Patents Examined by Dwayne Bost
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Patent number: 9524068Abstract: To achieve improved detection accuracy and position resolution in an in-cell type capacitive touch sensor embedded in a liquid crystal panel of a liquid crystal display device, a drive electrode of a touch sensor is formed of a transparent conductive film laminated on a surface of a TFT substrate on a liquid crystal side below a pixel electrode, and disposed in a region between gate lines. A detection electrode is formed of a transparent conductive film laminated on an outward-directed surface of the TFT substrate. A drive signal is supplied to the drive electrode to cause a voltage change, and based on the voltage change in the detection electrode caused thereby, a capacitance change in an opposing part between the drive electrode and the detection electrode is detected, to thereby detect contact of an object to a display surface near the opposing part in a liquid crystal panel.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuo Kita
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Patent number: 9513706Abstract: A haptically enabled system receives a haptic effect primitive comprising a plurality of input parameters and receives an input from a sensor. The system generates a haptic effect signal from the haptic effect primitive, the haptic effect signal comprising a plurality of output parameters where at least one of the output parameters is varied based on the sensor input. The system then applies the haptic effect signal to an actuator.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: IMMERSION CORPORATIONInventors: Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Liwen Wu, Christopher J. Ullrich
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Patent number: 9513717Abstract: An input device, including: an input acceptance portion configured to accept an input with respect to a display; and a controller configured to perform: a processing selecting process in which at least one processing is selected from among a plurality of executable processing on the basis of a movement direction of a continuous input from a start position, where the input acceptance portion accepts the continuous input; a processing-range setting process in which a range specified by the start position and an end position in the continuous input is set as a processing range for the at least one processing selected in the processing selecting process, where the input acceptance portion accepts the continuous input; and a processing executing process in which the at least one processing selected in the processing selecting process is executed with respect to data in the processing range set in the processing-range setting process.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yutaka Urakawa
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Patent number: 9513482Abstract: A Heads-Up Display (HUD) system for mounting on a pair of glasses comprises a power module for providing electrical power removably mountable to one side of a lens assembly of the glasses, an electronics module connectable to receive electrical power from the power module, the electronics module removably mountable to an opposite side of the lens assembly of the glasses; and a display housing mounted on a display arm extending from the electronics module to a position within a field of vision of a user wearing the glasses. A pair of glasses adapted to receive a HUD system comprises a lens assembly providing one or more electrically conductive paths from a first side thereof to a second side thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Hamid Abdollahi, Raymond C. M. Leung
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Patent number: 9513743Abstract: A touch screen electro-optic display is arranged such that upon a touch being detected on the display surface, the display surface surrounding the touch “blinks” by being driven to a different optical state, then back to its original state. A second method uses a display having a pen or stylus which can draw lines upon the display. A first line segment is detected and its area updated using a first drive scheme having short waveforms. The area of a second line segment is updated using the first drive scheme. Thereafter, the areas of both line segments are updated using a second drive scheme different from the first drive scheme.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Theodore H. Sjodin, Yuval Ben-Dov, Kenneth R. Crounse, Jason Lin, Karl Raymond Amundson, Michael Patrick Almon, Hugh M. Enxing, Timothy J. O'Malley, Jr.
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Patent number: 9508294Abstract: The present invention provides a method of adjusting flicker of the liquid crystal panel, comprising: providing a Nth liquid crystal panel to be implemented with flicker adjustment; counting a mathematical expectation ? and a standard deviation ? of the optimized voltage values of common electrodes of 1st to N?1th liquid crystal panels; setting an initial range (VL, VH) of adjusting voltage values of common electrodes, wherein VL=??M?, VH=?+M?; showing a flicker image, and writing VH, VL, (VH+VL)/2 into a random access memory of the Nth liquid crystal panel one by one, and measuring corresponding flicker values; determining whether the flicker value corresponding to (VH+VL)/2 is a minimum among the three flicker values in the fourth step; if it is not the minimum, adjustment is accomplished; if it is the minimum, the adjustment is proceeded; writing the voltage values of common electrodes in the initial range (VL, VH) into the random access memory one by one and from low to high, and measuring corresponding fType: GrantFiled: October 14, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventor: Jian He
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Patent number: 9507441Abstract: An electronic stylus to be used with a capacitive touch screen includes a tip portion having an electrically conductive tip and an electrically conductive supporting rod attached to the tip. The tip portion further includes a first electrical shielding tube enclosing and shielding the supporting rod and a second electrical shielding tube enclosing the first electrical shielding tube and the supporting rod. The electrical stylus further includes a circuit coupled to the supporting rod to integrate and amplify a current induced at the tip and an electrical conductive housing to house the circuit therein. The first electrical shielding tube and the second electrical shielding tube are to reduce skew effect between the supporting rod and a surface of a touch screen when the electronic stylus is held against the surface of the touch screen.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: JCM Electronic Stylus LLCInventor: John C. Mann
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Patent number: 9507389Abstract: The present invention relates to a touch screen sensor substrate, to a touch screen sensor, and to a touch screen panel comprising same. The touch screen sensor substrate according to the present invention comprises: a plurality of sensing units formed of electrodes connected into a pattern of a predetermined direction at one surface of a base; and a connection unit which is formed of electrodes connected into a pattern of a direction which is the same as or similar to the direction of the pattern of the sensing units, and which connects the sensing units.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: MIRAENANOTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung Jin Ryu, Hyung Bae Choi, Ki Won Park, Ung Sang Lee, Kyung Hyun Jang
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Patent number: 9501192Abstract: The present invention relates to the touch control technology filed. Provided are a single-layer capacitive touch sensor and a touch control terminal, wherein a substrate of the single-layer capacitive touch sensor is distributed with several rows of induction electrode and drive electrode pairs with electrode extension parts mutually interlocked, and several ground electrodes located between saturated surfaces of adjacent induction electrodes. According to the present invention, two types of electrodes are designed into an interlocking shape, a capacitive structure is formed through interlocked parts, making wiring simpler, and furthermore, the ground electrodes are added on the substrate, and an area to the ground is enlarged, thereby reducing a suspension effect.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Shenzhen Huiding Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gengchun Deng, Hai Li, Wu Liu
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Patent number: 9495051Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention discloses a capacitive touch panel, which is provided with an electrostatic protection touching layer, the electrostatic protection touching layer comprises a touching array pattern and an electrostatic protection discharging pattern, and the electrostatic protection discharging pattern is disposed in a space of the touching array pattern, complementing with the touching array pattern. The capacitive touch panel of the embodiment of the present invention, reduces the thickness of touch panel, and saves the material by forming the electrostatic protection layer and the touch sensing layer on one layer, which realizes the touching sense as well as the electrostatic protection, eliminates the capacitance between the electrostatic protection layer and the touch sensing layer, and improves the sensitivity of touching sense.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Youqiang Lu, Yun Qiu, Jing Wang
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Patent number: 9489907Abstract: The present invention provides a gate driver circuit basing on IGZO process, comprising GOAs in cascade connection comprising a Nth-stage GOA, wherein the Nth-stage GOA further comprising a pull-up control part 100, a pull-up part 200, a transfer part 300, a pull-down part 400, a pull-down holding part 500, a boost part 600, a first negative supply VSS1, a second negative supply VSS2, a third negative supply VSS3, which are three gradually decreasing negative supplies and pull down an output terminal G(N), a first node Q(N), a second node P(N), and a driving single ST(N) to prevent the electrical leakage of TFTs effectively. And channels of the TFT switches of the gate driver circuit basing on the IGZO process are oxide semiconductor channels.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventor: Juncheng Xiao
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Patent number: 9483124Abstract: The operation device includes a display part; a partition frame member arranged on the display part, and configured to divide the display part into a plurality of display surfaces; an operation button member having transparent operation buttons arranged on the respective display surfaces, and configured to join the operation buttons by integral molding to be able to deform the operation buttons in a pressing direction at respective one sides, functioning as fulcrums, of the display surfaces; switch parts arranged under the operation button member, and pressed by pressing of the operation buttons; and an output part configured to output information indicating whether or not the switch parts are pressed.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Shunichiro Okabe
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Patent number: 9483972Abstract: A display method includes: performing display by driving a display pixel at a drive interval that conforms to a weight of each bit in a gray-scale code that includes the bits; and so correcting the drive interval, the gray-scale code, or both of the drive interval and the gray-scale code as to change a luminance of the display pixel smoothly.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Tomoro Yoshinaga
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Patent number: 9472140Abstract: A device includes pixel circuits arranged in columns and rows, n data lines (n being an integer of 2 or more) for each column, gate lines supplied with scan signals, and light-emitting control lines supplied with light-emitting control signals. The pixel circuits are divided into n groups of rows, each group of rows being exclusively connected to a corresponding data line. Each pixel circuit includes a write control transistor to control writing a data voltage in response to a scan signal, a driving transistor to control the amount of current to be supplied to a current light-emitting element, a light-emitting control transistor to control supply of a current to the light-emitting element in response to a light-emitting control signal, a capacitor to retain a voltage corresponding to a write data voltage, and a reset transistor to set the gate electrode of the driving transistor with the initial voltage.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2014Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Eiji Kanda, Takeshi Okuno, Naoaki Komiya
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Patent number: 9459748Abstract: A capacitance type touch panel includes: an insulating layer; a plurality of electrode portions; a plurality of lead-out wiring portions; a transparent resin layer; and a substrate disposed on the transparent resin layer, wherein at least on the surface of the peripheral edge of the transparent resin layer exposed between the insulating layer and the substrate and on the exposed surface of the lead-out wiring portions, a sealing layer is disposed, and the sealing layer has a moisture vapor transmittance equal to or less than 20 g/m2/24 h/atm (25° C., 90% RH, 25 ?m), and has a thickness equal to or greater than 1.0 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2014Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Akihiro Hashimoto, Yuki Matsunami, Nobuyuki Tada, Yasushi Endo, Kentaro Okazaki
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Patent number: 9454224Abstract: In one example an electronic device comprises at least one sensor to detect an input from a remote input source and a controller comprising logic, at least partly including hardware logic, to detect an input on the at least one sensor, generate a signal in response to the input; and forward the signal to an application. Other examples may be described.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Wah Yiu Kwong, Hong W. Wong
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Patent number: 9442330Abstract: An in-cell touch panel liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The display device also includes a common electrode layer disposed on a side of the second substrate facing the first substrate, where the common electrode layer includes a plurality of first common electrodes and a plurality of second common electrodes both arranged in a matrix. In addition, the first common electrodes and the second common electrodes are configured to detect a touched position on the in-cell touch panel liquid crystal display device.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sitao Huo
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Patent number: 9443474Abstract: An organic light emitting display apparatus includes a power generating unit and a display panel. The power generating unit generates a first power voltage and a second power voltage. The display panel includes a plurality of organic light emitting elements. The organic light emitting elements have first electrodes to which the first power voltage is applied in a first direction and second electrodes to which the second power voltage is applied in a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2013Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ji-Hye Eom, Do-Ik Kim
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Patent number: 9436279Abstract: Methods and systems described herein provide for an integrated approach for controlling a user's various devices based on the user's brain activity. A user's brain activity is monitored with a first user device. A change in the brain activity is detected. In response to detecting the change, data from a second user device is processed. The detected change in brain activity is compared to the processed data to determine whether the change in brain activity is associated with the second user device. In response to determining that the change is associated with the second user device, an option is generated for display on a display screen to control the second user device.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.Inventor: Richard M. Beaty
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Patent number: 9430977Abstract: The video signal processing circuit which analyzes video signals inputted from outside, performs conversion processing for image quality adjustment on the video signals based on a result of analysis, transmits those towards a video display unit includes: a feature value/maximum value calculation module which calculates a feature value that is a numerical value showing a degree of brightness of the video signals; a gradation conversion threshold value calculation module which calculates a threshold value regarding conversion of the gradation based on a threshold value calculation expression that is formed based on the feature value and a conversion coefficient set in advance; and a gradation conversion module which performs gradation conversion based on a linear function that increases linearly by taking a region of the gradation equal to or higher than the threshold value among the video signals as a target.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventor: Kouichi Ooga