Patents Examined by Charles Hicks
  • Patent number: 9898977
    Abstract: A method for controlling image display is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps: determining whether a still image appears; obtaining, when a still image appears, an actual gray-scale of each pixel of said still image, and generating a plurality of output gray-scales corresponding to the actual gray-scale; and substituting the actual gray-scale with said output gray-scales alternately, and forming dynamic image output. According to the present disclosure, the still image can be converted into dynamic image output through controlling the image display in spatial domain and time domain, and thus the problem of afterimage of the still image can be solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Yeh Chen, Wenqin Zhao
  • Patent number: 9897807
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of and apparatus for predictive tracking for a head mounted display. The method comprises obtaining one or more three-dimensional angular velocity measurements from a sensor monitoring the head mounted display and setting a prediction interval based upon the one or more three-dimensional angular velocity measurements such that the prediction interval is substantially zero when the head mounted display is substantially stationary and the prediction interval increases up to a predetermined latency interval when the head mounted display is moving at an angular velocity of or above a predetermined threshold. The method further includes predicting a three-dimensional orientation for the head mounted display to create a predicted orientation at a time corresponding to the prediction interval, and generating a rendered image corresponding to the predicted orientation for presentation on the head mounted display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Steve LaValle, Peter Giokaris
  • Patent number: 9898109
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an active stylus pen and signal transmission methods for the active stylus pen and a touch panel. The stylus has a touch module, a switching module, a signal comparison module, a control module and a pressure sensing module. The stylus determines a first signal generated by a touch panel, and compares an intensity of the first signal and a reference value through a first transmission path. When the intensity of the first signal exceeds the reference value, the stylus outputs a second signal to the touch panel. After the stylus outputs the second signal to the touch panel, the stylus switches to a second transmission path from the first transmission path. The stylus outputs a header signal to the touch panel. When determining a first time sequential distribution, the stylus outputs at least one bit of a pressure signal according to a second time sequential distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: SILICON INTEGRATED SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Min-Yan Ciou, Chin-Hua Kuo, Ying-Jyh Yeh
  • Patent number: 9886922
    Abstract: An array substrate is described. The array substrate with a polarity inversion of drive voltage signal in a plurality of data lines comprises a plurality of gate line sets being sequentially arranged, wherein each gate line set comprises two gate lines having an odd gate line and an even gate line respectively; a plurality of data line sets being sequentially arranged and vertically interlaced with the gate line sets, wherein each data line set comprises two data lines having an odd data line and an even data line respectively; wherein a plurality of sub-pixels are sequentially disposed between two adjacent gate line sets, connection positions of a portion of sub-pixels to the odd gate line and the even gate line in one gate line set respectively are changed in a predetermined amount of data line spaced apart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Peng Du
  • Patent number: 9886923
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a driving circuit for a source driving chip. In the driving circuit for a source driving chip, an output terminal of the blanking timer is connected to a control terminal of the switching unit; an input terminal of the switching unit is connected to a power supply source; an output terminal of the switching unit is connected to a supply terminal of the buffer amplifier. The blanking timer is used to generate a control signal; wherein, the control signal is a first voltage level during a row blanking interval or a frame blanking interval; the control signal is a second voltage level during the row non-blanking interval or the frame non-blanking interval. The driving circuit for a source driving chip of the present disclosure can effectively reduce the power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jingjing Wu, Zhi Xiong
  • Patent number: 9880683
    Abstract: A touch panel, including a phase retardation film; a wire grid polarizer on the phase retardation film; and a touch sensor unit on the phase retardation film, the touch sensor unit being adjacent to the wire grid polarizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joo-Han Bae, Jin Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 9880659
    Abstract: The touch control display panel comprises an array substrate and an alignment substrate arranged in alignment with the array substrate. The alignment substrate comprises a black matrix arranged on a first substrate. The black matrix protrudes from the first substrate, and the orthographic projection of a side of the black matrix away from the first substrate on the first substrate covers an orthographic projection of a side of the black matrix close to the first substrate on the first substrate. The first substrate is further provided with a plurality of touch control electrode groups formed using the black matrix as a mask plate. The present invention can effectively reduce the number of mask plates and the process steps as well as the production cost, which can further reduce the thickness of the touch control display panel and facilitates the manufacture of light and thin products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng Zhang, Zhanfeng Cao, Qi Yao
  • Patent number: 9870079
    Abstract: A touch screen display unit according to the present invention comprises: an adhesive layer having adhesive properties on both surfaces thereof; a decoration layer displaying, on one surface of the adhesive layer, one or more among letters, designs, patterns and a metallic texture; and a window attached on the other surface of the adhesive layer so as to allow the decoration layer to be seen therethrough and to form an outer appearance of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignees: DUKSAN SG CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiwoong Kim
  • Patent number: 9870738
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display section that has pixels; and a driving section that drives the display section on the basis of luminance information including a plurality of sub-luminance information pieces. The driving section drives the pixels in a time-division manner on the basis of each sub-luminance information piece during a single display period or a plurality of display periods which is set in each sub-luminance information piece. One or both of a timing of start of each display period and the number of the display periods are changeable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: JOLED Inc.
    Inventors: Koichi Maeyama, Teppei Isobe
  • Patent number: 9857876
    Abstract: Implementations of the technology disclosed convert captured motion from Cartesian/(x,y,z) space to Frenet-Serret frame space, apply one or more filters to the motion in Frenet-Serret space, and output data (for display or control) in a desired coordinate spaceā€”e.g., in a Cartesian/(x,y,z) reference frame. The output data can better represent a user's actual motion or intended motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Leap Motion, Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel A Hare, Keith Mertens, Matias Perez, Neeloy Roy, David Holz
  • Patent number: 9851848
    Abstract: A device is disclosed, comprising: at least one surface of a device casing, at least one acoustic discontinuity on the at least one surface configured to reflect an ultrasonic acoustic signal, at least one piezoelectric transducer coupled to the at least one surface, configured to induce the ultrasonic acoustic signal in the at least one surface and receive a reflected ultrasonic acoustic signal, wherein an occurrence and location of a touch incident on the at least one surface is determined by analyzing the reflected ultrasonic acoustic signal received by the piezoelectric transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Matti Pellikka, Seppo Turunen
  • Patent number: 9836172
    Abstract: A touch apparatus, a capacitive touch sensing circuit of the touch apparatus, and a touch sensing method are provided. The capacitive touch sensing circuit includes a switching capacitor integrating circuit, an encoding circuit, a feedback circuit, and a decoding circuit. The switching capacitor integrating circuit receives an input signal and integrates the input signal to generate an output signal. The encoding circuit receives and encodes the output signal to generate an encoded result. The feedback circuit provides a charge dissipation path for discharging charges from the switching capacitor integrating circuit, and the feedback circuit receives the encoded result and adjusts a charge dissipation ability provided by the charge dissipation path according to the encoded result. The decoding circuit receives and decodes the output signal to generate a touch detecting result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: FocalTech Electronics, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yao-Hung Lai
  • Patent number: 9837039
    Abstract: A method of driving a display panel is provided. The method includes generating first compensated and second compensated data based on input image data, outputting the first compensated data to a data driver during a first frame, outputting the first smoothing data to the data driver during a second frame subsequent to the first frame, and outputting the second compensated data to the data driver during an n-th frame subsequent to the second frame (where n is a natural number greater than two). The first smoothing data has a value between a value of the first compensated data and a value of the second compensated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Hoon Lee, Jung-Won Kim, Cheol-Woo Park, Dong-Gyu Lee, Jae-Hyung Cho, Ja-Kyoung Jin
  • Patent number: 9836136
    Abstract: A stylus pen is disclosed that can be used as an input device to a digitizer associated with a computer screen on a computing device, such as a computer, mobile device, tablet, etc. The stylus pen can include a voltage boost circuit that generates a stylus output signal on an antenna output. The voltage boost circuit has a charging portion and a discharging portion. Both portions have transistors that are activated and deactivated through pulsed control signals. However, a pulse duration for each control signal is separately controllable through different RC-based circuits. Additionally, the voltage boost circuit provides power savings by draining the output voltage signal to a positive voltage rail, rather than ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Jensen, Justin Coppin
  • Patent number: 9830033
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a touch substrate including a touch sensing area and a non-sensing area outside the touch sensing area, touch electrodes disposed in the touch sensing area and configured to sense a touch, and touch wiring connected to the touch electrodes in the non-sensing area, in which the touch wiring includes a first wiring conductive layer, a second wiring conductive layer disposed on the first wiring conductive layer, and transparent layers disposed at first and second sides of the second wiring conductive layer and on the first wiring conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Ha Son, Jae Neung Kim, Yong-Hwan Ryu, Yun Jong Yeo, Joo Hyung Lee, Yu-Gwang Jeong
  • Patent number: 9829709
    Abstract: A light guide member (10) includes three surfaces of a second surface (S12), a fourth surface (S14), and a fifth surface (S15) as two or more non-axisymmetric curved surfaces, and a projection lens (30) includes a lens surface (31a) as a non-axisymmetric aspheric surface. With this, on the light guide member side, even when there is a shape constraint that the first surface (S11) or the third surface (S13) which is a surface contributing to light guide is a flat surface, and correction of asymmetric aberration is limited, it becomes possible to perform sufficient aberration correction as the whole of an optical system including the projection lens. Therefore, the virtual image display apparatus can have a wide viewing angle and high performance, and can be made small and lightweight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Komatsu, Takahiro Totani, Masayuki Takagi, Takashi Takeda, Toshiaki Miyao
  • Patent number: 9830861
    Abstract: A display device can include a display panel, in which a subpixel including a transistor where data lines and gate lines intersect, is disposed; a gate driving unit that sequentially outputs a gate signal to the gate lines; a data driving unit that outputs a data voltage to the data lines according to the gate signal provided to each gate line, and outputs to the data lines during a blank time before a specific frame, data voltages having an output waveform that is identical to data voltages of at least one gate line of the specific frame; and a timing controller that controls the gate driving unit and the data driving unit, and performs a pixel compensation which changes data provided to each subpixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Joon-Min Park
  • Patent number: 9830845
    Abstract: A gate driving circuit includes a plurality of driving stages applying gate signals to gate lines of a display panel. Among the plurality of driving stages, a k-th (k being a natural number equal to or greater than 2) includes a first node, an output part that is connected to the first node and outputs a k-th gate signal in response to a voltage of the first node, a control part that controls an electric potential of the first node, an inverter part that outputs a k-th switching signal, and a pull-down part that receives a (k?1)th switching signal from a (k?1)th driving stage of the plurality of driving stages and lowers a voltage of the output part in response to the (k?1)th switching signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaekeun Lim, Ji-sun Kim, Jonghee Kim, Chongchul Chai
  • Patent number: 9824621
    Abstract: A gate drive circuit and a display device are provided. The present disclosure pertains to the technical field of display technology and solves the technical problem of wide frame of the existing display device. The shifting register is configured to output primary drive signal into a first follower and a second follower in consecutive first scanning period t1 and second scanning period t2. The first follower is configured to output gate drive signal to a first gate line in t1 under the driving of the primary drive signal; and the second follower is configured to output the gate drive signal to a second gate line in t2 under the driving of the primary drive signal. The present disclosure can be applied to display devices, such as liquid crystal display devices and OLED display devices, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juncheng Xiao, Mang Zhao
  • Patent number: 9817504
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a touch display driving method, a touch display driving device, a display device and an application processor. The touch display driving method includes steps of: outputting, by an application processor, display data for a current row to the driving module after a driving module completes display driving and touch driving for a previous row; and outputting, in a display stage, the display data for the current row by the driving module so as to perform display, and outputting, in an H-blank stage, a touch driving signal by the driving module so as to perform touch detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chen Meng, Xiaobo Xie, Tiankuo Shi, Xiurong Wang, Di Wang, Bo Gao, Hao Zhang, Lingyun Shi, Jialong Li, Yafei Li, Wei Wang, Zijiao Xue