Patents Examined by Abbas Abdulselam
  • Patent number: 10255844
    Abstract: A head mounted display device includes a display panel including a first display region and a second display region which is arranged at a first angle with respect to the first display region; a reflective panel arranged at a second angle with respect to the second display region, to output a first transmitted light by transmitting a first light which is output from the first display region, and to output a second reflected light by reflecting a second light output from the second display region; and a lens to collect the first transmitted light and the second reflected light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-Tak Lee, Si-Beak Pyo, Kyu-Seok Kim, Young-Nam Yun, Hyun-Koo Lee, Young-Sik Lim
  • Patent number: 10209550
    Abstract: A touch button structure for a mobile communications or other device, including a sensor slot with front-side and back-side slot walls formed in the device wall, an interior surface of a touch button area forming the front-side slot wall, and a sensor component inserted within the sensor slot. The sensor component includes a sense element operable to sense a touch-deflection of the front-side slot wall toward the sense element in response to a touch-press of the touch button, and front-side and back-side elastic insulating retention laminates affixed to the front/back-side of the sense element. The front/back-side elastic laminates being compressible for insertion of the sensor component into the sensor slot, and when inserted, are decompressible to contact respectively the front-side and back-side slot walls, and at least the front-side elastic laminate is compressible in response to a deflection of the front-side slot wall in the direction of the sense element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Dongtai Liu
  • Patent number: 10198080
    Abstract: A virtual user interface is provided which may be used in conjunction with furniture such as shelves, tables, carts, and so forth. The furniture itself may have no active input/output mechanisms such as processors or onboard sensors. Visual output for the user interface may be projected from an overhead projector onto a plurality of projection surfaces on the furniture. Input, such as a user gesturing towards or touching the projected location of a control element, may be detected remotely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: William Spencer Worley, III, Louis Leroi Legrand, III, Christopher David Coley
  • Patent number: 10175771
    Abstract: A keyboard of a data entry device includes a printed circuit board, a spacer having a plurality of key-positioning locations, a plurality of keys, each key being disposed so as to be at least indirectly in contact with a corresponding key imprint on the printed circuit board and a plate of transparent material in which holes corresponding to each key are made. The printed circuit board, the spacer and the plate of transparent material are applied so as to constitute an assembly that is non-dismountable from the exterior of the data entry device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: INGENICO GROUP
    Inventor: Sylvain Barneron
  • Patent number: 10170041
    Abstract: A pixel circuit able to prevent a spread of the terminal voltages of drive transistors inside a panel and in turn able to reliably prevent deterioration of uniformity, wherein a source of a TFT serving as a drive transistor is connected to an anode of a light emitting element, a drain is connected to a power source potential, a capacitor is connected between a gate and source of the TFT, and a source potential of the TFT is connected to a fixed potential through a TFT serving as a switch transistor and wherein pixel circuit lines are connected by an upper line and bottom line and are arranged in parallel with pixel circuit power source voltage lines so as not to have intersecting parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10152922
    Abstract: The present invention provides a scan driving circuit utilized to drive cascading scan lines. The scan driving circuit comprises a pull-down control module, a pull-down module, a reset control module, a reset module, a lower transmission module, a first bootstrap capacitor, a constant low voltage source, and a constant high voltage source. By use of the deployment of the reset module, the scan driving circuit of the present invention improves the stability of the scan driving circuit and meanwhile, the structure of the whole scan driving circuit is simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Juncheng Xiao, Mang Zhao, Yong Tian
  • Patent number: 10147393
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display apparatus and a control method thereof, the display apparatus including: a signal receiver configured to receive a video signal; a signal processor configured to process the received video signal; a display configured to display a first image based on the processed video signal; and a controller configured to control the signal processor to increase grayscale of the video signal corresponding to the first image if ambient illumination is equal to or higher than an illumination threshold and grayscale of the first image is equal to or lower than a first grayscale threshold, and to control the display to display a second image based on a video signal increased in the grayscale. Thus, it is possible to minimize and/or reduce glare due to optical reflectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-kyung Yoon, Won-pil Kim, Dae-hyun Nam, Jae-eun Cheong
  • Patent number: 10146263
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including: a display panel configured to generate an image; a touch screen panel formed on the display panel; and a window formed on the touch screen panel and extending over a side edge of the touch screen panel to facilitate a covering and sealing of the touch screen panel. According to the present invention, by providing a display device having a laminated structure in which the edge of the touch screen panel is sealed so as to prevent moisture from permeating from the outside, occurrence of product defects may be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Hwan Kim, Joo-Han Bae, Byeong-Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 10140939
    Abstract: A data conversion method for converting display data of a display device includes detecting an ambient temperature of the display device; receiving a specific display data to be displayed by the display device, a previous display data in N row before the specific display data, and a next display data in N row after the specific display data; converting the specific display data into a display output data according to the previous display data, the next display data and the ambient temperature; and outputting the display output data to perform displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Sitronix Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Chang, Wen-Yuan Kuo
  • Patent number: 10133417
    Abstract: Disclosed is an in-cell touch type touch display device and a method of driving the same, which prevent an error of a touch operation from being caused by the delay of a touch report occurring in a large-screen touch display device. The touch display device includes a touch panel, including a plurality of touch sensors, and a driving circuit unit. The driving circuit unit may include a plurality of source/touch driving ICs and a touch IC. The plurality of source/touch driving ICs may supply a touch driving signal to the plurality of touch sensors. The touch IC may perform a touch operation based on touch reports received from the plurality of source/touch driving ICs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: ByungHyun Seo, HongSung Song, Hui Kim
  • Patent number: 10134274
    Abstract: Various devices, systems, products and methods for customizing a remote control are presented. Sensors are optionally used to aid in the identification of users and user specific remote control configurations and layouts are optionally automatically loaded upon determination that a different user is handling the remote control. The devices, systems, products and methods are useful for minimizing inadvertent changes to system setting and modes due to unanticipated or accidental presses of buttons on a remote control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Inventors: Ekaterina Filatova, Andrey Kuplevakhsky
  • Patent number: 10126928
    Abstract: A human machine interface system for a vehicle includes a control and a user input actuatable by a user and associated with at least one accessory of a vehicle. The user input includes a touch screen having a deformable touch surface that is deformable to form a plurality of protruding user inputs. The user inputs of the touch surface are adjustable responsive to a proximity of the user's hand. Optionally, a plurality of speakers may be operable to generate respective audible outputs, with the speakers being disposed at the vehicle remote from the user input. The control, responsive to actuation by the user of the user input, controls the speakers to generate respective sounds at the speakers so that a resulting sound is perceived by the user to be originating at or near the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Joel S. Gibson
  • Patent number: 10121063
    Abstract: A wink gesture based control technique for selecting, controlling and manipulating virtual objects and smart applications on a display using facial gestures of the user, in particular winking, blinking and squinting movements of the eyes. The wink gesture based control technique utilizes wink gestures of a user to select, control, and manipulate virtual objects on a display. A head mounted device is adapted to allow detection and classification of specific wink gestures. The head mounted device in some embodiments may also be adapted to recognize certain characteristics of the wink gestures, such as duration or amplitude, to allow enhanced navigation of a computer interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: BMT BUSINESS MEETS TECHNOLOGY HOLDING AG
    Inventor: Maximilian Ralph Peter von und zu Liechtenstein
  • Patent number: 10121410
    Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods, and apparatus for reducing the power consumption of a display panel. Specifically, the embodiments discussed herein relate to a panel pixel charge scheme that allows the current output of a display driver to be modified based on the content to be displayed at the display panel. The display driver can compare current and upcoming display content in order to determine how the line voltage for one or more output lines will change over time. If, based on the comparison, the voltage for an output line is not going to vary substantially over time, the bias current output from the display driver can be modified in order to save power. The modification to the bias current can depend on the amount of change the line voltage will undergo in subsequent executions of the content data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fenghua Zheng, Sandro H. Pintz
  • Patent number: 10101822
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to language input correction. In one example process, a sequence of contact inputs can be detected via a keyboard interface on a touch-sensitive display. A contact input of the sequence of contact inputs can include a contact motion from a first position to a second position of the keyboard interface. A plurality of candidate words corresponding to the sequence of contact inputs can be determined. The plurality of candidate words can be ranked based on a probability that the contact input is an intended input to select a first key of the keyboard interface, and a probability that the contact input is an intended input to select a second key of the keyboard interface. A portion of the plurality of candidate words can be displayed for user selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Hatori, Dominic Yu
  • Patent number: 10095038
    Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a display device, a bonding structure connected to the display device, a driving element connected to the bonding structure, and a rotation button connected to the driving element. When the rotation button is rotated, the length of the bonding structure is changed by the driving element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Shu-Cheng Hsu, Ku-Wu Lai, Hsin-I Wu, Chien-Yu Shih
  • Patent number: 10088935
    Abstract: A sensor-equipped display device includes a display panel comprising a common electrode; a sensor comprising a plurality of detection electrodes extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, each of the detection electrodes including a first electrode and a second electrode which are opposed to the common electrode, are divided and extend in the first direction, each of the first electrode and the second electrode including a gradient in width in the first direction in the detection electrode, the gradient in width of the first electrode and the gradient in width of the second electrode being inclined in opposite directions; and a controller configured to effect switching to either a first mode or a second mode, and to control driving of the common electrode and the detection electrodes, wherein the sensor further comprises a dummy electrode disposed between neighboring detection electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Yoshitoshi Kida
  • Patent number: 10078481
    Abstract: A computing device is described. The computing device a processor, a bus coupled to the processor, a graphics display device, coupled to the bus, to display graphics data, an interactive display device, coupled to the bus, to display bitmap image data and a manager module to manage the bitmap image data and transmit the bitmap image data to the interactive display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anthony Kozaczuk, James Trethewey, Greg Kaine, Murali Veeramoney, Karen Stafford
  • Patent number: 10078392
    Abstract: A driver integrated circuit (IC) is arranged to selectively operate in a display mode and a touch-sensing mode when the driver IC is coupled to a touch display panel. When the driver IC operates in the display mode, the driver IC controls a plurality of common voltage lines of the touch display panel to have a common voltage. When the driver IC operates in the touch-sensing mode, the driver IC controls a first source line of the touch display panel which corresponds to a specific common voltage line, or controls a neighboring common voltage line of the specific common voltage line, to have a first signal pattern the same as the first signal pattern on the specific voltage line or to be floating, wherein the specific common voltage line is arranged to detect touch currently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Guan-Ying Huang, Yaw-Guang Chang
  • Patent number: 10068515
    Abstract: A display device includes a signal receiver, a signal generator, and a signal corrector. The signal receiver receives an image signal. The signal generator generates a data signal for each of a first color pixel and a second color pixel based on the image signal. The signal corrector generates corrected data for the first color pixel based on the data signal for the second color pixel in a single driving mode. The first color pixel and the second color pixel emit light of different grayscale values of a same color. The first color pixel is driven and the second color pixel is not driven in the single driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byeong Hee Won, Jong In Baek, Rang Kyun Mok, Won Sang Park