Patents Examined by Claire X Pappas
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Patent number: 9455698Abstract: A gate driver is provided. The gate driver includes a plurality of cascade-connected stages. The k-th stage of the stages includes a switching unit for connecting a first node to a second node, a driving unit for generating an output signal in accordance with a voltage of the first node, and an input unit for inputting an output signal of a (k?1)-th stage of the stages and an output signal of a (k+1)-th stage of the stages to the second node.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Min-Seok Bae, Chul Min Kim
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Patent number: 9442598Abstract: A method for detecting interference in an input device, the method involving: driving a transmitter signal onto a transmitter sensor electrode of the input device; receiving a resulting signal from a receiver sensor electrode of the input device; sampling a first value associated with the resulting signal during a first half of a sensing cycle; sampling a second value associated with the resulting signal during a second half of the sensing cycle; generating an interference value based on the first value and the second value; determining, based on the first value and the second value, an input in a sensing region of the input device; and comparing the interference value to a noise threshold.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2013Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Petr Shepelev, Farzaneh Shahrokhi, Murat Ozbas, Tracy Scott Dattalo
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Patent number: 9436298Abstract: An extendable stylus operated with a mouth, the stylus having an extending portion configured to have an adjustable length, a conductive tip that can interface with a touch screen device, the conductive tip located at a first end of the extending portion, a mouthpiece that engages the mouth of a user, wherein the mouthpiece is located at a second end of the extending portion opposite the first end and a control mechanism disposed at or near the second end of the extending portion, wherein the control mechanism is configured to control the length of the extending portion based on an operation by the mouth of the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by The Department of Veterans AffairsInventors: Ursula Draper, Michael Kerrigan, Jeffrey Craighead, Jan Jasiewicz, Telina Caudill
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Patent number: 9417736Abstract: A touch display device and a light sensor module recovery method thereof are discussed. The touch display device includes i light sensor modules, where i is a natural number greater than 1, for sensing a touch applied to a touch display panel, and a malfunction recovery unit for determining whether each of the i light sensor modules malfunctions and restarting at least one of the i light sensor modules when the at least one light sensor module is determined to malfunction.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun-Woo Jang, Shi-Cheol Song
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Patent number: 9411048Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with electronic components such as a touch screen display. The touch screen display may be controlled based on information from a proximity sensor. The proximity sensor may have a light source that emits infrared light and a light detector that detects reflected infrared light. When the electronic device is in the vicinity of a user's head, the proximity sensor may produce data indicative of the presence of the user's head. Variations in proximity sensor output due to user hair color and smudges on the proximity sensor can be accommodated by using a dynamically adjustable proximity sensor data threshold in processing proximity sensor data. Proximity sensor data may be analyzed in real time to detect signal strength fluctuations that are indicative of the presence of low-reflectively dark hair on the user's head. Threshold adjustments may be based on the presence of dark hair.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: William Matthew Vieta
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Patent number: 9405328Abstract: For modifying touchpad function, a control module employs interim controls in an interim state for a touchpad in response to detecting use of a pointer embedded in a keyboard in a touchpad state. The control module further employs pointing controls in a pointing state in response to satisfying pointing criteria in the interim state. The control module also employs touchpad controls in a touchpad state in response to satisfying touchpad criteria in the pointing state.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2012Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Aaron Michael Stewart, Xin Feng, Masaki Matsubara
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Patent number: 9400384Abstract: A display assembly, comprising: a display device (30); a microlens array (34); and an eye tracker (8), for example a pupil tracker (8), and/or a head tracker; wherein plural pixels (150) or sub-pixels of the display device (30) are provided for each microlens (160) of the microlens array (34). The display may be adapted such that only certain pixels/sub-pixels (150) are activated/selected for any particular determined pupil/eye/head position, for example such that for each microlens (160), only one respective pixel/sub-pixel (150) is activated/selected for any particular determined pupil/eye/head position. The display device (30) may be a transparent display device (30), the microlens array (34) may be a switchable microlens array (34), and the display assembly may further comprise a light blocking device (32) that is switchable between a substantially light blocking state and a substantially light passing state.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2011Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS plcInventor: Michael Stewart Griffith
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Patent number: 9390032Abstract: The amount of power and processing capacity needed to process gesture input for a computing device can be reduced by utilizing one or more relatively low power, low resolution gesture sensors. The gesture sensors can have relatively large pixels, which provide enhanced sensitivity in low light situations. Further, the low resolution and high frame rates of the gesture sensors can enable relatively low bandwidth buses to be used, rather than dedicated image buses. These low bandwidth buses can conserve a significant amount of power, and can provide the image data from the gesture sensors to low power PIC-class microprocessors, or other such components, which can analyze image data and make basic gesture determinations without having to wake up an application processor or send data over a main bus, which can further reduce power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Leo B. Baldwin
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Patent number: 9372564Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an in-cell touch panel and a display device to decrease the influence of the touch driving electrode in the in-cell touch panel on image display. The in-cell touch panel includes an upper substrate and a lower substrate opposite to each other, and includes a plurality of touch sensing electrodes provided on the upper substrate and a plurality of touch driving electrodes provided on the lower substrate, wherein the touch sensing electrodes are laterally distributed, and the touch driving electrodes are longitudinally distributed; wherein the touch sensing electrodes include one or a plurality of touch sensing sub-electrodes which are parallel to each other and distributed laterally, and the plurality of touch sensing sub-electrodes are in parallel connection therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Haisheng Wang, Xue Dong, Lei Wang, Shengji Yang, Xiaoliang Ding, Yingming Liu, Weijie Zhao, Tao Ren, Chunlei Wang, Hongjuan Liu
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Patent number: 9355603Abstract: A method for adjusting saturation degree and a color adjusting system are provided. The method for adjusting saturation degree includes the following steps. A hue circle is divided into a plurality of hue regions, and each of the hue regions is divided into a plurality of saturation regions according to at least one saturation threshold. A plurality of first input saturation degrees of a first saturation region of a first hue region of the hue regions are weighted by a first weighting formula for obtaining a plurality of first output saturation degrees. A plurality of second input saturation degrees of a second saturation region of the first hue region of the hue regions are weighted by a second weighting formula for obtaining a plurality of second output saturation degrees. The first weighting formula is different from the second weighting formula.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Hui Chu Ke, Sheng-Wen Cheng
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Patent number: 9348429Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for improving word prediction in an electronic device. User input of one or more characters is received via a capacitive physical keyboard having a plurality of input members. Concurrently, the device determines the location of a non-typing digit, such as the user's finger or a stylus. Word prediction candidates are generated and weighted, and candidates that have subsequent characters associated with the input member proximal to the location of the non-typing digit are given more weight. The word prediction candidates are displayed, a second user input is then received comprising a selection of one of the candidates, and the device displays the selected word prediction candidate on the display.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Jerome Pasquero, Donald Somerset McCulloch McKenzie
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Patent number: 9349325Abstract: It is an object to provide a transmissive liquid crystal display device in which power consumption is reduced and deterioration in display quality is suppressed. As a backlight, a surface-emission light source is employed. The light source is a light source which performs surface light emission, so that the light emission area is large. Accordingly, the backlight can effectively radiate heat. Thus, even in the case where an image signal is not input to a pixel for a long period, the pixel can hold the image signal. In other words, both a reduction in power consumption and a suppression of deterioration in display quality can be realized.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Jun Koyama
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Patent number: 9348448Abstract: A display device includes a liquid crystal display with an integrated touch screen panel including a first substrate having a plurality of gate wires and a plurality of data wires and having a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode. The display device also includes a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, an insulating layer on the pixel electrode, a plurality of transparent electrodes arranged in a first direction on the insulating layer, a plurality of metal electrodes forming coupling parts attached to predetermined sides of the transparent electrodes and forming driving wires that receive driving signals, a plurality of sensing electrodes arranged on the second substrate in a second direction that intersects the first direction, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung-Hoon Song, Sang-Hyun Jun
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Patent number: 9343022Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of pixels including at least four even-numbered subpixels. The at least four even-numbered subpixels includes: a first red subpixel including a pixel electrode electrically connected to a switching element which is connected to a first data line and a first gate line; a first green subpixel including a pixel electrode electrically connected to a switching element which is connected to a second data line and a second gate line, where the second data line is disposed adjacent to the first data line; a first blue subpixel including a pixel electrode electrically connected to a switching element which is connected to the first data line and the second gate line; and a first multi-primary subpixel including a pixel electrode electrically connected to a switching element which is connected to the second data line and the first gate line.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2011Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tae-Hyeong Park, Dong-Ho Lee, Joon-Ha Park, Sang-Cheol Shin
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Patent number: 9342185Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical touch screen, including a flat plate display panel, a case mounted and assembled with the flat plate display panel, brackets assembled on the case, a camera module mounted on the brackets, and an iris formed on the brackets and through which infrared incident on the camera module passes.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2011Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Sukwoo Son
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Patent number: 9343029Abstract: A gate driving circuit for an LCD device includes a shift register module for generating a plurality of scan signals corresponding to a plurality of channels according to a start signal and a clock signal, a plurality of logic circuits each corresponding to a channel of the plurality of channels, for outputting a driving signal to the channel according to a scan signal of the plurality of scan signals and a shutdown indication signal, and a plurality of shaping and delay units each coupled between two neighboring channels for outputting the shutdown indication signal to another channel after shaping and delaying the shutdown indication signal of a previous stage.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2010Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Ching-Ho Hung, Chao-Chih Hsiao, Yen-Po Chen, Bor-Chun Wu
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Patent number: 9322794Abstract: A biometric finger sensor may include an array of biometric finger sensing pixels and an array shielding electrode outside the array of biometric finger sensing pixels. The biometric finger sensor may further include a finger drive electrode outside the array shielding electrode. Finger drive circuitry may generate a finger drive signal for the finger drive electrode and generate a compensating finger drive signal for the shielding electrode.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Dale R. Setlak, Giovanni Gozzini
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Patent number: 9323356Abstract: Configurations of a stylus and controlling methods thereof are disclosed. The proposed stylus causes a touch panel to generate a signal by an electrical field generated by a magnetic field via one of a conductor and an electric plate, wherein the stylus includes a set of windings and a magnet, which can move towards each other and generate a current on the set of windings through interaction. The current flows through the conductor/electric plate on a tip of the stylus to generate one of an electric flux line and a magnetic flux line such that the touch panel can sense the movement of the stylus.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Henghao Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ming-Shan Kuo
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Patent number: 9305480Abstract: A display having a data driving integrated circuit includes N number of output channels (where N is an integer) having at least two regions including a first output channel and an Nth output channel, a data output channel group including M data output channels (where M is an integer less than N), the M data output channels supplying pixel data to a corresponding number of the data lines in accordance with a desired resolution of the display, wherein (N?M) output channels are not supplied with pixel data, and the (N?M) output channels are located between the first output channel and the Nth output channel, and a channel selector selecting the M data output channels.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2009Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sin Ho Kang, Hong Sung Song, Jin Cheol Hong
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Patent number: 9305477Abstract: An organic light emitting display device of the present embodiments includes: a plurality of pixels positioned at intersections of scan lines, data lines, and emission control lines; a pixel unit, including the plurality of pixels, and divided into two or more blocks; a scan driver sequentially supplying scan signals to the scan lines; a data driver supplying data signals to the data lines in synchronization with the scan signals; and two or more emission drivers connected with emission control lines in the blocks, in which each emission driver supplies emission control signals to emission control lines connected thereto, and at least one or more emission control signals are supplied in each block simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Senda, Keum-Nam Kim