Patents Examined by Mihir Rayan
  • Patent number: 8599149
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. The OLED display includes a plurality of subpixels on one surface of a first substrate, a second substrate attached to the first substrate, a shield electrode on one surface of the second substrate that is not opposite to the subpixels, the shield electrode being connected to a low potential voltage source, a touch screen panel on the shield electrode, a first printed circuit board (PCB) attached to the one surface of the first substrate, the first PCB receiving a driving signal driving the subpixels from a driving device, and a second PCB attached to the one surface of the second substrate, the second PCB transmitting a sensing signal generated by the touch screen panel to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaedo Lee, Howon Choi, Sangwoo Seo
  • Patent number: 8593375
    Abstract: A software controlled user interface and method for an eye gaze controlled device, designed to accommodate angular accuracy versus time averaging tradeoffs for eye gaze direction sensors. The method can scale between displaying a small to large number of different eye gaze target symbols at any given time, yet still transmit a large array of different symbols to outside devices with minimal user training. At least part of the method may be implemented by way of a virtual window onto the surface of a virtual cylinder, with eye gaze sensitive symbols that can be rotated by eye gaze thus bringing various groups of symbols into view, and then selected by continual gazing. Specific examples of use of this interface and method on an eyeglasses-like head-mountable, vision-controlled, device are disclosed, along with various operation examples including sending and receiving text messages, control of robotic devices and control of remote vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Inventor: Gregory A Maltz
  • Patent number: 8581878
    Abstract: A method for mitigating pooling mura on LCD apparatus and a LCD apparatus are provided. The method is adapted for a LCD apparatus having a plurality of pixels. The LCD apparatus is for displaying frames according to a received original display data, and each of at least a part of the pixels comprises two pixel electrodes to drive a plurality of liquid crystal molecules between the two pixel electrodes. The method comprises changing a corresponding portion of the original display data so as to rotate at least a part of the liquid crystal molecules between the two pixel electrodes of the pressed pixel toward a natural angle; and maintaining another corresponding portion of the original display data. The natural angle is a finally-presented tilt angle of the liquid crystal molecules between the corresponding two pixel electrodes having substantially no potential difference therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Zeng-De Chen, Hong-Ji Huang, Seok-Lyul Lee, Yuet-Ping Lee, Yu-Cheng Tsai
  • Patent number: 8564588
    Abstract: Provided is an interface apparatus. The interface apparatus comprises a signal synthesizer, a connector, and a signal separator. The signal synthesizer outputs at least one of display signals, display control signals, and chip control signals. The connector includes a transmission line connected with the signal synthesizer and through which the display signals and the chip control signals are transmitted in common, and a transmission line through which the display control signals are transmitted. The signal separator separates the display signals and chip control signals from the signals transmitted through the transmission line through which the display signals and the chip control signals are transmitted in common.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Ha Hwang, Han Young Hong
  • Patent number: 8531355
    Abstract: A device allowing a user to inconspicuously send and receive wireless messages, often short text messages. The device may have an outward appearance resembling standard eyeglasses or sun glasses, and comprise a built in wireless transceiver and an optical display that enables the user to inconspicuously view incoming wireless text messages. The device allows the user to inconspicuously transmit outgoing text messages by a process in which the user simply moves his or her eyes and gazes at various display targets. The device's eye tracking systems and software track the motion and gaze of the user's eyes, and convert this gaze into message symbols and system control commands. The device then transmits the resulting messages using its transceiver. In a preferred embodiment, the device is self-contained and operates, when placed on the user's head, without the need of external battery packs or external transceivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Inventor: Gregory A. Maltz
  • Patent number: 8497827
    Abstract: A method of driving an organic light emitting display device includes generating a luminance map for a plurality of pixels by applying the same driving voltage to driving transistors formed in the plurality of pixels of a panel and by capturing luminances of the pixels, generating a threshold voltage map by calculating threshold voltage correction values that compensate for threshold voltages of the driving transistors associated with the luminances of the pixels. A lookup table is generated by sampling the threshold voltage correction values stored in the threshold voltage map. Threshold voltage correction values are restored by interpolating the sampled threshold voltage correction values, and correcting a driving voltage by adding the restored threshold voltage correction values to input gray level data and by providing the added value to the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Baek-Woon Lee
  • Patent number: 8493335
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a reproduction apparatus which includes a touch panel and vibrates the touch panel, including: a reproduction circuit configured to reproduce data in a unit of a frame in response to an operation of the touch panel by a user; and a driving circuit configured to vibrate the touch panel every time the data of each frame are reproduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsutoshi Shinkai, Junzo Tokunaka, Kotaro Kashiwa
  • Patent number: 8493291
    Abstract: The present invention involves a technique of recognizing a demand for displaying a shutdown pattern when driving a liquid crystal panel in an inversion method and converting the inversion method into another inversion method causing no horizontal crosstalk. The present invention is achieved by providing an apparatus for controlling driving of a liquid crystal display device, comprising: a timing controller for processing input RGB data by a certain inversion method to supply the data to a data driver and, upon inputting of RGB data of a shutdown pattern, converting the RGB data by an inversion driving method causing no crosstalk to supply the data; a gate driver for outputting gate signals to each gate line of a liquid crystal panel in response to a gate signal control signal; and a data driver for supplying data voltages to each data line of the liquid crystal panel in response to a data signal control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Taek Nam, Han-Yung Jung
  • Patent number: 8451250
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a capacitive touch panel. In one embodiment, the capacitive touch panel includes a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes spatially arranged in a matrix, and a driver electrically coupled to the touch sensor matrix and configured to generate a driving signal to synchronically drive one or more driving electrodes and the sensing electrodes, such that at least one sensing electrode is not driven by the driving signal. The remaining driving electrodes are grounded. The not-driven sensing electrodes sense and transmit a sensing signal of a touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Lun Hsieh, Chun-Ku Kuo, Po-Yuan Liu
  • Patent number: 8436819
    Abstract: A flexible touch display apparatus includes a flexible substrate, a display unit, a flexible insulation layer and a touch sensor layer. The display unit is disposed on the flexible substrate, the flexible insulation layer is disposed on the display unit, and the touch sensor layer is formed on the flexible insulation layer. The flexible touch display apparatus is light in weight, thin in thickness, flexible and unbreakable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Wan-Ting Huang, Chun-Hsiang Fang, Chung-Chun Lee
  • Patent number: 8427461
    Abstract: A display system, a source driving apparatus, and a method of black insertion are provided. The apparatus includes a data channel, a black-insertion-data line, a first and a second selector. In a first period, the first selector electrically connects the data channel to a first data line in a display panel, and the second selector electrically connects the black-insertion-data line to a second data line in the display panel. In a second period, the first selector electrically connects the data channel to the second data line, and the second selector electrically connects the black-insertion-data line to the first data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Jr-Ching Lin
  • Patent number: 8416159
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel has a light emitting unit, a memory cell, and a driving circuit. The memory cell stores an image data. The driving circuit is electrically connected with the light emitting unit and the memory cell, and drives the light emitting unit according to the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Keitaro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8405643
    Abstract: A stylus comprises a housing, a stylus body, a latching element and a shell. The housing has a receptacle defined therethrough. The stylus body is accommodated in the receptacle and located at one end of the housing. The stylus body has two opposite arms located at one end thereof, each arm has a protrusion protruding therefrom. The latching element is mounted in the receptacle and is located at another end of the housing opposite to the stylus body. The latching element has two opposite latching cantilever and each cantilever having a rib protruding therefrom. The shell is slidably accommodated in the receptacle and has two opposite latching slots defined therein. The latching slots latch with the protrusions to hold the stylus in a retracted state, and the latching slots latch with the ribs to hold the stylus in an extended state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignees: Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industry Co., Ltd., FIH (Hong Kong) Limited
    Inventor: Shi-Xu Liang
  • Patent number: 8358322
    Abstract: A display includes a plurality of display elements. Each display element includes two opposed electrodes, a first dielectric layer, a fluid including a plurality of colorants, and a second dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer is disposed between the electrodes and has at least one reservoir defined therein. The second dielectric layer exhibits non-linear resistance, and is disposed on at least one of the electrodes and adjacent to the fluid. The fluid is disposed in a space defined between the electrodes, and the plurality of colorants is configured to move in response to an applied electric field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jong-Souk Yeo, Pavel Kornilovich, Peter Mardilovich, Jeffrey Todd Mabeck
  • Patent number: 8330745
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a source driver includes a shift register including latch stages each including a level shifter that level-shifts clock signals so that the signals are fed into a set-reset flip-flop as inverted set input signals. Outputs from the set-reset flip-flop are delayed by a hazard preventing circuit and then fed into a level shifter in the next latch stage as enable signals. A delay trimming circuit causes a NAND circuit to perform a NAND operation with respect to outputs obtained by a delay of the outputs by a delay circuit and outputs from the level shifter in the next latch stage, so that a sampling pulse is derived. This allows for provision of a pulse output circuit capable of further trimming delay in output pulses and of securing a sufficient interval between the output pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Yokoyama, Yuhichiroh Murakami
  • Patent number: 8319704
    Abstract: A plasma display device, which gradually increases the current to the panel capacitors is disclosed. The display uses an inductor to reduce the current spike which would otherwise occur and create large electromagnetic interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myoung-Kyu Lee, Kazuhiro Ito, Yoo-Jin Song, Tae-Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 8294739
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a signal conversion circuit is disclosed which is suitably used in a multiprimary liquid crystal display device, and a multiprimary liquid crystal display device having such a signal conversion circuit. A signal conversion circuit according to one embodiment of the present invention is for use in a multiprimary liquid crystal display device, and converts an input video signal to a multiprimary signal corresponding to four or more primary colors. When generating a multiprimary signal for displaying dark skin, the signal conversion circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention applies a conversion to the video signal so that a color difference ?u?v?=((u??u60?)2+(v??v60?)2) is 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Tomohiko Mori, Shun Ueki, Takao Muroi
  • Patent number: 8294702
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device including: a pixel array part including row first drive lines, row second drive lines, and column signal lines; and a drive part including a horizontal drive circuit, a first vertical drive circuit, and a second vertical drive circuit, wherein the first vertical drive circuit simultaneously drives pixels on two rows adjacent to each other, the second vertical drive circuit simultaneously drives pixels on two rows adjacent to each other, and a pair of rows of the pixels simultaneously driven by the first vertical drive circuit and a pair of rows of the pixels simultaneously driven by the second vertical drive circuit are shifted from each other by one row, for light-emission operation of the pixels on a row-by-row basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takao Tanikame
  • Patent number: 8294736
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for driving a display device that outputs an image based on an image source is disclosed. The method includes the steps of (i) carrying out a first gradation converting process with respect to a first gradation level of an inputted video source signal; (ii) carrying out a smoothing process with respect to the inputted video source signal that has been subjected to the first gradation converting process; and (iii) carrying out a second gradation converting process with respect to a second gradation level of the inputted video source signal that has been subjected to the smoothing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuaki Hirata
  • Patent number: 8284123
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a liquid crystal display apparatus driving circuit selectively supplies positive polarity gray scale voltages or negative polarity gray scale voltages to video signal lines as video signals. The circuit includes a gray scale voltage generation circuit for generating a gray scale voltage for display; and first and second gray scale voltage adjustment sections included in the circuit, for increasing positive and negative polarity gray scale voltages while maintaining a voltage difference between the positive and negative polarity gray scale voltages and respectively adjust a center potentials of the positive and negative polarity gray scale voltages. This makes it possible to provide the liquid crystal display apparatus driving circuit which can make the center values of the positive and negative polarity gray scale voltages proximate to values which makes it possible to further reduce the flicker phenomenon without changing the gray scale property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Higashino