Patents Examined by Amen Woldesenbet Bogale
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Patent number: 10942608Abstract: A capacitive sensing device has a first plurality of sensor electrodes, and a second plurality of sensor electrodes overlapping the first plurality of sensor electrodes. A first sensor electrode of the second plurality of electrodes overlaps a first subset of the first plurality of electrodes and comprises apertures disposed according to first codes. The first codes comprise first and second coefficients and along one of the first plurality of sensor electrodes. Each aperture may correspond to one of the first coefficients. The capacitive sensing device further comprises a processing system coupled to the first and second plurality of sensor electrodes. The processing system may be configured to receive resulting signals with the second plurality of sensor electrodes to determine positional information for an input object within a sensing region of the capacitive sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Tetsuo Tanemura, Petr Shepelev
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Patent number: 10916176Abstract: A display driver includes a plurality of source amplifiers configured to drive a plurality of source lines of a display panel, and an amplifier control system configured to control the source amplifiers. Each of the source amplifiers is configured to drive a source line with a drive voltage corresponding to a grayscale value specified by an image data associated with each of the source amplifiers. The amplifier control system is configured to control execution and stopping of an amplifying operation of each of the source amplifiers based on the image data associated with each of the source amplifiers is a grayscale value corresponding to black portions of the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Synaptics Japan GKInventors: Kota Kitamura, Makoto Kimura
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Patent number: 10901465Abstract: An electronic device or a foldable display device includes a flexible substrate and a display layer disposed on the flexible substrate. The display layer includes a first display portion, a second display portion, and a foldable display portion connecting the first display portion and the second display portion. A method of unfolding the foldable display device includes providing a first predetermined angle; sensing a folding angle between the first display portion and the second display portion; comparing the folding angle with the first predetermined angle; changing the folding angle with a first angular velocity when the folding angle is less than the first predetermined angle; and changing the folding angle with a second angular velocity greater than the first angular velocity when the folding angle is equal to or greater than the first predetermined angle.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: InnoLux CorporationInventors: Yuan-Lin Wu, Kuan-Feng Lee, Chandra Lius
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Patent number: 10802319Abstract: 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: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Masanobu Ikeda, Hayato Kurasawa, Yoshihiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 10802650Abstract: A coordinate input device includes an operation detecting unit for detecting an input operation performed by an operation body and a calculation unit for computing a calculation result from the input operation, wherein, in a case where the input operation detected by the operation detecting unit continues for a predetermined time, the calculation unit acquires a first position coordinate at a first time and a second position coordinate at a second time is detected after the first time, calculates an input vector from the first position and directed toward the second position, calculates a movable distance between an end and another end of the operation detecting unit on a line connecting the first position and the second position, and computing an output vector by increasing a correction value for correcting a value of the input vector so that the shorter the movable distance, the larger the correction value is.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoyuki Hatano, Shinya Abe, Masafumi Takagi
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Patent number: 10789909Abstract: A picture adjusting method includes steps of measuring a plurality of first original parameters in a first picture and measuring a plurality of second original parameters in a second picture for a plurality of color patterns; calculating a first gain factor according to the first original parameters and the second original parameters of at least one of the color patterns except a black pattern; subtracting a product of the first original parameters of the black pattern and the first gain factor from the second original parameters of the black pattern to obtain a plurality of first offset values; adding the first offset values to the first original parameters of each color pattern to obtain a plurality of first updated parameters in the first picture; and multiplying the first updated parameters by a second gain factor to obtain a plurality of first adjusted parameters in the first picture.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Qisda CorporationInventors: Chung-Ting Yen, Feng-Lin Chen
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Patent number: 10789881Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes a display panel having a display region and a peripheral region, an OLED at the display region and including an end connected to a first voltage, a pixel circuit at the display region, a repair pixel circuit at the peripheral region, a repair line for connecting the repair pixel circuit to the OLED, and a switching circuit configured to apply a second voltage to the repair line during a power-up of the OLED display device.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kyong-Tae Park
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Patent number: 10746351Abstract: A head-mounted-display strap assembly may include a flexible lining member having (1) a head-contact layer positioned to abut a head portion of a user, (2) a mounting layer overlapping the head-contact layer, the mounting layer defining a wiring channel, and (3) a mesh layer disposed between the head-contact layer and the mounting layer such that a portion of the mesh layer overlaps the wiring channel. A method may include (1) attaching a head-contact layer for a head-mounted-display strap assembly to a mesh layer and (2) attaching a mounting layer to the mesh layer such that the mesh layer is disposed between the head-contact layer and the mounting layer the mounting layer defining a wiring channel, and a portion of the mesh layer overlapping the wiring channel. Various other head-mounted-display strap assemblies, head-mounted-display systems, and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Shane Michael Ellis, Lesley Ribble Magrath
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Patent number: 10741134Abstract: A method for driving a display panel includes: dividing pixels on the display panel into a plurality of pixel groups; each of the pixel groups includes an even number of pixels arranged in arrays; calculating an average gray scale value of blue sub-pixels in each of the sub-pixel groups according to an image input signal; obtaining two groups of target gray scale value pairs according to the average gray scale value; each group of the target gray scale value pair includes a high gray scale value and a low gray scale value; a brightness of the high gray scale value and the low gray scale value in the front view is the same as a brightness of the average gray scale value in the front view; obtaining corresponding two groups of driving voltage pairs according to the two groups of the target gray scale value pairs in each of the pixel groups; driving the blue sub-pixels on the corresponding pixel group according to the two groups of the driving voltage pairs.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
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Patent number: 10741167Abstract: Controlling a reading machine while reading a document to a user by receiving an image of a document, accessing a knowledge base that provides data that identifies sections in the document and processing user commands to select a section of the document. The reading machine applies text-to-speech to a text file that corresponds to the selected section of the document, to read the selected section of the document aloud to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: KNFB READER, LLCInventors: Raymond C. Kurzweil, Paul Albrecht, Lucy Gibson
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Patent number: 10726773Abstract: A pixel unit includes signal lines and two pixel groups respectively corresponding to and electrically connected to the signal lines. Each pixel group has three sub-pixels of different colors. Each sub-pixel of the same color has a primary driving unit, a sub-driving unit, and a current-driving device. In a first state, the primary driving unit of one of the sub-pixels of the same color is enabled to provide a driving potential to the current-driving device of the sub-pixel, and the primary driving unit of the other sub-pixel of the same color is enabled to provide the driving potential to the current-driving device of the other sub-pixel. In a second state, the primary driving unit of one of the sub-pixels of the same color and the sub-driving unit of the other sub-pixel of the same color are enabled to provide the driving potential to the current-driving device of the sub-pixel.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventor: Peng-Bo Xi
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Patent number: 10712836Abstract: An input device may include at least one touch surface arranged in a three-dimensional (3D) shape wherein the at least one touch surface receives translational and rotational input along three spatial axes. A six degree-of-freedom (6DOF) input system may include at least one touch registering surface formed into a 3D shape to detect an interactive touch from a user and a processor to receive the interactive touch and adjust the position of a three-dimensional (3D) object represented in 3D space on a graphical user interface (GUI).Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Ian N. Robinson, Hiroshi Horii
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Patent number: 10712875Abstract: Described is an apparatus of a thermal sensor and/or bandgap reference circuit which is independent of an operational amplifier. The apparatus comprises: a forward biased diode circuit having one or more diodes; a first switch-capacitor sampler coupled to the forward biased diode circuit, the first switch-capacitor sampler to provide a reference voltage which is proportional to absolute temperature; and a second switch-capacitor sampler coupled to the forward biased diode circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventor: Sharon Malevsky
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Patent number: 10698509Abstract: A display screen assembly comprises a display screen, a touch panel, and a cover plate that are stacked sequentially. The display screen includes a display surface, the display surface has a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area; the touch panel covers the non-display area and is provided with at least one virtual key; the cover plate comprises a light shielding band corresponding to the non-display area, the light shielding band comprises a key area, and the key area is configured to correspond to the at least one virtual key. The display screen assembly further has a lighting assembly configured to illuminate the key area.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Yuanqing Zeng
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Patent number: 10689829Abstract: Method for controlling input to a touch panel includes a monitor screen display displaying a rear camera image screen, a measurement screen at the touch panel, and an input operation screen display in which an input operation can be performed. When the machine is operable, a monitor screen can be displayed in an input lock state in which the input operation is inhibited by turning off a hydraulic lock switch and releasing a hydraulic lock state. A specific input lock releasing operation on the touch panel releases the lock and the monitor screen display is switched to the input operation screen display.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2015Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Caterpillar SARLInventor: Hideo Yamada
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Patent number: 10627974Abstract: A touch display apparatus and a backlight module are provided. The touch display apparatus includes the backlight module and a display module. The backlight module includes an electromagnetic resonance (EMR) sensing module, an edge-type light source module and a direct-type light source module. The EMR sensing module emits an electromagnetic signal to a stylus pen. The edge-type light source module includes a light guide plate disposed above the EMR sensing module and a first light source apparatus disposed beside the light guide plate. A second light source apparatus of the direct-type light source module includes a substrate disposed between the edge-type light source module and the EMR sensing module and a plurality of second light sources disposed on a surface of the substrate. The display module is disposed above the backlight module.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: CHAMP VISION DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Hsin-Hung Lee, Chung-Hao Wu, Kun-Hsien Lee, Chin-Ku Liu
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Patent number: 10613649Abstract: An information handling system interacts with a totem through a touchscreen display, such as with movement of the totem or pressured applied on the totem. A totem holder manages totem position on the touchscreen display to maintain the totem in a desired location, such as to prevent sliding of the totem in the event of motion of the touchscreen display from a horizontal to a more vertical orientation.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Lawrence A. Stone, Sathish K. Bikumala
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Patent number: 10613675Abstract: An information handling system interacts with a totem through a touchscreen display, such as with movement of the totem or pressured applied on the totem. A totem holder manages totem position on the touchscreen display to maintain the totem in a desired location, such as to prevent sliding of the totem in the event of motion of the touchscreen display from a horizontal to a more vertical orientation.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Lawrence A. Stone, Sathish K. Bikumala
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Patent number: 10607943Abstract: A display device includes a window combined with a substrate. The substrate includes a display region with pixels and a non-display region with power lines for the pixels. The window includes a display part corresponding to the display region and a non-display part corresponding to the non-display region. A plurality of alignment marks are on the substrate at a location corresponding to the non-display region. The alignment marks are integrally provided with an outermost power line at an outermost side of the non-display region, and each of the alignment marks overlaps with the non-display part of the window.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Young Kwan Kim, Jae Young Kim, Yeon Tae Kim
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Patent number: 10593261Abstract: A display device and a driving method of the display device are disclosed. The display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, wherein each of the pixels is composed of three sub-pixels among a first color sub-pixel, a second color sub-pixel, a third color sub-pixel, and a fourth color sub-pixel, an image processing unit configured to change a color combination on a time axis in at least one of the pixels, and render sub-pixel data of an input image in the color combination, and a display panel driving circuit configured to write data received from the image processing unit to the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Taegung Kim, Kyungrok Kim, Jinhan Yoon