Patents Examined by Benjamin C. Lee
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Patent number: 10824277Abstract: An electrical device providing audible and haptic communication with its user includes a touch screen, an array of piezoelectric elements, a memory, and a processor. The touch screen is divided into touch regions and each touch region carries one piezoelectric element. When receiving touch inputs from a user, the processor uses data and programs stored in the memory to (1) determine which touch region the touch input is located in, (2) determine which piezoelectric element corresponds to the determined touch region, and (3) vibrate the determined piezoelectric element at a predetermined frequency. The electrical device can output sound by (1) obtaining a signal of the sound to be output and (2) vibrating the piezoelectric element, or more than one at different predetermined frequencies, to output an audible sound.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Chiun Mai Communcation Systems, Inc.Inventors: Sheng-Hsiung Tsai, Ching-Ming Hung
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Patent number: 10818256Abstract: In a pulse output circuit in a shift register, a power source line which is connected to a transistor in an output portion connected to a pulse output circuit at the next stage is set to a low-potential drive voltage, and a power source line which is connected to a transistor in an output portion connected to a scan signal line is set to a variable potential drive voltage. The variable potential drive voltage is the low-potential drive voltage in a normal mode, and can be either a high-potential drive voltage or the low-potential drive voltage in a batch mode. In the batch mode, display scan signals can be output to a plurality of scan signal lines at the same timing in a batch.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seiko Amano, Hiroyuki Miyake
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Patent number: 10802544Abstract: A flexible display device is provided. The flexible display device includes: a display; a sensor configured to detect at least one rolling characteristic in response to the display being rolled; and a controller configured to perform a first function of the flexible display device based on the detected at least one rolling characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ji-yeon Kwak, Kyung-a Kang, Hyun-jin Kim, Nipun Kumar, Chang-soo Lee
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Patent number: 10761570Abstract: An electronic device may have a hollow display cover structure. The hollow display cover structure may be formed from a structure having an inner surface. The structure may be an elongated member having a longitudinal axis. A material such as sapphire, other crystalline materials, or other transparent materials may be used in forming the hollow display cover structure. A flexible display layer such as an organic light-emitting diode display layer or other flexible display structure may be wrapped around the longitudinal axis to cover the interior surface of the hollow display cover structure. The electronic device may have a touch sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, and other sensors for gathering input such as user input. The electronic device may use one or more sensors to gather information on rotational motion of the device and can display content on the flexible display layer accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Scott A. Myers, Derek Wright, Fletcher R. Rothkopf
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Patent number: 10761612Abstract: In one or more implementations, a static geometry model is generated, from one or more images of a physical environment captured using a camera, using one or more static objects to model corresponding one or more objects in the physical environment. Interaction of a dynamic object with at least one of the static objects is identified by analyzing at least one image and a gesture is recognized from the identified interaction of the dynamic object with the at least one of the static objects to initiate an operation of the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David Kim, Otmar D. Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, Patrick L. Olivier, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Pushmeet Kohli, David G. Molyneaux, Stephen E. Hodges, Andrew W. Fitzgibbon
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Patent number: 10761640Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes first electrodes overlapping a display area, a cover base covering the display area and a frame area, a second electrode arranged in the cover base and overlapping the frame area, a touch detection driver configured to output a drive signal to the second electrode, and a level shifter arranged between the second electrode and the touch detection driver, and configured to increase a signal level of the drive signal and output the drive signal having the increased signal level to the second electrode. The touch detection driver is configured to detect contact or proximity to an object with the frame area based on electrostatic capacitance between the first electrodes and the second electrode.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takafumi Suzuki, Michita Kudo
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Patent number: 10747296Abstract: Power management for a touch controller is disclosed. The touch controller can include a transmit section for transmitting stimulation signals to an associated touch sensor panel to drive the panel, where the touch controller can selectively adjust the transmit section to reduce power during the transmission. The touch controller can also include a receive section for receiving touch signals resulting from the driving of the panel, where the touch controller can selectively adjust the receive section to reduce power during the receipt of the touch signals. The touch controller can also include a demodulation section for demodulating the received touch signals to obtain touch event results, where the touch controller can selectively adjust the demodulation section to reduce power during the demodulation of the touch signals. The touch controller can also selectively reduce power below present low levels during idle periods.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christoph H. Krah, Thomas James Wilson
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Patent number: 10747489Abstract: A method for displaying content by an electronic device is provided. The method includes generating converted data by encoding a plurality of screen data according to first clocks, restoring the screen data by decoding the converted data based on second clocks separate from the first clocks, and displaying the restored screen data.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jong-Kon Bae, Dong-Kyoon Han, Dong-Hui Kim
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Patent number: 10744956Abstract: The vehicular display control device which controls an image that is projected on a windshield of a vehicle, includes: a detection section which detects an object near the vehicle; and a display control section which displays, when a first object is detected in front of the vehicle, a first image for attracting attention to the first object, at a predetermined position in a first region on the windshield, and displays, when a second object is detected on a lateral side relative to, or behind, the vehicle, a second image for attracting attention to the second object, at a predetermined position in the first region. When determining that a display position of the second image overlaps, in the first region, with a display position of the first image, the display control section moves the second image from the first region to a second region on the windshield.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuki Tsuruta
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Patent number: 10739899Abstract: A device configured to sense a touch on a surface of the device. The device includes a cover and a force-sensing structure disposed below the cover. The force-sensing structure may be positioned below a display and used in combination with other force-sensing elements to estimate the force of a touch on the cover of a device.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sinan Filiz, Martin P. Grunthaner, John Stephen Smith, Charley T. Ogata, Christian M. Sauer, Shin John Choi, Christopher J. Butler, Steven J. Martisauskas
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Patent number: 10732760Abstract: A vehicle includes a display for displaying a keypad to receive a command through a touch gesture of a user, and a controller for determining an operable area for the user on the display based on a user's shoulder height and arm length, and for controlling the display to display the keypad in the operable area.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Jong Yong Nam, Inseong Park, Yong Lee, Gi Beom Hong, Seok-Young Youn, Jia Lee, Taeyub Kim, Hotaek Lee
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Patent number: 10725301Abstract: Architecture and designs of wearable display devices are described. According to one aspect of the present invention, at least one optical conduit is embedded in or integrated with a temple of the wearable display device. The optical conduit is used to transport an optical image from one end to another end, where the optical image is generated in an image source (e.g., microdisplay) in accordance with image data. The microdisplay is powered and receives the image data and control signals via an active optical cable.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Inventor: Darwin Hu
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Patent number: 10719163Abstract: The embodiments of the invention disclose an object determining method, a portable device, an object displaying method, an object switching method and an electronic device. Said method is applied to a touch sensitive portable device. Identifications of multiple objects are displayed within a display area of said portable device. Each of the identifications of said multiple objects has a first status of being selected and a second status of being unselected. Said display area has a first area, the identification of a first object is displayed in the first area, and the first object is in the first status.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2013Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei Lv, Ming Cai, Yuan Yao
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Patent number: 10714506Abstract: A photodetector, a driving method thereof, a display panel and a display device are disclosed in the field of display technology. The photodetector includes photosensitive element, a voltage divider, a switch circuitry and a detection transistor. The photosensitive element and the voltage divider are connected in series between two power terminals. The gate of the detection transistor is connected to a first voltage dividing node between the photosensitive element and the voltage divider. Therefore, when the resistance of the photosensitive element becomes smaller under illumination, the voltage of the first voltage dividing node correspondingly rises, and the detection transistor is turned on and may output a current to a read line under the driving of a DC power terminal. The magnitude of the current is determined by the magnitude of the voltage of the first voltage dividing node.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Dongsheng Li, Huili Wu, Jianming Sun, Shipei Li, Xiaolong He
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Patent number: 10715140Abstract: A laminated light guide and component carrier includes a light guide of a light transmissive polymeric material. The light guide has a pocket in a first face. First electrical traces are printed on the first face. A light emitting diode is positioned in the pocket and supported on the light guide by attachment legs which extend outward from the pocket electrically connecting the light emitting diode to the first electrical traces. A light reflector is formed as a texturally modified area of the light guide directly aligned with the light emitting diode. A capacitive touch sensor is printed on a light guide second face and connected to second electrical traces defining capacitive touch traces printed on the second face. A window region of the light guide is defined where the capacitive touch sensor is aligned with the light reflector and the light emitting diode.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: DURA OPERATING, LLCInventors: Ron G. Gipson, Bhanumurthy Veeragandham
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Patent number: 10692438Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device, where a display area of the display panel includes a first display area and a second display area, each of the first display area and the second display area includes a plurality of pixels arranged in an array, and the quantity of pixels in at least one row of pixels in the first display area is less than the quantity of pixels in any row of pixels in the second display area. The display panel further includes a gate driving circuit and a plurality of scan signal lines, and at least one of the scan signal lines provides a scan signal for a row of the pixels. The display panel further includes resistance compensation units connected to the scan signal lines of the first display area, and the resistance compensation units are metal or metal oxide conducting wires.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Xingxing Yang
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Patent number: 10679559Abstract: A display driving unit circuit, a driving method, a display driving circuit and a display device are provided. The display driving unit circuit includes a pixel driving circuit and a light-emission control signal generation circuit. The light-emission control signal generation circuit is coupled to the pixel driving circuit. The pixel driving circuit is to drive a pixel to emit light. The light-emission control signal generation circuit is to supply a display light-emission control signal to the pixel driving circuit at a display stage to enable the pixel in a displaying mode and supply a fingerprint detection light-emission control signal to the pixel driving circuit at a fingerprint detection stage to enable the pixel in a fingerprint detection light-emission mode at the fingerprint detection stage. The display stage and the fingerprint detection stage are different time periods.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaoliang Ding, Xue Dong, Jing Lv, Haisheng Wang, Chunwei Wu, Yingming Liu, Wei Liu, Pengpeng Wang, Yanling Han, Xueyou Cao, Ping Zhang
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Patent number: 10671167Abstract: An electronic device may include a device housing, a touch display carried by the device housing and configured to sense a user input at a location thereon, and haptic actuators spaced apart within the device housing. The electronic device may also include a controller coupled to the touch display and the haptic actuators. The controller may be configured to cooperate with the touch display to determine a sensed location of the user input on the touch display, and drive the haptic actuators to focus a haptic sensation at the sensed location on the touch display.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Arman Hajati
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Patent number: 10656822Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods that enable sophisticated and inconspicuous interactions with content displayed on a head-mounted display are described. A head-mounted display includes an eye-tracker and the user also carries/wears a wireless portable interface device elsewhere on their body, such as a ring. The wireless nature of the portable interface device enables a small and unobtrusive form factor. The portable interface device includes an actuator that, when activated by the user, causes the portable interface device to wirelessly transmit a signal (e.g., a radio frequency signal or a sonic signal). A selection operation performed by the user is defined as the user activating the actuator of the portable interface device while the user is substantially concurrently gazing at a displayed object (as detected by the eye-tracker). In response to the selection operation, the head-mounted display displays a visual effect to the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: North Inc.Inventors: Matthew Bailey, Stefan Alexander
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Patent number: 10657895Abstract: What is disclosed are systems and methods of compensation of images produced by active matrix light emitting diode device (AMOLED) and other emissive displays. Anomalies in luminance produced by pixel circuits and bias currents produced by current biasing circuits for driving current biased voltage programmed pixels are corrected through calibration and compensation while re-using existing data or other lines that can be controlled individually to perform said calibration and compensation.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.Inventors: Gholamreza Chaji, Yaser Azizi, Arash Moradi, Hongxin Liu