Patents Examined by Crystal Mathews
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Patent number: 9665198Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for adjusting the manner in which haptic feedback is provided to the user based on physical characteristics of the user. Physical characteristics may include stable physical characteristics that are non-changing with respect to a level of physical activity of the user. Examples of such stable physical characteristics may include age, gender, race, visual impairments and/or other physical characteristics. In some embodiments, the mobile device may adjust the haptic feedback by adjusting the intensity of the haptic feedback, frequency of the haptic feedback, duration for which the haptic feedback is provided to the user and changing a type of haptic feedback provided to the user of the device.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2014Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan Karl Kies, Robert Scott Tartz, Ted Ray Gooding, Jeremiah Bunao Salamante
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Patent number: 9658731Abstract: Disclosed are a touch window and a manufacturing method thereof. The touch window includes conductive polymer. In the touch window, a light source and/or a connector are provided in a touch screen panel due to the conductive polymer.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Jewon Park
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Patent number: 9658688Abstract: A view adjustment system using information captured by one or more sensors on a client device determines a projection direction for content to be displayed on a display of the client device. Upon determining the projection direction, the view adjustment system transforms the content into a perspective view based on the determined projection direction and prompts the client device to present the content in the perspective view to a user. The view adjustment system may monitor changes in relative position and/or direction of the user with respect to the display, adjust the projection direction, and transform the content to reflect these changes.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Guobin Shen, Liqun Li
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Patent number: 9652097Abstract: A touch input device performing a feedback according to a touch level may be provided that includes; a touch screen which displays a passcode input window; a controller which generates a first control signal as to whether or not a touch on the passcode input window matches a predetermined passcode, and determines a touch level among a plurality of touch levels by using at least one of a pressure magnitude, area and time period of the touch; and a memory which stores the predetermined passcode. The touch level is set to the predetermined passcode.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: HIDEEP INC.Inventors: Yunjoung Kim, Seyeob Kim, Hyongsub Yun, Sangsic Yoon, Bonkee Kim, Hojun Moon, Taehoon Kim, Sunyoung Kwon
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Patent number: 9639318Abstract: This provides a method, device, and system for sharing image data. When detecting an image being rendered on an image-rendering interface of its rendering application, a first terminal can obtain image information of the image being rendered and location information associated with the image information. The first terminal can transmit a first image data to a server, the first image data including the image information and location information. The server can transmit the first image data to a second terminal which shares images with the first terminal, the second terminal also equipped with an image rendering application. The second terminal can receive the first image data and render an image based on the image information at a location corresponding to the location data on an interface of its image-rendering application. This can facilitate image data sharing among multiple terminals.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Xiao Bo Mao, Bo Song Chen, Xin Hui Zhang, Can Wang
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Patent number: 9613559Abstract: A method of driving a display uses first and second illumination cycles of the display. In each cycle, a first set of pixels is illuminated with a first color and a second set of pixels is illuminated with a second color. The first and second colors of the two cycles together include at least three colors for forming an image. This method provides a sequential drive scheme, in that at least two cycles are used with different color properties. However, each cycle uses at least two different colors, so that each cycle is not a single color across the whole display area. In this way, the color sequence is alternated spatially as well as temporally.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2016Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Henricus Joseph Cornelus Kuijpers, Jan Van Der Horst
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Patent number: 9610048Abstract: Fiber optic systems with an MR compatible mouse in an MR scanner room that connects to a fiber optic computer mouse interface that is attached to a fiber optic cable that connects to a USB port of a computer in the MR control room to allow the mouse in the MR scanner room to move a cursor on a monitor in communication with the computer in the control room of an MRI suite during an MRI guided surgical procedure. The fiber optic cable(s) can be routed though a conventional RF wall waveguide and avoids the need for additional holes in the penetration panel for connectors. The fiber optic systems can also include up converters and down converters for providing fiber optic video signals from cameras in the MR scanner room to display video signal on the monitor.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: MRI Interventions, Inc.Inventors: Kamal Vij, Peter Piferi, Richard James Kail
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Patent number: 9601064Abstract: A display that supports full redundancy on its array of pixels is provided herein. The display includes an array of wired rows and columns of liquid crystal display (LCD) cells; a primary driver set that includes a plurality of LCD drivers each connected via a respective primary switch to a first end of the wired row or a first end of the wired column; and a secondary driver set that includes a plurality of LCD drivers each connected via a respective secondary switch to a second end of the wired row or a second end of the wired column, wherein the primary switches and the secondary switches are mutually exclusive so that whenever the primary switches are open the secondary switches are closed and vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2012Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD.Inventor: Errikos Amarilio
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Patent number: 9601083Abstract: A glare reduction system is provided for glare reduction. The glare reduction system includes an imaging source configured to receive light from an object, and a display driver configured to process the received light to generate an input signal. The glare reduction system further includes a display device configured to receive the input signal. A glare reduction panel is positioned anteriorly to the display device. The glare reduction panel including a liquid crystal layer configured to receive the input signal and an end polarizer with an axis of transmission relative to an angle of transmission of a second polarizer of the display device.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Inventor: Venkataraman Ramanathan
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Patent number: 9568976Abstract: The semiconductor device has a touch panel controller, a processor and a display driver. The semiconductor device is arranged so as to reduce an electric power uselessly consumed while the action of the display driver is stopped or suspended and further, and an electric power uselessly consumed by the touch-detecting action for recovery of the display driver from the state of the action being stopped or suspended. The processor built in the semiconductor device together with the touch panel controller and the display driver returns to its workable state from Sleep state each time a given length of time elapses, and then causes the touch panel to perform a touch-detecting action. When the processor cannot acquire a result of judgment as “being touched”, it returns to Sleep state again, and waits for the given length of time to elapse.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2013Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Synaptics Japan GKInventors: Akihito Akai, Tsuyoshi Kuroiwa, Tatsuya Ishii
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Patent number: 9571816Abstract: A method comprises receiving one or more depth images from a depth camera, the depth images indicating a depth of a surface imaged by each pixel of the depth images. The method may further comprise identifying a human subject imaged by the depth images and recognizing within one or more of the depth images a beacon emitted from a control device. A position of the control device may be assessed in three dimensions, and the control device may be associated with the human subject based on a proximity of the control device to the human subject or other parameter of the control device with relation to the human subject.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2012Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Vijay Baiyya, Tommer Leyvand, Mark Plagge, Dawson Yee, John Link, Bryon Ashley, Andrew Jesse Milluzzi
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Patent number: 9552676Abstract: Exemplary methods and systems relate to detecting physical objects near a substantially transparent head-mounted display (HMD) system and activating a collision-avoidance action to alert a user of the detected objects. Detection techniques may include receiving data from distance and/or relative movement sensors and using this data as a basis for determining an appropriate collision-avoidance action. Exemplary collision-avoidance actions may include de-emphasizing virtual objects displayed on the HMD to provide a less cluttered view of the physical objects through the substantially transparent display and/or presenting new virtual objects.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Adrian Wong, Xiaoyu Miao
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Patent number: 9542847Abstract: A method/system for lane departure warning/assistance that warns the driver that the vehicle is about to leave a current lane and enter an adjacent lane. The driver is identified, and a corresponding profile is accessed. The driver's pupils may be measured and compared to pupil size baseline data stored in the accessed profile. If the difference in pupil size exceeds a pupil size baseline by more than a deviation level, the method/system may adjust a lane departure warning/assistance threshold of a lane departure detector that warns the driver each time the vehicle is getting too close to an adjacent lane, thus alerting the driver that the vehicle may drift into the next lane. Driving patterns, such as steering angles and braking force, may also be used to adjust the lane departure warning/assistance threshold and determine whether the driver may benefit from lane departure warning/assistance.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2013Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Rini Sherony, Hideki Hada
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Patent number: 9535521Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, plural conducting wires, an insulating layer, and a ground layer. The substrate includes an active region and a peripheral region surrounding the active region. The conducting wires are disposed in the peripheral region and extend along a first direction. The insulating layer is disposed on the conductive wires. The ground layer is disposed at an edge of the peripheral region and at least partially on the insulating layer, and the ground layer is at least partially in contact with the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignees: INTERFACE OPTOELECTRONICS CORPORATION, GENERAL INTERFACE SOLUTION LIMITEDInventors: Chih-Peng Chang, Te-Jen Tseng, Ying-Chieh Chiang, Tzu-Hsiang Lin, Yen-Heng Huang
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Patent number: 9537483Abstract: A touch panel including a first insulation substrate, a first conductive film, a first insulation film, first conductive wires, a second insulation substrate, a second conductive film, and second conductive wires is provided. The first conductive film is disposed on the first insulation substrate and the first insulation layer covers a portion of a periphery of the first conductive film so that the first conductive film has an exposed region. The first conductive wires are disposed on the periphery of the first conductive film and each of the first conductive wires includes an electrode segment and an extending segment. The electrode segment is electrically connected with the first conductive film and the extending segment is electrically isolated from the first conductive film. The second conductive film is disposed on the second insulation substrate. The second conductive wires are disposed on the periphery of the second conductive film.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Po-Shan Huang, Chih-Han Chao, Po-Sheng Shih, Jia-Shyong Cheng
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Patent number: 9514780Abstract: In a method for detecting free fall, a first acceleration parallel to a first axis, a second acceleration parallel to a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, and a third acceleration parallel to a third axis perpendicular to the first axis and to the second axis are measured. A sum of a first absolute value of the first acceleration, a second absolute value of the second acceleration, and a third absolute value of the third acceleration is calculated, and the free fall is detected as a function of the sum.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2011Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Julian Bartholomeyczik, Sergej Scheiermann
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Patent number: 9494815Abstract: A twisted nematic liquid crystal display device integrated with a touch control function is disclosed. The device includes an array substrate, a color film substrate disposed opposite the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the array substrate and the color film substrate. The device also includes a common electrode layer disposed on a surface of the color film substrate facing the liquid crystal layer. The common electrode layer includes a plurality of sensing electrodes, a plurality of driving electrodes, and a plurality of dummy electrodes located between the sensing electrodes and the driving electrodes. In addition, the sensing electrodes, the driving electrodes, and the dummy electrodes are insulated from one another.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2013Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Ma, Lijun Zhao
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Patent number: 9454930Abstract: A display panel includes a flat area and a bent area bent relative to the flat area. The flat area includes a plurality of first pixels, and the bent area includes a plurality of second pixels. Each of the second pixels has an area greater than an area of each of the first pixels.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2013Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eun Jung Oh, Ju Bong An
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Patent number: 9455311Abstract: To provide a display device and a driving method thereof, where variations in the threshold voltage of transistors can be compensated and thus variations in luminance of light-emitting elements can be suppressed. In a first period, initialization is performed; in a second period, a voltage based on the threshold voltage of a first transistor is held in first and second storage capacitors; in a third period, a voltage based on a video signal voltage and the threshold voltage of the first transistor is held in the first and second storage capacitors; and in a fourth period, voltages held in the first and second storage capacitors are applied to a gate terminal of the first transistor to supply a current to a light-emitting element, so that the light-emitting element emits light. Through the operation process, a current obtained by compensating variations in the threshold voltage of the first transistor can be supplied to the light-emitting element, thereby variations in luminance can be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideaki Shishido
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Patent number: 9417835Abstract: A system and method for generating a virtual gamespace for display to multiple players via respective web browsers is disclosed. A virtual gamespace, including a two-dimensional landscape, is generated and divided according to a number of devices participating in a game. The divided portions are provided to the devices for display so that the landscape is viewable when each divided portion is displayed on a respective one of the devices and the devices are collectively viewed together. A server receives control information for a game token from a device, determines one of the divided portions of the 2-D landscape for display of the game token based on the control information, and transmits the control information to the device responsible for displaying the determined portion of the 2-D landscape, and the game token is rendered in connection with the determined portion according to the control information.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Iain Tait, Stewart Smith, Jeffrey Paul Baxter