Patents Examined by Abbas I Abdulselam
  • Patent number: 10405801
    Abstract: A display panel having health monitoring function, including a first substrate; a second substrate; and a monitoring unit. The monitoring unit is configured to monitor a change in human physiological information and is disposed on the first substrate or the second substrate through a patterning process. Such display panel having health monitoring function solves the technical problem that existing display panels having health monitoring function are poor in level of integration with incompact structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Qiu, Jiuxia Yang
  • Patent number: 10409388
    Abstract: A portable computing device is disclosed which may include a base element, a lid element, a first motion sensor, a second motion sensor, a processor, and an eye tracking system. The first motion sensor may be disposed in the base element. The second motion sensor may be disposed in the lid element. The processor may be configured to control the first motion sensor to detect first motion information, control the second motion sensor to detect second motion information; and determine final motion information based at least in part on the first motion information and the second motion information. The eye tracking system may be configured to determine a gaze position of a user based at least in part on the final motion information, wherein the processor is further configured to execute one or more control processes based at least in part on the determined gaze position meeting a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Tobii AB
    Inventors: Mårten Skogö, John Elvesjö, Jan-Erik Lundkvist, Per Lundberg
  • Patent number: 10411040
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel, a signal generator, a plurality of wires, and a controller. The display panel has a plurality of pixels. The signal generator supplies data signal to the pixels. The wires connect output ends of the signal generator to input ends of the pixels, respectively. The controller varies at least one of voltage waveform and current waveform corresponding to the data signal at the output ends according to lengths of the wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ishida, Kenta Ide
  • Patent number: 10411043
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel, a signal generator, a plurality of wires, and a controller. The display panel has a plurality of pixels. The signal generator supplies data signal to the pixels. The wires connect output ends of the signal generator to input ends of the pixels, respectively. The controller varies voltage waveform corresponding to the data signal at the output ends by varying both a voltage level at a rising edge of the voltage waveform and a voltage level at a falling edge of the voltage waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ishida, Kenta Ide
  • Patent number: 10411082
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate including first and second sides; first and second pixels connected to different scan lines; a light blocking layer defining first and second light emission areas of the first and second pixels; and patterns overlapping the first and second light emission areas and on different layers between a pixel electrode and the substrate. Each emission area is divided into first and second divided areas, between which the first divided area is the closer to the first side. In the first light emission area, an overlap area between the second divided area and the first pattern is larger than an overlap area between the first divided area and the first pattern. In the second light emission area, an overlap area between the first divided area and the first pattern is larger than an overlap area between the second divided area and the first pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wonju Kwon, Heesong Jeong, Dalho Kim, Sangmin Hong, Hyomin Kim
  • Patent number: 10401976
    Abstract: An electronic system is provided, which includes a first device and a second device. The first device includes a light source unit, a light detection unit and a control unit. The light source unit is utilized for emitting light along a light path. The light detection unit is utilized for detecting reflected light and measuring intensity of the reflected light. The control unit is utilized for generating a control signal according to the intensity of the reflected light. The second device includes a switch body and a reflection portion. The reflection portion is disposed on the switch body. When the reflection portion is located on the light path, the reflection portion reflects at least a portion of the light to form at least a portion of the reflected light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tai Ju, Ruey-Ching Shyu, Chih-Chiang Chen, Chueh-Pin Ko
  • Patent number: 10401951
    Abstract: A method to transition focus of a display corresponding to an object's motion tracked by a video camera or like device is disclosed. In one implementation, the display shows one or more windows or user interfaces on the display. The object's motion can be used to select one of the windows or user interfaces on the display and manipulate content presented in the window or user interface. In another implementations, the object's motion can manipulate a three-dimensional graphical icon in a three-dimensional display environment, for example, by rotating it. In another implementation, the method further tracks motion of a second object and shifts focus of the display corresponding to the motion of the second object. In another implementation, a second display may be added to mirror the focus transition corresponding to the object's motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Kevin H. Quennesson
  • Patent number: 10395590
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for controlling an emission of the light emitting devices are described herein. The light emitting devices may be light emitting diode (LED) devices including ?LED devices or organic LED (OLED) devices. Emission control of the LED may be performed using a micro-scale driving circuit (e.g., ?Driver) containing drive transistors for constant current driving of the light emitting devices. One embodiment provides for a display driver hardware circuit comprising a thin film transistor (TFT) backplane, an integrated circuit including emission logic to cause an LED emission pulse, and a ramp signal generator to cause a voltage ramp having a slope based on an analog input voltage from the TFT backplane. The length of the LED emission pulse is related to the slope of the voltage ramp. In one embodiment the TFT backplane includes a low temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) transistor and/or an Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide (IGZO) transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chin Wei Lin, Shinya Ono, Vasudha Gupta, Mohammad B. Vahid Far
  • Patent number: 10395594
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for controlling an emission of the light emitting devices are described herein. The light emitting devices may be light emitting diode (LED) devices including ?LED devices or organic LED (OLED) devices. Emission control of the LED may be performed using a micro-scale driving circuit (e.g., ?Driver) containing drive transistors for constant current driving of the light emitting devices. One embodiment provides for a display driver hardware circuit including emission logic, the emission logic including comparator logic to compare a data voltage from a storage capacitor to a voltage ramp provided via the TFT backplane, the comparator logic to cause the emission logic to generate an emission pulse to an LED device, and wherein the integrated circuit is to switch and drive a plurality of LED devices. In one embodiment each of the plurality of LED devices is a subpixel for a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Charisoulis, Tore Nauta, Kapil Sakariya, Jean-Jacques P. Drolet
  • Patent number: 10395589
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for controlling an emission of the light emitting devices are described herein. The light emitting devices may be light emitting diode (LED) devices including ?LED devices or organic LED (OLED) devices. Emission control of the LED may be performed using a micro-scale driving circuit (e.g., ?Driver) containing drive transistors for constant current driving of the light emitting devices. One embodiment provides for a display driver hardware circuit comprising a thin film transistor (TFT) backplane and an integrated circuit to switch and drive a plurality of LED devices, the integrated circuit including emission logic to generate an emission pulse to an LED device, the emission logic including comparator logic having a relaxed comparator offset, the comparator logic to compare a voltage from a storage capacitor on the TFT backplane to a reference voltage to control a length of the emission pulse provided by the emission logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad B. Vahid Far, Wei H. Yao, Yafei Bi
  • Patent number: 10379574
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel configured to be bent or unbent, a first sensor disposed on a first surface of the display panel and configured to sense a bending direction and a deformation rate of the display device, and a second sensor disposed on a second surface of the display panel and configured to sense the bending direction and the deformation rate of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Min Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 10372277
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to a triboelectric device including first and second electrodes that are spaced apart from each other, a charging layer provided on the first electrode, a display layer, which is provided between the first and second electrodes, configured to implement an image according to a change in an electric field between the first and second electrodes, and a charging member charged with an opposite polarity to the polarity of the charging layer by contacting the charging layer, wherein the triboelectric device is configured to implement the image according to the change in the electric field between the first and second electrodes in a contact area of the charging member and the charging layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-Eun Byun, Jae-Young Kim, Hyeonjin Shin, Alum Jung
  • Patent number: 10372221
    Abstract: An application-independent module associates a first type of event with a first tactile output and a distinct second type of event with a different second tactile output. An electronic device receives and generates a response to first information from a first application by generating the first tactile output using one or more tactile output generators if the first information corresponds to an application event of the first type; and generating the second tactile output using the one or more tactile output generators if the first information corresponds to an application event of the second type. The electronic device receives and generates a response to second information from a distinct second application by generating the first tactile output if the second information corresponds to an application event of the first type; and generating the second tactile output if the second information corresponds to an application event of the second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Julien Y. Robert, Tyler M. Fox, Camille Moussette, Viktor Miladinov, Jean-Pierre M. Mouilleseaux, Madeleine S. Cordier
  • Patent number: 10373558
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a pixel circuit, a driving method thereof and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit comprises a resetting sub-circuit configured to control potentials of the first node, the second node and the third node according to inputting signals of the first signal terminal and the second signal terminal; a charging sub-circuit configured to control a potential of the second node according to an inputting signal of the second signal terminal; a compensating sub-circuit configured to control the potentials of the first node and the third node according to an inputting signal of the third signal terminal and the potential of the second node; a reading sub-circuit is configured to control outputting signals of the first terminal of the light emitting device and the reading terminal according to the inputting signal of the fourth signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengji Yang, Xue Dong, Jing Lv, Xiaochuan Chen, Yafeng Yang, Wenqing Zhao, Can Zhang
  • Patent number: 10365715
    Abstract: A wearable gesture control interface apparatus samples first sensor data from one or more sensors in response to user motion, stores the first sensor data in memory, and determines whether the first sensor data meets a first threshold. If the first sensor data meets the first threshold, the interface apparatus samples second sensor data from the one or more sensors in response to subsequent user motion, stores the second sensor data in the memory, traces the first and second sensor data stored in the memory, and determines whether the second sensor data does not meet a second threshold. If the second sensor data is less than the second threshold, the interface apparatus performs pattern recognition on the traced first and second sensor data, and identifies a first gesture based on the pattern recognition of the traced first and second sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Inventor: Rohit Seth
  • Patent number: 10360855
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a novel structure is provided. Fluctuation in the grayscale voltage due to an offset voltage is suppressed. When a current corresponding to a lower-bit grayscale voltage is generated in a transconductance amplifier, voltages VHI and VLO supplied to the transconductance amplifier are alternately input to two input terminals in accordance with a digital signal of the most significant bit of lower bits. Since a change corresponding to the offset voltage is added to both the maximum and minimum values of the current output from the transconductance amplifier, fluctuation in the grayscale voltage due to the offset voltage can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10353510
    Abstract: A force-scalable stationary interface control is provided. The control includes a knob-like structure including an axis and a fixed surface located at least partially around the axis, and a touch sensor located at least partially around the fixed surface, the touch sensor configured to sense a plurality of different levels of applied pressure and locations of touch input. The control further includes at least one output device. The control further includes a controller configured to: identify a first level of applied pressure sensed at the touch sensor, identify a scrolling action based on a detected change in locations of the touch input sensed at the touch sensor, identify a current scale of the scrolling action based on an identified first level of applied pressure, and control the at least one output device to provide an identified current scale and an identified scrolling action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven J Kerr, Goktug Duman
  • Patent number: 10347205
    Abstract: A data conversion method for converting display data of a display device includes detecting an ambient temperature of the display device; receiving a specific display data to be displayed by the display device, a previous display data in N row before the specific display data, and a next display data in N row after the specific display data; converting the specific display data into a display output data according to the previous display data, the next display data and the ambient temperature; and outputting the display output data to perform displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Sitronix Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Chang, Wen-Yuan Kuo
  • Patent number: 10331216
    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: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: IMMERSION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vahid Khoshkava, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Neil T. Olien
  • Patent number: 10318000
    Abstract: A wearable gesture control interface apparatus is used to control a controllable device based on gestures provided by a user. The wearable gesture control interface apparatus includes (i) sensors configured to detect user orientation and movement and generate corresponding sensor data and (ii) a microcontroller configured to: sample the sensor data from the sensors, determine whether the sensor data from one of the sensors meets transmission criteria; and if the sensor data meets the transmission criteria, transmitting control data corresponding to all of the sensors to the controllable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Inventor: Rohit Seth