Patents Examined by Cory A Almeida
  • Patent number: 9460659
    Abstract: A flexible display apparatus includes: a light-emitting pixel including a driving unit configured to output a driving current corresponding to a data signal and a light-emitting device configured to emit light according to the driving current; a repair line connectable to the light-emitting pixel; a first control line extending in a first direction and a second control line extending in a second direction; a switching unit that is coupled to the first control line and the second control line and configured to control a connection between the repair line and the light-emitting pixel according to at least one of a first control signal applied through the first control line or a second control signal applied through the second control line; and a dummy pixel coupled to the repair line, and coupled to the light-emitting pixel via the switching unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jin-Tae Jeong
  • Patent number: 9449551
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a display unit including first pixels emitting first color light, second pixels emitting second color light, and third pixels emitting third color light, and a power source voltage supplier supplying a driving voltage to the respective pixels of the display unit. The display further includes a first voltage wire transferring the driving voltage to the first pixels, a second voltage wire transferring the driving voltage to the second pixels, and a third voltage wire transferring the driving voltage to the third pixels. The first, second and third voltage wires being provided in a first layer. The display includes auxiliary voltage wires provided in a second layer different from the first layer. Contact areas between the first, second and third voltage wire and the auxiliary voltage wires are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Hoon Lee, Do-Ik Kim, Baek-Woon Lee
  • Patent number: 9436280
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a processing system, a display, and a plurality of haptic actuators. The display and the haptic actuators are coupled to the processing system. The processing system is configured to control the haptic actuators to simulate movement in a particular direction corresponding to movement in the particular direction in a visual depiction in the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert S. Tartz, Bennett M. King
  • Patent number: 9433088
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a capacitance touch panel module includes forming a plurality of first conductive patterns on a substrate comprising a touching area and a peripheral area along a first orientation, a plurality of second conductive patterns along a second orientation, and a plurality of connecting portions in the touching area; forming a plurality of insulated protrusions, in which each insulated protrusion covering one connecting portion, and forming an insulated frame on the peripheral area; and forming a bridging member on each insulated protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kai Meng, Lien-Hsin Lee
  • Patent number: 9423877
    Abstract: Multi-dimensional gesture input to a computing device can be improved by providing a mechanism to lock or reduce the effects of motion in unintended directions. In one example, a user can navigate in two dimensions, then provide a selection action through motion in a third dimension. If a computing device analyzing the gesture is able to detect the selection action, the device can limit motion outside the corresponding third dimension in order to ensure that the proper selection action is performed. Various thresholds, values, or motions can be used to limit motion in one or more axes for any appropriate purpose as discussed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Matthew Booms, Parag K. Garg, Jonathan D. Morrison
  • Patent number: 9418611
    Abstract: The line banding image artifact that results from the interaction of LCD ripple and LED flicker in an LCD device that utilizes LED backlighting strings is substantially reduced by selecting a number of LED strings, individually driving the number of LED strings with a corresponding number of identical clock signals that are equally phase delayed, and selecting the frequency of the clock signals so that the product of the frequency of the clock signal multiplied by the number of LED strings is equal to the line clock frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tuomas Tapani Tuikkanen, Jeremy K. Yaeger, Mikko Topi Loikkanen, Tomi Juhani Koskela
  • Patent number: 9400525
    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: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    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: 9390641
    Abstract: To suppress enlargement of pixel area even in the case of reducing current supplied to an electroluminescent element. A switch transistor, a first driving transistor, an electroluminescent element, and a second driving transistor provided between the first driving transistor and the electroluminescent element are included. A power supply potential is supplied to a gate of the second driving transistor. Drain current of the second driving transistor is controlled by the first driving transistor and the second driving transistor, so that a value of current supplied to the electroluminescent element is controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Ikeda, Takashi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 9377908
    Abstract: Provided is a touch screen for generating a haptic sense that may minimize a structure added for haptic generation by simultaneously employing a single electrode layer that constitutes an existing touch panel as an electrode layer for transferring the haptic sense. A touch screen for generating a haptic sense according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a touch panel including at least one substrate, each formed with at least one electrode, and an additional electrode to generate the haptic sense on a portion touched on the touch panel using an electrostatic force that occurs between the additional electrode and a predetermined electrode among the at least one electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Suntak Park, Ki Uk Kyung, Jong-uk Lee, Young Sung Kim, Sung Ryul Yun
  • Patent number: 9367093
    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: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Aleksandar Pance
  • Patent number: 9354755
    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: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Guardian Industries Corp.
    Inventors: Willem Den Boer, Alexey Krasnov
  • Patent number: 9354723
    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: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihito Sawai, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9354765
    Abstract: Text input mode selection method is implemented in a device with a plurality of keys. If an input mode switching key is activated by a first operation matching a first input pattern, options of the key is provided in a default arrangement. If the key is activated by a second operation matching a second input pattern, options of the key is provided in an altered arrangement. Activation of the key according to a selected option activates one of a plurality of character input methods associated with the selected option. Each of the character input methods is associated with a virtual keyboard layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Gold Charm Limited
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Lu
  • Patent number: 9330586
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a plurality of pixels arranged in association with a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines crossing the gate lines, a data driver configured to drive the data lines, a gate driving unit configured to drive the gate lines in synchronization with a gate control signal, and a timing controller configured to control the data driver and the gate driving unit in response to an image signal and a control signal from an exterior. The timing controller outputs the gate control signal including a plurality of pulses respectively corresponding to the gate lines and an enable time of each pulse of the gate control signal is set according to a position of a corresponding gate line of the gate lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kihyun Pyun, Sung-In Kang, Jun-Ho Hwang, Seung-Woon Shin
  • Patent number: 9304586
    Abstract: Various embodiments related to entering text into a computing device via eye-typing are disclosed. For example, one embodiment provides a method that includes receiving a data set including a plurality of gaze samples, each gaze sample including a gaze location and a corresponding point in time. The method further comprises processing the plurality of gaze samples to determine one or more likely terms represented by the data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: David Nister, Vaibhav Thukral, Djordje Nijemcevic, Ruchi Bhargava
  • Patent number: 9305511
    Abstract: A common electrode voltage compensating method, apparatus and a timing controller, the method comprising making statistics for grey scale data of every pixel for displaying a display picture; calculating a grey scale shifting rate between two adjacent rows of pixels, and obtaining common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters based on the grey scale shifting rate; generating positive/negative polarity information of the common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters based on a pixel voltage polarity inversion signal; generating a common electrode voltage compensation control signal based on the common electrode voltage compensation signal parameters and the positive/negative polarity thereof. The common electrode voltage compensating method, apparatus and timing controller address the problem of display picture pixels grey scale shifting due to a reversion of the positive/negative polarity of grey scale voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Ma, Hengbin Li
  • Patent number: 9305490
    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: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Tomida, Keisuke Omoto
  • Patent number: 9304678
    Abstract: A switching method for an electronic device having sensing regions is mentioned. The switching method is configured to detect signals received by the electronic device, so as to switch the states of the electronic device. The switching method comprises receiving a first signal at a first moment and receiving a second signal at a second moment, wherein the first signal is generated by touching a first sensing region and the second signal is generated by touching a second sensing region; measuring a triggering duration and determining whether the triggering duration is consistent with a predetermined duration, when the first signal and the second signal are inputted simultaneously; switching the electronic device from a first state to a second state, if the triggering duration is consistent with the predetermined duration; and maintaining the electronic device in the first state, if the triggering duration is not consistent with the predetermined duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Chiang Chang, Chih-Hao Chen, Han-Chang Lin, Cho-Yi Lin
  • Patent number: 9298313
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting at ouch contact on an in-cell capacitive touch screen includes, based on the different gray scale pictures displayed by the in-cell capacitive touch screen in a non-touch state as well as a distribution of the intersections of rows and columns of the in-cell capacitive touch screen, obtaining noise values corresponding to different gray scales for each intersection, obtaining a theoretical noise value for each intersection under a condition of a current picture, and, for each intersection, compensating a detected signal with the theoretical noise value in the current picture to locate a position of the touch contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lin Wen
  • Patent number: 9292108
    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: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Dell Products LP
    Inventors: Lee E. Ballard, Gregory H. Aicklen