Patents Examined by Amr A. Awad
  • Patent number: 11003226
    Abstract: A touchscreen display may include display chassis, a touchscreen sensor, and filters. The touchscreen sensor may include row conductors and column conductors spanning a display surface. Each of the filters may be coupled to one of the row conductors or the column conductors such that the row conductors and the column conductors are coupled to the filters. Each of the filters may be grounded to the display chassis. Each of the plurality of filters may be configured to allow a touchscreen sensor frequency band of interest to pass through said filter such that the touchscreen sensor is configured to detect touches. Each of the filters may be configured to filter out electromagnetic interference (EMI) on frequencies other than the touchscreen sensor frequency band of interest and to ground the EMI to the display chassis. The touchscreen sensor and the filters may form an EMI shield across the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd M. Brown, Jeremy D. Iverson
  • Patent number: 11004392
    Abstract: A method for driving a display device includes stopping a display operation of a display based on a presence or absence of a signal indicating an off operation of a main power switch of the display. The method further includes applying a recovery voltage across a gate and source of a driving transistor in the display based on a threshold voltage shift of the driving transistor. The threshold voltage shift is determined during a stopped state of the display operation of the display. The stopped state of the display operation of the display occurs prior to starting the display operation of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hayashi, Shinya Ono
  • Patent number: 10997938
    Abstract: A display panel driving apparatus includes a data driving part, a data driving part and an off voltage controlling part. The data driving part is configured to output a data signal to a data line of a display panel. The gate driving part is configured to output a gate signal to a gate line of the display panel. The off voltage controlling part is configured to receive a first off voltage and a second off voltage applied to the gate driving part to generate the gate signal, measure a leakage current of the gate driving part, and control the first off voltage based on the leakage current. Thus, display quality of a display apparatus including the gate driving part may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong-Kyu Kim, Po-Yun Park, Gwang-Soo Ahn, Jung-Hwan Cho
  • Patent number: 10990174
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing a dynamically-updated computerized musculo-skeletal representation comprising a plurality of rigid body segments connected by joints. The method comprises recording, using a plurality of autonomous sensors arranged on one or more wearable devices, a plurality of autonomous signals from a user, wherein the plurality of autonomous sensors include a plurality of neuromuscular sensors configured to record neuromuscular signals. The method further comprises providing as input to a trained statistical model, the plurality of neuromuscular signals and/or information based on the plurality of neuromuscular signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Kaifosh, Timothy Machado, Thomas Reardon, Erik Schomburg
  • Patent number: 10984690
    Abstract: A protection circuit for a gate driver on array (GOA) unit, which relates to ESD or EOS protection for the gate GOA unit. The protection circuit includes: a first voltage gating module configured to output, when a gate line signal output end should output a valid driving voltage of a gate driving signal, an output voltage of an output end of a first voltage source; and a first protection module, an input end of which is connected to an output end of the first voltage gating module, and an output end of which is connected to a gate line; wherein in the case where the output voltage of the first voltage source and a current output voltage of the gate line signal output end satisfies a first predetermined condition, the first protection module outputs the output voltage of the output end of the first voltage source as an adjusted gate driving signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xingchen Shangguan
  • Patent number: 10976591
    Abstract: A color filter substrate and a method for preparing the same, and a touch screen are provided in embodiments of the disclosure. The color filter substrate comprises: a base substrate; a plurality of first electrodes, on a first side of the base substrate and extending in a first direction; and a plurality of second electrodes, on a second side of the base substrate opposite to the first side and extending in a second direction different from the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Xie, Tsung-Chieh Kuo, Ming Zhang, Jing Wang, Yu Zhu, Yuzhao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10976845
    Abstract: An array substrate, a touch display panel and a touch display device are provided. In the array substrate, the number of inverters in a second buffer unit is smaller than the number of inverters in a first buffer unit, or a size of an inverter in the second buffer unit is smaller than a size of an inverter in the first buffer unit, or the number of inverters in the second buffer unit is smaller than the number of inverters in the first buffer unit and the size of the inverter in the second buffer unit is smaller than the size of the inverter in the first buffer unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Wang, Zhenqing Xie, Ying Sun, Bingping Liu, Yumin Xu, Guozhao Chen, Min Huang
  • Patent number: 10971088
    Abstract: A sub-pixel rendering method, comprising the following steps: acquiring a second pixel array corresponding to an original image, each sub-pixel of the second pixel array corresponding to a greyscale value; mapping the second pixel array of the original image onto a first pixel array; respectively finding the central positions of the sub-pixels of the first pixel array and of the second pixel array, determining sub-pixels of the second pixel array positioned in every sub-pixel preset region in the first pixel array and of the same colour as said sub-pixels in the first pixel array, and measuring the distance of same from the central position of said sub-pixels of the first pixel array; on the basis of the distance, calculating the proportional coefficient occupied by the sub-pixels of the second pixel array in the sub-pixels of the first pixel array, and on the basis of the proportional coefficient and the greyscale value of the sub-pixels of the second pixel array, calculating the greyscale value correspondin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: TRULY (HUIZHOU) SMART DISPLAY LIMITED
    Inventors: Guoliang Wu, Xiaojin Song, Wu Zheng, Yuewen Wang, Tianyou Chen, Junwen Hu, Junhai Su, Jianhua Li
  • Patent number: 10970511
    Abstract: A system and method for correcting distortions within a biometric image. The biometric image is generated from first sensor data acquired from a sensing device. The first sensor data may include distortions generated in response to a change in distance or tilt between elements of a corresponding electronic device. Further, second sensor data corresponding to a calibration image is acquired from the sensing device. A corrected biometric image is generated based at least in part on the biometric image and the sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Joseph Kurth Reynolds
  • Patent number: 10963672
    Abstract: Method for detecting the presence of a body part carrying an imprint on an imprint sensor comprising a transparent face on which a body part must be placed, an image sensor, situated opposite the transparent face, able to acquire an image of an imprint, a light source for illuminating a body part placed on the transparent face. The method comprises: switching on the light source; acquiring a multicomponent image with the image sensor, each color component of the multicomponent sensor corresponding to a predefined wavelength range; obtaining, for each color component of said multicomponent image, information representing a signal generated by said image sensor for said color component; comparing said representative items of information with each other and detecting the presence of a body part according to the result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE
    Inventor: Denis Dumont
  • Patent number: 10957269
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device for decreasing a load of a clock line. The display device comprises: a display panel including a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of pixels in a display area, a gate driver disposed in a non-display area of the display panel and supplying gate signals to the plurality of gate lines, and a gate control line for supplying a gate control signal to the gate driver. The gate control line includes a first gate control line and a second gate control line overlapping the first gate control line with an insulation layer therebetween, the second gate control line being connected to the first gate control line through a first contact hole passing through the insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongchan Park, JinHwan Kim, Hyunchul Um
  • Patent number: 10955924
    Abstract: A multi-view display system that enables viewers to individually interact with the system to provide information thereto is disclosed. The system includes a multi-view display, a system controller, and an input/communications device. In the illustrative embodiment, the input/communications device provides a way for a viewer to communicate, to the system, a viewing preference pertaining to the presentation of content and facilitates associating the viewing preference with a viewing location so that the content that is ultimately displayed via the multi-view display is viewable by viewer at the proper viewing location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Misapplied Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Henry Dietz, Albert Han Ng, David Steven Thompson
  • Patent number: 10950181
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for displaying an image during an initial driving period. An exemplary display device includes a timing controller configured to reconstruct compensation reference data from a first memory into a plurality of transmission data, sequentially transmit the plurality of transmission data to a second memory, and display an image on the display panel when partial transmission data of the plurality of transmission data are transmitted and stored to the second memory during the initial driving period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Myeon Han, Seung Ho Park, Jae Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 10937843
    Abstract: A display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel includes a display area, a bezel area and a hole area. The bezel area includes an inner bezel area surrounding the hole area and an outer bezel area surrounding the display area, and the display area surrounds the hole area and is disposed between the inner bezel area and the outer bezel area. The display panel also includes a substrate layer, a light-emitting layer, an encapsulation layer and a touch layer that are sequentially stacked; at least two detection soldering pads disposed in the outer bezel area; and a detection line including at least one first detection segment disposed in the inner bezel area, at least two second detection segments disposed in the display area and at least two third detection segments in outer bezel area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong Ding, Qijun Yao
  • Patent number: 10937372
    Abstract: A spot compensating apparatus including a spot compensation data generator configured to generate spot compensation data based on a first precision unit in a first block area having a spot, and based on a second precision unit in a second block area not having the spot, the spot compensation data being for compensating the spot displayed on a display panel configured to display an image based on first image data, the second precision unit having less precision than the first precision unit, and a spot compensator configured to perform a spot compensation on the first image data using the spot compensation data to output second image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byoung-Kwan An, Seung-Ho Park, Hee-Sook Park, Ji-Hye Eom
  • Patent number: 10928917
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for speech and gesture interaction of multiple users with devices using voice activated interfaces are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes transmitting a pilot signal from a device comprising a voice activated interface, the pilot signal having a frequency, detecting motion of at least one user around the device, associating the detected motion with a gesture, and performing a function in response to the gesture. Detecting the motion includes receiving a reflected signal of the pilot signal caused by the motion of the at least one user, and detecting a shift in the reflected signal from the pilot signal, wherein detecting the shift comprises determining one or more differences between a waveform corresponding to the pilot signal and a waveform corresponding to the reflected signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mohit Jain, Pratyush Kumar, Anup Agarwal
  • Patent number: 10928914
    Abstract: A multi-view display system that permits viewers to individually interact therewith to communicate commands or viewing preferences is disclosed. Methods in accordance with the present teachings enable a multi-view display to deliver a unique content stream to each of plural viewers, based on the viewers' interactions with the multi-view display system, wherein the viewers are not in fixed locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Misapplied Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Han Ng, Paul Henry Dietz, David Steven Thompson
  • Patent number: 10928919
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including: an operation determination unit configured to execute a determination process of determining an operation input of a user with an operating body with respect to a virtual object that is defined in a virtual three-dimensional space and is virtually perceivable by the user. The operation determination unit executes the determination process on a basis of spatial position information of the operating body in a real three-dimensional space and switches the determination process on a basis of information of the operating body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10923026
    Abstract: In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method may include determining when a keyboard for a computing device is on a display surface of the computing device and, upon making the determination, using a portion of the display surface covered by the keyboard to provide a configurable backlight for the keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert E. Krancher, Kent E. Biggs, Steven L. Sinclair, Jason Lee Warkentin
  • Patent number: 10923507
    Abstract: An array substrate includes: a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, selection lines, a reset circuit and readout circuits. Second terminals of transistors in pixel units belonging to a same column are connected to at least two of the read lines, so that a part of the pixel units are connected to a same read line, and another part of the pixel units are connected to the other one of the at least two of the read lines. For each column of the pixel units, each of the read lines is connected to one of the readout circuits corresponding to the column of the pixel units through a switching element; and for each column of the pixel units, each of the read lines is connected to the reset circuit through a switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih Jen Cheng, Pengpeng Wang, Wei Liu, Xueyou Cao, Yanling Han, Ping Zhang, Xiaoliang Ding