Patents Examined by Mihir Rayan
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Patent number: 8599149Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 27, 2009Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jaedo Lee, Howon Choi, Sangwoo Seo
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Patent number: 8593375Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 27, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Inventor: Gregory A Maltz
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Patent number: 8581878Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 30, 2009Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.Inventors: Zeng-De Chen, Hong-Ji Huang, Seok-Lyul Lee, Yuet-Ping Lee, Yu-Cheng Tsai
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Patent number: 8564588Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 9, 2007Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun Ha Hwang, Han Young Hong
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Patent number: 8531355Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Inventor: Gregory A. Maltz
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Patent number: 8497827Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 20, 2008Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Baek-Woon Lee
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Patent number: 8493335Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 9, 2008Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsutoshi Shinkai, Junzo Tokunaka, Kotaro Kashiwa
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Patent number: 8493291Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun-Taek Nam, Han-Yung Jung
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Patent number: 8451250Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 22, 2010Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Ming-Lun Hsieh, Chun-Ku Kuo, Po-Yuan Liu
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Patent number: 8436819Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 30, 2009Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Au Optronics Corp.Inventors: Wan-Ting Huang, Chun-Hsiang Fang, Chung-Chun Lee
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Patent number: 8427461Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 17, 2009Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventor: Jr-Ching Lin
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Patent number: 8416159Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 22, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventor: Keitaro Yamashita
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Patent number: 8405643Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 21, 2010Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignees: Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industry Co., Ltd., FIH (Hong Kong) LimitedInventor: Shi-Xu Liang
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Patent number: 8358322Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 30, 2009Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Jong-Souk Yeo, Pavel Kornilovich, Peter Mardilovich, Jeffrey Todd Mabeck
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Patent number: 8330745Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 19, 2007Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Yokoyama, Yuhichiroh Murakami
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Patent number: 8319704Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 30, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Myoung-Kyu Lee, Kazuhiro Ito, Yoo-Jin Song, Tae-Wook Kim
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Patent number: 8294739Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 20, 2007Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Tomohiko Mori, Shun Ueki, Takao Muroi
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Patent number: 8294702Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 9, 2008Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Takao Tanikame
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Patent number: 8294736Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 21, 2007Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Mitsuaki Hirata
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Patent number: 8284123Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 10, 2007Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroyuki Higashino