Patents Examined by Robin Mishler
  • Patent number: 9927839
    Abstract: Described herein are apparatuses and mechanisms for providing an extendable screen in a portable communications device. A portable communications device may be provided with a multi-part screen, a portion of which may be extended to provide an expanded viewing display surface or may be retracted to provide a reduced viewing mode and increased portability. In a reduced viewing mode, a graphical display may be provided on a first, visible portion of a multi-part display screen, where one or more other screen portions are retracted and/or obscured from view in order to provide a portable mode for the communications device. In an extended viewing mode, the one or more other screen portions may be extended and/or brought into the same plane as a first portion of the multi-part display in order to provide increased display size and resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: DISH Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventors: David A. Kummer, Danny J. Minnick
  • Patent number: 9921794
    Abstract: A blind display device includes a plurality of curved display panels, a support, and a plurality of rotators. Each of the curved display panels includes a curved display area between a flat display area and a bezel area. The support guides movement of the curved display panels. The rotators couple corresponding ones of the curved display panels to the support and rotate corresponding ones of the curved display panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Chan Lee, So-Young Koo, Myoung-Geun Cha, Yoon-Ho Khang, Myoung-Hwa Kim, Woong-Hee Jeong
  • Patent number: 9909710
    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: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Il-kook Yun, Geun-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 9904314
    Abstract: A device includes a display configured to display an interface, wherein the display includes one or more touch sensors configured to detect a touch operation on an operating surface of the display. The device includes a cover that includes one or more projections arranged on a surface of the cover that opposes the operating surface of the display when the cover is in a closed position. The device includes circuitry configured to determine when the cover is in an open position and the closed position; determine, based on an output generated by the one or more touch sensors, an arrangement position of the one or more projections; and control, when the cover is determined to be in the closed position, the display based on the determined arrangement position of the one or more projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji Tokutake
  • Patent number: 9898106
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a touch pad; a display unit; and a processing unit configured to move a cursor shown on a screen of the display unit, depending on an amount of movement and a movement direction of a contact point of a finger of an operator on the touch pad. The processing unit differentiates an amount of movement of the cursor with respect to the amount of the movement of the contact point, for a case where the number of the contact points on the touch pad is one, and for a case where the number of the contact points on the touch pad is two or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Ogino, Ryota Hamabe
  • Patent number: 9898181
    Abstract: A contact state of a finger with respect to a first displayed object is detected. In response to detecting a double-click operation on the first displayed object at a first position in a depthwise direction, the first object is moved onto a surface of a display screen of a 3-D display and the first object is displayed. In response to detecting that the finger has moved from the contact state to a proximity state with respect to the first displayed object, a display position of the first displayed object is changed to a position at which an object nearest in the depthwise direction among displayed objects is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Uenohara, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9900110
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which various convenience functions can be provided in association with a device contacted with or proximate to a user's body to enable a human body communication. The present disclosure includes a human body communication unit, a touch screen, and a controller, if a 1st touch is inputted to the touchscreen and a 2nd touch is then inputted by maintaining the 1st touch, controlling a device information to be exchanged with a device worn by a user by a human body communication through the human body communication unit to enable the human body communication through a body of the user while at least one of the 1st touch and the 2nd touch is maintained, the controller controlling information of the device work by the user to be displayed on the touchscreen using the exchanged device information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sanghyun Eim, Jonghwan Kim, Jekwang Youn, Jumin Chi
  • Patent number: 9892672
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a transparent display panel having an excellent transparency, light-emitting efficiency, and viewing angle, and a transparent display device including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: BuYeol Lee, EuiTae Kim, Hyoung-Su Kim
  • Patent number: 9880661
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a touch control driving method, a touch control driving apparatus and a touch control display device, capable of reducing power consumption of a touch screen. The method comprises: inputting a touch control driving signal at a first scan frequency for touch control scan; detecting a writing frequency of a Random Access Memory (RAM) and a duration for the writing frequency; and reducing the first scan frequency to a second scan frequency when the writing frequency of the RAM is larger than or equal to a first threshold and the duration for the writing frequency is larger than or equal to a second threshold. The method can be applied in a process of touch control driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiurong Wang, Lingyun Shi, Hao Zhang, Bo Gao, Yafei Li, Peng Han
  • Patent number: 9875011
    Abstract: A contact state of a finger with respect to an object displayed on a first layer is detected. The object is moved onto a second layer and displayed on the second layer in response to detecting that the finger has moved from the contact state to a proximity state with respect to the object and in response to the finger reaching a second layer displayed nearer than the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Uenohara, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9875680
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for generating gray scale adjustment voltages and a panel driver circuit using the same. With the method provided in the invention, said apparatus for generating gray scale adjustment voltages generates a plurality of gray-scale reference voltage groups at a given time interval T0, and provides them for, such as a data driver circuit for adjusting gray scale of pictures by means of the reference gray-scale voltages, wherein values of the gray-scale reference voltages in each gray-scale reference voltage group are different from one another, and the time interval T0 need to be less or equal to a quotient from the displaying time in each frame divided by the product of the number of pixels in the vertical direction of a display screen and the number of gray-scale reference voltage groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoping Tan, Yong Zhang
  • Patent number: 9874986
    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: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Yannick Guedon, Sze-Kwang Tan, Dianbo Guo
  • Patent number: 9836166
    Abstract: An optical touch-sensitive device is able to determine the locations of multiple simultaneous touch events. The optical touch-sensitive device includes multiple emitters and detectors coupled with an optical coupler assembly through a waveguide on the surface on the optical-touch sensitive device. Each emitter produces optical beams which propagate in the waveguide via total internal reflection and are received by the detectors. Touch events disturb the optical beams, and are determined based on the disturbances. The waveguide has at least one dead zone on its surface. The dead zone is formed with a cover layer having a top surface and a bottom surface where the bottom surface of the cover layer is directly coupled to the top surface of the waveguide. The cover layer preserves optical beam propagation in the waveguide and makes the dead zone insensitive to touches on the top surface of the cover layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Rapt IP Limited
    Inventors: Owen Drumm, Julien Piot, Robert Copperwhite
  • Patent number: 9837007
    Abstract: Disclosed is an in-cell touch liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus comprising: an active area in which a plurality of pixels are provided; and a pad area in which an auto probe test pattern is disposed, wherein the auto probe test pattern comprises a common voltage enable signal line; a common voltage switching unit; a data enable signal line through which a data enable signal is applied; and a data switching unit that is coupled to the data enable signal line and configured to be turned on by the data enable signal and output a data voltage. The common voltage enable signal line and the data enable signal line are disposed separately from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: In Kang, TaeKeun Lee
  • Patent number: 9811206
    Abstract: A touch sensing method, a touch display apparatus and a portable electronic device thereof are provided. A system, a driving method and an architecture of a provided touch display panel are used for decreasing a resistance value between the ultrathin touch display panel (for example, a combination of an AMOLED display panel and a touch panel) or decreasing an influence of the resistance value, so as to decrease a chance of induction error of the touch event or induction misjudgement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chien-Ju Lee, Yen-Lin Pan, Yi-Chuan Lu, Heng-Yin Chen
  • Patent number: 9769438
    Abstract: A hybrid projection display system that provides image quality superior to that of a traditional projection display system is provided. The provided hybrid projection display system flexibly supports arbitrary screen sizes and non-planar screen surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Robert E De Mers, L S Lamberth, Jr., Brent D. Larson, Kalluri R. Sarma
  • Patent number: 9740359
    Abstract: Provided is a new capacitive touch detection device, detection method, and touch screen panel for detecting a touch signal by detecting a voltage difference of a sensor pattern from a driving voltage applied by an auxiliary capacitor, and to a display device having a built-in capacitive touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: G2TOUCH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 9733792
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for providing an end user with a digital pen embedded with a spatially-aware miniature projector for use in a design environment. Paper documents are augmented to allow a user to access additional information and computational tools through projected interfaces. Virtual ink may be managed in single and multi-user environments to enhance collaboration and data management. The spatially-aware projector pen provides end-users with dynamic visual feedback and improved interaction capabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Hyunyoung Song, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice, Francois V. Guimbretiere, Azam Khan, Ramtin Attar, Gordon Kurtenbach
  • Patent number: 9733731
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a stylus includes a controller, a delay line, a coefficient line and a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium. The controller is operable to receive a synchronization signal that is transmitted from a computing device and received by the stylus. The delay line is operable to store a first consecutive edges of the synchronization signal. The coefficient line includes a pre-determined coefficient vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Vemund Bakken, Eivind Holsen
  • Patent number: 9720514
    Abstract: An electronic device, system associated therewith, and method of operating an electronic device are disclosed. In one example embodiment, the method includes storing 310 a first base tilt position of the electronic device based upon at least one position signal received by a processing device at least indirectly from a position or movement sensing component. The method additionally includes defining 312 a plurality of tilt zones in relation to the base tilt position, including a base tilt zone containing the base tilt position, determining 324 whether a tilt position of the device has changed to a second tilt zone of the plurality of tilt zones, and causing 328 a display component of the device to perform displaying of information in a scrolling manner determined at least in part based upon the second tilt zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Andrew M. Slonneger, Sajid I. Dalvi