Patents Examined by Dmitry Bolotin
  • Patent number: 11037502
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a shift register and a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit, an array substrate, and a display device. With a signal control circuit, a branch control circuit, a cascade signal output circuit and at least two scanning signal output circuits, each shift register can output at least two different scanning signals to correspond to different gate lines in an array substrate. This can reduce the number of shift registers in a gate drive circuit and the space occupied by the gate drive circuit and can achieve an ultra-narrow bezel design, as compared with an existing shift register that can only output one scan signal. Furthermore, as signals of different output control node do not influence each other, the stability of waveforms of the output scanning signals may also be improved, and a difference in the waveforms of the scanning signals is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhidong Yuan, Yongqian Li, Can Yuan, Enming Xie
  • Patent number: 10984749
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first circuit configured to process a signal between a first top voltage and a first bottom voltage, a second circuit configured to process a signal between a second top voltage and a second bottom voltage, and a second circuit power source configured to receive a current provided by the first circuit and provide the second top voltage to the second circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: ACONIC INC.
    Inventors: Hwi-Cheol Kim, Min Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 10802643
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display including a touch sensor and a display panel, a fingerprint sensor included in the display or disposed on a rear surface of the display, and at least one processor electrically connected with the display and the fingerprint sensor. The at least one processor controls an operation of the touch sensor or lowers a frequency of an operating signal of the touch sensor in response to a specified event, activates the fingerprint sensor, and captures a fingerprint image from the fingerprint sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyung Park, Seung Geol Baek, Chi Hyun Cho, Moon Soo Kim, Yun Jang Jin, Ho Chul Hwang
  • Patent number: 10459226
    Abstract: A method including determining occurrence of a virtual information region event, the virtual information region event indicating a change of information that is allocated to a virtual information region that is at least partially beyond a field of view of a head mounted display, the virtual information region having a virtual information region location that is in a direction from the field of view, causing rendering of a non-visual notification that is indicative of the direction from the field of view in response to the virtual information region event, receiving information indicative of a visual notification invocation input, determining a visual notification that is visually descriptive of at least one aspect of the virtual information region event in response to the visual notification invocation input, and causing display of the visual notification on the head mounted display is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jussi Leppanen, Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Lasse Laaksonen
  • Patent number: 10356327
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a touch detection unit that detects a touch operation on a touch panel, a unit setting unit that sets a unit of unit-by-unit image switching, and a switching unit that switches images so that if the unit is a first unit, an image the first unit ahead is displayed based on a predetermined touch-move of moving a touch position for a first distance, and if the unit is a second unit greater than the first unit, an image the second unit ahead is displayed based on the predetermined touch-move for a second distance longer than the first distance. The second distance is shorter than a distance of the predetermined touch-move required to display an image the second unit ahead of a first image when the unit set by the unit setting unit is the first unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshiaki Ueguri
  • Patent number: 10338722
    Abstract: A tactile touch sensor (TTS) system and method allowing physical augmentation of a high-resolution touch sensor array (TSA) is disclosed. Physical augmentation is accomplished using a TSA physical overlay (TPO) placed on top of the TSA. The TPO is constructed to transmit forces to the underlying TSA. Force transmission is accomplished by either using a flexible overlay or with a rigid mechanical overlay that transmits user forces exerted on the overlay to the underlying TSA. Incorporation of TPO identifiers (TPI) within the TPO permits identification of the TPO by a TPO detector (TPD) allowing operational characteristics of the TSA to be automatically reconfigured to conform to the currently applied TPO structure by a user computing device (UCD). The UCD may be configured to automatically load an appropriate application software driver (ASD) in response to a TPI read by the TPD from the currently applied TPO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SENSEL, INC.
    Inventors: Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, John Aaron Zarraga
  • Patent number: 10127877
    Abstract: There is provided a display device including a display panel including a gate line operated by a gate signal, a clock source configured to apply a clock signal, a shift register including a stage, the stage including at least one switching element and being configured to generate the gate signal based on the clock signal applied from the clock source, and a control-voltage generator configured to generate a control voltage based on a current generated from at least one of the shift register and the clock source and to apply the control voltage to the at least one switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junhyun Park, Sunghwan Kim, Seyoung Song, Kyoungju Shin
  • Patent number: 10013942
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a GOA circuit, a driving method thereof and a liquid crystal display device. The GOA circuit comprises a plurality of GOA units connected in cascade, wherein the N-stage GOA unit comprises a N-stage stage circuit, a N-stage Q point control circuit, a N-stage P point circuit, a N-stage output circuit and a switch circuit. The switch circuit is connected to the N-stage scan line for sending a turn-on signal to the N-stage scan line before the liquid crystal display device displays an image such that the thin-film transistor in the pixel connected to the N-stage scan line turns on. The disclosure may turn on the gate of each pixel when the display device is waken from the black screen to prevent the electricity leakage when the display device is wakened from the black screen, and may also increase the stability of the circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignees: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd, Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Juncheng Xiao, Ronglei Dai, Shangcao Cao, Yao Yan
  • Patent number: 9852715
    Abstract: An electronic paper display apparatus comprises an electronic paper display unit, a control unit electrically connected to the electronic paper display unit and including a power-level detection circuit, a storage unit at least storing an identification/alert information and electrically connected to the control unit, a wireless communication module and a power unit. The wireless communication module is electrically connected to the control unit and includes a satellite positioning receiving unit, which receives a current satellite positioning signal of the electronic paper display apparatus. The power unit is at least electrically connected to the power-level detection circuit of the control unit. When a power of the power unit is greater than or equal to a first power threshold and less than or equal to a second power threshold, the control unit loads the identification/alert information and a satellite positioning information in the storage unit into the electronic paper display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Triple Power Limited
    Inventor: Fu-Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 8599156
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a method for processing an input signal are provided. In the present invention, a signal conversion module is provided, and the signal conversion module registers into an operating system. A raw data corresponding to an input signal is obtained from the operating system through the signal conversion module, when the input signal is received from a human interface device. And a reference value is obtained from a driver of the human interface device through the signal conversion module. The raw data is converted into a coordinate data according to the reference value through the signal conversion module, and the coordinate data is sent to an application program through the signal conversion module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Fu-Yia Hsieh, Meng-Fu Hsieh, Hsi-Chia Huang, Hsin-Yuan Peng, Chun-Hua Lee
  • Patent number: 8493315
    Abstract: A display assembly comprising a backlight unit having at least two optical waveguide elements lying alongside one another, and configured such that light is emitted with a greater brightness in a boundary region of the optical waveguide elements than outside the boundary regions, a display unit arranged such that during operation of the display assembly light emitted by the backlight unit impinges on a rear side of the display unit, a diffuser layer arranged between the backlight unit and the display unit, and a control unit that compensates for a greater brightness in the boundary regions by adapted driving of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Julius Muschaweck