Patents Examined by Cory A Almeida
  • Patent number: 10365713
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention enables 2D pointing technology to be used in a 3D space, thereby proving an intuitive 3D user interface. More particularly, an embodiment of the present invention implements an action point that enables an eye and finger of a user and an action point on a screen to be arranged on a rectilinear line, thereby providing an intuitive user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: STARSHIP VENDING-MACHINE CORP.
    Inventors: Su-young Jeon, Ji-yong Kwon
  • Patent number: 10339879
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a corrector and a determinator. The corrector corrects a correspondence between display pixels of a display unit and data pixels on an image signal to be inputted to the display pixels so that at least one of the display pixels is defined as a mask pixel to which the image signal is no longer inputted. The determinator determines a gradation of the mask pixel in accordance with a gradation indicated by the image signal to be inputted to an edge pixel that is included in the display pixels and located at an edge of the display pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chiyoaki Iijima, Kenichi Tajiri, Toshiaki Tokumura, Yusuke Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 10338748
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a touch sensor comprises a beamsplitter operable to reflect a first portion of light incident on the beamsplitter and transmit a second portion of light incident on the beamsplitter, a substrate, and one or more lines of conductive material disposed on the substrate, the lines of conductive material disposed between the first substrate and the beamsplitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: NeodrĂ³n Limited
    Inventors: Esat Yilmaz, Neerja Saran
  • Patent number: 10331227
    Abstract: A mobile device is described. The mobile device includes a housing having a pistol grip portion. A display is coupled to the housing such that the display is viewable by a user of the mobile device when the pistol grip portion is held in a hand of the user. A trigger-like control switch is located on the pistol grip portion of the mobile device. A pointing device is located on the trigger-like control switch such that the pointing device is accessible to an index finger of a hand of the user when the pistol grip portion is held in the hand of the user. The pointing device controls at least one function of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Konstantinos D. Tsiopanos, Jaeho Choi, Ian R. Jenkins, Richard M. Martin, Chandra M. Nair
  • Patent number: 10332467
    Abstract: Present invention relates to a display device and a driving method thereof. In particular, the present invention is to provide a display device and a driving method thereof, which block at least one of scan signals output from gate lines according to an enable signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Sun Lee, Hun Jeoung, Sang Hee Yu, Sung Hyun Cho, Sung Wook Chang
  • Patent number: 10318062
    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: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do-Youb Kim, Won-Kyu Kwak, Brent Jang
  • Patent number: 10303283
    Abstract: Provided is a touch control display penal and a touch control circuit thereof. A test signal line and a touch control signal line are redesigned without any change in a conventional pixel structure, such that the touch control circuit as formed has both a test function and a touch detection function. Therefore, not only the manufacturing costs of an in-cell touch display device are effectively reduced, but the manufacturing procedure is simplified, and the yield rate of the touch display panel is improved as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Peng Du
  • Patent number: 10289210
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a multi-function input device, such as a keyboard. The multifunction input device has a touch-sensing layer that enables a user to use the multifunction input device as a standard keyboard and also as a touch sensitive surface such as, for example, a trackpad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul X. Wang, Liquan Tan, Reza Nasiri Mahalati, Alex J. Lehmann, Aidan N. Zimmerman, Ivan S. Maric
  • Patent number: 10276131
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that may employ remote system mouse pointer position feedback from video/graphics circuitry (e.g., video adapter hardware such as graphics card, video card, etc.) of a remote information handling system to manage a remote mouse pointer based on local mouse position input received from a user interface of local information handling system that is communicatively coupled to the remote information handling system across a wired or wireless network, e.g., to synchronize a remote mouse pointer with a local mouse pointer that is manipulated by a local user of a local information handling system or to implement a single cursor mode for the remote mouse pointer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Lee E. Ballard, Gregory H. Aicklen
  • Patent number: 10276100
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and driving method, an array substrate, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes a voltage clamping unit, an energy storage unit, and a reference voltage terminal. The voltage clamping unit connects to the reference voltage terminal and a first terminal of the energy storage unit. The voltage clamping unit forms a voltage divider circuit to supply a divided reference voltage from the reference voltage terminal to the first terminal of the energy storage unit or pulls and clamps the voltage at the first terminal of the energy storage unit to a reference voltage at the reference voltage terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lujiang Huangfu, Zhanjie Ma, Lintao Zhang, Tuo Sun, Zheng Liu
  • Patent number: 10255019
    Abstract: In example implementations, a method for configuring displays and an apparatus for performing the same is provided. The method is performed by a processor of a computing system having a main display and a projected display having a touch interface. The method includes executing an application that uses the main display, the projected display, and an external display. The main display, the projected display, and the external display are set to an extended display configuration. A list of displays and display data associated with the list of displays is obtained. A display configuration request is received from an application being executed by the processor of the computing system and the main display, the projected display, and the external display are configured in accordance with the display configuration request based on the display data that is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Ruth Ann Lim
  • Patent number: 10248274
    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(s), and may be used in applications such as capacitive touch panels for controlling showers, appliances, vending machines, electronics, electronic devices, and/or the like. In certain example embodiments, different electrodes of the touch panel may be formed by different silver based layers of the same or different multi-layer coatings. In patterning the electrodes, different laser scribing wavelengths may be used to pattern different respective silver based layers, of the same or different multi-layer coating(s), in certain example embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Guardian Glass, LLC
    Inventors: Alexey Krasnov, Willem Den Boer
  • Patent number: 10248232
    Abstract: A touch panel that includes a housing defining an opening and a piezoelectric film covering the opening. The opening has a shape whose lengths in an X direction and a Y direction are different. The piezoelectric film is stretched in a uniaxial direction, and is aligned such that the uniaxial direction forms an angle of 45 degrees with respect to the X direction and the Y direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamichi Ando, Kenichi Mori
  • Patent number: 10248276
    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: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Guardian Glass, LLC
    Inventors: Willem Den Boer, Alexey Krasnov, Jason Blush, Eric W. Akkashian
  • Patent number: 10241623
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a touch sensor comprises a beamsplitter operable to reflect a first portion of light incident on the beamsplitter and transmit a second portion of light incident on the beamsplitter, a substrate, and one or more lines of conductive material disposed on the substrate, the lines of conductive material disposed between the first substrate and the beamsplitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: NeodrĂ³n Limited
    Inventors: Esat Yilmaz, Neerja Saran
  • Patent number: 10242625
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit, a pixel driving method and a display apparatus are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes a reset unit, a threshold compensation unit, a data writing unit, a drive transistor, a first storage capacitor and a light emitting device. According to the present disclosure, it is able to make the drive current generated by the drive transistor only related to the data voltage and the reference voltage but uncorrelated to the threshold voltage of the drive transistor when the drive transistor drives the light emitting device to display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD, HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pan Xu, Zhongyuan Wu, Yuting Zhang, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 10235039
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a Touch Enhanced Interface (TEI) that translates data from touch devices into a wide variety of output actions, free from the construct of mapping such touch data to an on-screen pointer or direct screen-mapped coordinates. Based on the touch and hold of one or more fingers, the TEI enables access to different sets of operations. Then based on different taps, holds, directional slides, and directional flicks of one or more fingers, the TEI performs specific operations in an accessed set of operations. Some embodiments provide a TEI viewer that displays symbols that identify the operations that can be performed using the various touches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Intellitact LLC
    Inventor: Kevin Laubach
  • Patent number: 10222923
    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: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Guardian Glass, LLC
    Inventors: Vijayen S. Veerasamy, Jason Blush, Eric W. Akkashian, Willem Den Boer, Alexey Krasnov
  • Patent number: 10222921
    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: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Guardian Glass, LLC
    Inventors: Alexey Krasnov, Willem Den Boer, Jason Blush, Eric W. Akkashian
  • Patent number: 10222919
    Abstract: Disclosed are a capacitive touch screen and a single layer wiring electrode array. The single layer wiring electrode array includes capacitive regions and wiring regions located on one plane. Wires in the wiring regions are zigzag-shaped or wave-shaped. The capacitive touch screen includes a substrate; a single layer wiring electrode array disposed over the substrate, wherein the single layer wiring electrode array includes capacitive regions and wiring regions located on one plane and wires in the wiring region are zigzag-shaped or wave-shaped; and control ports for connecting to one or more integrated circuits, wherein the wires in the wiring regions are connected to the control ports respectively. The single layer wiring electrode array and the capacitive touch screen lower the fabrication cost and improve the display effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SILEAD INC.
    Inventors: Taiyi Cheng, Tianming Zhao, Hao Tang