Synaptics Patent Applications

MULTI-FREQUENCY SIMULATANEOUS ABSOLUTE CAPACITANCE TOUCH SENSING

Granted: February 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240069667
An input device that includes multiple electrodes disposed in a sensing region of the input device and a sensing circuit coupled to a first electrode and configured to detect an input object proximate the sensing region. The sensing circuit includes an amplifier having an inverting input coupled to the first electrode, a non-inverting input coupled to a drive signal, and an output generating a resulting signal. The sensing circuit includes a feedback capacitor coupled between the output…

BACKLIGHT CONTROL FOR DISPLAY DEVICES

Granted: February 1, 2024
Application Number: 20240038183
A display device includes a display panel, a backlight module, and backlight control circuitry. The backlight module is configured to illuminate the display panel, the backlight module comprising a plurality of light sources. The backlight control circuitry is configured to control first luminance of a first light source of the plurality of light sources based at least in part on a first weighted average of brightness values for a first set of pixels of the display panel.

BACKLIGHT CONTROL FOR DISPLAY DEVICES

Granted: February 1, 2024
Application Number: 20240038183
A display device includes a display panel, a backlight module, and backlight control circuitry. The backlight module is configured to illuminate the display panel, the backlight module comprising a plurality of light sources. The backlight control circuitry is configured to control first luminance of a first light source of the plurality of light sources based at least in part on a first weighted average of brightness values for a first set of pixels of the display panel.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IMAGE FRAME PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS

Granted: December 7, 2023
Application Number: 20230396665
Systems and method for streaming video content include downscaling video content using a downscaling model to generate downscaled video content and downloading the downscaled video content as a video stream and corresponding upscaling model to a client device. The system converts received video frames to a video memory format comprising channels having the same memory allocation size, each subsequent channel arranged in an adjacent memory location, for input to the downscaling model. The…

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING IN A DISPLAY DRIVER

Granted: November 23, 2023
Application Number: 20230377502
A display driver comprises image processing circuitry and driver circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to receive spatial distribution information of a physical quantity related to a display panel. The image processing circuitry is further configured to generate output voltage data by processing input pixel data associated with subpixels of the pixel. The drive circuitry is configured to drive the display panel based on the output voltage data.

MULTI-OBJECT DETECTION WITH SINGLE DETECTION PER OBJECT

Granted: October 12, 2023
Application Number: 20230326167
Systems and methods for classification of data comprise optimizing a neural network by minimizing a rhino loss value, including receiving a training batch of data samples comprising a plurality of samples for each of a plurality of classifications, extracting features from the samples to generate a batch of features, processing the batch of features using a neural network to generate a plurality of classifications to differentiate the samples, computing a rhino loss value for the…

MITIGATION OF DISPLAY ARTIFACTS FROM BEACON SIGNALS

Granted: October 12, 2023
Application Number: 20230325027
In general, in one aspect, one or more embodiments relate to an input device that includes a proximity sensing panel including sensor electrodes, and a proximity sensing circuit. The proximity sensing circuit is configured to determine that an image refresh rate to an equal or lower frequency than a beacon signal rate. The input-display device is configured to align transmitting a beacon signal on proximity sensing panel to during non-refresh period of a display or perform an additional…

DEVICES AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING PROXIMITY SENSING PERFORMANCE IN INPUT-DISPLAY DEVICES

Granted: October 5, 2023
Application Number: 20230315227
An input-display device includes a display panel, sensor electrodes, and a display driver. The display panel includes source lines. The sensor electrodes are capacitively coupled to the source lines. The display driver is configured to receive image data. The display driver is further configured to process the image data in response to a detection of a horizontal stripe pattern in an image corresponding to the image data. The display driver is further configured to drive the source lines…

DEVICES AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING PROXIMITY SENSING IN INPUT-DISPLAY DEVICE

Granted: October 5, 2023
Application Number: 20230315223
A display driver includes a driver circuit and a sensing controller. The driver circuit is configured to drive a display panel according to display information. The display panel defines a sensing region. The sensing controller interface circuit is configured to transmit an output vertical sync signal to a proximity sensing controller. The proximity sensing controller is configured to generate positional information of an input object based at least in part on a resulting signal received…

MODE SWITCHING IN DISPLAY DEVICE FOR DRIVING A DISPLAY PANEL

Granted: September 28, 2023
Application Number: 20230306913
A display driver includes a GRAM, a data driver, and a control circuit. The data driver is configured to: update, in a first mode, display elements of a display panel based on a command provided to the display driver asynchronously with a display vertical sync signal; update, in a second mode, the display elements based on image data stored in the GRAM in synchronization with the display vertical sync signal; and update, in a third mode, the display elements in synchronization with an…

INPUT DEVICE WITH NEAR-FIELD COMMUNICATION

Granted: September 7, 2023
Application Number: 20230280860
An input device a touchpad, an near field communication (NFC) controller, and an antenna electrically interfaced with the NFC controller. The antenna includes an antenna rod. The antenna rod is straight and disposed outside a perimeter of the touchpad.

QUADRATURE CLOCK GENERATOR WITH DUTY CYCLE CORRECTOR

Granted: August 3, 2023
Application Number: 20230244266
Quadrature clock generation circuits and techniques are disclosed. An example quadrature clock generator includes an in-phase (I) clock generation circuit to generate an I clock signal based on a reference clock signal, the I clock signal and the reference clock signal each having a first frequency, a quadrature phase (Q) clock generation circuit to generate a Q clock signal based on the reference clock signal, a rise time control signal, and a fall time control signal, the Q clock…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE IN A DISPLAY PANEL

Granted: July 13, 2023
Application Number: 20230222958
A display system includes a first memory and a display driver. The display system is configured to control the first memory to receive compensation information from the first memory with a first frequency and generate data signals for image data to be displayed on a display panel. The generation of the data signals comprises performing a compensation for the data signals based on the compensation information received from the first memory. The display driver is further configured to…

FINGERPRINT SENSOR HOUSING WITH NON-UNIFORM THICKNESS

Granted: June 29, 2023
Application Number: 20230206683
A sensor assembly includes a cover layer and a first sensor apparatus. The cover layer is molded from a first material to have a planar surface and non-uniform thickness, where a thickness of the first material at a first region of the cover layer is less than a thickness of the first material surrounding the first region. The first sensor apparatus is disposed beneath the planar surface of the cover layer, within the first region. The first sensor apparatus is configured to transmit and…

ATTENTION CUES FOR HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY (HMD)

Granted: June 22, 2023
Application Number: 20230195226
This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for indicating an attentiveness of a user of a head-mounted display (HMD) device. The HMD device may include a camera configured to capture images of the surrounding environment, an electronic display configured to display the images captured by the camera, and one or more sensors configured to track a direction of gaze of the user. In some aspects, the HMD device may output an attention cue based on the images displayed on the…

LOW LATENCY INPUT OBJECT DETECTION UNDER LOW GROUND MASS CONDITION

Granted: June 8, 2023
Application Number: 20230176679
A processing system configured to detect an input object proximate the processing system. The processing system includes sensor circuitry configured to make a determination, when the processing system is in a low ground mass (LGM) state, that a large object is proximate to sensor electrodes of the processing system. The sensor circuitry is further configured, in response to a determination that a large object is proximate the sensor electrodes while the processing system is in the LGM…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TOUCH-TO-DISPLAY NOISE MITIGATION

Granted: May 18, 2023
Application Number: 20230152925
Driving a display of an input-display device includes generating, during a first display frame, a first touch sensing waveform to be applied to a touch screen of the display, and generating, during a second display frame, a second touch sensing waveform to be applied to the touch screen. The first touch sensing waveform generates on the display a first touch-to-display noise pattern of touch-to-display noise artifacts. The second touch sensing waveform generates on the display a second…

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING A DISPLAY PANEL

Granted: May 11, 2023
Application Number: 20230142900
A display driver includes image processing circuitry and drive circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to determine a total current of a display panel and perform an IR-drop compensation using the total current and a first graylevel for a first subpixel of the display panel to determine a first voltage level for the first subpixel. The drive circuitry is configured to update the first subpixel based at least in part on the first voltage level.

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING A DISPLAY PANEL

Granted: May 11, 2023
Application Number: 20230142900
A display driver includes image processing circuitry and drive circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to determine a total current of a display panel and perform an IR-drop compensation using the total current and a first graylevel for a first subpixel of the display panel to determine a first voltage level for the first subpixel. The drive circuitry is configured to update the first subpixel based at least in part on the first voltage level.

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAY BRIGHTNESS CONTROL

Granted: April 20, 2023
Application Number: 20230118354
A display driver includes image processing circuitry and drive circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to generate first voltage data for a first pixel in a first screen area of a display panel using a first gamma parameter. The image processing circuitry is further configured to generate second voltage data for a second pixel in a second screen area of the display panel using a second gamma parameter set. The image processing circuitry is further configured to determine…