Patents Examined by Karin Kiyabu
  • Patent number: 11132932
    Abstract: A method for operating a light-emitting device includes operating, at least for some pixels, a selected subpixel of a pixel and at least one further subpixel of the pixel configured to emit light of a different color to display a pure color corresponding to a dominant wavelength of the selected subpixel and providing, at least for some pixels, a correction matrix associated with the pixel for adjusting brightness of the subpixels of the pixel, wherein the correction matrix is provided by determining, at least for some pixels, a brightness of each subpixel of the pixel necessary to emit light of a given color, determining, at least for some pixels, a dominant wavelength (?r, ?g, ?b) of each subpixel, plotting dominant wavelengths (?r, ?g, ?b) of each subpixel in a CIE-XY color space and forming color triangles, and determining inner triangles of the color triangles in pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventor: Martin Rudolf Behringer
  • Patent number: 11100886
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a smart window, a control method thereof, and a transport vehicle. The smart window may include a detector, a collector, a displayer and a processor. The detector is configured to detect whether a close-range scene exists. The collector is configured to collect position information of a human eye. The processor is connected to the detector and the collector, and configured to calculate coordinates of the close-range scene, calculate coordinates of the human eye according to the position information of the human eye, obtain a frame-extracted area according to the coordinates of the close-range scene and coordinates of the human eye, perform black insertion for pixels in the frame-extracted area in the displayer, and generate a display signal. The displayer is connected to the processor and configured to display according to the display signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xitong Ma, Tao Li, Naifu Wu, Qi Zeng
  • Patent number: 11093042
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for allowing users to capacitively interact with objects using gestures in an environment. The system includes a smart sense unit for communicating gesture information and a smart sensing master unit is capacitively coupled to the smart sense unit for identifying the received gesture information and identification information from the smart sense unit to operate the object. The gestures may either be 2D, 3D, multiple 2D or 3D gestures from different users or different body parts. The smart sense unit identifies the change in a provided electric field caused by the user and the object and converts into a digital value. The smart sense unit further identifies the location of the object and the user and further communicates the information to the smart sensing master unit. The smart sensing master unit identifies the gesture and the identification information to interact with the object on receiving the impedance changes forked out from a resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Inventors: Wolfgang Richter, Faranak Zadeh
  • Patent number: 11081045
    Abstract: A display device includes a first switching element including a second electrode and a first gate electrode, a second switching element including a third electrode connected with the first gate electrode, a third switching element including a fifth electrode connected with the second electrode, and sixth electrode, a fourth switching element including a seventh electrode connected with the second electrode, and an eighth electrode, a fifth switching element including a ninth electrode connected with the second electrode, and a tenth electrode, a first light emitting diode connected with the sixth electrode and the eighth electrode, a second light emitting diode connected with the eighth electrode and the sixth electrode, and a switch selectively connecting a common power source line with the sixth electrode or the eighth electrode. The first light emitting diode and the second light emitting diode have different polarities from each other with respect to a same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se Hyuk Park, Hyo Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 11054958
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises touch screen interface and signal processing circuit. Within touch screen interface, there are switching circuits configured to be coupled to at least one of a plurality of column electrodes, and there are touch detection circuits configured to be coupled to at least one of a plurality of row electrodes. The signal processing circuit is coupled to each switching circuit and each touch detection circuit so as to be able to selectively activate the plurality of switching circuits and touch detection circuits to identify a zone for a touch event. The signal processing circuit determines first, second, third, and fourth resistances for the zone for the touch event and determines a set of coordinates and pressure for the touch event from its first, second, third, and fourth resistances wherein an aperture filter register is in a host interface that also stores the first digital representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ing-Yih J. Wang, Herbert Braisz, Tony Chang
  • Patent number: 10983645
    Abstract: A touch module includes a touch panel unit, a conductive adhesive layer and a circuit board. The touch panel unit includes a substrate, a touch sensing structure disposed on the substrate, a signal transmitting structure disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the touch sensing structure, and a protection layer covering a part of a surface of the signal transmitting structure. The protection layer and the substrate are disposed at two opposite sides of the signal transmitting structure. The conductive adhesive layer has a main portion which covers a region of the signal transmitting structure on which the protection layer is not disposed, and a cover portion which extends from the main portion and covers the protection layer. The circuit board is disposed on the conductive adhesive layer, and the circuit board and the signal transmitting structure are disposed at two opposite sides of the conductive adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: TPK ADVANCED SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Qi-Bin Liu, You-Zhi She, Kuo-Lung Fang, Jun-Rong Chen, Shih-Hao Chen, Jun-Ping Yang, Xiao-Xia You, Qi-Jun Zheng, Jun-Jie Zheng
  • Patent number: 10977970
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an array substrate, a display device, a detecting apparatus and a detecting method for detecting a defect connection of a data line. A data signal input bus of the array substrate of the present disclosure applies a data signal to each pixel unit, and a detection line is added on one side of the array substrate opposite to the data signal input bus, when the product is detected, the data signal input bus inputs the normal data signal, the detection line on the other side inputs a signal having a polarity contrary to that of the data signal. At a position of the data line existing defect connection, heat is generated and the data line is burnt at the position existing defect connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Yezhou Fang, Le Sun, Wenlong Zhang, Guangshuai Wang
  • Patent number: 10929015
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch detection method for a touch splicing screen, including: obtaining the following parameters: sizes of each of the display units in a row direction and in a column direction, a width of each of the first splicing intervals, a width of each of the second splicing intervals, and physical position information of a touch point; determining whether the touch point is within an area of the splicing intervals according to the parameters; and calculating, when the touch point is beyond the area of the splicing intervals, a position of a pixel unit corresponding to the touch point according to a resolution of the touch splicing screen, a row number and a column number in an arrangement of the display units, and the parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xitong Ma, Naifu Wu, Lihua Geng, Xianzhen Li, Tianyue Zhao
  • Patent number: 10928913
    Abstract: The present application discloses a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a housing; a screen module; an elastic member received in the receiving cavity; and an exciter sandwiched between the elastic member and the screen module, the exciter driving the screen module to vibrate, the exciter including a bottom wall, a lateral wall extending bently towards the screen module from the bottom wall, and a top wall covered on the lateral wall; one end of the elastic member is fixed to the housing, the other end is spaced from the housing and abuts against the bottom wall of the exciter; the top wall is fixed to the screen module, and the elastic member is in a compression deformation state to resist against the bottom wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Huan Ge
  • Patent number: 10923057
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes: a first inverter circuit having an input terminal connected to a first node and an output terminal connected to a second node; a second inverter circuit having an input terminal connected to the second node and an output terminal connected to a third node; a first switching circuit configured to disconnect a connection between the first node and the third node when a first scanning signal is at an active level; and a control circuit configured to control a level of at least one of the first node and the second node according to a level control signal when the first scanning signal is at an active level. Based on this, it can help to avoid the output signal abnormality of the latch inside the pixel and enhance the working stability of the pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yishan Fu, Jun Fan, Fuqiang Li, Jiguo Wang
  • Patent number: 10896637
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels provided with a pixel circuit to operate an organic light emitting diode, and a driving circuit to drive the display panel, wherein ‘n’ horizontal sensing lines are formed in the display panel, and a method for driving the display device includes: dividing the ‘n’ horizontal sensing lines formed in the display panel into a plurality of blocks; and sequentially or non-sequentially sensing the plurality of blocks via the sensing lines, wherein the plurality of blocks are sensed in order from the first to the last of the ‘n’ sensing lines by a sequential or non-sequential method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nari Kim, Seung Tae Kim, Tae Gung Kim, Ji Eun Lee
  • Patent number: 10878748
    Abstract: Provided is a display device possessing a first pixel, a second pixel, a partition wall, and an emission-quenching layer. The first pixel includes a first pixel electrode, a first emission layer located over the first pixel electrode and containing a first emission material, and an opposing electrode over the first emission layer. The second pixel is adjacent to the first pixel and includes a second pixel electrode, a second emission layer located over the second pixel electrode and containing a second emission material, and the opposing electrode. The emission-quenching layer is sandwiched by the partition wall and the opposing electrode and contains at least one of the first emission material and the second emission material at a concentration higher than at least one of a concentration of the first emission material in the first emission layer and a concentration of the second emission material in the second emission layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hironori Toyoda
  • Patent number: 10860062
    Abstract: A flexible display device and method for dividing flexible display are provided. The flexible display device comprises a flexible display, a bend detector, a microcontroller, and a processor. The bend detector is set on the flexible display. The microcontroller is coupled to the bend detector, and the microcontroller detects a bend position of the bend detector on the flexible display according to the bend detector. The processor is coupled to the microcontroller and the flexible display. The processor divides the flexible display into at least two display areas according to the bend position, and respectively controls at least two display areas with different screen operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan-Tai Chen, Chia-Hao Liang
  • Patent number: 10845845
    Abstract: A sensor generates signals representing whether a computer game headset is being worn properly so that the wearer may be advised. The sensor may be a pressure sensor or motion sensor or stretch sensor on the headset, or it may be a camera that images the wearer and uses image recognition to determine if the headset is on correctly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Osman
  • Patent number: 10817108
    Abstract: An information input device including a touch panel configured to be provided with a touch sensor that detects a position at which a sensing object is brought close to a sensing surface. In this information input device, the touch sensor has a scanning electrode and a detecting electrode that is opposed to the scanning electrode with the intermediary of a dielectric substance, and is a capacitive sensor whose electrostatic capacitance changes if the sensing object is brought close to the detecting electrode. Furthermore, a slit is formed in a surface of the detecting electrode opposed to the scanning electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakanishi, Koji Noguchi, Koji Ishizaki, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takeya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10811201
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a keyboard may comprise internal light sources to backlight keycaps. In addition, the keyboard may provide one or more unobstructed paths for light from an external light source located beneath the keyboard to reach the keycaps. When the keyboard is placed onto the external light source, the keycaps within the keyboard may be illuminated from the external light source. When the keyboard is placed on a display device of a dual-display computing device, one display device may be used to present text and images to a user while the other display device provides backlighting for the keyboard. Software may manage the image shown on the display device located under the keyboard device to alter the appearance of the keycaps. The keyboard battery life may be extended by disabling key backlights within the keyboard when the dual-display computing device provide the backlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jace W. Files, John Trevor Morrison, Gerald Rene Pelissier
  • Patent number: 10795523
    Abstract: A touch sensitive device includes a plurality of sense electrodes arranged in a pattern to receive charge from drive electrodes. The pattern of sense electrodes has extreme portions having worst case charge transfer times, wherein the worst case charge transfer time at multiple extreme portions is substantially equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Neodrón Limited
    Inventor: Esat Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 10768732
    Abstract: A touch display panel and a touch display device are provided. A touch display device includes: an active area, a non-active area outside the active area, the non-active area including a bent area, a plurality of touch electrodes in the active area, a first insulating layer in the bent area, the first insulating layer including: a first region having a first height, and a second region having a second height lower than the first height, and a first touch line in the second region of the first insulating layer in the bent area in the non-active area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yangsik Lee
  • Patent number: 10768745
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, an apparatus includes controller circuitry and a touch sensor that includes first electrodes. The controller circuitry is configured to measure first capacitance values during a first time period, each first capacitance value associated with a respective first electrode. The controller circuitry is also configured to determine a first hand-usage value based at least on a distribution of the first capacitance values. The controller circuitry is also configured to estimate a hand-usage state based at least on the first hand-usage value. The hand-usage state indicates one of the following hand configurations: right-handed interaction with the touch sensor, left-handed interaction with the touch sensor, or two-handed interaction with the touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Martin J. Simmons, Thomas Myers
  • Patent number: 10747327
    Abstract: Technologies for gesture recognition using downsampling are disclosed. A gesture recognition device may capture gesture data from a gesture measurement device, and downsample the captured data to a predefined number of data points. The gesture recognition device may then perform gesture recognition on the downsampled gesture data to recognize a gesture, and then perform an action based on the recognized gesture. The number of data points to which to downsample may be determined by downsampling to several different numbers of data points and comparing the performance of a gesture recognition algorithm performed on the downsampled gesture data for each different number of data points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Darshan Iyer, Nilesh K. Jain, Zhiqiang Liang