Patents Examined by Nelson Rosario
  • Patent number: 9524699
    Abstract: A peripheral device control system is provided and includes a wearable electronic device configured to generate a control command based on a bezel rotation of a display portion and a peripheral device operable to perform at least one function that is controlled in response to the control command generated by the wearable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jongchul Choi, Byounguk Yoon
  • Patent number: 9524037
    Abstract: There is provided a gesture detection device including two linear image sensor arrays and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to compare sizes of pointer images in the image frames captured by the two linear image sensor arrays in the same period or different periods so as to identify a click event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Pixart Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Shu-Sian Yang, Han-Ping Cheng, Ming-Tsan Kao
  • Patent number: 9489073
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for controlling a software application running on a computer system including an interactive display adapted to detect at least two contact points on the surface of the interactive display, the method comprising: detecting at least two contact points; determining pressure data associated with at least one of said contact points; and defining a condition of the software application in dependence on said detected at least two contact points and said at least one determined pressure value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Promethean Limited
    Inventors: Nigel Pearce, Kevin Parkes, Barry Smith
  • Patent number: 9443473
    Abstract: A pixel array and an organic light emitting display device including the same, can display an image with uniform luminance by compensating for a variation in threshold voltage/mobility of a driving transistor for each pixel and compensating for a change in efficiency due to degradation of an organic light emitting diode. A first pixel among the pixel array includes an organic light emitting diode; a pixel circuit positioned among an anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode, a first scan line and a first data line through which a data signal is supplied to the first pixel, and controlling current flowing in the organic light emitting diode; and a switching element controlling the coupling between a second data line through which a data signal is supplied to a second pixel of the plurality of pixels and the anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Oh-Jo Kwon, Joo-Hyung Lee, Won-Tae Choi
  • Patent number: 9436341
    Abstract: A haptic feedback device (20, 20?, 20?) comprises a stationary frame (40); a carrier (42) configured for at least one degree of motion relative to the stationary frame; a user interface (44) mounted on the carrier and configured to receive a human impulse; a set (46) of pole pieces; and, a suspension system (48). The haptic actuator (46) comprises a first pole piece (80) mounted to the stationary frame (40); a second pole piece (82) mounted to the carrier (42); and, an electromagnetic coil (84) carried by one of the first pole piece and the second pole piece. The first pole piece and the second pole piece are separately mounted to define an air gap (90) therebetween in a first direction when the electromagnetic coil is not energized, the first direction corresponding to the at least one degree of motion. The suspension system (48) is mechanically separated from both the first pole piece (80) and the second pole piece (92).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventor: Richard L. Ponziani
  • Patent number: 9423893
    Abstract: There is provided a gesture detection device including two linear image sensor arrays and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to compare sizes of pointer images in the image frames captured by the two linear image sensor arrays in the same period or different periods so as to identify a click event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Pixart Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Shu-Sian Yang, Han-Ping Cheng, Ming-Tsan Kao
  • Patent number: 9411466
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, a second substrate includes a detection electrode of a touch panel, pixels include pixel electrodes and counter electrodes, the counter electrodes are divided into a plurality of blocks, the counter electrodes of the divided blocks are provided in common to the pixels on a plurality of display lines being side by side, the counter electrodes of the divided blocks are used as scanning electrodes of the touch panel as well, the liquid crystal display device includes a semiconductor chip configured to supply a counter voltage and a touch panel scanning voltage to the counter electrodes of the divided blocks, the semiconductor chip includes a first terminal group formed on a side of a display area side configured by the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Shuuichirou Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9391610
    Abstract: A sensor array that has first electrodes, second electrodes and third electrodes formed from a single layer of conductive material and interleaved without intersecting one another, in which each first electrode is coupled with at least one of the second electrodes via a mutual capacitance. Some of the third electrodes are disposed between the first electrodes and the second electrodes. All electrodes are interleaved without intersecting one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Alexandre Gourevitch, Igor Kravets, Oleksandr Karpin, Peter Vavaroutsos
  • Patent number: 9383852
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a method of controlling thereof includes a main body, a display unit configured to be combined with the main body to pivot to be opened and closed and having a touch panel and a display panel, a sensor configured to sense a closed state of the display unit with respect to the main body, and a controller configured to, if the display unit is changed from an opened state to the closed state, stop an operation of the touch panel and then stop an operation of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Se-joong Kim
  • Patent number: 9377860
    Abstract: Approaches are described for providing input to a portable computing device, such as a mobile phone. A user's hand can be detected based on data (e.g., one or more images) obtained by at least one sensor of the device, such as camera, and the images can be analyzed to locate the hand of the user. As part of the location computation, the device can determine a motion being performed by the hand of the user, and the device can determine a gesture corresponding to the motion. In the situation where the device is controlling a media player capable of playing media content, the gesture can be interpreted by the device to cause the device to, e.g., pause a media track or perform another function with respect to the media content being presented via the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Robert Weber, Matthew Paul Bell, Isaac Scott Noble, Guenael Thomas Strutt, Stephen Michael Polansky, Dong Zhou
  • Patent number: 9367632
    Abstract: Requests (94) for location-dependant information, received from a mobile device (1) having a location-finding capability (10), are processed by middleware (4, 40) which identifies the handset type and generates instructions (93, 95) specific to the handset type to provide the data (94, 97) required to generate the required data (99) in a format compatible with the handset (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Inventor: William T J Revels
  • Patent number: 9367192
    Abstract: A surface capacitive touch panel including a panel body, four electrodes, a power supply module, a grounding and measuring module, and a computation control module. The electrodes are disposed on four sides of the panel body, respectively, and each have a first end portion and a second end portion. In response to a control signal, the power supply module selects one of the electrodes to function as an electrode under test. The power supply module connects with the first end portion of the electrode under test to supply a power to the electrode under test. The grounding and measuring module connects with the second end portion of the electrode under test to create a grounded loop for measuring currents under test. The computation control module computes touch coordinate positions with values of currents under test measured at the electrodes. Hence, single-touch and multi-touch coordinate positions are accurately determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: MIDAS TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Da-Lee Chang, Wu-Tung Kao, Chien-Hao Huang
  • Patent number: 9354719
    Abstract: An optical navigation device is provided for detecting movement of a pointer, such as a finger, in three dimensions. A sensor obtains images of the pointer which have been illuminated by an illumination source, and an image scaling module determines the difference in size between images acquired by the image sensor to determine the difference in height of the pointer between images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignees: STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) LIMITED, STMICROELECTRONICS (GRENOBLE 2) SAS
    Inventors: Jeffrey Raynor, Pascal Mellot
  • Patent number: 9354808
    Abstract: A display control device including a display control unit that displays a decoration image on a display unit, the decoration image being different from images used for operation, a detection unit that detects a user's touch operation made on the display unit, and a processing unit that executes a process associated with the touch operation involving a predetermined trajectory. When the touch operation involving the predetermined trajectory is detected while the decoration image is displayed, the display control unit displays a feedback image that is made up of the decoration image and indicates that the touch operation involving the predetermined trajectory has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuichi Otsu
  • Patent number: 9354699
    Abstract: An input device for transmitting a signal between a terminal device and an external device is disclosed in the present invention. The input device includes an input unit, a terminal communication unit, a wireless transmission unit and a processor. The input unit generates an operation signal. The terminal communication unit establishes a connection to the terminal device. The wireless transmission unit establishes a connection to the external device for receiving a first datum signal outputted from the external device. The processor is electrically connected to the input unit, the terminal communication unit and the wireless transmission unit. The processor respectively transmits the operation signal and the first datum signal to the terminal device via the terminal communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Yen-Min Chang, Chun-Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 9342172
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting at least one conductive materials attached to a protection case, identifying a combination of the detected at least one conductive material corresponding to an arrangement of the at least one conductive material, mapping the combination of the detected at least one conductive material to an operational function of the electronic device according to user control, and storing a mapping result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae-Joon Choi
  • Patent number: 9332397
    Abstract: A method of establishing an alternate communication channel between a telematics unit and a central facility that includes determining that a vehicle telematics unit is unable to communicate data over a voice call using a voice channel; initiating a data call from the vehicle telematics unit to a central facility based on that determination; sending information identifying the vehicle telematics unit to the central facility over the data call; establishing a voice call from the central facility to verbally communicate with the vehicle telematics unit based on the information identifying the vehicle telematics unit; and communicating data between the central facility and vehicle telematics unit via short messaging services (SMS) messages using the voice call from the central facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: General Motors LLC
    Inventors: Sethu K. Madhavan, Ki Hak Yi, David A. Adams, Russell A. Patenaude, Kevin R. Krause, Andrew J. MacDonald
  • Patent number: 9323393
    Abstract: Various techniques and apparatuses are disclosed that provide for pixelated display modules that integrate an ultrasonic fingerprint or biometric sensing capability. In some implementations, the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor and the display components of the display module may share a common backplane. In some implementations, the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor may share a flex cable with other components in the display module. In some implementations, the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor may leverage conductive traces on a cover glass used to provide for touch input to the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev, Leonard Eugene Fennell, Nicholas Ian Buchan, David William Burns, Samir K. Gupta, Sanghoon Bae
  • Patent number: 9317199
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: an operation reception unit receiving a reference setting operation, and a position designation operation after the reference setting operation, that are input by a user touching an input unit provided on a display surface of a display unit; a reference position setting unit setting a reference position at a position shifted toward a periphery of the input unit from the position of the reference setting operation on the input unit; and a display control unit setting, depending on the reference position and the position of the position designation operation, a display position of a pointer for selecting a position on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Miyazaki, Tomoka Mochizuki, Tomohiro Shimizu, Tomonori Sugiura
  • Patent number: 9311873
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a technical field of liquid crystal display, and particularly, to a polarity inversion driving method for a liquid crystal display panel, a driving apparatus and a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jian He