Patents Examined by Gerald Oliver
  • Patent number: 10564760
    Abstract: A touch system, a stylus, a touch apparatus, and a control method of the touch apparatus are provided. The control method includes following steps. At least one characteristic data of at least one input tool is obtained. An identifier of the input tool is generated according to the characteristic data. If a touch operation on the touch panel is performed with the input tool, a specific function of the touch apparatus is determined according to the identifier of the input tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Yao-Tsung Chang, Ching-Fu Hsu, Ming-Chih Chen, Kuo-Hsing Wang, Jui-Ta Hsieh, Chih-Chung Chiang, Wen-Hua Chang
  • Patent number: 10185449
    Abstract: To provide a thin touch panel, a touch panel with high visibility, a lightweight touch panel, or a touch panel with low power consumption. A pair of conductive layers is included in a capacitive touch sensor. The two conductive layers have a mesh shape including a plurality of openings. Furthermore, the conductive layers are provided to overlap with a region between two display elements in a plan view. Furthermore, the conductive layers included in the touch sensor are provided between two substrates included in the touch panel, and a conductive layer capable of supplying a constant potential is provided between a circuit which drives a display element and the pair of conductive layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Shishido, Yoshiharu Hirakata, Daisuke Kubota
  • Patent number: 10176744
    Abstract: A method for driving a display panel is provided. The method includes turning on a first light source for generating a first light in a first sub-frame, turning on a second light source for generating a second light in a second sub-frame, turning on a third light source for generating a third light in a third sub-frame, outputting same first gate signals a first gate line and a second gate line adjacent to the first gate line, and outputting one of a first data signal corresponding to the first gate line or a second data signal corresponding to the second gate line to a data line during an active period of the first gate signals. The second frame is consecutive to the first frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seon-Ki Kim
  • Patent number: 10163390
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including: a display control unit configured to distribute brightness information to a plurality of display devices in accordance with external light amount information from a sensor; and a plurality of drive units configured to drive the plurality of display devices on a basis of the brightness information distributed by the display control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Aoyama
  • Patent number: 10051724
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to an apparatus that provides structural support and an electrical ground for components of an electronic device. Specifically, one or more embodiments of the present disclosure provide a semi-rigid member having at least one screw boss. An electronic component is coupled to the semi-rigid member. In embodiments, the electronic component is coupled to the semi-rigid member using the at least one screw boss. As a separate component, the semi-rigid member is configured to provide an electrical ground for the electronic component and also provides structural support for the electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Derryk C. Davis, John M. Brock, Peteris K. Augenbergs
  • Patent number: 9990032
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an orientation information acquisition unit which acquires orientation information of a head portion of a user that observes a display image of a display device; an angle of view switching unit which switches an angle of view of the display image; a rendering process unit which generates the display image based on the orientation information and the angle of view; and a transmission unit which transmits the generated image to the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mariko Sakuta, Yoichi Hirota
  • Patent number: 9984650
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a printed circuit board (PCB). A power management integrated circuit (PMIC) is mounted on the PCB and is configured to generate first to fourth gate clock signals and first to fourth inversion gate clock signals. A phase of the first gate clock signal partially overlaps a phase of the second to fourth gate clock signal. Each of the first to fourth inversion gate clock signals has a phase opposite to that of a respective one of the first to fourth gate clock signals. A gate driver generates a plurality of gate signals based on the first to fourth gate clock signals and the first to fourth inversion gate clock signals and applies the plurality of gate signals to a plurality of gate lines. A display panel is connected to the plurality of gate lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Seok Hong, Hyo-Chul Lee
  • Patent number: 9965066
    Abstract: A physical feedback system provided by the present disclosure includes: at least one physical feedback unit below a flexible touch screen; wherein the physical feedback unit includes an armature part and a coil part, at least one of the armature part and the coil part is in an active state, and a relative distance between the armature part and the coil part is initially a predetermined value; when the coil part is energized with a current, the relative distance between the armature part and the coil part is changed due to electromagnetism, and the changed relative distance is greater than or smaller than the predetermined value, so that a protrusion or a depression is formed at a corresponding position of the flexible touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventor: Xu Zhang
  • Patent number: 9963635
    Abstract: A blue phase liquid crystal display device and a method for driving the same are disclosed. In the display device, there is a pixel electrode or a common electrode arranged right opposite to each of the viewing angle switching electrodes. In a narrow viewing angle mode, a vertical electric field can be generated between two electrodes that are arranged right opposite to each other, so that liquid crystal molecules in the vertical electric field can be in a vertical alignment state. According to the present disclosure, since almost all oblique light can pass through the liquid crystal molecules in the vertical alignment state, the probability that the viewing angle switching dead area occurs can be reduced to a large extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignees: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chang Xie
  • Patent number: 9958973
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel-integrated organic light emitting display device. The touch panel-integrated organic light emitting display device includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate and a touch panel positioned between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. The touch panel includes an array of first touch electrodes connected in a first direction under the upper substrate, an array of second touch electrodes, in a same plane as the first touch electrodes, connected in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction under the upper substrate, a plurality of connection electrodes connecting the second touch electrodes in the second direction, and at least one of the first and second touch electrodes includes a touch detection part and a floating part electrically isolated from the touch detection part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JongHyun Han, SeJong Yoo, YoungJin Choe, HaeYeon Jeong, SunJu Lee
  • Patent number: 9933902
    Abstract: A touch panel and a touch screen display device are provided. The touch panel includes: a base plate including a display area and a border area; and a capacitive touch structure and an electromagnetic touch structure that are provided on a same side of the base plate; where the electromagnetic touch structure includes multiple first coils each extending in a first direction and multiple second coils each extending in a second direction; every two adjacent coils of the multiple first coils partly overlap each other; every two adjacent coils of the multiple second coils partly overlap each other; and the first direction is perpendicular to the second direction. The touch panel includes a capacitive touch structure for capacitive touch detection and an electromagnetic touch structure for electromagnetic touch detection, and thus may achieve both capacitive touch detection and electromagnetic touch detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tianyi Wu
  • Patent number: 9905157
    Abstract: There are provided a pixel circuit and its driving method and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit comprises: a first switching unit (T1) configured to provide operating voltage to a driving unit (DT), a second switching unit (T2) configured to reset voltage of a control terminal of the driving unit (DT), a third switching unit (T3) configured to write data voltage on a data voltage line (Vdata) into an energy storage unit (C), a fourth switching unit (T4) configured to connect the control terminal and output terminal of the driving unit (DT), a fifth switching unit (T5) configured to conduct driving current to an electroluminescent unit (L), the driving unit (DT), the energy storage unit (C) and the electroluminescent unit (L). The pixel circuit is capable of solving the problem of non-uniformity of display luminance because of the threshold voltage drift of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shengji Yang
  • Patent number: 9898076
    Abstract: The disclosure pertains to aligning an electronic display or light reflected from the electronic display relative to a position of a user (i.e., viewer), and thus enhancing an overall perceived brightness, contrast ratio, and viewing angle performance of an electronic display (e.g., a specular reflective display) irrespective of illumination conditions (e.g., sunlight, airplane lighting, and overhead lamps). In some embodiments, an electronic device may determine user position data for a position of a user with respect to the electronic display. For example, the electronic device may capture images of the user using one or more image sensors. The user position data may then be processed by the electronic device to generate signals which may modify display characteristics of the electronic display to align an electronic display or light reflected from the electronic display relative to the position of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Suchit Shreyas Shah
  • Patent number: 9858871
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a unit pixel including a first pixel, a second pixel neighboring to the first pixel in a column direction, a third pixel neighboring to the first pixel in a row direction, and a fourth pixel neighboring to the second pixel in the row direction, a scanning line extending in the row direction and electrically connected to the first to fourth pixels, and first to fourth signal lines extending in the column direction and provided at intervals therebetween in the row direction, and the first to fourth signal lines are electrically connected to the first to fourth pixels, and video signal potentials for inverted drive applied to the first and second signal lines are inverted in polarity with respect to each other, and those to the third and fourth signal lines are inverted in polarity with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takanori Tsunashima, Hirotaka Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9815087
    Abstract: An apparatus may include a one- or two-dimensional array of micromechanical ultrasonic transducer (PMUT) elements positioned below, beside, with, on, or above a backplane of a visual display. The backplane may be a thin-film transistor (TFT) backplane. The array of PMUT elements may be a piezoelectric micromechanical ultrasonic transducer (PMUT) array or a capacitive micromechanical ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) array. The PMUT array may be configurable to operate in modes corresponding to multiple frequency ranges. When operating in the low-frequency mode, the apparatus may be capable of gesture detection. A high-frequency mode may include a fingerprint sensor mode or a stylus detection mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Suryaprakash Ganti, David William Burns, Jonathan Charles Griffiths
  • Patent number: 9810961
    Abstract: A light emitting system 10 includes a light source (100), a light transmission quantity adjustment unit (200), and a control unit (300). The light source (100) may be a fluorescent lamp or an electric bulb, and may be an Organic Electroluminescence (EL) element or a Light Emitting Diode (LED) element. The light transmission quantity adjustment unit (200) is arranged with a space (S) from the light source (100), and adjusts a light transmission quantity. The control unit (300) controls the light transmission quantity adjustment unit (200) based on a timing at which the light source (100) emits light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo Kuroda
  • Patent number: 9804696
    Abstract: On a computing system, a method includes receiving a depth video, producing a machine-understandable model of a player interacting with a user-input control device from the depth video, controlling operation of the computing system without influence of the machine-understandable model responsive to receiving a control signal from a user-input control device while the user-input control device is in an attached state, and controlling operation of the computing system with influence of the machine-understandable model responsive to receiving the control signal from the user-input control device while the user-input control device is in a detached state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Anthony Hall
  • Patent number: 9779656
    Abstract: A pixel driving method of a display panel is disclosed. The display panel includes a plurality of scan lines, data lines and pixels. Each of the pixel includes a first transistor with a first end coupled to the data line, and a gate end coupled to the scan line, a second transistor with a first end selectively coupled to a voltage source or current source, and a gate end coupled to a second end of the first transistor, and a light-emitting unit with a first end coupled to a second end of the second transistor. The method includes turning on the first transistors of the pixels; coupling the data lines and first ends of the second transistors to the current source; reading voltage levels of gate ends of the second transistors; and providing corresponding data voltages to the pixels according to voltage levels of gate ends of the second transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chun-Chieh Lin, Chih-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 9766652
    Abstract: The present specification provides a conductive structure body comprising: a substrate; a conductive layer; at least one intermediate layer; and a darkening layer, and a method of manufacturing the same. The conductive structure body may prevent reflectance by the conductive layer without affecting conductivity of the conductive layer, and may improve a concealing property of the conductive layer by improving absorbance. Accordingly, a display panel having improved visibility may be developed by using the conductive structure body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Hyong Lim, Song Ho Jang, Sujin Kim, Ki-Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 9753492
    Abstract: A wrist-worn input device measuring a biopotential for use in gesture inputting, includes a band that forms at least part of a tubular structure having a first opening and a second opening at the two ends thereof in an axial direction thereof, an electrode open to an internal surface of the band, a position determination unit disposed close to the first opening and having a shape to be engaged with at least part of a periphery of the styloid process of ulna of a user, a biopotential measurement unit that measures the biopotential of the user using the electrode, and a measured potential transmitter that outputs the biopotential of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Inoue, Jun Ozawa, Hiroyuki Motoyama