Patents Examined by Gloryvid Figueroa-Gibson
  • Multi-functional active matrix organic light-emitting diode display
    Patent number: 10079269
    Abstract: A multi-functional active matrix display comprises a transparent front sheet, a semi-transparent layer of light emissive devices adjacent the rear side of the front sheet and forming a matrix of display pixels, and a solar cell layer located behind the light emissive devices for converting both ambient light and internal light7 from the light emissive devices into electrical energy, the solar cell layer including an array of electrodes on the front surface of the solar cell layer for use in detecting the location of a change in the amount of light impinging on a portion of the front surface of the solar cell layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Gholamreza Chaji, Baolin Tian
  • Display apparatus and driving method of display panel thereof
    Patent number: 9990895
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a driving method of a display panel thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a gate driver circuit providing a plurality of gate driving signals, a switch driver circuit providing a plurality of switch driving signals and the display panel having a plurality of pixels arranged in an array. Each of the pixels includes a first switch, a second switch and a storage capacitor coupled in series, wherein the first switch is controlled by the corresponding switch driving signal, and the second switch is controlled by the corresponding gate driving signal. During a frame update period, the gate driving signals are enabled sequentially, and an enabling period of each of switch driving signal is overlapped with enabling periods of a part of gate driving signals. During an operation waiting period, the gate driving signals are enabled periodically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: GIANTPLUS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yu-Yen Lin, Hou-Hong Li
  • Panel display driving circuit and touch time arranging method
    Patent number: 9983723
    Abstract: A touch time arranging method, applied to a panel display driving circuit having touch timing control function in a touch display panel, includes: dividing the resolution of touch display panel along a first direction by K touch regions of touch display panel along the first direction to obtain a first quotient; obtaining a digital combination including a first value I and a second value J closest to the integer part of first quotient; if the ratio of the number of occurrences of the first value and second value in the digital combination is X:Y, dividing the resolution by (I*X+J*Y) to obtain a second quotient; when the touch display panel displays R lines in order under a display mode, the touch display panel is switched to a touch mode every I lines and J lines alternately according to the digital combination to arrange a touch time to perform touch sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Raydium Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Hung Li
  • Display device with touch detection function and electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 9977545
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a substrate; a display area in which pixels each constituted by different color regions are arranged in a matrix and that includes color columns in which the color regions of the same colors extend side by side; a touch detection electrode that includes a plurality of conductive thin wires; and a drive electrode. Each of the conductive thin wires includes a plurality of portions at each of which the conductive thin wire extends in a direction at an angle with respect to a direction of extension of the color regions, and a plurality of bent portions at each of which the conductive thin wire is bent with the angle changed. The conductive thin wires include portions each overlapping all of the color columns in a direction orthogonal to the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takeo Koito, Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa
  • System and method for analyzing information on a time chart using a touch screen interface
    Patent number: 9946838
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for analyzing data records using a touch screen interface. A touch event is received from the touch screen interface. In response to receiving the touch event, at least one data record is selected from a plurality of data records in a time chart, the time chart including at least one time line relating to at least one data object, the plurality of data records being plotted on the at least one time line based on a time parameter of each of the plurality of data records. Information relating to the selected at least one data record is processed based on the time parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Margarita Khafizova
  • Input device and electronic equipment
    Patent number: 9933910
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is electronic equipment having a wireless communication function. The electronic equipment includes: an antenna element arranged in such a manner that at least part of the antenna element overlaps an input area used as an input interface on an enclosure of the electronic equipment; a wireless section adapted to perform wireless communication using the antenna element; and an input detection section adapted to detect user input to the input area based on the state of the antenna element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Minoru Wakabayashi, Kenichiro Kodama
  • Steady content display
    Patent number: 9933864
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, devices and methods for causing content to appear stable in space such that a user may continue to consume the content while there is relative motion between the user's head and a media device presenting content. The media device may present content based on generated predictive data which may represent predicted positions of the media device relative to a stabilization point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Christopher Philip Worland
  • Implementing a virtual controller outside an area of a touch sensor
    Patent number: 9927927
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes applying a drive signal to an electrode of a touch sensor of a device. The touch sensor extends across an area of a surface of the device, and the drive signal is configured to generate an electric field that extends outward from the area of the surface that the touch sensor extends across and reaches a pre-determined location on the device that is outside the area of the surface that the touch sensor extends across. The method includes receiving a sense signal from the touch sensor produced at least in part by the electric field. The sense signal indicates whether an object has come within a pre-determined proximity of the pre-determined location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Trond Pedersen, Steinar Myren, Vemund Bakken, Rune Watn
  • Display panel and display method thereof, and display device
    Patent number: 9880412
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display panel and a display method thereof, and a display device. The display panel comprises a plurality of pixel units, each pixel unit is composed of nine sub-pixels arranged in five columns, one center sub-pixel traversing two rows is only provided in the third column of each pixel unit, while the sub-pixels are arranged in two rows in other columns. The nine sub-pixels in each pixel unit include color sub-pixels and compensation sub-pixels, the color sub-pixels include a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel and a blue sub-pixel, and the compensation sub-pixels include a brightness compensation sub-pixel and a chromaticity compensation sub-pixel. The center sub-pixel has any one of five kinds of colors, a number of the sub-pixels with each of other four colors is two, and the sub-pixels with the same color are not adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Renwei Guo, Xue Dong
  • Pointing system, pointing device, and pointing control method
    Patent number: 9880639
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a pointing system capable of presenting an intuitive operational feeling to a user. [Solving Means] A pointing device includes a casing, a tactile sense presentation section, and a sensor section. The sensor section detects an operation for the casing and outputs an operation signal for controlling a movement of a pointer on a screen. The control apparatus includes an area setting section and a signal generation section. The area setting section sets a first area that belongs to an inside of a display area of an object on the screen, a second area that belongs to an outside of the display area of the object, and a third area that belongs to a boundary portion between the first area and the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Hideo Kawabe, Takeshi Maeda, Kousuke Seki
  • Vehicle, display system and method for displaying a piece of traffic-relevant information
    Patent number: 9873378
    Abstract: A display system has a control apparatus and a display unit that can be worn on the head of a vehicle user. The control apparatus has an input interface for accepting a piece of traffic-relevant information, a transducer for producing an image signal for the display unit taking account of the piece of traffic-relevant information and an output interface for outputting an image signal. The display system is prepared to display the piece of traffic-relevant information by the display unit in a marginal region of a field of vision of the vehicle user. A vehicle has the display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Marcus Kuehne
  • Method and processor for analyzing two-dimension information
    Patent number: 9864471
    Abstract: The method and processor for analyzing two-dimension information are disclosed. A 2-D information generated from a touch panel/screen is obtained, wherein the 2-D information comprises a plurality of values distributed over a plurality of reduced 2-D coordinates. Then, an approaching/touching range on the touch panel/screen approached or touched by an approaching/touching object is detected, wherein a minimum of the plurality of values distributed over a boundary of the approaching/touching range is greater than a maximum of the plurality of values inside the approaching/touching range except the boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Fu Chang, Cheng-Han Lee, Chi-Hao Tang, Shun-Lung Ho
  • Touch window
    Patent number: 9857906
    Abstract: A touch window includes a substrate including an active region and an unactive region, a resin layer provided on the substrate. The resin layer includes an intaglio part and an embossment part adjacent to the intaglio part, and an electrode layer in the intaglio part. The embossment part includes a curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Duck Hoon Park, Ki Young Kwon, Soo Jin Lee
  • Display resource management
    Patent number: 9851787
    Abstract: A system and related methods for a resource management in a head-mounted display device are provided. In one example, the head-mounted display device includes a plurality of sensors and a display system for presenting holographic objects. A resource management program is configured to operate a selected sensor in a default power mode to achieve a selected fidelity. The program receives user-related information from one or more of the sensors, and determines whether target information is detected. Where target information is detected, the program adjusts the selected sensor to operate in a reduced power mode that uses less power than the default power mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Latta, Jedd Anthony Perry, Rod G. Fleck, Jack Clevenger, Frederik Schaffalitzky, Drew Steedly, Daniel McCulloch, Ian McIntyre, Alexandru Balan, Ben Sugden, Ryan Hastings, Brian Mount
  • Method of driving display panel and display apparatus for performing the same
    Patent number: 9837032
    Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes outputting a gate signal to a gate line of the display panel in response to a first control signal and outputting a data voltage to a data line of the display panel in response to a second control signal using a plurality of data output blocks having driving timings different from one another. A single driving chip includes the plurality of data output blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masami Igawa
  • Image display apparatus and control method thereof
    Patent number: 9824639
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a plurality of light emitting units; a display panel; a first acquisition unit configured to acquire brightness information, a first control unit configured to determine light emission quantity for each of the light emitting units; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a detected value of light from a predetermined region; a first determination unit configured to determine whether a change due to a difference of the light emission quantity between the light emitting units is generated in the light from the predetermined region; a calibration unit configured to perform calibration of display characteristics; and a second control unit configured to control the calibration on the basis of a determination result of the first determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Nagashima
  • Multi-functional active matrix organic light-emitting diode display
    Patent number: 9818806
    Abstract: A multi-functional active matrix display comprises a transparent front sheet, a semi-transparent layer of light emissive devices adjacent the rear side of the front sheet and forming a matrix of display pixels, and a solar cell layer located behind the light emissive devices for converting both ambient light and internal light7 from the light emissive devices into electrical energy, the solar cell layer including an array of electrodes on the front surface of the solar cell layer for use in detecting the location of a change in the amount of light impinging on a portion of the front surface of the solar cell layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Gholamreza Chaji, Baolin Tian
  • Method for manufacturing emission panel, and display device provided with emission panel obtained by the method
    Patent number: 9801253
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an emission panel which has an emission portion including pixels, through which currents of mutually different values flow under a condition that voltages of mutually identical values are applied to the respective pixels is disclosed. This manufacturing method includes: an acquisition step of acquiring correction coefficients for correcting the values of the voltages applied to the respective pixels to reduce differences among the values in current flowing through the respective pixels; and an aging step of executing aging processing on the pixels, the aging processing being executed by correcting the values of the voltages applied to the respective pixels using the correction coefficients and by applying the corrected voltages to the respective pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Yamakita, Kenichi Masumoto
  • Pixel array and driving method thereof, display panel and display device
    Patent number: 9799252
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pixel array which comprises a middle pixel region and an edge pixel region surrounding the middle pixel region, wherein, the middle pixel region comprises a plurality of middle pixel sets, each of which comprises eight sub-pixels arranged around a central point, the eight sub-pixels include two red sub-pixels, two green sub-pixels, two blue sub-pixels and two supplementary-color sub-pixels, and are arranged in three rows and three columns, the first row includes three sub-pixels, the second row includes two sub-pixels, and the third row includes three sub-pixels. The present invention further provides a driving method of the above pixel array, a display panel including the pixel array and a display device including the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Renwei Guo, Xue Dong
  • Variable-pitch tracking for touch sensors
    Patent number: 9785292
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a touch sensor includes a first set of tracks configured to electrically couple a first set of connection pads of the touch sensor to a first set of electrodes of the touch sensor. At least a portion of the first set of tracks extends in a direction, and at least one of the tracks in the first set of tracks has two or more different pitches at two or more different points along the extent of the first set of tracks. The touch sensor also includes a second set of tracks configured to electrically couple a second set of connection pads of the touch sensor to a second set of electrodes of the touch sensor. At least a portion of the second set of tracks extends in the direction and adjacent to the extent of the first set of tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Esat Yilmaz, Jalil Shaikh