Hsu
  • Patent number: 11367768
    Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a display panel including a display region and a non-display region, and a sensor unit which is disposed on the display panel and includes a sensing region and a non-sensing region. The sensor unit includes a touch sensor unit which detects a touch input in the sensing region and a photo sensor unit which detects ambient illuminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang Hyeok Kim, Sang Hyun Jun, Mi Young Kim, So Yeon Park, Yong Hwan Park, Sug Woo Jung
  • Patent number: 11366512
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a system comprising one or more processors configured to track a location of an input device within a physical environment via a three-dimensional (3D) tracking system, and modify a tracking parameter of the 3D tracking system while tracking the location of the input device based on the determined location of the input device within the physical environment. The input device may be coupled to a virtual reality display system and tracking the location of the location of the input device can be used for interacting with the virtual reality display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Stephen Harvey, Denis O'Keeffe, Aidan Kehoe, Mario Gutierrez, Damien O'Sullivan, Thomas Rouvinez, Mathieu Meisser, Noirin Curran, Remy Zimmermann, Marcel Twohig, Dennin Onorio, Pierce O'Bradaigh, Olivier Riviere, Ciaran Trotman, Andreas Connellan, Padraig Murphy, Jerry Ahern
  • Patent number: 11363700
    Abstract: The present application provides an intelligent control system for touch switch based on infrared sensor detection, which comprises: a position determination module, for setting infrared sensors in the first position, the second position, the third position, and the fourth position respectively, which are used to detect whether a person passes the current position; a time statistics module, for calculating the total time consumed by the target person passing through the first position, the second position, and the third position based on the detection result of those infrared sensors; a time determination module, for calculating the target time consumed by the target person passing from the third position to the fourth position; an intelligent control module, for selecting whether to turn on the light guide line from the fourth position to the position of the touch switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: ANHUI DJX INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Longyun Li
  • Patent number: 11360234
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electrode device, semiconductor device and a semiconductor system capable of accuracy detecting an object to be detected. According to one embodiment, the electrode device 11 is used for detecting the capacitance of the mutual capacitance system, and includes a reception electrode PR1, a transmission electrode PX1 arranged to face the reception electrode PR1, a transmission electrode PX2 arranged to face the reception electrode PR1 with the transmission electrode PX1 interposed therebetween, and a dielectric board 101 provided between the transmission electrode PX1 and the transmission electrode PX2 to fix the distance and the dielectric constant between the transmission electrode PX1 and the transmission electrode PX2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Mizokami, Masahiro Araki
  • Patent number: 11353646
    Abstract: A light fixture for waveguided ambient light is described herein. In one embodiment, the light fixture includes an LED light source for emitting light rays, a waveguide optically coupled to the LED light source to receive and guide the emitted light rays from a proximal end of the waveguide to a distal end of the waveguide, a first indirect lighting surface configured to receive a first portion of the emitted light rays and reflect the first portion at a first distribution to produce a first ambient light source, and a second indirect lighting surface configured to receive a second portion of the emitted light rays and reflect the second portion at a second distribution to produce a second ambient light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: LUMINII LLC
    Inventors: Jeffery Parker, Meng Yang
  • Patent number: 11341681
    Abstract: A method for calibrating the position and/or orientation of a camera, in particular a camera mounted to a vehicle such as a truck, relative to a calibration pattern includes the steps of: A] acquiring an image of the calibration pattern by means of the camera; B] determining at least one parameter of the image and/or of the calibration pattern or a sub-pattern of the calibration pattern as it appears in the image; C] transforming the image based on the at least one parameter; D] identifying characteristic points or possible characteristic points of the calibration pattern within the transformed image of the calibration pattern; E] deriving the position and/or orientation of the camera relative to the calibration pattern from the identified characteristic points or possible characteristic points; F] in dependence of a confidence value of the derived position and/or orientation of the camera and/or in dependence of the number of iterations of steps B to F so far, repeating steps B to F, wherein in step B the de
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Waldemar Dworakowski, Rafal Dlugosz, Krzysztof Gongolewski
  • Patent number: 11342392
    Abstract: A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The display panel includes: a base substrate; a first sub-pixel disposed on the base substrate and including a first light-emitting device configured to emit visible light for display operation; a second a light-emitting device overlapped with the first light-emitting device in a direction perpendicular to the base substrate and configured to emit infrared light; and a first photosensitive device disposed on the base substrate and configured to sense light obtained after the infrared light is reflected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guoqiang Tang, Xiaojin Zhang, Guoqiang Ma
  • Patent number: 11342391
    Abstract: A flexible AMOLED display device is provided, including an AMOLED screen and an image sensor. The AMOLED screen includes a flexible substrate, a TFT layer, an OLED layer and an encapsulation layer. The flexible substrate includes a fingerprint recognition area and a remaining non-fingerprint recognition area. The image sensor is correspondingly disposed in the fingerprint recognition area of the flexible substrate. The non-fingerprint recognition area of the flexible substrate adopts a dual organic layer structure, including two organic layers and an inorganic spacer layer disposed between the two organic layers. The fingerprint recognition area adopts a single organic layer structure, including only one organic layer. Therefore, the transmittance in the fingerprint recognition area is enhanced, the intensity of light received by the image sensor is increased, and the accuracy of fingerprint recognition is improved. Accordingly, the lifetime of the OLED in the area can be lengthened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Changyu Liu
  • Patent number: 11333959
    Abstract: A projector includes an imaging section for generating imaging data obtained by taking an image of first light emitted by a first pointing member, second light emitted by a second pointing member, and a target range, and a position detection section for detecting a first position and a second position with respect to the target range based on the imaging data so as to be distinguished from each other, and the imaging section includes a sensor for outputting detection values of first colored light, second colored light, and third colored light to detect first infrared light and light with a first wavelength included in the first light, and second infrared light and light with a second wavelength different from the first wavelength included in the second light with the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Ryuichi Shiohara
  • Patent number: 11334157
    Abstract: A wearable device and system for detecting data generated by a user's contact with a surface and using that data to determine that a user contacted the surface and, in some examples, the location of the contact. The location of the contact may then be used by another device, such as an artificial reality headset, to select a user interface element, activate a function or perform a task in an artificial reality environment, or execute another type of function typically performed in response to an input to a user interface. In one example, the wearable device includes an ultrasound transmitter (Tx) and an ultrasound receiver (Rx). In some embodiments, the wearable device may also include a processing element capable of processing the signals detected or received by the receiver to determine that a contact occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jun Gong, Aakar Gupta, Hrvoje Benko
  • Patent number: 11325179
    Abstract: Systems and methods that provide an improved mechanism for attaching a sensor wire to a bus bar in a battery module are disclosed. A battery module according to the present disclosure may include a bus bar comprising a rivet hole and a plurality of battery cells electrically coupled to the bus bar. The battery module may also include a sensor wire comprising a terminal end, as well as a blind rivet passing through the rivet hole of the bus bar and coupling the bus bar to the terminal end of the sensor wire. Attaching the sensor wire to the bus bar with a blind rivet may provide one or more of the following mechanical advantages: fast assembly, robustness for low power applications, elimination of the need to wait for an adhesive to cure, and elimination of the need for double-sided access of the bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Justin Rodenburg, Nathaniel C. Wynn
  • Patent number: 11327401
    Abstract: A display substrate, a method for preparing the same and a display device are provided. The method for preparing the display substrate includes: providing a base substrate, in which the base substrate includes a first region and a second region; forming a first structure in the first region using a first mask and a first photoresist; forming a functional material layer at a side, which is away from the base substrate, of the first structure; and patterning the functional material layer using a second mask and the first mask to form a functional layer in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Tian, Zouming Xu, Lei Zhang, Yaying Li, Chunjian Liu, Qitao Zheng, Xianlin Ding
  • Patent number: 11315265
    Abstract: A fingertip detection method, a fingertip detection device and a storage medium are disclosed. The fingertip detection method includes: determining a minimum-depth point in a hand area to be detected based on a depth image; determining a hand vertex in the hand area to be detected based on the depth image; determining a fingertip position based on the minimum-depth point and the hand vertex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chu Xu
  • Patent number: 11302246
    Abstract: Provided are a pixel driving circuit, a driving method, a display panel and a display device. The pixel driving circuit includes: a data writing device, a voltage stabilizing storage device, a driving device and a light-emitting component; where the data writing device is configured for transmitting a data signal voltage; the driving device is configured for generating a driving current according to the data signal voltage transmitted by the data writing device; the voltage stabilizing storage device is configured for storing the data signal voltage transmitted to the driving device; the light-emitting component is configured for emitting light in response to the driving current generated by the driving device; where the voltage stabilizing storage device includes at least two voltage stabilizing storage sub-devices connected in parallel, each voltage stabilizing storage sub-device includes a capacitor, at least one of the voltage stabilizing storage sub-devices includes a switch device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qitai Ji, Qingjun Lai, Xiao Li
  • Patent number: 11301199
    Abstract: A method and system for a displaying content that makes LED real-time 3D displays possible. The 3D image formation includes multi-screen display color correction and multi-camera infrared positioning technology. The present invention presents the display effects of a simulation environment in a better way through switching and moving and ensures that while in movement, the display effects of LED screens taken by video cameras from different angles can be maintained the same, so as to create a vivid simulation environment for television programming and film shooting. The multi-viewpoint switched shooting system and method based on the infrared positioning system includes a multifaceted irregular screen, a video splicer, a 3D rendering server, an infrared positioning system, a motion-capture computer, a Network switch and a multichannel control server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignees: Dahooo USA
    Inventor: Jiang Chang
  • Patent number: 11301089
    Abstract: An optical IR touch sensing apparatus configured to determine, based on output signals of light detectors, a light energy value for each light path across a touch surface, and generate a transmission value for each light path based on the light energy value. A processor is then configured to operate an image reconstruction algorithm on at least part of the thus-generated transmission values and determine a position of a touching object on the touch surface, and an attenuation value corresponding to the attenuation of the light resulting from the object touching the touch surface. Using these values, the processor is configured to identify the type of object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: FlatFrog Laboratories AB
    Inventors: Tomas Christiansson, Mattias Krus, Kristofer Jacobson, David Gillsjö
  • Patent number: 11294500
    Abstract: A touch panel for sensing a fingerprint/touch input and a display device using the same are provided. The display device includes a display panel and the touch panel. The touch panel includes drive line groups and sense line groups. Each of the drive line groups includes a drive line. Each of the sense line groups includes sense lines. A distance between adjacent two of the drive/sense line groups in a fingerprint recognition area is smaller than that between adjacent two of the drive/sense line groups in a portion of a touch control area other than the fingerprint recognition area. A distance between adjacent two of the sense lines in the fingerprint recognition area is designed to be equal a sub-pixel width, and a distance between adjacent two of the drive lines in the fingerprint recognition area is designed to be equal a sub-pixel length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Jia-Ming He, Yaw-Guang Chang
  • Patent number: 11294450
    Abstract: A method for providing data representing body parts of a person comprises at least: providing a head mounted display unit that is arranged at a head of the person, wherein the head mounted display unit has a defined screen section which is arrangeable in front of at least one eye of the person, wherein visual information is outputtable in the defined screen section for displaying the visual information to the at least one eye of the person, providing a camera means for capturing visual information in front of the person, wherein the camera means is part of the head mounted display unit or attached thereto, providing a mirror for mirroring the person while wearing the head mounted display unit, capturing the mirrored visual information with the camera means, processing the mirrored visual information by means of a processing unit, outputting the processed visual information to the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: VESTEL ELEKTRONIK SANAYI VE TICARET A.S.
    Inventor: Barbaros Kirisken
  • Patent number: 11294478
    Abstract: A position indicator indicates a position on an input surface of a position detecting sensor and indicates a position in a three-dimensional space. The position indicator incudes: a casing, a position indicating part that is disposed at one end of the casing, and a tracker which, in operation, causes an external device to detect the position in the three-dimensional space. The position indicating part, in operation, indicates the position on the input surface of the position detecting sensor. A position of the tracker and a position of the position indicating part are in a specific positional relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Munakata, Hiroshi Tamano, Yuanhao Chen
  • Patent number: 11297353
    Abstract: A method of measuring a banding artefact in an image includes generating a gradient profile from the image, where the gradient profile includes respective gradient magnitudes of pixels of the image; generating, using the gradient profile, a candidate banding pixel (CBP) map, where each location of the CBP map is such that a gradient magnitude of the gradient profile of a corresponding pixel of the image being greater than a first threshold and smaller than a second threshold; generating, using the CBP map, a banding edge map (BEM), where the BEM includes connected banding edges of the image; generating, using the BEM, a banding visibility map (BVM), where the BVM includes a respective banding metric for at least some pixels of the image; and generating a banding index of the image using the BVM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jessie Lin, Zhengzhong Tu
  • Patent number: 11288482
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel, a plurality of photosensitive sensors spaced from each other are in a display region of the display panel, an auxiliary panel is on a light emergent side of the display panel, the auxiliary panel has a plurality of light transmitting regions spaced from each other, a light shielding region is between the light transmitting regions adjacent to each other, and light from an object positioned above the auxiliary panel passes through the light transmitting regions and forms an image of the object on the photosensitive sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jifeng Tan, Xiaochuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11281337
    Abstract: Touch detection using a mirror accessory may include obtaining first image data comprising a touching object and a target surface, wherein the first image data captures a scene comprising the touching object and the target surface from the viewpoint of a camera, obtaining second image data comprising the touching object and the target surface, wherein the second image data captures the touching object and the target surface as a reflection in a mirror that is separate from the target surface, determining a pose of the mirror in the scene, determining a pose of the touching object in the scene based on the first image data, the second image data, and the pose of the mirror, and estimating a touch status between the touching object and the target surface based on the determined pose of the touching object and a pose of the target surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mohamed Selim Ben Himane, Lejing Wang
  • Patent number: 11269073
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an infrared distance measurement apparatus and a touch panel. The touch panel covers the infrared distance measurement apparatus. The infrared distance measurement apparatus includes an infrared-light-emitting tube and at least two infrared-light-receiving tubes. The at least two infrared-light-receiving tubes include a far-channel receiving tube and a near-channel receiving tube, and a distance between the far-channel receiving tube and the infrared-light-emitting tube is greater than a distance between the near-channel receiving tube and the infrared-light-emitting tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng Li, Xuejie Yang
  • Patent number: 11270114
    Abstract: Disclosed is an AR device and method for controlling the same. According to the present disclosure, an augmented reality (AR) device comprises a frame supported by a user's head, a processor providing an AR image, a display connected with the frame and overlaying and displaying the AR image received from the processor on a real world, a marker generator generating a marker corresponding to an AR object, and a marker display displaying the marker generated by the marker generator. The AR device of the present disclosure may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a robot, a virtual reality (VR) device, a device related to a 5G service, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Daemyeong Park, Dongog Min
  • Patent number: 11262851
    Abstract: Systems and methods for selecting a target are provided. In some embodiments, a system may include a wearable device having one or more sensors. The sensors may be configured to detect physiological data and wrist location data. In some embodiments, the system may be configured to determine: (i) a vector intended by a user based on at least the wrist location data, and (ii) a gesture indicating an intention to make a selection based on at least the physiological data. The system may be configured to select a target indicated by the directional vector as determined when the gesture indicating the intention to make a selection is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Pison Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David O. Cipoletta, Dexter W. Ang
  • Patent number: 11256371
    Abstract: A touch sensing apparatus is provided comprising: a light transmissive panel that defines a touch surface, a plurality of light emitters and detectors arranged along a perimeter of the light transmissive panel, a plurality of optical components arranged along the perimeter of the light transmissive panel, wherein the light emitters are arranged to emit a respective beam of emitted light and the optical components are configured to direct the emitted light to a path across the light transmissive panel. Optionally, optical components comprise a light guide arranged to receive light from the light emitters through a first surface and couple out light travelling in the light guide to the touch surface through a second surface. The second surface may be diffusively transmissive. The light guide may further comprise a reflective surface configured to internally reflect light travelling in the light guide from the first surface to the diffusive surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: FlatFrog Laboratories AB
    Inventors: Håkan Bergström, Thomas Craven-Bartle, Lars Rippe
  • Patent number: 11250237
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a circuit for fingerprint identification and a driving method thereof, a display panel, and a display device. The circuit for fingerprint identification of the present disclosure includes a voltage adjustment circuit, a photodiode, and a signal output circuit; wherein the voltage adjustment circuit is electrically connected with an anode of the photodiode, and the signal output circuit is electrically connected with a cathode of the photodiode; the voltage adjustment circuit is configured to adjust an anode voltage input to the photodiode to enable the photodiode to work in a linear region; and the signal output circuit is configured to amplify and output a signal output by the photodiode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xueyou Cao, Pengpeng Wang, Wenjuan Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Haisheng Wang, Ping Zhang
  • Patent number: 11249609
    Abstract: A touch display module, includes a touch display panel which includes an array substrate and an alignment substrate arranged opposite each other; and a transparent electrode layer which includes a plurality of pressure detecting electrodes and is disposed on the alignment substrate at a side away from the array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenchao Han, Guangquan Wang, Wei Sun, Lingyun Shi, Yang Chen, Bo Gao, Tiankuo Shi, Dong Chen
  • Patent number: 11244135
    Abstract: An electronic circuit including a touch control circuit, a fingerprint sensing circuit and a switch circuit is provided. The touch control circuit is configured to receive touch sensing signals from a panel and determine a touch area according to the touch sensing signals. The fingerprint sensing circuit is configured to receive fingerprint sensing signals corresponding to at least one fingerprint image from fingerprint sensors disposed in the panel via fingerprint sensing lines. The switch circuit is coupled to the fingerprint sensing circuit. The switch circuit is configured to be coupled to a part of the fingerprint sensing lines that is selected to form a fingerprint sensing zone for a fingerprint sensing operation according to the determined touch area. Each of the fingerprint sensing lines is selectable to be a boundary of the fingerprint sensing zone. An electronic device and a method for sensing at least one fingerprint image are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Huan-Teng Cheng, Ting-Hsuan Hung, Wei-Lun Shih, Huang-Chin Tang
  • Patent number: 11245883
    Abstract: One variation of a method for augmenting surfaces in a space includes: at a projection system, recording a sequence of scans of the space; aggregating the sequence of scans into a projector-domain image of the space; detecting a set of objects in the projector-domain image; identifying an object, in the set of objects, as of a first type; detecting a surface proximal the object in the projector-domain image; defining an association between the surface and a content source based on the first type of the object; based on the association, warping visual content output by the content source according to a profile of the surface extracted from the projector-domain image; actuating a projector assembly in the projection system to locate the surface in the field of view of a light projector in the projection system; and projecting the visual content, via the light projector, toward the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Lightform, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajinder Sodhi, Brett Jones, Kevin Karsch, Pulkit Budhiraja, Phil Reyneri, Douglas Rieck
  • Patent number: 11238256
    Abstract: A display deice is provided including a substrate. The substrate includes a display region that includes a plurality of pixels and a sensing region provided in at least one region of the display region. A circuit element layer is disposed on the substrate, the circuit element layer includes a plurality of conductive layers. A light emitting element layer is provided on the circuit element layer. The light emitting element layer includes a plurality of light emitting elements. A sensor layer is disposed on the substrate. The sensor layer includes a plurality of photo sensor units each including sensor pixels. The photo sensor units are arranged in an irregular pattern in the sensing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Hun Ryu, Il Nam Kim, Jong Hyun Lee, Jae Kyoung Kim, Eun Jin Sung, Seong Ryong Lee
  • Patent number: 11239287
    Abstract: Provided is a display device in which a defect by external light reflection is minimized in a non-display area. The display device includes a display panel and a touch unit arranged on the display panel. The display panel may include: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area arranged around the display area; an insulator including a valley portion, the valley portion being defined as an opening arranged along an outer side of the display area in the non-display area; and a display unit arranged in the display area and including a light-emitting element electrically connected to a thin film transistor. The touch unit may include a reflection prevention unit that overlaps the valley portion and is configured to reduce reflectivity of external light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wonjun Choi, Iljoo Kim, Youngbae Jung, Duckjoong Kim
  • Patent number: 11233185
    Abstract: A display device comprises a substrate having a plurality of sub-pixels; a plurality of LEDs respectively disposed in the plurality of sub-pixels, wherein each of the LEDs comprises an emissive layer, a first semiconductor layer between the substrate and the emissive layer and a second semiconductor layer on the emissive layer; a plurality of driving units disposed under the substrate in each of the sub-pixels; and a plurality of connection units penetrating the substrate and electrically connecting at least one of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer with the plurality of driving units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: KyuOh Kwon, JaeMin Sim, SeungJun Lee, Junghun Choi
  • Patent number: 11233098
    Abstract: A display array substrate, a manufacturing method and a display are disclosed herein. The display array substrate includes an array substrate base, an electroluminescent diode array substrate arranged above the array substrate base, including an anode layer, a cathode layer, an electroluminescent EL layer between the anode layer and the cathode layer, and a pixel compensation circuit layer on a side close to the array substrate base. The cathode layer is on a side away from the array substrate base. A photosensitive signal collector may be configured to receive an optical signal reflected by valleys and ridges of a finger and emitted by the electroluminescent EL layer, and convert the collected optical signal into an electrical signal to be output. The photosensitive signal collector may be arranged between the pixel compensation circuit layer and the anode layer of the electroluminescent diode array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui Xu, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu, Changfeng Li, Wei Liu, Qingrong Ren, Yu Wen
  • Patent number: 11229731
    Abstract: A display device for a medical apparatus including a projection surface arranged on the medical apparatus and configured to present a predetermined display content in a way visible to a user of the medical apparatus, and a projection device arranged on the medical apparatus and configured to project the predetermined display content from a rear side of the projection surface onto the projection surface. The projection surface and the projection device are configured as a head-up display unit for visual field presentation of the display content, and the medical apparatus may be an apparatus for carrying out extracorporeal blood treatment including the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: B. BRAUN AVITUM AG
    Inventors: Meike Peters, Sebastian Brögger, Björn Bröker, Bruno Stenzel
  • Patent number: 11223807
    Abstract: One variation of a method for augmenting surfaces within spaces with projected light includes: at a projector system during a first time period, projecting visual content onto nearby surfaces via a light projector integrated into the projector system and capturing a first scan of nearby surfaces, illuminated by the light projector, via an optical sensor integrated into the projector system; identifying a first space occupied by the projector system during the first time period based on features detected in the first scan; selecting a first augmented content source, from a first set of augmented content sources affiliated with the first space, associated with a first surface in the first space; articulating the light projector to locate the first surface in a field of view of the light projector; accessing a frame from the first augmented content source; and projecting the frame onto the first surface via the light projector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Lightform, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajinder Sodhi, Brett Jones, Kevin Karsch, Pulkit Budhiraja, Phil Reyneri, Douglas Rieck, Andrew Kilkenny
  • Patent number: 11221716
    Abstract: The present application discloses a touch substrate. The touch substrate includes a first touch electrode layer including a plurality of first touch electrodes successively along a first direction, each of the plurality of first touch electrodes extending substantially along a second direction; a second touch electrode layer including a plurality of second touch electrodes successively along the second direction, each of the plurality of second touch electrodes extending substantially along the first direction; and a plurality of dummy patterns electrically insulated from the first touch electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectionics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Tian, Tsungchieh Kuo, Ming Zhang, Xujie Zhang, Shifeng Xu, Chunjian Liu, Jing Wang, Xinbin Tian
  • Patent number: 11216628
    Abstract: A digital camera in a mobile device, such as in a smart phone, can be used for super-fast scanning of optical codes. The camera uses a wide-angle lens, high frames per second, very short exposure time, and/or a torch. For example, an ultra-wide angle camera can be used to provide a wide field of view and a large depth of field while decoding multiple optical codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SCANDIT AG
    Inventors: Daniel Scherly, Joan Domènech, Andrea Tullis, Vitali Samurov, Christian Floerkemeier
  • Patent number: 11212097
    Abstract: A stream of plaintext is marked per its more sensitive parts. These marked parts are being encrypted via mathematically secure ciphers for which the ciphertext may be much larger than the plaintext. This invention creates a mix of size-preserving encryption for the not so sensitive parts of the plaintext, and size-enlarging encryption for the marked parts, thereby security is served without the inconvenience of a very long ciphertext.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventor: Gideon Samid
  • Patent number: 11199908
    Abstract: A user interface device includes at least a biopotential sensor and a location sensor. The user interface device is constructed to be worn by a person. A responsive device, such as a computer, receives data based on the outputs from the biopotential sensor and the location sensor, and performs actions based on the received data. Primitive gestures detected in the received data are associated with inputs of an operating system of the responsive device. For a wrist-worn device, a primitive gesture can be based on a pose of the hand or location of a wrist or both. The association of primitive gestures with inputs of the operating system can include associating primitive gestures with mouse inputs, inputs to request launching an application or switching applications, or inputs to perform other operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Pison Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David O. Cipoletta, Dexter W. Ang, Nathan Yu, Michael P. Kowalczyk
  • Patent number: 11182587
    Abstract: An apparatus may include an ultrasonic sensor system, a low-frequency vibration source and a control system. The ultrasonic sensor system may include an ultrasonic receiver and an ultrasonic transmitter configured for transmitting ultrasonic waves in a first frequency range (e.g., 1 MHz to 30 MHz). The low-frequency vibration source may be configured for generating low-frequency vibrations in a second frequency range (e.g., the range of 5 Hz to 2000 Hz). The control system may be configured for synchronizing the generation of the first low-frequency vibrations and the transmission of the first ultrasonic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Nicholas Ian Buchan, Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh, Jessica Liu Strohmann, Sandeep Louis D'Souza
  • Patent number: 11182024
    Abstract: A touch substrate includes an optical sensor structure, a parallel light detection structure and a lens positioning structure laminated one on another. The optical sensor structure is configured to determine plane position coordinates of the floating touch point in a direction parallel to the touch substrate based on a light flux received by each opening sensor unit. The lens positioning structure is configured to adjust a focal length of a target lens unit having the plane position coordinates in a plurality of lens units, so as to enable the light flux received by the optical sensor unit corresponding to the target lens unit to reach a threshold, thereby to determine a target focal length acquired when the light flux received by the optical sensor unit reaches the threshold as a space position coordinate of the floating touch point in a normal direction of the touch substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shumeng Sun, Xiaohu Li, Minghui Zhang, Inho Park, Xiaopeng Cui
  • Patent number: 11173947
    Abstract: A driving control device includes a touch unit configured to acquire fingerprint information of a user and generate touch signals according to the fingerprint information, in which the touch signals include the fingerprint information; and a controller configured to generate driving control signals according to the fingerprint information in the touch signals and output the driving control signals to a vehicle to control traveling parameters of the vehicle. A vehicle and a driving control method are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xinchen Ma, Duo Zhang, Jin Sha, Zhongqi Zhang, Zhaobo Jiang, Yansheng Hu
  • Patent number: 11164522
    Abstract: A display panel, a brightness compensation method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes pixel driving circuits and a voltage detection circuit, the pixel driving circuit includes first to third nodes, the voltage detection circuit includes first to third detection nodes, the first to third detection nodes respectively correspond to and have potentials that are substantially the same as the first to third nodes, and the first node is electrically connected to a gate electrode of a light-emitting driving transistor. The potential of the first detection node reflects the potential of the gate electrode of the light-emitting driving transistor in the pixel driving circuit. Attenuation of brightness of the pixel driving circuit in the low frequency display process can be determined through the voltage detection circuit, thereby compensating for the light-emitting duration of the pixel driving circuit to achieve brightness compensation of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma AM-OLED Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mengmeng Zhang