Patents Examined by Amen Bogale
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Patent number: 10394434Abstract: An interfacing apparatus may sense an input object and move at least one interface object displayed on a display toward the sensed input object.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seung Ju Han, Joon Ah Park, Hyun Surk Ryu, Du Sik Park, Ki Myung Lee
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Patent number: 10372268Abstract: An spatial image display apparatus and method for displaying a spatial image in an aerial space, sensing an object traversing the spatial image, calculating the position of the object's effective centroid, and performing an input operation is disclosed. The spatial image display apparatus detects distances from the object's surface thrust into the aerial display to more precisely determine the position on the spatial image at which the user intends to indicate.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Tachibana, Tsuyoshi Ito
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Conductive structure body precursor, conductive structure body and method for manufacturing the same
Patent number: 10338706Abstract: The present application provides a conductive structure body precursor, a conductive structure body and a method for manufacturing the same.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2014Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Jin Hyong Lim, Yong Chan Kim, Junghwan Yoon, Jung Il Yoon, Ki-Hwan Kim, Ilha Lee -
Patent number: 10325539Abstract: The present invention provides a display method, a display panel and a display device. The display panel comprises a plurality of rows of sub-pixels, the adjacent sub-pixels in the column direction having different colors and being staggered from each other. The display method comprises: S1, generating an original image composed of a matrix of virtual pixels; S2, enabling the virtual pixels to correspond to sampling locations, wherein among the sampling locations in each row, one sampling location is further included between two sampling locations corresponding to any two adjacent virtual pixels; in two adjacent rows of sampling locations, the sampling locations corresponding to the virtual pixels are not in the same columns, wherein each sampling location corresponds to a location between two sub-pixels in one row and a middle location of a sub-pixel in the other row; and S3, calculating a display component of each sub-pixel.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Lingyun Shi, Xue Dong, Hao Zhang, Renwei Guo, Liguang Deng
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Patent number: 10310554Abstract: Folding display panels for large-format displays. In an example, the folding display panels are electrically connected by a power cable and a data cable that respectively include a data wire and power wire, and each cable includes a fixed-length section attached at one end to a movable member. When folding adjacent display panels face-to-face, the movable member moves so that the fixed-length section remains taut. Slack in the data wire and power wire accommodate the movement of the corresponding fixed-length section. A column of display panels can be z-folded for compact storage and can be rapidly deployed to form a large-format display.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Production Resource Group, L.L.C.Inventors: Jeremy Hochman, Arnaud Latombe
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Patent number: 10311808Abstract: A system for calibrating a liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a plurality of temperature sensors, a storage medium, and a controller. Each temperature sensor measures a current temperature of at least one pixel in the LCD. The storage medium stores information about latencies for any LC-based pixel, wherein each latency corresponds to a time period for transition from a starting to an ending illumination state for one temperature of the LC-based pixel. The controller determines, based on the current temperature, the transition information and frame information, a time for each pixel in at least a portion of the LCD to transition from a first to a second illumination state. The controller computes, based on transition times, an LC transition time for at least the portion of the LCD and performs calibration of at least the portion of the LCD based on the LC transition time.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Evan M. Richards, Matthew Robert Fulghum
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Patent number: 10263056Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate comprises: a plurality of pixel units arranged in rows and columns; and a plurality of cascaded shift register units, the plurality of shift register units and the rows of pixel units having one-to-one correspondence therebetween. The shift register unit comprises a plurality of shift register elements, and for each shift register unit, at least one shift register element in the shift register unit is provided within at least one pixel unit among the row of pixel units corresponding to the shift register unit. A width of a non-display region occupied by the shift register units of the present disclosure is reduced, which is beneficial to realization of a narrow bezel.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Peng Chen, Xinxia Zhang
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Patent number: 10261612Abstract: An apparatus for recognizing a proximity motion using sensors may include a first sensor to sense a first input region, a second sensor to sense a second input region distinct from the first input region, and an information transfer controller to transfer information related to a transition, between the first sensor and the second sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2014Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seung Ju Han, Joon Ah Park, Hyun Surk Ryu, Du Sik Park, Ki Myung Lee
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Patent number: 10254874Abstract: A touch screen includes a first electrode and a second electrode that are disposed oppositely, and a sensing layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The sensing layer is made of transparent material having piezoelectric effect. The touch screen can sense pressure by any object, and therefore cannot only sense a position of a contact, but also sense a magnitude and a change characteristic of acting force. Also, the touch screen according to the present disclosure directly converts the pressure applied by the object onto the touch screen into an electric signal, which reduces the power consumption greatly, and therefore reduces whole power consumption of the screen effectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Qingpu Wang, Ming Hu
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Patent number: 10255021Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to graphics domain transmission methods that utilize an adaptive compression pipeline to achieve low latency screen mirroring between a source device and a sink device. A source device captures a plurality of graphics domain frames, each of the graphics domain frames including one or more graphics command tokens. The source device utilizes an adaptive compression pipeline to compress the graphics domain frames based on one or more characteristics of the frames, and the adaptive compression pipeline is configured to perform at least one of scalable texture streaming, frame-based prediction, frame dropping, or data compression. The source device transmits the compressed frames to a sink device, and displays a rendered image of the graphics domain frames in time synchronization with a corresponding rendered image of the compressed frames displayed at the sink device.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2015Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mina Ayman Saleh Yanni Makar, Xiaodong Wang, Hongyu Jiang, Na Yu, Vijayalakshmi Raveendran
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Patent number: 10216336Abstract: The control device comprises at least one emitter-receiver pair, a display and a controller. The emitter-receiver pair comprises a radiation emitter and a receiver for receiving radiation emitted by the emitter and reflected by a moving body located at a distance from the pair. The receiver is positioned within the emitter's emission field and provides an electrical signal representative of the radiation received from the emitter. At least one symbol identifying an action, opposite an intersection of the emitter's emission cone and the receiver's reception cone, is displayed. The emitter and receiver are outside the display area of each symbol. The controller provides action control signal according to the electrical signal provided by the receiver. Each emitter-receiver pair is associated with at least one symbol and at least one action control signal when the moving body is in front of the symbol that identifies the action.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2015Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: NEXYSInventor: Sébastien Philippe
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Patent number: 10198993Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and method of control are provided. A display screen includes gate signal lines which intersect source signal lines. A pixel provided with an EL device corresponds to each intersection of the gate and source signal lines. A driving transistor is provided for each pixel to supply a current to the EL device. A first switch transistor is provided on a current path through which the current is supplied to the EL device. A gate driver circuit is connected to the gate signal lines. The gate driver circuit includes a shift register circuit, and outputs a select or non-select signal for the gate signal lines. The gate driver circuit turns the first switch transistor on and off to control a duty ratio of the display screen. The duty ratio is controlled by a start pulse fed to the shift register circuit.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Takahara, Hitoshi Tsuge
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Patent number: 10198992Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and method of controlling are provided. A display screen includes gate signal lines and source signal lines. A pixel corresponds to each intersection of the gate and source signal lines. Each pixel includes: an EL device including an anode and cathode terminals; a driving transistor to flow a current to the EL device; a first switch transistor provided on a current path through which the current flows from a power line through the driving transistor to the EL device; a second switch transistor to supply, to the driving transistor, an image signal from one of the source signal lines; and a third switch transistor provided between the anode terminal of the EL device and a voltage line. The voltage line is configured to supply a reverse bias voltage for reverse biasing the anode terminal of the EL device.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Takahara, Hitoshi Tsuge
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Patent number: 10148268Abstract: A keyboard including a plurality of key assemblies configured to be pressed by an input object. A subset of the plurality of key assemblies each includes a key cap and a first electrode pair underneath the key cap and configured to detect key motion in response to downward force applied by the input object. The key cap also includes a second electrode pair disposed underneath the key cap and configured to detect positional information about the input object interacting with the key cap.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventor: Robert J. Bolender
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Patent number: 10148994Abstract: A mirroring transmission method is provided. The present method retrieves image frames and audio signals of a transmitter and transmits the retrieved image frames and retrieved audio signals to a receiver to be displayed wirelessly. In the meantime, the present method monitors status of a network connected with the transmitter and the receiver, and determines if the network is stable or not. Also, the method stops retrieving and transmitting the audio signal from the transmitter to the receiver, and controls the transmitter to display the audio signal directly through an internal audio module whenever the network is determined unstable.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: BARCO LIMITEDInventors: Kuan-Yu Chou, Shih-Ping Liu, Cheng-Hsiung Chang, Yen-Hsiang Wang, Chia-Chen Kuo
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Patent number: 10140928Abstract: Provided are a pixel driving circuit, a driving method, an array substrate and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit comprises: a data line, a gate line, a first power line, a second power line, a reference signal line, a light emitting device, a driving transistor, a storage capacitor, a reset unit, a data writing unit, a compensation unit and a light emitting control unit. The pixel driving circuit can compensate and eliminate the display nonuniformity caused by the threshold voltage difference of the driving transistors.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ying Wang, Xinshe Yin, Liang Sun
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Patent number: 10133105Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, lead wirings provided on the first substrate or the second substrate and a first insulator part provided on an upper surface of the second substrate. The lead wirings are arranged in a peripheral region when seen in a plan view and the first insulator part is arranged so as to overlap a display region when seen in a plan view. Second insulator parts or spaces with a permittivity lower than a permittivity of the first insulator part are provided at sides of the first insulator part. The second insulator parts or the spaces are arranged so as to overlap the lead wirings in the peripheral region when seen in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Masanobu Ikeda, Hayato Kurasawa, Yoshihiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 10134336Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and corresponding method of control are provided. A display screen includes gate signal lines which are arranged to intersect source signal lines. A pixel provided with an EL device corresponds to each intersection of the gate signal lines and the source signal lines. A driving transistor is provided for each pixel to supply a current to the EL device. A first switch transistor is provided for each pixel on a current path through which the current is supplied to the EL device. A gate driver circuit is connected to the gate signal lines. The gate driver circuit is configured to turn the first switch transistor on and off to simultaneously generate band-shaped non-display regions and band-shaped display regions on the display screen and to move the non-display regions and the display regions relative to the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Takahara, Hitoshi Tsuge
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Patent number: 10126835Abstract: The present invention relates to a pointer device for operation of interactive screen surfaces, comprising: a closed ring (10) or a ring shaped segment for placement on a finger, where the ring or ring-shaped segment comprises a extractable pointer device (11, 21, 68), where the pointer device is adapted for interaction with a touch-sensitive screen in that the extractable pointer device has an end face functioning as an interface with interactive screens where the end face is less than 25 mm2.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: INTAFIN AS.Inventor: Syversen Trond
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Patent number: 10120446Abstract: One embodiment of a haptic input device may include a receiver configured to receive a signal from a touch-based user interface device. The signal may include a control signal or a look-up value. The haptic input device may also include a decoder coupled to the receiver and configured to decode the signal from the touch-based user interface device, at least one sensor configured to determine at least one characteristic of the haptic input device, a controller coupled to the one or more sensors and configured to transmit a control signal, a haptic actuator coupled to the controller, and a transmitter coupled to the at least one sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2010Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Aleksandar Pance, Omar Sze Leung