Patents Examined by Nicholas Lee
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Patent number: 10139957Abstract: Methods and systems for mitigating pathogen transmission via a touch surface of a touch input device. Mitigation is accomplished through selective touch surface sterilization and through touchscreen user interface reorganization. The touch surface includes a pixel array for illuminating selected portions of the touch surface with ultraviolet light of a sterilization wavelength based upon the received touch inputs. The selective illumination may occur while receiving a touch input or after an accumulation of touch inputs have been received. The user interface may also be reorganized based on received touch inputs in order to locate user interface icons to lesser touched locations of the touch surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Guy Cohen, James R. Kozloski, Clifford A. Pickover
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Patent number: 10139927Abstract: A display apparatus with a touch detection function capable of improving accuracy is provided. The display apparatus includes: a pixel array having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form; and a plurality of signal wires arranged in the pixel array. Here, when an externally-detecting object is detected, a plurality of coils having areas overlapping with each other are formed of a plurality of signal wires (drive electrodes) among the plurality of signal wires, and a magnetic field generated in the plurality of respective coils are superimposed in an overlapped area by supplying a drive signal to the plurality of coils.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Hayato Kurasawa, Daichi Suzuki, Fumitaka Gotoh
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Patent number: 10139624Abstract: To improve communication between a wearer of a Head Mount Display (HMD) while wearing the HMD and a non-wearer of the HMD, provided is a head mounted display, including a display unit configured to present an image to a wearer, a mounting unit configured to be mounted on a head of the wearer, and a notification unit configured to notify a person other than the wearer of information that the wearer is visually recognizing.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2015Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Toshiyasu Morimoto
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Patent number: 10139946Abstract: An input device includes a first substrate, a light-emitting element unit, and third conductive layers. The first substrate includes first and second surfaces. The light-emitting element unit includes: first conductive layers formed in one layer on the second surface side; second conductive layers formed in one layer on the second surface side different from the layer of the first conductive layers; and a luminescent layer provided between the first and the second conductive layers and electrically in contact therewith. The third conductive layers are formed to be insulated from the first and the second conductive layers and not to intersect with the second conductive layers in planar view, and are configured to detect a change in an electric field between the first and the third conductive layers depending on coordinates of a proximity object at a position overlapping with the first conductive layers and the first surface in planar view.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Takayuki Nakanishi, Tatsuya Yata, Masaya Tamaki
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Patent number: 10133445Abstract: A method for rapidly searching information, a display control system and an input device, wherein the method comprises: receiving a first operating instruction (101) when an electronic device is in an operating state; displaying a first operating page on the electronic device according to the first operating instruction (102); receiving a second operating instruction, and opening an icon corresponding to a first parameter on the first operating page according to the second operating instruction to enter a first parameter selection page (103); and receiving a third operating instruction, and selecting an icon corresponding to a target parameter in first parameters on the first parameter selection page according to the third operating instruction (104). The method makes operations in the channel switching used in the existing electronics device simpler, brings convenience to the users, and improves the interaction capability between the users and the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Changlin Leng
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Patent number: 10133532Abstract: In a display system, a projector detects an operation, generates guide information indicating the detected operation, and transmits the guide information to an HMD, and the HMD receives the guide information transmitted from the projector and displays an image corresponding to the operation of the projector and an image indicating a point of view or line-of-sight direction of an operator carrying out the operation, on the basis of the guide information.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masahide Takano, Akio Yamazaki, Shinichi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10127846Abstract: A system to improve the extraction of transistor and OLED parameters in an AMOLED display includes a pixel circuit having an organic light emitting device, a drive device to provide a programmable drive current to the light emitting device, a programming input to provide the programming signal, and a storage device to store the programming signal. A charge-pump amplifier has a current input and a voltage output. The charge-pump amplifier includes an operational amplifier in negative feedback configuration. The feedback is provided by a capacitor connected between the output and the inverting input of the operational amplifier. A common-mode voltage source drives the non-inverting input of the operational amplifier. An electronic switch is coupled across the capacitor to reset the capacitor. A switch module including the input is coupled to the output of the pixel circuit and an output is coupled to the input of the charge-pump amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.Inventors: Gholamreza Chaji, Yaser Azizi
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Patent number: 10126894Abstract: The present invention discloses a position detection device including a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a processor. The first electrode layer includes a plurality of first electrodes, and the second electrode layer includes a plurality of second electrodes. A gap is formed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The processor detects a plurality of capacitive values between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes so as to measure the movement track of a conductive object passing through the gap.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventor: Shang-Tai Yeh
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Patent number: 10126852Abstract: A display device of the present invention includes a light source layer and a sensing unit layer. The light source layer has a display side and a sensing side at the backside of the display side. The light source layer includes a plurality of first light sources generating a first light, and a plurality of second light sources generating a second light. The first light at least partially emits toward the sensing side; the second light at least partially emits toward the display side. A second wavelength of the second light is different from a first wavelength of the first light. The sensing unit layer is disposed at the sensing side of the light source layer. In a sensing mode, the plurality of the first light sources is activated to generate and provide the first light for the sensing unit layer. In a displaying mode, the plurality of the second light sources is activated to generate the second light for displaying an image at the display side.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Chih-Hao Lin, An-Thung Cho, Pin-Miao Liu, Tsung-Tien Wu
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Patent number: 10120445Abstract: A glove interface object, including: a flex sensor configured to generate flex sensor data identifying a flex of a finger portion of the glove interface object; a trackable object configured to be illuminated during interactivity, the trackable object being positioned at a wrist portion of the glove interface object; a communications module configured to transmit the flex sensor data to a computing device for processing to determine a finger position pose of the glove interface object, applied for rendering a virtual hand in a view of a virtual environment on a head-mounted display (HMD), the virtual hand rendered based on the identified finger position pose, the computing device identifying the trackable object from captured image data to track a location of the glove interface object; wherein the virtual hand is rendered at a location in the virtual environment that is substantially defined by the location of the glove interface object.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shai Messingher, Richard Stenson
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Patent number: 10120432Abstract: A touch sensing system and a method of controlling power consumption thereof are disclosed. The touch sensing system includes a plurality of sensing units, which sample a voltage received from a touch screen and accumulate the sampled voltage, and a plurality of analog-to-digital converters converting an output of the sensing units into digital data. The sensing units and the analog-to-digital converters are divided into a plurality of groups in an idle state. Each of the plurality of groups includes at least two sensing units and one analog-to-digital converter. At least one sensing unit included in at least one group is powered down in the idle state. An analog-to-digital converter is powered on during the group it belongs to is powered on.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kyungjin Jang
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Patent number: 10115336Abstract: An LED display module, a display apparatus, and a method for controlling the LED display module and the display apparatus are provided. The LED display module includes a plurality of first LEDs arranged in a first line and a plurality of second LEDs arranged in a second line; a plurality of source interfaces, each of which is commonly connected to an anode of a corresponding one of the plurality of first LEDs and a cathode of a corresponding one of the plurality of second LEDs arranged in the same column as the corresponding one of the plurality of first LEDs; and a gate interface commonly connected to a cathode of each of the plurality of the first LEDs and an anode of each of the plurality of the second LEDs.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jong-hoon Jung, Young-mok Park, Sang-moo Park, Seong-woo Cho
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Patent number: 10114508Abstract: A display device includes a touch panel; a drive circuit that controls the touch panel; an arithmetic circuit that calculates operation content on the touch panel; and a control circuit that controls the arithmetic circuit, in which the drive circuit includes a first wiring for outputting information for calculating the operation content on the touch panel to the arithmetic circuit; and a second wiring for outputting a signal indicating that the touch panel is operated to the control circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hiroaki Jo
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Patent number: 10115372Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a sensor configured to sense ambient light, a display configured to provide a screen including a first area which displays content and a second area outside the first area and a processor configured to change a size of the second area based on the sensed ambient light.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., FUSEPROJECTInventors: Se-jung Whang, Yves Behar, Arthur Kenzo Debaigue, Alex Farrow, Anthony Decosta
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Patent number: 10109234Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a drive circuit and a drive method thereof, a display substrate and a drive method thereof, and a display device. The drive circuit comprises a conversion unit provided with a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a third input terminal, a fourth input terminal, and an output terminal, wherein the fourth input terminal is connected to a direct current power source, and wherein the output terminal is connected to a pixel circuit. The first input terminal is configured to input a voltage signal, the second input terminal is configured to input a first drive signal, the third input terminal is configured to input a second drive signal, and the output terminal is configured to output a current signal. The conversion unit converts the voltage signal output from the source drive unit into the current signal and the pixel circuit is driven by the current signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Tuo Sun, Zhanjie Ma
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Patent number: 10108298Abstract: A portable electronic device includes a touch sensing circuit, a substrate, a conductive layer on the substrate, a resistance measuring circuit and a control circuit. The conductive layer includes a plurality of sensing electrodes. The touch sensing circuit determines whether a touch point occurs according to a plurality of capacitance changes of the plurality of sensing electrodes. The resistance measuring circuit measures a resistance value of at least a part of the conductive layer. The control circuit determines whether the touch sensing circuit should enter a correction mode according to the resistance value.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: MSTAR SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.Inventors: Kai-Ting Ho, Chien-Chuan Chen, Wen-Ho Chen, Chi-An Jen
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Patent number: 10101616Abstract: A pixel matrix includes pixel units. The pixel units are arranged in a repeating pattern, in which each of the pixel units includes transparent pixels, reflective pixels, and switch components. Each of the transparent pixels includes a transparent electrode and a transparent color resist layer disposed on the transparent electrode. Each of the reflective pixels includes a reflective electrode. The switch components are connected to the transparent electrodes of the transparent pixels and the reflective electrodes of the reflective pixels respectively for driving the transparent pixels and the reflective pixels individually.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Hui Chu Ke, Sheng-Wen Cheng
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Patent number: 10101897Abstract: An electronic stylus may include a wireless interface, a memory, and a processor. The wireless interface may be configured to send and receive signals to and from at least a first computing system and a second computing system. The memory may be configured to store text. The processor may be configured to store, in the memory, a text string received from the first computing system via the wireless interface, and send, to the second computing system via the wireless interface, the text string received from the first computing system.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Thomas Buckley, Alexander Friedrich Kuscher, Katie Leah Roberts-Hoffman
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Patent number: 10095338Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sensor-equipped display device includes first electrodes and a detection electrode. The first electrodes constitute sensor drive electrodes by being supplied with sensor drive signals separately and sequentially or sensor drive electrodes by simultaneously supplying the sensor drive signals to the first electrodes adjacent to each other. A width of the sensor drive electrode including the first electrode on the edge is smaller than a width of the other sensor drive electrode not including the first electrode on the edge.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Koji Ishizaki, Daisuke Ito
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Patent number: 10089005Abstract: Disclosed are a mobile device, an HMD and a system. A mobile device which is capable of data communication with an HMD, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a touch sensing module which is designed to recognize a touch from a user; a communication module which performs data communication with a head-mounted display (HMD); a video processor which if relative location information between the mobile device and the HMD is received from the HMD, generates extended video data on the basis of the location information; and a controller which after the generated extended video data is transmitted to the HMD via the communication module, controls the extended video data output by the HMD.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Xuelong Xu, Sungchul Shin, Jooyoung Kim, Nakhoon Go, Minhyung Kim