Patents Examined by Benjamin Morales
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Patent number: 10665181Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may include a backlight having an array of locally dimmable light sources. Control circuitry may provide control signals to the backlight to produce light at different brightness levels. When the brightness level is below a threshold, the control circuitry may use pulse-width-modulation control signals to control the light sources in the backlight. When the brightness level is above the brightness threshold, the control circuitry may use analog control signals to control the light sources in the backlight. The control circuitry may adjust the threshold to achieve different dimming ranges for different brightness settings. A low brightness setting, for example, may have a lower threshold and lower dimming range than a high brightness setting, which may help produce darker darks when the display operates in a low brightness setting.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marc Albrecht, Teun R. Baar, Nicolas P. Bonnier, Sean Chang, ByoungSuk Kim, David S. Zalatimo
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Patent number: 10656770Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, the display panel having a display area with the pixels thereon and a peripheral area adjacent to the display area on a plane, a driving circuit part at the peripheral area and configured to provide an electrical signal to each of the pixels, a main circuit part at the peripheral area, the main circuit part having at least one portion that is spaced apart from the driving circuit part on a plane, the main circuit part being configured to provide a driving signal to the driving circuit part and the display panel, and a first partition member at a space between the main circuit part and the driving circuit part.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yeongsang Suh
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Patent number: 10649566Abstract: The in-cell touch display panel has a display area and a non-display area. Multiple pixel structures are disposed in the display area. Transparent conductive layers, metal layers, and first to fourth insulation layers are disposed in the pixel structures. The thickness of the third insulation layer is greater than or equal to that of the second insulation layer. The thickness of the third insulation layer is 1.2 or more times of that of the fourth insulation layer. The thickness of the third insulation layer is greater than or equal to 5000 ?. The sum of the thickness of the third insulation layer and the thickness of the fourth insulation layer is greater than or equal to 7000 ?.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignees: HannStar Display (Nanjing) Corporation, HannStar Display CorporationInventor: Cheng-Yen Yeh
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Patent number: 10628029Abstract: Particular embodiments receive a plurality of touch events. Each touch event may be associated with at least one position on a touchscreen, and at least a portion of the plurality of touch events are substantially located along a line. Particular embodiments further determine that: (1) the touch events are approaching an edge of the touchscreen, and (2) one or more pressure measurements taken at one or more of the touch input events are less than a minimum pressure threshold. Based on the determinations, particular embodiments anticipate that the touch events will end before they reach the edge of the touchscreen, and based on the anticipating, particular embodiments terminate a series of extrapolated positions before the series of extrapolated positions reach the edge of the touchscreen.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Benoit Schillings, Feng Qian, Jonathan Kaldor, Gueorgui Djabarov
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Patent number: 10613652Abstract: A touch display apparatus is disclosed. The touch display apparatus includes an electrophoretic structure, a protective layer and at least one touch sensing layer. The protective layer is disposed on the electrophoretic structure. The touch sensing layer is disposed on the protective layer and takes the protective layer as a carrier.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc.Inventors: Yau-Chen Jiang, Defa Wu, Jianbin Yan, Jinhai Zhang
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Patent number: 10585573Abstract: A method for zooming-in a picture on a mobile terminal may comprise: partitioning, by a picture partitioning module, a picture into an array formed by M×N rectangles; acquiring rectangles of two touch points when a touch detection module detects that there are two touch points on the picture; and zooming-in, by a display and zoom-in module, a rectangular array between rows and columns of the rectangles of the two touch points.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: HuiZhou TCL Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bin Yu, Weiqin Yang
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Patent number: 10572073Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which are capable of inputting information input by a plurality of users to targets manipulated by the users even in a situation in which the plurality of users perform manipulations at the same time, the information processing device including: an acquiring unit configured to identify and acquire input information from each of a plurality of target regions serving as acquisition sources of the input information, for each of the target regions; and a control unit configured to associate each of at least one or more applications with any of the plurality of target regions, and allocate the input information acquired from the target region to the application associated with the target region.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigefumi Tamura, Ryosuke Nomura, Tetsuo Ikeda
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Patent number: 10559604Abstract: An array substrate, a gate driving circuit and a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a first display area, a second display area and an opening area. The opening area is surrounded by the first display area. Among the sub-pixels in the first display area, the sub-pixels in at least two adjacent columns are connected to a same first data line. Among the two sub-pixels in the same row electrically connected to the same first data line, one sub-pixel is connected to the first gate line, and the other sub-pixel is connected to the second gate line. For the sub-pixels in the second display area, the sub-pixels in different columns are connected to different second data lines, and the sub-pixels in different rows are connected to different gate lines.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaojing Zhan, Huangyao Wu, Jinyuan Liao, Changzhi Wu
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Patent number: 10553002Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for using electronic diffusers to implement message indicators are described. A segment of a diffuser attached to an electronic device is configured to indicate an informational message in response to signals that result in a change to an optical property. A set of information to be displayed using the segment is determined, and a signal is transmitted to the segment to display the information.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2013Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Apple, Inc.Inventor: Joel S. Armstrong-Muntner
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Patent number: 10539855Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed; and the display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are disposed opposite to each other, and a light shielding pattern located between the two substrates; a side of the first substrate away from the second substrate is a light emitting side of the display panel; a plurality of first pixel units are additionally disposed in a peripheral region of the display panel and a side of the light shielding pattern away from the second substrate, and a driving circuit electrically connected with the first pixel units and a printed circuit board of the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2016Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lin Lin, Hui Wang
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Patent number: 10539793Abstract: There is provided an image display device including (A) an image forming device, (B) an optical device configured to receive incident light output from the image forming device and output the incident light, and (C) a light receiving device configured to detect the light output from the image forming device.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2015Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Mukawa
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Patent number: 10535315Abstract: A display device including a liquid crystal panel assembly including a plurality of pixels, a data driver applying a data voltage to a plurality of data lines which is connected to the plurality of pixels, and a common voltage generator providing a common voltage to the liquid crystal panel assembly, in which the common voltage is an optimal common voltage for a maximum grayscale at which a flicker is minimized while a data voltage with a maximum grayscale is applied to the plurality of pixels.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joon-Hyung Park, Sun Young Kwon, Min-Hee Kim, Ji Hong Bae, Jong Ho Son, Keun Chan Oh, Kyung Hee Lee, Kang Seob Jeong, Kyung Seon Tak
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Patent number: 10534464Abstract: Detecting touch input includes, over a series of touch-sensing time frames, interpreting electrical conditions of display electrodes of a touch-sensitive display device to estimate frame-by-frame positions of two or more stylus electrodes of an active stylus. Based on the estimated frame-by-frame positions, future positions of each of the two or more stylus electrodes during a future touch-sensing time frame are predicted. Regions of interest on the touch-sensitive display device are identified, each region of interest including a plurality of display electrodes surrounding the predicted future position of a stylus electrode of the two or more stylus electrodes. During the future touch-sensing time frame, display electrodes in the regions of interest are selectively scanned.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Arie Yehuda Gur, Zohar Nagola
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Patent number: 10489931Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing processing load when simulating user interaction with virtual objects in an interactive space and/or evaluating user interaction with virtual objects in an interactive space are described herein. Interactions may include interactions between one or more real-world objects and one or more virtual objects. A real world object may be detected and/or modeled in a virtual world as a collection of point charges.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Meta View, Inc.Inventors: Zachary R. Kinstner, Raymond Chun Hing Lo
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Patent number: 10481746Abstract: Embroidered sensor assemblies are described that are formed on a flexible substrate, such as a suitable fabric material. The embroidered sensors can be configured as a pattern of wires that enable measurement of strain based on positional relationships between nodes formed by the pattern of wires. As a pipe or other object flexes, the positional relationships are altered and can be detected to facilitate computation of strain. Strain can be deduced at each individual node, which can then be used to create a strain profile or map for the object.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Christian Juland Moller, James David Holbery, John Guido Atkins Weiss, Aric A. Fitz-Coy, Stephanie Jo Rodgers-Ahnen
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Patent number: 10459528Abstract: Gesture inputs at an information handling system adapt to manage end user resolution constraints by selectively assigning a physical input device to accept fractional inputs of the gesture type. For example, an end user maintains a gesture for a predetermined time to command a totem device to adapt from a first type of input, such as scrolling, to the gesture input so that the end user may more precisely manage the desired gesture input through the totem. Upon movement from the gesture, the physical input device reverts from the gesture input to the first type of input.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Yagiz C. Yildiz, Rex W. Bryan, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
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Patent number: 10446086Abstract: Systems and methods of color data driving for light emissive visual display technology, and particularly to systems and methods for driving pixels with more than three primary color subpixels. Only a subset of the total number of subpixels per pixel are driven at any one time reducing the number of decoders/DACs. The decoders/DACs are coupled by a color decoder only to the active subpixels using a switching fabric.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.Inventor: Gholamreza Chaji
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Patent number: 10446719Abstract: The disclosed technology provides micro-assembled micro-LED displays and lighting elements using arrays of micro-LEDs that are too small (e.g., micro-LEDs with a width or diameter of 10 ?m to 50 ?m), numerous, or fragile to assemble by conventional means. The disclosed technology provides for micro-LED displays and lighting elements assembled using micro-transfer printing technology. The micro-LEDs can be prepared on a native substrate and printed to a display substrate (e.g., plastic, metal, glass, or other materials), thereby obviating the manufacture of the micro-LEDs on the display substrate. In certain embodiments, the display substrate is transparent and/or flexible.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: X-Celeprint LimitedInventors: Christopher Bower, Matthew Meitl, David Gomez, Salvatore Bonafede, David Kneeburg, Alin Fecioru, Carl Prevatte
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Patent number: 10409369Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including a display control unit that controls a display unit in a manner that a plurality of symbols is visibly displayed to a user, and a position acquisition unit that acquires information indicating a pointing position for specifying one or more symbols among the plurality of symbols. The display control unit controls the display unit in a manner that a predetermined object is displayed to indicate a group to which the plurality of symbols belongs according to the pointing position.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kei Takahashi, Shinichi Kawano, Ikuo Yamano
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Patent number: 10395616Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel comprising a pixel which is connected to a gate line and a data line, a gate driver configured to generate a gate signal having a gate-on voltage and a gate-off voltage and to provide the gate line with the gate signal, and a gate controller configured to generate a clock signal having a duty ratio and to provide the gate driver with the clock signal, where a mean amplitude of the clock signal in a vertical blanking period of a frame cycle is smaller than the mean amplitude of the clock signal in an active period of the frame cycle.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jahun Koo, Haksun Kim, Kyung-Hun Lee