Patents Examined by Charles V Hicks
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Patent number: 10949042Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an array substrate and a display apparatus. The array substrate includes a touch electrode, wherein the touch electrode comprises a plurality of first sensing electrodes arranged in a first direction and a plurality of second sensing electrodes arranged in a second direction, each of the first sensing electrodes comprises an electrode strip, the electrode strip comprises a plurality of electrode blocks arranged in the second direction, each of the second sensing electrodes comprises a plurality of holes, the electrode blocks correspond to the holes in one to one correspondence, and projections of the electrode blocks in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate are located in the corresponding holes.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bo Gao, Jinxing Liu, Ming Chen, Xue Dong, Wenjia Sun, Yafei Li, Wenchao Han
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Patent number: 10928696Abstract: A wiring substrate includes signal input portions for inputting signals, a signal receiving portion that receives the signals input from the signal input portions, and a plurality of connection wires provides connections between the signal input portions and the signal receiving portion. The plurality of connection wires constitutes a connection wire group in which three connection wires are arranged overlapping one another with insulating layers being interposed therebetween, and the connection wire group is provided with a switching contact portion at which transmission paths of the signals respectively input to the connection wires are switched to the other connection wires.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Kuroe, Noriyuki Ohashi
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Patent number: 10930244Abstract: In a data processing system, when displaying frames to a user on a display, the location of the user's gaze on the display is determined, and the amount of light to be output for different regions of the display when displaying the frame on the display is selected and set based on the determined location of the user's gaze on the display.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Apical LimitedInventor: Daren Croxford
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Patent number: 10921942Abstract: A touch system has a touch device and an input device. The touch system executes a first mode and a second mode at different times. In the first mode, the touch device transmits a modulation signal to drive the touch electrodes and to be used as an uplink signal. The input device receives the modulation signal. In the second mode, the touch device receives the downlink signal from the input device. Thus, the touch device does not have to transmit the driving signal and the uplink signal at different times. Then the time is saved for the rest work periods so that every work periods get longer length of time.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Han-Wei Chen, Hsuan-Wen Tseng, Yi-Hsin Tao, Chia-Hsing Lin, Chen-Yu Hou, Chieh-Wen Chen
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Patent number: 10921904Abstract: A controller is capable of controlling an asset or target in physical and/or virtual three-dimensional space using a single hand by generating control inputs in four or more degrees of freedom while also limiting cross-coupling (unintended motions). The controller includes a first control member is configured to be gripped in a user's single, second control member is disposed on or near a top end of the first member movable with at least one degree of freedom independently of the movement of the first control member, and a third control member positioned on the first member for displacement by one or more digits of the user's single hand and coupled with the second member to move in opposition to movement of the second control member.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Fluidity Technologies Inc.Inventors: Scott Edward Parazynski, Jeffrey William Bull, Nicholas Michael Degnan, Alina Mercedes Matson, Brandon Tran
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Patent number: 10921941Abstract: An electronic device has a display and has a touch sensitive bezel surrounding the display. Areas on the bezel are designated for controls used to operate the electronic device. Visual guides corresponding to the controls are displayed on the display adjacent the areas of the bezel designated for the controls. Touch data is generated by the bezel when a user touches an area of the bezel. The device determines which of the controls has been selected based on which designated area is associated with the touch data from the bezel. The device then initiates the determined control. The device can have a sensor for determining the orientation of the device. Based on the orientation, the device can alter the areas designated on the bezel for the controls and can alter the location of the visual guides for the display so that they match the altered areas on the bezel.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nicholas King, Duncan Robert Kerr, Paul Herbst, Steven P. Hotelling
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Patent number: 10915188Abstract: An information processing apparatus that controls a display to display first layer data, detects movement of the information processing apparatus, and controls the display to display second layer data corresponding to the first layer data together with the first layer data based on a movement detected by the detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Reiko Miyazaki, Yasushi Okumura
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Patent number: 10909934Abstract: A display device includes first and second pixel areas spaced apart from each other so that corresponding scan lines are separate from each other, a first non-pixel area at a periphery of the first pixel area, a second non-pixel area at a periphery of the second pixel area and opposite to the first non-pixel area with at least one pixel area interposed therebetween, first scan lines in the first pixel area, second scan lines in the second pixel area, a first scan driver in the first non-pixel area and connected to the first scan lines, a second scan driver in the second non-pixel area and connected to the second scan lines, first wires in the first non-pixel area and connected to the first scan driver, second wires in the second non-pixel area and connected to the second scan driver; and connecting wires connecting the first wires and second wires.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Inventors: Jin Tae Jeong, Ji Hyun Ka, Tae Hoon Kwon, Min Ku Lee, Seung Ji Cha
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Patent number: 10901535Abstract: An active stylus comprising: a pen body, a pen head connected to the pen body, and a first sensor disposed in at least one of the pen body and the pen head. The first sensor is configured to sense attitude information of the active stylus. The active stylus is adapted to realize touch control on the touch control device based on the attitude information, thereby generating an effect of simulating chalk writing and drawing.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Kaifeng Wang
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Patent number: 10902764Abstract: The present application relates to a system and method for driving a three-color and four-color pixel display panel, including: providing a three-color pixel display panel; connecting the three-color pixel display panel to a driver; generating, by the driver, a fourth color sub-pixel according to grayscale values of three color sub-pixels to convert the three-color pixel display panel to a four-color pixel display panel; converting, by the driver, each two adjacent pixel units to one pixel unit, and each two adjacent fourth color sub-pixels to one fourth color sub-pixel; and converting, by the driver, each fourth color sub-pixel back to the first color sub-pixel, the second color sub-pixel and the third color sub-pixel, so as to convert the four-color pixel display panel back to the three-color pixel display panel.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Inventor: Wei Chen
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Patent number: 10896936Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display screen with two opposite surfaces, at least one of the two opposite surfaces is a display surface, a sounding structure is arranged at at least one side of the two opposite surfaces of the display screen, the sounding structure is configured to be deformed to sound under driving of sound signals, and the sound signals are electric signals applied to the sounding structure according to sounds to be made.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO.. LTD.Inventors: Gu Yao, Qinghua Zou, Ruhui Zhu, Yu Wang, Tingyuan Duan
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Patent number: 10891049Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for determining a preference for content based on swipe characteristics. A swiping application may present a user with a content identifier on a touchscreen display. Based on the user's touch-based interaction with the content identifier (e.g., the speed at which the user swipes the content identifier away, the angle and direction of the user's swipe gesture, and any halt time in the swipe gesture), the swiping application assigns a preference level to the content identifier.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.Inventor: Abhash Kumar Singh
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Patent number: 10891905Abstract: The disclosed apparatus may include (1) at least one light-emitting device, (2) a boost circuit electrically coupled to the light-emitting device, and (3) a microcontroller that (A) receives, from a visual display system, a control signal indicating one or more points in time that the light-emitting device is to illuminate a portion of a visual display and (B) directs, based at least in part on the control signal, the boost circuit to provide a sufficient amount of power to the light-emitting device to enable the light-emitting device to illuminate the portion of the visual display at the points in time. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Yuming Liu, Dong Yang, Chao Hu
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Patent number: 10890985Abstract: A mouse having a movable lighting structure includes a mouse body, the movable lighting structure, a lighting module and a wire. The mouse body has a longitudinal axis defining a longitudinal axis direction, and has a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to each other. The movable lighting structure is movably disposed on the mouse body, and has an accommodating space formed therein. The lighting module is disposed in the accommodating space, and has at least one light-emitting element. The wire is connected between the mouse body and the lighting module for supplying power required by the lighting module.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignees: DEXIN ELECTRONIC LTD., DEXIN CORPORATIONInventors: Ho-Lung Lu, Chun-Te Yu
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Patent number: 10884567Abstract: A circuit and a method for driving a touch substrate, a touch device and a method for operating the touch device are provided. The method for driving the touch substrate includes inputting first driving signals to respective ones of the plurality of touch electrodes sequentially in a first time duration within a touch period; and inputting second driving signals to respective ones of the plurality of touch electrodes in a second time duration within the touch period, wherein signal strengths of the second driving signals are larger than signal strengths of the first driving signals.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Min He, Xiaodong Xie, Jing Wang, Jiang Zhu, Zhen Qiu, Yuan Li
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Patent number: 10877564Abstract: Approaches are described which enable a computing device (e.g., mobile phone, tablet computer) to display alternate views or layers of information within a window on the display screen when a user's finger (or other object) is detected to be within a particular range of the display screen of the device. For example, a device displaying a road map view on the display screen may detect a user's finger near the screen and, in response to detecting the finger, render a small window that shows a portion of a satellite view of the map proximate to the location of the user's finger. As the user's finger moves laterally above the screen, the window can follow the location of the user's finger and display the satellite views of the various portions of the map over which the user's finger passes.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Matthew Paul Bell, Dong Zhou, Guenael Thomas Strutt, Isaac Scott Noble, Stephen Michael Polansky, Jason Robert Weber
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Patent number: 10877314Abstract: A display may have display layers that form an array of pixels. The array of pixels may be illuminated using a backlight unit. The backlight unit may include multiple strings of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The multiple LED strings may be controlled by one or more backlight driver integrated circuits (ICs). In a multi-driver IC architecture, an enable signal may be used to set a desired phase delay between the multiple ICs. One or more of the LED strings may exhibit a short fault. Depending on the number of faulty LED strings, the backlight unit can selectively throttle the maximum brightness of the display. The LED strings may receive an output voltage from a DC/DC converter and may be driven using a current driver. The DC/DC converter may be controlled by a headroom feedforward control circuit to ensure sufficient headroom for the current driver while suppressing acoustic noise.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jingdong Chen, Asif Hussain, Mohammad J. Navabi-Shirazi, Behzad Mohtashemi, Yanhui Xie
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Patent number: 10871851Abstract: A method includes displaying a user interface having selectable features on the touch-sensitive display, determining that the electronic device is in a one-handed mode, determining that at least one of the selectable features of the user interface is displayed in an inaccessible portion of the touch-sensitive display, displaying, in an accessible portion of the touch sensitive display, an additional selectable feature associated with the at least one of the selectable features displayed in the inaccessible portion, and in response to receiving a selection of the additional selectable feature, performing a function associated with the at least one of the selectable features.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2017Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Neil Patrick Adams, Joseph Eytan Benedek
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Patent number: 10872569Abstract: The present disclosure provides a compensation method for pixel circuit, a pixel circuit, and a display device. The pixel circuit includes a data writing circuit, a driving circuit, a sensing circuit, and an energy storage circuit, the compensation method includes: in a charging stage, acquiring a voltage of the second node by the sensing circuit, adjusting a data voltage outputted by the data writing circuit to the first node based on the acquired voltage of the second node, and charging the energy storage circuit by using the adjusted data voltage; and in a compensation stage, compensating characteristic parameters of the driving circuit by the charged energy storage circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Song Meng
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Patent number: 10867547Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel including a first edge extending in a first direction and a second edge in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a first group of gate lines supplying a first gate voltage to a first pixel line and supplying a third gate voltage to a third pixel line, a second group of gate lines supplying a second gate voltage to a second pixel line and supplying a fourth gate voltage to a fourth pixel line, and at least one processor configured to control the electronic device to: sequentially supply the first gate voltage and the third gate voltage through the first group of gate lines to output a first part of specified image data and sequentially supply the second gate voltage and the fourth gate voltage through the second group of gate lines to output a second part of the specified image data the second part of the specified image data being different from the first part of the specified image data.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jungchul An, Jongkon Bae, Donghwy Kim, Hyungsup Byeon