Patents Examined by Brian M Butcher
  • Patent number: 10585486
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for modifying an audio parameter based on a gesture. The technique includes acquiring sensor data associated with a hand of a user and analyzing the sensor data to determine at least one hand position. The technique further includes detecting a hand gesture based on the at least one hand position and, in response to the hand gesture, modifying a spatial audio parameter associated with an audio stream to generate a modified audio stream. The technique further includes causing the modified audio stream to be reproduced for output to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tim Coleman, Stefan Marti, Davide Di Censo
  • Patent number: 10585488
    Abstract: A man-machine interaction system, method, and apparatus, the man-machine interaction system includes a wearable device and a display device. The wearable device includes an image acquiring module, a memory, a processor, an image projecting module, and an information transmission interface. The image acquiring module acquires a current gesture image of a user and a display image on the display device; the processor matches the current gesture image with gestures in a gesture database pre-stored in the memory, determines a gesture category of a matched gesture, determines a control instruction corresponding to the gesture category, and generates a virtual tool image corresponding to the control instruction based on the control instruction; the image projecting module projects a virtual image that includes the virtual tool image and the display image; and the information transmission interface transmits the control instruction to the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yongchun Lu
  • Patent number: 10586501
    Abstract: A low color shift display panel includes a pixel array. The pixel array includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. Each of the first sub-pixel and second sub-pixel respectively includes a data line, a gate line, a first transistor coupled to the data line and a first liquid crystal capacitor, a second transistor coupled to the data line and a second liquid crystal capacitor, and a third transistor coupled to a common voltage and the second transistor. The first sub-pixel has a first ratio which is the width-to-length ratio of the third transistor divided by the width-to-length ratio of the second transistor. The second sub-pixel has a second ratio which is the width-to-length ratio of the third transistor divided by the width-to-length ratio of the second transistor. The second ratio is smaller than the first ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo-Chin Tsuei, Yao-Lien Hsieh
  • Patent number: 10585481
    Abstract: The invention relates to operating devices for a vehicle with haptic feedback comprising a touch-sensitive position detection device (30) for determining touch positions as input parameters on a touch surface (31) of the touch-sensitive position detection device (30); an actuator device (50), coupled to the touch-sensitive position detection device (30), for generating the haptically detectable feedback on the touch surface (31); and an operating logic (1030) which is designed to execute a triggering of functions and/or vehicle systems depending on detected input parameters, wherein the touch-sensitive position detection device (30) and the actuator device (50) are designed with a haptic control device (100) in an operating device (2), and the operating logic (1030) is designed in a central control unit (330), which is designed separately from the operating device (2) and coupled in terms of information technology with the operating device (2), and detected input parameters are transmitted to the central cont
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Mark Peter Czelnik, Michael Klaas, Carsten Rieger
  • Patent number: 10587747
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, computer storage medium, and terminal for entering numeric symbols using a touch screen frame related to the field of communication technology. The method includes: receiving an instruction to start a numeric keypad, opening the numeric keypad in a special region on edge of a touch screen, receiving a touch operation input by the user on the numeric keypad, and determining a number or a symbol corresponding to the touch operation based on the operation region of the touch operation and the number of the click operation included in the touch operation. Thus, users can make a phone call with one hand or can enter the corresponding number or symbol keys in the answer to the phone while listening to the information. It is easy to operate and can improve the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: NUBIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenzhi Chen
  • Patent number: 10580449
    Abstract: An optical storage system includes an optical head configured to split a light beam into a higher power main beam and at least one lower power side beam. The optical storage system also includes a controller configured to alter an optical medium, via modulation of the higher power main beam according to a writing strategy waveform that defines at least n pulses for every n bits of data to be written to the medium, while processing a first signal resulting from the at least one lower power side beam being reflected from the medium and a second signal indicative of the writing strategy waveform to remove noise from the first signal caused by the higher power main beam to generate output indicative of the data directly after writing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Lingtao Wang
  • Patent number: 10580439
    Abstract: Devices that include a near field transducer (NFT), the NFT having at least one external surface; and at least one multilayer adhesion layer positioned on at least a portion of the at least one external surface, the multilayer adhesion layer including a first layer and a second layer, with the second layer being in contact with the portion of the at least one external surface of the NFT, the first layer including: yttrium (Y), scandium (Sc), zirconium (Zr), hafnium (Hf), silicon (Si), boron (B), tantalum (Ta), barium (Ba), aluminum (Al), titanium (Ti), niobium (Nb), calcium (Ca), beryllium (Be), strontium (Sr), magnesium (Mg), lithium (Li), or combinations thereof; and the second layer including: lanthanum (La), boron (B), lutetium (Lu), aluminum (Al), deuterium (D), cerium (Ce), uranium (U), praseodymium (Pr), yttrium (Y), silicon (Si), iridium (Ir), carbon (C), thorium (Th), scandium (Sc), titanium (Ti), vanadium (V), phosphorus (P), barium (Ba), europium (Eu), or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Justin Brons, Tong Zhao, Yuhang Cheng, Dimitar V. Dimitrov
  • Patent number: 10572044
    Abstract: A touch-type display panel includes an array substrate including a plurality of sub-pixels defined by gate lines and data lines; a plurality of touch electrodes disposed to cover the sub-pixels; two or more touch driving lines that electrically connect a touch driving circuit to a respective one of the touch electrodes; and a connection line disposed on both sides of the one of the touch electrodes and configured to electrically connect the two or more touch driving lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JunWook Yoo, TaeHoon Kim, JeongKil Seo, Jinsoo Chung, DongHoon Lee
  • Patent number: 10566151
    Abstract: An item such as a fabric-based item may have one or more input devices. The input devices may have terminals that are electrically coupled to control circuitry. The control circuitry may make resistance measurements, capacitance measurements, and other measurements on the input devices to determine whether the input devices have been pressed by a user's finger or have otherwise received input. The input devices may be used to form an array of switches for a keyboard, may form buttons on an electronic device housing or case, may be part of an item of clothing, or may be incorporated into other items such as fabric-based items. The input devices may have collapsible fabric structures such as collapsible fabric domes. The terminals of the input devices may be formed from conductive strands of material in the fabric domes or may be supported by other structures that buckle under applied pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Xiaopeng Wang, Siddhartha Hegde, Daniel D. Sunshine, Zheng Gao
  • Patent number: 10559249
    Abstract: To provide a novel device, a device with low power consumption, or a versatile device, the device includes a decoder, a driver circuit, and a display portion. The driver circuit includes a plurality of circuits. The display portion includes a plurality of display panels. The decoder has a function of generating a signal corresponding to an image displayed on the display portion. The decoder has a function of determining the necessity of rewriting an image of each of the display panels by detecting a change in the image of each of the display panels. The circuit has a function of outputting a signal to a display panel for which that image rewriting is determined to be necessary. The circuit has a function of stopping output of a signal to a display panel for which image rewriting is determined to be unnecessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seiichi Yoneda
  • Patent number: 10551922
    Abstract: An electronic device for offering an optimized and differentiated haptic feedback to a user on the basis of various states of an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a haptic module configured to provide a haptic feedback, a processor electrically connected to the haptic module, and a memory electrically connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions, that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control to detect a signal of a request for the haptic feedback, to identify a contact part of the electronic device by using a sensor module, and to provide the haptic feedback based on results of identifying the contact part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seongwoong Park, Byungjin Kang, Gusul Kim, Namhoi Kim, Myunghyun Lee, Yusun Cheong
  • Patent number: 10534440
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle display device comprising: a display; a gesture sensing unit disposed in the vicinity of the display so as to generate a first sheet beam to be emitted in a first direction and a second sheet beam to be emitted in a second direction different from the first direction, and sensing a three-dimensional gesture of an object through the first and second sheet beams; and a processor for providing a control signal according to the three-dimensional gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngjun Cho, Jinho Youn, Munchae Joung, Sunuk Kim
  • Patent number: 10534473
    Abstract: An input device includes a sensor apparatus coupled to a sensing region. The sensor apparatus is operable in at least a first mode or a second mode. When operating in the first mode, the input device is configured to detect a capacitance of the sensor apparatus. When operating in a second mode, the input device is configured to detect a resistance of the sensor apparatus. The input device is further configured to process user inputs in the sensing region based at least in part on the detected capacitance or resistance of the sensor apparatus. In some implementations, the input device may be configured to switch between the first mode and the second mode based at least in part on the detected capacitance or resistance of the sensor apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Richard Schediwy
  • Patent number: 10520997
    Abstract: Examples herein disclose capturing a wifi signal from a computing device corresponding to a computing accessory and harvesting energy from the captured wifi signal. The examples power the computing accessory based on the harvested energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Souvik Sen, Jeremy Gummeson, David Lee, Martin R Fink, Kyu Han Kim
  • Patent number: 10516053
    Abstract: A field-effect transistor including: a gate electrode, which is configured to apply gate voltage; a source electrode and a drain electrode, which are configured to take electric current out; an active layer, which is disposed to be adjacent to the source electrode and the drain electrode and is formed of an oxide semiconductor; and a gate insulating layer, which is disposed between the gate electrode and the active layer, wherein the gate insulating layer contains a paraelectric amorphous oxide containing a Group A element which is an alkaline earth metal and a Group B element which is at least one selected from the group consisting of Ga, Sc, Y, and lanthanoid, and wherein the active layer has a carrier density of 4.0×1017/cm3 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukiko Abe, Naoyuki Ueda, Shinji Matsumoto, Ryoichi Saotome, Yuki Nakamura, Yuji Sone, Sadanori Arae, Minehide Kusayanagi
  • Patent number: 10509496
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch driving circuit, a touch panel and a display device. A touch driving circuit, comprising: an input subcircuit, configured to receive an input signal which scans forward or backward; a shift register subcircuit, configured to shift register the input signal to generate an output control signal; an enable signal input subcircuit, configured to control an output of the output enable signal of the integrated circuit according to the output control signal; and an output subcircuit, configured to output a corresponding output signal according to the output enable signal. An embodiment of the present disclosure realizes the touch driving circuit with reduced usage of the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fei Huang
  • Patent number: 10509500
    Abstract: A touch display apparatus including a first substrate, a first sub-pixel, a spacer, a second substrate, and a touch-sensing electrode is provided. The first sub-pixel is disposed on the first substrate. The spacer is disposed on the first substrate. The touch-sensing electrode is disposed on the second substrate and has a first opening. The spacer is located inside the first opening in an orthogonal projection direction. A distance D is defined between an outline of an orthogonal projection of the spacer on the first substrate and an outline of an orthogonal projection of the first opening on the first substrate, and D?5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chun-Chi Lai, Chia-Hsien Chu, Chia-Yuan Yeh, Kuan-Ting Chen, Chee-Wai Lau, An-Hsiung Hsieh, Feng-Sheng Lin, Tsang-Hong Wang
  • Patent number: 10509468
    Abstract: Various systems, methods and computer program products are disclosed which provide fingertip tactile feedback from virtual objects. In various embodiments, a wearable haptic thimble is disclosed. The wearable haptic thimble is configured for use with a virtual reality (or augmented reality) system, and may include: an attachment mechanism for engaging a finger of a user; and at least one contact pad coupled with the attachment mechanism, the at least one contact pad configured to deliver tactile sensations to the finger of the user to provide a tactile representation of virtual reality (or augmented reality) in the virtual reality (or augmented reality) system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: TACTAI, INC.
    Inventors: Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Steven D. Domenikos, Jean-Samuel Chenard, Ilann Derche
  • Patent number: 10496222
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. In some examples, the device includes one or more force sensors at its perimeter. The force sensors can be included in a gasket further comprising a rubber-like gasket cover and a compressible dielectric such as air or silicone, for example. A plurality of conductive plates can be embedded in the gasket cover with routing traces coupled thereto to sense a capacitance between the conductive plates. The gasket, including the one or more capacitive sensors, can be disposed between a cover glass and a lower housing of the electronic device. The capacitance of the one or more sensors can change in response to an applied force at the cover glass of the device. The change in capacitance can be sensed via the routing traces to measure the magnitude and, in some examples, location of the applied force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Richard D. Shuma, Kristen Carnohan
  • Patent number: 10496228
    Abstract: To improve detection reliability of an input device provided with a display device. A display device includes an array substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface on an opposite side of the upper surface, a display functional layer provided on the upper surface side of the array substrate, a plurality of first wirings provide on the upper surface side of the array substrate and applied with a signal for driving the display functional layer, a conductive pattern provided on the lower surface of the array substrate so as to be separated from the array substrate, and a detection circuit unit detecting a change in a capacitance value between the plurality of first wirings and the conductive pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Kazuyuki Kobayashi, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Gen Koide