Patents Examined by Stephen Sherman
  • Patent number: 9836142
    Abstract: A human machine interface includes a capacitive touch screen having a capacitive sensor. The capacitive touch screen displays text characters and/or graphical information. A control device is rotatably coupled to a structure such that the control device is superimposed over the screen. The control device includes at least one electrically conductive element. The control device rotates about an axis substantially perpendicular to the screen such that the at least one electrically conductive element follows the rotation of the control device. The capacitive sensor senses a rotational position of the at least one electrically conductive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventors: Larry V. Craig, Sachiko Kurokawa Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9830027
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention disclose a touch display panel, a method for determining touch position and a display device. The touch display panel includes a TFT array substrate having gate lines and an opposite substrate having a black matrix. At least one of the gate lines is used as a touch scanning line, at least one touch sensing line is provided on the black matrix of the opposite substrate, and a touch capacitor is formed at an intersection between the touch scanning line and the touch sensing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Cheng Li
  • Patent number: 9829730
    Abstract: Provided are an optical modulation device and a driving method thereof. The optical modulation device includes an active area and a peripheral area disposed around the active area. A plurality of lower electrodes is disposed in the active area. The plurality of lower electrodes extends in a first direction. The plurality of lower electrodes includes a first lower electrode and a second lower electrode. A driver is configured to apply a driving signal to the first lower electrode and the second lower electrode. The driver includes a first channel connected with an upper end of the first lower electrode, a second channel connected with a lower end of the first lower electrode, a third channel connected with an upper end of the second lower electrode, and a fourth channel connected with a lower end of the second lower electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Jun Jeong, Hyun Seung Seo, Jung-Hyun Cho
  • Patent number: 9830007
    Abstract: A touch naked-eye 3D grating and a display device are disclosed. The naked-eye 3D grating includes a touch electrode structure between the upper substrate and the plate electrode, and the touch electrode structure includes a plurality of first touch sense lines and a plurality of second touch sense lines arranged to intersect with and insulated from each other, and includes touch electrodes located within the areas defined by adjacent two first touch sense lines and adjacent two second touch sense lines; each touch electrode creates a capacitor with the plate electrode so as to achieve the touch function by way of detecting the signal changes over the first touch sense line and the second touch sense line connected with the touch electrode. The display device includes the aforesaid touch naked-eye 3D grating. This touch naked-eye 3D grating simplifies the assembly configuration as well as its production process, thus reducing overall cost for manufacturing the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Long, Junguo Liu, Hongkun Zhang, Rui Li
  • Patent number: 9823762
    Abstract: An electronic device for controlling at least one function based on a user input, and a control method for the electronic device are provided. According to various example embodiments, an electronic device that operates based on a user input may acquire a gesture through an input area of a display unit functionally connected to the electronic device. The electronic device may perform at least one function of the electronic device, based on various variables (for example, a time period for which the gesture is sensed, a size of an area in which the gesture is sensed, a direction in which the gesture moves, or intensity at which the gesture is sensed, through the input area) corresponding to the acquired gesture. Various other example embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Kun Choi, Cheol-Ho Cheong, Sun-Kee Lee, Jin-Hong Jeong, Joon-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 9823750
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for capturing gesture-based inputs are disclosed herein. The concept employs infrared light emitting diodes (LEDs), infrared (IR) sensor, and processing of the information obtained by the interplay of the two. The processed information may be effectively translated to various gesture-based control systems, such as those employed to interact with electronic systems and displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Paul Russ, Matthew Mark Mikolajczak, James Joseph Kornacki
  • Patent number: 9818336
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, apparatus, and computer readable media for generating images on a display using a dithering process that takes into account an uneven spacing of available gray scale values in at least one color subfield used to generate the images. The dithering process includes generating a set of initial color subfields, a set of quantized color subfields, and a set of final color subfields, which are then output on the display. The quantized color subfields an the final color subfields are derived based at least in part on the uneven spacing of gray scale values in at least one of the final color subfields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SnapTrack Inc.
    Inventors: Fahri Yaras, Chih-Hsiang Ho, Edward Buckley
  • Patent number: 9811066
    Abstract: Example implementations may relate to a haptic hand-holdable controller configured with throttle functionality. An example device may take the form of a haptic controller, which senses tactile information and provides force feedback. The haptic hand-holdable controller may implement a throttle where a motor varies feedback to the hand-holdable controller to simulate a throttle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey Linnell
  • Patent number: 9812084
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel and a plurality of flexible printed circuit boards. The display panel includes a gate line and a data line. The plurality of flexible printed circuit boards is connected to one side of the display panel. Each of the plurality of flexible printed circuit board includes a gate driving chip configured to apply a gate signal to the gate line and a source driving chip configured to apply a data voltage to the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-Ha Kim, Ji-Hyun Kim, Sun-Kyu Son
  • Patent number: 9791953
    Abstract: A touch display device and a method for driving a touch display device. The touch display device includes a touch unit and a display unit; the touch unit includes a first touch electrode layer having a plurality of first touch electrodes, each of which includes a plurality of touch sub-electrodes; the display unit includes an array substrate, a color filter substrate disposed opposite to the array substrate, a display function layer disposed between the array substrate and the color filter substrate, and a plurality of gate electrodes disposed on the array substrate; where, a projection of each of the touch sub-electrodes in a direction perpendicular to the array substrate is located between two adjacent ones of the plurality of gate electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS., LTD.
    Inventors: Lihua Wang, Xingyao Zhou, Xianxiang Zhang, Yingying Xu, Xiaoye Li, Gang Liu
  • Patent number: 9786329
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic digital postcard device comprising, a body housing a display, the housing defining a dimension of the device, where the dimension is at least one dimension of a postcard, and a port configured to receive an electronic media presentation, the electronic digital postcard being configured to store and playback a received electronic media presentation. Further, a method of delivering a digital postcard is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Inventor: Ailyn Margarita Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 9778786
    Abstract: An optical finger navigation module includes a light source mounted below a window plate formed on a housing of the module, a driver for outputting a current to the light source, an environmental sensor for sensing an environmental condition and providing a signal, and a sensor integrated circuit including a processor coupled with the environmental sensor for reading the signal and generating a compensated current that corresponds to the signal based on a compensation curve tailor-made for the light source and derived from a compensation algorithm using compensation factors. A method for increasing lifetime of the module is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd.
    Inventors: Ka Lap Tong, Vincent Wai Hung
  • Patent number: 9778782
    Abstract: A single-layer projected capacitive touch panel has a glass cover, a touch sensing circuit layer, an insulating ink layer, a conductive wire layer, an insulator layer, a conductive glue layer and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) board. The touch sensing circuit layer, the insulating ink layer, the conductive wire layer, the insulator layer and the conductive glue layer are mounted on a circuit surface of the glass cover in sequence. The insulating ink layer covers the touch sensing circuit layer and has multiple through slots. Each through slot is filled with an electric conductor. The FPC is fastened on the conductive wire layer by a conductive glue laver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: David Mi
  • Patent number: 9779686
    Abstract: An electronic display is driven to compensate for aging of pixels in the electronic display. An aging factor is determined based on initial display data for a display portion of the electronic display during one or more monitored frames. The aging factor is indicative of aging of pixels in the display portion of the electronic display due to use corresponding to the initial display data. An aging counter for the display portion is increased based on the determined aging factor. A compensation value is determined for the display portion based on the aging counter for the display portion. Input display data for the display portion is modified during a subsequent frame according the determined compensation value. The display portion is driven with the modified input display data during the subsequent frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Evan Mark Richards, Nirav Rajendra Patel, Andrew T. Forsyth
  • Patent number: 9773856
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electroluminescence display panel including a pixel circuit, a signal line, a scan line, a drive power supply line, a common power supply line, a power supply line drive circuit, a high-potential power supply line, and a low-potential power supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Tomida, Mitsuru Asano
  • Patent number: 9772731
    Abstract: Provided is a touch detection device, touch detection method, and touch screen panel, which detects a touch signal by detecting a driving back phenomenon occurring in a touch pad by a driving voltage applied to a driving capacitor, and a display device with a built-in touch screen panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: G2TOUCH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 9773442
    Abstract: A display device having a display area including a plurality of pixels and a non-quadrilateral shape, a first gate line in parallel with a first side of a virtual quadrilateral inscribed in the display area, a second gate line in parallel with a second side perpendicular to the first side of the virtual quadrilateral, a first data line in parallel with the first gate line; and a second data line in parallel with the second gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gi Chang Lee, In Soo Wang
  • Patent number: 9772692
    Abstract: A flexible display device includes a substrate, at least one sensing pattern, and a fold detector. The substrate is foldable along at least one folding line. The sensing pattern is in a peripheral area of the substrate. The fold detector is connected to the sensing pattern and detects whether the sensing pattern is disconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Hoon Lee, Tae Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 9767728
    Abstract: The technology disclosed here integrates a light sensor with a dual-mode display, thus increasing the size of the dual-mode display. The light sensor can be a camera, an ambient sensor, a proximity sensor, etc. The light sensor is placed beneath the dual-mode display and can detect incoming light while the dual-mode display is displaying a display image. The dual-mode display and the light sensor can operate at the same time. For example, a camera placed beneath the dual-mode display can record an image of the environment, while at the same time the dual-mode display is showing the display image. Further, multiple light sensors can be placed at various locations beneath the dual-mode display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: ESSENTIAL PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: David John Evans, V, Xinrui Jiang, Andrew E. Rubin, Matthew Hershenson, Xiaoyu Miao, Joseph Anthony Tate, Jason Sean Gagne-Keats
  • Patent number: 9766687
    Abstract: A capacitive stylus with a power saving apparatus is disclosed. The capacitive stylus uses a controller to output signals to control a power circuit to regulate or convert a voltage from a power source to different working voltages for the controller so as to save electrical power of the capacitive stylus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: WALTOP INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ying Hwa Tang, A-Li Wong