Patents Examined by Cory A Almeida
  • Patent number: 10073519
    Abstract: A mobile device and operating method provides information by automatically recognizing a user intention. The mobile device includes a sensor configured to sense a user's eye movement, an event detector configured to detect an event by inferring a user intention based on the user's eye movement, an application function executor configured to execute a function of an application in response to the detected event. The mobile device may further include a display configured to display results of function execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Young Mun, Jae-Mo Sung
  • Patent number: 10031595
    Abstract: A control device includes: a receiver for receiving first information regarding the movement of a casing, and second information regarding whether to reflect the first information on the movement of coordinate values; a storage unit for storing a whole-screen region including a real-screen region, and a virtual-screen region set around the real-screen region; a generator for generating the coordinate values within the whole-screen region based on the first information; a switcher for switching a first state in which the coordinate values are movable, and a second state in which the coordinate values are immovable, based on the second information; a determining unit for determining which of the real-screen region or the virtual-screen region the coordinate values belong to; and a coordinate-value control unit for controlling the coordinate values so as to move the coordinate values within the virtual-screen region to the position of predetermined coordinate values within the real-screen region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihito Sawai, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10019106
    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: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do-Youb Kim, Won-Kyu Kwak, Brent Jang
  • Patent number: 10013109
    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: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do-Youb Kim, Won-Kyu Kwak, Brent Jang
  • Patent number: 10013063
    Abstract: A system of the present disclosure may include a haptic output device configured to output a haptic effect to a touch surface; a touch sensitive input device configured to detect a first user interaction and transmit a first sensor signal, the touch sensitive input device further configured to detect a second user interaction and transmit a second sensor signal, wherein at least part of the first user interaction occurs at the same time as the second user interaction; a processor in communication with the sensor, the processor configured to: receive the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal; determine a haptic effect based in part on the first user interaction and the second user interaction; transmit a haptic signal associated with the haptic effect to the haptic output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: Vincent Levesque, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez
  • Patent number: 10001881
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive apparatus comprises a first subset of components on a first end of the touch surface, and a second subset of components on a second end which is opposite to and parallel with the first end. The components include emitters and detectors, each emitter being operable for propagating a diverging energy beam (e.g. radiation) across the touch surface inside the panel, and each detector being operable for detecting transmitted energy from at least two emitters. The components in at least one of the first and second subsets are systematically arranged in spatially separate groups along at least one of the first and second ends, so as to achieve a reduced spacing and/or an increased uniformity of the transmission paths along a center line between the first and second ends compared to an equidistant arrangement of all components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: FlatFrog Laboratories AB
    Inventors: Mats Petter Wallander, Hakan Bergstrom
  • Patent number: 9997105
    Abstract: An OLED pixel driving circuit, a driving method, and an OLED display apparatus are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tuo Sun, Zhanjie Ma
  • Patent number: 9990884
    Abstract: A pixel selection control method, driving circuit, display apparatus and electronic instrument are disclosed. A driving circuit includes a logic circuit configured to receive a reference signal associated with a line of pixels. The reference signal has a first logic level or a second logic level. The driving circuit also includes a switch circuit configured to receive the reference signal and an enable signal, and to provide the enable signal to the logic circuit when the reference signal is at the first logic level. A display apparatus may be provided that includes the driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Tomida, Keisuke Omoto
  • Patent number: 9965127
    Abstract: A projected capacitive touch panel, including a substrate, a silver-inclusive transparent conductive coating which forms a plurality of row electrodes, a plurality of column electrodes, and a plurality of conductive traces, and a signal processor which sequentially measures a capacitance between each of row electrodes and an adjacent column electrode. The row electrodes, the plurality of column electrodes, and the plurality of traces are on a plane substantially parallel to the substrate. Each of the row electrodes is electrically connected to the signal processor by one of the plurality of conductive traces. The plurality of traces are at least partially substantially parallel to the column electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Guardian Glass, LLC
    Inventors: Willem Den Boer, Alexey Krasnov
  • Patent number: 9946425
    Abstract: The various embodiments described herein provide input devices configured to selectively operate in two different sensing regimes. The first sensing regime is configured to determine positional information for ungloved fingers in the sensing region. The second sensing regime is configured to determine positional information for gloved fingers in the sensing region. The input devices are further configured to switch from operating in the first sensing regime to the second sensing regime responsive to detecting an input gesture that meets each of a set of criteria, where the set of criteria includes a measure of sensor value stability corresponding to the input gesture being beyond a sensor value stability threshold level. So implemented, the input device allows a user to easily switch between two different sensing regimes, and thus can facilitate the use of the device with both gloved and ungloved fingers providing input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Joel Jordan, Adam Schwartz
  • Patent number: 9947294
    Abstract: For power-advantaged image data control, a method, system, and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes identifying, by use of a processor, a power source state, determining whether display data includes a power-adverse image based, at least in part, on the power source state, and replacing the power-adverse image with a power-advantaged image in response to the display data including the power-adverse image. In some embodiments, the method includes converting the power-adverse image into the power-advantaged image. In some embodiments, the method includes notifying a user, in response to displaying the power-advantaged image, that the power-advantaged image is displayed in place of the power-adverse image, and providing the user a control to display the power-adverse image in place of the power-advantaged image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: David W. Douglas
  • Patent number: 9939958
    Abstract: An electronic device (300) includes a housing (301). A touch sensitive surface (100) can be disposed along the housing. The touch sensitive surface can include a recessed surface feature (106) on a portion of the touch sensitive surface. A control circuit (315), operable with the touch sensitive surface, can detect a predetermined gesture sequence (501, 502, 503) when a touch actuation along the touch sensitive surface interacts with the recessed surface feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Chad Austin Phipps, Jeffrey R. DeVries, John C. Johnson, Louis J. Lundell, Thomas Y. Merrell, Mitul R. Patel, Jiri Slaby
  • Patent number: 9921704
    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), silicon nitride, and/or tin oxide in certain embodiments, and may be used in applications such as capacitive touch panels for controlling showers, appliances, vending machines, electronics, electronic devices, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Guardian Glass, LLC
    Inventors: Alexey Krasnov, Willem Den Boer, Jian-gang Weng
  • Patent number: 9921703
    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 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Guardian Glass, LLC
    Inventors: Willem Den Boer, Alexey Krasnov, Jason Blush, Eric W. Akkashian
  • Patent number: 9904431
    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: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Guardian Glass, LLC
    Inventors: Vijayen S. Veerasamy, Jason Blush, Eric W. Akkashian, Willem Den Boer, Alexey Krasnov
  • Patent number: 9898242
    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: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: David Rust, Karl Erhard Thiele, Kevin Bradley, Earl M. Canfield
  • Patent number: 9893126
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device capable of having an electrostatic capacitive type touch panel function without substantially increasing the thickness of the display device and/or including a touch panel with an improved interface between a touch panel module of the touch panel and a touch panel drive integrated circuit (IC) of the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Brent Jang
  • Patent number: 9830844
    Abstract: A method and system for displaying images on a transparent display of an electronic device. The display may include one or more display screens as well as a flexible circuit for connecting the display screens with internal circuitry of the electronic device. Furthermore, the display screens may allow for overlaying of images over real world viewable objects, as well as a visible window to be present on an otherwise opaque display screen. Additionally, the display may include active and passive display screens that may be utilized based on images to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Aleksandar Pance
  • Patent number: 9830006
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a handwritten type electronic paper display and a manufacture method thereof. The handwritten type electronic paper display comprises: a first electrode substrate (1) and a second electrode substrate (2) having a same pixel electrode matrix structure, an electronic paper thin film (3), a flexible printed circuit (4), a stylus (5) and an electrical source. The electronic paper thin film (3) is bonded onto an upper surface of the first electrode substrate (1), a common electrode of the electronic paper thin film is electrically connected to a negative electrode of the electrical source; the second electrode substrate (2) is fixed on the electronic paper thin film (3) in a thin film manner; the flexible printed circuit (4) is adapted for electrically connecting pixels of the first electrode substrate (1) to corresponding pixels of the second electrode substrate (2); and the stylus (5) is electrically connect to a positive electrode of the electrical source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Danna Song, Zhuo Zhang
  • Patent number: 9824618
    Abstract: When a clock signal pulse number and a compensation-target-line address indicating a compensation-target row match, the following control is carried out with a time point being a starting point of a current measurement period, the time point being one horizontal scanning period after a time point of the match. At a current measurement period starting point and ending point, only the potential of the one of the clock signals applied to a unit circuit corresponding to the compensation-target row is changed. Throughout the current measurement period, the clock operation of the clock signals is stopped. A monitor enable signal, that is applied to a control terminal of an output control transistor for controlling active signal output to a monitor control line, is only set to a high level during the current measurement period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanori Ohara, Noboru Noguchi, Noritaka Kishi