Patents Examined by Benjamin Morales
  • Patent number: 10019119
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive device with stylus includes a touch panel, a stylus drive unit, a stylus sense unit, a touch panel drive unit, and a measurement unit. A touch by a stylus proximate to a touch panel electrode changes a capacitive coupling between the touch panel electrode and a stylus electrode. The amplitude of the response signal is responsive to the capacitive coupling between the touch panel electrode and the stylus electrode, and is measured to provide an indication of the position of the stylus electrode relative to the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Thomas J. Rebeschi, Billy L. Weaver, Brock A. Hable
  • Patent number: 10008158
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device includes an organic light-emitting display panel displaying an image that includes a plurality of frames, a data driver providing a plurality of data signals, which correspond to the image, to the organic light-emitting display panel, and a gamma voltage generator providing a gamma voltage, which varies in a same period as each of the frames, to the data driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Woo Park, Dong Hwan Kim, Ki Myeong Eom
  • Patent number: 9985629
    Abstract: A method for locking out a portion of a touch screen interface in response to an inadvertent touch comprises steps to detect multiple touches on the portion of the touch screen interface; determine that the multiple touches are incompatible; initiate a lockout time period in response to the determination and reinitiate the lockout time period in response to a subsequent touch during the lockout time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventor: Eric J. Schuh
  • Patent number: 9977546
    Abstract: Groove analysis in a device having a tactile input surface suited to detect more than one tactile input at a time. Using groove analysis allows a touch screen device a more robust and efficient algorithm for distinguishing between two different tactile inputs. The touch screen device may include a touch screen controller that includes an analysis circuit for determining grooves between touch inputs. Generally, when a touch input is received at the surface of a touch screen device, the touch screen may register touch strength signals at each of a plurality of touch regions. A groove may be generally defined as a touch region that exhibits a touch strength signal that is less than surrounding touch regions. Once all touch regions are analyzed by a groove analysis, various touch regions determined to grooves may be eliminated from a further analysis to determine the XY coordinates of actual touch inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Kusuma Adi Ningrat, Manivannan Ponnarasu
  • Patent number: 9977642
    Abstract: The invention relates to an encoder and a decoder and methods therein for supporting screen sharing, where the screen sharing comprises encoding pictures F representing pixels of a shared screen, providing said pictures to a decoder where they are decoded. The method performed by the encoder comprises deriving information related to an object which is moved on the shared screen between two pictures Fn and Fn+1. At least part of the derived information is related to an intermediate position of the object, on the shared screen, between the two pictures Fn and Fn+1. The method further comprises providing said information to the decoder, thereby enabling the decoder to generate intermediate pictures, FIMD, in addition to the pictures, F, based on the provided information, wherein the object is generated in different positions in said intermediate pictures, FIMD, thus reconstructing the movement of the object between two provided pictures Fn and Fn+1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Martin Pettersson, Jonatan Samuelsson, Ying Wang
  • Patent number: 9972281
    Abstract: A method of compensating an image to be display on a display panel is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes receiving a first input image and adjusting a contrast sensitivity of the first input image. The method also includes calculating a first derivative of luminance of a pixel included in the adjusted image, calculating a second derivative of the luminance of the pixel, and accumulating the first and second derivatives. The method further includes determining a burn-in causing boundary based at least in part on the accumulated first and second derivatives, receiving a second input image, and comparing the burn-in causing boundary to a boundary of the second input image to determine whether to apply burn-in compensation. The method finally includes compensating a portion of the second input image corresponding to the burn-in causing boundary based at least in part on an unsharpening filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Won Park, Yong-Jun Jang, Gi-Geun Kim, Won-Sik Oh, Eun-Ho Lee, Hyun-Dae Lee
  • Patent number: 9966032
    Abstract: A driving circuit in this disclosure includes plural stages of shift register circuits. Every stage in the shift register circuits includes an enabling control circuit, a first output circuit, a second output circuit and a disabling control circuit. The enabling circuit is configured to control the voltage of the first operation node according to enabling signal. The first output unit is configured to generate the first driving signal according to the voltage of the first operation node and the first clock signal. The second output unit is configured to generate the second driving signal according to the voltage of the first operation node and the second clock signal. The disabling control unit is used to pull low the voltage of the first operation node and output terminal of the first and second output unit to the reference voltage according to the first, third, and fourth clock signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: CHUNGHWA PICTURE TUBES, LTD.
    Inventors: Han-Lung Liu, Wei-Lien Sung, Wen-Chuan Wang, Shao-Lun Chang, Shih-Chieh Lin
  • Patent number: 9958940
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including a display control unit configured to control a display unit in a manner that a plurality of symbols is visibly displayed to a user, and a position acquisition unit configured to acquire 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: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Takahashi, Shinichi Kawano, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 9953597
    Abstract: A driving unit of display panel includes a data driving part, a timing controlling part and a gate driving part. The data driving part is configured to receive reference image data and includes a first data driving circuit part having a first channel outputting a first reference data signal based on the reference image data and a k-th channel outputting a k-th reference data signal based on the reference image data. The timing controlling part is configured to detect a time difference between the first reference data signal and the k-th reference data signal. The gate driving part is configured to output a gate signal to each of gate lines. By delaying data signals based on the gate signal delay caused by long line load and RC delay, the present invention may improve display quality of a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Hyun Yeo, Eun-Seon Kim, Yong-Bum Kim, Suk-Jin Park, Byung-Kil Jeon, Su-Hyun Jeong
  • Patent number: 9927971
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes circuitry configured to execute a process for outputting a chart object corresponding to a handwritten chart. When a first stroke group extending over first and second areas in the handwritten chart does not substantially overlap any ruled lines, a character recognition result of a stroke in the first area is included in a first cell, and a character recognition result of a stroke in the second area is included in a second cell. When the first stroke group extending over the first and second areas substantially overlaps a ruled line, an object of a text box including a character recognition result of the first stroke group is added to the chart object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hideki Tsutsui, Junichi Nagata
  • Patent number: 9921745
    Abstract: Particular embodiments receive multiple touch events detected by a touchscreen. Each touch event may be associated with at least one position on a touchscreen, and at least a portion of the touch events may be located along a line. Particular embodiments may determine that the touch events are approaching an edge of the touchscreen, and may determine a first extrapolated position based on the determination that the touch events are approaching the edge of the touchscreen. The first extrapolated position may anticipate that one or more future touch events will turn before reaching the edge of the touchscreen. Particular embodiments may also provide display information based on the touch events and the first extrapolated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Benoit Schillings, Feng Qian, Jonathan Kaldor, Gueorgui Djabarov
  • Patent number: 9904055
    Abstract: An HMD device is configured to check the placement of newly introduced objects in a virtual reality environment such as interactive elements like menus, widgets, and notifications to confirm that the objects are significantly present within the user's field of view. If the intended original placement would locate the object outside the field of view, the HMD device relocates the object so that a portion of the object is viewable at the edge of the HMD display closest to its original placement. Such smart placement of virtual objects enables the user to readily discover new objects when they are introduced into the virtual reality environment, and then interact with the objects within a range of motions and/or head positions that is comfortable to support a more optimal interaction and user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Burns, Ben Sugden, Tom Salter
  • Patent number: 9900400
    Abstract: In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes detecting, by a mobile computing device, a current context associated with the mobile computing device, the current context being external to the mobile computing device and indicating a current state of the mobile computing device in its surrounding environment. The method can also include identifying, based on at least a first portion of the current context, a location description for the mobile computing device, wherein the location description includes a textual description of the location; and determining, based on the identified location description and at least a second portion of the current context, whether to switch the mobile computing device from operating using a current profile to operating using a second profile, wherein the current profile and the second profile each define one or more settings of the mobile computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Lantian Zheng
  • Patent number: 9858034
    Abstract: A display (101) is controlled by a display drive signal (S2) generated based on an input signal (S1) encoding a safety-critical quantity. A checksum (S4) is computed based on the display drive signal and is used to verify the rendering process by which the display drive signal has been produced. In order for the checksum to depend on the safety-critical quantity only, the checksum is computed based on a filtered display drive signal (S3) in which pixels with a certain value have been excluded. In embodiments of the invention, safety-noncritical quantities are represented using colors that are due to be excluded. Similarly, a checksum for verifying a given quantity can be made independent of other quantities represented in adjacent screen areas by representing the latter using excluded colors. In other embodiments, pixel values corresponding to particular pixel positions may be excluded from contributing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Erik Gyllensward
  • Patent number: 9846495
    Abstract: A human machine interface (HMI) system controls operation of a graphical user interface (GUI) being displayed on a display located in a vehicle. The HMI system includes an interface device, an interface operation module, and a device selection module. The interface device is operable to control the GUI and includes a knob member and a touchpad. The interface operation module receives input data from the interface device in response to an operation of the interface device. The device selection module designates at least one of the knob member or the touchpad as an active device based on a device selection criteria. The interface operation module transmits data from an active device to a display module controlling the GUI and disregards data from an inactive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Vikas Upmanue, Laith Daman, Yu Zhang, Martin Nespolo, Kyle Golsch, Sibu Varughese, Justin McBride, Pietro Buttolo, Jeffry Allen Greenberg, Parrish F. Hanna, Cynthia M. Neubecker
  • Patent number: 9811175
    Abstract: A forward pointing direction associated with a handheld device is estimated or determined by, for example, calculating a center of rotation of the device. A resultant combined or selected bias estimate may then be used to compensate the biased output of the sensor in, e.g., a 3D pointing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: IDHL Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew G. Liberty, Bryan A. Cook
  • Patent number: 9812050
    Abstract: A display driving device includes a data driver having a plurality of output drivers configured to output display driving signals. The display driving device also includes an offset adjusting circuit configured to subtract offset voltages generated in the output drivers from an input image signal to generate a corrected image signal. The offset adjusting circuit transmits the corrected image signal to the data driver, so that the data driver outputs the driving signals based on the corrected image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignees: SK HYNIX INC., INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Byong Deok Choi, Don Ku Lee
  • Patent number: 9805649
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels, a gate control line electrically connected to the pixels, an auxiliary power line isolated from the gate control line, and a number of auxiliary switches between the gate control line and the auxiliary power line. The at least one auxiliary switch is controlled by an auxiliary control line isolated from the auxiliary power line and the gate control line. The at least one auxiliary switch electrically connects the gate control line and the auxiliary power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kawae, Ryo Ishii, Masayuki Kumeta
  • Patent number: 9797999
    Abstract: A display apparatus with a radio frequency (RF) sensor and a user detection method using an RF sensor are provided. The display apparatus includes: a display panel configured to display an image; a support frame located in a back area of the display panel and configured to support parts of the display apparatus; and a radio frequency (RF) sensor configured to be arranged in the support frame for performing one of transmitting a radio frequency signal to a front area of the display panel and receiving the radio signal from the front area of the display panel, wherein the radio frequency signal which is transmitted or received passes through the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-han Lee, Kun-sok Kang, Byung-seok Soh, Chang-won Son, Sang-on Choi
  • Patent number: 9753600
    Abstract: A touch panel including upper and lower electrode substrates including upper and lower conductive layers, respectively; first and second electrodes respectively provided at both ends of the upper conductive layer in a first direction for causing an electric potential distribution in the first direction; third and fourth electrodes respectively provided at both ends of the lower conductive layer in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction for causing an electric potential distribution in the second direction; a flexible substrate provided to be connected to the lower electrode substrate or the upper electrode substrate; a first resistor portion electrically connected to either of the first or second electrode and formed at the upper electrode substrate or the flexible substrate; and a second resistor portion connected to either of the third or fourth electrode and formed at the lower electrode substrate or the flexible substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Genichi Matsuda, Satoshi Sakurai, Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Yuji Makiuchi, Mitsuhiro Sekizawa