Using electrical resistance to estimate force on an electrode during temperature changes
Granted: November 8, 2022
Patent Number:
11494023
A processing system includes sensor circuitry and processing circuitry. The sensor circuitry is configured to, using the sensor electrodes, obtain capacitive measurements of a sensing region, and obtain a resistance measurement of the sensing region. The processing circuitry is coupled to the sensor circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a location of an input object using the capacitive measurements of the sensing region; and determine a force value based on the…
Strain sensing in foldable displays
Granted: November 1, 2022
Patent Number:
11488499
A method and apparatus for sensing strain in a flexible electronic display. In some implementations, a display controller may be coupled to an electronic display panel. The display controller is configured to receive sensor signals from one or more piezoresistive sensors disposed in the electronic display panel, determine an amount of strain in the electronic display panel based on the received sensor signals, determine a bend angle of the electronic display panel based on the determined…
Device and method for driving a self-luminous display panel
Granted: October 25, 2022
Patent Number:
11482175
A display driver comprises gamma processing circuitry, compensation circuitry, and driver circuitry. The gamma processing circuitry is configured to process the image data to generate gamma processed image data. The compensation circuitry is configured to process the gamma-processed image data, based on a ratio of a number of display elements that emit light to a total number of display elements of a display panel, to generate compensated image data. The driver circuitry is configured to…
Transimpedance amplifier (TIA)-based global coarse baseline correction (GCBC) for capacitive sensing
Granted: October 25, 2022
Patent Number:
11481076
A method and apparatus of global coarse baseline correction (GCBC) for capacitive scanning. An input device may include a number (N) of sensor electrodes, a GCBC circuit, and detection circuitry. Each sensor electrode is associated with a respective channel. The GCBC circuit produces sensing signals in each of the N channels and the detection circuitry may detect changes in the capacitances of one or more sensor electrodes based on the sensing signals. In some implementations, the GCBC…
Method and system for quadrature proximity sensing
Granted: October 25, 2022
Patent Number:
11481074
A processing system for an input device includes an in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) receiver module including a first and second charge integrators, and first and second demodulator modules. The I/Q receiver module alternates integration of a resulting signal, received from a receiver electrode of the input device, between the first and the second charge integrators in four consecutive quarter cycles, to obtain four consecutive integration results. The four consecutive quarter cycles…
Touch-to-display interference mitigation in touch displays
Granted: October 25, 2022
Patent Number:
11481068
An input-display device includes a display screen with display pixels, capacitive sensing electrodes for capacitive sensing in a sensing region of the display screen, and a gate driver circuit associated with the display screen. The gate driver circuit superimposes a critical time window on a full-duration gate control pulse of a gate control signal. The critical time window partially overlaps with the full-duration gate control pulse at least at an end of the full-duration gate control…
System and method for subpixel rendering and display driver
Granted: October 18, 2022
Patent Number:
11475822
A system and method for rendering subpixels comprising performing an eight-color halftoning process on the second image data to generate third image data which describe a grayscale value of each of an R subpixel, a G subpixel and a B subpixel of each pixel with one bit, generating the third image data by performing a dithering process on the second image data using a dither value selected from elements of the dither table, when the third image data associated with a pixel of interest of…
Overlapping muxes for common mode noise removal
Granted: October 18, 2022
Patent Number:
11474654
Sensing systems and methods that utilize zero row sum code division multiplexing (CDM) drive matrices to reduce or eliminate radiative emissions. Measurements corresponding to an input received at a sensing region of the input device are obtained by driving a first subset of transmitters of the input device according to a first portion of a CDM drive matrix, wherein the CDM matrix is a zero row sum matrix, and obtaining first measurement signals with the plurality of receivers, and…
Display noise filter for a sensing device
Granted: October 18, 2022
Patent Number:
11474635
An input device comprises a plurality of sensor electrodes and a processing system coupled to the plurality of sensor electrodes. The processing system comprises a sensor driver. The sensor driver comprises clock synchronization circuitry, a blocking pulse generator, and a sensor module. The clock synchronization circuitry is configured to receive an external clock signal, and synchronize an internal clock signal with the external clock signal. The blocking pulse generator is configured…
Source output voltage compensation for display noise
Granted: October 11, 2022
Patent Number:
11467694
An input-display device includes a display screen disposed on a display substrate, the display screen including a multitude of display pixels. The input-display device further includes a multitude of capacitive sensing electrodes for capacitive sensing in a sensing region of the display screen. The input-display device also includes a source driver circuit configured to generate a data voltage for driving a pixel circuit associated with one display pixel of the multitude of display…
Device and method for compensating a voltage drop in display panels driven by multiple display drivers
Granted: October 4, 2022
Patent Number:
11462164
A display system includes a display panel and first and second display drivers. The first display driver is configured to generate first region total current data corresponding to a subtotal of estimated pixel currents of respective pixels in a first region of the display panel. The second display driver is configured to generate second region total current data corresponding to a subtotal of estimated pixel currents of respective pixels in a second region of the display panel. The first…
Noise suppression circuit
Granted: October 4, 2022
Patent Number:
11460953
A processing system is disclosed. The processing system includes an amplifier including a multitude of input resistors receiving a multitude of reduced noise signals from a multitude of charge integrators and a summing resistor at an output of the amplifier. The amplifier is configured to generate a feedback signal at the output of the amplifier by amplifying each of a multitude of reduced noise signals using a gain value and a cardinality of the multitude of reduced noise signals. The…
Operational amplifier with reduced input capacitance
Granted: September 27, 2022
Patent Number:
11456715
An operational amplifier includes an output transistor having a gate coupled to an output node, at least one intermediate transistor each having a common gate node, an input transistor having a gate coupled to an input node, and a load device coupled to sources of the output transistor, the at least one intermediate transistor, and the input transistor. The operational amplifier further includes an output stage coupled to the output node, configured to drive the voltage on the output…
Optical biometric sensor with automatic gain and exposure control
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11450142
An optical imaging device for imaging a biometric input object is provided. The optical imaging device includes an optical sensor having an array of sensing elements. The optical sensor is configured to first read a first subset of sensing elements in the array of sensing elements; analyze the first read of the first subset of sensing elements to determine an ambient light condition; first alter an operating point of the optical imaging device based on the ambient light condition; and…
Derivation of depth information from time-of-flight (TOF) sensor data
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11448739
A time-of-flight sensor includes a light source to transmit periodic bursts light in a direction of one or more objects and an array of optical sensing elements to detect light reflected from the one or more objects and generate sensor data corresponding to the detected light. A distance calculator determines depth information of the one or more objects by determining a general phase shift of the reflected light relative to the transmitted light based on a first frame of the sensor data…
Class-G control system with low latency signal path
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11444590
Systems and methods include a digital control module that receives and processes audio data for output through a loudspeaker. An analog block receives the audio data and the power control signal and amplifies the audio data for output. A first processing path includes a buffer to delay the audio data, a first component to combine the buffered audio data and anti-noise. A second processing path includes an absolute value block to receive the audio data and an envelope detector to receive…
Device and method for scaling pixel brightness based on location of a target pixel
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11443671
A display driver includes control circuitry and image processing circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to store a default gamma curve and determine a scaling factor based on a location of a target pixel in a display panel. The control circuitry is further configured to determine a modified gamma curve by scaling the default gamma curve with the scaling factor. The image processing circuitry configured to apply a gamma transformation based on the modified gamma curve to image…
Display driver, image processing circuitry, and method
Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11436968
A display driver that drives a display panel comprises storage circuitry, color addition processing circuitry, and drive circuitry. The storage circuitry stores F subpixel data acquired from color coordinate data indicating color coordinates of a displayed color in a predetermined color space displayed on the display panel when an R subpixel, a G subpixel, and a B subpixel in each of a plurality of pixels of the display panel are driven with drive signals corresponding to a minimum…
Device and method for driving a display panel
Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11436962
A display driver includes control circuitry and image processing circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to store first and second predetermined gamma curve defined for first and second regions of a display panel, respectively, the first region having a different pixel layout than the second region. The control circuitry is further configured to determine first and second modified gamma curves by scaling the first and second predetermined gamma curves with a common scale factor.…
Generalized negative log-likelihood loss for speaker verification
Granted: May 10, 2022
Patent Number:
11328733
Systems and methods for speaker verification comprise optimizing a neural network by minimizing a generalized negative log likelihood function, including receiving a training batch of audio samples comprising a plurality of utterances for each of a plurality of speakers, extracting features from the audio samples to generate a batch of features, processing the batch of features using a neural network to generate a plurality of embedding vectors configured to differentiate audio samples…
