Patents Examined by Emily Frank
  • Patent number: 9372544
    Abstract: In one or more implementations, a static geometry model is generated, from one or more images of a physical environment captured using a camera, using one or more static objects to model corresponding one or more objects in the physical environment. Interaction of a dynamic object with at least one of the static objects is identified by analyzing at least one image and a gesture is recognized from the identified interaction of the dynamic object with the at least one of the static objects to initiate an operation of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: David Kim, Otmar D. Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, Patrick L. Olivier, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Pushmeet Kohli, David G. Molyneaux, Stephen E. Hodges, Andrew W. Fitzgibbon
  • Patent number: 9372545
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wearable mobile terminal of a glasses form enabling a user to more conveniently use the terminal and a method of controlling therefor. According to at least one of embodiments of the present invention, various functions of the wearable mobile terminal can be executed based on a simple and easy gesture of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yoomee Song, Jiyoun Lee, Younghoon Song
  • Patent number: 9367117
    Abstract: Methods and systems for attention-based rendering on an entertainment system are provided. A tracking device captures data associated with a user, which is used to determine that a user has reacted (e.g., visually or emotionally) to a particular part of the screen. The processing power is increased in this part of the screen, which increases detail and fidelity of the graphics and/or updating speed. The processing power in the areas of the screen that the user is not paying attention to is decreased and diverted from those areas, resulting in decreased detail and fidelity of the graphics and/or decreased updating speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC
    Inventors: Paul Timm, Andres Ramos Cevallos, Ryan Halvorson
  • Patent number: 9354841
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for wirelessly communicating configuration data from mobile devices for use by interactive display devices. In some aspects, a processing device can identify two or more mobile devices participating in a session for utilizing an interactive display device. The processing device can receive configuration data from each of the mobile devices via a wireless transceiver. The processing device can configure an interactive display device to present outputs during the session using attributes that the processing device identifies from the received configuration data. In additional or alternative aspects, a processing device can identify at least one mobile device participating in a session for utilizing an interactive display device. The processing device can associate outputs presented by the interactive display device with an entity that is identifiable from configuration data that is received from the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Smart Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Grant McGibney, Angela Thomas, Leonardo Miguel Araneta, Phillip Warren Benson
  • Patent number: 9349338
    Abstract: A memory access section 16 writes, in a memory (10), a received image signal, in a case where a current frame is one that is located right before a frame in a scanning signal. On the other hand, the memory access section 16 does not write, in the memory (10), a received image signal, in a case where the current frame is one that is located right before a frame in a pause period. This allows a further reduction in electric power used to write, in the memory (10), an image signal received from outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Kobayashi, Akizumi Fujioka, Asahi Yamato, Taketoshi Nakano, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Patent number: 9348476
    Abstract: A display device with integrated touch screen is provided. The display device includes a panel configured to include a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes and a display driver IC configured to apply a common voltage to the plurality of driving electrodes and the plurality of sensing electrodes when the panel operates in a display driving mode, and when the panel operates in a touch driving mode, generate a pulse-modulated driving pulse according to a timing pulse and a pulse modulation control signal to apply the pulse-modulated driving pulse to the plurality of driving electrodes, and respectively receive a plurality of sensing signals from the plurality of sensing electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young Joon Lee
  • Patent number: 9342168
    Abstract: An input apparatus, a display apparatus, a control method thereof and a display system are provided. The input apparatus includes: a communication unit which communicates with the display apparatus; a touch sensor which senses a touch input; a motion sensor which senses a motion of the input apparatus; and a controller which determines whether a value of a touch input, that sensed by the touch sensor when the input apparatus operates in a gesture mode according to the motion of the input apparatus, is greater than or equal to a first reference value, and changes an input mode of the input apparatus to a touch mode if it is determined that the value of the touch input greater than or equal to the first reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-heon Lee, Yong-hwan Kwon
  • Patent number: 9335824
    Abstract: A multi-touch display layer of a mobile electronic device may be configured with a tactile area on a clear layer on the multi-touch display layer. The mobile electronic device may display a view of information based on applied force from a detected touch to the tactile area and a detected indentation level of the clear layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: HJ Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Harry Vartanian, Jaron Jurikson-Rhodes
  • Patent number: 9336707
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit, a gamma voltage generator, a gamma voltage unit, a data driver, and a timing controller. The display unit includes pixels emitting light according to data signals supplied through data lines. The gamma voltage generator is configured to generate a first set of reference gamma voltages, and to supply the first set of reference gamma voltages to a gamma voltage unit. The gamma voltage unit is configured to generate gamma voltages using the first set of reference gamma voltages and a second set of reference gamma voltages, and to supply the generated gamma voltages to a data driver. The data driver is configured to generate the data signals using the generated gamma voltages, and to supply the generated data signal to the data lines. The timing controller is configured to control the data driver according to an image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myoung-Seop Song, Jun-Yi Choi, Myung-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 9323362
    Abstract: According to aspects of the disclosure, an input device may include a first adjustment region, a second adjustment region, a connector region, a function region, and a display region. In one example, A user may access a particular function by providing a gesture to the function region. The user may then continue the gesture from the function region to the connector region for a predetermined length along the connector region. Once a particular function is accessed, a user may control the parameters or settings associated with that particular function via one or both of the first adjustment region and second adjustment region. For example, a user may provide a gesture to either the first or second adjustment region in order to modify parameters associated with the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas Kenneth Hobbs
  • Patent number: 9323437
    Abstract: A method for displaying a scale for an enlargement and reduction operation on a touch screen includes detecting, using a multi-touch detection sensor, a plurality of touches by a user on the touch screen, and detecting an enlarging operation or a reducing operation caused by the user applying two operating fingers to the touch screen. An enlargement factor or a reduction factor is displayed on the touch screen at a position near the two operating fingers of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Keiichi Harada
  • Patent number: 9319110
    Abstract: A hinge is provided for mechanically and electrically coupling a machine and a display wirelessly. The hinge includes a machine portion having a first transceiver for wirelessly sending a signal concerning an operation or status of the machine and a display portion having a second transceiver for wirelessly receiving the operating signal. The hinge machine portion and the hinge display portion are mechanically connected so as to: (i) swivel with respect to each other; or (ii) tilt with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignees: Baxter International Inc., Baxter Healthcare S.A.
    Inventors: Andrey Kopychev, Gideon Hecht, Peter J. Wellings
  • Patent number: 9310896
    Abstract: An input method and electronic device using a pen input device are provided. In an embodiment, status information of the pen input device is received, and contact information of a contact point between the pen input device and the terminal is generated, based on the received status information. Expressive effects of a pen input, such as line thickness, density and texture, are varied based on the contact information. Such input method and electronic device using the pen input device can simply and conveniently vary expressive effects of a pen-based input. In other embodiments, contact information is determined from actual contact points and expressive effects are varied as a function of the contact information or pen status information derived from the actual contact information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daehyun Ji, Joonwoo Kim, Dongcheol Baek, Taekeun Oh
  • Patent number: 9311851
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes: an organic light emitting diode (“OLED”); a threshold circuit which generates an output signal based on an input signal, where the threshold circuit has a hysteresis characteristic with respect to the input signal; a first transistor including a first electrode connected to a data line, a second electrode connected to an input terminal of the threshold circuit, and a gate electrode connected to a scan line; and a second transistor including a first electrode connected to a first power, a second electrode connected to an anode of the organic light emitting diode, and a gate electrode connected to an output terminal of the threshold circuit, where the second transistor controls a current amount that flows to the organic light emitting diode from the first power based on the output signal of the threshold circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Leonid Kaplan, Heung-Yeol Na, Baek-Woon Lee, Won-Sik Hyun, Jae-Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 9304600
    Abstract: A gesture recognition device that recognizes a gesture of a person from an image captured by a camera, and outputs information to an electronic apparatus in order to control the electronic apparatus based on the recognized gesture, has a person determination section that determines whether the person is included in the image, and an output section that outputs person out-of-view angle notification instruction information issuing an instruction to make a notification that the image of the person is not captured, when the person determination section determines that the person is not included in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Motoo Yamamoto, Yuichi Abe, Yuki Hanzawa, Takahiro Takayama
  • Patent number: 9301074
    Abstract: A display unit includes: a display section having a plurality of light-emitting devices arranged in a straight line; a driving section supplying a display driving signal for controlling the luminance of each of the light-emitting devices; and a display control section connected to the driving section for supplying the driving section with either a first display control signal for controlling the luminance of the light-emitting devices to display a preset display pattern according to an operation control signal from a controller or a second display control signal for controlling the luminance of the light-emitting devices in synchronism with the level of an audio signal, wherein the first display control signal is generated based on a wave function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Kondo, Mitsutaka Kimura, Junko Teshima, Yoshihide Kurimoto, Takayuki Fujishima, Hiroshi Furukawa, Akio Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9286843
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes pixels connected to gate lines and data lines, a gate driver configure to drive the gate lines, a data driver including a plurality of data driving parts configured to drive the data lines. The control board includes a processor that outputs an image signal and a control signal and a timing controller that outputs a first control signal to control the gate driver and a second control signal and a data signal to control the data driver in response to the image signal and the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongjun Jang, Nam-Gon Choi, Geunjeong Park, Hyundae Lee, Cheolwoo Park, Jeong-hun So, Bonghyun You, Yun Ki Baek, Kyoung Ho Lim
  • Patent number: 9286025
    Abstract: Methods for rendering content on a multi-display device interactively are described. In one implementation, a request for rendering the content data on the multi-display device is received, wherein the content data includes presentation slides. Further, screen information including a number of available screens on the multi-display device and location information of the available screens is determined using a device driver. Also, a rendering pattern for rendering the content data on one or more of the available screens is received and the content data is provided, based on the screen information and the rendering pattern, to the device driver for rendering the content data on the one or more of the available screens of the multi-display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Polaris Financial Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Arun Jain, Rajesh Kuppuswamy, Appala Narasimha Sarma Karra
  • Patent number: 9280220
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data from one or more sensors in or on a stylus, the stylus including one or more electrodes and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying logic for wirelessly transmitting signals to a device through a touch sensor of the device. The method includes generating a carrier signal and modulating the carrier signal to communicate the sensor data and wirelessly transmitting from the stylus to the device the carrier signal as modulated through the touch sensor of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Shahrooz Shahparnia, Vivek Pant, Esat Yilmaz, Vemund Kval Bakken, Kishore Sundara-Rajan, John Stanley Dubery, Martin J. Simmons, Sherif Hanna
  • Patent number: 9280204
    Abstract: A method for tracking a user's gaze point using a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes detecting the user's eye area from a camera that is mounted in the mobile terminal and selecting reference points of the eye area, detecting a pupil corresponding to an interest area that is obtained from the reference points, generating a first virtual grid of the eye area using a pickup image of a gaze point of the pupil corresponding to each corner of the display and generating a second virtual grid having the same division areas as those of the first virtual grid in the display, and mapping a position of the pupil within the second virtual grid area corresponding to a position of the pupil within the first virtual grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Soo Chang Kim, Young Hoon Kim, Seung Chan Bang, Hee-Jae Lee, Sang-Goog Lee