Patents Examined by Kumar Patel
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Patent number: 10216336Abstract: The control device comprises at least one emitter-receiver pair, a display and a controller. The emitter-receiver pair comprises a radiation emitter and a receiver for receiving radiation emitted by the emitter and reflected by a moving body located at a distance from the pair. The receiver is positioned within the emitter's emission field and provides an electrical signal representative of the radiation received from the emitter. At least one symbol identifying an action, opposite an intersection of the emitter's emission cone and the receiver's reception cone, is displayed. The emitter and receiver are outside the display area of each symbol. The controller provides action control signal according to the electrical signal provided by the receiver. Each emitter-receiver pair is associated with at least one symbol and at least one action control signal when the moving body is in front of the symbol that identifies the action.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2015Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: NEXYSInventor: Sébastien Philippe
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Patent number: 10203856Abstract: A display apparatus and a controlling method are provided. The display apparatus includes a communication interface configured to receive a plurality of image signals from a plurality of external devices, a display configured to display a screen including a plurality of regions respectively corresponding to each of the plurality of image signals, and a processor configured to, in response to a directional touch gesture being input on the display, select a region from among the plurality of regions based on a direction of a directional touch gesture and control the display to display the selected region as a full screen.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Young-kook Kim
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Patent number: 10198992Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and method of controlling are provided. A display screen includes gate signal lines and source signal lines. A pixel corresponds to each intersection of the gate and source signal lines. Each pixel includes: an EL device including an anode and cathode terminals; a driving transistor to flow a current to the EL device; a first switch transistor provided on a current path through which the current flows from a power line through the driving transistor to the EL device; a second switch transistor to supply, to the driving transistor, an image signal from one of the source signal lines; and a third switch transistor provided between the anode terminal of the EL device and a voltage line. The voltage line is configured to supply a reverse bias voltage for reverse biasing the anode terminal of the EL device.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Takahara, Hitoshi Tsuge
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Patent number: 10191553Abstract: Methods and systems for user interaction with information handling systems include using a physical object as a virtual input device. The virtual input device may be manipulated by a user to provide user input to an information handling system. The physical object may be identified and tracked using an image acquisition device. Different types of physical objects may be manipulated by the user to define gestures that are interpreted as user input.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Deeder M. Aurongzeb, Kenneth Clair Musgrave, Roman Joel Pacheco
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Patent number: 10168004Abstract: There is provided a light emitting apparatus, including a plurality of light emitting elements having biased light properties; and a mounting substrate where the light emitting elements are arranged such that the biased light properties are complemented within a group including at least two light emitting elements among a plurality of the light emitting elements. Also, there are provided a light emitting unit, a display apparatus, an electronic device and a light emitting element using a plurality of point light sources.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Akira Ohmae, Yusuke Kataoka, Ippei Nishinaka, Tatsuo Ohashi, Gen Sakoda, Goshi Biwa
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Patent number: 10152120Abstract: An information provision device and an information provision method. Each of the information provision device and information provision method includes projecting an image light to a light transmission member so as to display a for-driver information image, sensing a relative distance of an object to be detected existing around the mobile object in the direction of travel, detecting a location of a viewpoint of the driver, and changing a position at which an object image indicating the object to be detected is displayed according to a result of the detecting so as to change a perception distance of the driver influenced by a motion parallax of the object image according to the relative distance of the object to be detected in the direction of travel.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Kenichiroh Saisho
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Patent number: 10152164Abstract: A touch screen, a touch driving circuit and a touch driving method are provided in the disclosure. The touch driving circuit includes multiple cascading shifting registers and selection outputting circuits each connected to a respective shifting register. At least one of the selection outputting circuits is connected to multiple touch electrodes; each of the touch electrodes is connected to one of the selection outputting circuits; and when the shifting register is being scanned and the selection outputting circuit connected to the shifting register is connected to multiple touch electrodes, the selection outputting circuit provides touch driving signals with different frequencies for the touch electrodes connected to the selection outputting circuit simultaneously. The touch driving circuit can simultaneously drive multiple touch electrodes to perform touch detections, thus improving the efficiency of the touch detection.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignees: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Yizhi Yang
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Patent number: 10148994Abstract: A mirroring transmission method is provided. The present method retrieves image frames and audio signals of a transmitter and transmits the retrieved image frames and retrieved audio signals to a receiver to be displayed wirelessly. In the meantime, the present method monitors status of a network connected with the transmitter and the receiver, and determines if the network is stable or not. Also, the method stops retrieving and transmitting the audio signal from the transmitter to the receiver, and controls the transmitter to display the audio signal directly through an internal audio module whenever the network is determined unstable.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: BARCO LIMITEDInventors: Kuan-Yu Chou, Shih-Ping Liu, Cheng-Hsiung Chang, Yen-Hsiang Wang, Chia-Chen Kuo
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Patent number: 10148268Abstract: A keyboard including a plurality of key assemblies configured to be pressed by an input object. A subset of the plurality of key assemblies each includes a key cap and a first electrode pair underneath the key cap and configured to detect key motion in response to downward force applied by the input object. The key cap also includes a second electrode pair disposed underneath the key cap and configured to detect positional information about the input object interacting with the key cap.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventor: Robert J. Bolender
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Patent number: 10140079Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to shadowing objects displayed in head worn computing. A method includes capturing an image of an environment in proximity to a person, analyzing the image to determine a position of each of a plurality of light sources collectively producing a naturally formed shadow in the environment, wherein the naturally formed shadow comprises multiple shadows cast from an individual object in the environment, each of the multiple shadows formed from light traveling from a position of one of the plurality of light sources to the individual object, and displaying a computer-generated object in association with a computer generated shadow, wherein the computer-generated shadow appears as though produced by light striking the computer generated object from the position of a dominant one of the plurality of light sources.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: Robert Michael Lohse, Edward H. Nortrup
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Patent number: 10140928Abstract: Provided are a pixel driving circuit, a driving method, an array substrate and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit comprises: a data line, a gate line, a first power line, a second power line, a reference signal line, a light emitting device, a driving transistor, a storage capacitor, a reset unit, a data writing unit, a compensation unit and a light emitting control unit. The pixel driving circuit can compensate and eliminate the display nonuniformity caused by the threshold voltage difference of the driving transistors.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ying Wang, Xinshe Yin, Liang Sun
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Patent number: 10140907Abstract: A display panel, a display device and a method for pixel arrangement, which can improve picture quality. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array, and the sub-pixels arranged in a first direction are arranged in one of following modes: a first mode of sub-pixel arrangement, in which a first sub-pixel or a third sub-pixel is inserted between every two second sub-pixels; and a second mode of sub-pixel arrangement, in which the first sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel are inserted between every two second sub-pixels.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Junjie Lin
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Patent number: 10139947Abstract: A touch-sensing device is provided, which includes a substrate with a central region and a peripheral region, and a first light-shielding layer disposed on the peripheral region, wherein the first light-shielding layer has a first edge adjacent to the central region. The device further includes a touch-sensing layer disposed on the central region, and a part of the touch-sensing layer extends onto the peripheral region to cover a part of the first light-shielding layer. The device also includes a conductive line layer disposed on the first light-shielding layer, and a second light-shielding layer covering at least a part of the first light-shielding layer and at least a part of the conductive line layer. The second light-shielding layer has a second edge adjacent to the central region, and the second edge has a profile roughness that is greater than that of the first edge.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Chia-Hsiung Chang, Yang-Chen Chen, Kuo-Chang Su, Hsia-Ching Chu
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Patent number: 10133105Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, lead wirings provided on the first substrate or the second substrate and a first insulator part provided on an upper surface of the second substrate. The lead wirings are arranged in a peripheral region when seen in a plan view and the first insulator part is arranged so as to overlap a display region when seen in a plan view. Second insulator parts or spaces with a permittivity lower than a permittivity of the first insulator part are provided at sides of the first insulator part. The second insulator parts or the spaces are arranged so as to overlap the lead wirings in the peripheral region when seen in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Masanobu Ikeda, Hayato Kurasawa, Yoshihiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 10134336Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and corresponding method of control are provided. A display screen includes gate signal lines which are arranged to intersect source signal lines. A pixel provided with an EL device corresponds to each intersection of the gate signal lines and the source signal lines. A driving transistor is provided for each pixel to supply a current to the EL device. A first switch transistor is provided for each pixel on a current path through which the current is supplied to the EL device. A gate driver circuit is connected to the gate signal lines. The gate driver circuit is configured to turn the first switch transistor on and off to simultaneously generate band-shaped non-display regions and band-shaped display regions on the display screen and to move the non-display regions and the display regions relative to the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Takahara, Hitoshi Tsuge
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Patent number: 10126812Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a system for enabling two or more users to interact within a virtual world comprising virtual world data, comprising a computer network comprising one or more computing devices, the one or more computing devices comprising memory, processing circuitry, and software stored at least in part in the memory and executable by the processing circuitry to process at least a portion of the virtual world data; wherein at least a first portion of the virtual world data originates from a first user virtual world local to a first user, and wherein the computer network is operable to transmit the first portion to a user device for presentation to a second user, such that the second user may experience the first portion from the location of the second user, such that aspects of the first user virtual world are effectively passed to the second user.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.Inventors: Samuel A. Miller, Rony Abovitz
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Patent number: 10126835Abstract: The present invention relates to a pointer device for operation of interactive screen surfaces, comprising: a closed ring (10) or a ring shaped segment for placement on a finger, where the ring or ring-shaped segment comprises a extractable pointer device (11, 21, 68), where the pointer device is adapted for interaction with a touch-sensitive screen in that the extractable pointer device has an end face functioning as an interface with interactive screens where the end face is less than 25 mm2.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: INTAFIN AS.Inventor: Syversen Trond
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Patent number: 10121433Abstract: A gate on array (GOA) circuit for used in an LCD includes GOA units connected in cascade. An Nth GOA unit includes an Nth stage-transmittance circuit, an Nth Q-node controlling circuit, an Nth P-node controlling circuit, an Nth outputting circuit, and a first switch circuit where N is a positive integer. The first switch circuit connected to the Nth scanning line, for inputting an enabling signal to the Nth scanning line before the LCD shows images so as to turn on a TFT in a pixel which the Nth scanning line is connected to. The benefit of the function is that the display does not leak electricity when the black screen is woken up and that the stability of the circuit is enhanced at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignees: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd, Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventors: Juncheng Xiao, Ronglei Dai, Shangcao Cao, Yao Yan
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Patent number: 10120446Abstract: One embodiment of a haptic input device may include a receiver configured to receive a signal from a touch-based user interface device. The signal may include a control signal or a look-up value. The haptic input device may also include a decoder coupled to the receiver and configured to decode the signal from the touch-based user interface device, at least one sensor configured to determine at least one characteristic of the haptic input device, a controller coupled to the one or more sensors and configured to transmit a control signal, a haptic actuator coupled to the controller, and a transmitter coupled to the at least one sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2010Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Aleksandar Pance, Omar Sze Leung
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Patent number: 10115367Abstract: The present invention discloses a driving circuit and a liquid crystal display device. The driving circuit has: a first to fourth diodes, a first and second capacitors, and an adjustable voltage source, An anode of the first diode inputs a voltage, cathodes of the first to third diodes are connected to anodes of the second to fourth diodes, a cathode of the fourth diode outputs a voltage, a first end of the first capacitor is connected to a common end of the first diode and the second diode, a second end of the first capacitor is connected to an output terminal of the adjustable voltage source, and a selective terminal thereof is used to input a selective voltage; when an input voltage is not changed, the selective voltage is different and an output voltage is different. The above-mentioned method can provide multiple different output voltages to meet with client's requirements.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventors: Xianming Zhang, Dan Cao