Patents Examined by Nalini Mummalaneni
  • Patent number: 9384369
    Abstract: An information processing method and electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a biometric feature acquisition unit and a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qiang Dong
  • Patent number: 9330544
    Abstract: A system of the present disclosure may include a sensor configured to detect user interaction with a touch surface and transmit a sensor signal associated with the user interaction; a processor in communication with the sensor, the processor configured to: determine a position of the user interaction based on the sensor signal, determine a feature associated with the position of the user interaction, control a device associated with the feature, modify a display signal based in part on the user interaction, select a haptic effect to generate based at least in part on user interaction and the position, the haptic effect selected to simulate the feature, and transmit a haptic signal to generate the haptic effect, and a haptic output device in communication with the processor and coupled to the touch surface, the haptic output device configured to receive a haptic signal and output a haptic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: Vincent Levesque, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Amaya Weddle, David M. Birnbaum
  • Patent number: 9323353
    Abstract: A mechanism for utilizing multiple reconfigurable hover sensing arrays to detect the 3D location of an object with respect to a capacitive panel is disclosed. The multiple reconfigurable hover sensing arrays may change size and shape by integrating multiple capacitive sensor electrodes. The distance to an object relative to the capacitive panel may be determined by applying a distance formula to capacitive signals detected by the reconfigurable hover sensing arrays. In addition, a user interaction interface that may change the shape of the identifier of the interface corresponding to the detected 3D movement of the object is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: American Megatrends, Inc.
    Inventor: Clas G. Sivertsen
  • Patent number: 9318066
    Abstract: A display panel comprises a plurality of pixels. A first pixel among the plurality of pixels comprises a first subpixel which further comprises a first subpixel electrode, a first switching element configured to apply a data voltage to the first subpixel electrode, and a second switching element applying a boosting voltage to the first subpixel electrode. The first pixel further comprises a second subpixel comprising a second subpixel electrode and a third switching element applying the data voltage to the low pixel electrode. Accordingly, the display quality and the reliability of the display panel may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youn-Hak Jeong, Gak-Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 9304574
    Abstract: A remote device includes an image sensor, a readout circuit and a processing unit. The image sensor successively captures a first image and a second image containing at least one reference beacon image. The readout circuit is configured to read first image data of the first image and second image data of the second image from the image sensor. The processing unit is configured to calculate an image feature of the at least one reference beacon image according to the first image data and control the readout circuit to only read the second image data of a range of interest in the second image according to the image feature. There is further provided a power saving method of an interactive system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Ming-Tsan Kao, Chia-Cheun Liang
  • Patent number: 9285918
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a processor, a touch panel, and a display, wherein the processor moves a part or all of a display screen by a predetermined vector and displays the part or all of the display screen on the display when a touch on the touch panel is detected, determines whether or not there are touches that follow the movement of the part or all of the display screen before and after the movement when a touch on the touch panel is detected after the movement, and detects the touches that follow the movement of the part or all of the display screen to be of a user operation, and does not detect touches that do not follow the movement of the part or all of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Katsue Nakano, Katsuaki Akama
  • Patent number: 9280282
    Abstract: A touch unlocking method includes obtaining position information of a plurality of touch points on a device screen in response to sliding of a touch medium on the device screen. A value that reflects a change of a distance between touch points of the plurality of touch points is monitored when the plurality of touch points are located in plurality of touch areas on the device screen respectively. The unlocking control on the device screen is performed according to a result of a comparison between the value that reflects the change of the distance between the touch points and a distance change threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chenghui Liang, Chao Ruan
  • Patent number: 9279068
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an optical bonding apparatus, including: a first bonding layer; a second bonding layer; and a dismountable bonding layer superposed between the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer. The present invention also discloses a touch sensitive display using the optical bonding apparatus and a method of making the optical bonding apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc.
    Inventors: Yuh-Wen Lee, Qiong Yuan, Xianbin Xu, Fengming Lin
  • Patent number: 9256301
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first signal at a stylus. The stylus is able to wirelessly transmit signals to and receive signals from a device. The stylus includes one or more electrodes in a tip of the stylus. A frequency characteristic of the first signal is determined. A second signal is generated based at least in part on the frequency characteristic of the first signal. The second signal is wirelessly transmitted from the stylus to the device through a touch sensor of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventor: Martin J. Simmons
  • Patent number: 9250735
    Abstract: A touch sensor integrated display device is provided comprising gate lines and data lines formed on a substrate to be intersected with each other, a plurality of pixel electrodes formed at intersections between the gate lines and the data lines, and a common electrode formed to overlap the plurality of pixel electrodes through an insulating film disposed between the common electrode and the plurality of pixel electrodes, wherein the common electrode includes at least two touch electrodes, each of which is connected to at least one of signal lines arranged in one of a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheolse Kim, Buyeol Lee, Sunjung Lee, Sangsoo Hwang, Yoonhwan Woo, Manhyeop Han
  • Patent number: 9245490
    Abstract: A touch display device includes a timing controller to generate a sync signal for controlling timing of a touch sensor driving period and a display driving period, where the display driving period comprises a first phase to drive odd signal lines according to a first polarity and to drive even signal lines according to a second polarity, a second phase to drive the odd signal lines according to the second polarity and to drive the even signal lines according to the first polarity, and a charge share period between the first phase and the second phase. A set of charge sharing switches couple the odd and even signal lines together during the charge share period and couple the odd and even signal lines together during the touch sensor driving period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soondong Cho, Hoon Jang, Hoonbae Kim
  • Patent number: 9235297
    Abstract: A capacitive touch screen sensing apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a protecting layer; a sensing layer under the protecting layer for sensing a touch to generate a position signal; and a DC common voltage signal layer electrically connected with a DC voltage for shielding against signal interferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Chi Kang Liu
  • Patent number: 9230475
    Abstract: There is provided a display device including pixel circuits which are arranged and each of which includes a driving transistor to drive an electro-optical element and a capacitor connected between a gate electrode and one source/drain electrode of the driving transistor. The driving transistor is configured by stacking the gate electrode and the source/drain electrode and a peripheral portion of the gate electrode is covered by the source/drain electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: JOLED Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 9226301
    Abstract: A wireless base station apparatus includes an interference report receiver configured to receive interference reports transmitted on a shared radio resource from a plurality of wireless terminals that are present in a plurality of adjacent cells that are adjacent to a target cell, the shared radio resource being comprised of a plurality of carriers and being shared between the plurality of adjacent cells, and an adaptive fractional frequency reuse controller configured to control adaptive fractional frequency reuse processing in a downlink of the target cell, based on the received interference reports showing a downlink reception quality, wherein the interference reports are transmitted using selected carriers from the plurality of carriers by the plurality of wireless terminals, based on the downlink reception quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Isamu Yoshii, Atsushi Sumasu, Tomohiro Imai, Naoya Yosoku, Hidenori Kayama
  • Patent number: 9223403
    Abstract: A tactile input and output device includes: a panel; a touch information obtaining unitobtaining touch positions; an order input determining unit determining setting information; a vibration position determining unit determining a first touch position and a second touch position, the first touch position observed in a spatial order, and corresponding to the determined setting information, and the second touch position being another one of the touch positions than the first touch position; and a multi-point simultaneous vibration control unit controlling the vibration on the panel to provide a predetermined vibration to the first touch position and provide no predetermined vibration to the second touch position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi Araki, Yoshifumi Hirose, Kenji Fujiune
  • Patent number: 9223427
    Abstract: A cellular phone includes a first display, a second display, a first touch sensor which detects an input to the first display, a second touch sensor which detects an input to the second display, a CPU which sets and releases a keylock function for disabling the inputs, and a memory which stores a releasing condition of the keylock function including a combination of an input detected by the first touch sensor and an input detected by the second touch sensor. The CPU releases the keylock function with respect to at least one of the first touch sensor and the second touch sensor when inputs detected by the touch sensors and match with the releasing condition stored in the memory while the keylock function is being set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Noriko Kawakubo
  • Patent number: 9217678
    Abstract: A touch sensing element is provided comprising an insulating substrate and a conductive layer located on a surface of the insulating substrate. The conductive layer comprises: a plurality of first conductive traces arranged at intervals along a first direction, each first conductive trace extending along a second direction; and a plurality of second conductive traces arranged to form second conductive trace columns, each second conductive trace column comprises a plurality of second conductive traces arranged at intervals along the second direction, each second conductive trace column is correspondingly located corresponding to a lateral direction of the first conductive trace. Each second conductive trace of each conductive trace column is spaced from and forms a mutual inductance with a corresponding first conductive trace. The conductive layer is formed on a surface of the insulating substrate. A touch panel having the touch sensing element is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Nanchang O-Film Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fei Zhou
  • Patent number: 9220054
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, an apparatus and method are disclosed that are configured to transmit from a controller to associated mobile stations an advertising message including an advertising information element indicative of the establishment of the new association of a new service provider capable of providing at least one particular service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michelle Gong, Guoqing Li
  • Patent number: 9218089
    Abstract: A touch input device includes a touch panel, a controller, and a cancellation electrode. The touch panel includes a sensor pattern and an operation surface arranged above the sensor pattern. The sensor pattern includes first electrodes and second electrodes insulated from one another and arranged in a grid. The controller applies a drive pulse signal to the sensor pattern and detects a touch location where the operation surface of the touch panel is touched based on changes in capacitance of the sensor pattern. A cancellation pulse signal is applied to the cancellation electrode during application of the drive pulse signal. The cancellation pulse signal has a phase inverted from that of the drive pulse signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, SMK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Syogo Yamaguchi, Osamu Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 9218095
    Abstract: A processing system for an input device includes a comparator, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), and a feedback path coupling the DAC to the comparator. The comparator generates a first comparison signal associated with a resulting signal and a first output signal of the DAC; and generates a second comparison signal associated with the resulting signal and a second output signal of the DAC. The processing system also includes a control module and a determination module. The control module is coupled to the DAC and to the comparator's output and modifies a rising reference value and a falling reference value based on the first comparison signal and the second comparison signal, respectively. The determination module determines positional information for an input object in a sensing region of the input device based on the rising reference value and the falling reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Kirk Hargreaves