Patents Examined by Duc Q Dinh
  • Patent number: 10901544
    Abstract: A display substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of electrode leads disposed on the substrate, and a plurality of electrodes electrically disconnected with each other disposed on the substrate. Each electrode is in direct contact with one or more of the plurality of electrode leads, and a thickness of each electrode lead is greater than a thickness of a corresponding electrode. At least one of the plurality of electrode leads is respectively provided with at least one gap, and each gap is configured to electrically disconnect one of the plurality of electrodes that is in direct contact with a corresponding electrode lead from another one of the plurality of electrodes that is adjacent to the corresponding electrode lead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Shengji Yang, Minghua Xuan, Li Xiao, Pengcheng Lu, Dongni Liu
  • Patent number: 10886338
    Abstract: A touch panel, a method for driving the same, and a touch device are provided. The touch panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate. The first substrate includes a first base substrate, a first electrode layer, a first display layer and a second electrode layer laminated one on another, and the second electrode layer is arranged adjacent to the second substrate and multiplexed as a first touch electrode. The second substrate includes a second base substrate and a second touch electrode arranged at a side of the second base substrate adjacent to the first substrate. A spacer is arranged between the second electrode layer and the second touch electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: FUZHOU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liqing Yao, Zongxiang Li
  • Patent number: 10866647
    Abstract: A mobile device, such as a smart phone, is provided with a camera. Digital content displayed on display screen of the mobile device may be manipulated in response to natural movements of the mobile device by a user. Motion of the mobile device is detected relative to a nearby textured surface by analyzing images of the textured surface. The displayed digital content is manipulated in response to the detected motion of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Vinay Sharma
  • Patent number: 10845933
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display region formed in a first region on a substrate and including a plurality of pixels arranged therein; a touch electrode disposed on the display region and configured to sense a touch; and a non-display region disposed in a second region on the substrate. The non-display region includes a first pad portion, a second pad portion, a link portion, and a wiring portion in which a wiring is disposed so as to interconnect the first and second pad portions and the link portion. The wiring portion is disposed in a bending region where the substrate is bent, and the wiring includes a first wiring and a second wiring formed above the first wiring and having at least one point connected to the first wiring in the bending region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruda Rhe, Yangsik Lee, KwangJo Hwang, DeukSu Lee
  • Patent number: 10839758
    Abstract: An image display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a display unit configured to display a moving image based on input moving image data; a determining unit configured to determine whether or not a specific reproduction operation related to a reproduction method of the moving image data has been performed; and a control unit configured to control display by the display unit so that display of a moving image of which brightness is higher than a first threshold is suppressed in a case where the specific reproduction operation has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuji Saito
  • Patent number: 10817107
    Abstract: A display unit has a flexible display section, a detection section for detecting a deflection amount and a deflection direction of the display section, a determination section for determining a visible portion and a non-visible portion of the display section based on the deflection amount and the deflection direction, and a control section for controlling display contents of the display section. The control section either prevents an image display on the non-visible portion or displays one of a fixed image or a pre-set moving image on the non-visible portion. The display unit also includes a displacement sensor located in the same region as the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hironobu Abe
  • Patent number: 10817092
    Abstract: The organic electroluminescence module has a touch function of detecting contact or proximity of an operation body. The module has a touch detection circuit unit with a capacitance touch detection circuit section; and a light emitting element drive circuit unit comprising a light emitting element drive circuit section which drives an organic electroluminescence panel. The organic electroluminescence panel has light emitting areas and a pair of at least two plate electrodes that are internally and mutually opposed. The pair of electrodes is connected to the light emitting element drive circuit unit. One of the pair of electrodes is a touch detection electrode. Either one or both of the pair of electrodes is connected to the touch detection circuit unit. A first electrode of the pair of electrodes is divided into portions while a second electrode of the pair of electrodes is a single piece. The same potential is applied at least to the divided portions of the first electrode during a touch detection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Omata, Tsukasa Yagi
  • Patent number: 10809959
    Abstract: A multi-screen display device includes a plurality of display screens and a prism-structured optical element disposed between two adjacent display screens. The prism-structured optical element includes a substrate and a plurality of prisms arranged in a predetermined direction on the substrate. The substrate includes a first region and a second region adjacent to each other, and the lengths of the first and second regions in the predetermined direction are respectively La and Lb, and La?Lb. The prism includes a plurality of first and second prisms in the first and second regions respectively. Each first and second prism has internal angles ?a1, ?a2 and internal angles ?b1 and ?b2 adjacent to the substrate. The inner angle ?a1 is between the inner angle ?a2 and the second region, and ?a1<?a2. The internal angle ?b1 is between the internal angle ?b2 and the first region, and ?b1<?b2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: CHAMP VISION DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Ku Liu, Jhong-Hao Wu
  • Patent number: 10811471
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a touch screen panel having an active area and a non-active area. The touch screen panel includes a first side and a second side. A display flexible printed circuit board is connected to the touch screen panel. The display flexible printed circuit board at least partially overlaps the first side of the touch screen panel. A touch flexible printed circuit board is connected to the touch screen panel. The touch flexible printed circuit board at least partially overlaps the second side of the touch screen panel. The touch flexible printed circuit board is bent toward a lower surface of the touch screen panel. A reinforcement member contacts a lower surface of the touch flexible printed circuit board. A portion of a side surface of the touch screen panel is connected to the second side of the touch screen panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myoung-ha Jeon, Hyeonjeong Oh, Kichang Lee
  • Patent number: 10809833
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensor includes: a plurality of sensing electrodes provided on one surface of a base substrate, the plurality of sensing electrodes being arranged in a matrix form; and a ground electrode provided on the other surface of the base substrate. The ground electrode includes: a plurality of first lines extending in one direction, the plurality of first lines being parallel to one another; and a plurality of second lines extending in a direction intersecting the first lines, the plurality of second lines being parallel to one another. In a plan view, the first lines and the second lines are provided between adjacent sensing electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Won Jo, Su Yul Seo, Yu Jin Choi, Sung Sik Yun
  • Patent number: 10802125
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide touch screen side-scan sonar adjustment for mobile structures. A side-scan sonar adjustment system includes a user interface with a touch screen display and a logic device configured to communicate with the user interface and a side-scan sonar system. The user interface is configured to receive and/or display side-scan sonar data provided by the side-scan sonar system. The logic, device is configured to determine a horizontal swipe gesture rate component performed on the touch screen display, stretch the displayed image in accordance with the swipe gesture, and snap to a new field of view in accordance with current field of view and swipe length information. The user interface and logic device may be integrated together to form a multifunction display used to power and/or supply side-scan sonar transmission signals to the side-scan sonar system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: FLIR BELGIUM BVBA
    Inventor: Christopher Daniel Gatland
  • Patent number: 10804329
    Abstract: A display device may include a first pixel including a first transistor, and a first light emitting element on and electrically connected to the first transistor, a second pixel adjacent the first pixel, the second pixel including a second transistor, and a second light emitting element on and electrically connected to the second transistor, and a reflective member at a layer that is above the first pixel and the second pixel, the reflective member being configured to reflect a light emitted from the second light emitting element to the first transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: June Hwan Kim, Tae Young Kim, Hyo Jung Kim
  • Patent number: 10770519
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display panel may include a base substrate, an array structure layer, an organic light-emitting layer, a thin film packaging layer, a touch screen layer, and a polarizer layer. The array structure layer, the organic light-emitting layer, and the thin film packaging layer may be sequentially arranged on the base substrate. At least one of the touch screen layer and the polarizer layer may be located in the thin film packaging layer. An inorganic material layer in the thin film packaging layer may be replaced by the touch screen layer and/or the polarizer layer arranged in the thin film packaging layer to reduce a thickness of an OLED display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feng Zhang, Shou-Cheng Wang
  • Patent number: 10768792
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an electronic device. The electronic device generates for presentation on a display a user interface including a plurality of content items, a first heading, and a second heading. While the user interface is presented on the display, the electronic device receives input scrolling the plurality of content items. In response to the input, the electronic device scrolls the plurality of content items including: scrolling the first heading with a first content item of the plurality of content items that is currently playing; and scrolling the second heading with a second content item of the plurality of content items that is next in a queue of content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, Joe Howard, Joshua McGlinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, William M. Bachman, Elbert D. Chen, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Jennifer L. C. Folse, Lynne Kress, Kory M. Westerhold, Monika E. Gromek, Policarpo Bonilla Wood, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10754187
    Abstract: A display assembly and an electronic apparatus are provided. The display assembly includes: a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to each other; a liquid crystal layer between them; a first part including a first light shielding portion, a second light shielding portion and an electrochromic portion; and a second part, including a third light shielding portion, a fourth light shielding portion and a transparent portion, wherein the first part is arranged on a side of the first substrate facing towards the second substrate; wherein the second part is arranged on a side of the second substrate facing towards the first substrate; and wherein a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer are arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate and configured to adjust states of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Li Xiao, Minghua Xuan, Xiaochuan Chen, Shengji Yang, Lei Wang, Pengcheng Lu, Dongni Liu, Liang Chen
  • Patent number: 10754546
    Abstract: An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a display and a processor, which implements the method, including: displaying virtual reality image, a virtual keyboard including a plurality of keys indicating a plurality of characters, and a representation of an external electronic device superimposed on the virtual reality image, wherein the virtual keyboard is displayed in a virtual touch pad area of the representation corresponding to a touch pad of the external electronic device, receiving information regarding a first touch input, transmitted from the external electronic device in response to detecting the first touch input on the touch pad, identifying, using the received information, a key corresponding to the first touch input from among the plurality of keys, and displaying, in at least a portion of the virtual reality image, a character indicated by the identified key on at least portion of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ilhoe Jung, Kihwan Choi, Jinjoo Park, Daemyung Kim, Haksoo Kim, Yoonjeong Heo, Min-Jung Kim, Ji-Yoon Park
  • Patent number: 10754451
    Abstract: The operating device for a vehicle comprises a capacitively operating touch panel having an upper face with a touch sensitive surface, and an operating unit having a movable operating element which can be grasped manually and has an electrically conductive surface and a plate shaped holding element, provided with an upper face and a lower face facing away from the upper face, on which the operating element is movably arranged and which for its part is arranged on the touch-sensitive surface of the upper face of the touch panel. The operating element comprises at least one wiper, electrically connected to the electrically conductive surface of the operating element, sliding along a sensing path of the upper face of the holding element when the operating element is moved. The holding element comprises alternately successively arranged first sections and second sections along the sensing path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: BEHR-HELLA THERMOCONTROL GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Fischer, Tobias Schwab
  • Patent number: 10747342
    Abstract: A hand-held device with a sensor for providing a signal indicative of a position of the hand-held device relative to an object surface enables power to the sensor at a first time interval when the hand-held device is indicated to be in a position that is stationary and adjacent relative to the object surface, enables power to the sensor at a second time interval shorter than the first time interval when the hand-held device is indicated to be in a position that is moving and adjacent relative to the object surface, and enables power to the sensor at a third time interval when the hand-held device is determined to be in a position that is removed relative to the object surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Brian Gates, Jeremy K. Black
  • Patent number: 10739889
    Abstract: A touch display device and panel. In the display panel, an insulating film is provided on and in contact with an encapsulating layer, thereby reducing the entire thickness of the panel. The fabrication process of the touch display panel is simplified, thereby facilitating fabrication of the touch display device and panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: KwangJo Hwang, SuChang An, Yangsik Lee, DeukSu Lee
  • Patent number: 10726777
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal display method, said method comprising: displaying a picture corresponding to left half-frame data of a current data frame, and starting a first timer; when the count time of said first timer ends, closing the screen brightness; rendering a picture corresponding to the right half-frame data of said current data frame starting a second timer; when the count time of said second timer ends, opening the screen brightness, displaying the picture corresponding to the right half-frame data, and simultaneously starting the first timer; and when the count time of the first timer ends, closing the screen brightness. The present disclosure also provides a terminal display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mingdong Pan