Patents Examined by Shawna Stepp Jones
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Patent number: 10331257Abstract: A touch panel and a method for arranging electrodes of the touch panel are provided. The touch panel includes a plurality of touch sections. Each of the touch sections includes a first transmitter electrode, a first receiver electrode, a second transmitter electrode, a second receiver electrode, and a third receiver electrode. The first transmitter electrode has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. The first receiver electrode adjoins the first side. The second transmitter electrode has a third side and a fourth side opposite to the third side. The second receiver electrode adjoins the second side and the third side. The third receiver electrode adjoins the fourth side.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Chih-Chang Lai, Ching-Yang Pai
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Patent number: 10209788Abstract: A touch processor is provided by the present application. The touch processor detects the intensity of a third electrical signal, wherein a touch device induces a second electrical signal due to a first electrical signal, and the third electrical signal of the second electrical signal is transmitted from the touch device to an approached or touched object. Then, according to the intensity of the second electrical signal and the third electrical signal, the touch processor determines if there is a transmitter hovering on the touch device or not.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventor: Shang-Tai Yeh
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Patent number: 10203723Abstract: A headset with an integrated computing system is an all in one device that includes an adjustable support band, a first and second ear cover, a computer system, a communications system, and a power source. The adjustable support band connects to each ear cover, with the ear covers being adjacent to a user's ears. The computer system is capable of storing and running software programs and interfacing with connected devices by means of a set of connection ports or the communications system. Any plethora of auxiliary devices can be attached to the headset be fully functional due to the many connection ports.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Inventor: Lee Serota
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Patent number: 10198131Abstract: A touch control device includes a cover lens, a groove, a fingerprint, and a touch sensing structure. The cover lens has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, in which the first surface is a touch surface. The groove is disposed on the second surface and has a top surface and a side surface adjacent to the top surface, in which an angle between the top surface and the side surface is greater than 90°. The fingerprint recognition structure is at least partially disposed on the top surface of the groove. The touch sensing structure is disposed on the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc.Inventors: Hebo Yang, Yuh-Wen Lee, Yu Zhang, Fu-Yu Su, Liangzhen Xu
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Patent number: 10186183Abstract: A display device, including a flexible display panel; and a first detector detecting deformation of the display panel, the display panel including a pixel portion including a plurality of pixels; and a driver including a circuit for writing data to the plurality of pixels, and the first detector being integrated into the driver.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Sang Wol Lee
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Patent number: 10181481Abstract: A display device includes a driver circuit including a logic circuit including a first transistor which is a depletion type transistor and a second transistor which is an enhancement type transistor; a signal line which is electrically connected to the driver circuit; a pixel portion including a pixel whose display state is controlled by input of a signal including image data from the driver circuit through the signal line; a reference voltage line to which reference voltage is applied; and a third transistor which is a depletion type transistor and controls electrical connection between the signal line and the reference voltage line. The first to the third transistors each include an oxide semiconductor layer including a channel formation region.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Koyama, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Patent number: 10147381Abstract: A display driving circuit includes a first bias circuit, a second bias circuit, a selector, and an output buffer. The first bias circuit generates a first bias voltage set. The second bias circuit generates a second bias voltage set. The selector selects one of the first and second bias voltage sets based on a bias selection signal. The output buffer buffers a grayscale voltage corresponding to display data and outputs the buffered grayscale voltage The output buffer is biased based on the first or second bias voltage set selected by the selector.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin-woo Lee, Hyun-sang Park, Hye-Jin Jung, Kyung-chun Kim
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Patent number: 10137781Abstract: An input device includes: an operation surface, on which an operation body performs an input; a distance acquisition unit acquiring a distance between the operation surface and the operation body; an operation region setting unit setting a first operation region, in which the distance is less than a threshold value, and a second operation region, in which the distance is equal to or greater than the threshold value; a display screen switching unit detecting a moving operation of the operation body, and switching the display screen; a prohibition state setting unit setting a prohibition state that the display screen is not switched by the moving operation in the second operation region; a signal determination unit determining whether a signal from a switching operation unit is a prohibition state cancellation signal; and a prohibition state cancellation unit cancelling the prohibition state in case of the prohibition state cancellation signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeaki Nishihashi, Takeyuki Fujimoto
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Patent number: 10139906Abstract: A ring for identify a gesture is provided. A user wears a ring on a first finger, in which the ring has a first contact region facing a second finger adjacent to the first finger, and a second contact region facing a third finger adjacent to the first finger. The first contact region is configured to detect a touch or proximity input from the second finger, and the second contact region is configured to detect a touch or proximity input from the third finger. Each of the first and second contact regions has one or more touch or proximity sensors. The user moves the first, second, and third fingers relative to each other. In response to a first finger and hand gesture, a touch or proximity input is detected at the first contact region but not at the second contact region. In response to a second finger and hand gesture, a touch or proximity input is detected at the second contact region but not at the first contact region.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2014Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Inventor: Guiyu Bai
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Patent number: 10142451Abstract: A control circuit provides a list of contacts on a touch-screen display and then, in response to detecting a touch-based selection of a particular contact, responsively depicts a plurality of contact addresses as correspond to that particular contact. A most frequently utilized contact address is placed at a location on the touch-screen display that corresponds to the touch-based selection of the particular contact. So configured, the user need likely not move their touching finger to locate the desired contact address. The most frequently utilized contact address can comprise a most frequently called telephone number since any new telephone number was last added to the plurality of telephone numbers for this particular contact.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2012Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Donald James Lindsay, Erik Artur Greisson
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Patent number: 10139967Abstract: A touch screen and a display device are provided. The touch screen includes first strip electrodes and second strip electrodes, which are disposed in different layers and intersect with each other. The first strip electrodes disposed in a layer above the second strip electrodes have patterns to prevent Moire fringes caused by interference. In the touch period at least some of the first strip electrodes are configured to load touch scanning signals while the second strip electrodes are configured to couple with the voltage signals of the touch scanning signals and output signals; or in the touch period the second strip electrodes are configured to bad touch scanning signals while at least some of the first strip electrodes are configured to couple with the voltage signals of the touch scanning signals and output signals. The touch screen can reduce Moire fringes at the edges of the first strip electrodes caused by interference of light due to regular patterns.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2015Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Xueguang Hao, Cheng Li, Peimao Li, Jun Fan
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Patent number: 10126904Abstract: Electronic devices, interfaces for electronic devices, and techniques for interacting with such interfaces and electronic devices are described. For instance, this disclosure describes an example electronic device that includes sensors, such as multiple front-facing cameras to detect orientation and/or location of the electronic device relative to an object and one or more inertial sensors. Users of the device may perform gestures on the device by moving the device in-air and/or by moving their head, face, or eyes relative to the device. In response to these gestures, the device may perform operations.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Bryan Todd Agnetta, Brian Peter Kralyevich, Jason Phillip Kriese, Jae Pum Park, Sean Anthony Rooney
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Method of manufacturing electrode substrate, electrode substrate, display apparatus and input device
Patent number: 10126888Abstract: A manufacturing process of an electrode substrate includes a step of forming a protective layer so as to cover a conductor pattern by applying raw material liquid discharged as droplets to an upper surface of a substrate in a first region and a second region of the upper surface of the substrate. At this time, an application amount of the raw material liquid per unit area in the second region is made smaller than an application amount of the raw material liquid per unit area in the first region, so that an average film thickness of the protective layer of a portion formed in the second region is made smaller than an average film thickness of the protective layer of a portion formed in the first region.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa, Masanobu Ikeda, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Toshimasa Ishigaki, Daisuke Sonoda, Tatsuya Ide -
Patent number: 10101698Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a touch panel capable of detecting multi-touch operations detects a touch event based on an operation by a user on the touch panel, and generates a single touch event based on a detected multi-touch event. Then, the information processing apparatus transmits the generated single touch event to an application not supporting multi-touch events. Thus, conventional operabilities can be maintained even in a case where an application not supporting multi-touch events is operated.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shiro Kunori
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Patent number: 10083647Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel comprising a data line, a gate line crossing the data line and a sub pixel connected to the data line and the gate line, a moving vector extractor configured to extract a moving vector of an input image using input data, a data generator configured to generate data of a high gamma curve called “high data” and data of a low gamma curve called “low data” corresponding to the input data using a spatiotemporal sequential pattern based on moving direction and moving speed of the moving vector, and a data driver circuit configured to covert the high data and the low data of the input data into a data voltage and provide the data line with the data voltage.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong-Gyu Lee, Joon-Chul Goh, Sang-Ik Lee
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Patent number: 10043427Abstract: To provide a measurement method of characteristics of an electrical element which causes variation in the luminance of pixels. In a device which includes components (pixels) arranged in a matrix and a wiring and where each component is can supply current to the wiring through an electrical element included in each component, the directions of current in N components capable of supplying current to the wiring are individually set and the current flowing through the wiring is measured N times. Here, the directions of the current flowing through the electrical elements can be changed. In the respective N measurements, combinations of the directions of current in the N components differ from one another. The amount of current flowing through each electrical element is calculated based on current obtained by the N measurements and the combinations of the directions of the current in the N measurements.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroyuki Miyake
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Patent number: 10025401Abstract: A ring electrode to determine the orientation of the stylus relative to the surface. The stylus can include a ring electrode configuration which can improve capacitive coupling between the ring electrode and the touch panel. The ring electrode configuration can include a ring electrode and ground ring, and ground plate. By varying the lengths of ring electrode, ground ring, ground plate, and the distance between these elements, the electric field emanating from the ring electrode can be tuned to optimize the capacitive coupling between the ring electrode and surface. In some examples, the ring electrode can include multiple sub-rings. In some examples, the ring electrode can comprise a crown shape including projections, each having a width that tapers to a minimum width along the length of the ring electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Priyanka Bhandari, Blake R. Marshall, Li-Quan Tan, Reza Nasiri Mahalati, Aidan N. Zimmerman, Ryan P. Brooks, Kevin C. Armendariz
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Patent number: 10019115Abstract: By forming an infrared light emitting surface 21 on the front side of a display 11, irradiating the infrared light emitting surface 21 with infrared light, forming a reproduced image R2 of the infrared light emitting surface 21 at a position of a reproduced image R1, and photographing, through an infrared camera 26 provided at the back of the reproduced image R1, reflected light from the reproduced image R2 of the infrared light emitting surface 21 in the case where an indicating means such as a finger indicates the reproduced image R1, a position of the indicating means in contact with the reproduced image R1 becomes detected. An extremely hygienic method and apparatus for contactlessly detecting an indicated position on a reproduced image with which an input without touching a display is enabled can thereby be provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: ASUKANET COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Makoto Otsubo
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Patent number: 10007362Abstract: An electronic device and a method of operating an electronic device are provided. The method includes determine a motion of an electronic pen received in a pen storage unit of the electronic device; in response to the motion of the electronic pen, determining information related to the motion of the electronic pen; and executing at least one function corresponding to the information related to the detected motion of the electronic pen.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Dong-Woo Kim, Jeong-Hun Kim
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Patent number: 10009584Abstract: A display device includes a solid-state light source driven by a PWM signal, a light modulation device that modulates light emitted by the solid-state light source in response to an image signal, and a signal output unit that determines a duty ratio and a current value of the PWM signal in response to brightness of an image represented by the image signal. The signal output unit outputs a PWM signal having a predetermined first current value to the solid-state light source if the duty ratio is equal to or more than a predetermined first threshold value and outputs a PWM signal having a current value less than the first current value to the solid-state light source if the duty ratio is less than the first threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi Toyooka