Patents Examined by Christopher Kohlman
  • Patent number: 10216268
    Abstract: A method for determining if a user's gaze is directed in the direction of a zone of interest in a 3D scene comprises: providing a 3D scene containing a zone of interest; associating a property with the zone of interest; creating a bitmap representing the location of the zone of interest in a projected view of the 3D scene, each pixel of the bitmap to which the zone of interest is projected storing the property of the zone of interest; detecting the direction of the user's gaze; using the bitmap to determine if the detected user's gaze is directed in the direction of the zone of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Tobii AB
    Inventors: Fredrik Lindh, Mattias Gustavsson, Anders Vennstrom, Andreas Edling
  • Patent number: 10139932
    Abstract: According to various example embodiments, an electronic device may include: a touch screen disposed on a first surface of the electronic device and configured to receive a first input; an auxiliary input device disposed on a second surface of the electronic device and configured to receive a second input; a sensor module configured to detect a grip area with respect to the electronic device; and a processor configured to determine a first area of the touch screen based on the grip area and to display a pointer on the first area, when the second input is received through the auxiliary input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeo-Jun Yoon, Yun-Kyung Kim, Ji-Yeon Kwak
  • Patent number: 10134912
    Abstract: A display device including a pixel having a memory. The pixel includes at least a display element, a capacitor, an inverter, and a switch. The switch is controlled with a signal held in the capacitor and a signal output from the inverter so that voltage is supplied to the display element. The inverter and the switch can be constituted by transistors with the same polarity. A semiconductor layer included in the pixel may be formed using a light-transmitting material. Moreover, a gate electrode, a drain electrode, and a capacitor electrode may be formed using a light-transmitting conductive layer. The pixel is formed using a light-transmitting material in such a manner, whereby the display device can be a transmissive display device while including a pixel having a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Kengo Akimoto, Masashi Tsubuku, Toshinari Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10126859
    Abstract: A touch panel includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed on a viewer side of the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes and a common electrode for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer; and a plurality of detection electrodes and a plurality of driving electrodes for a touch sensor. The first substrate includes: a first transparent substrate; and the plurality of pixel electrodes, which are formed on the liquid crystal layer side of the first transparent substrate. The second substrate includes: a second transparent substrate; and the plurality of driving electrodes and the plurality of detection electrodes formed on the liquid crystal layer side of the second transparent substrate. The touch panel does not include a conductive layer on the viewer side of the second transparent substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sugita, Kenshi Tada, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Shinji Yamagishi, Jean Mugiraneza, Koichi Miyachi, Hidefumi Yoshida, Mitsuhiro Murata, Kohhei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10126867
    Abstract: A processing system that includes a sigma-delta converter and a filter unit that applies a matched filter to the output of the sigma-delta converter. The processing system drives sensor electrodes for capacitive sensing and receives resulting signals with the sensor electrodes in response. The processing system applies these resulting signals to sigma-delta converters. The matched filter boosts the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal received from the sigma-delta converter, thereby improving the ability to sense presence of an input object. The filter unit may apply different, customized matched filters for different capacitive pixels to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of each capacitive pixel in a customized manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kirk Hargreaves, Joseph Kurth Reynolds
  • Patent number: 10127885
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes an image display panel in which pixels are arranged; and a signal processing unit that converts input values of input signals including color information of a certain color represented in a reference color gamut into extended values in an extended color space to generate output signals. The signal processing unit corrects the input values of the input signals into input values of corrected input signals including color information of a corrected color so as to correct the certain color into the corrected color that is a color positioned in a direction away from a white point, determines an expansion coefficient, and obtains the output signals for first to fourth sub-pixels based on at least the corrected input signals and the expansion coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Masashi Mitsui
  • Patent number: 10109231
    Abstract: An electrooptical device includes: a first signal line group; a second signal line group; a signal distribution circuit that executes a distribution operation of distributing first data signals to signal lines in the first signal line group and distributing second data signals to signal lines in the second signal line group; a first supply circuit that supplies the first data signals to the signal distribution circuit and supplies first selection signals for controlling distribution of the first data signals to the signal lines in the first signal line group; a second supply circuit that supplies the second data signals to the signal distribution circuit and supplies second selection signals for controlling distribution of the second data signals to the signal lines in the second signal line group; and a selection circuit that controls output of the first selection signals and the second selection signals to the signal distribution circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinta Enami
  • Patent number: 10095351
    Abstract: A substrate includes a plurality of force sensitive resistors, among which at least two force sensitive resistors connected in series forms a force sensing unit, wherein the first end of the force sensing unit applied with a first voltage, and the second end of the force sensing unit applied with a second voltage which is different from the first voltage; a readout signal line tapped between two adjacent force sensitive resistors connected in series; and the force sensitive resistors are made of piezoresistive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Ding, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Xiaochuan Chen, Yingming Liu, Wei Liu, Pengpeng Wang, Tao Ren
  • Patent number: 10096278
    Abstract: A method for driving an organic light emitting display device includes measuring a characteristic of a panel and storing a measured loading correction value in a first look-up table. The measured loading correction value includes loading information of pixels that correspond to predetermined gray scale values based on the characteristic of the panel The method further includes storing gamma values of the pixels corresponding to the characteristic of the panel in a second lookup table, and obtaining a calculated loading correction value based on pre-stored equations, the first lookup table, and the second lookup table. The calculated loading correction value includes loading information corresponding to gray scale values different from the predetermined gray scale values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Cheol Kim, In Hwan Kim, Byung Geun Jun
  • Patent number: 10089071
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to controlling volume on an immersive display device. One example provides a near-eye display device comprising a sensor subsystem, a logic subsystem, and a storage subsystem storing instructions executable by the logic subsystem to receive image sensor data from the sensor subsystem, present content comprising a visual component and an auditory component, while presenting the content, detect via the image sensor data that speech is likely being directed at a wearer of the near-eye display device, and in response to detecting that speech is likely being directed at the wearer, attenuate an aspect of the auditory component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Kohler, Denise Ng
  • Patent number: 10089951
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a first pixel, and a panel driver to generate a first data voltage based on a first or second gamma, to output the first data voltage to the first pixel, to generate a second data voltage based on a third or fourth gamma, and to output the second data voltage to the first pixel, wherein the first and second gammas are based on a first reference gamma, and the third and fourth gammas are based on a second reference gamma different from the first reference gamma, wherein a luminance of an image based on the first or second gammas is higher than a luminance of an image based on the first reference gamma, and wherein a data voltage based on the first gamma has a positive polarity, and a data voltage based on the second gamma has a negative polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyang-A Park, Cheol-Woo Park, Seung-Hwan Park
  • Patent number: 10078985
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a liquid-crystal-display device; a display control circuit; a backlight device; and a light-emitting-diode control circuit that adjusts luminance of the backlight device using a pulse width modulation signal as an output to the white light emitting diode. Gradation correction data corresponding to a chromaticity variation due to a duty ratio of the pulse width modulation signal is stored in the display control circuit in advance, the display control circuit determines the gradation correction data corresponding to input image data input to the liquid crystal display, based on the input image data and the duty ratio, and the display control circuit outputs output image data, which is calculated so as to correct the chromaticity variation based on the gradation correction data and the input image data, as the image signal to the liquid-crystal-display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro Mori
  • Patent number: 10073265
    Abstract: In the present specification, an image processing device and an image processing method for same are disclosed. An image processing device for processing images according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a receiving unit for receiving content; a controller for turning retinal scanning on and measuring an accommodation, and calculating a focal depth based on the measured accommodation and controlling in order to generate an image according to the calculated focal depth; and an output unit for outputting the generated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dmitry Cherdakov, Kyungdong Choi, Vasiliy Lomanov
  • Patent number: 10067604
    Abstract: A system and method for activating a trigger on an input device, where a capacitive sensor is used for proximity detection of a finger, and wherein the trigger may provide a range of signal levels instead of an on/off signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Cirque Corporation
    Inventor: Jared Bytheway
  • Patent number: 10055645
    Abstract: Disclosed are various implementations for updating information displayed in a user interface for a worker in a fulfillment center. Information changing relative to a previous user interface can be provided in response to location data that indicates the worker's location within a fulfillment center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Udit Madan, Michael Ellsworth Bundy, David Daniel Glick, John Elias Darrow
  • Patent number: 10043351
    Abstract: A self-service terminal is described. The terminal includes first and second touch sensitive units. Each of these touch sensitive units includes a display and a touch sensitive panel overlying the display. The second customer display is configured differently to the first customer display. The terminal also includes a processor operable to present (i) a screen comprising a plurality of different selectable options to a customer on the first customer display, and (ii) a screen associated with a selected selectable option on the second customer display, so that the customer can use the second touch sensitive unit to enter transaction details in a more private manner than by using the first touch sensitive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan S Black, Grant C. Paton
  • Patent number: 10031613
    Abstract: Provided herein is a control method of a touch screen panel having an activated area divided into a plurality of touch areas, and a plurality of touch drivers each corresponding to each of the touch areas, the method including computing location information of a stylus pen based on photograph data; and controlling power of the touch drivers according to the computed location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Woong Jeong, Jae Won Jeong, Kyung Uk Choi
  • Patent number: 10026350
    Abstract: A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a display unit configured to display a specific image according to first data supplied from the outside; an image compensator configured to receive a photographed image in which the specific image is photographed and generate variation information corresponding to luminance variations of pixels using the photographed image; an image corrector configured to generate second data by correcting the first data according to the variation information; and a data driver configured to generate a data signal using the first data or the second data and supply the data signal to the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung Geun Jun, Min Cheol Kim, In Hwan Kim, Ui Yeong Cha
  • Patent number: 10019220
    Abstract: A control method and an apparatus thereof applied to a terminal apparatus with a display device are provided. The terminal apparatus can establish a data connection with a wearable device. The method includes: receiving a control instruction generated by the terminal apparatus; acquiring a display picture on the display device of the terminal apparatus based on the control instruction; and sending the display picture to the wearable device through data connection, so that the wearable device displays the display picture. After the control instruction is generated by the terminal apparatus, the display picture on the display device of the terminal apparatus is sent to the wearable device through the data connection, to display the display picture on the wearable device. Thus, viewing experience different from viewing through the terminal apparatus is provided for a user and the viewing experience for the user is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rui Deng, Xiaohai Zhang
  • Patent number: 10007389
    Abstract: A touch window according to an embodiment includes a cover substrate on which a first area and a second area are defined; a coil on the second area of the cover substrate; a first substrate on the cover substrate; and a sensing electrode on the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Young Kim, Ji Won Jo