Patents Examined by Gerald Oliver
  • Patent number: 9176576
    Abstract: An input device for triggering a function of an electronic device comprises a humidity sensor (12), and a control unit (11). The control unit (11) analyzes a humidity signal (RH) supplied by the humidity sensor (12) and provides a trigger signal (C) subject to the analysis of the humidity signal (RH) for triggering the function of the electronic device (3). In such way, the function of the electronic device can simply be controlled by blowing at the input device (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sensirion AG
    Inventors: Dominic Böni, Robert Rupprecht, Andrea Wüest, Pascal Gerner
  • Patent number: 9176608
    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 camera elements, in order 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: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Leo B. Baldwin, Isaac S. Noble
  • Patent number: 9179489
    Abstract: The present invention provides a DRX control method and system in which power consumption of a mobile station can be reduced and an increase in the load of a network can be suppressed. A source base station forwards Dormancy Context, which is information for controlling the activity level of a mobile station that performs inter base station handover, to a target base station and, immediately after the mobile station completes handover, the target base station performs DRX control of the mobile station using the Dormancy Context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Futaki, Jinsock Lee
  • Patent number: 9170673
    Abstract: A terminal device (electronic device) includes a display which displays an image that specifies data, a touch panel which is disposed on the display and detects a contact of an object, a transmission operation detection unit which, when the display displays the image that specifies data, detects that a transmission operation has been performed with respect to the data if the touch panel detects a contact that continues over at least a predetermined distance and is in a predetermined direction, and a data transmission unit which, when the transmission operation detection unit detects the transmission operation, transmits the data to another electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Sanada, Mikiya Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9164599
    Abstract: One exemplary embodiment involves receiving an input on a device, the input comprising at least one of an amount of pressure applied to the device against a computing device, a click of a physical button associated with the device, or a movement of the device against the computing device. The embodiment also includes transmitting the received input to the computing device via a wireless transceiver associated with the device. Additionally, the embodiment includes causing a plurality of actions to be performed on the computing device based at least in part on the received input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Geoffrey Dowd, Matthew Bice, Nic Couillard, Christoph Moskalonek
  • Patent number: 9167096
    Abstract: A visual voicemail may be automatically transmitted to a receiving mobile device after the visual voicemail fails to reach the receiving mobile device during an initial delivery attempt. For example, a visual voicemail delivery system may receive an indication of an incoming voicemail, and a visual voicemail associated with the incoming voicemail may be generated. The system may maintain the delivery status of the visual voicemail. For example, if the receiving mobile device retrieves the visual voicemail from the system via a communication session, the system may mark the visual voicemail as delivered. After a predetermined period of time has elapsed, the system may determine whether the visual voicemail has been delivered to the mobile device. If the system determines that the visual voicemail has not been delivered to the mobile device, the system may automatically transmit visual voicemail to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Venson Shaw, Gholam-Reza Rahsaz
  • Patent number: 9154911
    Abstract: A wireless communication system generates operating information indicating if a monitoring wireless communication device is in active mode or in idle mode for a wireless data service. The wireless system receives location information that indicates geographic locations of a monitored wireless communication device for delivery to the monitoring wireless communication device. The system stores the location information if the monitoring wireless communication device is in idle mode. The system wirelessly transfers the location information to the monitoring wireless communication device if the monitoring wireless communication device is in active mode. If the monitoring wireless communication device transitions from idle mode to active mode and has stored location information, the system generates summary location data for the monitored wireless communication device based on the stored location information and wirelessly transfers the summary location data to the monitoring wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Douglas R. Green, Jeremy R. Breau
  • Patent number: 9142168
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a driving device of a display device. The driving device comprises a gamma voltage generator, for generating a gamma voltage according to a control signal to a source driver of the display device, and a logic unit, for generating the control signal to the gamma voltage generator according to a difference among image properties of a plurality of frames to be displayed, to adjust the gamma voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Xie-Ren Hsu, Wei-Song Huang
  • Patent number: 9119261
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for controlling the brightness of a display for an electronic device based on ambient light conditions. In one embodiment, an electronic device may employ one or more brightness adjustment profiles that define response rates for changing brightness levels based on ambient light levels. The response rates may vary depending on the magnitude and/or direction of change in the ambient light levels. In certain embodiments, the response rates may be designed to approximate the physical response of the human vision system. Further, in certain embodiments, noise reduction techniques may be employed by adjusting the response rates based on the magnitude of the change in the ambient light level and/or based on whether the display is operating at steady state or executing a brightness adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ulrich T. Barnhoefer, Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 9111481
    Abstract: A display device including pixels has formed therein at least two drive blocks each made up of pixel rows. Each of the pixels includes: a drive transistor; a first electrostatic capacitor and a second electrostatic capacitor; an organic EL element; a first switching transistor provided between the source and the drain of the drive transistor; and a second switching transistor that supplies a signal current to the organic EL element. Each of the pixels in a kth drive block includes a third switching transistor provided between a first signal line and the first electrostatic storing capacitor, and each of the pixels in a k-th drive block includes a fourth switching transistor provided between a second signal line and the first electrostatic storing capacitor. A second control line for controlling conduction of the first switching transistor is connected to each of the pixels in a same one of the drive blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Shinya Ono
  • Patent number: 9112562
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising using an adaptive codebook for beamforming for communications in wireless networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qinghua Li, Hongming Zheng, Senjie Zhang, Xintian Eddie Lin, Shanshan Zheng, Guangjie Li
  • Patent number: 9105247
    Abstract: A display device includes multiple first data lines, multiple second data lines, multiple pixel columns, at least a first charge sharing switch circuit and at least a second charge sharing switch circuit. The second data lines are alternately arranged with the first data lines. Each of the pixel columns includes multiple first pixels and multiple second pixels. The first pixels of each of the pixel columns are coupled to one of the first data lines, and the second pixels of each of the pixel columns are coupled to one of the second data lines. The first charge sharing switch circuit each is electrically coupled to at least a part of the first data lines. The second charge sharing switch circuit each is electrically coupled to at least a part of the second data lines. A display device driving method and a source driving circuit also are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Yi-Fan Lin, Mu-Lin Tung, Chao-Ching Hsu
  • Patent number: 9092185
    Abstract: A display terminal that performs image display processing for displaying in a display section image data recorded in a recording section, which includes a controlling section that performs image sharing processing for providing image data recorded in the recording section to another display terminal over a network, acquiring image data recorded by another display terminal over the network, and displaying the acquired image data in the display section, and sharing control processing for performing control to select image data recorded by another display terminal set up at a location whose distance from the setup location of the display terminal satisfies a predetermined condition, as target image data for the image sharing processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kimiyasu Mizuno, Takehiro Aibara, Hitoshi Amagai, Naotaka Uehara, Takayuki Kogane, Sumito Shinohara, Masato Nunokawa, Tetsuya Handa
  • Patent number: 9092604
    Abstract: A table storage unit stores a table that determines correspondence between information about another communication device and biological information of a user of the another communication device. A display unit displays one or a plurality of items. An input unit accepts operation using part of a biological body of the user. An instruction specification unit specifies data about an item displayed on the display unit that has been selected by operation on the input unit by the user. A fingerprint information generation unit generates first biological information representing a biological feature of the user who has selected the item. A device specification unit specifies a communication device corresponding to the generated first biological information by referring to the table. A communication unit transmits the specified data to the specified communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Reiko Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9060370
    Abstract: The present invention provides a DRX control method and system in which power consumption of a mobile station can be reduced and an increase in the load of a network can be suppressed. A source base station forwards Dormancy Context, which is information for controlling the activity level of a mobile station that performs inter base station handover, to a target base station and, immediately after the mobile station completes handover, the target base station performs DRX control of the mobile station using the Dormancy Context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Futaki, Jinsock Lee
  • Patent number: 9055581
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for abbreviated dialing in a femtocell network is provided. A user having authorized access to the femtocell network may dial another authorized user using an abbreviated code. On receipt of the call request, a femtocell system may evaluate the destination number to determine if it is an abbreviated code. If the dialed number is not an abbreviated code, the femtocell system may direct the call request to the telecommunication core network for processing thereby. If the dialed number is evaluated by the femtocell system as an abbreviated code, the femtocell system may direct the call request to an on-site PBX for call handling. If the abbreviated code is a valid code and the dialed user equipment is currently in the femtocell network service area, the PBX may then complete the call setup within the femtocell network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: UBEEAIRWALK, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Martin Edward Osborn
  • Patent number: 9049717
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for terminating a call in a network system are provided. A femtocell system receives a notification to terminate a call that includes a user equipment serviced by the femtocell system. The femtocell system conveys a clear command to a base transceiver station of the femtocell system, transmits a release message to the user equipment, receives a clear completion message, and deletes a connection allocated for the call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: UBEEAIRWALK, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Martin Edward Osborn
  • Patent number: 9047819
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display is capable of preventing brightness from being non-uniform due to IR drop so as to improve reliability of the organic light emitting display. The organic light emitting display comprises: a display panel having a display region and a non-display region; a plurality of sub pixels defined by perpendicularly intersecting a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines formed in the display region of the display panel; and a power source supply pad unit provided in the non-display region of the display panel for supplying a power source voltage to the plurality of sub pixels. A resistance value of sub pixels arranged in a first region adjacent to the power source supply pad unit is higher than a resistance value of sub pixels of a second region which is separated from the power source supply pad unit, with the first region interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Na-Young Kim, Ki-Nyeng Kang
  • Patent number: 9041703
    Abstract: A source driver applied in a liquid crystal display is disclosed. The source driver at least includes a first pair of channels, a second pair of channels, two P-type digital/analog converting modules, two N-type digital/analog converting modules, two multiplexers, two polarization multiplexers, and four amplifying and buffer modules. The first pair of channels includes a first channel and a second channel which are adjacent, and the second pair of channels includes a third channel and a four channel which are adjacent. The two P-type digital/analog converting modules correspond to a first set of gamma values, and the two N-type digital/analog converting modules correspond to a second set of gamma values. The first pair of channels shares the two P-type digital/analog converting modules and the second pair of channels shares the two N-type digital/analog converting modules to save the used chip area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Raydium Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Yen
  • Patent number: 9029717
    Abstract: The invention provides a wireless transmission method for a touch pen with wireless storage and forwarding capability. The wireless transmission method comprises the touch pen wireless receiving at least a record extracted from a displaying data area by a touch device when the touch pen touches to select the data display region shown on a touch screen of the touch device, and the touch pen storing the record. Accordingly, the touch pen can receive data from the touch device according to touch-control of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Dexin Corporation
    Inventor: Ho-Lung Lu