Patents Examined by Gerald L Oliver
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Patent number: 10444930Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 5, 2014Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jongho Kim, Doyoung Lee
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Patent number: 10429930Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Philip N. Day, Steven Birnie, Elina Jokisuu, Michael McKenna, Andrew W. D. Smith
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Patent number: 10423245Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Virginia Walker Keating, Niccolo Andrew Padovani, Gilad Bornstein, Thien Lee, Nathan Altman
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Patent number: 10416776Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Samir K. Dash
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Patent number: 10394353Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATIONInventor: Hsiang-Yu Lee
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Patent number: 10394387Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seung Lyong Bok, Won Ki Hong
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Patent number: 10386978Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 2, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Donghwan Shim, Taehyun Kim, Seungmin Lee, Seung-hwan Cho
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Patent number: 10379637Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.Inventors: Arnaud Perret-Gentil, Daniel Bonanno, Patrick Edouard Jean Cerisier, Darragh Luttrell, Nicolas Ramond, Jaroslav Jirousek
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Patent number: 10366650Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Joon Seok Ahn
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Patent number: 10339851Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventor: Makoto Matsumoto
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Patent number: 10331271Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 23, 2013Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Volkswagen AGInventor: Christoph Wojzischke
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Patent number: 10332455Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Samsung Display Co., LtdInventors: Byungki Chun, Jeonghun So, Wonwoo Jang
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Patent number: 10318091Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 11, 2014Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: YongWoo Lee, YongSu Ham
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Patent number: 10303417Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 3, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: YouSpace, Inc.Inventors: Ralph Brunner, Hsin-Yi Chien, John Philip Stoddard, Po-Jui Chen, Vivi Brunner
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Patent number: 10297201Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhenling Wang, Taijiun Hwang
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Patent number: 10281993Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: EDIKUN Technology Inc.Inventor: Isamu Kato