Patents Examined by Abbas I Abdulselam
  • Patent number: 10692419
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel, a display device and a display method of the display panel. The display panel includes a pixel array, where the pixel array includes a plurality of pixel groups and each of the plurality of pixels group includes first-type pixel units and second-type pixel units; and a drive circuit configured to provide a drive signal for the pixel array. A display mode of the display panel includes a high-definition display mode in which within one-frame time, the first-type pixel units and the second-type pixel units collectively display a same to-be-displayed picture; a stereoscopic display mode in which the first-type pixel units display a user's left-eye picture within first time and the second-type pixel units display a user's right-eye picture within second time; and a power saving display mode in which the first-type pixel units display a picture and the second-type pixel units do not perform displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma AM-OLED Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Lin, Shuang Cheng, Lei Wen, Honghu Ma, Jinghua Niu, Ping An
  • Patent number: 10685601
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a write transistor, a first switching transistor, a second switching transistor, a first storage capacitor, and a second storage capacitor. The driving transistor controls a current flowing in a light-emitting device. The write transistor controls application of a signal voltage to a gate of the driving transistor. The first switching transistor controls a gate voltage of the driving transistor upon correction operation that allows a gate-source voltage of the driving transistor to come close to a threshold voltage of the driving transistor. The second switching transistor is provided at a path between first and second terminals. The first storage capacitor is provided at a path between the gate of the driving transistor and the first terminal. The second storage capacitor is provided at a path between the gate of the driving transistor and the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10684725
    Abstract: An input mode trigger is detected so that a computing system treats inputs from a touch sensing device as touch inputs. A focus area input mechanism, which is smaller than a display screen controlled by the computing system, is displayed on the display screen. A hover mode touch input is detected, and a touch input on the touch sensing device is mirrored by corresponding movement of visual indicia on the focus area input mechanism on the display screen. Other touch gestures are used to perform operations within the focus area input mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jessica Chen, Jonathan Marc Holley, Christopher Court, Taylor Jordan Hartman, Adam Samuel Riddle
  • Patent number: 10679532
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic display device and an information display method of same, the electronic display device enabling recognition by means of a tactile sensation or three-dimensional visual recognition with respect to an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: DOT INCORPORATION
    Inventors: Ju Yoon Kim, Ji Ho Kim, Hyeon Cheol Park
  • Patent number: 10670861
    Abstract: A lens assembly includes a first optical element and a second optical element. The first optical element includes a partially reflective layer and a waveplate. The second optical element includes a reflective polarizer configured to reflect a first polarization orientation of display light back to the first optical element and transmit a second polarization orientation of the display light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Jacques Gollier
  • Patent number: 10665200
    Abstract: A display device includes: a driving voltage provider for generating a PWM signal according to the frequency of a clock signal, and providing a driving voltage generated according to the duty ratio of the PWM signal to at least one of the pixels, the data driver, and the scan driver. The driving voltage provider tunes the frequency of the clock signal to a first frequency in a first section, tunes the frequency of the clock signal to a second frequency smaller than the first frequency in a second section in which the magnitude of a driving voltage is larger than that in the first section, and tunes the frequency of the clock signal to a third frequency larger than the first frequency in a third section in which the magnitude of a driving voltage is smaller than that in the first section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Eui Myeong Cho
  • Patent number: 10649645
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes touch and pressure detection units and a control unit. The touch detection unit detects a touch on a touch surface. The pressure detection unit detects a pressure on the touch surface. In response to movement of a touch position in a first direction with the touch kept detected, the control unit changes a setting value of a specific setting item in a predetermined direction. In response to movement of the touch position in a second direction with the touch kept detected, the control unit changes the setting value in another direction different from the predetermined direction. In response to detection of the pressure by the touch after changing the setting value of the specific setting item upon movement of the touch position in the first direction, the control unit further changes the setting value of the specific setting item in the predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshiaki Ueguri
  • Patent number: 10649548
    Abstract: The structure and devices described herein provide an improved attachment for a peripheral device, such as a stylus, to a computing device when not in use. A stylus may have magnets contained therein that cooperate with magnets in a computing device to magnetically secure the stylus to the computing device when not in use. In addition, a retractable interlock may automatically extend from the stylus when the stylus is in proximity of the computing device. The interlock is received in a receptacle of the computing device to provide an improved attachment through the mechanical interaction of the interlock and the receptacle. The interlock is biased in a retracted position and automatically extends through magnetic attraction with the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gabriel J. Pirie, Bradley Edgar Clements, Casey Cook Zelig, Ryan Charles Eylander, Anthony Reed, Perry Pierce
  • Patent number: 10643574
    Abstract: A timing controller and an operation method thereof are provided. The timing controller includes a transmitter circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit ends a normal mode to enter a swing boost mode when a lock signal fed back by a source driving circuit indicates that quality of data signal is deteriorated in the normal mode. In the swing boost mode, the control circuit controls the transmitter circuit to boost the swing of the data signal from a normal level to a high level. The control circuit ends the swing boost mode and enters a clock training mode when the source driving circuit causes loss of lock to the data signal in the swing boost mode. In the clock training mode, the control circuit controls the transmitter circuit to employ a clock training data string as the data signal to transmit to the source driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Syang-Yun Tzeng, Cheng-Kai Kuei, Chin-Hung Hsu
  • Patent number: 10642436
    Abstract: A touch sensing panel includes a substrate, a touch sensing electrode, an etching-inhibition unit, and a peripheral trace. The substrate includes a touch sensing area and a peripheral area. The touch sensing electrode and the peripheral trace are respectively formed on the touch sensing area and the peripheral area, and the etching-inhibition unit is at least formed on the touch sensing area. The touch sensing electrode is electrically connected with the peripheral trace and includes a first part of a metal nanowire layer, which is patterned. The peripheral trace includes a metal layer and a second part of the metal nanowire layer. The metal layer directly contacts the second part of the metal nanowire layer. The metal layer and the second part of the metal nanowire layer have a co-planar etch-surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Cambrios Film SOlutions Corporation
    Inventors: Chung-Chin Hsiao, Siou-Cheng Lien, Chia-Yang Tsai
  • Patent number: 10634910
    Abstract: An apparatus to provide reflection and information includes a mirror, which has a front side and a backside and further includes a glass layer. The glass layer has an area and a first reflectivity. A reflective layer is adhered to the backside of the mirror and a protective layer is adhered to the reflective layer. The reflective layer further includes a vanishing viewing window. Within the vanishing viewing window at least a part of the protective layer is removed from the to provide a second reflectivity for the vanishing viewing window, such that the first reflectivity is greater than the second reflectivity. The apparatus includes a data display. The data display is positioned behind the vanishing viewing window, such that when a user views the front side, the user sees a reflection in the mirror when the data display is in an off state and when the data display is in an on state the user sees a reflection in the mirror and data in the vanishing viewing window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: ELECTRIC MIRROR, LLC
    Inventors: James V. Mischel, Jr., Michael Martin Uhl, James Vernon Mischel, Sr., Robert Larry Zerr
  • Patent number: 10636850
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electroluminescent device, a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device. The electroluminescent device of the present disclosure includes: a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite to each other; a first electrode disposed on a side of the first substrate proximal to the second substrate; a main spacer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and configured to support the first substrate and the second substrate; a first spacer spaced apart from the main spacer disposed on the side of the second substrate proximal to the first substrate; and an auxiliary electrode layer disposed on at least part of an surface of the first spacer proximal to the first substrate, wherein at least part of the auxiliary electrode layer is in contact with the first electrode for electrical connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Li, Xing Zhang, Dini Xie
  • Patent number: 10620708
    Abstract: An electronic device displaying a user interface on a display. While displaying the user interface on the display and while one or more tactile output generators of the electronic device are in a low-power state, the electronic device detects a first user interaction via the touch-sensitive surface. In response to detecting the first user interaction, the electronic device sets the one or more tactile output generators to a low-latency state. After setting the one or more tactile output generators to the low-latency state, the electronic device detects a second user interaction that is part of a same sequence of user interactions as the first user interaction. In response to detecting the second user interaction, the electronic device generates a tactile output that corresponds to the second user interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Julien Y. Robert, Tyler M. Fox, Camille Moussette, Viktor Miladinov, Jean-Pierre M. Mouilleseaux, Madeleine S. Cordier
  • Patent number: 10621907
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for adjusting uniformity, a device for adjusting uniformity, an apparatus, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes powering a spliced display device with different power supplying configurations within a first voltage range, acquiring brightness information of display areas of splicing components of the spliced display device under the power supplying configurations; calculating uniformities of the spliced display device under the power supplying configurations according to the brightness information, and determining the power supplying configuration corresponding to a maximum uniformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fan Yang, Pengpeng Feng, Xin Wang
  • Patent number: 10615230
    Abstract: An example process includes: powering, via a power supply, an active-matrix display panel comprised of picture elements; and identifying, based on an output of the power supply, one or more picture elements in the active-matrix display panel that are potentially defective. The example process may also include identifying, among one or more of the picture elements that are potentially-defective, one or more picture elements that actually are defective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Teradyne, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason A. Messier, Bradley A. Phillips, Kyle L. Klatka, Brian L. Massey, Peter J. D'Antonio, Anthony J. Suto
  • Patent number: 10606083
    Abstract: A perspiration dissipating support assembly for head-mounted-display (HMD) devices. Variations of the perspiration dissipating support assembly disclosed herein enable supporting forces for an HMD device to be spread over a large portion of a user's head while facilitating dissipation of both liquid perspiration and vapor perspiration via respective dedicated dissipation mechanisms. In some embodiments, the perspiration dissipating support assembly includes a vapor-permeable contact layer that contacts the user's head and a vapor-permeable spacer that provides a Moisture Vapor Transmission Rate on the order of several times greater than that of the vapor-permeable contact layer. The vapor-permeable contact layer may have wicking properties that tend to draw perspiration (e.g., via capillary action resulting from a particular technical-weave pattern) away from the user's head and into the vapor-permeable spacer through which the perspiration evaporates into the ambient environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tzu-Yuan Lin, Brian J. Toleno, Igor Markovsky, Erin Elizabeth Hurbi, Michael Nikkhoo
  • Patent number: 10603585
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display configured to be bendable; and a processor configured to detect a speed value of an object of a content provided through the display, determine a curvature value at which the display is to be bent according to the detected speed value of the object, and change a curvature of the display based on the determined curvature value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Myoung-sang Choi
  • Patent number: 10608023
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises a display panel, a signal generator, a plurality of wires, and a controller. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel columns, the pixel columns each extending along source lines of the display panel and each having an input end and a plurality of pixels connected to the input end, with the pixels receiving data signal from the input end. The signal generator has a plurality of output ends arranged in a first direction of the signal generator with respect to each other. The wires connect the output ends of the signal generator to the input ends of the pixel columns, respectively. The controller varies voltage waveform of the data signal at the output ends of the signal generator according to location of the output ends of the signal generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ishida, Kenta Ide
  • Patent number: 10580366
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a drive method of a liquid crystal display device, including: displaying each picture sequentially by using two frames of images, where two adjacent sub-pixels on each frame of image have a high drive voltage and a low drive voltage; determining a backlight lightness adjustment signal of each backlight subarea according to drive voltages of a first frame of image area and a second frame of image area corresponding to each backlight subarea and a first frame of image area and a second frame of image area corresponding to backlight subareas adjacent to the backlight subarea; and performing independent lightness adjustment on a backlight source of various types of the color sub-pixels in a corresponding backlight subarea in each frame of image of a next picture according to the backlight lightness adjustment signal of each backlight subarea.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 10580374
    Abstract: A co-gate electrode between pixels structure includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel has a first control switch is electrically connected to a main control switch. The main control switch selectively receives an external voltage and then transmits the external voltage to the first control switch. The first control switch selectively receives the external voltage, lest the external voltage transmitted to the first pixel to charge or discharge establish a voltage drop. The second pixel has a second control switch, which is electrically connected to the main control switch to selectively receive the external voltage transmitted by the main control switch, lest the external voltage that is transmitted to the second pixel to charge or discharge establish a voltage drop. The present invention is used for a panel with pixels of small area and high resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Giantplus Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Che-Yao Wu, Kai-Ju Chou, I-Ta Jiang