Patents Examined by Adam J Snyder
  • Patent number: 10203775
    Abstract: A switching assembly for changing relative states of a first object and a second object is provided. The switching assembly includes a fixing member fixed on the first object, a first guiding rod, a second guiding rod, and a moving member movably disposed on the first object. The fixing member has a guiding rib with an extension direction parallel to a first axis, and the first guiding rod is slidably coupled to the guiding rib to move along the first axis. The second object is movably coupled to and driven by the moving member. The second guiding rod is pivoted between the first guiding rod and the moving member in the first axis. The first guiding rod is suited for being forced to move the second guiding rod and the moving member, so as to rotate the second guiding rod relative to the first guiding rod and the moving member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Tong-Bo Lin, Xiao-Lei Du
  • Patent number: 10204572
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a plurality of pixels and a multi-color light source backlight module, and a driving method thereof are disclosed. Each pixel includes a first color sub-pixel, a second color sub-pixel, a third color sub-pixel, and a white sub-pixel. The backlight module includes a first color light source, a second color light source, and a third color light source. In a first sub-frame period, the first color light source and the second color light source are lightening; in a second sub-frame period, the second color light source and the third color light source are lightening; and in a third sub-frame period, the first color light source and the third color light source are lightening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Seok-Lyul Lee, Yu-Chang Wen
  • Patent number: 10186207
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels at respective crossing regions of scan lines and data lines, a scan driver that is configured to supply a scan signal to the scan lines, and a data driver that is configured to supply a pre-emphasis voltage to the data lines using a first constant for controlling a voltage value of the pre-emphasis voltage, and using a second constant for controlling a supply time of the pre-emphasis voltage, and supply data signals to the data lines after the supply of the pre-emphasis voltage, wherein at least one of the first or second constants is stored in each channel corresponding to each of the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Oh Jo Kwon, Ji Woong Kim, Choong Sun Shin, Joo Hyung Lee, Jun Suk Bang, Gyu Hyeong Cho
  • Patent number: 10180741
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, including an emissive display configured to provide a first image having a first image quality; a transparent display disposed on the emissive display and configured to provide a second image having a second image quality; and a controller configured to control the emissive display to provide the first image in according to first mode and control the transparent display to provide the second image according to a second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-ho Kim, Joo-ho Kim, Jin Ra, Jong-hyun Ryu, Moon-il Jung, Hyun-min Song, Hong-suk Kim, Dong-hyun Sohn
  • Patent number: 10156942
    Abstract: An in-cell touch screen and a display device, a touch electrode pattern is disposed on a side of the opposite substrate (100) facing the array substrate (200); a data line (210) and a gate line (220) are disposed on a side of the array substrate (200) facing the opposite substrate (100), the data line (210) and the gate line (220) intercross and are mutually insulated from each other; and a common electrode layer (230) is disposed on a layer where the gate line and the data line are located; and an orthographic projection of the common electrode layer (230) on the array substrate (200) covers orthographic projections of the gate line (220) and the data line (210). The in-cell touch screen can avoid various display problems and touch problems caused by insufficient time periods in a time division driving manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiayang Zhao, Yinglong Huang
  • Patent number: 10152948
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for displaying information on at least two touch screens are provided. The method includes sensing a first touch-drag on a first touch screen; sensing a first touch on a second touch screen; and displaying, on at least one of the first and second touch screens, information corresponding to the first touch-drag on the first touch screen and the touch on the second touch screen, if the touch-drag on the first touch screen and the first touch on the second touch screen are simultaneously sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ji-Yeon Kwak, Kyung-A Kang, Hyun-Jin Kim, Joon-Kyu Seo
  • Patent number: 10152161
    Abstract: A touch screen controller is for a drive line emitting a periodic signal and capacitively intersecting sense lines. A selection circuit, for each of a number of portions of the periodic signal equal to a number of the sense lines, couples a first subset of the sense lines to a first output path, and couples a second subset of the sense lines to a second output path, the second subset being sense lines not included in the first subset. Processing circuitry, for each portion of the periodic signal, measures a capacitance of the first output path, measures a capacitance of the second output path, and sums the capacitance of the first output path and the capacitance of the second output path. The processing circuitry determines a capacitance between each sense line of the first and second subsets and the drive line as a function of the sums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD
    Inventor: Leonard Dinu
  • Patent number: 10152163
    Abstract: A system and method for reducing the number of electrodes needed to operate a touch sensor by arrangement of drive and sense electrodes on a single layer touch sensor, the electrodes being arranged such that drive signals that are sent to the electrodes are sent in a non-uniform pattern that enables selected regions of the touch sensor to generate a useful drive signal while the remaining regions do not. The arrangement of the drive and sense electrodes is such that the routing of signals to and from the electrodes may not interfere with operation of the touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: CIRQUE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jared G. Bytheway, Steven M. Austin
  • Patent number: 10140899
    Abstract: An image shift controller and a display device including the same, the image shift controller including a starting position generator configured to generate image position information using sample data of first image data, and a shift determiner configured to determine a movement direction and a movement amount of an image using the image position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung Ki Chun, Hyun Seuk Yoo, Jun Gyu Lee, Won Woo Jang, Yong Seok Choi
  • Patent number: 10127870
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a pixel array, a gate driver, a data driver, a common voltage source, and a current duplication module. The gate driver is used to turn on a plurality of rows of pixels in the pixel array in sequence. The data driver is used to provide a plurality of data voltages to the turned-on pixels in the pixel array. The common voltage source is used to provide a common voltage. The current duplication module is coupled to a first side and a second side of the pixel array and is used to input two substantially equal currents to the first side and the second side of the pixel array respectively to provide the common voltage to the first side and the second side of the pixel array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Min-I Yang, Chang-Hui Wu
  • Patent number: 10121405
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel having a first connector, and a driving device having a second connector configured to electrically connect to the first connector, wherein the display panel includes a connection state confirmation unit configured to output a connection state signal including connection information between the first connector and the second connector, and wherein the driving device includes a first power supply configured to supply power to the display panel when the connection state signal includes the connection information that a connection state between the first connector and the second connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongsoo Kim, Sehyuk Park, Woomi Bae, Myungho Lee, Myoungseop Song
  • Patent number: 10114485
    Abstract: First and second touchpad areas are located at first and second sides of a keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Gen-Hung Su
  • Patent number: 10102801
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel, an OLED display device, and a method of driving the same are discussed, which can improve image quality by enabling compensation for the unique characteristics of a driving transistor without an influence on gradation under any circumstances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hojeong Jin
  • Patent number: 10088722
    Abstract: A display panel which includes a plurality of display elements disposed in a matrix manner, signal input parts to which signals to be supplied to the plurality of display elements are input, and a plurality of signal wirings which connect the plurality of display elements and the signal input parts, wherein at least a part of the signal wirings is provided with a meander wiring part whose wiring is meandered, the display panel including a repair wiring which is disposed so as to intersect the signal wiring in the meander wiring part at at least two locations and an insulation layer which is provided between the signal wiring and the repair wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Nakagawa, Takuya Ohishi
  • Patent number: 10078416
    Abstract: In a display control device displaying a cursor on a display screen image based on detection results of a direction of a sight line and a manual operation of a user, a display control unit suspends a sight cursor display processing when a manual operation detection unit does not detect the manual operation of an operation device even when a sight detection unit detects the direction of the sight line with respect to the display screen image. Even when the user only moves the sight line to see a content displayed on the display screen image, the cursor is not displayed over the content. The sight cursor display processing is allowed to be executed by an action ordinary for the user such as usage of the operation device when moving the cursor. Accordingly, user's convenience can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Tsuda
  • Patent number: 10068540
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes: a curved liquid crystal panel; and a driving device for displaying an image by operating the curved liquid crystal panel, wherein a luminance curve for a gray level for generating a gray-level voltage to be applied by the driving device to a first color pixel disposed in an edge portion of the curved liquid crystal panel is disposed below a luminance curve for a gray level for generating a gray-level voltage to be applied to the first color pixel disposed in a remaining portion of the curved liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Soo Park, Wan-Soon Im
  • Patent number: 10043450
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display panel includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel for respectively emitting differently colored lights, each of the sub-pixels including a switching transistor connected to a data line, and having a gate electrode configured to receive a scan signal, a driving transistor connected to the switching transistor, an emission control transistor connected to the driving transistor, and having a gate electrode configured to receive an emission control signal, an emission control line connected to the gate electrode of the emission control transistor, an organic light emitting diode connected the emission control transistor, and coupling capacitor including a first electrode including a portion of the emission control line, and a second electrode including an anode of the organic light emitting diode overlapping the portion of the emission control line, wherein capacitances of a first capacitor including the coupling capacitor of the first sub-pixel and a se
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jung-Hoon Shim
  • Patent number: 10043471
    Abstract: A Gamma curve correction method for an LCD sets a ground potential of the LCD as a common voltage, and adjusts at least one of a plurality of positive Gamma voltages and a plurality of negative Gamma voltages of the LCD such that the central value of a Gamma curve established by the positive Gamma voltages and the negative Gamma voltages becomes closer to the common voltage. As a result, flickers existing in the images of the LCD are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Richtek Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Der-Jiunn Wang, Chung-Hsien Tso, Chun-I Lin
  • Patent number: 10025417
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment provides a touch device including: a touch panel including: first and second substrates; and a pressure sensor including: a first electrode disposed on the first substrate; a second electrode disposed on the second substrate; an insulating layer disposed between the first and second electrodes; and a spacer, wherein the pressure sensor is configured to transmit a touch signal corresponding to an intensity of pressure applied to the second substrate through the pressure sensor in response to a touch; and a touch controller configured to: acquire touch data at respective nodes from the touch signal; acquire a touch data variation at the respective nodes based on previous touch data and the touch data at the respective nodes; correct the touch data at the respective nodes based on the touch data variation; and acquire a coordinate of the touch location based on the corrected touch data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ji Hye Shin
  • Patent number: 10025495
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile terminal which is capable of executing applications and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal includes a user input unit that receives setting of at least one mode and at least one application executable n each mode, a display unit that outputs first screen information corresponding to a first application executable in a selected first mode, and a controller that controls the display unit such that the first screen information is converted into second screen information corresponding to a second application executable in the first mode, in response to a control command for an application conversion which is input in the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Minjoo Kim, Yongdeok Lee, Kwonhan Bae, Mijun Yoo, Jihye Min, Yeehyun Chung, Chulbae Lee