Patents Examined by Cory A Almeida
  • Patent number: 10509524
    Abstract: A touch sensor film preventing moire occurring in accordance with deformation of a support is manufactured by performing roll transportation of an elongated transparent support 1 having a thickness smaller than 80 ?m using a plurality of pass rollers 4, 5, and 6; performing annealing treatment with respect to the support 1 at a temperature which is equal to or lower than a temperature obtained by adding 35° C. to a dynamic glass transition temperature of the support 1; and forming a mesh pattern formed of thin metal wires 8a on a surface of the support 1 subjected to the annealing treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Nukui
  • Patent number: 10504403
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display (LCD) device which is capable of improving picture quality by switching an optimal gamma voltage and an optimal common voltage on a basis of an operation time, and a method for driving the same. The liquid crystal display device includes a timing controller, a voltage generating unit, a data driver, and a liquid crystal panel. The timing controller can generate voltage control signal for switching initial state to stable state by using certain switching point. The voltage generating unit can receive the voltage control signal, supply the first gamma voltage and the first common voltage during the initial state, and supply the second gamma voltage and the second common voltage during the stable state. The data driver can receive the first gamma voltage in the initial state and the second gamma voltage in the stable state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sun Kyu Park
  • Patent number: 10466838
    Abstract: A touch screen panel includes: a flat panel display including an upper substrate, a lower substrate, and pixels arranged on a display region of the lower substrate in a stripe arrangement; first sensing cells arranged in a first direction on the upper substrate and second sensing cells arranged in a second direction on the upper substrate; first connection patterns electrically connecting adjacent ones of the first sensing cells to each other in the first direction, and second connection patterns electrically connecting adjacent ones of the second sensing cells to each other in the second direction, wherein at least one of the first connection patterns and the second connection patterns is inclined so that it partially overlaps with the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do-Youb Kim, Won-Kyu Kwak, Brent Jang
  • Patent number: 10466788
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a control interface (1) with haptic feedback, in particular for a motor vehicle, intended to take account of an action of a user by providing him with haptic feedback, comprising a magneto-rheological fluid module (5), the said module (5) comprising: a rotary element (7) rotating about an axis (Z) of the module (5), said rotary element (7) being in contact with the magneto-rheological fluid and intended to be coupled with a gripping element (3), and a unit (9) for applying a magnetic field to the magneto-rheological fluid and configured so as to modify the intensity of said magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: DAV
    Inventors: Stéphane Vanhelle, Jean-Marc Tissot
  • Patent number: 10444925
    Abstract: A multi-layer conductive coating is substantially transparent to visible light, contains at least one conductive layer comprising silver that is sandwiched between at least a pair of dielectric layers, and may be used as an electrode and/or conductive trace in a capacitive touch panel. The multi-layer conductive coating may contain a dielectric layer of or including zirconium oxide (e.g., ZrO2) and/or silicon nitride, and may be used in applications such as capacitive touch panels for controlling showers, appliances, vending machines, electronics, electronic devices, and/or the like. The coating may have increased resistivity, and thus reduced conductivity, compared to pure silver layers of certain coatings, in order to allow the silver-based coating to be more suitable for use as touch panel electrode(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: GUARDIAN GLASS, LLC
    Inventors: Alexey Krasnov, Willem Den Boer, Jason Blush, Eric W. Akkashian
  • Patent number: 10444926
    Abstract: A multi-layer conductive coating is substantially transparent to visible light, contains at least one conductive layer comprising silver that is sandwiched between at least a pair of dielectric layers, and may be used as an electrode and/or conductive trace in a capacitive touch panel. The multi-layer conductive coating may contain a dielectric layer of or including zirconium oxide (e.g., ZrO2) and/or silicon nitride, and may be used in applications such as capacitive touch panels for controlling showers, appliances, vending machines, electronics, electronic devices, and/or the like. The touch panel may further include a functional film(s) which may be one or more of: an index-matching film, an antiglare film, an anti-fingerprint film, and anti-microbial film, a scratch resistant film, and/or an antireflective (AR) film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: GUARDIAN GLASS, LLC
    Inventors: Willem Den Boer, Alexey Krasnov, Jason Blush, Eric W. Akkashian
  • Patent number: 10439162
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display panel having a display unit and an encapsulating structure for encapsulating the display unit. The encapsulating structure includes a growth layer on the display unit; and a graphene layer on a side of the growth layer distal to the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanan Niu, Hongwei Tian, Lei Chen, Zengsheng He
  • Patent number: 10431184
    Abstract: An in-vehicle display control device includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of element images to be displayed on a vehicular display from each image generation unit; a change information acquisition unit that acquires color change information; and an image synthesizing unit that generates a synthetic image based on a color in the color change information and the plurality of element images. The image synthesizing unit generates the synthetic image by synthesizing the plurality of element images and a color change layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Kajita, Akihiro Ogasawara, Kiyotaka Taguchi, Gouji Sagai
  • Patent number: 10416763
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for optical sensing and tracking of eye movement. In one aspect, a device for obtaining a user's eye dynamics data includes a display screen to present at least one content. The device includes an eye sensing module to obtain the user's eye dynamics data including the user's eye movement while presenting to the user the at least one content on the display screen. The device includes a processor in communication with the eye sensing module. The processor can determine the user's reaction to the at least one content presented on the display screen based at least partly on the obtained user's eye dynamics data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi He, Bo Pi
  • Patent number: 10409434
    Abstract: Integrated touch screens are provided including drive lines formed of grouped-together circuit elements of a thin film transistor layer and sense lines formed between a color filter layer and a material layer that modifies or generates light. The common electrodes (Vcom) in the TFT layer can be grouped together during a touch sensing operation to form drive lines. Sense lines can be formed on an underside of a color filter glass, and a liquid crystal region can be disposed between the color filter glass and the TFT layer. Placing the sense lines on the underside of the color filter glass, i.e., within the display pixel cell, can provide a benefit of allowing the color filter glass to be thinned after the pixel cells have been assembled, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shih Chang Chang, John Z. Zhong
  • Patent number: 10394325
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for an electronic device to control the application of friction to a rotary input control with a shaft. In one example, the apparatus may include a spring bar member having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface positioned adjacent to the shaft; and a movable tension member positioned to engage the second surface of the spring bar; wherein as the tension member engages the spring bar, the spring bar engages the shaft and applies a frictional force to the shaft. In this manner, the apparatus can controllably apply a friction force of a desired amount to the rotary input control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Camille Moussette, John B. Morrell, Patrick Kessler
  • Patent number: 10394397
    Abstract: A touch sensor film preventing moire occurring in accordance with deformation of a support is manufactured by performing roll transportation of an elongated transparent support 1 having a thickness smaller than 80 ?m using a plurality of pass rollers 4, 5, and 6; performing annealing treatment with respect to the support 1 at a temperature which is equal to or lower than a temperature obtained by adding 35° C. to a dynamic glass transition temperature of the support 1; and forming a mesh pattern formed of thin metal wires 8a on a surface of the support 1 subjected to the annealing treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Nukui
  • Patent number: 10394405
    Abstract: Certain example embodiments relate to capacitive touch panels. First and second glass substrates are substantially parallel and spaced apart from one another. At least one multi-layer transparent conductive coating (TCC) is patterned into electrodes and located between the first and second substrates. The TCC(s) include(s) at least one conductive layer including silver, a dielectric layer including zinc oxide under and directly contacting the conductive layer including silver, and a dielectric layer(s) including tin oxide or silicon nitride over the conductive layer including silver. Processing circuitry electrically connects to the electrodes and measures an aspect of the electrodes' capacitance. A laminate material is located between the first and second glass substrates. The TCC(s), when blanket deposited, may have a visible transmission of at least 88%, a sheet resistances of no more than 10 ohms per square, and a haze of no more than 0.5%. Mutual and self-capacitance designs are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: GUARDIAN GLASS, LLC
    Inventors: Vijayen S. Veerasamy, Jason Blush, Eric W. Akkashian, Willem Den Boer, Alexey Krasnov
  • Patent number: 10386944
    Abstract: A capacitive stylus capable of providing signals for tilt and orientation detection is provided. The capacitive stylus is used for a tablet or a touch panel. The capacitive stylus can emit two high voltage waves, and the tablet or the touch panel receives the two high voltage waves and determines a tilt angle and an orientation of the capacitive stylus according to the two high voltage waves. This capacitive stylus has configuration allowing the tilt and orientation detection to be precise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Waltop International Corporation
    Inventors: Chung-Fuu Mao, Hsin-Chiang Ho
  • Patent number: 10382695
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a camera configured to acquire a preview picture including a picture of a subject, a display unit configured to display the preview picture and a controller configured to control the display unit 151 and the camera. The controller displays a guide object configured to provide guidance on taking the picture of the subject, automatically takes the preview picture if a shape of the subject matches a shape of the guide object by a reference value or more, and moves a position of an image of the subject acquired by taking the preview picture to correspond to a position of the guide object and displays a generated final image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jumin Chi, Youngwoo Kim, Sohoon Yi, Shinhae Lee, Jaeyoung Chae
  • Patent number: 10379602
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and device for managing a virtual environment. The method includes displaying a virtual environment image via a device; measuring an acceleration of the device via an acceleration sensor; comparing a variation of the acceleration to a variation threshold; determining whether the variation of the acceleration is greater than the variation threshold; when the variation of the acceleration is greater than the variation threshold, transmitting a first request for a real environment image to a terminal that is configured to capture the real environment image via a camera in response to the first request; receiving the real environment image from the terminal; and displaying the real environment image instead of the virtual environment image via the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xingsheng Lin, Xuanran Wang
  • Patent number: 10379643
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electrode structure for a touch panel and a method for fabricating the same, in which a unit wire and another unit wire continued thereto are continued while the contact area between the unit wires decreases from the entire line width, thereby achieving irregular patterns. In the electrode structure for the touch panel and the method for fabricating the same, a metal wire formed with continuous unit wires has an irregular pattern where the contact area between any one unit wire and another unit wire continued thereto decreases, from the entire line width, by a non-contact size value k obtained by dividing a line width by an arbitrary real number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changjun Maeng, Myunsoo Kim, In Ho Rha, Woo Hyun Bae
  • Patent number: 10372271
    Abstract: The adjustment of stimulation signal amplitudes in capacitive touch sensor panels and/or styli to reduce power consumption while preserving satisfactory touch performance is disclosed, in particular in situations where the noise level is not significant and there is excess SNR margin. To accomplish this, one or more metrics can be measured, calculated or otherwise determined to use as a predictor of touch performance, and these metrics can be processed to determine the minimum stimulation voltage required to maintain acceptable touch performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob L. Matlick, Adam Geboff
  • Patent number: 10372399
    Abstract: An ultrasound system enables simplified setup of a remote terminal for display of ultrasound images acquired by the ultrasound system. An image acquired by the ultrasound system is processed by or with display parameters for different viewing conditions or devices, such as display gamma correction, ambient lighting, or image quality. A plurality of versions of an image with slightly different display appearances are exported to the remote terminal, where a viewer can view all of the image versions simultaneously. The viewer selects the best image, and the display characteristics of the selected image are used for images subsequently exported from the ultrasound system to the remote terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: David Rust, Karl Erhard Thiele, Kevin Bradley, Earl M. Canfield
  • Patent number: 10365711
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for unified scene acquisition and pose tracking in a wearable display are disclosed. According to one aspect, a system for unified scene acquisition and pose tracking in a wearable display includes a wearable frame configured to be worn by a user. Mounted on the frame are: at least one sensor for acquiring scene information for a real scene proximate to the user, the scene information including images and depth information; a pose tracker for estimating the user's head pose based on the acquired scene information; a rendering unit for generating a virtual reality (VR) image based on the acquired scene information and estimated head pose; and at least one display for displaying to the user a combination of the generated VR image and the scene proximate to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Henry Fuchs, Mingsong Dou, Gregory Welch, Jan-Michael Frahm