Patents Examined by Bipin Shalwala
  • Patent number: 8648824
    Abstract: A flat panel display integrated with a touch screen panel according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: an upper substrate and a lower substrate each divided into a display region and first and second non-display regions around the display region; a plurality of sensing patterns in the display region of the upper substrate; a plurality of sensing lines in the first non-display region of the upper substrate; an FPC bonding pad unit including a plurality of bonding pads coupled with the sensing lines, in the second non-display region of the upper substrate; a sealant between the second non-display regions of the first substrate and the second substrate; and transparent conductive patterns arranged at a same distance from the sealant in the second non-display region of the upper substrate, the transparent conductive patterns overlapping the sealant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung-Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 8643568
    Abstract: A wearable display apparatus includes a display for providing viewable images. A display support assembly can support the display. The display support assembly can be self centering and telescoping for adjusting the position of the display for viewing by a user. The display support assembly can include right side and left side arm members spaced apart from each other, and a flexibly resilient support member to which the display is mounted between the arm members. The support member can be telescopically mounted to the arm members. The support member can have flexibly resilient right and left side portions secured to the display. Each side portion can be slidably mounted to a respective arm member for telescoping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Kopin Corporation
    Inventors: Adrian Mark Thomas West, Zachary Jarrod Traina, Junggeun Tak, Thomas Gerard Parent
  • Patent number: 8638307
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive input device includes a cover, a set of first conductors disposed between the cover and a substrate, the first conductors including at least two fingers connected at an end of the fingers, dummy conductors disposed between the first conductors and between the fingers of the first conductors, and a second set of conductors disposed on an opposite side of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Blackberry Limited
    Inventors: Mykola Golovchenko, Stanislav Pereverzev, William Turlay Stacy
  • Patent number: 8638319
    Abstract: In a pen-based computing system, a user-specific smart pen application is created from a template application using customer authoring tools. The template application contains computer program code that is to be executed by a processor of a smart pen. Application content and a representation for printed content are received. The application content, provided by user or customer, defines functional interactions between the printed content representation and a smart pen. The template application is combined with application content to generate a user-specific application comprising instructions for being executed on a processor of a smart pen. The user-specific application is stored on a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Livescribe Inc.
    Inventors: Tracy L. Edgecomb, Andy Van Schaack, Jim Marggraff
  • Patent number: 8638274
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display (10) comprising a vertical stack of at least two different color absorbing layers (14) of pixels (18). The display is characterized in that the pixel resolution of at least two of the layers is different. The present invention also relates to a display system (50) comprising such a display and a method for controlling such a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Sander Jurgen Roosendaal, Martinusj Hermanus Wilhelmus Maria Van Delden
  • Patent number: 8633893
    Abstract: A solid-state roller on a pointing device with enhanced features. The solid-state design described herein allows the sensor to be placed on any shape of surface, such as one that has curvature in two directions. In one embodiment, a trench or downward curve contains sensors for detecting finger movement. The user's finger can thus bend about a knuckle in a curved motion to activate the sensor, requiring little or no movement of the finger up and down. The solid-state sensors can be of one of a number of designs. In one embodiment, multiple electrodes are contacted by a finger as it moves. Each electrode is coupled to a capacitive detection circuit, for detecting the change in capacitance as the electrode is contacted by the finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Florian Max Kehlstadt, Berni Joss, Julien Piot, Marc Bidiville, Laurent Plancherel, Baptiste Merminod, Jean-Luc Dupraz, Maxime Marini, Chiu Yu
  • Patent number: 8633884
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display having specific dispositions of pixels of a liquid crystal display so as to prevent the coupling defect and the stripe defect in high speed driving. The liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix shape, a switching element connected to each pixel, data lines and gate lines connected to the switching elements, and a data driver generating data voltages and applying the data voltages to the data lines. The data lines are disposed at both sides of the pixels in pairs, and data voltages of the same magnitude with different polarities are applied to the pairs of data lines. In this manner, preventing the coupling defect and the stripe defect, high speed driving can be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Soo Baek, Dong-Gyu Kim, Back-Won Lee
  • Patent number: 8629822
    Abstract: An highly bright and energy efficient FSC color liquid crystal display device incorporating a white light source is provided. The FSC color display device includes a first light source for emitting a light having a plurality of colors, a second light source for emitting a white light, and a light source controller for displaying a color image so as to control the first light source to repeat, in a predetermined cycle, sequentially making a selection from the plurality of color light sources to cause the selected color light source to emit a light, and to control the second light source so that the second light source emits a white light concurrently with light emission from the first light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Akiyama
  • Patent number: 8629858
    Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, liquid crystal which is in between the first and the second substrate, and a detection electrode provided on a side of the first substrate, opposite to a side of the liquid crystal. The second substrate includes pixel electrodes connected through switching elements to signal lines, opposite electrodes formed between the pixel electrodes and the liquid crystal and are connected to control lines, a selection circuit that conducts the switching element during a selection period and interrupts conduction after the selection period has elapsed, a signal supplying circuit which supplies a data electric potential during the selection periods, a electric potential control circuit which sets the control lines to an predetermined electric potential when the scanning lines to the control line is selected and sets to a reference electric potential after the selection period has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Koshihara, Sumio Utsunomiya
  • Patent number: 8629849
    Abstract: A spurious input detection system includes a touch input display, a touch input surface, and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium includes instructions that, when executed by a processor, provide a spurious input detection engine. The spurious input detection engine is operable to receive a first input from the touch input display and a second input from the touch input surface. The spurious input detection engine is further operable to determine that the first input is a spurious input based on a combination of the first input and the second input. The spurious input detection engine will cause the first input to be disregarded in response to determining that it is a spurious input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Ebay Inc.
    Inventor: Miguel Escobedo
  • Patent number: 8629820
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting the gate lines, a plurality of switching elements connected to the gate lines and the data lines, a plurality of storage electrodes, a plurality of storage electrode lines connected to the storage electrodes, a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to the switching elements and overlapping the storage electrodes, a gate driver generating gate signals having a gate-on voltage and a gate-off voltage to apply to the gate lines, a data driver generating data voltages corresponding to externally applied image signals to apply to the data lines, and a storage electrode driver generating storage electrode signals having a reference voltage, a high voltage larger than the reference voltage, and a low voltage smaller than the reference voltage to apply to the storage electrode lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee-Wook Do, Ji-Won Sohn, Nak-Cho Choi, Jiangang Lu, Hak-Sun Chang, Chang-Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 8629864
    Abstract: A display device in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix form, corresponding to intersections of a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines, wherein each pixel includes a light emitting element having a first electrode connected to a first power supply and which emits light according to a current that flows; a driving transistor having a source electrode connected to a second power supply and which supplies a drain current to a second electrode of the light emitting element; a data storage capacitor having a first electrode connected to a gate electrode of the driving transistor; and a first switch which is switched ON during a pixel selection period so that data of a data line is written to the data storage capacitor, and wherein a potential of a second electrode of the data storage capacitor is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Koichi Miwa, Yuichi Maekawa
  • Patent number: 8629862
    Abstract: A display capable of performing ambient light detection with a high accuracy is provided. The display device is a display device having a backlight and a photo sensor for detecting ambient light and outputting a photocurrent according to an intensity of the ambient light, and further including a light-shielding member disposed below the photo-sensor for shielding light from the backlight; and a pseudo photo sensor disposed above the light-shielding member around the photo sensor. The pseudo photo sensor is made of the same material as the photo sensor, and formed in the same process as the photo sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Fumirou Matsuki, Kazuyuki Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8624861
    Abstract: An exemplary method for determining a touch point includes the following steps of: performing a first operation to determine whether a detected result of a first touch detection point exceeds a first threshold; performing a second operation to determine whether all detected results of multiple second touch detection points are no more than the detection result of the first touch detection point, the second touch detection points neighboring with the first touch detection point; performing a third operation to determine whether a sum of detected results of multiple third touch detection points exceeds a second threshold, the third touch detection points neighboring with the first touch detection point; and determining the first touch detection point as the touch point is being touched if the determine results of the first through third operations are all true.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Wei Yang, Chun-Lung Hung, Jing-Jhih Huang, Yu-Min Hsu
  • Patent number: 8624847
    Abstract: A transducer for a position sensor includes a single laminate sensor board carrying a plurality of windings formed by conductors on one or more layers of the sensor board. The windings are arrayed over a first area of the sensor board. Detection circuitry is mounted on another layer of the sensor board over a second area of the circuit board and electrically coupled to the windings. The detection circuitry has a first mode of operation in which signals inductively coupled to or from windings are detected and a second mode of operation in which signals capacitively coupled to or from said windings are detected. The windings and detection circuitry are arranged on the sensor board so that said first and second areas oppose each other. A position sensor incorporates the transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Synaptics (UK) Limited
    Inventor: David Thomas Eliot Ely
  • Patent number: 8624820
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a substrate; first and second pixel rows formed on the substrate and including a plurality of pixels; a first gate line extending in a row direction on the substrate and connected with the first pixel row; a second gate line extending in the row direction on the substrate, connected with the first pixel row; a third gate line extending in the row direction on the substrate, connected with the second pixel row, and adjacent to the second gate line; a fourth gate line extending in the row direction on the substrate, connected with the second pixel row; a plurality of data lines extending in a column direction on the substrate, wherein each of the data lines are disposed every two of the pixels; a first gate driver connected with the first and fourth gate lines and applying gate signals to the first and fourth gate lines; and a second gate driver connected with the second and third gate lines and applying gate signals to the second and third gate lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Man Kim, Bong-Jun Lee, Shin-Tack Kang
  • Patent number: 8624868
    Abstract: A system for displaying images including a touch display panel is provided. The touch display panel includes a first substrate. An electrode array is disposed on the first substrate, and the electrode array includes a first touch area. A first common electrode layer is disposed on the electrode array. A first dielectric layer is disposed between the electrode array and the first common electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Ting-Kuo Chang, Kai-Chieh Yang
  • Patent number: 8619034
    Abstract: A display device includes a touch screen having a display surface that displays images. The touch screen outputs a signal indicating a position on the display surface that has been touched. The display device also includes a first sensor that senses a position of an object relative to the display surface. The display device further includes a controller that generates a virtual keyboard image including a plurality of virtual keys for display on the display surface. The controller generates a left side portion and a right side portion of the virtual keyboard image, and chooses, as a display portion, one of the left side portion and the right side portion of the virtual keyboard image corresponding to the position of the object relative to the display surface as sensed by the first sensor. The controller controls the touch screen to display the display portion on the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Europe (Belgium) NV
    Inventor: Joel Grad
  • Patent number: 8619019
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a plurality of data lines which transmit a data signal received from a data driving unit, a plurality of first gate lines and a plurality of second gate lines, which cross the data lines and are arranged in such a manner that the first gate lines and the second gate lines alternate with each other, a plurality of pixels which are defined by the data lines, the first gate lines, and the second gate lines, each of the pixels including a first sub-pixel electrode to which a first data voltage is applied by a first switching device connected to one of the first gate lines and a second sub-pixel electrode to which a second data voltage is applied by a second switching device connected to one of the second gate lines, and a gate driving unit which selects a scanning group including two or more first gate lines and two or more second gate lines, applies a gate-on voltage to the first gate lines of the scanning group according to a first predetermined scanning order, and applies the gate
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun-woo Lee, Hee-seop Kim, Chang-hun Lee, Eun-hee Han
  • Patent number: 8619066
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a display unit displaying an image in response to a driving signal, a driving unit outputting the driving signal to the display unit in response to a plurality of control signal, and a controller outputting the plurality of control signals and image data. The controller includes a plurality of timing controllers providing the image data and the plurality of control signals and a storage device. The plurality of timing controllers share the storage device and may be either connected in series or parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ik-Huyn Ahn, Woo-Chul Kim, Byung-Koan Kim