Patents Examined by Chad Dicke
  • Patent number: 9632578
    Abstract: Provided are a task switching method capable of rapidly and easily accessing a task of interest by using a button that may receive a touch-based input and a device for executing the task switching method. The device includes a button configured to receive an input; a display configured to display task switching screens; and a processor configured to set a task switching mode in response to the button receiving a first input, and control the display to display the task switching screens in response to the button receiving a second input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joo-yoon Bae, Nam-wook Kang, Keum-koo Lee, Hye-won Lee, Yong-gook Park
  • Patent number: 9619069
    Abstract: A display apparatus with a touch detection function, includes: a plurality of common drive electrodes disposed in parallel so as to extend in one direction; a display element displaying on the basis of a pixel signal and a display drive signal; a touch detection element detecting an external approaching object on the basis of a touch-detection drive signal; and a scan drive section performing first scan driving to apply the display drive signal to the plurality of common drive electrodes sequentially by time division and second scan driving having a scan speed different from a scan speed of the first scan driving to apply the touch-detection drive signal to the plurality of common drive electrodes sequentially by time division, wherein the scan drive section drives the common drive electrodes for each plurality of the electrodes in the first and the second scan driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakanishi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi
  • Patent number: 9619044
    Abstract: A trackpad device includes a top surface, a capacitive sensor operably coupled to the top surface, a resistive sensor disposed below the capacitive sensor and at least one controller operably coupled to the capacitive sensor and to the resistive sensor. The at least one controller and the capacitive sensor are configured to detect one or more objects on the top surface. The at least one controller and the resistive sensor are configured to detect the one or more objects on the top surface independent of the detection by the at least one controller and the capacitive sensor. The at least one controller is configured to determine locations of the one or more objects on the top surface using information from the detection by the at least one controller and capacitive sensor and information from the detection by the at least one controller and the resistive sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Dominic Tenuta
  • Patent number: 9612673
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a touch screen electronic device to display two or more running applications simultaneously in a side-by-side layout in a split screen mode of the device. Two or more applications that are running on an operating system of the device can be easily displayed simultaneously in the split screen mode while maintaining one of the displayed applications as active so that the user can provide user inputs to the active application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Joshua John Lavallee
  • Patent number: 9601061
    Abstract: Most large public displays systems are built with smaller modules populated with light emitting pixels devices which are then connected together to form a larger surface which is the combined surface area of all the modules. This construction method creates the problem that the supporting and connecting structure that holds the modules together uses a generally small but not totally negligible space between each pair of modules, which is devoid of light emitting pixel devices, which, in turn creates a darker space between the modules. This problem is aggravated by the fact that the modules are generally rectangular, which causes that their edges continue from edge to edge of the whole display, causing darker lines on the display surface, generally horizontal and vertical darker lines. This invention discloses adding light emitting pixel devices on the supporting and connecting structure so that the image is continuous across the full display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Inventor: Sergio Lara Pereira Monteiro
  • Patent number: 9583049
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes an image display panel; a planar light source including a light guide plate and an edge-lit light source that has light sources; and a controller. The controller sets luminance determination blocks by virtually dividing the image display panel in a light-source-arrangement-direction, identifies a luminance determination block with a highest luminance in the incidence direction, among luminance determination blocks at a same position in the light-source-arrangement-direction, identifies a luminance determination block the luminance of which is to be corrected by referring to luminance information of the light sources, and controls a light quantity of each of the light sources in such a manner that luminance of the identified luminance determination block is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Takasaki, Tsutomu Harada, Susumu Kimura, Fumitaka Gotoh
  • Patent number: 9570009
    Abstract: A pixel circuit of a display device, an organic light emitting display device and a method for driving the same are discussed. The pixel circuit of the display device in one example includes an organic light emitting device emitting light through a current; a driving transistor controlling the current flowing in the organic light emitting device; a first capacitor connected between gate and source electrodes of the driving transistor; a second capacitor in which a data voltage is previously stored; and a switching unit charging the data voltage, which is stored in the second capacitor, in the first capacitor, and allowing the organic light emitting device to emit light by driving the driving transistor in accordance with the data voltage charged in the first capacitor and at the same time charging a data voltage of next frame in the second capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Kyun Woo, Gi-Hong Kim
  • Patent number: 9563347
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a device includes a touch screen display and a controller. The touch screen display displays a lock screen in a locked state. The controller causes the touch screen display to display an activated icon corresponding to an activated function on the lock screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Yano
  • Patent number: 9565422
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) display panel has a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and each of the rows has at least one sub-row. The 3D display panel includes at least one first group and at least one second group arranged on the first row. The first group and the second group respectively have a first color region, a second color region and a third color region. The first color region and the second color region of the first group as well as the third color region and the first color region of the second group are arranged on one sub-row, while the third color region of the first group and the second color region of the second group are arranged on another sub-row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventor: Yu-Sheng Huang
  • Patent number: 9563296
    Abstract: A data processing device includes a processor that executes a procedure. The procedure includes: (a) detecting a contact operation to a contacted face and receiving an instruction, (b) in a locked state, executing first determination to determine whether or not the contact operation detected at (a) is a pre-registered first contact operation, and executing second determination to determine whether or not a second contact operation to a different region from the region where the first contact operation has been detected has been performed, and (c) releasing the locked state when it is determined at (b) that the first contact operation and the second contact operation have been detected at (a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroki Kitai, Asuka Ishikawa, Masatoshi Tsubouchi, Makoto Uchishima
  • Patent number: 9563282
    Abstract: A Brahmi phonemics based keyboard that enables user to provide textual inputs in any of the Indian Languages has been envisaged. The keyboard can be incorporated into any computer based system capable of handling Unicode compliant inputs. The layout of the keyboard includes a plurality of input keys corresponding to the characters of an Indian language, and the input keys, especially the character input keys are grouped into a plurality of clusters. The keyboard acts as a multimodal device by enabling a user to provide textual input in a plurality of Indian languages. The layout of the keyboard includes diacritic markers, formatting commands, numeric keys and functional keys being grouped into different clusters for ease of accessibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Inventors: Venkatakrishna Venkatesh Bevoor, Guru Prasad
  • Patent number: 9563286
    Abstract: An optical navigation device includes a light source, an image sensor, a navigation unit and a lift detection unit. The light source is configured to illuminate a work surface. The image sensor receives reflected light from the work surface to output an image frame. The navigation unit is configured to filter the image frame and output a filtered image frame. The lift detection unit is configured to calculate a maximum difference of intensities between two adjacent pixels in the image frame, calculate a pixel number of pixels of interest in the filtered image frame, and identify a lift event by comparing the maximum difference with a difference threshold and/or comparing the pixel number with an operating threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventor: Tzu-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 9563302
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of drive electrodes; a plurality of detection electrodes intersecting the plurality of drive electrodes; and a scan driving unit performing a first scan drive and a second scan drive. The first scan drive allows a display drive signal for driving the display elements to be applied to each of the plurality of common drive electrodes, and the second scan drive allows a touch detection drive signal for detecting an external proximity object to be applied to each of the plurality of common drive electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Yoshitoshi Kida, Takayuki Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 9557828
    Abstract: An input information processing system, which is configured so as to enable an operator to efficiently conduct work without interruption, and processes input information that has been inputted using an input device, is configured so as to comprise: a display means for displaying data to be processed on a display screen; a first input device for inputting first input information; a second input device for inputting second input information; an acquisition means for acquiring a predetermined position in the data to be processed, which is displayed on the display screen of the display means, on the basis of the first input information inputted using the first input device; and control means for clearly showing the predetermined position in the data to be processed which was acquired by the acquisition means on the data to be processed displayed on the display screen of the display means, and for controlling the data to be processed which is displayed on the display screen of the display means on the basis of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: ZUKEN INC.
    Inventors: Takuya Konno, Yoshikuni Shibata
  • Patent number: 9560182
    Abstract: A mobile terminal apparatus according to this invention comprises an acceleration sensor 14 that detects applied acceleration; a storing unit 12 that stores an acceleration condition set in advance for the detected acceleration and stores an alarm condition set in advance for the stored information; and control unit 11 and sound generating unit 16 that alarm about stored information in accordance with an alarming method set in advance so as to correspond to the alarm condition, when the detected acceleration satisfies the stored acceleration condition and the stored information satisfies the stored alarm condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenji Sugiura, Takao Oyobe, Yasuko Oishi, Megumi Matsuura, Fumie Suzuki, Yasuaki Shirogane
  • Patent number: 9558701
    Abstract: A shift register an integrated gate line driving circuit, an array substrate and a display are disclosed. Two electronic switching modules are added to the existing shift register, wherein one of the two electronic switching modules is arranged among a puling-down node, a low level signal terminal and a pulling-up node, and the other is arranged among the pulling-down node, the low level signal terminal and a signal output terminal; during the non-operating time of the shift register and when the pulling-down node is at a low level, the two electronic switching modules are turned on, and discharge the pulling-up node and the signal output terminal respectively to pull down the noise voltage, thereby effectively reducing the noise interference of the shift register during the non-operating time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xi Chen
  • Patent number: 9557869
    Abstract: A high-accuracy single-layer capacitive touch panel device with one side for connection includes a substrate, a plurality of conductive lines, and a touch detection circuit. The conductive lines are arranged in parallel on the surface of the substrate and extended from the first side to the second side of the substrate. Each conductive line includes a conductive trace having opposite first edge and second edge and a plurality of triangle sensing electrodes arranged at the two edges of the conductive trace. Each triangle sensing electrode is connected with the conductive trace via a connection part. Each conductive line only has one connection end close to the second side. A touch detection circuit is electrically connected to the connection ends of the plurality of conductive lines through a connection circuit, so as to detect variations of the equivalent resistances and the equivalent capacitances of the plurality of conductive lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hsiang-Yu Lee
  • Patent number: 9558694
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device, including pixels positioned at crossing regions of scan lines and data lines and a bias voltage supply configured to supply bias voltages to the pixels. Each of the pixels includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED), a first transistor coupled between a first power supply and the OLED and driven in a saturation region by a corresponding one of the bias voltages to supply a set current to the OLED, a second transistor coupled between the first power supply and the OLED and driven in a linear region by a data signal supplied from a corresponding one of the data lines to turn on or off, and a second capacitor coupled between a gate electrode of the first transistor and the first power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheol-Min Kim, Joo-Hyung Lee
  • Patent number: 9557834
    Abstract: A touch panel system (1) according to one aspect of the invention includes: a stylus pen (15) including a drive circuit (26) that generates a first driving voltage based on a first code sequence and a second driving voltage based on a second code sequence, and a sensor circuit (40) that drives a pen point (38) with a multiplexed voltage obtained by multiplexing the first driving voltage and the second driving voltage; and a touch panel controller (2) that detects a position of the stylus pen (15) touching a touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mutsumi Hamaguchi, Shinji Shinjo
  • Patent number: 9454229
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and method that generates a tactile presentation, which indicates time on a mobile device. The mobile device may include a touch screen, a processor, and a means for generating electrovibrations. The touch screen may include the functionality to be activated to electrovibrate in at least one portion of the touch screen. The processor may receive electrical signals specifying and displaying a current time on the touch screen. The means for generating electrovibrations generates electrovibrations that vary in response to the time to provide the tactile presentation of the time on the touch screen. The touch screen typically includes a glass plate that is topped with a transparent electrode and insulator. The insulator may be operable to receive contact from a user's finger and in response, generate electrical impulses to provide a tactile presentation as haptic feedback to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Inventor: Alexander Wellen