Patents Examined by Aaron Midkiff
  • Patent number: 10354595
    Abstract: An OLED (organic light-emitting diode) pixel structure comprises a substrate, first and second control components, first, second, and complementary electrode layers, and first and second light-emitting layers. The first and second control components are disposed above the substrate and electrically coupled to, respectively, the first and second electrode layers. There are first and second neighborhoods defined in the pixel structure, and the substrate traverses both of the neighborhoods. The first electrode layer is disposed in the first neighborhood and comprises a reflective layer. The first light-emitting layer is disposed on and electrically coupled to the first electrode layer. The second electrode layer is transparent and disposed in the second neighborhood. The second light-emitting layer is disposed on and electrically coupled to the second electrode layer. The complementary electrode layer is disposed on and electrically coupled to the light-emitting layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Chia-Hwa Lee
  • Patent number: 10310598
    Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) includes an electronic display configured to emit image light, an optical assembly that provides optical correction to the image light, an eye tracking system, and a varifocal module. The optical assembly includes a back optical element configured to receive the image light from the electronic display, and a coupling assembly configured to couple a front optical element to a location within the optical assembly such that the front optical element receives light transmitted by the back optical element. The optical correction is determined in part by an optical characteristic of the front optical element that is replaceable. The eye tracking system determines eye tracking information for a first eye of a user of the HMD. A varifocal module adjusts focus of images displayed on the electronic display, based on the eye tracking information and the optical correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Daniel Trail, Douglas Robert Lanman
  • Patent number: 10257500
    Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying a stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) webpage overlay. In some embodiments, user input may be received from a user input device and in response to determining that the user input device is not substantially concurrently interacting with the 3D content, interpret the user input based on a 2D mode of interaction. In addition, the user input may be interpreted based on a 3D mode of interaction in response to determining that the user input device is substantially concurrently interacting with the 3D content. The 2D mode of interaction corresponds to a first visual cursor, such as a mouse cursor, and the 3D mode of interaction corresponds to a second visual cursor, such as a virtual beam rendered to extend from a tip of the user input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: zSpace, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan J. Hosenpud, Clifford S. Champion
  • Patent number: 10210788
    Abstract: A displaying method includes following steps: converting first image data into second image data; performing subpixel rendering on second image data to generate third image data; determining whether the first image data includes first pixel data having a gray brightness value which is not greater than a first threshold; determining whether a gray brightness value of second pixel data of the third image data corresponding to the first pixel data is greater than a second threshold; and converting the third image data into fourth image data. The second pixel data is corresponding to third pixel data in the fourth image data. The third pixel data include at least one first subpixel data having a gray brightness value smaller than the gray brightness value of the subpixel data of the third image data corresponding to the first subpixel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shang-Yu Su, Sheng-Wen Cheng
  • Patent number: 10175922
    Abstract: A computing device may include a first housing and a second housing attached by a hinge. A first data transceiver in the first housing may transmit signals, including a video signal, to a second data transceiver in the second housing. The second data transceiver may receive the signals and send the video signal to a display device in the second housing. Each data transceiver may include a frame on which is mounted a circuit board having an antenna, a set of magnets, and a pair of bearings on either end of the frame that enable each data transceiver to rotate. An attraction between the magnets of the first data transceiver and the magnets of the second data transceiver may cause one or both data transceivers to rotate, such that the antennas remain facing each other regardless of an orientation of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jace W. Files, John Trevor Morrison, Gerald R. Pelissier
  • Patent number: 10120447
    Abstract: Touch interface devices having systems and methods for producing multi-point haptics utilizing simultaneous sensing and actuation are disclosed. In a first configuration, two layers of electrodes are used, including a top layer for haptics near a touch surface of an insulating substrate and a bottom layer for sensing at the bottom surface of the insulating substrate, with the two electrode sets have substantially the same pattern as one another. In a second configuration, a single array of electrodes is used near a touch surface of an insulating substrate and serves as both surface haptic devices and sensing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Michael A. Peshkin, James E. Colgate
  • Patent number: 10101629
    Abstract: An optical modulation device or an optical device including the same includes: a first plate and a second plate facing the first plate; and a liquid crystal layer between the first plate and the second plate and including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules, wherein the first plate includes a plurality of first electrodes and a first aligner, the second plate includes at least one second electrode and a second aligner, and an alignment direction of the first aligner is substantially parallel to an alignment direction of the second aligner and wherein portions of the first plate, the second plate, and the liquid crystal layer between the first and second plates are individual units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soo Hee Oh, Yoon Kyung Park, Kyung Ho Jung, Seung Jun Jeong, Moon Jung Baek, Hyun Seung Seo
  • Patent number: 10068658
    Abstract: There are provided a shift register unit, a strobe driving circuit, a display apparatus and a driving method for the shift register unit. The shift register unit comprises: an inputting module (10) configured to control a potential of the pulling-up control node according to a signal of the first signal input terminal; a pulling-up module (20) configured to output a present stage output signal from the present stage output terminal according to a signal of the second clock signal terminal and the potential of the pulling-up control node; a pulling-down module (30) configured to pull down the potential of the pulling-up control node and the signal of the present stage output terminal to a low level according to a signal of the third clock signal terminal; a resetting module (40) configured to reset the potential of the pulling-up control node according to a signal of the second signal input terminal and pull down the signal of the present stage output terminal to a low level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zheng Wang
  • Patent number: 10042485
    Abstract: A capacitive touch panel is provided capable of detecting multiple simultaneous touches. The touch panel delivers sets of capacitance signal values to a processor which computes the coordinates of single or multiple touch locations on the touch panel. The processing of each set is performed by (i) identifying the sensing element having the largest capacitance signal value; (ii) defining a region around that sensing element; and (iii) repeating the process iteratively, wherein each subsequent identifying step excludes signals that lie in previously defined regions. A multi-touch sensor is thus provided in which the signal processing is based on successive definition of regions or sub-blocks in the touch: panel. The touch location in each region can be determined more accurately by then applying interpolation between the adjacent signal values. This allows for position resolution at a finer scale than that defined by the touch panel's electrode patterning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Martin J. Simmons, Esat Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 10037735
    Abstract: An active matrix electro-optic display (100) includes capacitor electrodes (110, 112) associated with the pixel electrodes (106, 108) so that the pixel electrode and its associated capacitor electrode form a capacitor. The display (100) also includes switching means (120) having one position in which each capacitor electrode (110, 112) is electrically connected to the light-transmissive front electrode (102) of the display (100) and a second position in which each capacitor electrode (110, 112) is electrically connected to a voltage source having a voltage independent of the voltage on the light-transmissive electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventor: Karl R. Amundson
  • Patent number: 10031632
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device includes a controller, first electrodes, second electrodes, a plurality of sensors, and a shield sensor. The controller is operable to cause substantially equal voltages to be present on the first and second electrodes while measuring capacitances of the plurality of first electrodes electrically coupled to the shield sensor and measuring capacitances of the plurality of second electrodes electrically coupled to the plurality of sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Brunet, Richard Paul Collins, Luben Hristov Hristov, Steinar Myren, Trond Jarle Pedersen, Paul Stavely
  • Patent number: 10025434
    Abstract: A touch system includes a touch panel having first electrodes formed in a first direction, second electrodes formed in a second direction, and driving lines and pre-charge lines connected to respective first electrodes; and a touch IC unit configured to successively apply driving signals to the first electrodes, receive sensing signals through the second electrodes, and, when applying the driving signal to a driving line connected to a first electrode chosen as a driving electrode from the first electrodes, apply a pre-charge signal to a pre-charge line connected to at least one first electrode chosen as a pre-driving electrode from the other first electrodes than the first electrode chosen as the driving electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunwoo Jang, Sujin Kwon
  • Patent number: 9972253
    Abstract: Provided are a display apparatus and an illumination apparatus including: a light source; a time division control unit that performs a time division operation on a value represented by a first luminance control signal of a first bit number for controlling luminance of the light source to generate second luminance control signals each having a second bit number that is smaller than the first bit number and generates third luminance control signals each having a pulse width that corresponds to one of the values represented by the second luminance control signals; and a drive unit that generates drive signals for causing the light source to emit light on the basis of the third luminance control signals and supplies the drive signals to the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Fumitaka Gotoh, Tsutomu Harada, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe, Tae Kurokawa, Kojiro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9966024
    Abstract: The occurrence of flicker is effectively suppressed particularly in a liquid crystal display device that performs low-frequency driving. Provided are a gradation-to-voltage value conversion table for converting a gradation to a voltage value, a correction value map for storing a correction value, and a voltage value-to-gradation conversion table for converting a voltage value to a gradation. A gradation of an input image signal is converted to a first voltage value, using the gradation-to-voltage value conversion table. The correction value specified in accordance with a location of a pixel to be processed is added to or subtracted from the first voltage value so that a second voltage value is obtained. The second voltage value is converted to an output gradation, using the voltage value-to-gradation conversion table. A driving video signal is applied to a source bus line, based on the output gradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ken Inada, Taketoshi Nakano, Asahi Yamato, Akizumi Fujioka
  • Patent number: 9959810
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display, including a first data line extending along a first direction, a second data line extending along the first direction and disposed parallel to the first data line, a first scan line extending along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a first pixel connected to the first data line and the first scan line, a second pixel connected to the second data line and the first scan line, a first constant current source connected to the first data line, a second constant current source connected to the second data line, and a temperature information generation unit comprising a first input port connected to the first data line and a second input port connected to the second data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyun Sik Kim
  • Patent number: 9939906
    Abstract: A combiner that reflects a light projected by a projector toward an operator, includes: a reflection layer that reflects the light projected by the projector; an electric field generation layer that generates an electric field around the combiner; and an output layer that outputs a voltage according to change of the electric field generated by the field generation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroki Usa
  • Patent number: 9916051
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices are described for operating an electronic system which includes a first plurality of sensor electrodes disposed in a first layer and configured to detect input objects at an input surface of the input device, the first plurality of sensor electrodes including a first subset of transmitter electrodes; a second plurality of sensor electrodes configured to detect a force imparted to the input surface and configured for capacitive coupling with the first subset of transmitter electrodes; and a compressible dielectric configured to compress in response to force applied to the input surface. The capacitive coupling between the transmitter electrodes and the second plurality of sensor electrodes is configured to vary in response to the applied force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Richard R. Schediwy
  • Patent number: 9905155
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a gate driver circuit including at least one set of clock signal lines and multiple levels of shift registers arranged in a cascaded manner. Each set of the clock signal lines includes two clock signal lines. The multiple levels of shift registers is divided into at least one set, and each set of the clock signal lines corresponds to a set of the shift registers. One clock signal line in each set of the clock signal lines is connected to a resetting signal input end of a last-level shift register in the set of the shift registers corresponding to the set of the clock signal lines. The present disclosure further provides an array substrate, a display device and a method for driving the gate driver circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanbo Zhang, Seungwoo Han, Haoliang Zheng
  • Patent number: 9905178
    Abstract: A row common electrode drive circuit and a column common electrode drive circuit control an effective value of a voltage to be applied to common electrodes along rows in which pixels are arrayed and an effective value of a voltage to be applied to the common electrodes along columns in which the pixels are arrayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji Harada
  • Patent number: 9874976
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a sensor electrode having an electrostatic capacitance for touch detection, and a touch detection circuit detecting a contact or proximity position of an object on the basis of a detection signal obtained from the sensor electrode by applying a touch sensor drive signal to the sensor electrode. The sensor electrode is split into plural stripe-like electrode patterns. Applying the touch sensor drive signal to part of the electrode patterns forms a drive line at that time. The touch detection circuit performs a detection on the basis of a first detection signal obtained from a first drive line formed in a first period, and a second detection signal obtained from a second drive line formed in a second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takeya Takeuchi, Koji Noguchi, Koji Ishizaki, Takayuki Nakanishi, Yasuyuki Teranishi