Patents Examined by David Tung
  • Patent number: 10973591
    Abstract: An operating apparatus for a medical device and a corresponding operating method are provided. The operating apparatus includes a projector that is configured for real, virtual, or real and virtual projection of an operator surface onto a display element, and a capture facility for non-contact capturing of an interaction of an operator with the projected operator surface. A sensor system for independent detection of the interaction is arranged separately from the capture facility on the display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Hans Schweizer
  • Patent number: 10963137
    Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory recording medium storing a program that causes an information display apparatus to execute: accepting input under a pressure in a first range on a screen; accepting input under a pressure in a second range stronger than the pressure in the first range on the screen; determining, from among objects displayed in a predefined position on the screen in an overlapped manner, an object having a highest display order as an operation target object, when the input under the pressure in the first range is accepted in the predefined position; and change a display order configuration for the objects to a first configuration when the input under the pressure in the second range is accepted on the screen after the determination of the operation target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shintaro Kunimoto
  • Patent number: 10950191
    Abstract: A display device includes the following elements: a pixel electrode; a first data line electrically connected to the pixel electrode; a second data line adjacent to the pixel electrode without being electrically connected to the pixel electrode; a first sensing electrode disposed directly on the same insulating layer as the pixel electrode; a second sensing electrode disposed directly on the same insulating layer as the first sensing electrode and separated from the first sensing electrode by a predetermined distance; and a third sensing electrode disposed directly on the same insulating layer as the first data line and the second data line, partially overlapping the first sensing electrode to form a first sensing capacitor, and partially overlapping the second sensing electrode to form a second sensing capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Inventors: Kwi Hyun Kim, Kook Hyun Choi, Woo Gun Kang, Kyung Won Park
  • Patent number: 10949076
    Abstract: A flexible display apparatus configured to sense deformation of the flexible display apparatus, control display of an object displayed on the flexible display apparatus based on the deformation, and execute operations based on the displayed object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon-kyu Seo, Hyun-jin Kim, Nipun Kumar, Jung-joo Sohn, Geun-ho Lee
  • Patent number: 10950171
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of panel pixel lines, and a controller configured to control the display panel. The controller is configured to receive image data for a picture frame, generate luminance data for the display panel from the image data, and modify the luminance data for the display panel by raising luminance values of a red subpixel and a blue subpixel adjacent along a first display line to a green subpixel located at an end of the first display line at outside of the first display line, the first display line being composed of a plurality of panel pixels consecutive in the first direction and assigned luminance values higher than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignees: TIANMA JAPAN, LTD., Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yojiro Matsueda
  • Patent number: 10943540
    Abstract: Display systems including novel Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) displays with controllable pixel-driver connections and the measuring of pixel voltage or current while controlling the controllable pixel-driver connections are disclosed. A single driver node is connected to a first node of a pixel, while a second connection from the single driver node to a second node of the pixel is disconnected using at least one peripheral controllable switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Qing Jiang, Junhu He, Hongxin Liu, Shuenn-Jiun Tang, Jafar Talebzadeh
  • Patent number: 10899229
    Abstract: An operating system includes a display device having at least two planar display regions, which are arranged one behind the other in a viewing direction of an operator and extend transversely to the viewing direction. The operating system can be used to control a plurality of apparatuses of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Vit Rosicky, Jacques Hélot
  • Patent number: 10902816
    Abstract: A driving integrated circuit (IC) and a fan-out compensation method thereof are provided. The driving IC includes a plurality of driving channel circuits, a plurality of output buffer circuits and a compensation control circuit. The input terminals of the output buffer circuits are coupled to the output terminals of the driving channel circuits in a one-to-one manner. The output terminals of the output buffer circuits are coupled a plurality of data lines of a display panel in a one-to-one manner. The compensation control circuit is coupled to the output buffer circuits for adjusting the slew rate of the output terminals of the output buffer circuits to compensate difference in delay times between the data lines of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Yu-Shao Liu
  • Patent number: 10895478
    Abstract: To provide a sensor unit that simultaneously displays other information together with a threshold and a physical quantity. A sensor unit causes a dot-matrix display unit to display a threshold and a physical quantity in a first display form and causes the dot-matrix display unit to display, together with the physical quantity and the threshold, additional information (e.g., a power mode) different from the physical quantity and different from the threshold in a second display form. The area of a third display region 303 for the threshold in the second display form is smaller than the area of a second display region 302 for the threshold in the first display form. The area of a fourth display region 304 for the information in the second display form is obtained by reducing the area of the second display region 302.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Yamazaki, Tsuyoshi Tagashira
  • Patent number: 10884550
    Abstract: A method for response control of a touch screen is disclosed. Whether there is a crack on the touch screen is determined. A crack area where the crack is located in the touch screen is determined. The crack area includes a plurality of touch points, each touch point having a response sensitivity to a touch event of the touch screen. A response strategy of the crack area to the touch event of the touch screen is adjusted. A mobile terminal and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP, LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Wang, Qiang Zhang, Tong Han, Rendong Shi, Mingqiang Guo
  • Patent number: 10874311
    Abstract: A system includes a minimally intrusive display system (MIDS) configured to be disposed on an eyewear. The MIDS includes a display system and a sensor system configured to provide for a sensor data. The MIDS further includes a processor configured to process the sensor data to derive a physiological measure. The processor is further configured to display, via the display system, the physiological measure, wherein the display system is disposed in the eyewear so that the physiological measure is only viewed when a user of the eyewear turns the user's pupil towards the display system at angle ? from a forward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Flipper, Inc
    Inventor: Yuri Zhovnirovsky
  • Patent number: 10861923
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate in which a first area, a second area and a bending area between the first and second areas are defined, a plurality of pixels disposed above the substrate in the first area, a plurality of conductive layers extending to and intersecting the bending area, a protective film covering the conductive layers and disposed in the bending area, a first portion of the first area adjacent to the bending area, and a second portion of the second area adjacent to the bending area. The display device further includes a plurality of tag layers disposed in the first and second portions and connected to both ends of the conductive layers, wherein the bending area is interposed between the plurality of tag layers. The tag layers are exposed to an outside of the display device by exposure holes defined in the protective film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Horyun Chung, Sejoong Shin, Hyojin Kim, Taehyun Sung, Changhan Lee
  • Patent number: 10838532
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a sensor includes: a substrate including a display region and a peripheral region on a periphery of the display region; detection electrodes arranged in a row-column configuration in the display region; and detection lines coupled to the respective detection electrodes. A shape of the substrate in a plan view includes a curve of a curved portion. The detection electrodes include a first electrode and a second electrode having a shape different from that of the first electrode in a plan view. The second electrode is juxtaposed with the curved portion. The detection lines each include a first line coupled to the first electrode and a second line coupled to the second electrode. The second line passes from the display region across the peripheral region and extends to a position overlapping with the second electrode in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Abe, Yoshinori Aoki, Kazune Matsumura, Masateru Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10817102
    Abstract: In one example a input device for an electronic device comprises a first panel comprising an array of pressure sensors, a second panel comprising an array of apertures in fluid communication with the pressure sensors, and a controller comprising logic, at least partly including hardware logic, to receive a plurality of output signals from the plurality of pressure sensors, determine, from the plurality of output signals, a location of an input on the second panel, and generate a data point on a bitmap corresponding to the location of the input on the second panel. Other examples may be described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hong W. Wong, Wah Yiu Kwong, Xiaoguo Liang, Jiancheng Tao, Yanbing Sun
  • Patent number: 10796654
    Abstract: A switching circuit, a gate scanning signal control circuit, a gate driving circuit, a display device and a driving method are provided. The switching circuit includes a gate scanning signal receiving terminal, a second output terminal, and a third output terminal. The gate scanning signal receiving terminal of the switching circuit is configured to receive a gate scanning signal, and the switching circuit is configured to output the gate scanning signal to the second output terminal and the third output terminal simultaneously under control of the gate scanning signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., FUZHOU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Baoqiang Wang, Xu Xu
  • Patent number: 10795426
    Abstract: A display device includes an image receiving unit, a power-saving control device, a display control unit, and a backlight module control unit. The power-saving control device judges whether or not received frames are still for a predetermined time. If the power-saving control device judges that the received frames are still for the predetermined time, the power-saving control device outputs a first control signal to the display control unit for controlling the display panel to perform power saving to reduce its power consumption while continuing displaying frames, and the backlight module control unit controls the backlight module to continue providing the backlight; while if the received frames are not still or are still for a time shorter than the predetermined time, the power-saving control device does not output the first control signal to the display control unit for controlling the display panel to perform power saving to reduce its power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hsin-Yi Chang, Jen-Ta Yang, Min-Jung Chen
  • Patent number: 10788934
    Abstract: Techniques for input adjustment are described. In one or more implementations, a user perspective of a display surface is estimated, and is used to correlate output that is displayed on the display surface. According to one or more implementations, detected motion of a display surface is used to compensate for an effect of the motion on input to the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Christian Klein, Jan-Kristian Markiewicz
  • Patent number: 10775937
    Abstract: An optical IR touch sensing apparatus configured to determine, based on output signals of light detectors, a light energy value for each light path across a touch surface, and generate a transmission value for each light path based on the light energy value. A processor is then configured to operate an image reconstruction algorithm on at least part of the thus-generated transmission values and determine a position of a touching object on the touch surface, and an attenuation value corresponding to the attenuation of the light resulting from the object touching the touch surface. Using these values, the processor is configured to identify the type of object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: FlatFrog Laboratories AB
    Inventors: Tomas Christiansson, Mattias Krus, Kristofer Jacobson, David Gillsjö
  • Patent number: 10775932
    Abstract: A method for response control of a touch screen is disclosed. Whether there is a crack on the touch screen is determined. A crack area where the crack is located in the touch screen is determined. The crack area includes a plurality of touch points, each touch point having a response sensitivity to a touch event of the touch screen. A response strategy of the crack area to the touch event of the touch screen is adjusted. A mobile terminal and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Wang, Qiang Zhang, Tong Han, Rendong Shi, Mingqiang Guo
  • Patent number: 10768747
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive display of an electronic device is operated in conjunction with a notification system configured to provide haptic, acoustic, and/or visual output to cue a user to align and/or maintain the user's finger positioning relative to one or more virtual input regions, such as virtual keys of a virtual keyboard, presented on the touch-sensitive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul X. Wang, Ian M. Bullock