Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Micromechanical ultrasonic transducers and display
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Application No.: US14569280Application Date: 2014-12-12
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Publication No.: US09815087B2Publication Date: 2017-11-14
- Inventor: Suryaprakash Ganti , David William Burns , Jonathan Charles Griffiths
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP
- Main IPC: G06F3/041
- IPC: G06F3/041 ; B06B1/06 ; G10K9/125 ; H01L41/31 ; G06F3/043 ; G06K9/00

Abstract:
An apparatus may include a one- or two-dimensional array of micromechanical ultrasonic transducer (PMUT) elements positioned below, beside, with, on, or above a backplane of a visual display. The backplane may be a thin-film transistor (TFT) backplane. The array of PMUT elements may be a piezoelectric micromechanical ultrasonic transducer (PMUT) array or a capacitive micromechanical ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) array. The PMUT array may be configurable to operate in modes corresponding to multiple frequency ranges. When operating in the low-frequency mode, the apparatus may be capable of gesture detection. A high-frequency mode may include a fingerprint sensor mode or a stylus detection mode.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150169136A1 MICROMECHANICAL ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS AND DISPLAY Public/Granted day:2015-06-18
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