Patents Examined by Christopher R. Lamb
  • Patent number: 11262849
    Abstract: A user interface, a computer program product, a signal sequence, a means of transportation and a method for classifying a user gesture performed freely in space. A first gesture and/or a second gesture may be detected by a sensor. A processor may compare a first characteristic of the first gesture with a first characteristic of a second gesture, and, as a function of the comparison, the first gesture may be classified in contrast to the second gesture as an intended user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Thomas Schwarz
  • Patent number: 11254209
    Abstract: A method for controlling vehicle systems in a vehicle includes providing a steering wheel having a plurality of sensors configured to sense contact on the steering wheel. The steering wheel has a left zone and a right zone. The method includes determining a left contact value based on one or more signals received from at least one of the plurality of sensors. The left contact value indicates contact with the steering wheel within the left zone. The method includes determining a right contact value based on the one or more signals received from the at least one of the plurality of sensors. The right contact value indicates contact with the steering wheel within the right zone. The method includes determining a driver state index based on the left contact value and the right contact value and modifying control of the vehicle systems based on the driver state index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kin C. Fung, Timothy J. Dick
  • Patent number: 11204628
    Abstract: A flexible display apparatus includes: a glass supporting member including a flat portion and a step difference portion overlapping the flat portion; a flexible substrate in the step difference portion of the glass supporting member; and a display portion including a plurality of pixels on the glass supporting member and the flexible substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SeungHan Paek, Seongwoo Park, Dohyung Kim, SangHoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11199925
    Abstract: A touch display module and an electronic device are provided. The touch display module includes a touch display panel. The touch display panel is provided with a first pixel area including a first pixel and a second pixel area including a second pixel, where a resistor-capacitance (RC) load of the first pixel is not equal to an RC load of the second pixel. The first pixel area is provided with a first electrode corresponding to the first pixel. The second pixel area is provided with a second electrode corresponding to the second pixel. The second electrode is spaced apart from the first electrode. When the touch display panel is operating in a display mode, the first electrode is electrically coupled with the second electrode, where the first electrode and the second electrode are common electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuhu Jia
  • Patent number: 11194433
    Abstract: An improved touch sensor comprising a first sensing electrode unit formed on a substrate in a first direction and a second sensing electrode unit formed on the substrate in a second direction crossing the first direction. A plurality of fine etching patterns are formed in boundary portions of unit transparent electrodes included in the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit. Each unit transparent electrode may have a shape in which a portion of a curved line connecting the vertices of a polygon is removed. Adjacent unit transparent electrodes may be electrically connected to one another. The improved touch sensor prevents a transparent electrode from being visible to a user sensor and also results in the prevention of a reduction in light transmittance caused by the transparent electrode as well as the prevention a reduction in optical quality due to a moiré phenomenon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Hyoung Kwon, Sung Jin Noh, Sang Jin Park, Han Tae Ryu, Jun Gu Lee
  • Patent number: 11194368
    Abstract: A user can provide input to a device in a 2-dimensional manner (such as by entering the data using a stylus or finger to apply pressure to a touchscreen) or in a 3-dimensional manner (such as by moving the device in 3-dimensional space). While the user input is being received, biometric data in the form of accelerometer data is collected. The accelerometer data indicates an amount of force applied in each of one or more directions over time. The collected accelerometer data thus provides an indication of the manner in which the device was moved, whether intentionally or unintentionally, while the user input was being received. The collected accelerometer data can be used in various manners, such as to verify the user input, as a signature of the user, as an authentication value to access a service or device, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin D. Follis, Dennis E. Griffin
  • Patent number: 11188125
    Abstract: An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an information processing device includes a housing and a display unit configured to display at least a portion of a first content to a user. A projection unit is configured to project at least a portion of a second content onto a projection surface. A detection unit configured to detect a displacement between the projection surface and a portion of the housing, the housing being configured to support the display unit, the projection unit, and the detection unit. The detection unit is further configured to determine whether the displacement falls within a threshold distance. The projection unit is further configured to project the second portion of the content onto the projection surface, when the displacement falls within the threshold distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Miyashita, Shunichi Kasahara, Ikuo Yamano, Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Mizunuma
  • Patent number: 11182036
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive display device includes a touch sensor having a plurality of display electrodes and control logic coupled to the plurality of display electrodes. The control logic is configured to receive, for each of a plurality of stylus electrodes of an active stylus interacting with the touch-sensitive display device, a spatial capacitance measurement over the touch sensor for that stylus electrode. Relative to the touch sensor, and based on spatial capacitance measurements of the stylus electrodes, the control logic is configured to determine (i) a tip position of the active stylus, (ii) a tilt parameter of the active stylus, and (iii) a twist parameter of the active stylus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Whipple Case, Jr., Jonathan Westhues, Tianzhu Qiao
  • Patent number: 11171190
    Abstract: A flexible input/output device and an input/output device having high resistance to repeated bending are provided. The input/output device includes a first flexible substrate, a first insulating layer over the first substrate, a first transistor over the first insulating layer, a light-emitting element over and electrically connected to the first transistor and including an EL layer between first and second electrodes, a first bonding layer over the light-emitting element, a sensing element and a second transistor over the first bonding layer and electrically connected to each other, a second insulating layer over the sensing element and the second transistor, and a second flexible substrate over the second insulating layer. In the input/output device, B/A is greater than or equal to 0.7 and less than or equal to 1.7, where A is a thickness between the EL layer and the first insulating layer and B is a thickness between the EL layer and the second insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Inventors: Shingo Eguchi, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11137846
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix; a plurality of scanning signal lines; a drive electrode that faces the pixel electrodes; and a plurality of touch detection electrodes including a detection electrode pattern of a transparent conductive body that faces the drive electrode. The detection electrode pattern includes one or more slits each of which is a region where the transparent conductive body is not present. The slits of the detection electrode pattern of the touch detection electrodes extend in a direction different from an extending direction of the scanning signal lines with a slit pitch having a predetermined interval therebetween in the extending direction of the scanning signal lines. The slit pitch is multiples of a natural number of a predetermined pixel pitch in which the pixel electrodes are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Koichiro Adachi
  • Patent number: 11127361
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel on which first pixels and second pixels are alternately arranged in the columnar direction, and a display controller configured to input a first image signal and to display an image. The first pixels and the second pixels are arranged such that first sub-pixels are adjacent to third sub-pixels in the columnar direction. The display controller is configured to execute conversion of converting the input first image signal into a second image signal, vary the luminance values of the third sub-pixels in the second image signal based on the luminance values of the third sub-pixels in the first image signal which become unable to be represented in the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuo Saruhashi, Kazunari Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 11120747
    Abstract: A display may have an active area that includes display pixels. The display may include an inactive notch region that extends into the active area. Data lines may provide image data from display driver circuitry to the display pixels. The image data may include data signals that correspond to portions of the display that do not include pixels, such as the inactive notch region. The null data signals may cause nonuniformities in the displayed image. The null data signals may be adjusted to minimize the nonuniformities. Null data signals corresponding to the inactive notch region may be adjusted to have gray levels that gradually decrease with distance from the border between the inactive notch and the active area. All of the data signals corresponding to the inactive notch may be set to a uniform gray level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Koorosh Aflatooni, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Pierre-Yves Emelie, Myung-Je Cho, Marc Albrecht, Graeme M. Williams, Sean C. Chang, Zhao Wang
  • Patent number: 11093068
    Abstract: The present application provides a touch control array substrate. The touch control array substrate includes a touch electrode layer having a plurality of touch electrode blocks configured to detect a touch and configured to provide at least a portion of back light for image display in the touch control array substrate by reflecting ambient light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gang Hua, Lei Mi, Yanna Xue, Yong Zhang, Zhiying Bao, Lu Bai, Jingpeng Wang, Haobo Fang, Wenjun Xiao
  • Patent number: 11086426
    Abstract: An apparatus for driving a touch display panel is provided. The touch display panel has a plurality of data lines and a plurality of sensing lines. The apparatus includes a first device, a second device and a touch controller. The first device includes a plurality of touch sensing channels configured to sense the first portion of the sensing lines. The second device includes a plurality of touch sensing channels configured to sense the second portion of the sensing lines. The touch controller receives respective touch information from the first device and the second device. The respective touch information includes a first touch information corresponding to the first portion of the sensing lines and a second touch information corresponding to the second portion of the sensing lines. The touch controller determines a touch event of the touch display panel according to the first touch information and the second touch information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Wing-Kai Tang
  • Patent number: 11081047
    Abstract: Disclosed are a pixel structure, a method for driving a pixel structure, a method for preparing a pixel structure, and a display apparatus. The pixel structure includes a plurality of sub-pixel groups arranged in an array; each of the sub-pixel groups comprises a first sub-pixel electrode, a second sub-pixel electrode a first-type carbon nanotube switch tube and a second-type carbon nanotube switch tube; the first sub-pixel electrode is connected to the first-type carbon nanotube switch tube; the second sub-pixel electrode is connected to the second-type carbon nanotube switch tube; and the first-type carbon nanotube switch tube and the second-type carbon nanotube switch tube in each of the sub-pixel groups are connected to the same gate line and the same data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jingbo Xu, Hu Meng
  • Patent number: 11056036
    Abstract: A display device and driving method thereof are provided. The display device comprises a display panel and a color compensation part. The display panel comprises a display area which has a flat portion and a bending portion. The color compensation part compensates for input data signals by applying data gains which are set differently for the flat portion and the bending portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Homin Jeon, Seonggyun Kim, Byoungchul Cho
  • Patent number: 11027571
    Abstract: A greeting card and associated techniques for storing audio tracks corresponding to definable touch zones of the greeting card is provided. In one aspect, the greeting card includes a body for securing a photograph thereon. A sensor array can be disposed within the body of the greeting card to detect touch gestures through the secured photograph, among other things. The greeting card can include a microprocessor that enables touch zones to be defined via the sensor array, such that a touch zone can correspond to various objects depicted on the card or a photograph secured thereon. Among other things, the greeting card can include a microphone for recording an audio track corresponding to each generated touch zone, a speaker for playing back an audio track corresponding to a selected touch zone, and a memory for storing touch zones and/or associated audio tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: HALLMARK CARDS, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jennifer R. Garbos, Tyler James Richmond, Christopher Jason Shields, Nicholas Pedersen, Danielle M. Caldwell
  • Patent number: 11024220
    Abstract: Apparatus and method relating generally to an LED display is disclosed. In such an apparatus, a driver die has a plurality of driver circuits. A plurality of light-emitting diodes, each having a thickness of 10 microns or less and discrete with respect to one another, are respectively interconnected to the plurality of driver circuits. The plurality of light-emitting diodes includes a first portion for a first color, a second portion for a second color, and a third portion for a third color respectively obtained from a first, a second, and a third optical wafer. The first, the second, and the third color are different from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Invensas Corporation
    Inventors: Liang Wang, Rajesh Katkar, Javier A. Delacruz, Ilyas Mohammed, Belgacem Haba
  • Patent number: 11024014
    Abstract: A computing device is provided, which includes an input device, a display device, and a processor configured to, at a rendering stage of a rendering pipeline, render visual scene data to a frame buffer, and generate a signed distance field of edges of vector graphic data, and, at a reprojection stage of the rendering pipeline prior to displaying the rendered visual scene, receive post rendering user input via the input device that updates the user perspective, reproject the rendered visual scene data in the frame buffer based on the updated user perspective, reproject data of the signed distance field based on an updated user perspective, evaluate the signed distance field to generate reprojected vector graphic data, and generate a composite image including the reprojected rendered visual scene data and the reprojected graphic data, and display the composite image on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Roger Sebastian Kevin Sylvan, Phillip Charles Heckinger, Arthur Tomlin, Nikolai Michael Faaland
  • Patent number: 11017717
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display panel includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a row direction; a first repair line disposed in the row direction; a plurality of auxiliary bridges, each arranged between the first repair line and each of the plurality of pixels; a plurality of first bridge patterns respectively connected to the plurality of pixels and each first bridge pattern partially overlapping each adjacent auxiliary bridge; and a plurality of second bridge patterns branched from the first repair line and each second bridge pattern partially overlapping each adjacent auxiliary bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seongku Lee, Binn Kim