Patents Examined by Ibrahim Khan
  • Patent number: 10276130
    Abstract: A system for calibrating an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is presented. The calibration system includes a series of photodiodes coupled to at least a portion of illumination elements of the OLED display, a controller, and a driver circuit. The series of photodiodes is configured to measure, for one or more illumination elements, illumination latencies and time delays associated with different brightness levels. The controller obtains, for each illumination element, information about brightness levels associated with image light emitted from that illumination element for at least two consecutive video frames. Based on the measured latencies, the time delays and the information about brightness levels, the controller determines a driving signal for a driver circuit for each illumination element. The driver circuit applies the determined driving signal to that illumination element to calibrate the OLED display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Evan M. Richards, Matthew Robert Fulghum
  • Patent number: 10262593
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light emitting drive circuit and an organic light emitting display. The circuit includes: the reset memory module for resetting the driving module and for generating and storing a threshold offset voltage corresponding to the driving module; the driving module is used for generating a light emission drive voltage in a light emission phase in accordance with a power supply positive voltage, a stored threshold compensation voltage, and a light emission control signal; the light emitting module is configured to emit light, and the light emission driving voltage is a difference between the power supply positive voltage and the data voltage. The driving voltage (or drive current) of the light emission is independent of the threshold voltage for driving the thin film transistor. This eliminates the problem that the threshold voltage drift of the driving thin film transistor causes the screen display to be poor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Xiaolong Chen, Ming-jong Jou
  • Patent number: 10261584
    Abstract: A user interface includes both a touchscreen for tactile input and one or more lensless optical sensors for sensing additional, remote gestures. Users can interact with the user interface in a volume of space near the display, and are thus not constrained to the relatively small area of the touchscreen. Remote hand or face gestures can be used to turn on or otherwise alter the tactile user interface. Shared user interfaces can operate without touch, and thus avoid cross-contamination of e.g. viruses and bacteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick R. Gill, David G. Stork, Thomas Vogelsang
  • Patent number: 10254867
    Abstract: The technical field of touch panel is related to. A touch panel provided herein includes a touch area and a peripheral area. A first driving circuit and a GOA circuit are provided in the peripheral area. The first driving circuit and the GOA circuit include same stage transmission units, and share a same driving signal. The first driving circuit is sandwiched in the GOA circuit, and thus a layout space of the first driving circuit can be saved, which can facilitate realization of narrow frame design. Sensor pads in the touch area are arranged in a rectangular array, and a first sensor pad and a last sensor pad of each row of sensor pads are connected with the first driving circuit respectively. Two adjacent sensor pads are connected by a first connecting line or a second connecting line. A display device including the touch panel is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qiang Gong
  • Patent number: 10257439
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a selection section that selects and outputs one video signal from plural input video signals; a clock signal output section that outputs a clock signal that corresponds to the video signal selected by the selection section; and a masking section that, for a predetermined period starting from a point when the clock signal output from the clock signal output section is switched in accordance with a switching of the selection of the video signal, performs masking processing on a synchronization signal that, among plural synchronization signals that correspond respectively to the plural video signals, corresponds to the video signal selected by the selection section. The selection section outputs the selected video signal in synchronization with the synchronization signal that corresponds to the selected video signal and that has undergone masking processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shusaku Maeda
  • Patent number: 10244230
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a directional pixel for a high-angular resolution, wide field of view, multiple view display. The design teaches a directional pixel comprising a substrate, one or more pixel driving circuits, one or more nano- or micro-scale subpixels, and one or more directional optical guiding surfaces, wherein each of said one or more subpixels is comprised of a light emitting device emitting a light beam and an optical microcavity housing said light emitting device. The optical microcavity is comprised of a plurality of reflective surfaces to specifically manipulate and tune said light beam, wherein one or more of said reflective surfaces is a light propagating reflective surface which propagates said light beam out of said microcavity, and said light propagating reflective surface is connected to said one or more directional optical guiding surfaces to direct said light beam at a specific angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Avalon Holographics Inc.
    Inventors: Wally Haas, Jennifer Campbell-Correa, Matthew Hamilton, Stephen Hill, Jordan Peckham, Chuck Rumbolt
  • Patent number: 10242632
    Abstract: A halt period is inserted between a drive period in an odd-numbered field and a drive period in an even-numbered field in interlace driving. When drive signals driving subpixels are time-divisionally supplied to the display panel in units of subpixel types, switch control signals controlling source line switches which distribute the drive signals associated with respective subpixels to the corresponding source lines are generated so that the number of switching of the source line switches are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Shigeru Ota, Atsushi Shikata, Go Toyoda, Makoto Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10227008
    Abstract: An operating device includes an input device that receives a character input of a user, a display device that displays input characters in an input field, and a delete device that deletes at least one character displayed in the input field in a deleting process. The delete device is configured, during the deleting process, in the input field, to move a delete element successively over in each case one of the displayed characters and in so doing in each case to delete the character or to mark it for a deletion to be carried out at the end of the deleting process. The delete device can also be configured to, during the deleting process, to detect a sliding movement of a user's finger on at least one touch-sensitive touch field and to control the movement of the delete element depending on the detected sliding movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tahar Bouaziz, Franziska Boehm
  • Patent number: 10228728
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of changing screens using multiple touch screens. The method includes displaying a first screen in a first touch screen; displaying a second screen in a second touch screen; detecting multiple touches in the first touch screen; detecting continuous movements of the multiple touches from the first touch screen to the second touch screen; and changing the second screen of the second touch screen in response to the continuous movements of the multiple touches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Joon-Kyu Seo, Hyun-Jin Kim, Ju-Youn Lee, Min-Kyu Park
  • Patent number: 10203766
    Abstract: Disclosed is display apparatus for a vehicle including a display unit, a gesture sensing unit located around the display unit for sensing a 3D gesture made by an object, and a processor for generating a control signal based on the 3D gesture. The gesture sensing unit includes a first light-emitting unit for emitting a first group of rays along a first optical path, a second light-emitting unit for emitting a second group of rays along a second optical path, and a light-receiving unit for receiving a first group of reflected rays formed when the first group of rays is reflected by the object and a second group of reflected rays formed when the second group of rays is reflected by the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jinho Youn, Jaehyeuck Choi, Hyokune Hwang
  • Patent number: 10203757
    Abstract: One illustrative computing device disclosed herein includes a first sensor configured to detect a position associated with a deformable surface and transmit a sensor signal associated with the position; and a processor in communication with the sensor, the processor configured to: receive the sensor signal; determine a haptic effect based at least in part on the sensor signal; and transmit a haptic signal associated with the haptic effect. The illustrative computing device also includes a haptic output device in communication with the processor, the haptic output device configured to receive the haptic signal and output the haptic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: Vincent Levesque, Danny Grant, Jamal Saboune, Abdelwahab Hamam, William Rihn
  • Patent number: 10203873
    Abstract: Systems and methods for adaptively presenting a keyboard on a touch-sensitive display are disclosed herein. In one aspect, a method includes: monitoring typing inputs received from a user at a touch-sensitive display of an electronic device. The method also includes: determining whether the typing inputs are converging towards a midpoint of the touch-sensitive display or diverging away from the midpoint of the touch-sensitive display. In accordance with a determination that the typing inputs are converging towards the midpoint of the touch-sensitive display, the method includes: providing a first feedback to the user to indicate that the typing inputs are converging. In accordance with a determination that the typing inputs are diverging away from the midpoint of the touch-sensitive display, the method includes: providing a second feedback to the user to indicate that the typing inputs are diverging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Randal J. Marsden
  • Patent number: 10198096
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus includes an outer frame portion which forms an outer frame of a display portion where an object is displayed; a position detecting portion which detects a position of an operating body coming in touch with or close to the display portion or the outer frame portion; and a display controlling portion which displays on the display portion, auxiliary information about an object situated at a position of the operating body detected by the position detecting portion at a start of the shift when the operating body shifts to the outer frame portion while keeping touch with or close to the display portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Ryu Aoyama, Takehiko Tsurumi, Shoichiro Moriya, Fuminori Homma
  • Patent number: 10198994
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes a display panel including a pixel that includes a driving transistor and a light emitting diode; a timing control circuit including a compensation value calculation portion that calculates a compensation value (?) of the light emitting diode using a first correlation equation having a threshold voltage change quantity (?Vth) of the driving transistor as a variable, and a data compensation portion that applies the calculated compensation value to an input image data to produce a compensation data; and a data driver receiving the compensation data and supplying the compensation data to the pixel, wherein the first correlation equation is ?=a*?Vth+b, where a is a first gradient constant, and b is a first intersect constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jin-Sol Choi
  • Patent number: 10191545
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving brain activity data of a user from a brain wave sensor. Identifying Alpha wave activity from the brain activity data. Determining a synchronization timing for presenting content to the user such that the content appears on a display device during a predetermined phase of the Alpha wave activity based on the Alpha wave activity. Causing the content to be displayed on the display device according to the synchronization timing, where the content includes a first content item and a second content item that is associated with the first content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Sarah Ann Laszlo, Gabriella Levine, Philip Edwin Watson, Matthew Dixon Eisaman, Brian John Adolf
  • Patent number: 10175531
    Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device for improving display brightness uniformity. The liquid crystal display panel includes a display substrate, a source driving circuit and a plurality groups of gate driving circuits. Each gate driving circuit includes a gate driving chip and a group of fan-out circuits, and resistances of wirings of different groups of fan-out circuits gradually increase along a direction away from the source driving circuit. The liquid crystal panel can improve brightness uniformity in different positions while displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shouzhen Yue, Jinbo Guo, Jinjie Wang
  • Patent number: 10175832
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a capacitive-measurement device for touch-sensitive and/or contactless interfaces, including at least one capacitive-measurement electrode (1) and electrode-switching means (2) capable of electrically connecting said at least one electrode (1), either to capacitive-measurement means or to a guard potential (11), said at least one capacitive-measurement electrode (1) and said electrode-switching means (2) being provided on a single detection surface (7) according to a technique for manufacturing planar electronic components. The invention also relates to an apparatus implementing the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: QUICKSTEP TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Didier Roziere
  • Patent number: 10168824
    Abstract: An electronic device provided in a vehicle and including a touch screen; a first camera configured to capture an image of a driver of the vehicle; and a controller configured to restrict a touch input function with respect to the touch screen in response to an eyeline of the driver included in the image being out of a preset driving range for more than a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Suhyung Jang
  • Patent number: 10170053
    Abstract: A gate driving module and a gate-in-panel comprising a first pull-up TFT having a terminal connected to a gate driving signal generator and another terminal connected to an end of a first gate line, a first pull-down TFT having a terminal connected to the end of the first gate line and another terminal connected to a low-level voltage terminal, and a second pull-up TFT having a terminal connected to the gate driving signal generator and another terminal connected to another end opposite to the end of the first gate line, wherein the first pull-down TFT is turned off when the first pull-up TFT and the second pull-up TFT are turned on, and the first pull-down TFT is turned on when the first pull-up TFT and the second pull-up TFT are turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seok Noh, InHyo Han
  • Patent number: 10162445
    Abstract: An electrode sheet including an electrode layer and a support layer may be provided. The electrode layer includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The electrode sheet is used to detect a capacitance change between the first electrode and the second electrode, which is changed according to a relative distance change between the electrode layer and a reference potential layer disposed apart from the electrode sheet. The support layer is made of a material which is bent when a pressure is applied thereto and which is restored to its original state when the pressure is released therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: HiDeep Inc.
    Inventors: Seyeob Kim, Sang Sic Yoon, Bonkee Kim