Patents Examined by Patrick Edouard
  • Patent number: 10004430
    Abstract: A fall detection method performed by a fall detection server includes receiving electricity information from a piezoelectric plate disposed adjacent to a bed of a subject, performing a primary determination of whether or not the subject fell from the bed based on the electricity information, and triggering an imaging device to capture an image of a current state of the subject if it is determined that the subject fell, receiving video information including the image of the current state of the subject from the imaging device, and transmitting fall information relating to a fall of the subject to a terminal of the subject, the fall information including one or more of the primary determination result, trigger information of the imaging device, and the video information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: LG CNS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jenny Pae
  • Patent number: 10009602
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes: an image-light generating unit for right eye that generates image light from image data for right eye and emits the image light; an image-light generating unit for left eye that generates image light from image data for left eye and the image light; a light guide units that guide the emitted image lights to the left and right eyes of the user; and a display control unit that transmits control signals for controlling the emission of the image lights respectively to the image-light generating unit for right eye and the image-light generating unit for left eye. The display control unit transitions, according to a condition set in advance, the head-mounted display device to a power saving state for causing one of the image-light generating unit for right eye and the image-light generating unit for left eye to stop the emission of the image light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fusashi Kimura, Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10002581
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel which includes a plurality of pixels and a plurality of data lines connected to the plurality of pixels and a data driver which applies data voltages having different polarities to adjacent data lines among the plurality of data lines and performs a first charge sharing to short the data lines having the different polarities and a second charge sharing to short the data lines having the same polarity, wherein the voltage of at least one of the data lines is step-wisely changed by the second charge sharing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Su Hyeong Park
  • Patent number: 9997104
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. A content generator may generate frames of image data to be displayed on the display. The display may have an array of pixels that emit light to display images. The pixels may contain light-emitting devices such as organic light-emitting diodes, quantum dot light-emitting diodes, and light-emitting diodes formed from discrete semiconductor dies. As a result of aging, the light producing capabilities of the light-emitting devices may degrade over time. The electronic device may have a temperature sensor that gathers temperature measurements. A pixel luminance degradation compensator may apply compensation factors to uncorrected pixel luminance values associated with the frames of image data to produce corresponding corrected pixel luminance values for the display. The compensation factors may be based on aging history information such as pixel luminance history and temperature measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yifan Zhang, Paul S. Drzaic, Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 9998266
    Abstract: One or more LDPC encoders generate two or more LDPC code words to be included entirely in an OFDM symbol. A frequency segment parser parses content of the two or more LDPC code words into a first frequency segment corresponding to a first subband of the communication channel and a second frequency segment corresponding to a second subband of the communication channel. A constellation mapper maps first content of the two or more LDPC code words to first constellation points corresponding to first OFDM tones in the first subband, and maps second content of the two or more LDPC code words to second constellation points corresponding to second OFDM tones in the second subband. A tone ordering unit reorders the first OFDM tones and the second OFDM tones such that the first content is distributed over the first subband, and the second content is distributed over the second subband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Sudhir Srinivasa, Hongyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 9990077
    Abstract: There are provided according to the disclosure an array substrate, a touch display panel, and a detection method. The array substrate includes: a common electrode layer divided into multiple touch electrodes; multiple control circuits respectively connected to the plurality of touch electrodes, multiple first leads, each first lead is electronically connected to the first control terminals and the first input terminals of the control circuits corresponding to the touch electrodes in the same row with the first lead; and multiple second leads, each second lead is electronically connected to the second control terminals and the second input terminals of the control circuits corresponding to the touch electrodes in the same column with the second lead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng Lu, Qijun Yao
  • Patent number: 9990901
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device is configured to check whether an event is generated during a first period in a state in which a screen is displayed, change a chroma of the screen when the event is not generated during the first period, check whether the event is generated during a second period, and adjust a lighting brightness of the screen when the event is not generated during the second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Jin Yoon, Young-Il Oh, Dong-Ho Koo, Sung-Taek Kim
  • Patent number: 9983634
    Abstract: A keyboard lifting structure includes a base, a cover frame covering the base and providing multiple openings, key caps coupled to the base by respective linking mechanisms, driving devices disposed in the base at one side relative to the respective key caps with respective slides thereof respectively abutted against the linking mechanisms of the key caps, and a lifting mechanism disposed between the cover frame and the base for lifting or lowering the cover frame relative to the base and simultaneously causing the driving devices to move the key caps upwardly out of the cover frame or downwardly into the inside of the respective openings of the cover frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: CHICONY ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Po-Hsin Li
  • Patent number: 9983762
    Abstract: A method of adjusting a viewing/masking sector of an environment scanning device, and a corresponding adjusting device and operator terminal are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes activating a phase of operator adjustment of the parameters, to show, on the information display, an angular viewing/masking sector of the scanning device having radii indicating the central axis orientation and the lateral edges of the angular viewing/masking sector, and touch-sensitive interactive zones configured to be angularly moved by the operator in order to set the corresponding parameters of the environment scanning device. The method further includes adjusting the orientation and aperture of the angular viewing/masking sector based on a touch-sensitive interaction between the operator and the corresponding interactive zones and moving at least one of the corresponding radii toward at least one new adjustment position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Eric Le Pors, Pierre Laborde, Olivier Grisvard, Yannick Mahias
  • Patent number: 9986085
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile terminal that executes an application in a predetermined area, and a method performed by the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal that executes the application in the predetermined area may include a memory; a location finder configured to obtain location information of the mobile terminal; a communicator configured to communicate with a server; and a controller configured to receive, via the communicator, the application that is executable in a predetermined area corresponding to the obtained location information and an operating system (OS) for executing the application from a server that corresponds to the obtained location information, and to install the application and the OS in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-min Lee, Chan-ju Park, Bok-deuk Jeong, Jae-yong Yoo
  • Patent number: 9983785
    Abstract: A device to detect a directional hand gesture, identify an input mode of the device associated with the directional hand gesture to launch the input mode, modify a user interface rendered on a display component of the device based on the input mode, and modify a setting of the sensor based on whether the input mode includes a virtual keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Glenn A Wong, Mark C Solomon
  • Patent number: 9972663
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device can include a plurality of color sub-pixels including first, second and third color sub-pixels, the first and second color sub-pixels disposed along a first direction, and the third color sub-pixel disposed adjacent to the first and second color sub-pixels along a second direction different from the first direction; and a plurality of driving sub-pixels configured to drive light emitting diodes of the color sub-pixels. Also, each of the driving sub-pixels can include a driving transistor and a switching unit, and each and every one of the driving sub-pixels overlapping with at least two color sub-pixels among the plurality of color sub-pixels. In addition, the first, second and third color sub-pixels correspond to a portion of four of the driving sub-pixels, and one of the driving sub-pixels overlaps with three or four corresponding color sub-pixels among the plurality of color sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Aram Shin, Juhn-Suk Yoo, Soo-Jeong Park
  • Patent number: 9965081
    Abstract: A device for sensing a touch by measuring a variation in capacitance according to a contact of an object, and measuring a contact position of the object is provided. The device includes a touch screen panel comprising grid electrodes forming a plurality of electrode patterns, the grid electrodes serving as Tx antennas or Rx antennas, a Tx circuit unit connected with the grid electrode to apply an electric signal to the touch screen panel unit, an Rx circuit unit connected with the grid electrodes to sense variations in the capacitance in the plurality of electrode patterns, and a controller configured to control the touch screen panel unit, the Tx circuit unit, and the Rx circuit unit. The Rx circuit unit includes a first operational amplifier, a first feedback capacitor, and a second feedback capacitor. The first feedback capacitor and the second feedback capacitor are connected with the first operational amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Sung-Soo Park, Chang-Byung Park, Gyu-Hyeong Cho
  • Patent number: 9966018
    Abstract: Methods are provided for of driving a bistable electro-optic display having at least first and second pixels separated by an inter-pixel gap. In one method, there is applied to the first pixel a drive pulse which drives the pixel to one extreme optical state, and there is applied to the second pixel, which is in this extreme optical state, a reinforcing pulse of the same polarity as the drive pulse. In a second method, a drive pulse applied to the first pixel drives that pixel away from one extreme optical state, and an inverse reinforcing pulse applied to the second pixel is of opposite polarity to the drive pulse. The drive methods reduce edge ghosting or blooming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Elizabeth Moran Gates, Karl R. Amundson
  • Patent number: 9961336
    Abstract: Multi-layer display of content on a flexible display is provided. A roll profile of a rolled transparent flexible display is detected, the rolled transparent flexible display forming a plurality of overlapping display layers of the transparent flexible display. Content is then displayed on the plurality of overlapping display layers, where different portions of the content are displayed on different display layers of the plurality of display layers to present the content as three-dimensional content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vijay Ekambaram, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 9953608
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a driving circuit of a display panel. A plurality of driving units produce a reference driving voltage according to a gamma voltage of a gamma circuit, respectively. A plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits receive the reference driving voltages output by the plurality of driving units, and select one of the plurality of reference driving voltage as a data driving voltage according to pixel data, respectively. The plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits transmit the plurality of data driving voltages to the display panel for displaying images. A voltage boost circuit is used for producing a first supply voltage and providing the first supply voltage to the plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits. At least a voltage boost unit is used for producing a second supply voltage and providing the second supply voltage to the plurality of driving units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Sitronix Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Min-Nan Liao, Chih-Ping Su
  • Patent number: 9946391
    Abstract: A processing system includes a sensor module coupled to sensor electrodes. The sensor module is configured to drive the sensor electrodes with first sensing signals and with second sensing signals at a second frequency. The processing system further includes a determination module configured to obtain, concurrently with the driving of the sensor electrodes, first measurement values that are based on effects of the first sensing signals, and a resonance of a pen in a sensing region. Concurrently with the driving of the sensor electrodes, second measurement values are obtained that are based on effects of the second sensing signals, and the resonance of the pen in the sensing region. The determination module determines a resonating state of the pen based on the first measurement values and the second measurement values, and reports the resonating state of the pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Tom R. Vandermeijden
  • Patent number: 9946401
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device with integrated touch screen. The display device includes a panel configured to include a plurality of electrodes divided into n groups; and a display driver IC configured to, apply a common voltage to the electrodes during a display driving mode of a first frame, apply a touch scan signal to a first group and a first adjacent electrode unit included in a second group during a touch driving mode of the first frame, apply the common voltage to the electrodes during the display driving mode of a second frame, and apply the touch scan signal to the second group and a second adjacent electrode unit included in the first group adjacent to the second group during the touch driving mode of the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hee Sun Shin
  • Patent number: 9933681
    Abstract: A driver for an electrochromic element is configured to adjust the transmittance of a solution-type electrochromic element to allow the element to display a tone. The element has a pair of electrodes and at least one organic electrochromic material mixed between the electrodes. The driver has an adjusting controller configured to adjust the transmittance of the element. The adjusting controller has controller A and controller B. Controller A is configured to saturate a change in the transmittance of the element to an initial state by applying the voltage which resets the element to the initial state. Controller B is configured to control the tone of the element by applying the voltage which adjusts the transmittance of the element following controller A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Yamamoto, Shinjiro Okada
  • Patent number: 9933891
    Abstract: A sensing surface device comprises a sensing module coupled to a sensing mat. The sensing module is configured to detect a first object at a first position on the sensing mat, detect an event associated with the first object and detect a movement at a second position on the sensing mat. The sensing module is further configured to generate an input to trigger an action in software based on both the detected event and the detected movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Greg Saul, Nicolas Villar, Daniel Cletheroe, Haiyan Zhang, Christian Holz