Patents Examined by Claire X Pappas
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Patent number: 9298311Abstract: A device compensating for a loss in sensitivity of a sensor, such as a trackpad. The device may be standalone, integrated with the trackpad itself, or within the associated integrated circuit designed to measure relative electrode capacitances. The embodiment generally employs a current source to negatively compensate for the current available to charge at least one capacitor (or other storage device) in the trackpad.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2005Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Benjamin B. Lyon, Steve P. Hotelling
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Patent number: 9298363Abstract: One or more regions of a touch sensitive surface can be activated individually by a user. A region defines an active input area for processing touch input events. Any touch event associated with a beginning touch event that is detected in the active area is processed for display. Any touch input event detected outside the active region that is not associated with the beginning touch event is excluded from the processing. Once a writing gesture is started in the active region, the writing gesture can extend outside of the active region so long as the writing gesture is associated with the beginning touch event.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2011Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Lyndley Crumly
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Patent number: 9298317Abstract: A stray-light-coupled biometrics sensing module includes a light-transparent body, a display unit and an optical module. The light-transparent body has a front side and a backside. The front side is configured to support an organic object thereon. The display unit attached to the backside of the light-transparent body displays a frame. The optical module is attached to the backside of the light-transparent body through an adhesive, and is disposed adjacent to the display unit. First light rays of the frame emitted from an eye-viewing screen couple into the organic object through the light-transparent body. After travelling a short distance in the organic object, the first light rays couple out of the organic object and re-enter the light-transparent body as second light rays entering the optical module. The optical module senses the second light rays to generate a biometrics image signal. An electronic apparatus is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: J-Metrics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Bruce C. S. Chou
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Patent number: 9298001Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to optical systems in head worn computing.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: John N. Border, John D. Haddick
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Patent number: 9280940Abstract: An LCD device includes a four-color converter for converting an original RGB data into three grayscale values, executing a white balance process to the three grayscale values, and confirming a maximum value MAX (Ri, Gi, Bi) and a minimum value of the three white-balanced grayscale values Ri, Gi, and Bi, wherein, when the minimum value is greater than 0, determining that if the three data of the original RGB data are equal, and when they are equal, utilizing a formula Wo=Bi; Ro=Ri×Wo/MAX(Ri, Gi, Bi)+Ri?Wo; Go=Gi×Wo/MAX(Ri, Gi, Bi)+Gi?Wo; Bo=0 to calculate the output grayscale values Ro, Go, Bo, and Wo in the RGBW data. The device also includes a data driver for processing the RGBW data provided by the four-color converter to generate analog type data signals, a scanning driver for sequentially generating scanning signals, and an LCD panel for displaying colors.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lixuan Chen, Chih-tsung Kang
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Patent number: 9277156Abstract: A portable control unit that interacts with a variety of types of media equipment. The control unit searches for media equipment (including media players) located within an area and retrieves user interaction information corresponding to discovered media players. The control unit can be instructed to control any of the discovered media players. The control unit uses the retrieved user interaction information to adapt. The control unit may periodically, or when relocated, look for new media players in its neighborhood. The control unit interacts with multiple multimedia sources that supply video and/or audio to the media players. The control unit may have a screen on which it displays a video in addition to controlling selection and presentation of a video and/or an audio in any one of the discovered media players. The control unit maintains an updateable media guide that provides a list of multimedia elements available for viewing and/or listening.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2005Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: James D. Bennett, Jeyhan Karaoguz
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Patent number: 9256296Abstract: An integrated mouse and keyboard intended to be used to type with only one hand. The mouse is contoured so that the wrist is in a neutral position during typing. The characters associated with any individual key can be changed through the use of one of two joysticks. The user may define the relationship between the joysticks, keyboard keys, and character sets.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2013Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Inventor: Mark Andrew Tagge
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Patent number: 9247175Abstract: A remote control with a built-in miniature television screen and sound system manages settings and display of media on an associated television screen. The remote control's user interface permits media guide perusal and channel selection for display on both of the main and miniature television screens. Media guides can be downloaded per request to, or cached within, the remote control for display on the miniature screen. The remote control supports media swapping between the main and miniature television screens and associated sound systems. The sound system of the remote control includes built in speakers and external wired and wireless headphone support. Media and media guides may be located and downloaded from Internet servers via a web browser and associated search engine tailored for remote control usage. Transcoding functionality is employed at various network nodes, such as a set top box, remote control, an intranet or Internet linked device, and television.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2005Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: James D. Bennett, Jeyhan Karaoguz
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Patent number: 9225582Abstract: A communications device receives a trigger event and, in response to the trigger event, retrieves identification information and identifies a correspondent entity associated with the trigger event based on the identification information. Communication information relating to one or more communications events associated with the correspondent entity is then retrieved, organized, and displayed in one or more views on the communications device.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: David P. Conway
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Patent number: 9208719Abstract: A driving method of a display device is disclosed. According to one aspect, the method includes applying a first voltage of a predetermined level to an anode of a plurality of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) included in a plurality of pixels. A plurality of driving transistors are driven to be connected to the plurality of OLEDs. The method further includes transmitting a first power source voltage of a logic high level to the anode of the plurality of OLEDs as a threshold voltage to compensate a threshold voltage of the plurality of driving transistors, and applying a data voltage to a plurality of pixels as a data writing step turning on a plurality of driving transistors. The second power source voltage applied to the cathode of the plurality of OLEDs is changed to a second voltage of the logic low level in a state in which a plurality of driving transistors are turned on. In the turned on state, light is emitted from the plurality of OLEDs.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2011Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kwang-Hae Kim, Kwan-Wook Jung, Hun-Tae Kim
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Patent number: 9202406Abstract: An LCD device includes: an LC panel which exhibits different gamma curves under different view angles, and a display control circuit which divides a single frame period into first and second display periods and divides a display region of the LC panel into first and second regions. The display control circuit has a luminance computing section which computes A to D so that A to D satisfies A+C=B+D and A?B?D as well as C?B?D, where A and C are gray-level luminances, A and B are the white luminances of pixel data displayed in the first and second regions, respectively, during the first display period, and C and D are the white luminances of pixel data displayed in the first and second regions, respectively, during the second display period.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ken Inada
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Patent number: 9195430Abstract: An image display terminal includes an image display control unit, a display range setting unit, a display range sending unit and a graph expression receiving unit. The image display control unit displays a background image in a display screen. The display range setting unit sets display range data of a coordinate system to an image display region of the display screen. The display range sending unit sends the display range data to at least one other image display terminal which displays the background image displayed on the image display terminal. After the display range data is set to an image display region of the other image display terminal, the graph expression receiving unit receives, from the other image display terminal, graph expression data for a graph figure displayed on the image display region of the other image display terminal.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2012Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Mitsuru Okano
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Patent number: 9195056Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to optical systems in head worn computing.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: John N. Border, John D. Haddick
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Patent number: 9170685Abstract: An apparatus for determining a position of an object on a planar surface is provided. The apparatus includes a conical mirror having an axis that is perpendicular to the planar surface and a time-of-flight sensor array having a spatial relationship to the conical mirror such that a field of view of the time of flight sensor array is reflected radially from the conical mirror in a plurality of directions across the planar surface. The apparatus also includes electrical circuitry configured to receive a ranged image captured by the time-of-flight sensor array through the conical mirror, process the ranged image to determine the position of the object on the planar surface by determining an angle and a radius of the object relative to the axis of the conical mirror, and transmit the position of the object to a display system.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: OTTER PRODUCTS, LLCInventor: Kurt E Spears
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Patent number: 9165493Abstract: A video-rendering chip performs gain correction on received display input, based on a display temperature, to produce output values that are shown on the display. The video-rendering chip includes multipliers, a microprocessor, and a memory. The microprocessor receives a display temperature from a sensor, determines gain correction coefficients that correspond to the display temperature, and provides the correction coefficients to the multipliers. The multipliers then multiply the display input by the correction coefficients to produce the output values. The microprocessor may determine the correction coefficients utilizing a lookup table or a correction coefficient formula stored in the memory. The microprocessor may receive an updated display temperature periodically and may determine new correction coefficients that correspond to the updated display temperature. The microprocessor may receive updated display temperatures at fixed periods or at varying periods based on the previous display temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2009Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gabriel G. Marcu, David Lum, Wei Chen
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Patent number: 9153182Abstract: An electrophoretic display includes an electrophoretic panel, a timing control circuit, a source driver, a gate driver, and a gate line enable circuit. The timing control circuit generates a timing control signal corresponding to a refresh area of a frame according to the refresh area. The gate driver generates output enable signals corresponding to the refresh area according to the timing control signal, and the gate line enable circuit transmits scan signals of first gate lines corresponding to the refresh area to second gate lines corresponding to the refresh area according to the enabled output enable signals. The source driver drives data lines corresponding to the refresh area according to the timing control signal to charge/discharge pixels corresponding to the refresh area.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2015Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.Inventors: Kuo-Cheng Hsu, Che-Chia Hsu, Pei-Yu Chen, Kuo-Hsing Cheng
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Patent number: 9141335Abstract: Natural language image tags are described. In one or more implementations, at least a portion of an image displayed by a display device is defined based on a gesture. The gesture is identified from one or more touch inputs detected using touchscreen functionality of the display device. Text received in a natural language input is located and used to tag the portion of the image using one or more items of the text received in the natural language input.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Gregg D. Wilensky, Walter W. Chang, Lubomira A. Dontcheva, Gierad P. Laput, Aseem O. Agarwala
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Patent number: 9135845Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel that displays a second image in a 3D mode, a barrier panel that forms a barrier pattern that separates the second image into a left-eye image and a right-eye image, a touch sensing part that includes third electrodes capacitively coupled to a portion of the electrodes included in the barrier panel, and a coordinate calculator. The coordinate calculator measures a variation of capacitance between the portion of the electrodes included in the barrier panel and the third electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2012Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Il Ho Lee, Seongmo Hwang, Jaejin Pyun, Yoongu Kim, Sang Min Jeon
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Patent number: 9123681Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of power lines, a plurality of light emitting units, a plurality of first pixel circuits and a plurality of second pixel circuits. The plurality of light emitting units are arranged in an array and adapted to display different colors. In the organic light emitting units with the same color, some parts are connected to the first pixel circuits, and other parts are connected to the second pixel circuits. A first terminal and a second terminal of a first control transistor in the first pixel circuit are sequentially arranged on a forward direction of a first direction, and a first terminal and a second terminal of a second control transistor in the second pixel circuit are sequentially arranged on a reverse direction of the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2012Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Peng-Bo Xi, Lee-Hsun Chang, Li-Fong Lin
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Patent number: 9122324Abstract: A thin film transistor display panel capable of minimizing a bezel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The thin film transistor display panel includes: a substrate; a plurality of gate lines and data lines that cross each other on the substrate; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; and a plurality of gate voltage supply lines arranged in a parallel direction with the data lines and connected to the plurality of gate lines, respectively, in which one pixel area is defined by two adjacent gate lines and two adjacent data lines, two pixel electrodes are formed in one pixel area, and the gate voltage supply lines pass between the two pixel electrodes formed in the same pixel area.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2012Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Duk-Sung Kim, Hyuk-Jin Kim, Young Jae Tak