Patents Examined by Joseph Haley
  • Patent number: 10185493
    Abstract: A touch panel device includes a display section for displaying a plurality of input fields, an enlarged display section for displaying, at enlarged scale, one of the input fields in which the operator wants to enter data and which is touched by the operator, and an input section for entering processing condition data from the input field displayed at enlarged scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Disco Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Chiba, Jun Takaba
  • Patent number: 10180663
    Abstract: A watch type mobile terminal is provided that is wearable on a wrist. The watch type mobile terminal includes a main body, a band unit, a sensing unit and a controller. The main body has a display unit. The band unit is connected to the main body so that the mobile terminal surrounds the user's wrist. The sensing unit senses a user input applied to the band unit. The controller processes the user input applied to the band unit as a control command with respect to the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yujune Jang, Taeseong Kim, Jeongyoon Rhee
  • Patent number: 10175800
    Abstract: An electrode member according to an embodiment includes a first resin layer; and an electrode layer on the first resin layer, wherein the first resin layer has a thickness in the range of 1 ?m to 25 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Jae Lee, Hyun Seok Lim, Soo Kwang Yoon
  • Patent number: 10178369
    Abstract: An image brightness adjustment device, comprising an image data processing unit for extracting brightness values of subpixels arranged in a matrix manner in a frame image according to the received image data, wherein each two adjacent subpixels in a frame image form one group, a calculating unit for calculating a difference between brightness values of the two subpixels in at least part of groups and outputting a calculation result, and a comparing unit for comparing the calculation result with a predetermined value Q, a brightness adjusting unit for adjusting the brightness values of the two subpixels in the group if the calculation result is greater than the predetermined value Q, a display data generating unit for generating display data from the image data if the calculation result is smaller than or equal to the predetermined value Q, and generating display data from the adjusted image data if the calculation result is greater than the predetermined value Q.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Multimedia Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuhuan Yu, Peng Cheng
  • Patent number: 10175487
    Abstract: Various technologies described herein pertain to a head mounted display device having a display with a central portion and a periphery portion. Graphical content can be displayed on the central portion of the display. The central portion can be a primary display that provides a field of view and displays the graphical content, and the periphery portion can be a peripheral display. The peripheral display can be positioned relative to the primary display such that an overall field of view provided by the primary display and the peripheral display is extended compared to the field of view of the primary display. Further, complementary content can be rendered based on the graphical content and caused to be displayed on the periphery portion (e.g., the peripheral display). The complementary content can include a countervection visualization viewable in a far periphery region of a field of view of human vision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Hrvoje Benko, Bo Robert Xiao
  • Patent number: 10156869
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a hollow display cover structure. The hollow display cover structure may be formed from a structure having an inner surface. The structure may be an elongated member having a longitudinal axis. A material such as sapphire, other crystalline materials, or other transparent materials may be used in forming the hollow display cover structure. A flexible display layer such as an organic light-emitting diode display layer or other flexible display structure may be wrapped around the longitudinal axis to cover the interior surface of the hollow display cover structure. The electronic device may have a touch sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, and other sensors for gathering input such as user input. The electronic device may use one or more sensors to gather information on rotational motion of the device and can display content on the flexible display layer accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott A. Myers, Derek Wright, Fletcher R. Rothkopf
  • Patent number: 10156944
    Abstract: A touch window includes a sensing electrode to sense a position; a wire electrically connected to the sensing electrode; and a reinforcing electrode between the sensing electrode and the wire. A touch window includes a sensing electrode to sense a position and comprising a third pattern; and a wire electrically connected to the sensing electrode, wherein the sensing electrode includes a reinforcing part disposed at a region close to the wire, and wherein the reinforcing part includes a fourth pattern overlapping with the third pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung Heon Lee
  • Patent number: 10152125
    Abstract: A haptic effect enabled flexible device is presented that includes a flexible frame, a processor, a flexible display and an actuator system. The processor is configured to receive a data stream where the data stream contains visual content. The flexible display is connected to the flexible frame and is designed to display the visual content from the data stream. The actuator system is also connected to the flexible frame and receives drive commands from the processor as a result of the processor executing a plurality of haptic instructions. The drive commands direct the actuator system to deform the flexible device. Execution of the plurality of haptic instructions is synchronized with the display of the visual content on the flexible display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: IMMERSION CORPORATION
    Inventor: Vincent Levesque
  • Patent number: 10152088
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and a control method therefor, the mobile terminal comprising: a terminal body; a display unit disposed on a front side and comprising a first part, and a second part formed so as to be rotatable about a boundary part on one side of the first part, thereby being in either a first-part covering state or a first-part not-covering state; and a control unit controlling the display unit so that at least one page among a plurality of pages in an electronic document can be outputted, detecting the bending of the display unit by the movement of at least one of the left-end and right-end, selecting, on the basis of the detected bending, at least one page among the plurality of pages, and controlling the display unit so that the selected page is outputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hokyung Ka, Chul Park, Jaedong Kim, Kyoungho Lee, Jinho Cho
  • Patent number: 10146342
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for controlling an operation of an electronic device are provided. The method includes detecting a first input or a second input corresponding to a proximity distance of an input instrument in proximity to a display screen; identifying an input combination which includes at least one of the first input, the second input, or a combination of the first and second inputs which are inputted at a predetermined time interval; and performing a predetermined function corresponding to the identified input combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung-Jin Park, Kyung-Hee Kim
  • Patent number: 10139970
    Abstract: A mass produced identifier providing device with sufficiently high yield, even when forming a conductive layer pattern having an extremely small thickness/minimum area using a minimum amount of silver paste. The identifier-providing device has a conductive layer pattern formed on a rear surface of a base material as an insulator. The silver paste forming the conductive layer pattern contains only silver flakes, as silver particles, that have a particle size in a range of 3.0 to 5.0 ?m and that has a thickness of 100 nm at a largest thickness portion, while having a thickness of 50 nm at a smallest thickness portion. The conductive layer pattern is formed to have a film thickness of 10 ?m or less by laminating the silver flakes in the thickness direction. The silver flakes forming the conductive layer are in a fused state or an aggregating/cohering state at the smallest thickness portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Goggo Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Mori Masayuki, Kondo Takashi, Takagishi Susumu
  • Patent number: 10139963
    Abstract: A touch sensor that may detect an object away from the sensor is provided. The touch sensor includes one or more drive electrodes; one or more detection electrodes forming capacitance in cooperation with the respective drive electrodes; a detection circuit applying drive signals to the respective drive electrodes to detect the object based on detection signals obtained from the respective detection electrodes in response to the respective drive signals; and a controller controlling to change a range of electric flux lines generated between the drive electrodes and the detection electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Kouji Noguchi, Tsutomu Harada, Takeya Takeuchi, Yoshitoshi Kida, Takayuki Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 10141381
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display array substrate, a manufacturing method of the same OLED structure and a display apparatus. The OLED array substrate includes a plurality of pixels arranged in an array on a base substrate. Further, each pixel comprises a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel displaying different colors. Each sub-pixel comprises a light emitting unit and a control circuit. In addition, an orthogonal projection of the light emitting unit of the first sub-pixel on the base substrate overlaps with an orthogonal projection of the control circuit of the second sub-pixel on the base substrate. According to the OLED display structure of the present disclosure, the region occupied by the control circuit of a second sub-pixel is used to set up the light emitting unit of the first sub-pixel. This can increase the display surface area occupied by the light emitting units in each pixel, thus improve the resolution of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lung Pao Hsin, Chang Yen Wu
  • Patent number: 10140908
    Abstract: A LED driving circuit comprises a high bit driving circuit, a low bit driving circuit and a driving output terminal. The high bit driving circuit coupled to a high bit signal of the grayscale signal determines a first current continuously driven during a grayscale period according to the value of the high bit signal. The first current is invariant during the grayscale period. The low bit driving circuit coupled to a low bit signal of the grayscale signal determines a second current driven in at least two time intervals during the grayscale period according to the value of the low bit signal. The driving output terminal coupled to the high bit driving circuit and the low bit driving circuit outputs the driving current added by the first current and the second current. Accordingly, the LED display can be improved with higher refresh rate and/or better uniformity in low grayscale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: MY-SEMI INC.
    Inventors: Chun-Ting Kuo, Cheng-Han Hsieh
  • Patent number: 10139939
    Abstract: An optical touch screen and a display device are disclosed. The optical touch screen (200) comprises an optical touch panel (210) and a first sensor (220) and a second sensor (230). The optical touch panel (210) comprises a first optical transmission channel (211) and a second optical transmission channel (212) which are intersected with each other. The first sensor (220) is disposed on at least one end of the first optical transmission channel (211) and configured to receive light emitted by the first optical transmission channel (211). The second sensor (230) is disposed on at least one end of the second optical transmission channel (212) and configured to receive light emitted by the second optical transmission channel (212). The optical touch screen and the display device can improve the positioning accuracy of the touch position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bozhu Zhou, Myoung Kee Baek, Xianxue Duan, Cheng Chen, Chengshao Yang, Binbin Cao
  • Patent number: 10133474
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method including utilizing at least one processor to execute computer code that performs the steps of: receiving, at a transmission device communicating with a display device, a first user input, wherein the first user input activates a mode, of the display device, allowing a user to control a graphical user interface on the display device; thereafter, detecting, at the transmission device, a second user input, wherein the second user input comprises instructions for a control action for manipulating the graphical user interface; identifying the distance between an input object providing the second user input and a surface of the transmission device; modifying, based upon the distance, an attribute of the control action; and providing instructions to the display device to perform the control action having the modified attribute. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mohit Jain, Ashok Pon Kumar Sree Prakash
  • Patent number: 10133369
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by a processor of a stylus, a tilt direction of the stylus based on respective first signal strengths at a plurality of receivers. The tilt direction comprises a direction of the stylus along an axis of a touch-sensing device. The method further includes generating, by the processor of the stylus, a response signal comprising information indicative of the tilt direction of the stylus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Bell
  • Patent number: 10135547
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to control devices configured for use with computing devices. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods and devices for shortening wireless reconnection time by determining the presence of an object or body near a device. When the control device detects an object or body in proximity to the device, the control device may automatically establish a wireless connection with a host devices, such that when the control device receives any user interactions, the wireless connection has already been established, preventing loss of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Christophe Hemes, Francesco Spina, Olivier Gay, Gilles de Preux, Olivier Bodenmann, Paolo Cremonino, Laurent Mealares
  • Patent number: 10133314
    Abstract: A portable electronic device having several features is disclosed. The device can include a retention member that retains flexible circuits extending from a top portion to a bottom portion of the device, thereby allowing some components to be moved from a top portion of the device to a bottom portion. The device may include a cover plate can be secured with a display in the top portion to cover the retention member and other internal components. The device can include an omni-directional port designed to receive a connector different orientations and provide power to the device. The device can include a flexible keyboard having butterfly keycaps. The device can include an array of openings for an audio driver, with some of the array including through holes and blind holes. The device can also include a touch pad having a force feedback sensor and a haptic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Houtan R. Farahani, Craig C. Leong, Matthew W. Blum, Zheng Gao, Kevin M. Robinson, Keith J. Hendren
  • Patent number: 10133411
    Abstract: A mobile station and unattached work area is used with an electronic pen, which includes a transmitter, such as an acoustic transmitter. The mobile station includes a receiver that receives signals from the transmitter and orientation sensors that detect movement of the mobile station. The position of the receiver is calibrated with respect to the unattached work area. Data from the orientation sensors is received when the mobile station, and thus, the receiver is moved with respect to the work area. A transformation matrix is generated based on the data from the orientation sensors, which can be used to correct for the movement of the receiver. The position of the transmitter in the electronic pen is calculated and mapped based on received signals and the transformation matrix and the mapped position is then displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Baruch Eruchimovitch, Leonid Sheynblat