Patents Examined by Adam R. Giesy
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Patent number: 10930714Abstract: A display device includes an organic light emitting display panel defining a display area for displaying an image and a non-display area adjacent the display area, and including a base layer, a circuit layer on the base layer, a light emitting device layer on the circuit layer, and a thin film sealing layer on the light emitting device layer and divided into a first thin film sealing area, and a second thin film sealing area adjacent the first thin film sealing area, and a touch detection unit including a first sensor part on the first thin film sealing area of the thin film sealing layer, and a second sensor part on the second thin film sealing area of the thin film sealing layer, wherein an upper surface of the thin film sealing layer that faces the touch detection unit includes a first upper surface in the first thin film sealing area, and a second upper surface in the second thin film sealing area and protruding away from the base layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sanghyun Jun, Kiho Bang, Eunae Jung, Keunlim Ku, Mi-ran Ji
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Patent number: 10921898Abstract: A machine implemented method includes sensing entities in first and second domains. If a first stimulus is present and an entity is in the first domain, the entity is transferred from first to second domain via a bridge. If a second stimulus is present and an entity is in the second domain, the entity is transferred from second first domain via the bridge. At least some of the first domain is outputted. An apparatus includes a processor that defines first and second domains and a bridge that enables transfer of entities between domains, an entity identifier that identifies entities in the domains, a stimulus identifier that identifies stimuli, and a display that outputs at least some of the first domain. The processor transfers entities from first to second domain responsive to a first stimulus, and transfers entities from second to first domain responsive to a second stimulus.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Atheer, Inc.Inventor: Michael Lamberty
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Patent number: 10923054Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel, a display device, and driving methods thereof are provided. The array substrate includes a plurality of subpixels arranged in an array, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of switches. The plurality of subpixels include subpixels of a first color, subpixels of a second color, subpixels of a third color, and subpixels of a fourth color, in odd rows of subpixels, the subpixels of the first color, the subpixels of the second color, the subpixels of the third color, and the subpixels of the fourth color are sequentially arranged; in even rows of subpixels, the subpixels of the third color, the subpixels of the fourth color, the subpixels of the first color, and the subpixels of the second color are sequentially arranged; and each column of subpixels corresponds to and is connected with a data line.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhen Wang, Wenwen Qin, Mingchao Ma, Wenchao Han, Jian Sun, Yun Qiao, Jun Fan
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Patent number: 10909896Abstract: The present disclosure provides a common voltage generation circuit, a common voltage generation method, and a display device, and belongs to the field of display technology. The common voltage generation circuit includes: an initial common voltage generation component configured to generate an initial common voltage controlled by a ground voltage and a positive power supply voltage according to a clock synchronization signal and a serial digital signal as received; and a common voltage adjustment component configured to generate a common voltage controlled by the ground voltage and a negative power supply voltage according to the initial common voltage.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yifei Zhan, Dayu Zhang, Xiaohan Ling
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Patent number: 10909897Abstract: A gate driving circuit includes a shift register configured to generate a plurality of output signals based on at least one clock signal, a plurality of output buffers configured to generate a plurality of gate signals by amplifying the output signals and to sequentially output the gate signals to a plurality of gate lines in a display panel, a detector configured to sequentially sense the gate signals and to compare each of the gate signals to a reference voltage, and a dummy output buffer configured to be coupled between the shift register and a gate line of the gate lines instead of an output buffer of the output buffers when a voltage level of a corresponding gate signal from the output buffers is less than a voltage level of the reference voltage.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae-Han Lee, Sooyeon Kim, Taegon Im, Jung Hwan Cho
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Patent number: 10901257Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. In some embodiments of the disclosure, opening support structures are arranged between a first substrate and a second substrate in at least a sub-area corresponding to the largest one of respective first spacings, that is, the opening support structures are arranged in at least the sub-area in which connection segments of touch signal lines are the most sparsely arranged.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Inventors: Donghua Li, Xiaoli Wei, Xiufeng Zhou, Boping Shen
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Patent number: 10898799Abstract: A method that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a device comprising a processor, a first signal from a motion-sensitive component of the device; receiving, by the device, a second signal from a touch-sensitive interface of the device, detecting, by the device, from a combined signal comprising the first signal and the second signal, a selection of a portion of the device; and causing, by the device, a sensory feedback generator to provide a feedback signal in accordance with the combined signal. The feedback signal may comprise an audible sound, a visual effect, a tactile effect, or any combination thereof. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: STEELSERIES ApSInventors: Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Bruce Hawver, Jacob Wolff-Petersen, Kim Rom, Francis Arnold Grever, Tino Soelberg
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Patent number: 10885828Abstract: This disclosure describes implementation of a display with resolution of one to ten million color pixels per square inch of display area. Fabrication in a CMOS foundry uses silicon waveguide technology. Red, green, and blue light are distributed via waveguide to all display pixels. Optical modulators in each pixel control image color and luminance. A photo diode is incorporated into each display pixels to enable uniformity correction of pixel luminance and color.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Inventor: Richard H. Vollmerhausen
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Patent number: 10877662Abstract: An input device includes: a printing layer on which an image of a key including a character is printed; a 3D lens that three-dimensionally floats the image of the key printed on the printing layer; and an input detector that detects an input in accordance with the depression of the image of the key floating three-dimensionally.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITEDInventors: Maiko Kikuchi, Akio Nakamura, Katsuya Funakoshi
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Patent number: 10861367Abstract: According to a drive method for the display panel, m multiplex signals sequentially generate the high level pulse at the beginning of the (2i?1)th row period in a predetermined order. The high level pulse of the multiplex signal that is the last one to generate the high level pulse in the (2i?1)th row period continues until the end of the (2i?1)th row period. The m multiplex signals sequentially generate the high level pulse at the beginning of the (2i)th row period in a reverse order to the predetermined order. The high level pulse of the multiplex signal that is the last one to generate the high level pulse in the (2i)th row period continues until the end of the 2i row period. As a result, the number of times that the levels of the multiplex signals are changed in a frame period can be decreased to reduce the power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Inventors: Lihua Zheng, Mang Zhao, Yong Tian
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Patent number: 10861376Abstract: The disclosure provides a state control method for a display screen, which includes that: a current state of a display screen is acquired; a corresponding signal transmitter in a first signal transmitter and a second signal transmitter is controlled according to the current state to transmit a detection signal, wherein the detection signal is reflected by a barrier to form a reflected signal; a distance state between a terminal and the barrier is judged according to an intensity of the reflected signal received by a signal receiver; and the state of the display screen is controlled according to the distance state.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Yibao Zhou
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Patent number: 10860135Abstract: A display panel, a display device, and a driving circuit including both a touch sensor configuration and a photosensor configuration are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: DukKeun Yoo, HyunGon Kim
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Patent number: 10839767Abstract: A display driver includes an operational amplifier, a D/A conversion circuit, a resistance circuit, and a resistance element. The D/A conversion circuit includes first and second variable resistance circuits including one end to which first and second voltages are input and another end connected to an inverting input node. The resistance circuit is provided between the inverting input node and an output node. The resistor is provided between the output node and the inverting input node. A resistance value of the first variable resistance circuit is set based on upper bit data of display data. A resistance value of the second variable resistance circuit is set based on lower bit data of the display data.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Morita, Takeshi Nomura
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Patent number: 10831273Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, from at least one sensor, data, wherein the data is based upon an action performed by a user; identifying, using a processor, the data as an activation cue; and activating, responsive to identifying the data as an activation cue, a voice response system. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Nathan J. Peterson, Arnold S. Weksler, John Carl Mese
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Patent number: 10824237Abstract: A screen display control method includes: by using a wearable terminal to be attached to a head of an operator to capture an image, capturing, with an image of a display having a rectangular frame and a viewport, an image of a hand portion with which the operator points to the display; by using a computer, extracting positions of vertexes of the rectangular frame in the captured image by the wearable terminal and a position pointed by the hand portion; determining, based on a position relation of the extracted positions of the vertexes and the extracted pointed position, whether a position in the viewport corresponding to the hand portion is present; and causing a pointer to be displayed at the position if present.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshinori Murakami
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Patent number: 10824227Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a display apparatus (12), comprising the following steps: capture of image data from at least one part of the head of a user (14) (step 110), ascertainment of at least one parameter, which the user (14) can alter by moving at least one part of the head, from the image data captured in step a) (step 120), control of a visual representation on a display apparatus (12) on the basis of the ascertained at least one parameter (step 130), wherein the capture in step a) is taken as a basis for ascertaining at least one quality parameter (step 140) and the at least one quality parameter is taken as a basis for varying at least one resolution of at least one part of the visual representation (step 150). Moreover, the invention relates to a corresponding computer program product and to a corresponding system for operating a display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Eberhard Schmidt
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Patent number: 10810943Abstract: A display driver includes: a compensator configured to divide an input image into a plurality of blocks having a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows, generate a first current map in which a current magnitude corresponding to each of the plurality of blocks has been calculated, generate a second current map based on a cumulative summation of the current magnitude of the block located on each column of the first current map in a column direction, and generate output data by compensating pixel values of the input image based on a third current map in which the current magnitude of the block located on each row of the second current map has been adjusted with respect to a position in a row direction; and a data driver configured to generate an output image based on the output data and provide the output image to a display panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joo-Hyuk Yum, Yong-Hoon Yu, Jae-Youl Lee
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Patent number: 10809862Abstract: A touchscreen resistive sensor includes a network of resistive sensor branches coupled to a number of sensor nodes arranged at touch locations of the touchscreen. A test sequence is performed by sequentially applying to each sensor node a reference voltage level, jointly coupling to a common line the other nodes, sensing a voltage value at the common line, and declaring a short circuit condition as a result of the voltage value sensed at the common line reaching a short circuit threshold. A current value level flowing at the sensor node to which the reference voltage level is applied is sensed and a malfunction of the resistive sensor branch coupled with the sensor node to which a reference voltage level is applied is generated as a result of the current value sensed at the sensor node reaching an upper threshold or lower threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.Inventors: Calogero Marco Ippolito, Angelo Recchia, Antonio Cicero, Pierpaolo Lombardo, Michele Vaiana
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Patent number: 10809570Abstract: A method for acquiring backlight diffusion transmission parameter, a display control method and a display control device are provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhihua Ji, Tiankuo Shi, Xiaomang Zhang, Yilang Sun, Yanhui Xi, Yifang Chu, Lingyun Shi, Chuanjun Liu
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Patent number: 10795445Abstract: A method of determining contact on a user of a virtual reality and/or augmented reality device includes a first device including a plurality of transducers and a control circuit coupled to the plurality of transducers. The method includes activating one or more of the first plurality of transducers and generating waves that couple into at least a portion of a first appendage of a user wearing the first wearable device. The method further includes at a second wearable device having a second plurality of transducers, receiving at least a portion of the waves generated by the first plurality of transducers when the first appendage of the user is within a threshold distance from the second wearable device.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Sean Jason Keller, Tristan Thomas Trutna, Hrvoje Benko