Patents Examined by Carolyn R Edwards
  • Patent number: 9959795
    Abstract: A display device and a method of driving the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels including a first group of pixels and a second group of pixels. The first group of pixels forms a first region and the second group of pixels forms a second region surrounding the first region. A controller is configured to receive input image data, process the input image data corresponding to the first pixels based on a preset first image processing algorithm so as to generate first modified image data, and process the input image data corresponding to the second pixels based on a preset second image processing algorithm so as to generate second modified image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mincheol Kim, Inhwan Kim, Byunggeun Jun, Uiyeong Cha
  • Patent number: 9952642
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a display by dynamically determining a refresh rate for the display. In certain implementations, a processor determines a number of pixels having medium grayscale levels from a histogram for the image. If the number does not exceed a threshold, the processor sets a refresh rate for the display to a first refresh rate. In certain implementations, if the number exceeds a threshold, the processor may set the refresh rate for the display to a second refresh rate. Moreover, the first refresh rate may be lower than the second threshold. In some implementations, the image may be analyzed by subdividing the image into blocks and determining a refresh rate based on grayscale levels or distributions in the blocks. Based on the analysis of the blocks, a corresponding refresh rate may be selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chaohao Wang, Louis Luh, Jun Qi, Cheng Chen, Jun Jiang, Paolo Sacchetto, Marc Albrecht
  • Patent number: 9953579
    Abstract: An acousto-optic element array includes: acousto-optic elements each including an acousto-optic generator, a light supply, and a wave transducer; a gate driver that selects an acousto-optic element to be driven from among the acousto-optic elements; an electrical data driver that is connected to an electrical wire and transmits electrical data to an electro-optic modulator configured to control the acousto-optic generator of the selected acousto-optic element; and a wave data driver that is connected to a waveguide and transmits wave data to the wave transducer of the selected acousto-optic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hojung Kim, Seunghoon Han, Hoon Song, Hongseok Lee
  • Patent number: 9947275
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are explained for performing white point color adjustment for a display device. This can be done by obtaining a value of an ambient light sensor, determining whether to make a white point adjustment, and, for a dynamic white point adjustment, using the value from the ambient light sensor in performing white point adjustment toward target color coordinates. A white point might be set equal to the target color coordinates, but might also remain unchanged for small ambient light changes or ambient light outside a region of interest. The white point might be changed to the target color coordinates in multiple steps. Various parameters might be used that can be varied to vary behavior of the white point adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Rajeev Ramanath, Ajay Gowribdanur Ramesh
  • Patent number: 9933927
    Abstract: A method for providing a graphical user interface on a display of a device includes: displaying a photograph image on the display of the device; receiving a touch input made on the display; superimposedly displaying a plurality of control guides at a location corresponding to the touch input over the displayed photograph image in response to the touch input; receiving a drag input corresponding to one of the plurality of control guides displayed on the display; adjusting a display characteristic of the photograph image corresponding to the one of the plurality of control guides, in response to the drag input; and displaying the photograph image having the adjusted display characteristic on the display, wherein the display characteristic is a magnification of the photograph image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hui Chul Yang, Nho Kyung Hong, Jin Young Jeon, Tae Young Kang, In Won Jong
  • Patent number: 9933878
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, systems and computer program products for operating an electronic device having a touch screen display for displaying information. Embodiments include generating a designated location on the touch screen display for receiving a continuous touch contact. Based on detecting a continuous touch contact at the designated location, information is displayed on the touch screen. Based on detecting an absence of a continuous touch contact at the designated location on the touch screen display, the display of information is disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tristram T. Reilly
  • Patent number: 9921646
    Abstract: A transmissive head-mounted display device includes an image display unit, a detection unit, a control unit, an imaging unit, and an imaging setting unit. The display unit generates image light representing an image, allows a user to visually recognize the image light, and transmits outside scenery when worn on a head of a user. The detection unit detects a shielding object that is located at a predetermined distance from an eye of the user. A control unit performs control of the image light based on the detection result of the detection unit. The imaging unit images the outside scenery. The imaging setting unit adjusts the imaging unit. The imaging setting unit shifts a display mode of the image display unit to an imaging adjustment mode based on the detection result of the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masahide Takano, Fusashi Kimura
  • Patent number: 9916039
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a shift register unit, its driving method, a gate driver circuit and a display device. The shift register unit includes a pull-up circuit configured to pull up a potential at the pull-up node PU in accordance with a starting signal from a starting signal input end, a pull-down circuit configured to pull down the potential at the pull-up node in accordance with a resetting signal from a resetting signal input end, a first capacitor configured to bootstrap the potential at the pull-up node at a pull-up stage, a first noise reduction circuit configured to perform noise reduction on a signal from the output end of the shift register unit at a pull-down stage and a compensation circuit configured to compensate for the potential at the pull-up node at a touch stage in accordance with a touch switch signal from a touch switch end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Honggang Gu, Xiaohe Li, Xianjie Shao, Bo Liu, Jie Song
  • Patent number: 9910512
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for receiving a plurality of response speed profiles associated with an application, selecting a first response speed profile from the plurality of response speed profiles, causing rendering of an on-screen display based at least in part on the first response speed profile, determining that a response speed profile change condition exists, selecting a second response speed profile from the plurality of response speed profiles, and causing rendering of an on-screen display based at least in part on the second response speed profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinjan Kumar Tiwary, Eric Peter Raeber, Singana Dayakar Reddy LNU, Stephen Allen Whitney, Richard Baker
  • Patent number: 9897833
    Abstract: The present invention provides an array substrate and a liquid crystal display panel. The array substrate includes a pixel unit, and a drive circuit and a control circuit corresponding to the pixel unit. The pixel unit includes a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode. The drive circuit is for inputting a display signal to the pixel unit. The control circuit is for charging a potential on the first pixel electrode or the second pixel electrode and thereby making the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode to have a voltage difference therebetween. The control circuit is disposed inn a vertical projection region on the array substrate of an opaque region. By using the above solution, the present invention can reduce color shift and increase aperture ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Shishuai Huang
  • Patent number: 9891774
    Abstract: Techniques for removing display-based corrupting components from a capacitive sensing signal are provided. A routing carrying display related signals (e.g., a source signal for sub-pixel updating) may induce corrupting current into a routing for carrying capacitive sensing signals. This corrupting current may reduce the ability to determine presence of an input object via the sensing signal. Therefore, the corrupting signal is effectively removed by driving the display elements with a dot inversion technique and by performing capacitive sensing for a sensor electrode during a time in which an even number of display rows are driven for display updates. Dot inversion causes the corrupting current to alternate polarity. Thus, driving sensor electrodes in a period of time in which an even number of rows is driven means that an equal number of positive and negative polarity corrupting currents are induced into the sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kasra Khazeni, Stephen L. Morein
  • Patent number: 9892692
    Abstract: A controller may include a programmable user interface controls configured to receive user input. The controller may also include multi-color backlights configured to backlight the programmable user interface controls. The controller may receive configuration information specifying an assignment of controllable parameters of the media system and associated backlighting colors to the at least one programmable user interface control, and may direct the multi-color backlights to backlight the programmable user interface controls in colors accordance with backlighting color information specified by the configuration information. The controller may further control a display screen to display the graphics or text descriptive of the assignable buttons in accordance with control descriptions included in the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Shawn Nageli, Iain Gregory
  • Patent number: 9891813
    Abstract: A method and associated device for moving an image displayed on a touchscreen of the device. It is determined that an object previously moving on the touchscreen toward a first outer edge of the touchscreen has traversed the first outer edge in a first direction perpendicular to the first outer edge so as to no longer be touching the touchscreen. The displayed image had moved in the first direction toward the first outer edge in synchronization with the previous movement of the object toward the first outer edge. In response to the object having traversed the first outer edge, one or more motion sensors are activated to monitor the object for continuing movement of the object. The one or more motion sensors ascertain the continuing movement of the object away from the first outer edge, and in response, the displayed image is moved toward the first outer edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Philippe Kaplan, Georges-Henri Moll, Xavier Nodet, Olivier Oudot
  • Patent number: 9886909
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first display area and a second display area, a primary driver integrated circuit (IC) to receive first input image of the first display area, to determine a luminance correction factor based on a sum of a first On-Pixel-Ratio (OPR) of the first display area and a second OPR of the second display area, to output a first image data signal to which the first input image data is remapped using the luminance correction factor, a secondary driver IC to receive second input image data of the second display area, to calculate the second OPR, to provide the second OPR to the primary driver IC, and to output a second image data signal to which the second input image data is remapped using the luminance correction factor, and a scan driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo-Young An, Ji-Yun Son, Ho-Suk Maeng
  • Patent number: 9881547
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels and a plurality of sensing regions. The OLED display further includes a temperature sensor array comprising a plurality of temperature sensors respectively arranged on the sensing regions. The OLED display also includes a controller configured to output a plurality of control signals so as to sequentially select the temperature sensors, receive a plurality of output signals output from the temperature sensors selected by the control signals, and generate first temperature data corresponding to the locations of the selected temperature sensors based on the output signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Cheolhwan Eom
  • Patent number: 9880649
    Abstract: Synchronization of display functions and various touch, stylus and/or force sensing functions for devices including a variable refresh rate (VRR) display is disclosed. In some examples, touch, stylus and/or force sensing functions can be synchronized with display frames and a display refresh rate can be adjusted by extended blanking of the display for one or more display frames. In other examples, touch, stylus and/or force sensing functions can be synchronized with display sub-frames and a display refresh rate can be adjusted by extended blanking of the display for one or more display sub-frames. Pre-warning synchronization signals can be generated to prepare one or more scan controllers to implement the appropriate scan events during and after extended blanking periods. Latency between the scan results and the corresponding image on the display can be corrected in software and/or firmware by time-stamping scan results or by dropping scan results from uncompleted scans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Manu Agarwal, Christopher Tann, Brijesh Tripathi, Martin Paul Grunthaner
  • Patent number: 9874756
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device is provided. The wearable electronic device includes a display module configured to output an image, a wearing unit connected with the display module, and a detachment/attachment unit configured to allow the wearing unit to be detached from/attached to a user's eyeglass frame. The wearing unit is wearable on a user's body. The wearable electronic device may be variously implemented according to embodiments of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ho-Seong Seo
  • Patent number: 9870025
    Abstract: A display case includes a transparent LCD panel for viewing display case contents therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Emotive Digital, LP
    Inventors: Matthew Cho, David Hyung Yu
  • Patent number: 9870074
    Abstract: A control unit is provided with a selector and a plurality of value indicators. One of the value indicators provides a coarse indication of an existing value of an adjustable control quantity. The other value indicators are in another state, distinguishable from the value indicating state. A rotary adjustor provides a manual adjustment facility for a user. Selection of the selector puts the adjustable control quantity in an adjustment mode. In this adjustment mode, rotary actuation of the rotary adjustor allows adjustment of the control quantity. A new value of the control quantity is indicated by a change in the display states of the value indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: THALES HOLDINGS UK PLC
    Inventor: David Robbins
  • Patent number: 9865217
    Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes generating a reference gate signal delayed by a predetermined period from a gate signal applied to a gate line disposed in a first end area of the display panel, the first end area being an area in which a RC delay of a data line is the smallest, receiving an input gate signal applied to a gate line disposed in a second area of the display panel, the second area being an area in which the RC delay of the data line is the largest; and selectively controlling a delay time of each of the plurality of gate signals applied to each of the plurality of gate lines according to a result of comparison between the reference gate signal and the input gate signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myung-Ho Won, Dal-Jung Kwon, Haeng-Won Park, Hyeon-Seok Bae, Seung-Hoon Jung, Ho-Sup Choi