Patents Examined by Robin Mishler
  • Patent number: 10054811
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having a touch screen and a test method of a touch panel are provided that can prevent a block dim that may occur in a lighting test. The liquid crystal display device includes common voltage probe pads, which are connected to common voltage output pads and are larger than the common voltage output pads, in a non-display area of the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Hyun Park, Je Hyung Park
  • Patent number: 10046165
    Abstract: An implantable magnetic resonant imaging (MRI) safe stylus for biomedical devices is described. In one example, the stylus includes a set of stylus modules. One or more of the stylus modules includes a core rod formed of silicon carbide (SiC) material, a recording array mounted on the core rod, and a stimulation array mounted at a distal end of the core rod. The stylus also includes a hemispherical cap formed of SiC material. In part due to the construction and choice of materials used in the stylus, it does not substantially couple with electromagnetic fields during an MRI, for example. Therefore, the stylus does not produce excessive additional heat. The designs described herein also rely on the high thermal transport but low heat capacity of SiC to provide a thermal pathway which will conduct induced heat throughout the stylus, to dissipate heat more evenly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
    Inventors: Christopher Leroy Frewin, Joseph Jonathan Register, Stephen E. Saddow, Meralys Reyes-Natal, Joseph J. Pancrazio
  • Patent number: 10037732
    Abstract: The present invention provides an AMOLED pixel driving circuit and a pixel driving method. The AMOLED pixel driving circuit utilizes a 5T1C structure driving circuit, comprising a first thin film transistor (T1), a second thin film transistor (T2), a third thin film transistor (T3), a fourth thin film transistor (T4), a fifth thin film transistor (T5), a capacitor (C1) and an organic light emitting diode (D1), and the nth scan signal (Scan(n)), the n-1th scan signal (Scan(n-1)) and the light emitting control signal (Em(n)) are combined with one another, and correspond to an OLED activation voltage extracting stage, a program stage and a light emitting stage one after another. Ultimately, the current IOLED flowing through the organic light emitting diode (D1) satisfies: IOLED ?(VData?Vref+VSS+VOLED?VDD?Vth1)2. The IOLED which increases along with the VOLED can qualitatively compensate the brightness decay of the organic light emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Baixiang Han
  • Patent number: 10032838
    Abstract: The present invention provides an AMOLED pixel driving circuit and a pixel driving method. By utilizing the dual gate thin film transistor to be the drive thin film transistor, in the pre-charge stage, the preset voltage (Vpre) is written to the bottom gate (BG) of the first thin film transistor (T1), and the power source voltage (VDD) is written to the top gate; in the threshold voltage programming stage, the voltage of the top gate (TG) of the first thin film transistor (T1) drops, and the threshold voltage is raised until the threshold voltage is lifted up to Vth=Vpre?VOLED; in the drive stage, the voltage of the top gate (TG) is kept unchanged to keep the threshold voltage remaining to be Vth=Vpre?VOLED, and the data signal Data drives the first thin film transistor (T1) to be activated to make the organic light emitting diode (D1) emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chenglei Nie
  • Patent number: 10019088
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including an active area, in which pixels for displaying an input image and touch sensors for sensing a touch input are located, and a bezel area outside the active area and a power integrated circuit (IC) configured to produce DC (direct current) power and AC (alternating current) power and supply the DC power and the AC power to power lines disposed in the bezel area. The power lines include a first power line, to which the DC power is supplied, and a second power line, to which the AC power is supplied. The bezel area includes a first bezel area, in which the first power line is located, and a second bezel area, in which the second power line is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hui Kim, Kiltae Kim, Sunyeop Kim, Hyunsuk Cho
  • Patent number: 10013130
    Abstract: A readout device for a capacitive sense matrix includes a computer readable storage medium configured to store capacitance data. The capacitance data represents capacitance values of the capacitive sense matrix. The readout device also includes a readout circuit configured to receive a signal from the capacitive sense matrix, the readout circuit being configured based upon the capacitance data. Also described are a readout method and a method of compensating for variations in capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Yannick Guedon, Sze-Kwang Tan, Dianbo Guo
  • Patent number: 10013120
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to achieve a manufacturing method that, in a capacitive touch panel, prevents the occurrence of residue in an electrode film caused by an etching defect for a touch panel in which electrode patterns are difficult to recognize. The manufacturing method for the touch panel includes: an electrode formation step for forming, upon an insulating substrate (10), first electrodes (11) and second electrodes (12) that extend in mutually intersecting directions; an insulating film formation step for forming insulating films (16) which cover portions of the insulating substrate (10), the first electrodes (11), and the second electrodes (12); and a bridge formation step for forming bridges (17) that connect neighboring second electrodes (12) together over the insulating films (16). In addition, before the bridge formation step, a surface treatment step for etching the surface of the first electrodes (11) and the second electrodes (12) is performed one or more times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsunori Misaki
  • Patent number: 10008172
    Abstract: Devices and methods for reducing or eliminating image artifacts are provided. By way of example, a display panel includes a pixels including pixel electrodes configured to receive an image data signal, and common electrodes (VCOMs) configured to receive a common voltage signal. The display panel includes a source driver, which includes a first digital to analog converter (DAC) configured to generate a gamma voltage signal to provide a first adjustment to the image data signal, and a second DAC configured to generate an error correction voltage signal to provide a second adjustment to the image data signal. The second adjustment is configured to adjust the image data signal to compensate for an operational characteristic difference between row pixels and column pixels of the display panel. The source driver includes an output buffer to supply the image data signal to the pixel electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yingxuan Li, Weijun Yao, Wei H. Yao, Kingsuk Brahma, Hyunwoo Nho
  • Patent number: 10001668
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal panel, a display apparatus and a display method, which relate to the display field, and may reduce the number of polarizers, increase transmissivity of the display device and enhance the optical efficiency of the display device. The liquid crystal panel includes: an upper substrate; a lower substrate; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the upper substrate and the lower substrate; a polarizer arranged on a side of the lower substrate facing away from the liquid crystal layer; a common electrode arranged on the upper substrate; and a plurality of pixel electrodes which are arranged on the lower substrate in a region corresponding to each of the sub-pixels and are configured to be driven independently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Gao, Xue Dong, Xiaochuan Chen, Qian Wang, Wenqing Zhao, Haisheng Wang, Pengcheng Lu, Ming Yang, Xiaochen Niu, Lei Wang, Rui Xu
  • Patent number: 10001848
    Abstract: The invention relates to an oven, especially to a domestic oven, which has a control panel comprising a user interface (1) for inputting data (D) into the control panel, wherein the user interface (1) comprises: at least one display element (2) for displaying data, wherein data (D) can be displayed on the display element (2) at a location (Z) on the display element (2) at a predetermined first axial position (x) and a predetermined second axial position (y), wherein the direction of the first (x) and of the second (y) axial positions are perpendicular to another, selecting means (3, 4) for selecting the location (Z) on the display element (2) by selecting or pretending a definite first (x) and second (y) position for a cursor (5), wherein at least one of the selecting means (3, 4) are established as a slider element extending in a longitudinal direction (L) and having a surface (6) sensitive for touching with a finger (7) of the user, wherein a control unit is arranged to position the cursor (5) in a position
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.
    Inventors: Jerome Brasseur, Arnd Hofmann, Petter Karlsson, Martin Knausenberger, Stefan Lehmann
  • Patent number: 9990003
    Abstract: A movement compensation system is described herein that compensates a user interface and received touch input based on detected external motion affecting a mobile computing device. The system uses the integration of accelerometer data to either offset screen rendering or adjust screen size to improve readability. The system may also improve touch target selection by offsetting received touch coordinates to compensate for device shifting. Offsets can be applied to either the screen rendering offset or can be applied to the touch coordinate input. The system may increase font size or the size of other user interface elements in response to detecting external motion. The system may also receive tuning parameters to account for device mass, dampening filters on accelerometer integrations, latency effects, and user responsiveness to motion effects. Thus, the system allows users to continue to use devices under high motion environmental conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Richard St. Clair Bailey
  • Patent number: 9984654
    Abstract: A semiconductor chip is described. The semiconductor chip includes a display controller having a driver. The display controller is configurable to select a first, a second, a third and a fourth different display interface. The driver is designed to drive respective signals for each of the first, second, third and fourth interfaces through a single output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aruna Kumar, Prakash K. Radhakrishnan, Pravas Pradhan, Sunil Kumar C R, Vikas J
  • Patent number: 9977241
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes an image display section capable of displaying an image in a display region, a visual-line-direction specifying section configured to specify a visual line direction of a user, and an image changing section configured to change, according to the specified visual line direction, a display image displayed in the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenro Yajima, Yuichi Mori
  • Patent number: 9977503
    Abstract: An apparatus, a method, and a computer program product are provided. The apparatus generates at least one signal in response to a contactless gesture performed proximate to an infrared proximity sensor situated on the optical device, the contactless gesture corresponding to a command, identifies the command using the at least one signal, and executes the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ning Cai, Jangwon Lee, An M. Chen
  • Patent number: 9971433
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a touch panel member that is excellent in terms of suppression of visibility of a transparent electrode and has low total reflection for visible light, and a touch panel and a touch panel display device having the touch panel member. The touch panel member of the present invention comprises, in order, at least a transparent substrate, a transparent electrode, and a protective layer provided so as to cover the transparent electrode, the protective layer comprising three or more layers having different refractive indices, all of the different refractive index layers of the protective layer satisfying a specific expression, and the protective layer satisfying another specific expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Ando, Hideyuki Nakamura, Shigekazu Suzuki, Satoru Yamada, Kentarou Toyooka
  • Patent number: 9966012
    Abstract: An image display apparatus according to the present invention, includes a light emitter, a first panel configured to transmit light emitted from the light emitter, a second panel configured to transmit light transmitted through the first panel, and a controller configured to control emission brightness of the light emitter and at least one of transmittance of the first panel and transmittance of the second panel, based on input image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hironobu Hoshino
  • Patent number: 9958935
    Abstract: An exemplary method includes a remote control management system detecting that a user wearing a wearable computer system that includes an optical head-mounted display is looking through the optical head-mounted display at a display screen associated with a media content processing device, determining, in response to the detecting, that the media content processing device is executing an application that is controllable by the wearable computer system, determining that the user is authorized to interact with the application being executed by the media content processing device, and establishing, in response to the determining that the media content processing device is executing the application and the determining that the user is authorized to interact with the application, a remote control session between the wearable computer system and the application. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Fred C. Scheer
  • Patent number: 9959831
    Abstract: The present invention provides a drive method of a liquid crystal display panel and a drive system, in which a sequence controller (3) comprises a counter (31), a TFT activation voltage calculation module (32) and an I2C instruction module (33), and the counter (31) adds 1 as outputting the display data of each row, and as adding to i×M/N, the TFT activation voltage calculation module (32) operates to obtain the target TFT activation voltage of the i+1th gate drive IC (GD(i+1)) and transmits the same to the I2C instruction module (33), and the I2C instruction module (33) controls the PWM IC (2) correspondingly output the corresponding target TFT activation voltage to the i+1th gate drive IC (GD(i+1)), which can adjust the TFT activation voltage in real time so that the TFT activation voltages, which the respective gate drive ICs actually receive are consistent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yinhung Chen, Yu Wu, Anle Hu
  • Patent number: 9939101
    Abstract: A flexible apparatus is provided. The flexible apparatus includes a sensor configured to detect bending of the flexible apparatus, a bending holder configured to maintain a bending state of the flexible apparatus, and, a controller configured to control operations of the flexible apparatus, wherein when a predetermined input is received while the flexible apparatus is manipulated, the controller controls the bending holder to maintain the bending state of the flexible apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Il-kook Yun, Geun-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 9935279
    Abstract: A plurality of panels include: a display panel; and a protective panel that is disposed outside the display panel, and includes a transparent substrate and an outer hard coating layer and an inner hard coating layer that are respectively formed on an outer surface and an inner surface of the transparent substrate, and each have a hardness greater than a hardness of the transparent substrate. A thickness of the outer hard coating layer is greater than a thickness of the inner hard coating layer, and a stress neutral surface of the flexible display device is configured so that a compressive stress is applied to the inner hard coating layer when the flexible display device is bent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-hwa Lee, Kyung-wan Park, Yu-su Kim, Jin-hyoung Park, Ho-seong Seo, Ga-eun Lee, Shi-yun Cho