Patents Examined by Dennis Joseph
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Patent number: 9383847Abstract: A method includes detecting first and second touches on the touch-sensitive display and determining a location of each of the first and second touches, determining, by a plurality of force sensors, reaction forces, for the first and second touches, and determining a respective applied force for each of the first and second touches based on the reaction forces and the locations of the first and second touches.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2009Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Sean Bartholomew Simmons, Nazih Almalki
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Patent number: 9377880Abstract: A position indicator includes: a core body disposed within a casing such that a tip thereof projects from one opening of the casing; a printed board on which a circuit element for detecting pressing force applied to the tip is disposed; and a pen pressure detecting module formed by arranging, in an axial direction, plural parts for detecting a displacement corresponding to the pressing force. The plural parts are arranged within a hollow portion of a cylindrical holder portion housed within the casing. The holder portion has an opening portion in a side circumferential surface thereof. The opening portion is opened in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction. At least one of the parts is/are housed into the hollow portion through the opening portion. The holder portion includes a locking portion configured to prevent the at least one of the parts from falling out through the opening portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuyuki Fukushima, Hiroyuki Fujitsuka
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Patent number: 9361823Abstract: In a display device (110) provided with pixel circuits including organic EL elements, a display control circuit (1) calculates a voltage drop amount VRI of a power line due to display for each frame on the basis of an integrated value for display data, and a tone voltage generation circuit (9) adjusts reference voltages for a tone voltage on the basis of the integrated value in order to compensate for the voltage drop amount VRI. As a result, it is possible to compensate for the voltage drop of the power line with accuracy without increasing power consumption and the wiring in the pixel circuits.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kengo Takahama, Shigetsugu Yamanaka
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Patent number: 9354708Abstract: While an information display device is initially placed at a standstill, a CPU stores acceleration responsive to gravitational force acquired by an acceleration sensor into a RAM. The CPU acquires acceleration in compliance with fixed timing acquired by the acceleration sensor and resulting from motion on the information display device. The CPU accumulates the acceleration acquired in compliance with the fixed timing within each prescribed period. Then, the CPU makes the accumulated acceleration agree with acceleration responsive to gravitational force stored in the RAM, thereby correcting a posture parameter. Based on the corrected posture parameter, the CPU determines whether a temporal image is to be displayed on a display unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Keiichi Sakurai
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Patent number: 9342196Abstract: A contact's interaction with a sensing array is subject to several external and internal stimuli which may impact a processing unit's confidence in the characteristics of that interaction or the presence of the interaction itself. Fidelity of user action is greatly improved with a step-wise and holistic analysis of a contact on an array of capacitance sensors, which allows for repetition of certain steps of processing or the entire operation if threshold confidence levels are not achieved.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventor: Jan-Willem van de Waerdt
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Patent number: 9336728Abstract: In one embodiment, a backlight controller for a zoned backlight display includes a processor having a brightness value output. The processor is configured to provide a brightness value for at least one brightness zone of the display based on a target brightness value for the at least one zone, a past brightness value of the at least one zone, and a brightness time response.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2010Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.Inventor: Greg Neal
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Patent number: 9304585Abstract: A control device comprises a past video image acquirer acquiring a past video image captured at a given location, a live video image acquirer acquiring a live video image captured at the given location, and a video image switcher switching the video image displayed by a head-mounted display at the given location between the past video image and live video image.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: RIKENInventors: Naotaka Fujii, Sohei Wakisaka, Keisuke Suzuki
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Patent number: 9292118Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a touch sensible organic light emitting device. The organic light emitting device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises: a substrate; a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate; an organic light emitting element connected to the thin film transistor and receiving a data voltage; a plurality of encapsulation thin films disposed on the organic light emitting element, and encapsulating the thin film transistor and the organic light emitting element; a planarization layer disposed on the encapsulation thin film; and a touch sensor disposed on the planarization layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2009Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dong-Ki Lee, Hoon-Kee Min
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Patent number: 9257067Abstract: A light source driving circuit of light emitting semiconductor and a backlight module are provided. The light source driving circuit of light emitting semiconductor includes a driving control circuit and a constant current driving circuit coupled to the driving control circuit for controlling a current flowing through the light emitting semiconductor. When the driving control circuit receives a display-mode-switch signal which has an indication for switching from a present display mode to a new display mode, the driving control circuit controls the constant current driving circuit such that in the process of switching from the present display mode to the new display mode, the current flowing through the light emitting semiconductor changes gradually.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventors: Hua Zhang, Xianming Zhang
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Patent number: 9223402Abstract: Disclosed is a method of receiving a gesture input of a user using a Head Mounted Display (HMD) and synthetically controlling a digital device using the received gesture input. The method includes detecting whether or not the HMD is worn by a user, detecting a positional state of an external digital device linked with the HMD, the positional state including a first state in which the external digital device is located in a preset view angle region of the HMD and a second state in which the external digital device is not located in the view angle region, detecting a gesture input of the user, determining at least one digital device to be controlled based on whether or not the HMD is worn by the user and the detected positional state, and controlling a display object of the determined digital device under application of the gesture input.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Eunhyung Cho
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Patent number: 9218772Abstract: A backlight driver and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The backlight driver includes a vertical synchronization signal filter for generating a second vertical synchronization signal based on an input first vertical synchronization signal, and selecting one of the first vertical synchronization signal and the second vertical synchronization signal as a third vertical synchronization signal according to whether a period difference between adjacent first vertical synchronization signals satisfies a preset threshold range, a duty ratio detector for detecting a duty ratio of an input pulse width modulation (PWM) signal, a PWM generator for generating an output PWM signal synchronized with the third vertical synchronization signal output from the vertical synchronization signal filter and having the duty ratio and outputting the output PWM signal to a backlight unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Min-Kyu Kim
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Patent number: 9218093Abstract: An apparatus may include an internal charge pump within an integrated circuit package, an external pin positioned at an exterior of the integrated circuit package, and a select circuit configured to operate independently from the internal charge pump and located within the integrated circuit package, wherein the select circuit is configurable to selectively couple at least one of the internal charge pump and the external pin to a transmit (TX) sensor electrode.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2012Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Hans Klein, Edward Grivna, Daniel O'Keeffe
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Patent number: 9189953Abstract: Techniques for dynamic power control of a radio of a utility data collection device (e.g., utility meter configured for wireless communications) are described that utilize a detection scheme applied to a Front End Module (FEM) in the utility data collection device. A utility data collection device measures a Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR) presented to the FEM during transmission. The result of this measurement allows the utility data collection device to dynamically control the input power to a FEM transmit portion. Utilizing these techniques, the utility data collection device can adjust to environmental changes and conditions experienced in the field.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Itron, Inc.Inventor: Thomas Benjamin Smith
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Patent number: 9176625Abstract: An information input device includes an input panel and one or more circuits. The one or more circuits are configured to determine first, second and third representations of possible proximity of an object to an input panel from first, second and third input frames, respectively. The second input frame is generated after the first input frame, and the third input frame is generated after the second input frame. The one or more circuits are configured to determine whether proximity of the object to the input panel is detected for the second input frame, based on the third representation, if the first and second representations are not similar.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2013Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Ryoichi Tsuzaki, Kazunori Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 9170730Abstract: Disclosed is a method for executing a private mode in a mobile terminal, including sensing a multi-touch applied over a display part, determining whether the multi-touch is identical with a touch code for entering to the private mode preset in a storage part, and turning off the display part or controlling a screen brightness when the multi-touch is identical with the touch code.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2010Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hyejin Choi, Yunjung Kim, Hyunsun Lyu, Hyojung Lee, Yunjueng Mhun, Hyeeun Noh
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Patent number: 9164628Abstract: A signal processing method for a touch panel is provided. The touch panel includes several capacitor electrodes. The method includes the following steps. Detection values are provided according to self-capacitance changes of the capacitor electrodes. The detection values are then low-pass filtered by a filter structure to generate several filtered values. A position where a touch event occurs on the touch panel is determined according to the filtered values.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.Inventor: Chao-Cheng Wen
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Patent number: 9167191Abstract: A display control system for controlling display of images on a plurality of display units, the plurality of display units being arranged in an array, includes a determining unit determining whether or not information of interest is being displayed; a first recording control unit controlling recording of a first image displayed on the display units when the determining unit determines that the information of interest is being displayed; a second recording control unit controlling recording of a second image displayed on the display units when a user performs a recording operation; and a display control unit controlling display of the first image or the second image on the display units.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2007Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Tsuyoshi Tanaka
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Patent number: 9158165Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of gate lines arranged substantially parallel to each other in a first direction; a plurality of charge share gate lines arranged substantially parallel to each other in the first direction; a plurality of data lines arranged substantially parallel to each other in a second direction, wherein the second direction is substantially perpendicular to the first direction; and a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form in along the first direction and the second direction and each of the plurality of pixels which includes a first switching element and a second switching element, wherein the a first gate line of the plurality of gate lines is electrically connected to the first switching element included in one individual pixel of the plurality of pixels, and the a second gate line of the plurality of gate lines is electrically connected to the second switching element included in the individual pixel of the plurality of pixels.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2010Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kee-Bum Park, Si Hyun Ahn, Kyong Sik Choi, Seon-Kyoon Mok, Eun Cho
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Patent number: 9142165Abstract: A field sequential color display having a display panel and a backlight module is provided. The panel includes a plurality of unit regions, each having a first color unit region and a white color unit region. The panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a filter layer and a display medium. The first substrate has a pixel array. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The filter layer is disposed on the second substrate and has a first color filter pattern disposed within the first color unit regions and a white color filter pattern disposed within the white color unit regions. The display medium is between the first and second substrate. The backlight module is disposed at a side of the display panel and has a white light source, a second color light source and a third color light source which are switched in sequence.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2010Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Yu-Sheng Huang, Ya-Ling Hsu, Hung-Lung Hou
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Patent number: 9135854Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The organic light emitting diode display device according to an embodiment of the invention comprises a display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate line pairs crossing the data lines, and a plurality of light emitting cells which include an organic light emitting diode device, first and second cell driving circuits for alternately driving the organic light emitting diode device; a data voltage generator supplying a data voltage of a first polarity to the data lines; a compensation voltage generator supplying a compensation voltage of a second polarity to the data lines; and a scan driver for sequentially supplying scan pulses to the gate line pairs, wherein the first and second cell driving circuits are alternately supplied with the data voltage and the compensation voltage in response to the scan pulses to alternately driven the organic light.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2014Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Injae Chung, Kiyong Kim, Chulsang Jang, Insu Joo, Woojin Nam