Patents Examined by Andrew Schnirel
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Patent number: 10276102Abstract: A pixel circuit having a function of compensating for characteristic variation of an electro-optical element and threshold voltage variation of a transistor is formed from a reduced number of component elements. An input signal is sampled from a signal line so as to be held in a holding capacitor. The threshold voltage of the drive transistor is imparted to the holding capacitor in order to cancel an influence of the threshold voltage.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10198098Abstract: Disclosed is the structure of a touch window. The touch window includes a transparent window, a touch sensor module on one surface of the transparent window, and a transfer film layer between the transparent window and the touch sensor module. The transfer film layer is provided in the touch sensor module to remove the structure of a printed pattern, so that the conventional problems related to the flatness caused by a printing step are solved, thereby improving the adhesive efficiency and expanding the realization range of various colors.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2012Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Hoon Bae Park
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Patent number: 10180716Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for providing a last known browsing location cue using movement-oriented biometric data are presented. Movement-oriented biometric data is received and used to detect that a user is distracted from a computer interface. A visual cue is provided indicating a last known browsing location. The visual cue may be provided after a certain amount of time or in response to detecting that the user's attention is returned to the computer interface. The visual cue may be removed after a certain amount of time or in response to detecting that the user's attention is returned to the computer interface. An inattention time corresponding to the user distraction may be determined and used to identify the last known browsing location. The biometric data may be compared to thresholds and profiles to determine whether the user is attentive or distracted.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTDInventors: Xin Feng, Paul Hilburger
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Patent number: 10162411Abstract: In a motor vehicle, having at least one display device, a gaze direction of a vehicle occupant of the motor vehicle is detected and used to check whether the vehicle occupant has directed his gaze to a display region of the display device for at least a predefined gazing duration. If the gaze has been directed to the display region of the display device for at least the predefined gazing duration, an interaction mode of an operating device for controlling the display device is activated After the interaction mode has been activated, at least one predetermined criterion is used to determine whether control of the display device has been concluded. The interaction mode is maintained as long as it has been determined that the control of the display device has not been concluded or at least one other predetermined criterion has not yet been satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Marcus Kuehne, Ulrich Mueller, Johann Schneider
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Patent number: 10147367Abstract: A memory in pixel, a data storage method, and a pixel array. The memory in pixel includes a data input unit, configured to read data voltage on a data line onto a first data latching terminal and a second data latching terminal; a first data latching circuit, configured to hold a level of the first data latching terminal; a second data latching circuit, configured to hold a level of the second data latching terminal; a drive control circuit, configured to enable a level of a drive node to be opposite to that of the first data latching terminal; and a drive circuit, configured to output a third power source voltage of a third power source voltage terminal to a output terminal and output a fourth power source voltage of a fourth power source voltage terminal to the output terminal.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Wen Tan, Jia Chen
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Patent number: 10121427Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes an over driving data generator that compares a gray level of a data signal of a present frame with a gray level of a data signal of a previous frame to output an over driving data signal. The data signal has a bit number of n. A data drive IC generates level voltages having a number of more than 2n and outputs one of the level voltages of the over driving data signal. A liquid crystal panel includes a pixel applied with the one of the level voltages.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2006Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tae-Ho You, Yong-Sung Ham
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Patent number: 10120420Abstract: This document describes a lockable display and techniques enabling use of a lockable display. The techniques can enable computing devices to lock and unlock a display using little or no power and with a seamless design. The techniques and apparatuses can also enable integration between a lockable display and various computing devices, including to create a nearly seamless physical and functional design.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Steven Nabil Bathiche, Panos C. Panay, Ralf Groene, Joseph B. Gault, Andrew William Hill
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Patent number: 10114500Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving unit, a driving method and a driving circuit of a touch driving electrode and a touch display panel. The driving unit of the touch driving electrode includes a start signal shift sub-unit, configured to control a start signal output terminal to output a first level during an adjacent time period next to a time period in which a potential of the start signal is the first level, then reset the start control signal so as to control the start control signal output terminal output the second level, and control the touch driving signal output terminal to output a touch scanning signal when the potential of the start control signal and the potential of the touch control signal are both the first level. The first clock signal has a phase opposite to that of the second clock signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Fei Huang, Jian Sun, Cheng Li
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Patent number: 10068538Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device comprising: a display unit; a plurality of electrodes arranged side by side in a first direction along a display surface of the display unit; a detecting unit that detects one of an electric resistance of the electrodes, a voltage, and a current; and a specifying unit that specifies temperature distribution of the display surface based on the one of the electric resistance of the electrodes, the voltage, and the current. The electrodes are tapered in a second direction along the display surface and orthogonal to the first direction, and the electrodes include a first electrode tapered toward one side in the second direction and a second electrode tapered toward the other side opposite to the one side. The first and second electrodes are alternately arranged side by side in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Chihiro Tanaka, Toshihiko Tanaka, Toshinori Uehara
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Patent number: 10037104Abstract: A touch panel device includes an abnormal state determining part that determines if there is an abnormal state based on second difference information extracted by a second difference information extracting part and a second baseline stored in a second baseline storage, and a controller that, if the abnormal state determining part determines that there is an abnormal state, controls to update a first baseline stored in a first baseline storage and the second baseline stored in the second baseline storage.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2017Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kageyasu Miyahara, Seiichiro Mori
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Patent number: 10013078Abstract: There is provided a failure identification method of an optical navigation device including the steps of: constructing a fixed noise map according to image frames captured by an image sensor; calculating a feature value of the fixed noise map; identifying whether the fixed noise map is uniform or not according to the feature value; and generating an alert signal when the fixed noise map is non-uniform for indicating failure of the optical navigation device.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2014Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.Inventor: Willie Song
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Patent number: 10008165Abstract: Disclosed is a display device for use of a surface display of an arbitrary shape, including a plural number of display element units, each made up of a circuit that forms a single stage of a scanning circuit and a pixel circuit connected to an output of the scanning circuit, are arranged in a unicursal fashion on a display substrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Haga, Hideki Asada, Setsuo Kaneko
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Patent number: 10002567Abstract: A pixel circuit having a function of compensating for characteristic variation of an electro-optical element and threshold voltage variation of a transistor is formed from a reduced number of component elements. An input signal is sampled from a signal line so as to be held in a holding capacitor. The threshold voltage of the drive transistor is imparted to the holding capacitor in order to cancel an influence of the threshold voltage.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9990889Abstract: A display device has first and second pixel columns and at least one third pixel column. The first pixel column includes first pixels to emit light of a first color and a second pixels to emit light of a second color alternately arranged in a first direction. The second pixel column includes the first pixels and the second pixels arranged in the first direction in a reverse order from the first pixel column. The at least one third pixel column includes third pixels to emit light of a third color and arranged in the first direction. The first and second pixel columns are alternately arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction. The third pixel column is between the first and second pixel columns. The second pixel of the first pixel column and the second pixel of the second pixel column are connected to a same data line.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Yong Song, Kyung Youl Min
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Patent number: 9983731Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for reducing shadow effects in touch systems are contained herein. In one aspect, a method of reducing shadow effects in a touch system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a touch input on a touch interface, determining a difference between a weighted mean of the touch input and an arithmetic mean of the touch input and adjusting an estimated touch position of the touch input based on the difference.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Qiang Gao, William Yee-Ming Huang, Hsun Wei David Wong, Teresa Ka Ki Ng, Rex Wang, Carol King Mui Law, Suhail Jalil
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Patent number: 9966010Abstract: Provided are a driving circuit and a driving method thereof, a touch display panel, and a touch display device. The first input terminal of the delay unit is connected to corresponding previous gate driver, the first output terminal of the delay unit is connected to corresponding subsequent gate driver. The delay unit outputs a starting signal to the subsequent gate driver for enabling it after a predetermined time elapses since the previous gate driver outputs a driving signal. The delay unit achieves shift registering between the previous gate driver and the subsequent gate driver, to form a touch-control time period after the previous gate driver outputs a driving signal and before the subsequent gate driver is enabled, so as to ensure that the touch display panel can also achieve a touch-control function with high precision on the premise of achieving a display function of high resolution.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shengji Yang, Xue Dong, Panhua Wang, Hailin Xue, Xiaochuan Chen, Haisheng Wang, Xi Chen, Jianyun Xie, Yingming Liu, Weijie Zhao, Hongjuan Liu
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Patent number: 9952694Abstract: Disclosed is a display device integrated with touch screen. The display device has a reduced bezel and an enhanced aesthetic design. Left and right bezels of a panel are reduced, thus increasing an aesthetic design. A driving circuit that generates the touch driving signal is built into the panel, thus decreasing the size of the touch IC and the manufacturing cost.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tae Hwan Kim
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Patent number: 9927891Abstract: Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method and system that is able to reduce the power consumption needed to drive sensor electrodes included within an input device. The power consumption of the input device is reduced by providing an intermediate electronic storage device that partially drives a sensor electrode before a driver module drives the sensor electrode the remaining amount to the second voltage potential.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2012Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATEDInventor: Joseph Kurth Reynolds
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Patent number: 9928806Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a light-source driving circuit that drives a light source to cyclically change brightness. A control unit controls a pixel to turn on and off over a plurality of subfields in a field so that transmittance or reflectance in the pixel over the plurality of subfields in the field corresponds to a gray level specified for the pixel. The control unit also arranges the plurality of subfields such that two or more gray-level defining subfields maintain a predetermined relationship with respect to the cyclical change in brightness of the light source caused by drive of a light-source driving circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi Toyooka
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Patent number: 9905164Abstract: An Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display device can include a display panel, a pixel circuit, and a data line and a power line connected in parallel and to the pixel circuit; a data driver for supplying a data voltage to the data line in display and sensing modes; and a sensing unit for supplying a high-potential voltage to the power line to drive the pixel circuit, cutting off supplying the high-potential voltage to the power line in a sensing duration of the sensing mode, sensing a voltage corresponding to a pixel current of the pixel circuit using the power line. A capacitor can be connected in parallel with the power line is charged according to the pixel current flowing through the power line, and the sensing unit senses the sensing voltage on the power line by sampling and holding the charged voltage in the capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Seiichi Mizukoshi