Patents Examined by Dwayne Bost
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Patent number: 9164630Abstract: Display apparatus with reduced susceptibility to electro-magnetic interference includes a display including an array of pixels and a ground mesh located in proximity to the display. The ground mesh includes a plurality of electrically connected ground lines located between the pixels, so that electro-magnetic radiation emitted or received by the display is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANYInventors: Ronald Steven Cok, Mitchell Stewart Burberry, Kurt Michael Sanger
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Patent number: 9158397Abstract: A touch input apparatus and method in a user terminal is provided. The apparatus includes a touch input unit for generating a touch input event according to a touch of a user; a single or multi touch input determiner for entering a drawing mode according to the touch input event and determining one of a single touch input and a multi-touch input; a touch point sampling unit for performing a touch point sampling according to a single touch movement and providing a sample point for a drawing when there is a single touch input; and a multi-touch processor for, when there is a multi-touch input, entering a multi-touch mode and performing a multi-touch action including at least one of an enlargement, a reduction, and a movement of a drawing screen according to a multi-touch movement.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Ji-Hoon Kim, Jung-Rim Kim
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Patent number: 9159267Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates disposed to face each other so as to hold a liquid crystal layer therebetween, and a gate potential creating circuit for outputting a selection potential and a non-selection potential, scanning lines, signal lines, thin film transistors formed so as to correspond to intersection portions between the scanning lines and the signal lines, respectively, pixel electrodes electrically connected to the thin film transistors, respectively, and a gate control circuit for switching the selection potential and the non-selection potential supplied from the gate potential creating circuit over to each other, thereby supplying one of the selection potential and the non-selection potential to corresponding ones of the thin film transistors through corresponding one of the scanning lines being formed on the first substrate, and a common electrode being formed either on the first substrate or the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2013Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kenichi Tajiri, Yutaka Kobashi, Hiroshi Kiya, Nobuhiko Yokoo
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Patent number: 9153184Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a timing control part and a data driving part. The display panel is divided into N display areas. The timing control part includes a serializing part to serializing N data received in parallel to generate an N-th frame data, a overdriving part to select one of the N-th frame data and a previous frame data stored depending on whether the received data are normal and to compensate the selected frame data to generate a compensation frame data, and an interface part to divide the compensation frame data and to output the N compensation data. A data driving part includes N data driving circuits to generate data driving voltages corresponding to the N compensation data to output the data driving voltage to the N display areas where N is a natural number.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2010Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bong-Ju Jun, Jae-Hyoung Park, Ik-Huyn Ahn
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Patent number: 9146629Abstract: Disclosed are a mobile terminal for controlling a 3D image using proximity touch, and a 3D image controlling method thereof. Aligning, moving and re-aligning a specific 3D object inside a 3D object group are performed, through proximity hovering. And, depth of the 3D object is automatically controlled by the various operations. This may provide various 3D-related interfaces to a user.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2012Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jonghwan Kim, Krishna Mohan, Bipin Therat Sethumadhavan, Narayanappa Ramdas
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Patent number: 9142189Abstract: A backlight unit includes a power supply converter including a primary winding connected to an input power supply voltage, and a secondary winding which is connected to an output node and outputs a light emitting diode drive voltage to the output node in response to a mode signal and a switching control signal; and a light emitting diode string connected to the output node of the power supply converter, where the power supply converter serially connects a boosting winding to the secondary winding and the output node and when the mode signal represents a three dimensional image display mode, and outputs a boosted light emitting diode drive voltage to the output node through the boosting winding.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2013Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: SeungYoung Choi, Min-Soo Choi, Hwanwoong Lee, Gwangteak Lee
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Patent number: 9141235Abstract: An optical position detecting apparatus that detects a position of a target object in a detection region, includes: a light source device for position detection that emits position detection light to the detection region and forms an intensity distribution of the position detection light in the detection region; plural photodetectors that direct incident angle ranges to regions not overlapping one another in the detection region; and a position detecting device that detects the position of the target object on the basis of results of detection by the photodetectors of the position detection light reflected on the target object.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2010Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Daisuke Nakanishi
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Patent number: 9141269Abstract: A display system includes an image forming device and a mobile communication terminal. In the display system, the mobile communication terminal accepts a flick manipulation to move the screen, and transmits flick information on the accepted flick manipulation to the image forming device. The image forming device decides an area, which is a part of the screen of the mobile communication terminal and in which display is changed when the screen is moving, and sequentially transmits to the mobile communication terminal positional information on the decided area and screen data of the screen before the movement is completed since the movement is started, which is decided based on the flick information in the decided area. The mobile communication terminal displays the screen in the area of the transmitted positional information based on the transmitted screen data.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Koichi Amiya, Takatsugu Kuno, Hiroshi Murakami, Yusaku Tanaka, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Kenichi Sawada
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Patent number: 9135875Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a device and a source driver for charging pixel points on a TFT-LCD substrate, which are capable of charging electrodes on an upper substrate and pixel points on a lower substrate. The charging method includes: switching on a first, second, third and fourth switches, switching off a fifth, sixth and seventh switches, and charging a first, second, third and fourth capacitors; switching off the first, second, third, fourth, sixth and seventh switches, and charging a fifth capacitor; switching off the fifth switch, switching on the first, second, third, fourth, sixth and seventh switches, so that the first capacitor stores positive six-bit pixel voltage and the fourth capacitor stores negative six-bit pixel voltage; and charging the pixel points on the lower substrate by the first and fourth capacitors, and charging the electrodes on the upper substrate by the fifth capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yongdong Zhang, Shiming Shi
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Patent number: 9135508Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer media for estimating user eye gaze are provided. A plurality of images of a user's eye are acquired. At least one image of at least part of the user's field of view is acquired. At least one gaze target area in the user's field of view is determined based on the plurality of images of the user's eye. An enhanced user eye gaze is then estimated by narrowing a database of eye information and corresponding known gaze lines to a subset of the eye information having gaze lines corresponding to a gaze target area. User eye information derived from the images of the user's eye is then compared with the narrowed subset of the eye information, and an enhanced estimated user eye gaze is identified as the known gaze line of a matching eye image.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventors: Benjamin Isaac Vaught, Robert L. Crocco, Jr., John Lewis, Jian Sun, Yichen Wei
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Patent number: 9134832Abstract: A portable electronic device comprises a proximity-sensing user interface and a controller. The proximity-sensing user interface is configured to capture position information and distance information. The controller is coupled to the proximity-sensing user interface and is configured to process first distance information (31) captured by the proximity-sensing user interface during a pre-determined touch action, to determine whether a material layer (25) is interposed between the user's skin and the proximity-sensing user interface. The controller is configured to selectively set an input mode from a first input mode to a second input mode when the first distance information indicates that no material layer (25) is interposed between the user's skin and the proximity-sensing user interface.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2012Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications ABInventors: Henrik Baard, Andreas Sandblad
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Patent number: 9128562Abstract: To improve ease of operation in a case where a display device and a small terminal apparatus are connected to each other, and coordinated display is performed. When a contact or approach of an object having a size greater than or equal to a threshold value with or toward the surface of a display panel is detected, a video or an instruction corresponding to the motion detected by the motion sensor is output. The display device, on the basis of the video or the instruction that is output, displays a video in which the position of a pointer or the like is changed in response to the motion detected by a motion sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2013Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventor: Kenji Tokutake
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Patent number: 9128567Abstract: Systems and related methods providing for touch sensors having a waveguide reflective array within a major reflective array are discussed herein. A touch sensor may include a substrate configured to propagate surface acoustic waves. The substrate may include a front surface, a back surface including the reflective arrays, and a connecting surface joining the front surface and the back surface. The reflective arrays may be configured to cause the surface acoustic waves to propagate from the back surface, via the connecting surface, to the front surface. The touch censor may further include circuitry configured to determine a coordinate of a touch event on the front surface based on received attenuations in the surface acoustic waves.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2012Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Yoshikazu Tanaka, Joel C. Kent
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Patent number: 9128366Abstract: An image processing system includes a projection unit that projects an image onto a projection surface; a photographing unit to take a photograph of an area including the projection surface onto which a first content image is projected by the projection unit so as to obtain a first photographed image; a data volume reducing unit to reduce a data volume of the first photographed image through a predetermined processing so as to obtain a second photographed image after data volume reduction; a correction information calculating unit to calculate, based on the first content image and the second photographed image, correction information for correcting an image to be projected onto the projection surface; a correction unit to correct, based on the correction information, a second content image that is the image to be projected onto the projection surface. The projection unit projects the corrected second content image onto the projection surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2013Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Miyuki Oda
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Patent number: 9122249Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to facilitate the use of a multi-segment wearable accessory. In this regard, methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided for controlling and, in some instances, interacting with a multi-segment wearable accessory. In particular, a method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided that receive touch input via at least first and second segments of a multi-segment wearable accessory and determine that the touch input associated with the second segment is moving relative to the touch input associated with the first segment. A presentation of content displayed at least partially by the first segment may be modified based upon movement of the touch input associated with the second segment, such as in an expand operation, in which content is displayed on a second segment, or a collapse operation, in which content is removed from the second segment following an expand operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2012Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Kenton M. Lyons, David H. Nguyen, Daniel L. Ashbrook
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Patent number: 9122327Abstract: A method for syncing different touching systems uses a computer, which is electrically connected with a first input device and a second input device respectively and in which an input of the first input device is controlled by the second input device, to make the first input device and the second device synchronous. The method includes defining at least one correction point on the first input device; receiving time tags of signal inputs at the correction points of the first input device and the second input device respectively; calculating time differences for each time tag at each correction point with respect to other correction points; averaging all time differences for all correction points to determine a deviation value; and delaying a signal transmission of the second input device according to the deviation value.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Wistron CorporationInventors: Kuo-Hsing Wang, Pei-Chen Chin, Pin-Hsien Su, Wen-Chin Wu, Yi-Sheng Kao
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Patent number: 9122308Abstract: A tactile feedback apparatus, system, and a method of operating the tactile feedback apparatus may detect a finger of a user touching a disk unit, determine a height at which the disk unit is supported, based on a signal generated by a sensor, and support a lower portion of the disk unit by controlling N driving units to be set at the determined height, thereby providing power sensed by the sensor to the finger of the user touching the disk unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2012Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyung Kew Lee, Joon Ah Park, Soo Chul Lim, Seung Ju Han, Bho Ram Lee
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Patent number: 9116583Abstract: In one aspect of the present disclosure, a system for dampening movement of a thumb on the surface of a touch-sensitive input device is provided. A dampening region may be defined on the surface of the input device, within which movement of a finger detected on the surface of the input device is prohibit from causing movement of a pointer on a screen unless the speed of the detected finger exceeds a speed threshold. In one aspect, the dampening region may be divided into multiple regions where each region may have a different speed threshold. In another aspect, the speed threshold may vary, for example, as a function of location on the surface of the input device or other function.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventor: Andrew De Los Reyes
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Patent number: 9110547Abstract: Multiple reconfigurable hover sensing arrays are utilized to detect the location of an object with respect to a “hover” sensing panel. Multiple enable switches control the size and the shape of the multiple reconfigurable hover sensing arrays. A portion of one of the multiple reconfigurable hover sensing arrays may overlap with another reconfigurable sensing array to improve detection resolution. A scanning and sampling mechanism might also be utilized to assist with controlling the enable switches.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2013Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: American Megatrends Inc.Inventor: Clas G. Sivertsen
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Patent number: 9110545Abstract: An apparatus including a plurality of adjacent repeated base units, each base unit formed from an active electrode of first, second and third touch sensor arrays, the first, second and third touch sensor arrays each including a plurality of active electrodes connected to a respective common terminal of the touch sensor array, wherein each base unit includes an active electrode of the second touch sensor array interlaced between an active electrode of the first touch sensor array and an active electrode of the third touch sensor array such that a swipe touch gesture applied to two or more adjacent active electrodes of the apparatus generates signalling at the respective common terminals of the corresponding touch sensor arrays which allows the direction of the swipe touch gesture to be determined.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2012Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Zoran Radivojevic, Paul Beecher, Chris Bower, Piers Andrew, Darryl Cotton, Samiul Haque, Michael Astley, Markus Ahonen