Patents Examined by Saifeldin Elnafia
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Patent number: 10140945Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods that reduce power consumption for an electronics device including a display. The systems and methods alter video information in a display area and reduce power for a display device when a graphics item is enlarged and the enlargement threatens to increase perceived luminance for the graphics item or increase aggregate luminance for the display area. Altering the video information reduces the luminance of video information in at least the graphics item when enlarged. This may offset perceived luminance gained by human visual processing when an item increases in size. If the graphics item is smaller than the display area after enlargement, then other video information in the display area may also be altered to conserve power.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: William J. Plut
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Patent number: 10096280Abstract: A display driving method, a display driving device and a display device are provided. The display driving method includes: detecting corresponding voltage change degrees of a display panel when the display panel adopts different wiring approaches to display an image to be displayed; comparing the detected voltage change degrees to obtain a minimum voltage change degree; and controlling the display panel to adopt a wiring approach corresponding to the obtained minimum voltage change degree, and displaying the image to be displayed using source voltages corresponding to the wiring approach. A display panel in the disclosure can display images of different types with low power consumption, and hence the power consumption of the display panel can be greatly reduced.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Di Wang, Hao Zhang, Lingyun Shi, Xue Dong, Quanhua He
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Patent number: 10082911Abstract: An input device may include an image sensor having an imaging surface comprising that includes an array of pixels, and an optical waveguide layer carried by the imaging surface and having an exposed user surface and a first refractive index associated therewith. The input device may also include a substrate between the optical waveguide layer and the image sensor and having a second refractive index associated therewith that is lower than first refractive index. A collimation layer may be between the image sensor and the substrate. A light source may be configured to transmit light into the optical waveguide so that the light therein undergoes a total internal reflection. The optical waveguide may be being adjacent the imaging surface so that an object brought into contact with the exposed user surface disturbs the total internal reflection results resulting in an image pattern on the imaging surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) LIMITEDInventor: Mathieu Reigneau
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Patent number: 10048810Abstract: A system detecting actuation of a pre-determined function, the actuation executed by touch contact with a pre-determined path associated with the function on a touch-sensitive surface of an object, including: at least two separate sources for transmitting bulk acoustic waves in the touch-sensitive surface, configured to generate acoustic interference between the transmitted waves; at least one bulk acoustic wave receiver after propagation and interference thereof in the touch-sensitive surface, configured to supply a reception signal based on the acoustic waves received; a mechanism storing plural reference spectral signatures associated with the pre-determined path, each of the spectral signatures associated with a localization of a touch on the pre-determined path; and a mechanism detecting actuation of the pre-determined function by comparing at least one spectral signature of the reception signal to a spectral envelope, or reference spectral envelope, of the plural reference spectral signatures associatedType: GrantFiled: September 12, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignees: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, RENAULT s.a.s.Inventors: Gerard Chalubert, Jean-Pierre Nikolovski, Nicolas Guenard, Olivier Brelaud, Jean-Philippe Alexander
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Patent number: 10048725Abstract: An electronic device is provided having a video out mode for providing output to an external display coupled to the electronic device. The electronic device may automatically detect connection of the external display and select a display mode from a list of display modes based on selection criteria. The video out mode may include a user interface for controlling a presentation displayed on the external display. The user interface may include controls, including touch-sensitive controls, for advancing the presentation, moving back in the presentation, navigating the presentation, exiting the video out mode, and displaying of a pointer on the external display.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2010Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Ted Stephen Boda, Benjamin Stiglitz, Haroon Saleem Sheikh
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Patent number: 9953567Abstract: Provided is an organic light-emitting display device including: a first pixel; a second pixel; and a common capacitor connected to the first and second pixels, wherein the first pixel comprises: a first switching transistor transmitting a first data signal in response to a first scan signal; a second switching transistor transmitting the first data signal to the common capacitor; a first storage capacitor storing a charge corresponding to the first data signal; a first driving transistor generating a driving current corresponding to the charge stored in the first storage capacitor; and a first organic light-emitting diode (OLED) emitting light corresponding to the first driving current, and wherein the second pixel comprises: a third switching transistor transmitting a second data signal in response to a second scan signal; a fourth switching transistor transmitting the second data signal to the common capacitor; a second storage capacitor storing a charge corresponding to the second data signal; a second driType: GrantFiled: May 6, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., LtdInventor: Insoo Wang
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Patent number: 9955426Abstract: Apparatuses and methods to operate a display device of an electronic device. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a user setting of a display control parameter, and altering, based on the user setting, an effect of an ambient light sensor value (ALS) on control of the display control parameter. Also, according to embodiments of the inventions, a method of operating a display of an electronic device includes receiving a change to one of a display brightness output level and an ambient light sensor output level, and altering, according to the change, a display contrast output level. In some embodiments, a method of operating a proximity sensor of an electronic device includes receiving a light sensor output, and altering, according to the output, an on/off setting of a proximity sensor. Other apparatuses and methods and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2011Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Scott M. Herz, Roberto G. Yepez, Michael F. Culbert, Scott Forstall
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Patent number: 9898240Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods relating to an electronic display are disclosed. A method of operating a display system may include conveying visual content representing a contiguous image to a display system including a plurality of display panels, wherein each display panel is adjacent at least one mounting member. The method may further include selectively retrieving with each display panel of the plurality an associated subset of the visual content belonging thereto. In addition, the method may include displaying on a display device of each display panel the associated subset of the visual content.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2010Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: PRISMVIEW, LLCInventors: John S. Williams, Clifford Brent Brown
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Patent number: 9875682Abstract: The present invention provides a display method and a display panel. The display panel comprises a plurality of rows of sub-pixels, the adjacent sub-pixels in the column direction having different colors and being staggered from each other by a half of a sub-pixel.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Lingyun Shi, Rui Liu, Xiaobo Xie, Quanhua He, Kai Yang
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Patent number: 9857882Abstract: This invention relates to a pointing display device comprising a UV reaction material layer comprising UV reaction material which generates change of color by UV, UV reaction part comprising a substrate part for which a coating layer is the UV reaction material layer, and UV light source which may emit UV laser.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2013Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung-Ho Baek, Ji-Yeon Won
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Patent number: 9841842Abstract: An input device may include an image sensor having an imaging surface that includes an array of pixels, and an optical waveguide layer carried by the imaging surface and having an exposed user surface and a first refractive index associated therewith. The input device may also include a substrate between the optical waveguide layer and the image sensor and having a second refractive index associated therewith that is lower than first refractive index. A collimation layer may be between the image sensor and the substrate. A light source may be configured to transmit light into the optical waveguide so that the light therein undergoes a total internal reflection. The optical waveguide may be adjacent the imaging surface so that an object brought into contact with the exposed user surface disturbs the total internal reflection resulting in an image pattern on the imaging surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) LIMITEDInventor: Mathieu Reigneau
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Patent number: 9837024Abstract: A scan driving circuit and a driving method thereof, an array substrate, and a display apparatus are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Lirong Wang, Liye Duan
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Patent number: 9823777Abstract: A touch panel driving device includes: a noise detection section (43) that detects the presence or absence of at least external noise of an input operation performed on a touch panel (30); and a liquid crystal drive parameter setting section (51) that, in a case where the presence of external noise has been detected by the noise detection section (43), executes a process for reducing the external noise by adjusting a cycle or duration of a 1H period.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuya Takayama, Kenji Maeda, Masayuki Natsumi, Tatsuo Watanabe, Yuichi Sato, Tetsuya Umekida
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Patent number: 9753558Abstract: A pointing device, display system, and method of operation to allow the detection of a point on an image plane at which the pointing device is pointing.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2010Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventor: Marshall Charles Capps
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Patent number: 9733716Abstract: An electronic device displays one or more views. A first view includes a plurality of gesture recognizers. The plurality of gesture recognizers in the first view includes one or more proxy gesture recognizers and one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers. Each gesture recognizer indicates one of a plurality of predefined states. A first proxy gesture recognizer in the first view indicates a state that corresponds to a state of a respective non-proxy gesture recognizer that is not in the first view. The device delivers a respective sub-event to the respective non-proxy gesture recognizer that is not in the first view and at least a subset of the one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers in the first view. The device processes the respective sub-event in accordance with states of the first proxy gesture recognizer and at least the subset of the one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers in the first view.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Joshua H. Shaffer
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Patent number: 9703427Abstract: A capacitive touch display panel comprises an array substrate, a color filter substrate and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the array substrate and the color filter substrate; the array substrate includes a base substrate, a polarizer sheet, black matrixes (BMs) and a thin-film transistor (TFT) functional unit and is disposed on a light emitting side of the display panel; the color filter substrate is disposed on a light incident side of the display panel; the TFT functional unit includes gate lines, data lines, and TFTs; the BMs correspond to the TFTs; and projections of gate electrodes, source electrodes and drain electrodes of the TFTs all fall into the BMs in a direction vertical to the base substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Weijie Zhao, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Shengji Yang, Yingming Liu, Xiaoliang Ding, Hongjuan Liu, Tao Ren
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Patent number: 9684381Abstract: Touch sensor methods, devices and systems are disclosed. One embodiment of the present invention pertains to a method comprising monitoring a finger movement along a touch sensing surface based on position data of a finger touching the touch sensing surface, where the position data is obtained by locating a position of a force applied by the finger in a coordinate of the touch sensing surface. In addition, the method comprises generating direction data associated with the finger movement if the finger movement travels for more than a threshold distance. Furthermore, the method comprises determining a finger gesture which corresponds to the finger movement using a lookup table having multiple preconfigured finger gestures based on the direction data.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Tony Park, Luther Lu, Nelson Chow
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Patent number: 9684411Abstract: A method and apparatus of detecting user initiated movement by an input element handled by a user is disclosed. The method may include performing a calibration procedure that is initiated by the user via a physical movement performed by the user. The method may also include positioning at least one sensor to dynamically adjust a size of an effective workspace range capable of detecting the user's movement of the input element.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2016Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Open Invention Network LLCInventor: Matthew Kevin Usey
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Patent number: 9638591Abstract: An electronic device includes an input surface area for receiving a force applied by a user and one or more optical waveguides that include Bragg gratings. The optical waveguide or waveguides is operatively affixed to the input surface area. At least one light source is optically coupled to the optical waveguide or waveguides. At least one wavelength interrogator is coupled to the optical waveguide or waveguides.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Sam R. Sarcia
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Patent number: 9575590Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an input method and an input apparatus. The input apparatus is able to communicate with an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a touch control display unit. The method includes a recognizing device in the input apparatus recognizing to obtain a first shape under press of a contact pressure of the input end based on a light-reflective encode coating when the deformable input end of the input apparatus contacts with the touch control display unit; the recognizing device obtaining a deformation parameter of the input end based on the first shape; and a transmitting device in the input apparatus transmitting the deformation parameter to the electronic apparatus to be processed by the electronic apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD, LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTDInventor: Guang Yang