Patents Examined by Chayce Bibbee
  • Patent number: 9880632
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods adapt established concepts from natural language processing for use in gesture identification algorithms. A gesture identification system includes sensors, a processor, and a non-transitory processor-readable memory that stores data and/or instructions for performing gesture identification. A gesture identification system may include a wearable gesture identification device. The gesture identification process involves segmenting signals from the sensors into data windows, assigning a respective “window class” to each data window, and identifying a user-performed gesture based on the corresponding sequence of window classes. Each window class exclusively characterizes at least one data window property and is analogous to a “letter” of an alphabet. Under this model, each gesture is analogous to a “word” made up of a particular combination of window classes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: THALMIC LABS INC.
    Inventors: Pedram Ataee, Idris S. Aleem
  • Patent number: 9880678
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a touch sensor layer and a display device. The display device includes a display module and a touch sensor layer. The display module includes a substrate. The touch sensor layer is disposed on the substrate and includes a plurality of touch sensor units defined by a plurality of first non-continuous conducting lines and a plurality of second non-continuous conducting lines cross over each other. A sensor electrode is defined by some of the plurality of touch sensor units connected together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsiao-Min Yin, Yao-Pin Hsu
  • Patent number: 9842550
    Abstract: A display device includes a backlight unit, a display panel, and a controller. The backlight unit comprises a plurality of first light sources in a first direction and a plurality of second light sources in the first direction. The display panel is spaced apart from the backlight unit in a third direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction and comprising an edge portion defined along at least one side thereof and a plurality of pixels. The controller generates an edge image data corresponding to a plurality of edge pixels disposed in the edge portion among the pixels, the edge image data is generated on the basis of a first angle between the third direction and a first imaginary line connecting the edge pixels and the first light sources and a second angle between the third direction and a second imaginary line connecting the edge pixels and the second light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyundeok Im, JaeWoong Kang, Jonghyuk Kang, Jae Byung Park, Hyunmin Cho, Sung-Jin Hong
  • Patent number: 9836171
    Abstract: A pressure detection and display apparatus can provide good visibility even if a person wears polarized sunglasses. The pressure detection and display apparatus includes a piezoelectric sensor having upper electrode, lower electrode, and a piezoelectric layer interposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode, a polarization plate disposed under the lower electrode, and a display member disposed under the polarization plate. The piezoelectric layer is made of a retardation plate. The piezoelectric sensor and the polarization plate are arranged such that the absorption axis of the piezoelectric layer defines an angle of 20 degrees to 70 degrees relative to the slow phase axis of the polarization plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Nissha Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Watazu
  • Patent number: 9784997
    Abstract: An array substrate, a display device, and a driving method therefor are provided. The array substrate includes multiple pixel units, multiple scan signal lines (2), and multiple data signal lines (3). The pixel units comprise multiple subpixels (10). The subpixels (10) include first sub-subpixels (101) and second sub-subpixels (102). The multiple data signal lines (3) form multiple data signal line sets. The data signal line sets include multiple data signal line subsets. The data signal line subsets include first data signal lines (Sm+1) and second data signal lines (Sm). The first sub-subpixels (101) are connected to the first data signal lines (Sm+1) to acquire a first data signal. The second sub-subpixels (102) are connected to the second data signal lines (Sm) to acquire a second data signal. The voltage of the first data signal is a V. The value interval for the voltage of the second data signal is (0.7a V, a V)?(a V, 1.3a V).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pan Li, Wenbo Li, Hongfel Cheng, Jianbo Xian
  • Patent number: 9761185
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a light-emitting unit, a display unit configured to modulate light from the light-emitting unit, a light-emission control unit configured to control light emission of the light-emitting unit, a display control unit configured to execute display processing for displaying images for calibration in order, an acquiring unit configured to acquire a measurement value of light emitted from a region, of a screen, where the image for calibration is displayed, and a calibrating unit configured to execute a calibration on the basis of measurement values of the images, wherein when a light emission state of the light-emitting unit changes during the execution of the display processing, the display control unit executes the display processing again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ikuo Takanashi, Yoshiyuki Nagashima
  • Patent number: 9733748
    Abstract: A touch panel is disclosed herein. The touch panel includes a driving line, a gate line, a readout line, and a switching unit. The driving line is configured to transmit a driving signal. The gate line is configured to transmit a scan signal. The readout line forms a mutual capacitance with the gate line, and the mutual capacitance is configured to generate a first sensing signal in response to a driving signal according to a touch operation. The switching unit is electrically coupled to the gate line and the readout line, and configured to be selectively turned on to transmit the first sensing signal to the readout line according to the scan signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yi-Ru Cheng, Chung-Min Lien, Ya-Ling Hsu, Yueh-Hung Chung
  • Patent number: 9734770
    Abstract: A display device includes: an image display unit that includes an image display region; a plurality of light sources that are arranged corresponding to a plurality of partial regions included in the image display region and irradiate the partial regions with light; a light amount correction processing unit that detects that the partial regions are non-display regions in which no image is displayed, and corrects a light amount of the light sources based on a predetermined threshold when the partial regions adjacent to each other are continuous non-display regions; and a light source control unit that controls the light amount of the light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Fumitaka Gotoh, Tsutomu Harada, Naoyuki Takasaki
  • Patent number: 9727170
    Abstract: Provided are a method of removing common noise and a method of detecting touch information. The method of removing common noise includes acquiring base lines, acquiring raw data, calculating touch strengths (TSs) using the base lines and the raw data, calculating a difference representative value between the TSs and a reference level, and removing influence of common noise from the TSs using the difference representative value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: ANAPASS INC.
    Inventors: Jong Hwa Lee, Woo Hyoung Seo, Ha Sun Song
  • Patent number: 9715293
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes as a monolithically integrated part thereof, a touch sensor that operates during a blanking period of the display device. In one embodiment, the LCD device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a plurality of common electrodes, a plurality of sensing electrodes, a data driver, a gate lines driver, a common electrodes driver, a touch controller and a display controller. A plurality of pixels coupled to gate lines and data lines are formed on the first substrate. The second substrate is positioned opposite to the first substrate. The plurality of common electrodes corresponding to the respective pixels are formed on the second substrate. The plurality of sensing electrodes are also formed on the second substrate to cross with the common electrodes. The data lines driver outputs data signals to the data lines during a display period. The gate lines driver includes a plurality of stages receiving first and second clock signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae-Mo Chung
  • Patent number: 9711102
    Abstract: A method of differently producing driving clock signals for a shift register of a gate lines driving circuit of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), the method includes the steps of determining whether an ambient temperature is greater than or not in comparison to a predetermined threshold temperature; in response to the determining indicating that the ambient temperature is greater, using a first ON voltage and a first charge canceling method; and in response to the determining indicating that the ambient temperature is not greater, using a second ON voltage and a second charge canceling method, where the second ON voltage is different from the first ON voltage and where the second charge canceling method is different from the first charge canceling method. The second charge canceling method may have a shorter duration than that of the first charge canceling method. The second ON voltage may be greater than the first ON voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun-Tae Kim, Du-Hyun Kim, Eun-Suk Kim, Hoe-Mi Kim, Jin-Gwan Jang, Bong-Chool Jeon
  • Patent number: 9710048
    Abstract: There is described a portable electronic device capable of detecting false wake conditions, and a method thereof. The portable electronic device comprises a sensor circuit and a display. The sensor circuit detects double tap data associated with user input and motion data subsequent to the double tap data within a predetermined time period. The sensor circuit also determines whether the motion data corresponds to at least one criterion associated with non-user input. The display wakes from a sleep state in response to the sensor circuit determining that the motion data corresponds to the at least one criterion. For some embodiments, the sensor circuit includes a motion sensor to detect the motion data and a sensor hub to determine whether the motion data corresponds to the at least one criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Hong Zhao, Dennis J. Budnick, Makarand M. Karvekar
  • Patent number: 9691345
    Abstract: A dual-display device includes a flexible substrate comprising first and second surfaces opposing each other, the first surface comprising a first area and a second area, the flexible substrate being bent to allow the first and second areas of the first surface to face each other, the second surface comprising first and second areas opposing the first and second areas of the first surface, respectively. The device further includes a first display unit formed over the first area of the second surface of the bent flexible substrate, and realizing an image; a second display unit formed over second area that is opposite to the first area of the second surface of the bent flexible substrate, electrically connected to the first display unit via lines, and realizing another image; and a common driver unit electrically connected to a pad area that extends from the first display unit, and configured to transmit at least a signal to drive the first display unit and the second display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Oh Park, Dong-Wan Choi, Hyo-Sang Yang
  • Patent number: 9665187
    Abstract: A color input device includes a stylus, a color input unit installed in the stylus. The color input unit includes a circuit board, an MCU, a color sensor, a color display device, a Bluetooth module, a memory, a control interface and a power supply device respectively connected to the MCU. Through the control interface, the color sensor can be activated to capture nature colors and to store intake colors in the memory, and the colors stored in the memory can be displayed on the full color LED display and selected and transmitted to a computing device via the Bluetooth module, enabling the APP of the computing device to temporarily store the inputted colors and synchronously display them on the display device of the computing device. Furthermore, the color input device can receive colors or patterns from the computing device for establishing a diversified color database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: UFRO LIMITED
    Inventor: Jeremy-Pyu Shu
  • Patent number: 9666156
    Abstract: A two-stage digital-to-analog converter for outputting an analog voltage in response to a M-bit digital input code includes a one-bit serial charge redistribution digital-to-analog converter having a high reference voltage input node for receiving a high reference voltage and a low reference voltage input node for receiving a low reference voltage. A voltage selector sets the high reference voltage and low reference voltage to selected levels depending on at least a portion of the M-bit digital input code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nang-Ping Tu
  • Patent number: 9639218
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel, a display device and a scanning method thereof is disclosed. The liquid crystal panel includes a CF substrate, a TFT substrate and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the CF substrate and the TFT substrate; the CF substrate includes a transparent substrate and an integrated capacitive-electromagnetic composite touch layer located at the inner side of the transparent substrate to identify touch signals; wherein, the integrated capacitive-electromagnetic composite touch layer includes a capacitive touch structure and an electromagnetic touch structure electrically insulated from each other. According to the embodiments of the present invention, the integrated capacitive-electromagnetic composite touch layer is integrated to the inner of the CF substrate, so that the liquid crystal display including the liquid crystal panel of the embodiments of the present invention has capacitive and electromagnetic touch functions and is relatively thin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng Lu, Jun Ma, Qijun Yao
  • Patent number: 9626041
    Abstract: In an optical touch panel including a first group of light emitting and receiving packages and a second group of light emitting and receiving packages provided on a display surface at opposite sides to each other, each of the light emitting and receiving packages is formed by one light emitting element and one light receiving element vertically arranged above the display surface. The light emitting element of each light emitting and receiving package of the first group opposes the light receiving element of one light emitting and receiving package of the second group, and the light emitting element of each light emitting and receiving package of the second group opposes the light receiving element of one light emitting and receiving package of the first group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lingwei Goh, Masatsuna Sawada
  • Patent number: 9619090
    Abstract: A method for multi-touch detection on a grid based capacitive sensor includes transmitting consecutively a first and then a second sequence of a Golay pair of sequences on a first driver line of a grid based capacitive sensor and transmitting the first and then the second sequence of a Golay pair of sequences on a second driver line, at a predefined delay with respect to transmission on the first driver line. Output on a receiver line of the grid based capacitive sensor is sampled and output originating from the first driver line is separated from output originating from the second driver line. The presence of an input object is detected responsive to the output as separated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tiberiu Carol Galambos, Amir Zyskind
  • Patent number: 9620056
    Abstract: A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED), a first transistor for controlling an amount of current that flows from a first power supply to a second power supply via the OLED to correspond to a voltage applied to a first node, a second transistor coupled between an anode electrode of the OLED and a feedback line, and having a gate electrode coupled to a control line, a third transistor coupled between the first node and a data line, and having a gate electrode coupled to a first scan line, a storage capacitor coupled between the first node and a second node, and a fourth transistor coupled between the second node and a reference power supply, and having a gate electrode coupled to a second scan line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-Wook Yang, Bon-Seog Gu, Woo-Seok Han
  • Patent number: 9613571
    Abstract: A display device includes: an image display unit in an image display region, the image display unit including a plurality of main pixels each including sub-pixels; a light source portion that irradiates the image display region; a signal correction unit that calculates saturation and value of the main pixels based on first color information to be displayed on a predetermined pixel, the first color information being obtained based on an input video signal, and generates second color information by correcting the first color information based on the calculated saturation and value; a signal generation unit that calculates the saturation and the value of the main pixels based on the second color information, and generates a signal for determining light source luminance of the light source based on the calculated saturation and value; and a light source control unit that controls luminance of the light source based on the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Fumitaka Gotoh, Tsutomu Harada, Naoyuki Takasaki