Patents Examined by Gerald L Oliver
  • Patent number: 10444930
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a head mounted display (HMD) capable of providing contents to a user in a state of being worn on his or her head, and may include a display unit configured to display a virtual reality image, a sensor configured to recognize objects around the HMD device, and a controller configured to display notification information associated with a preset event when the event occurs, wherein the controller detects an obstacle based on a distance between the HMD device and the recognized object among the recognized objects, and determines a position at which the notification information is displayed based on the detected obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongho Kim, Doyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 10429930
    Abstract: Embodiments of a tactile strip and systems including a tactile strip are generally described herein. A tactile strip may include a back side configured to be coupled to a touchscreen display and a front side opposite the back side. The tactile strip may include a plurality of tactile features on the front side, the plurality of tactile features corresponding to a plurality of displayed inputs on the touchscreen display. A user touch may be used to register contact with the touchscreen via tactile feature guidance. A selected input may be confirmed by a long press, double touch, secondary touch, or other gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Philip N. Day, Steven Birnie, Elina Jokisuu, Michael McKenna, Andrew W. D. Smith
  • Patent number: 10423245
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatus are described for obtaining user input via a stylus configured to serve as an interface for providing user input into a computing device. The computing device may obtain rotation-related information indicative of rotational position or rotational movement of the stylus about a longitudinal axis of the stylus. The computing device may identify an operation in response to the rotation-related information, and perform the identified operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Virginia Walker Keating, Niccolo Andrew Padovani, Gilad Bornstein, Thien Lee, Nathan Altman
  • Patent number: 10416776
    Abstract: A method and system for interacting with an input device is provided. The method includes initializing a virtual keyboard viewable via an eyewear based video display enabled computing device. The eyewear based video display enabled computing device determines that two hands of a user are viewable via a view screen of the eyewear based video display enabled computing device. In response, characters or symbols of the virtual keyboard are mapped to a position and associated scaling of the two hands of the user. Movement of the hands is tracked and associated with gestures enabled by the movement. The associated gestures are converted into associated characters or symbols and input data specified by the user is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Samir K. Dash
  • Patent number: 10394353
    Abstract: An in-cell display touch structure includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a display material layer, and a thin film transistor and sensing electrode layer. The thin film transistor and sensing electrode layer has plural conductor lines arranged along a first direction and plural dashed conductor lines arranged along a second direction. Each dashed conductor line is formed by continuing plural conductor segments, and two continued conductor segments are separated from each other. Each conductor segment is arranged in the first direction and close to a gate line in parallel, each conductor line being arranged in the second direction and close to a source line in parallel. A portion of the conductor segments is used to form plural sensing areas and a portion of the conductor lines is used to form plural sensing signal connection lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hsiang-Yu Lee
  • Patent number: 10394387
    Abstract: A display device including a touch sensor and a driving method thereof, and more particularly, a curved display device including a touch sensor and a driving method thereof, are presented. The display device includes: a touch sensor unit including a plurality of touch sensors; and at least one touch surface curved to along a first direction, wherein the touch surface includes a center region and edge regions positioned at both sides of the center region along the first direction, and wherein a sensitivity of the touch sensor in the center region is higher than a sensitivity of the touch sensors in the edge regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Lyong Bok, Won Ki Hong
  • Patent number: 10386978
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel (DP) and a sensor unit on the DP. The sensor unit includes: a first conductive layer (CL) including a first bridge (FB); a second CL disposed on the first CL, the second CL including first sensor portions (FSPs) spaced apart from each other and arranged in a first direction; a first insulating layer (IL) disposed between the first CL and the second CL, the first IL including through-holes (THs) extending between the FB and the FSPs overlapping the FB; and contact electrodes (CEs) filling spaces defined by a bridge top surface of the FB exposed by the THs, insulating sidewalls of the first IL defining the THs, and sensor bottom surfaces of the FSPs facing the FB. A cross-section, which is perpendicular to a top surface of the DP, of each of the CEs has a polygonal shape of five or more sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donghwan Shim, Taehyun Kim, Seungmin Lee, Seung-hwan Cho
  • Patent number: 10379637
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention provides an input device with a mechanical wheel which includes a touch sensor. In one embodiment, the wheel is a thumbwheel that uses a magnetometer to detect rotation of a magnet inside the thumbwheel. The touch sensor in one embodiment is a cylindrical floating electrode which is capacitively coupled to a bridge electrode connected to a sensing circuit. The thumbwheel may be used for horizontal scrolling, zoom and other gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Arnaud Perret-Gentil, Daniel Bonanno, Patrick Edouard Jean Cerisier, Darragh Luttrell, Nicolas Ramond, Jaroslav Jirousek
  • Patent number: 10366650
    Abstract: A display apparatus including: a display panel configured to display an image; and a rear chassis arranged at a rear side of the display panel, the rear chassis comprising a back plate forming a back surface of the rear chassis, an upper frame coupled to an upper end of the back plate, and a lower frame coupled to a lower end of the back plate, wherein the rear chassis is curved so that lateral sides thereof protrude forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Joon Seok Ahn
  • Patent number: 10339851
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display, a voltage controller, a current driver, and a lighting control circuit. The control by the lighting control circuit is such that one frame is divided into N-pieces of subframes (the N is a natural number equal to or greater than two) which can be displayed at a predetermined frame rate f. In first frame cycle, one frame is divided into M-pieces of virtual subframes (the M is a natural number greater than the N), and N-pieces out of the M-pieces of the virtual subframes are selected as first displayed subframes and displayed on the display. Unselected (M?N) pieces of the virtual subframes are not displayed in the first frame cycle. In second frame cycle subsequent to the first frame cycle, the virtual subframes corresponding to undisplayed virtual subframes in the first frame cycle are selected as second displayed subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10331271
    Abstract: A displaying and operating device having a display unit and at least one proximity sensor, wherein a penetration of an object into at least one monitoring space can be detected by the proximity sensor, wherein at least one representation on the display unit is changed as a function of a penetrating object, wherein the displaying and operating device has a unit wherein a chronological sequence of receive signals from the proximity sensor is evaluated by the unit, wherein a constant receive signal is detected and stored within a predetermined time interval and, for subsequent operating, is ignored as a static receive signal of the display unit, wherein a change in the representation is carried out only if a subsequent receive signal exceeds the static receive signal by a predetermined value. Also disclosed is a method for operating a displaying and operating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventor: Christoph Wojzischke
  • Patent number: 10332455
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels including an organic light-emitting device configured to emit colored light; a gamma data generating unit configured to generate gamma data corresponding to received RGB data; a correction rate calculating unit configured to determine a luminance correction rate of each of the plurality of pixels based on the gamma data respectively corresponding to the plurality of pixels; and a correction value determining unit configured to determine a luminance correction value of a color displayed via each of the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Byungki Chun, Jeonghun So, Wonwoo Jang
  • Patent number: 10318091
    Abstract: A monolithic haptic-type touch screen capable of performing both touch recognition and haptic feedback are provided. The monolithic haptic-type touch screen includes an insulating film formed by doping ferroelectric material in an electroactive polymer (EAP), an upper electrode formed on an upper surface of the insulating film, and a lower electrode formed on a lower surface of the insulating film and corresponding to the upper electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: YongWoo Lee, YongSu Ham
  • Patent number: 10303417
    Abstract: Various of the disclosed embodiments present depth-based user interaction systems. By anticipating various installation constraints and factors into the interface's design, various of the disclosed embodiments facilitate benefits such as complementary depth fields of view and display orientation flexibility. Some embodiments include a frame housing for the depth sensors. Within the housing, depth sensors may be affixed to a mount, such that each sensor's field of view is at a disparate angle. These disparate angles may facilitate gesture recognitions that might otherwise be difficult or impossible to achieve. When mounted in connection with a modular unit, the housing may provide a versatile means for integrating multiple module units into a composite interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: YouSpace, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph Brunner, Hsin-Yi Chien, John Philip Stoddard, Po-Jui Chen, Vivi Brunner
  • Patent number: 10297201
    Abstract: Provided is a compensation method of a cathode voltage drop of an OLED display device and a pixel driving circuit. The first pixel driving circuits having function of detecting the cathode voltage are arranged in a portion of sub pixels of the OLED display device and uses the first pixel driving circuits to detect the cathode voltages of these sub pixels. The cathode voltages inputted to all the sub pixels of the OLED display device are obtained by interpolation according to the detected cathode voltages of these detecting sub pixels. Then, the cathode voltage compensation look up table is obtained according to the cathode voltages of all the sub pixels of the OLED display device. Finally, the data signal voltage is compensated with the cathode voltage compensation look up table. The data signal voltage after compensation is used to drive the OLED display device to perform image display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenling Wang, Taijiun Hwang
  • Patent number: 10281993
    Abstract: A reaction force applying part 5 includes an abutting part (20) provided in one of a moving part (3) and a footrest part (4) and having a first abutting surface (21) and a second abutting surface (22) arranged in a Y direction, a following part (30) provided in the other of the moving part (3) and the footrest part (4) and configured to follow a first rotation operation A of the footrest member (12) and relatively move along the first abutting surface (21) and the second abutting surface (22) while abutting on the first abutting surface (21) and the second abutting surface (22), and a biasing member (40) configured to cause a biasing force to act between the following part (30) and the first abutting surface (21), and between the following part 30 and the second abutting surface (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: EDIKUN Technology Inc.
    Inventor: Isamu Kato