Patents Examined by Parul Gupta
  • Patent number: 9653036
    Abstract: The method for adjusting a gamma voltage comprises: applying a reference common electrode voltage and a to-be-adjusted gamma voltage to a display module; collecting first light intensity data when the display module displays a grayscale test pattern after the reference common electrode voltage and the to-be-adjusted gamma voltage are applied; plotting a testing gamma curve in accordance with the first light intensity data; when the testing gamma curve is not located within the acceptable range of the standard gamma curve, adjusting the to-be-adjusted gamma voltage currently applied to the display module, until the testing gamma curve is located within the acceptable range of the standard gamma curve; and when the testing gamma curve is located within the acceptable range of the standard gamma curve, determining the to-be-adjusted gamma voltage currently applied to the display module as a final gamma voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liangliang Zheng, Jian He, Tingting Jin, Jiacheng Huang
  • Patent number: 9645652
    Abstract: A system is provided that includes sensor(s) configured to provide sensed input including measurements of motion of a user during performance of a task, and in which the motion may include a gesture performed in one of a plurality of 3D zones in an environment of the user that are defined to accept respective, distinct gestures. A front-end system may receive and process the sensed input including the measurements to identify the gesture and from the gesture, identify operations of an electronic resource. The front-end system may identify the gesture based on the one of the plurality of 3D zones in which the gesture is performed. The front-end system may then form and communicate an input to cause the electronic resource to perform the operations and produce an output. And the front-end system may receive the output from the electronic resource, and communicate the output to a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: William D. Kelsey, Brian D. Laughlin, Richard N. Blair
  • Patent number: 9597590
    Abstract: In exemplary implementations of this invention, a main content feed is displayed on a main screen. A user may select one or more auxiliary feeds of content to display simultaneously on a second screen. The second screen is located on a handheld device. The user makes the selection by changing the orientation of the handheld device relative to the main screen. For example, the user may select which auxiliary feed to display by pointing the device at different areas that are around the periphery of the main screen. The handheld device includes one or more sensors for gathering data, and one or more processors for (a) processing the sensor data to calculate the orientation of the handheld device relative to the main screen and (b) based at least in part on that orientation, selecting which of the auxiliary feeds to display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Victor Michael Bove, Santiago Alfaro, Vincent Lee
  • Patent number: 9541964
    Abstract: An image module including a base member including a light transmissive material; a first layer having a first protruding pattern protruding from a first surface of the base member; a second layer including an opaque material and covering a second surface of the base member; and one or more image through-holes in the second layer and configured to pass light from a light source through the image through-holes and towards the protruding pattern to form one or more images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Huiseob Byun, Kyewon Chang, Minseok Kim
  • Patent number: 9535440
    Abstract: There are provided a DC-DC converter and an organic light emitting display device using the same. A DC-DC converter includes a converting module and a sensing unit. The converting module includes a switching module and a control module. The switching module has a plurality of switches, and each of the plurality of switches converts an input voltage into a first voltage and outputs the first voltage while being turned on/off in response to a corresponding pulse width modulation (PWM) signal. The control module controls a switching operation of the switching module by generating the PWM signal. The sensing unit senses driving current supplied to a load to which the first voltage is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong-Min Seo, Sung-Cheon Park
  • Patent number: 9532025
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for performing pre-programmed recording on a recording medium having insufficient remaining storage space for performing a pre-programmed recording with a specified recording quality, and to an apparatus for reading from and writing to recording media using such method. The method has the steps of: determining the storage space required on a recording medium for performing one or more pre-programmed recordings with a specified quality; comparing the available storage space on the recording medium with the required storage space; and in case the required storage space exceeds the available storage space, reducing the specified recording quality for one or more of the pre-programmed recordings in accordance with settable priority indicators for the pre-programmed recordings such that the required storage space no longer exceeds the available storage space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: THOMSON LICENSING
    Inventor: Frank Dumont
  • Patent number: 9519381
    Abstract: A touch screen panel for display apparatus is provided, which includes a substrate; an electrode forming part including a plurality of first electrode serials and a plurality of second electrode serials arranged to cross over the plurality of first electrode serials; a routing wire forming part including a plurality of first routing wires connected to the plurality of first electrode serials, respectively and a plurality of second routing wires connected to the plurality of second electrode serials, respectively; a plurality of first insulation patterns formed at a cross region of the first and second electrode serials to insulate the first electrode serial from the second electrode serial; and at least one buffer pattern to be positioned at least one side of each of the first insulation patterns, and be spaced at a predetermined distance from the first insulation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sunju Ku, Heunglyul Cho, Kiseung Kim, Heeyoung Kwack
  • Patent number: 9513670
    Abstract: A touch panel including a substrate, at least one touch-sensing unit, at least one connecting pad, at least a testing line, at least one ESD protection circuit, and a first isolation layer is provided. The touch-sensing unit is disposed on the substrate. The connecting pad is disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the touch-sensing unit. The testing line is disposed on the substrate, electrically connected to the connecting pad, and extends to at least an edge of the substrate. The ESD protection circuit is disposed in the edge of the substrate and electrically connected to a ground voltage, wherein a vertical projection of the testing line to the substrate and that of the ESD protection circuit to the substrate is at least partially overlapped. The first isolation layer is disposed between the testing line and the ESD protection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yi-Chi Chen, Chia-Chun Yeh, Chien-Yu Chen, Yi-Ling Lin, Yi-Hsin Lin
  • Patent number: 9418598
    Abstract: A color sequential display method and apparatus that reduces or eliminates color breakup. In a given frame an illumination source provides a first illumination color in a first subframe, a second illumination color in a third subframe, and both the first and second illumination colors simultaneously in a second subframe to provide a third mixed illumination color. A pixel is driven either: (a) during the first subframe to display the first color; or (b) during the third subframe to display the second color; or (c) at least during the second subframe to display the third color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS plc
    Inventor: Jeremy Lynn Hinton
  • Patent number: 9395810
    Abstract: A system is provided for that includes sensor(s) configured to provide sensed input characteristic of a user, the user's environment or the user's interaction with their environment, and including from a 3D scanner, measurements of points on a surface of an object in the user's environment. A front-end system may receive and process the sensed input including the measurements to identify a known pattern that indicates a significance of the sensed input from which to identify operations of electronic resource(s). The front-end system may form and communicate an input to the electronic resource(s) to cause the resource(s) to perform the operations, including generation of a point cloud from the measurements, and transformation of the point cloud to a 3D model of the object. And the front-end system may receive an output including the 3D model from the resource(s), and communicate the output for display by a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Brian Dale Laughlin, William David Kelsey, Richard N. Blair
  • Patent number: 9395849
    Abstract: Disclosed are an infrared touch screen multipoint recognizing method and an infrared touch screen. The method comprises the following steps: driving infrared transmitting tubes and infrared receiving tubes to scan a touch detection area and saving scan data (601); reading scan data of the infrared transmitting tubes and the infrared receiving tubes, to determine boundaries of quasi-touch points and obtain a quasi-touch point set (602); reading scan data of the infrared transmitting tubes and the infrared receiving tubes aligned with a first direction off-axis, to obtain a first calibrated touch point set (603); reading scan data of the infrared transmitting tubes and the infrared receiving tubes aligned with a second direction off-axis, to obtain a second calibrated touch point set (604); and comparing the quasi-touch point set, the first calibrated touch point set and the second calibrated touch point set, to eliminate ghost points and determine real touch points (605).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: BEIJING IRTOUCH SYSTEMS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Haibing Zhang, Wujun Wang, Jianjun Liu, Xinlin Ye, Xinbin Liu
  • Patent number: 9383884
    Abstract: A touch panel that includes a molecule oriented polylactic acid film having a first principal plane and a second principal plane. The polylactic acid film is constructed to generate a voltage when the polylactic acid film is deformed to have a concave shape on the first principal plane and a convex shape on the second principal plane. An electrode is arranged adjacent at least one of the first principal plane and the second principal plane of the polylactic acid film so as to detect the voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masamichi Ando
  • Patent number: 9354757
    Abstract: A touch sensor system includes a driver which drives on the basis of code sequences which are orthogonal to one another and include +1 or ?1 and each of which has a length N. A decoding section estimates on the basis of a first inner product operation of the outputs and the code sequences a first capacitance value and on the basis of a second inner product operation of the outputs and the code sequences a second capacitance value. A touch panel has a two-dimensional region including a hand placing region and a remainder region and processing sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Miyamoto, Shinichi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9324286
    Abstract: The viewing angle characteristics of a multiprimary liquid crystal display device in which a plurality of red subpixels are provided in each pixel are improved. A multiprimary liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a pixel defined by a plurality of subpixels, and performs multicolor display by using four or more primary colors to be displayed by the plurality of subpixels. The plurality of subpixels of the multiprimary liquid crystal display device according to the present invention include first and second red subpixels R1 and R2 for displaying red, a green subpixel G for displaying green, a blue subpixel B for displaying blue, and a cyan subpixel C for displaying cyan. When a color having a hue which is within a predetermined first range is displayed by the pixel, the gray scale level of the first red subpixel R1 and the gray scale level of the second red subpixel R2 differ from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiko Mori, Kazunari Tomizawa, Yuichi Yoshida, Kozo Nakamura, Shun Ueki
  • Patent number: 9229678
    Abstract: An image display system including a first image display apparatus, a second image display apparatus and an image processing apparatus is provided. When the first image display apparatus and the second image display apparatus each display a partial image of an image to be displayed, the first image display apparatus and the second image display apparatus each display the partial image based on a feature of the entirety of the image to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kotaro Kitajima
  • Patent number: 9223337
    Abstract: A single layer self-capacitance touch screen and its data processing method which can realize multi-touch identification, the said touch screen includes at least two self-capacitance electrode assemblies independent of each other, all of which are located in the same plane layer and fully cover the whole touch zone of the touch screen without overlapping each other; the said self-capacitance electrode assembly includes at least a pair of self-capacitance coupling electrode couples, which include two electrode plates seated in the same plane, and these two electrode plates all include their own straight-line electrode plate coupling side and straight-line electrode plate base, which have included angle of acute angle; in the self-capacitance electrode assembly, the center lines of the self-capacitance coupling electrode couples are placed parallel to each other, and the center lines of arbitrarily two self-capacitance coupling electrode couples are also placed parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: FocalTech Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Weiping Liu, J K Zhang
  • Patent number: 9159355
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques for DVD-RAM header or land/groove detection. In some aspects, a wobble signal is integrated, an offset is removed from the integrated wobble signal, and a header is detected in the non-offset integrated wobble signal. In some aspects, a threshold value is adjusted based on a comparison of the received wobble signal and the threshold value, and a header is detected based on the adjusted threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Sumio Sekigawa, Charles Pandana, Mats Oberg, Antoon Dekker
  • Patent number: 9134826
    Abstract: A touch panel which includes a molecule oriented polylactic acid film, the polylactic acid film has a first principal plane and a second principal plane formed with electrodes, and the electrode on the first principal plane includes divided electrodes which are electrically divided into at least four sections. A touch panel input device having the touch panel is configured to have the respective divided electrodes connected to a processor which outputs position information and/or pressed information based on voltages detected independently from the divided electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: MURATA MAUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masamichi Andoh
  • Patent number: 9128553
    Abstract: A sensing apparatus that includes a polylactic acid film having a first surface and an opposing second surface. The polylactic acid film is molecularly oriented and thermally treated so as to have a shear piezoelectric property. An electrode arrangement is provided adjacent at least one of the first and second surfaces of the polylactic acid film, and is configured to detect a relative position of an input on the polylactic acid film and detect a pressure of the input toward the polylactic acid film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masamichi Andoh
  • Patent number: 9001007
    Abstract: A display panel includes: a first base substrate on which a plurality of pixel areas are defined; a color filter layer including a plurality of color filters respectively in the plurality of pixel areas of the first base substrate, where four color filters having different colors are respectively in four pixel areas adjacent to each other; a plurality of pixel electrodes on the color filter layer, respectively in the plurality of pixel areas and electrically insulated from each other; a first area including a contact point at which the four adjacent pixel areas meet; a second base substrate which is combined with the first base substrate and faces the second base substrate; and a reference electrode on one of the first and second base substrates. At least one color filter among the four adjacent color filters includes a protruding part which overlaps the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hwa Park, YeoGeon Yoon, Swae-Hyun Kim, Changil Tae