Patents Examined by Leonid Shapiro
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Patent number: 9904048Abstract: An electrowetting display device comprising: a first, second, third and fourth display element each including: a first fluid adjoining a surface of a support plate; a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid; a color filter overlapping a part of the surface; and an electrode for use in applying a voltage for controlling a configuration of the first and second fluids. The color filter of the first, second, third and fourth display elements outputs respectively a red hue, a green hue, a blue hue and a yellow hue. At least one of the display elements comprises a transmissive region configured to transmit light of at least one wavelength filtered by the respective color filter of the first, second, third and fourth display elements.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Petrus Maria De Greef
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Patent number: 9887450Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of inputting signals and power without the use of an FPC is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. A receiver antenna is provided on a surface side of the first substrate. The second substrate is provided with a transmitter antenna and an integrated circuit. The second substrate is attached on a back side of the first substrate. The receiver antenna and the transmitter antenna overlap with each other with the first substrate provided therebetween. Thus, the distance between the antennas can be kept constant, so that signals and power can be received highly efficiently.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2011Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Jun Koyama
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Patent number: 9870130Abstract: A graphical user interface (“GUI”) for a third-party application can be presented on accessory device that has user input and display devices. The GUI can be defined and managed by a portable media device. The portable media device can define one or more GUI image types for the third-party application. The accessory can choose one of the pre-defined GUI image types and receive a remote GUI image that conforms to the selected GUI image type from the portable media device. Alternatively, the accessory can specify the layout and contents of the GUI image that it needs, and the portable media device can generate and send a GUI image according to the accessory's specification.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2011Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Emily Clark Schubert, Peter T. Langenfeld
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Patent number: 9870756Abstract: A display panel including a pixel array and a gate driver circuit is provided. The pixel array has a plurality of pixels. The gate driver circuit is used for providing a plurality of gate signals to the pixels and includes a plurality of shift registers and a plurality of demultiplexers. The shift registers respectively receive a first gate signal of the gate signals and a first clock signal of a plurality of clock signals to respectively provide a first control signal and a second control signal. The demultiplexers respectively receive a plurality of second clock signals of the clock signals, respectively turn-on according to the first control signal provided by the corresponding one of the shift registers, and respectively cut-off according to the second control signal provided by the corresponding one of the shift registers.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.Inventors: Yi-Kai Chen, Chi-Chung Tsai, En-Chih Liu, Ying-Hui Chen, Yen-Yu Huang
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Patent number: 9864451Abstract: A controlling device using a source of energy, such as light energy, to provide the controlling device with a user interface having multiple, different visual appearances.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2012Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.Inventors: Alejandro Garfio, Cesar Alvarado
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Patent number: 9851832Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of display, particularly to a display panel, a driving method thereof and a display device. The display panel comprises an array substrate provided with first electrodes and second electrode arranged in a same layer and a color filter substrate provided with third electrodes. The first electrodes and the second electrodes are alternately arranged in parallel at intervals and electrically isolated from each other. The second electrodes and the third electrodes are arranged correspondingly in space. The present invention has the following beneficial effects: by performing rectangular segmentation on the original plate-shaped common electrodes, the display panel ensures that common electrodes during display and driving electrodes during touch are electrically isolated from each other; in addition, as the diving electrodes are connected by redundant data lines, a display device comprising the display panel has a good image display effect and a higher touch sensitivity.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shengji Yang, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Lei Wang, Chunlei Wang, Yingming Liu, Xiaobo Xie
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Patent number: 9851800Abstract: A method, medium, and system are provided for executing computing tasks based on force measurements corresponding to user interactions with a touch screen for a computing device. The touch screen displays content for applications executed by the computing device and receives user interactions. The computing device processes the user interactions to detect force measurements and to associate the force measurements with computing tasks for the applications executed on the computing device. A database stores the force measurements and corresponding computing tasks to identify matches between the stored force measurement for a user and subsequent force measurements received when the touch screen receives additional user interactions. When matching force measurements are located in the database, the corresponding computing tasks are executed by the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2007Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Gabriel Benjamin Kneisley, Cary Ann Moody
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Patent number: 9847070Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels to display images. Gate line driver circuitry may have stages that supply gate line signals. A gate line may be located in each row of the pixels. Each stage may have an output block that produces a respective one of the gate line signals and may have a carry block that separately produces a carry signal that is provided to a later stage in the gate line driver circuitry. A memory may be provided in at least some of the stages to store signals produced by the output blocks during intraframe pausing operations. At the end of an intraframe pause, the stored signals may be used in restarting production of the gate line signals by output blocks in the gate line driver stages. Circuitry may be used to separately reset the output block and suppress carry signal production by the carry block.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kwang Soon Park, Chun-Yao Huang, Shih Chang Chang
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Patent number: 9837031Abstract: An apparatus and method for driving an LCD device is disclosed to obtain rapid response speed and to enhance picture quality, in which the apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel that includes liquid crystal cells formed in areas defined by gate and data lines; a gate driver that supplies a scan pulse to the gate lines; a timing controller that modulates source data supplied from the external to modulated data for a rapid response speed of liquid crystal cell, and generates discrimination signals by comparing source data of a current frame with uppermost and lowermost gray scales of source data based on whether source data of a current frame is the same as source data of a previous frame or not; and a data driver that converts the modulated data into a video signal by using a plurality of gamma voltages including a first modulation voltage that is higher than an maximum gamma voltage or a second modulation voltage that is lower than a minimum gamma voltage, and supplies the video signal to the data lines.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2006Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Song Ryol You
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Patent number: 9824622Abstract: In a method for determining a position of at least one display screen within an array of coupled display screens an emitted signal from an adjacent display screen is detected. The detecting is performed by a sensor coupled with a side of a plurality of sides of a display screen. A positional code number is determined based on the detecting. The positional code number includes a bit number corresponding to a detection of the signal emitted from the adjacent display screen.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2011Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Amir Said, Majid Fozunbal
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Patent number: 9792866Abstract: Methods for detecting and eliminating a ghosting effect of liquid crystal display (LCD) are disclosed. The ghosting effect detecting method comprises the steps of providing a visual persistency period, providing a maximum color alternation speed of the LCD, obtaining a threshold value by multiplying the human visual persistency period by the maximum color alternation speed, calculating a variation of an intensity level of each of the plurality of pixel components of the LCD and comparing the threshold value and the variation of the intensity level to obtain a comparison result to determine whether the ghosting effect exists in the pixel component.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2005Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Flextronics Computing Mauritus Ltd.Inventors: Chao-Hua Lee, Jong-Dae Oh, Xiao-Song Zhou, C.-C. Jay Kuo
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Patent number: 9791706Abstract: A multi-planar plenoptic display assembly is provided that includes multiple spatially-varying light emitting and light modulating planes. The display assembly includes at least one light emitting device and may include, but does not require, a modulating device used in conjunction according to display methods taught herein to display light field data. A display assembly controller may be used to render a light field with depth into a multi-planar plenoptic display assembly by assigning decomposed portions of the light field to the display assembly for display or presentation by differing ones of the emitting elements and by operating a modulating device to provide a parallax barrier. In one embodiment, a dynamic parallax barrier and a number of bi-state screens. Another embodiment uses a beam splitter to co-locate two pairs of autostereoscopic displays each including a projector projecting 3D content, a parallax barrier, and an emissive/projector element.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Nicola V. Ranieri, Simon Heinzle, Peter C. Barnum, Wojciech Matusik, Marcus Gross
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Patent number: 9760214Abstract: A method and apparatus for inputting data for an electronic data entry device are provided. In one embodiment, identification of an input object such as the particular fingers of a user that are used to actuate a key region is performed. The symbol associated with the actuated key region and the finger (or other input object) used is determined. In other embodiments, virtual input devices with interfaces such as QWERTY style keyboards, phone keypads, and multi-touch capable touchpads or tablets are provided in input regions. One or more video capturing devices remotely acquire actuation information from the input regions during data entry. User inputted symbols or functions are determined based on the actuations, their locations and identified input object sets that caused the actuations.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2010Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Zienon, LLCInventor: Dong Ge Li
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Patent number: 9740057Abstract: The invention discloses a TFT-LCD and its driving method, TFT-LCD comprises an array substrate and a color filter substrate, a common electrode on said color filter substrate being divided into multiple columns, each of which corresponding to one column of pixels; on color filter substrate, odd number columns are first common electrodes, even number columns are second common electrodes; difference between voltages input to said first common electrodes and said second common electrodes is larger than zero and less than dynamic range of driving voltage of liquid crystal driving voltage-transmittance curve. By setting two common electrode voltages, TFT-LCD and its driving method provided by the invention can make dynamic range of input voltage required for driving liquid crystal display device be smaller than dynamic range of driving voltage of liquid crystal driving voltage-transmittance curve, thus reducing power consumption during driving the liquid crystal.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2009Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ming Chen, Dan Wang
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Patent number: 9736441Abstract: A high resolution photographed image, picked up by a camera device, is projected by using a projector. In a case where there is a magnifying operation of a display image that is projected, image data of the display image that is reduced in accordance with the resolution at the projector side, is not magnified, but the image data of a display region corresponding to the size of a requested magnification ratio in the original photographed image, is reduced, to project a magnified image that is a display image based on the image data.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2004Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazumasa Morichika
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Patent number: 9704435Abstract: An Organic Light Emitting Diode pixel compensation circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes first through fifth transistors, and a storage capacitor. The first transistor is coupled to a first scan signal, a power supply voltage, and a first electrode of the storage capacitor. In addition, the second transistor is coupled to the first scan signal, a data signal, and the third transistor. The third transistor is coupled to the power supply voltage, and the fifth transistor. Furthermore, the fourth transistor is coupled to a second scan signal, the third transistor, and the storage capacitor, and fifth transistor is coupled to a light emitting signal, and the OLED. In addition, the storage capacitor is coupled to the fifth transistor, and a low-level signal and emits light based on a drive current generated by the third transistor.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2014Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dan Chen, Dong Qian
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Patent number: 9696843Abstract: The present invention provides an AMOLED pixel circuit, a driving method thereof and a display device which can improve the integration degree of the in cell touch circuit and the AMOLED driving circuit. The AMOLED pixel circuit comprises: a light emitting module, a touching module, a controlling module and a driving amplifier module. The embodiments of the present invention are used for manufacturing the AMOLED display device.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Wen Tan, Xiaojing Qi
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Patent number: 9685126Abstract: The present invention relates to method and device for tuning a color temperature in a digital display device, in which variation of color temperatures and color feelings between gradients is reduced for improving a picture quality.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2011Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Kyong-Ho Lim
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Patent number: 9685113Abstract: An OLED pixel compensation circuit includes first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh transistors and a storage capacitor. The first transistor has a gate electrode coupled to a scan signal, a first electrode coupled to a data signal, and a second electrode coupled to a gate electrode of the fifth transistor. The second transistor has a gate electrode coupled to the scan signal, a first electrode coupled to a power supply voltage, and a second electrode coupled to a second electrode of the storage capacitor. The third transistor has a gate electrode coupled to a first light emitting signal, a first electrode coupled to the power supply voltage. The transistors and the storage capacitor are configured to compensate the threshold voltage drift of the fifth transistor, which is the driving transistor for the OLED.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dan Chen, Dong Qian
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Patent number: 9678577Abstract: User interface devices with electromagnetic dipole array and associated magnetic sensors, control circuits, and processing elements for determining user actuation of the device are disclosed. In one embodiment a user interface device include an electromagnetic dipole array coupled to an actuator, along with a three-axis magnetic sensor and control and processing elements for controlling driving currents to the dipole array and sensing and processing received magnetic field signals to determine movement or displacement of the actuator.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2012Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: SEESCAN, INC.Inventors: Austin S. Rutledge, Ray Merewether, Michael J. Martin, Mark S. Olsson