Patents Examined by Alexander S. Beck
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Patent number: 8502788Abstract: A mobile terminal including a body and a display module, which is flexible and is capable of receiving a touch input and a method of controlling the mobile terminal are provided. The method includes setting the touch sensitivity of a display module to a first level; if the display module is bent or folded, setting the touch sensitivity of a bent or folded portion of the display module to a second level; and if the display module is unbent or unfolded and thus returns to its original shape, setting the touch sensitivity of the bent or folded portion of the display module back to the first level. Accordingly, it is possible to adaptively adjust the touch sensitivity of the display module according to whether and how the display module is bent or folded.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2009Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Young Min Cho
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Patent number: 8502790Abstract: An assembly for attachment to a portable computer is described including a touchpad and associated buttons where the touchpad is mounted on one surface of the assembly and the associated “mouse” buttons are mounted on the reverse surface, the two surfaces facing in substantially opposite directions. The buttons are mounted in close proximity to the reverse-mounted touchpad such that the user can operate both the touchpad and the buttons simultaneously with the thumb and one or more fingers of the same hand. In one embodiment, the touchpad faces away from the user and is operated by a finger that is not the user's thumb. In another embodiment, the touchpad faces the user and is operated by the user's thumb. For all embodiments, the associated “mouse buttons” are mounted facing in the reverse direction relative to the touchpad.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Inventor: Robert Osann, Jr.
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Patent number: 8502809Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a method of fabricating the same is provided. Semiconductor layers of driving transistors located in two adjacent pixels included in the OLED display device may extend in different lengthwise directions. Thus, striped stains of the OLED display device can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hong-Ro Lee, Sang-Jo Lee
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Patent number: 8502780Abstract: A Head Mount Display (HMD) and a method for controlling the HMD are disclosed. The method includes detecting an external device in an image captured by the HMD, recognizing at least one component from a first User Interface (UI) of the external device, the at least one component including a keypad or a window for outputting data corresponding to an input signal to the keypad, generating a second UI including the recognized at least one component, displaying the second UI in the HMD, wherein the at least one component of the first UI being displayed on the external device is overlaid with the displayed second UI using the image from which the external device is detected, and displaying data corresponding to an input signal currently received at the external device on the second UI in the HMD.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Hyorim Park
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Patent number: 8497887Abstract: A display driving unit used in a liquid crystal display (LCD) stores two ? curves. When the LCD displays images, the display driving unit determines the luminance of the image in a first sub-period for displaying the image according to the gray level of the image and the first ? curve, and determines the luminance of the image in a second sub-period for displaying the image according to the gray level of the image and the second ? curve. The LCD displays the image in the luminance determined according to the gray level of the image and the first ? curve in the first sub-period and displays the image in the luminance determined according to the gray level of the image and the second ? curve in the second sub-period.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2010Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventors: Sheng-Tien Cho, Eddy Giing-Lii Chen
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Patent number: 8497827Abstract: A method of driving an organic light emitting display device includes generating a luminance map for a plurality of pixels by applying the same driving voltage to driving transistors formed in the plurality of pixels of a panel and by capturing luminances of the pixels, generating a threshold voltage map by calculating threshold voltage correction values that compensate for threshold voltages of the driving transistors associated with the luminances of the pixels. A lookup table is generated by sampling the threshold voltage correction values stored in the threshold voltage map. Threshold voltage correction values are restored by interpolating the sampled threshold voltage correction values, and correcting a driving voltage by adding the restored threshold voltage correction values to input gray level data and by providing the added value to the panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2008Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Baek-Woon Lee
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Patent number: 8497841Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method that includes capturing images of a working area that includes indicia of a virtual keyboard having a plurality of keys and detecting a selected key of the plurality of keys. The detecting of the selected key includes detecting an object in the working area by analyzing the captured images for variations in light intensity in the captured images. The detecting of the object includes generating a first row histogram based on the light intensity in each of the rows in each of the captured images, generating a first column histogram based on the light intensity in each of the columns in each of the captured images, and determining an identification of the selected key based on the first row histogram and the first column histogram. The method also includes outputting the identification of the selected key to a host device.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2012Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Celluon, Inc.Inventors: Cheng-Feng Sze, Raymyung Cha, Jae Eul Koo, Koang Hui Jeong
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Patent number: 8493291Abstract: The present invention involves a technique of recognizing a demand for displaying a shutdown pattern when driving a liquid crystal panel in an inversion method and converting the inversion method into another inversion method causing no horizontal crosstalk. The present invention is achieved by providing an apparatus for controlling driving of a liquid crystal display device, comprising: a timing controller for processing input RGB data by a certain inversion method to supply the data to a data driver and, upon inputting of RGB data of a shutdown pattern, converting the RGB data by an inversion driving method causing no crosstalk to supply the data; a gate driver for outputting gate signals to each gate line of a liquid crystal panel in response to a gate signal control signal; and a data driver for supplying data voltages to each data line of the liquid crystal panel in response to a data signal control signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun-Taek Nam, Han-Yung Jung
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Patent number: 8493302Abstract: The present invention aims to reduce flickers of the liquid crystal display device and enable the use of liquid crystal material exhibiting a high response speed, and to enhance light usage efficiency of the field sequential type liquid crystal display device. After writing the video signal to all the pixels in each sub-frame period, a correction voltage signal or an alternating signal having a frequency of greater than or equal to a certain frequency is input to the data line, so that the magnitude of the leakage current of each pixel TFT caused by the difference in polarity of the video signal with respect to the opposing electrode written to the pixel electrode is equalized, and the flickers are greatly reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2008Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.Inventor: Hiroyuki Sekine
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Patent number: 8493335Abstract: Disclosed herein is a reproduction apparatus which includes a touch panel and vibrates the touch panel, including: a reproduction circuit configured to reproduce data in a unit of a frame in response to an operation of the touch panel by a user; and a driving circuit configured to vibrate the touch panel every time the data of each frame are reproduced.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2008Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsutoshi Shinkai, Junzo Tokunaka, Kotaro Kashiwa
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Patent number: 8487891Abstract: Disclosed herein is a pointer detection apparatus, including: a conductor pattern including a plurality of first conductors disposed in a first direction and a plurality of second conductors disposed in a second direction; a multi-frequency signal production circuit configured to produce a plurality of signals of different frequencies; a first conductor selection circuit configured to selectively supply the signals of different frequencies to those first conductors, between which N ones of the first conductors are interposed, N being a predetermined integer equal to or greater than 0; a second conductor selection circuit configured to selectively receive detection signals from the second conductors; and a signal detection circuit configured to obtain signals of individual frequencies, corresponding to the signals of different frequencies produced by the multi-frequency signal production circuit, which are representative of coupling states at cross points between the first conductors and the second conductorsType: GrantFiled: March 30, 2010Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Oda, Yoshihisa Sugiyama
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Patent number: 8487852Abstract: An active array substrate, a liquid crystal display panel and method for driving the same are provided. The active array substrate includes a plurality of first strip electrodes and second strip electrodes. The sum of one width of the first stripe electrode and one pitch between two adjacent first stripe electrodes is greater than that of one width of the second strip electrode and one pitch between two adjacent second strip electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2009Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.Inventors: Ting-Yi Cho, Chieh-Wei Chen, Te-Wei Chan, Cheng-Han Tsao, Kung-Ching Chu, Chung-Yi Chiu
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Patent number: 8482554Abstract: A device for driving a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality pixel regions formed thereon, a data driver to drive data lines on the liquid crystal panel, a gate driver to drive gate lines on the liquid crystal panel, a driving voltage generating unit to generate a common voltage wherein a level of the common voltage swings every frame, and a timing controller to control the driving voltage generating unit and the gate driver to generate a gate driving voltage wherein a level of the gate driving voltage varies in accordance with the common voltage swinging level.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ju-Young Lee
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Patent number: 8482508Abstract: A LCD display device includes a LCD panel including a plurality of LCD units with trapezoid structure, and three sides of the LCD unit all include three liquid crystal molecules (LCM), the LCMs of all of the first side of the LCD unit constitute a first LCM array and form a first display interface, the LCMs of all of the second side constitute a second LCM array and form a second display interface, and the LCMs of all of the third side constitute a third LCM array and form a third display interface. The LCD display device also includes three signal conversion modules configured to convert three display signals into three control signals respectively, and three driving modules configured to drive the three LCM arrays according to the control signals and cause the first, the second, and the third display interface to display corresponding images.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2009Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shih-Fang Wong, Xin Lu, Yu-Cui Zhou
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Patent number: 8482531Abstract: An electronic calculator is very useful for learning manipulation procedure to perform a predetermined process by designating a position on a display screen of the calculator. Manipulation is executed on a touch screen 16a of the display screen with a touch pen. When a function expression is entered to execute a process for displaying a graphic, a position and content of manipulation in each manipulating process are previously recorded in an external recording medium 13 in association with the order of manipulation. Thereafter, the position and content of manipulation are read from the external recording medium 13 every manipulation to display the position of manipulation and a mark indicating the content of the manipulation, thereby instructing manipulation to be executed. When touch manipulation is executed as instructed, a process is performed to enter the function expression and display a graphic, and manipulation to be executed in the following order of manipulation is displayed on the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2008Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kosuke Karoji
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Patent number: 8482503Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel including data lines and gate lines crossing each other and liquid crystal cells, a timing control signal generating unit, a data drive circuit supplying a data voltage to the data lines, and a gate drive circuit. The timing control signal generating unit generates a first gate timing control signal for controlling a scan direction of the liquid crystal display panel in a sequential direction and a second gate timing control signal for controlling the scan direction in a reverse sequential direction. The gate drive circuit supplies a gate pulse to the gate lines while a shift direction of the gate pulse changes in response to the first and second gate timing control signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2008Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hongsung Song, Woongki Min, Yonggi Son, Suhyuk Jang
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Patent number: 8466890Abstract: A pointer detection apparatus and a pointer detection method of the cross point electrostatic coupling type are disclosed, by which a pointer on a conductor pattern can be detected at a higher speed. The pointer detection apparatus includes a conductor pattern, a spread code supplying circuit, a reception conductor selection circuit, an amplification circuit, an analog to digital conversion circuit, and a correlation value calculation circuit. The spread code supplying circuit supplies a plurality of spread codes at the same time. The correlation value calculation circuit determines correlation values between signals output from the analog to digital conversion circuit and the correlation calculation codes respectively corresponding to the spread codes. A pointer is detected based on the determined correlation values.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2010Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Oda, Yoshihisa Sugiyama, Sadao Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8466854Abstract: An organic electro-luminescent device package includes an organic electro-luminescent device array substrate, a transparent cover, and a frit. The organic electro-luminescent device array substrate includes a first substrate and a plurality of organic electro-luminescent devices arranged on the first substrate in an array. The transparent cover is disposed over the organic electro-luminescent device array substrate. The transparent cover includes a second substrate and a conductive layer disposed on the second substrate. The organic electro-luminescent devices are located between the first substrate and the second substrate. The frit is disposed between the organic electro-luminescent device array substrate and the transparent cover to surround the organic electro-luminescent devices. The frit is located between the first substrate and a portion of the conductive layer, and the portion of the conductive layer corresponding to the frit is transparent.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2010Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Chih-Che Liu, Shih-Feng Hsu
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Patent number: 8466856Abstract: Methods for displaying an image on a color display having a target display white point luminance and chromaticity, and including three gamut-defining emitters defining a display gamut and two or more additional emitters which emit light within the display gamut; the method including receiving a three-component input image signal; transforming the three-component input image signal to a five-or-more component drive signal; and providing the drive signal to display an image corresponding to the input image signal. One method provides a reproduced luminance value higher than the sum of the respective luminance values of the three components of the input signal when reproduced with the gamut-defining emitters. Another method provides reduced power in an OLED display including a white-emitting layer with three color filters for gamut-defining emitters and two or more additional color filters for three additional within-gamut emitters.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventors: John W. Hamer, Michael E. Miller, John Ludwicki
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Patent number: 8466853Abstract: A driving method of a plasma display device according to an exemplary embodiment groups a plurality of address electrodes extending in a first direction into a plurality of groups, and logically divides each of the groups into a plurality of sub-groups. During a first period, a first pulse is sequentially applied to the plurality of groups, and a second pulse is sequentially applied to the plurality of sub-groups included in at least one of the plurality of groups during a second period following the first period. The first and second periods are address periods for sensing in a second direction crossing the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2010Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae-Yong Song, Suk-Jae Park, Woo-Joon Chung