公开(公告)号：US11604553B2

公开(公告)日：2023-03-14

申请号：US17859617

申请日：2022-07-07

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Aram Song ,  Sangheon Park ,  Hoondo Heo ,  Minuk Kim ,  Jongdae Park ,  Ilyong Yu

IPC: G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/041

Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present invention, an electronic device may comprise a touch layer in which a sensor may be disposed below a designated area, wherein the touch layer comprises: a first touch line including a first touch electrode and a second touch electrode arranged in a first direction in the designated area; a second touch line including a third touch electrode and a fourth touch electrode arranged in a second direction while crossing the first touch line in the designated area; a first opening formed in the area where the first touch line and the second touch line cross each other; and a first connection wiring disposed in the peripheral portion of the first opening and connecting the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode to each other. Various other embodiments are also possible.

公开(公告)号：US11360626B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-14

申请号：US16874348

申请日：2020-05-14

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Hoondo Heo ,  Jaehyung Park ,  Sujin Yun ,  Sungwon Hong

IPC: G09G5/00 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G02F1/1362 ,  H01L25/18 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/1345 ,  H01L27/32 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F1/1335

Abstract: An electronic device include a first substrate; a plurality of thin film transistors (TFTs) disposed on the first substrate and a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to the plurality of TFTs, respectively; a second substrate disposed above the first substrate; a plurality of touch electrodes disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate to detect a touch position; a ground layer disposed under the first substrate; and at least one integrated circuit (IC) configured to apply a touch-driving signal to each of the plurality of touch electrodes during a touch-sensitive period, and apply a driven shield signal having an amplitude that is equal to an amplitude of the touch-driving signal to the ground layer during the touch-sensitive period.

公开(公告)号：US10908738B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-02

申请号：US16715330

申请日：2019-12-16

Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

Inventor： Minuk Kim ,  Hoondo Heo ,  Jiyong Kim ,  Keunsik Lee

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F1/16

Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a foldable electronic device and a method for detecting a touch input by a foldable electronic device. The method may include: detecting an angle between a first housing and a second housing; and adjusting a touch-sensing sensitivity on at least a portion of a third side adjacent to a first side to be lower than a touch-sensing sensitivity on the first side based on a touch input being detected on the first side where the angle is smaller than a specified angle.

公开(公告)号：US12189895B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-07

申请号：US18406567

申请日：2024-01-08

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Bongjun Ko ,  Sanghun Kwak ,  Dongnam Byun ,  Jongmin Wi ,  Hoondo Heo ,  Jinyoung Hwang

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06N3/0464 ,  G06N3/08

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a touch sensor disposed in the display and including a plurality of lines and a plurality of nodes formed by the plurality of lines, a memory storing instructions, and a processor. The instructions, when being executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to obtain a plurality of node values from each of the plurality of nodes, change the touch sensitivity of the touch sensor from a first touch sensitivity to a second touch sensitivity lower than the first touch sensitivity based on identifying a pattern by the plurality of node values, identify whether to recognize contact on the touch sensor as a touch input through the plurality of line values obtained from each of the plurality of lines based on identifying changes of the pattern by the plurality of node values.

公开(公告)号：US11747880B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-05

申请号：US17289980

申请日：2019-11-01

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Jongdae Park ,  Hoondo Heo ,  Minuk Kim ,  Jungwon Kim

IPC: G06F1/3231 ,  G06F1/3228 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/0486 ,  G06F3/0488

CPC classification number: G06F1/3231 ,  G06F1/3228 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/0412 ,  G06F3/0486 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F2203/04105

Abstract: Disclosed in various embodiments of the present invention are a method and a device, the device comprising a touch sensing module, a memory and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to detect a touch input while a low-power display mode is driven, store, in the memory, touch data corresponding to the detected touch input, change the low-power display mode to another designated mode, reset a touch baseline of the touch sensing module in response to the mode change, and compensate for the touch strength of the stored touch data at least on the basis of the designated mode. Various embodiments are possible.

公开(公告)号：US11422666B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-23

申请号：US17562556

申请日：2021-12-27

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Seunghoon Ko ,  Hoondo Heo ,  Dongchul Kim ,  Jooyoung Park ,  Eunsung Cho

IPC: G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/041

Abstract: An electronic device according is provided. The electronic device includes a touch sensor, a touch sensor integrated circuit (IC) configured to identify an input position on the touch sensor, a display, and a display driving IC configured to provide, to the display, at least one driving signal for driving the display, wherein the touch sensor IC is configured to measure, based on a first schedule, the input position on the touch sensor while a first driving signal among the at least one driving signal is provided from the display driving IC in a first interval, the first schedule being configured such that the at least one driving signal does not overlap a time period of the measurement of the input position, detect, based on a change of an interval of the first driving signal from the first interval to a second interval, an event in which a time period of the first driving signal being provided at least partially overlaps the time period of the measurement of the input position, and measure the input position, based on a second schedule which is different from the first schedule.

公开(公告)号：US11016603B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-25

申请号：US16322021

申请日：2017-06-26

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Kyucheol Kong ,  Hyesoon Jeong ,  Dae-Sik Hwang ,  Songgeun Kim ,  Jeong-Jin Lee ,  Hoondo Heo ,  Hyun-Suk Choi

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/0488

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for preventing a user's unintentional touch input in an electronic device. According to various embodiments of the present invention, an electronic device may comprise: a display for displaying a user interface; a memory; and a processor functionally connected to the display and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to set a touch blocking area in the edge area of the display, determine an exception area in the touch blocking area on the basis of the user interface, remove the determined exception area from the touch blocking area, so as to set a final touch blocking area, and process a touch event on the edge area on the basis of the final touch blocking area. Various embodiments are possible.

公开(公告)号：US11822741B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-21

申请号：US17508667

申请日：2021-10-22

Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

Inventor： Hoondo Heo ,  Jongdae Park ,  Minuk Kim ,  Jungwon Kim

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/04886 ,  G06F9/451

CPC classification number: G06F3/0416 ,  G06F3/04886 ,  G06F9/451 ,  G06F2203/04101 ,  G06F2203/04102 ,  G06F2203/04803

Abstract: Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to an electronic device and an operation method thereof. The electronic device may comprise: a display comprising a touch screen; a memory; and at least one processor electrically connected to the display and the memory. The memory may store instructions which, when executed, cause the at least one processor to: store, in the memory, information associated with a plurality of algorithms for identifying the location of an input; identify, among the plurality of algorithms, a first algorithm corresponding to a first screen region which is a portion of a screen region of the touch screen; identify a first input on the first screen region; and using the first algorithm, acquire touch coordinate information, corresponding to the location corresponding to the first input, on the touch screen.

公开(公告)号：US11163404B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-02

申请号：US16361911

申请日：2019-03-22

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Seunghoon Ko ,  Bongjun Ko ,  Aram Song ,  Hoondo Heo

IPC: G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a sensor layer including a first channel including one or more first electrodes and a second channel including one or more second electrodes and a control circuit configured to detect touch information corresponding to an input of an external object to the sensor layer based on a change in capacitance between at least one of the one or more first electrodes and at least one of the one or more second electrodes and detect pressure information corresponding to the input based on a resistance changed by the input to at least one of the first channel or the second channel.

公开(公告)号：US11093069B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-17

申请号：US16222167

申请日：2018-12-17

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Hyesoon Jeong ,  Kyuchul Kong ,  Daesik Hwang ,  Hoondo Heo ,  Cheonkum You ,  Junho Lee ,  Hyunsuk Choi

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/044

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for touch event processing are provided. A touch input is received in a designated region of a touchscreen display of the electronic device. The touch input is stored in a memory of the electronic device without providing the touch input as input to an application of the electronic device, upon reception of the touch input in the designated region. A drag input is received on the touch screen display as a continuation of the touch input. A processor of the electronic device determines the touch input and the drag input as input for the application upon the drag input exceeding a threshold.