Patents Examined by Shawna T Stepp Jones
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Patent number: 10999867Abstract: [Object] To enable the communication device that has received a response frame to determine whether or not the response frame is a signal of the own BSS, while ensuring downward compatibility. [Solution] Provided is a communication device including: a generation unit configured to generate a response frame prescribed in IEEE802.11 by setting a value corresponding to a BSS to which the own device belongs in a receiving station address field of the response frame; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the response frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2017Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yuichi Morioka
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Patent number: 10911205Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a method and device for feeding back downlink data. When a processing duration of an UE is shortened, feedback timing information for feeding back downlink data may be adaptively changed. The method comprises: determining a processing capability of an UE, the processing capability referring to a processing duration that the UE takes to process the received downlink data to determine whether said downlink data needs to be retransmitted; according to the determined processing capability, determining the feedback timing information of the UE feeding back the downlink data.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Qianqian Si, Xueming Pan
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Patent number: 10685612Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes pixel electrodes including unit pixel electrodes, pixel circuits which apply a white-display voltage or a black-display voltage to the unit pixel electrodes, first and second polarity voltage lines being used in applying the white-display voltage and the black-display voltage to the pixel circuits, and a control unit which divides at least polarity voltage lines into a plurality of blocks, and supplies a polarity inversion signal to the polarity voltage lines to be subjected to polarity inversion driving, in units of one block, wherein the pixel circuits each include a pixel switch, a memory, and a polarity select unit which selects a voltage signal on one of the first and second polarity voltage lines in response to a binary image signal held by the memory.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2016Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Hirotaka Hayashi
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Patent number: 10664016Abstract: An apparatus for the electronic display of information, where the apparatus is a substrate incorporating a digital recording medium attached to or embedded within the substrate. The substrate further includes a flexible-substrate display located on an exposed surface of the substrate, where the display is a medium capable of selectively displaying one of at least two possible colors at each pixel location thereon in order to produce a substrate medium that may be modified in accordance with a user's selection.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Edged Display Management LLCInventor: Michael L. Weiner
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Patent number: 10664699Abstract: A calibration method for an eye tracker provides for the defining of at least one first region of attraction of a first image to be displayed to a user; acquiring a first sequence of data relative to the eye movement of a user who is looking at the first image by means of an eye tracker; calculating at least a plurality of first calibration positions by means of respective calibration functions on the basis of a first gaze determined from the first sequence of data relative to eye movement; assigning a first score to each calibration function on the basis of the respective first calibration position and the first region of attraction; and selecting one of the calibration functions on the basis of the score.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2015Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: SR LABS S.R.L.Inventor: Paolo Invernizzi
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Patent number: 10647895Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an interlayer filling material for a touch panel which is used for filling an interlayer space between a touch panel and another component or an interlayer space between transparent conductive films included in the touch panel in production of a personal digital assistant, is less likely to cause cracks or breakage in a surface protection panel or a glass substrate, and enables production of a touch panel laminate that is not likely to display images with color irregularity. The present invention also aims to provide a touch panel laminate produced using the interlayer filling material for a touch panel.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Juichi Fukatani, Kiyomi Uenomachi, Takazumi Okabayashi, Ryousuke Ebina, Atsushi Wada
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Patent number: 10627917Abstract: An object-sensing apparatus and an object-sensing method are provided. The object-sensing apparatus includes a processing unit, a first body having a first depth recognition module and a second body having a second depth recognition module. A sensing range of the first depth recognition module covers at least a part of the second body. A sensing range of the second depth recognition module covers at least a part of the first body. The sensing ranges of the first and the second depth recognition modules form a virtual sensing space, and the first and the second depth recognition modules generate a plurality of pieces of location information by sensing an object in the virtual sensing space. The processing unit generates spatial location information of the object in the virtual sensing space according to the plurality of pieces of location information.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Wistron CorporationInventors: Chia-Chang Hou, Yu-Yen Chen, Po-Liang Huang
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Patent number: 10606420Abstract: A touch display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of touch sensing lines, and a plurality of gate lines. The data lines are disposed above the substrate, and extend along a first direction. The touch sensing lines are disposed above the substrate, extend along a second direction different from the first direction, and intersect with the data lines. The gate lines are disposed above the substrate, extend along the second direction, and intersect with the data lines. The touch sensing lines or the gate lines and the data lines form touch sensing elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: ILI TECHNOLOGY CORP.Inventors: Chi Kang Liu, Guo-Kiang Hung
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Patent number: 10275096Abstract: 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: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: ASUKANET COMPAN, LTD.Inventor: Makoto Otsubo
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Patent number: 10254875Abstract: A display device includes a flexible display panel, a sensing scan driver, and a sensing signal processor. The display panel includes a plurality of flexible touch input electrodes arranged in a first direction and a plurality of flexible touch output electrodes arranged in a second direction. The sensing scan driver supplies sensing input signals to the flexible touch input electrodes. The sensing signal processor receives sensing output signals through the flexible touch output electrodes. The display panel includes a plurality of touch sensing areas. One of the touch input electrodes and a pair of the touch output electrodes correspond to one of the touch sensing areas when the display panel stretches in the first direction by a predetermined first threshold value or more.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Won-Ki Hong, Jong Seo Lee
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Patent number: 10241629Abstract: It is provided a filtering circuit and a touch display device. The touch display device includes: a substrate; a common electrode arranged on the substrate; a signal source configured to provide a display signal or a touch signal; a filter capacitor including a first terminal and a second terminal, where a fixed electric potential is applied to the second terminal of the filter capacitor; and a control switch arranged between a common electrode lead and the first terminal of the filter capacitor to electrically connect/disconnect the filter capacitor with/from the common electrode lead. In a case that the signal source provides a display signal, the control switch is switched on to electrically connect the filter capacitor with the first node. In a case that the signal source provides a touch signal, the control switch is switched off to electrically disconnect the filter capacitor from the first node.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hong Li, Cheng Cheng
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Patent number: 10222882Abstract: According to an aspect, an electronic device includes an informing unit, an operating unit, and a control unit. The informing unit performs informing of first information and informing of second information to be informed after the first information. The operating unit accepts an operation. The control unit causes the informing unit to suppress the informing of the second information when the operation is performed for the operating unit during a period of time from when the informing of the first information is performed until the second information is informed, or during the informing of the second information.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohiro Sudou
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Patent number: 10198089Abstract: An electrode for an input device can be designed to reduce wobble over a range of input device orientations. The electrode can include a spherical portion and a tapered portion. In some examples, the electrode can linearly taper away from the spherical portion. In other examples, the electrode can non-linearly taper away forming an elliptical flare. Additionally or alternatively, the electrode can include a spring-loaded member that can couple the electrode to other circuitry of the input device. Additionally or alternatively, the electrode can include a neck portion coupled to the tapered portion, and part of the neck portion can be shielded. The input device can include a first non-conductive material disposed on part of the spherical portion of the electrode and a second non-conductive material disposed between part of the electrode and the first non-conductive material.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Priyanka Bhandari, Blake R. Marshall, Li-Quan Tan, Reza Nasiri Mahalati, Aidan N. Zimmerman, Ryan P. Brooks, Kevin C. Armendariz