Patents Examined by Abbas I Abdulselam
  • 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
  • Patent number: 10579256
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed which includes a housing including a first surface facing in a first direction and a second surface facing in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction, a display disposed between the first surface and the second surface, at least a part of the display being exposed through the first surface, a pressure sensor disposed between the display and the second surface and detecting pressure of an external object applied on the display, and a processor electrically connected with the display and the pressure sensor. If a touch input of a specified pressure intensity or more is made by the external object in any region on the display, the processor activates at least one virtual function key operating in common with respect to any screens to be displayed in the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: So Young Kim, Shi Yun Cho, Wan Ho Roh, Min Sik Kim, Jong Moo Lee, Geon Soo Kim, Jin Wan An, Ji Woo Lee, Hyun Suk Choi
  • Patent number: 10571691
    Abstract: A system includes a head-mounted display, a device including at least one of a computer and a battery, and a strap. The strap includes a first end connected to the head-mounted display, a second end connected to the device, a service loop, and circuitry extending from the first end through the service loop to the second end to electrically couple the head-mounted display with the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Phillip Yee, Julian Hammerstein
  • Patent number: 10573833
    Abstract: A flexible display substrate includes a flexible base substrate, and a plurality of conductive terminals and a stress relief layer which are arranged sequentially on the flexible base substrate and disposed in a bonding region of the flexible base substrate. The bonding region includes Pad regions. The stress relief layer is provided with via holes on positions corresponding to the Pad regions respectively, and the via holes are used for exposing conductive surfaces of the conductive terminals respectively. The conductive surfaces are used for bonding an IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liqiang Chen, PaoMing Tsai, Jianwei Li, Dejun Bu, Song Zhang
  • Patent number: 10572021
    Abstract: A haptic-enabled user interface device comprising a user input component, an elastomer suspension, a signal generating circuit, a signal sensing circuit, one or more switches, and a control unit is presented. The elastomer suspension is formed by at least one stack that includes an elastomeric layer, wherein the at least one stack forms at least one capacitor. The control unit is configured, in an actuation mode, to cause the one or more switches to electrically connect the signal generating circuit to the at least one capacitor and to electrically disconnect the signal sensing circuit from at least one capacitor, and to cause the signal generating circuit to apply a drive signal to the at least one capacitor. The control unit is further configured, in a sensing mode, to cause the one or more switches to electrically connect the signal sensing circuit to the at least one capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: Vahid Khoshkava, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Neil T. Olien
  • Patent number: 10564787
    Abstract: Sense lines in a self-capacitance touch panel are multiplexed. A touch panel controller (3) includes a drive circuit (4) that drives drive lines (D0 through D(K?1)), based on a drive code series, a code multiplication unit (11) that reads multiple linear sum signals along the sense lines (S0 through S(M?1)), based on the charges of detection electrodes (E) and performs an inner product computation with a detection code series, and a detection circuit (6) that detects a capacitance or a change in the capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mutsumi Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10559252
    Abstract: A display apparatus comprises: a display panel comprising a plurality of display elements arranged in a matrix form on a substrate having flexibility; a supporting member having a surface, the substrate of the display panel being placed on the surface; and a holding member provided at a part of or the entire of an outer edge of the display panel along the outer edge so as to rim the display panel, the holding member holding the display panel on the surface of the supporting member. The holding member engages with an outer periphery of the display panel, the holding member is bonded to the surface of the supporting member, and the substrate closely contacts with the surface of the supporting member at a lower strength than a bonding strength between the holding member and the surface of the supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuhiko Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 10551649
    Abstract: A display panel includes an array substrate, and a plurality of display units disposed on the array substrate each of which includes a display sub-pixel for receiving sunlight radiation and performing display, a solar cell disposed adjacent to the display sub-pixel and configured to receive sunlight radiation and perform photoelectric transformation, a micro-electromechanical optical valve disposed above and movable over the display sub-pixel and the solar cell to control a light transmittance of the display sub-pixel, and a blocking structure disposed at an edge of the display unit to limit the movement of the micro-electromechanical optical valve within the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenqiang Chen, Wei He, Jiao Fang, Shi Cheng, Lixia Huang, Jian Yang, Qing Chang, Xinghua Li
  • Patent number: 10551980
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a cover glass, a touch sensor disposed under the cover glass and sensing proximity of or contact by an external object, a touch integrated circuit (IC) electrically connected to the touch sensor, a fingerprint sensor disposed under the cover glass adjacent to the touch sensor, including an active area for sensing a biometric pattern of the external object and an inactive area surrounding a periphery of the active area, a fingerprint IC electrically connected to the fingerprint sensor, and a processor electrically connected to the touch IC and the fingerprint IC. The processor is configured, if an input by the external object is sensed by both the touch sensor and the fingerprint sensor, to calculate coordinates of the input based on at least part of data sensed by the touch sensor and data sensed by the fingerprint sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dae Kwang Jung, Min Woo Lee, Myung Su Kang, Ji Woong Oh, Hyun Ju Hong
  • Patent number: 10540010
    Abstract: A system includes a microcontroller, one or more sensors affixed to an object, and memory storing one or more programs including instructions for receiving and storing first sensor data from the one or more sensors in response to motion of the object, determining whether the first sensor data meets a first threshold, in accordance with a determination that the first sensor data meets the first threshold: receiving and storing second sensor data from the one or more sensors in response to subsequent motion of the object for as long as the second sensor data meets a second threshold, performing pattern recognition on the second sensor data, and identifying a first position of the object based on the pattern recognition of the second sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Inventor: Rohit Seth
  • Patent number: 10540934
    Abstract: Disclosed is a local dimming liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Doo-seop Choi, Gi-yeong Gim, Young-su Moon, Young-hoon Jeong
  • Patent number: 10535288
    Abstract: An information outputting method for a displaying apparatus comprises: an image acquiring step of acquiring image data; an identifying step of identifying a first image characteristic of a first display image which is displayed using a first display characteristic of a first displaying apparatus and is based on the image data, and of identifying a second image characteristic of a second display image which is displayed using a second display characteristic of a second displaying apparatus different from the first displaying apparatus and is based on the image data; and an information outputting step of outputting notification information based on a difference between the first image characteristic and the second image characteristic. Thus, it becomes possible to enable a user to grasp that a difference in image quality may occur among the plurality of display apparatuses respectively having different characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuru Tada
  • Patent number: 10534496
    Abstract: An interactive assembly including at least one interactive surface element, at least a first region of the at least one interactive surface element having first user sensible functionality and at least a second region of the at least one interactive surface element having second functionality, different from the first user sensible functionality, input sensor functionality, including at least one input sensor located in propinquity to at least one of the at least one interactive surface element, operative to sense impingement of an electromagnetic radiation spot on at least one of the at least one first region and the at least one second region of the at least one interactive surface element and utilization functionality for employing outputs of the input sensor functionality in respect of impingement on either or both of the at least one first region and the at least one second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: POWER2B, INC.
    Inventors: Sarah Michelle Lipman, Eran Kali, Boris Gutin, Mordehai Margalit, Robert Michael Lipman, Ken Zwiebel
  • Patent number: 10534447
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a controller device and a method of detecting user inputs. According to at least one embodiment, an electronic controller device includes first and second button components, a processing circuit and a communication interface. The first and second button components respectively include first and second touch pads. The first and second button components are configured to register click operations by respectively first and second fingers of a user. The first and second touch pads are configured to register touch operations by fingers. The processing circuit is configured to convert the click operations and the touch operations into input signals. The communication interface is configured to transmit the input signals to at least one external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Inventor: Yinbo Li
  • Patent number: 10528206
    Abstract: First to third electrode layers (1) are laminated. A dielectric (22) disposed between the second and third electrode layers can be elastically deformed by pressing force from the first electrode layer-side to reduce distance between the second and third electrode layers. The first electrode layer is composed of first electrodes (Rxc) along a first direction (X). The second electrode layer is composed of second electrodes (Txcf) along a second direction (Y) intersecting the first direction. The third electrode layer is composed of third electrodes (Rxf) along a third direction (X) intersecting the second direction. During position-detection, the second electrodes (Txcf) function as transmission-side position-detection electrodes and the first electrodes function as reception-side position detection electrodes to constitute a mutual-capacitance touch panel unit (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: NISSHA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiro Fujii, Ryomei Omote, Koji Okamoto, Toshihide Yamamoto, Yohei Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 10528204
    Abstract: A system and method for digital differential detection includes a capacitive sensor having a first node and a second node, a transmitter configured to transmit an input signal through the first node and the second node, and a receiver coupled to the first node and the second node. The receiver is configured to receive a first modified input signal from the first node and a second modified input signal from the second node. The receiver includes first and second analog-to-digital converters configured to convert the first modified input signal to a first digital signal and the second modified input signal to a second digital signal. The receiver also includes a first differencing circuit configured to calculate a first difference between the first digital signal and a second digital signal and a decision circuit configured to output a result according to the first difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gaurav Malhotra, Kenneth Hu
  • Patent number: 10510291
    Abstract: A display method for a display device and the display device are provided. The display device includes multiple gate lines and multiple data lines, each of the gate lines extends in a row direction, and each of the data lines extends in a column direction. The method includes: dividing a display region of the display device into multiple sub-regions, where each of the sub-regions includes all of the data lines in the row direction and includes at least one of the gate lines in the column direction; controlling, when the display device is shut down or powered down, a gate driving circuit of the display device to input a turn-on voltage into the gate lines in each of the sub-regions one by one; and controlling a source driving circuit of the display device to input a voltage corresponding to a grayscale value of 0 to each of the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chienpang Huang, Chengte Lai, Weilin Lai
  • Patent number: 10489101
    Abstract: A screen sharing system includes information processing apparatuses that display the same content on their respective screens as a shared screen. Each of the information processing apparatuses includes an operation right switching unit configured to acquire an operation right, a transmission data generating unit configured to generate transmission data including operational information of an input operation, and a drawing unit configured to draw a display object on the screen. At a transmitting information processing apparatus with the operation right, the drawing unit draws the display object according to the operational information, and the transmission data generating unit generates the transmission data including the operational information and sends the transmission data to a receiving information processing apparatus without the operation right.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusaku Masuda, Ryohichi Baba, Keishi Iwata
  • Patent number: 10488992
    Abstract: A multi-chip touch architecture for scalability can include one or more touch controller application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and one or more switching circuits coupled between the one or more touch controller ASICs and the touch sensor panel. The number of touch controller ASICs and switching circuits can be scaled based on the size of the touch sensor panel. The touch controller ASICs can include an interface for data transfer between the touch controller ASICs to allow for parallel processing of an image of touch by more than one touch controller ASIC. The touch controller ASIC can also include a memory directly accessible by more than one processing circuit (e.g., hardware accelerators), and circuitry to dynamically adjust the coupling between portions (e.g., banks) of memory and inputs of the one or more processing circuits to minimize data transfer and improve processing speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shahrooz Shahparnia, Vivek Pant, Christoph H. Krah