Patents Examined by Srilakshmi K. Kumar
  • Patent number: 10231893
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and in particular, to a smart wearable device. The smart wearable device comprises a glasses body, an auxiliary frame for its user to wear on the head, and a massage apparatus for the user to massage the head; the glasses body comprising a smart display means and glasses legs carrying the smart display means; both ends of the auxiliary frame being connected to the glasses legs, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liping Lei, Jie Lin, Xuewen Lv
  • Patent number: 10228796
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, including: a display unit including a display area, the display area being configured to display an image; and a touchscreen unit including a facing area and an outer area, the facing area facing the display area, the outer area being outside of the facing area. An area of the touchscreen unit is attached to the display unit, the area including the facing area and the outer area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Aoki, Shuichi Tatemori, Nobuyuki Shigeno
  • Patent number: 10228808
    Abstract: A touch sensitive device includes a plurality of sense electrodes arranged in a pattern to receive charge from drive electrodes. The pattern of sense electrodes has extreme portions having worst case charge transfer times, wherein the worst case charge transfer time at multiple extreme portions is substantially equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Inventor: Esat Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 10216285
    Abstract: A backlit device includes an outer layer, an adhesive layer, and a light guide configured to transmit light from a light source. The adhesive layer is positioned between the outer layer and the light guide. The outer layer includes a plurality of outer layer segments and at least one opening positioned between the outer layer segments where light from the light guide can pass through and provide backlighting. The adhesive layer includes a plurality of adhesive material segments. Each adhesive material segment is individually positioned between an outer layer segment and the light guide such that the perimeter of an outer layer segment surrounds the perimeter of the respective adhesive material segment. Through this arrangement, the adhesive material segments do not divert or block light passing through the opening in the outer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tao Liu, John Jacob Nelson, Jingyu Zou
  • Patent number: 10219377
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a first area and a second area that is adjacent to the first area in a first direction, a first printed circuit board including a first body part facing the first area in a second direction that is different from the first direction and a first extension part extending from the first body part, a second printed circuit board including a second body part facing the second area in the second direction and a second extension part extending from the second body part and facing the first extension part in the second direction, and a connecting flexible circuit board having one end connected to the first extension part and the other end connected to the second extension part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyo-chul Lee, Hyunseok Hong
  • Patent number: 10216324
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, the touch drive device includes a plurality of drive electrodes arranged side by side to extend in a single direction, a detection electrode which extends in a direction crossing the direction in which the drive electrodes extend, and generates capacitances at intersections of the detection electrode and the drive electrodes, and a driver (DDI) which groups the drive electrodes into a plurality of drive electrode portions each including at least one drive electrode, and performs a touch scanning drive by supplying a touch drive signal (TSVCOM) having a pulse waveform for detection of a closely situated external object to a target drive electrode portion which is a selected one of the drive electrode portions. The number of the drive electrodes included in each of the drive electrode portions and the target drive electrode portion to which the touch drive signal (TSVCOM) is supplied can be designated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kohei Azumi, Hidetoshi Komatsu, Jin Ota, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Makoto Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10210802
    Abstract: The invention provides a driver circuit for OLED display panel, which comprises: a plurality of control signal output units (10), and a plurality of pixel light-emitting driver units (20) arranged in an array form, the plurality of control signal output units (10) respectively receiving a feedback control signal reflecting the ageing information of the OLED in a different active area of the OLED display panel, and each control signal output unit (10) correspondingly outputting an adjustable light-emitting control signal to at least a pixel light-emitting driver unit (20) according to the received feedback control signal to adjust the light emission time of the corresponding pixel light-emitting driver unit in a frame cycle so as to compensate the reduced luminance caused by aged OLED and improve the uneven luminance problem of OLED display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hao Li
  • Patent number: 10204555
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and driving method thereof, and a display device can achieve a threshold voltage compensation function, which facilitates reducing the pixel size of AMOLED and achieving high PPI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen Tan, Xiaojing Qi
  • Patent number: 10203785
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch display panel and a display device. The touch display panel includes a substrate, which is provided thereon with a common electrode layer, a thin film transistor, and a data line and a pixel electrode connected with the thin film transistor. The common electrode layer includes a touch driving electrode and a common electrode which are insulated and spaced apart from each other. The array substrate further includes a shielding layer, which shields a spacing region between the touch driving electrode and the common electrode corresponding to position of the data line, thereby greatly reducing noise generated when the source and the data line are being charged, and in turn enabling the touch and the display of the touch display panel to be performed simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haisheng Wang, Xue Dong, Hongjuan Liu, Xiaoliang Ding, Shengji Yang, Yingming Liu, Weijie Zhao, Tao Ren
  • Patent number: 10203553
    Abstract: Disclosed is a backlight module which includes a plurality of light-emitting devices arranged in an array of multiple rows and multiple columns. Each row of light-emitting devices include a plurality of first light-emitting devices for emitting red light, a plurality of second light-emitting devices for emitting green light and a plurality of third light-emitting devices for emitting blue light. The first light-emitting device, the second light-emitting devices and the third light-emitting devices in each row of light-emitting devices are driven to sequentially emit light based on respective data signals in a light-emitting phase. Further disclosed are a method of driving the backlight module and a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengji Yang, Xiaochuan Chen, Panhua Wang, Xue Dong, Hailin Xue, Haisheng Wang, Weijie Zhao
  • Patent number: 10198040
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a flexible portion that allows the device to be folded. The device may have a flexible display. The flexible display may have a flexible display layer, a cover layer, a touch sensor interposed between the flexible display layer and the cover layer, a support layer, and a polarizer layer. The polarizer layer may be interposed between the touch sensor and the flexible display or between the touch sensor and the cover layer. The touch sensor may include optically clear adhesive that is flexible and facilitates bending of the display. The optically clear adhesive may include additives such as water vapor penetration reducing additive, anticorrosion additive, ultraviolet-light blocking additive, and index-of-refraction adjustment additive. The support layer may be formed from shape memory alloy or amorphous metal and may have openings to facilitate bending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zhen Zhang, Victor H. Yin, Cyrus Y. Liu, Paul S. Drzaic, Sungwon Bae, Chun-Hao Tung, Kiarash Vakhshouri, Sunggu Kang, John Z. Zhong
  • Patent number: 10186227
    Abstract: A corner cut circuit in a liquid crystal panel driving system, wherein the corner cut circuit includes: a controller to provide a first signal for a signal converter; a signal converter to convert the first signal to a second signal for controlling discharging of a discharge circuit, and to provide the second signal to the discharge circuit; and a discharge circuit to generate a corner cut voltage of the corner cut circuit according to the second signal provided by the signal converter. According to the corner cut circuit, a corner cut voltage can be automatically adjusted, a peripheral circuit is simplified, and the cost is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dan Cao
  • Patent number: 10180762
    Abstract: Provided are a surface protection film which would stably display an image, and would stably attain a mirror state, and which would be stably operated without inhibiting display operability. Disclosed is a surface protection film including a resin film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, in which the relative permittivity of the resin film is of 1.0 to 5.0, the reflectance is set to a value within the range of 20% to 80%, and the transmittance for light is of 20% to 80%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: LINTEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya Todaka, Baku Katagiri, Kenta Tomioka, Tomoo Orui
  • Patent number: 10175725
    Abstract: A flexible display device includes a flexible display panel, a first sensor, a second sensor, and at least one control unit. The flexible display panel is bendable about an axis that divides the flexible display panel into a first portion and a second portion. The first sensor is configured to sense first spatial information of the first portion. The second sensor is configured to sense second spatial information of the second portion. The at least one control unit is configured to: determine bending information of the flexible display unit based on the first spatial information and the second spatial information; select an application according to the bending information; process image information through the application to generate image data; and drive the flexible display panel with the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chansung Jung
  • Patent number: 10176765
    Abstract: The examples relate to various implementations of a software configurable lighting device, having an enhance display device that is able to generate light sufficient to provide general illumination of a space in which the lighting device is installed and provide an image display. The general illumination is provided by additional light sources and/or improved display components of the enhanced display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: Ravi Komanduri, Rashmi Kumar Raj, An Mao, Guan-Bo Lin, Hampton Boone Maher, Jonathan Lloyd Goodman, David P. Ramer
  • Patent number: 10175767
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for providing a user interface. The method includes when an input event occurs, acquiring information on postures or motions of a first device and a second device associated with the input event in a preset time interval including the time of occurrence of the input event, and determining a command to be carried out in response to the input event with reference to a relative relationship between the posture or motion of the first device and that of the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: FUTUREPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Sung Jae Hwang
  • Patent number: 10170030
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device includes a first display which includes one or more first-display pixels that are configured to operate in multiple modes. The multiple modes include a first mode in which the one or more first-display pixels modulate, absorb, or reflect visible light and a second mode in which the one or more first-display pixels are substantially transparent to visible light. The device also includes a second display disposed behind or in front of the first display, the second display configured to emit, modulate, absorb, or reflect visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sergio Perdices-Gonzalez, Sajid Sadi, Pranav Mistry
  • Patent number: 10168830
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a touch screen and a smart terminal. the touch screen comprises m scan blocks, and the scan block comprises a GOA stage transfer circuit, n scan lines and at least one TP scan module, and the GOA stage transfer circuit is employed for inputting a STV signal and a CK signal, and the GOA stage transfer circuit comprises n GOA units which are cascade connected, and an ith GOA unit in the GOA stage transfer circuit is employed to charge an ith scan line, and an nth scan line is coupled to the at least one TP scan module; as scanning, the GOA stage transfer circuit in a jth scan block starts scanning under function of a jth STV signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd, Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jianxing Xie, Yucheng Tsai
  • Patent number: 10170066
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a driving method and a driving system for gate scanning line and a TFT-LCD display panel, the method includes: driving the gate scanning lines line by line through the CKV waveform of variable frequency of gate driver; from the first gate scanning line to the middle line of the gate scanning line, the opening time is gradually increased; from the middle line of the gate scanning line to the N-th line of the scanning line, the opening time is gradually decreased. the scanning method using unequal time of each line of gate scanning line of each line of the present disclosure, the charging time of the middle line is the longest, the charging time is gradually decreased from the middle line to both sides, increasing the charging time of the TFT-LCD of the middle region in the display panel and optimizing the overall quality performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Zhao Wang
  • Patent number: 10163401
    Abstract: A method of compensating for efficiency degradation of an OLED in an array-based semiconductor device having arrays of pixels that include OLEDs, including determining for a plurality of operating conditions interdependency curves relating changes in an electrical operating parameter of said OLEDs and the efficiency degradation of said OLEDs, the plurality of operating conditions can include temperature or initial device characteristics as well as stress conditions to more completely determine interdependency curves for a wide variety of OLEDs. In some cases interdependency curves are updated remotely after fabrication of the array-based device. Some embodiments utilize degradation-time curves and methods which do not require storage of stress history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventor: Gholamreza Chaji