Patents Examined by Charles Hicks
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Patent number: 9361819Abstract: An image display device adapted to display an image based on an image signal includes a light source, an adjustment section adapted to adjust light intensity of a light emitted from the light source based on a feature amount related to a luminance of the image, a modulation section adapted to modulate the adjusted light based on the image signal, and a control section adapted to suppress reduction of the light intensity by the adjustment section in a case in which a predetermined condition related to temperature of the modulation section is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Tatsuya Iguchi
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Patent number: 9360965Abstract: Methods and systems according to one or more embodiments are provided for combining touch inputs and offset non-touch gestures. In an embodiment, a method includes concurrently capturing touch input data on a screen of a user device and non-touch gesture input data, the non-touch gesture input data being indicative of a gesture performed in an area offset from the screen of the user device to inhibit obstruction of a user's view of the screen. The method also includes determining an input command based at least in part on a combination of the concurrently captured touch input data and the non-touch gesture input data. In addition, the method further includes affecting an operation of the user device based on the determined input command.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Darrell Krulce, Francis Bernard MacDougall, Virginia Walker Keating, Andrew Everitt
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Patent number: 9355606Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a data signal line; a scan signal line; a pixel electrode; a transistor connected to (i) the data signal line, (ii) the scan signal line, and (iii) the pixel electrode; and a common electrode, the liquid crystal display device being configured to turn on the transistor during a power-off sequence by causing a change in an electric potential of the scan signal line, the electric potential of the scan signal line reaching a first electric potential at a first timing after the change is initiated, and the common electrode being in an electrically floating state at a second timing which comes after the first timing.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kohji Saitoh, Akihisa Iwamoto, Masami Ozaki, Masaki Uehata, Jun Nakata, Tomohiko Nishimura
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Patent number: 9354741Abstract: The touch panel controller activates a touch panel having a detection plane superposed on a display plane of a display device, and performs a touch detection. The touch panel controller uses a cycle of 1/n (n is a positive integer) of a display frame cycle on the display plane as the detection frame cycle of the detection plane. The touch panel controller decides an order of driving the detection-scan electrodes in each detection frame cycle according to predetermined phase-delay and phase-advance positions with respect to a display-scan electrode drive position of the display device so as to correspond to an order of the detection-scan electrode array of the touch panel. The touch panel controller makes possible to avoid the coincidence of display-scan and touch-detection positions without thinning touch detections even with the detection frame cycle of a touch sensor shorter than the display frame cycle of a liquid crystal panel.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Synaptics Display Devices GKInventors: Yusuke Uchida, Tatsuya Ishii, Tsuyoshi Kuroiwa, Akihito Akai, Hisayoshi Kajiwara, Kazuo Okado
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Patent number: 9348410Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 1, 2015Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: Oculus VR, LLCInventors: Steve LaValle, Peter Giokaris
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Patent number: 9348456Abstract: An end device may include a touch screen; a touch screen manager configured to: determine a first area and a second area on the touch screen, and determine at least one of a display property or a touch sensing property of the first area to be different from that of the second area; and a processor configured to: display an image on the first area and the second area.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2014Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventor: Sung Jae Hwang
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Patent number: 9348441Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic device and a method of controlling the same. The present invention provides a new user interface for selecting, executing and controlling an item displayed on a touch screen included in the electronic device. Particularly, the present invention provides an electronic device and a method of controlling the same to manipulate the touch screen included in the electronic device while hardly changing the positions of the hands of a user when the touch screen is manipulated with both hands of the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jaejoon Lee, Changeui Han, Jaehan Park
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Patent number: 9342160Abstract: Users move their hands in a three dimensional (“3D”) physical interaction zone (“PHIZ”) to control a cursor in a user interface (“UI”) shown on a computer-coupled 2D display such as a television or monitor. The PHIZ is shaped, sized, and positioned relative to the user to ergonomically match the user's natural range of motions so that cursor control is intuitive and comfortable over the entire region on the UI that supports cursor interaction. A motion capture system tracks the user's hand so that the user's 3D motions within the PHIZ can be mapped to the 2D UI. Accordingly, when the user moves his or her hands in the PHIZ, the cursor correspondingly moves on the display. Movement in the z direction (i.e., back and forth) in the PHIZ allows for additional interactions to be performed such as pressing, zooming, 3D manipulations, or other forms of input to the UI.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Richard Bailey, David Bastien, Mark Schwesinger, Emily Yang, Adam Smith, Oscar Murillo, Tim Franklin, Jordan Andersen, Christian Klein
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Patent number: 9335849Abstract: A visual interface system includes an operation apparatus and a passive matrix display apparatus. The passive matrix display apparatus includes a first substrate, a display surface and a second substrate. The display surface is located at a first side of the first substrate, and the second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate and located at a second side of the first substrate relatively opposite to the first side. When the operation apparatus is operated on the display surface of the passive matrix display apparatus, an encoded signal is coupled to the operation apparatus from the passive matrix substrate. The operation apparatus receives the encoded signal to obtain a transmission signal. The visual interface system can achieve the touch input function without configuring an additional touch panel, and is equipped with the near field communication (NFC) function.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2012Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Inventor: Hsiung-Kuang Tsai
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Patent number: 9335845Abstract: A computer-implemented method for reducing extraneous input in a portable device programmed to perform the method includes displaying with the portable device, a text entry interface via a display to a user of the portable device, receiving with the portable device, one or more taps on a portion of the portable device other than the display, wherein the one or more taps is associated with a first action, while displaying with the portable device, an interface other than a text entry interface via the display to the user, the method includes performing with the portable device, the first action in response to the one or more taps, and while displaying with the portable device, a text entry interface via the display to the user, the method includes inhibiting with the portable device, the first action in response to the one or more taps.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: mCube Inc.Inventors: Rahul Bakshi, Jobe Price
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Patent number: 9335882Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch sensor has a display function and a touch sensor function. The display device includes: a panel unit that comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, and a display function layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first electrode on the first substrate; a second electrode on the second substrate; a third electrode on the second substrate; and a capacitor for the touch sensor function. The capacitor is formed between either of the first electrode and the second electrode and the third electrode, or between both the first electrode and the second electrode and the third electrode. The frame portion outside the display area comprises, on the first substrate side thereof, a peripheral circuit, and the second electrode is provided in a position more distant upward from the peripheral circuit than the first electrode.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2015Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Makoto Hayashi, Naosuke Furutani
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Patent number: 9335856Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display pixel allocated at a matrix state in a display area, an image-reading device which detects strength of capacitive coupling by a dielectric material coming close to or making contact with the display area, and a control portion which controls each transistor of the image-reading device. The image-reading device includes a detection electrode which forms capacitance between the detection electrode and the dielectric material, a pre-charge gate line, a coupling pulse line, a readout gate line, a pre-charge line and a readout line. These lines supply a signal which drives the image-reading device. The image-reading device further includes a pre-charge transistor, an amplification transistor, a readout transistor, a compensation transistor, and a power-source switching transistor.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Keiichi Saito, Hideyuki Takahashi, Takashi Nakamura, Satoru Tomita, Masahiro Tada, Hirotaka Hayashi, Takashi Okada, Yoshiro Aoki, Takanori Tsunashima
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Patent number: 9335890Abstract: A 3 dimensional (3-D) user interface system employs: one or more 3-D projectors configured to display an image at a first location in 3-D space; one or more sensors configured to sense user interaction with the image and to provide user interaction information; and a processor configured (i) to receive the user interaction information from the one or more sensors; (ii) to correlate the user interaction with the image; and (iii) to provide one or more indications responsive to a correlation of the user interaction with the image, including displaying the image at a second location in 3-D space.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Genedics LLCInventors: Gene S. Fein, Edward Merritt, Jackson T. Fein
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Patent number: 9317166Abstract: A display device with a built-in touch panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, plural pixel electrodes provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, plural common electrodes provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and plural detection electrodes provided on the first substrate. An image is displayed by light control using an electric field generated between the plural pixel electrodes and the plural common electrodes. The presence or absence of touch is detected by a difference in capacitance due to the presence or absence of a material interrupting the electric field generated between one of the detection electrodes and one of the common electrodes. Each of the detection electrodes includes a through hole.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Takahiro Miyazaki, Masanari Saitou, Koji Nagata, Shinji Sekiguchi, Tomohiko Ootani
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Patent number: 9317160Abstract: A system comprises a plurality of light sources configured to provide light beams to a waveguide layer of a touch-screen. At least one of the light beams is disturbed when an object touches the touch-screen at a touch point. The system also comprises a plurality of detectors, where at least one of the detectors is configured to detect the disturbed light. The system comprises control logic coupled to the at least one detector. The control logic determines a location of the touch point as a result of the at least one detector detecting the disturbed light. The plurality of light sources and plurality of detectors are contained within a source/detector layer. The source/detector layer is separated from the waveguide layer by a mirror layer comprising a plurality of mirrors that transfer light between the source/detector layer and the waveguide layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Compamy, L.P.Inventor: Bradley N. Suggs
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Patent number: 9311898Abstract: Various embodiments provide a user device comprising a touch screen display having a touch screen input; a proximity detector arrangement comprising a plurality of sensors for detecting a location of an input device; and a control unit comprising a processor. The control unit is configured to receive data from the proximity detector to determine the location of the input device, including a value related to the distance of the input device to the display; and control the display to perform a zoom function to enlarge or reduce the size of content on a portion of the display based on the value related to the distance of the input device to the display. The proximity detector arrangement and control unit are configured to detect the location of the input device within a detection volume and to provide a gradual variation in enlargement or reduction of the size of content as the distance of the input device to the display varies.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2013Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Eldon Technology LimitedInventors: Martyn Ross Ward, Antony Michael Dove
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Patent number: 9310910Abstract: The invention relates to a touch panel with an electrode bridging structure. The touch panel includes an electroconductive substrate and an electroconductive film disposed on the electroconductive substrate. Surfaces of the electroconductive substrate have upper and lower electrodes. The invention is characterized in that at least two electroconductive bridging portions are disposed between the electroconductive substrate and the electroconductive film, and can electrically connect the electroconductive substrate to the electroconductive film. Thus, the upper and lower electrodes of the touch panel can perform the induction conduction through the electroconductive bridging portions, thereby effectively increasing the conduction rate, decreasing the power load of the touch panel and saving the energy.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: MIRACLETOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventor: Yu-Jie Li
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Patent number: 9310938Abstract: A projector controls a function in accordance with an operation of indicating a position if the operation is performed in a state in which an image is displayed. The projector projects an image on a screen based on a supply image supplied by an image source. The projector detects a position indicated on the screen using a position detector, and switches the projector between a first interactive mode and a second interactive mode based on the detected position, wherein when the first interactive mode is selected, an output switching section outputs the position information to a processing section of the projector, and when the second interactive mode is selected, the output switching section outputs the position information to an external device connected with the projector.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2015Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Ichieda
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Patent number: 9304640Abstract: A noise immunity of a detected capacitance is prevented or inhibited from lowering on a driving electrode different in width from the other driving electrodes, provided in an input device. A touch panel serving as an input device has a plurality of driving electrodes extending in an X-axis direction and arranged in a Y-axis direction intersecting with the X-axis direction, and a driving electrode arranged outside one side of an arrangement of the driving electrodes and extending in the X-axis direction. Further, the touch panel TP1 has a plurality of detecting electrodes extending in the Y-axis direction and arranged in the X-axis direction. The width of the driving electrode is smaller than the widths of the driving electrodes and the detecting electrode includes an expanding portion for expanding the area of the detecting electrode on the side opposite to the plurality of driving electrodes via the driving electrode.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takafumi Suzuki, Kohei Azumi
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Patent number: 9293115Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present invention comprises: an acquisition unit that acquires, for each of division regions, brightness information; a decision unit that decides light emission brightness for each of the division regions; a light emitting unit; and a display panel, wherein the decision unit sets light emission brightness of a division region, in which a displayed image does not include a predetermined region, at light emission brightness according to brightness information of the division region, and sets light emission brightness of a division region, in which a displayed image includes the predetermined region, at light emission brightness lower than the light emission brightness according to brightness information of the division region.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihisa Furumoto, Takeshi Ikeda, Takushi Kimura