Patents Examined by Gerald Oliver
  • Patent number: 9575574
    Abstract: A coordinate detection system includes a coordinate input device including a panel surface, an indication tool including a tip part with a conical shape or truncated-conical shape, a first image taking device to take a first image of the indication tool, a second image taking device to take a second image of the indication tool, and an information processing device to detect a first set of two oblique lines of the conical shape or truncated-conical shape based on the first image, detect a second set of two oblique lines of the conical shape or truncated-conical shape based on the second image, and calculate coordinates of a vertex of the tip part on the panel surface based on a first point of intersection between two oblique lines included in the first set and a second point of intersection between two oblique lines included in the second set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masato Handa
  • Patent number: 9558695
    Abstract: An image display apparatus according this invention includes: a light-emitting unit configured to emit light; a display panel configured to display an image by transmitting the light from the light-emitting unit at a transmittance based on an input image signal; and a control unit configured to set a plurality of lighting periods respectively having different lengths on a frame-by-frame basis and control lighting and extinction of the light-emitting unit in such a manner that the light-emitting unit is lit during the lighting periods and extinguished during a period other than the lighting periods, wherein the control unit makes the number of lighting periods within one frame larger when a brightness of the image is bright than when the brightness of the image is dark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuru Tada
  • Patent number: 9552111
    Abstract: In a touch sensing device of a capacitive type, touch coordinates are obtained according to a detected signal corresponding to a variation in a mutual capacitance between an X-electrode and a Y-electrode due to a finger touch in each combination of a plurality of X-electrodes and a plurality of Y-electrodes within a sensing area. The theoretical value of the detected signal in each combination of the X-electrodes an the Y-electrodes approximately expressed by a two-dimensional Gaussian function. The touch coordinates are identified correctly by finding the optimal solution of the object function which expresses the sum of squared differences between each of the theoretical signal value and the detected signal value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9552093
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are presented for selecting a surface for user input. The apparatus includes an information handling device having at least two surfaces and at least two sensors, as least one of the sensors being associated with one or more of the surfaces, a determination module, and a selection module. The determination module determines a current surface that is likely facing a user. The selection module selects one or more sensors associated with the current surface for user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Justin Tyler Dubs, Philip John Jakes, Sean Michael Ulrich
  • Patent number: 9548033
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels, a gate driver connected to the plurality of gate lines and configured to apply a gate-on voltage, a data driver connected to the plurality of data lines and configured to apply a data voltage, and a signal controller configured to receive an image signal and controlling the gate driver and the data driver, wherein the signal controller is configured to generate two correction data for each image signal referring to two compensation lookup tables, and the two compensation lookup tables are provided to make absolute values of pixel voltages for each polarity substantially identical to each other with respect to the same gray scale value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hun-Tae Kim, Yun Jae Park
  • Patent number: 9542900
    Abstract: A circuit for detecting a touch point location on a touch panel, a touch panel and a display device for improving the precision of touch point location on the touch panel are disclosed. The circuit for detecting a touch point location on a touch panel comprises: a sensing sub-circuit, an amplification sub-circuit connected to the sensing sub-circuit, an output sub-circuit connected to the amplification sub-circuit, a detection sub-circuit connected to the output sub-circuit, and a first touch drive electrode line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zuquan Hu, Guolei Wang, Xiaofang Gu, Ming Hu
  • Patent number: 9542022
    Abstract: It is an object to suppress malfunction of a touch sensor, a touch panel, and a device using them by accurate determination whether inputting is performed or not. In addition, it is also an object to enhance the response speed of the determination. A touch panel including a plurality of pixels having photosensors and an image processing portion are included. The photosensor forms a contact image of a portion of an object which touches the touch panel. The image processing portion calculates the area of the contact portion from color data of the contact image and determines on the basis of the area whether inputting to the touch panel is performed or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Munehiro Kozuma
  • Patent number: 9536471
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device and a method of operating the display device that reduces power consumption, the method including: operating the display device in a normal driving mode to display an image on a display panel according to an image data signal; operating the display device in a sleep mode, by adjusting a clock signal and an image data signal transmitted from a set controller to of the display device to a first voltage; measuring a sleep mode time period during which the display device operates in the sleep mode; and adjusting a register value of the set controller when the measured sleep mode time period exceeds a first reference time period and maintaining the clock signal at a second voltage according to the adjusted register value as a clock-off mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung-Hwan Moon
  • Patent number: 9523855
    Abstract: A virtual image display apparatus includes a video image display element which generates video image light and a light guiding member which includes a plurality of optical surfaces and guides the video image light by reflecting on an inner surface side. The light guiding member is a block-shaped member including, as a plurality of optical surfaces, a pair of facing planes which extend substantially in parallel with each other and fully reflect the video image. The light guiding member includes a pair of side portions interposing the pair of facing planes in a direction vertical to a light guiding direction. At least one side portion of the pair of side portions couples the pair of facing planes by a flat plane including a tapered surface which is adjacent to the one plane of the pair of facing planes and forms an obtuse angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriaki Hiraide
  • Patent number: 9520056
    Abstract: A hand-held device has a housing having a top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface, at least one transmitter, a first user interface associated with the top surface of the housing having first user interface input elements which, when active, are actuatable to cause the at least one transmitter to transmit communications to an external device, and a second user interface associated with the bottom surface of the housing having second user interface input elements which, when active, are actuatable to cause the at least one transmitter to transmit communications to an external device. The hand-held device is programmed to selectively make one of the first user interface input elements of the first user interface and the second user interface input elements of the second user interface active while making the other of the first user interface input elements of the first user interface and the second user interface input elements of the second user interface inactive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Arsham Hatambeiki, Jeffrey Kohanek, Pamela Eichler Keiles, Ramzi Ammari
  • Patent number: 9508275
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a transparent display panel; and an optical switching element arranged on the transparent display panel and configured to be switched to one of a transmissive state, a non-transmissive state, and a reflective state, wherein the optical switching element includes a non-transmission layer formed to contact the transparent display panel and configured to switch to the transmissive state or the non-transmissive state, and a reflection layer formed on a first side of the non-transmission layer and configured to switch to the transmissive state or the reflective state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cho-Young Lee, Hye Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 9507155
    Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment, a head-mounted display is provided. The head-mounted display includes a casing; and a reference portion provided on the casing for observing an eye of a wearer of the head-mounted display such that a relative position between the casing and the eye of the wearer is adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiyasu Morimoto
  • Patent number: 9501180
    Abstract: A capacitance sensing apparatus applied to a touch panel is provided. The capacitance sensing apparatus includes a plurality of sensor channels including a first sensor channel and a second sensor channel neighboring to each other. A first voltage signal is outputted to the first sensor channel. A plurality of capacitances of the first sensor channel are detected to generate a first capacitance result for touch sensing. A second voltage signal is outputted to the second sensor channel. A first voltage difference is present when the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal are respectively outputted to the first sensor channel and the second sensor channel, and a second voltage difference is present when the capacitance of the first sensor channel. The first voltage difference and the second voltage difference are substantially the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Guo-Kiang Hung, Hsuan-I Pan, Ting-Hao Yeh, Kai-Ting Ho
  • Patent number: 9495034
    Abstract: A touch panel is provided. The touch panel includes: a substrate, wherein the substrate includes a viewing region and a border region at an edge of the viewing region; a patterned transparent conductive layer formed on the substrate, wherein the patterned transparent conductive layer is formed on the viewing region and the border region, and the patterned transparent conductive layer has a touch sensitive function; and a patterned metal layer formed on the border region, wherein the patterned metal layer includes a contact region and a trace region connecting to the contact region, and at least a portion of the contact region overlaps with the patterned transparent conductive layer, wherein a shift range between the contact region and the patterned transparent conductive layer disposed on the border region adjacent to the contact region is smaller than about 150 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignees: INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chieh-Yu Chao, Canone Chen, Jia-Ming Hsieh, Wei-Lun Liao
  • Patent number: 9489984
    Abstract: A display apparatus which can communicate with an information terminal via a network is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives content data which are caused to be displayed on the display apparatus and reproduction control information on reproduction of the content data from the information terminal, an execution information generation unit which causes the reproduction control information to be execution information corresponding to the display apparatus, and a display unit which causes the content data to be displayed on the display apparatus based on the execution information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 9477319
    Abstract: The amount of power and processing needed to process gesture input for a computing device can be reduced by utilizing a separate gesture sensor. The gesture sensor can have a form factor similar to that of conventional cameras to reduce costs by being able to utilize readily available low cost parts, but can have a lower resolution and adjustable virtual shutter such that fast motions can be captured and/or recognized by the device. In some devices, a subset of the pixels of the gesture sensor can be used as a motion detector, enabling the gesture sensor to run in a low power state unless there is likely gesture input to process. Further, at least some of the processing and circuitry can be included with the gesture sensor such that various functionality can be performed without accessing a central processor or system bus, thus further reducing power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Leo B. Baldwin, Isaac S. Noble
  • Patent number: 9472156
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a gamma voltage generator of a display driving device. The gamma voltage generator comprises a first reference voltage generator; a switch coupled to the first reference voltage generator; and a plurality of resistors connected in serial and coupled to the switch; wherein the switch controls a connection between the first reference voltage generator and the plurality of resistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Xie-Ren Hsu, Wei-Song Huang
  • Patent number: 9442616
    Abstract: In an intersecting region of a bundle of wirings in a column direction and a bundle of wirings in a row direction, a column wiring block region arranged with detection column wirings and first floating wirings and a row wiring block region arranged with detection row wirings and second floating wirings are disposed in a staggered manner. The bundle of wirings in the column direction includes a first compensation region arranged with the detection column wirings which connect between the detection column wirings in the column wiring block regions adjacent to each other in a diagonal direction. The bundle of wirings in the row direction includes a second compensation region arranged with the detection row wirings which electrically connect between the detection row wirings in the row wiring block regions adjacent to each other in a diagonal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuji Imamura, Takeshi Ono, Tatsuya Nakamura, Tae Orita, Masafumi Agari, Naoki Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 9430978
    Abstract: A display drive circuit comprises a timing control module, a source drive module and a polarity selection module. The source drive module is electrically connected to a plurality of data lines. A control signal output from the timing control module is input to the source drive module via the polarity selection module. When the polarity selection module receives only the control signal, the polarity selection module outputs a first control signal, having the same polarity as that of the control signal, to the source drive module. When the polarity selection module receives the control signal and a polarity reversal signal at the same time, the polarity selection module outputs the first control signal, having the same polarity as that of the control signal, and a second control signal, having an opposite polarity to that of the control signal, to the source drive module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yizhen Xu
  • Patent number: 9430070
    Abstract: A display device, method, computer-readable storage medium and user interface, each of which detects contact to or proximity of an object with respect to a generated image, and responsive to detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, disables any operational functions associated with a first portion of the generated image. Additionally, operation associated with a second portion of the generated image is allowed responsive to the detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, where the second portion of the generated image is different from the first portion of the generated image. An indication corresponding to the second portion of the generated image for which operation is enabled may be displayed on the generated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Hazime Matsuda, Shoji Imamura, Katsuji Miyazawa, Motoki Higashide, Kunihito Sawai