Patents Examined by Ifedayo B Iluyomade
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Patent number: 10896643Abstract: A current detection method for a pixel circuit, a display panel and a display device are provided, for implementing both a compensation for the threshold voltage Vth of the drive transistor and a compensation for the aging of the light emitting element organic light emitting diode (OLED) by controlling to turn on or turn off the first switch transistor and the second switch transistor, and by acquiring the drive current of the drive transistor and the compensation current of the light emitting element, thus the brightness differences among pixels are compensated, thereby avoiding the problem of non-uniform display brightness and poor image uniformity.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD.Inventors: Yue Li, Gang Liu
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Patent number: 10895925Abstract: A computing device has a digitizer control module configured to monitor signals received by receive electrodes and to detect in the monitored signals a signal from a second touch display of a second computing device in physical proximity to the computing device. The digitizer control module is configured to determine one or more locations on the first touch display at which the signals from the second touch display are received. A processor in the computing device is configured to compute a relative position of the second touch display with respect to the first touch display on the basis of the determined locations, and to use the computed relative position to treat the first touch display and the second touch display as a combined touch display.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Uri Ron, Itamar Latnik, On Haran
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Patent number: 10892305Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch structure for OLED structure. The touch structure includes an electrode layer, an insulation layer, and a bridge layer stacked in sequence. The electrode layer is of a metal mesh structure having a plurality of driving electrodes along a first direction and a plurality of sensing electrodes along a second direction. The driving electrodes and the sensing electrodes are disposed within gaps of an emission layer of the OLED. The first direction and the second direction forming a first angle. Two adjacent driving electrodes along the first direction are connected. The bridge layer are configured with bridge wires. The insulation layer is configured with openings. The bridge wires connect to two adjacent sensing electrodes along the second direction via the openings.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Xiaoliang Feng
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Patent number: 10884576Abstract: A method comprising: displaying to a user a current virtual scene of a virtual space from a current point of view at a current position, the virtual scene comprising a user-input artificial virtual object; mapping a three-dimensional gesture of the user to a corresponding three-dimensional gesture in the virtual space that interacts with the user-input artificial virtual object; and in response to determining that the corresponding three-dimensional gesture in the virtual space interacts with the user-input artificial virtual object, displaying to the user a new virtual scene of the virtual space from a new point of view at a new position different to the current position.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2016Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Arto Lehtiniemi
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Patent number: 10884554Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a display area where a plurality of pixel electrodes are arranged; drive electrodes provided so as to face the pixel electrodes; a control device for performing image display control; a touch detection electrode facing the drive electrodes; a touch detection unit for detecting a position of a proximity object; a wiring arranged in a frame area positioned outside the display area; and a plurality of selection switches for selecting the drive electrodes to be coupled to the wiring based on a selection signal of the control device. The control device supplies the display drive voltage and a touch drive signal to the same wiring at different times.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Tadayoshi Katsuta, Hiroshi Mizuhashi
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Patent number: 10871860Abstract: A flexible sensor includes a compliant layer positioned between two substrate layers. The compliant layer includes a first compliant material and a second compliant material that is more deformable or compressible than the first compliant material. The flexible sensor can be bent, twisted, shaped, or otherwise manipulated at the section(s) of the flexible sensor that include the second compliant material.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tyler S. Bushnell, Michael B. Wittenberg, Devon A. Monaco
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Patent number: 10867566Abstract: A method for driving a display panel having plural pixel electrodes arranged in rows and columns is provided. The method includes: receiving display data in plural periods; converting the received display data into a source voltage signal for each of the pixel electrodes; and applying the respective source voltage signal to each of the pixel electrodes. Each of the periods includes plural frames consisting of plural non-skipped frames and at least one skip frame subsequent to the non-skipped frames. The polarity of the source voltage signal in the non-skipped frame directly preceding the skip frame of one period is opposite to the polarity of the source voltage signal in the non-skipped frame directly preceding the skip frame of subsequent period.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Yi-Chin Lee, Hsin-Wei Wu
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Patent number: 10838509Abstract: A portable computer has a host and a display screen. The host has an ergonomic keyboard. The ergonomic keyboard has a left-hand keypad, a right-hand keypad, a user proximal end and a user distal end. The left-hand keypad has a plurality of first key columns and a plurality of first key rows. The plurality of first key columns are in a first radial arrangement. The right-hand keypad has a plurality of second key columns and a plurality of second key rows. The plurality of second key columns are in a second radial arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Inventor: Xiguo Wang
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Patent number: 10831279Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for use in a vehicle, comprising determining a distance of a predetermined gesture from a reference location within a vehicle, and initiating an operation responsive to the gesture, wherein a mode of the operation is determined based upon the distance of the gesture from the reference location.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITEDInventors: Richard Powell, Urmila Mistry, Laura Millen
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Patent number: 10824117Abstract: An electronic device includes: a TFT liquid crystal panel; a light source that emits light to be radiated onto a back face of the TFT liquid crystal panel; and a processor that generates a common signal to be input to a common electrode of the TFT liquid crystal panel. The processor generates the common signal so as to have a waveform that differs between when the light source is not lit and when the light source is lit.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Eiji Yamakawa
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Patent number: 10810960Abstract: The present invention provides a display device (smartphone (3)) that realizes less power consumption for refreshing a video. The smartphone (3) includes: a host (2) configured to obtain image data which is to be supplied to an LCD panel (31); and a driver (32) configured to transmit, to the LCD panel (31), the image data so as to refresh a video which is displayed by the display panel, the driver (32) being configured to refresh a video, displayed on an extended region (312), at a refresh rate lower than that at which the driver (32) refreshes data displayed on a main region (311).Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takuya Matsuishi
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Patent number: 10802642Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a wearable device and method of controlling the same, the wearable device including a thermal sensing acquisition module for receiving a touch operation by a user and acquiring a thermal sensing distribution curve of the touch operation as a current thermal sensing distribution curve, a thermal sensing processing module for determining a function corresponding to the current thermal sensing distribution curve as a current function based on the current thermal sensing distribution curve and preset corresponding relationships between thermal sensing distribution curves and functions, an instruction generating module for generating an invoking control instruction corresponding to the current function according to the current function, and an execution module for executing the invoking control instruction to perform the current function.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTDInventor: Zicheng Huang
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Patent number: 10796620Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes multiple pixel units. In each of the pixel units, the area of an opening region of at least one sub-pixel is different from the area of an opening region of other sub-pixels. There is an adjustment capacitance between the drain of the thin film transistor and/or the first electrode in each sub-pixel and the scan line corresponding to the sub-pixel, and the sub-pixel having a smaller area of the opening region corresponds to a smaller value of the adjustment capacitance. By adjusting the value of the adjustment capacitance corresponding to the sub-pixels with different areas of opening regions, the optimal Vcom of all the sub-pixels is the same, so that all the sub-pixels operate under the same optimal Vcom.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Huangyao Wu, Donghua Li, Xiufeng Zhou, Poping Shen
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Patent number: 10788943Abstract: Provided is a technique of preventing a decrease in touch detection sensitivity even in the case where an air layer is present between electrodes for touch detection in a mutual capacitance touch panel-equipped display device. A touch panel-equipped display device 1 includes: a substrate 11; a plurality of first electrodes Rx spaced from each other on the substrate 11; a second electrode Tx located around or inside the plurality of first electrodes Rx on the substrate 11, to form a capacitance with each of the first electrodes; and a translucent cover portion C facing the substrate 11. Each of the first electrodes Tx or the second electrode Rx is in contact with the cover portion C, and an air layer AG is interposed between the substrate 11 and the cover portion C in a region in which an electrode not in contact with the cover portion C is located.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Aoki, Shinichi Miyazaki, Takatoshi Kira, Mikihiro Noma
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Patent number: 10788911Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a central display portion and a first edge display portion extending from the central display portion and including a first bent region. A pressure detection module overlaps the first edge and includes a first sensing electrode and a second sensing electrode which extend in different directions. A bump member is in direct contact with the pressure detection module. The bump member includes a plurality of first protruding patterns, each of which overlaps a node defined as a region in which the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrode cross.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Won Ki Hong, Tae Hee Lee, Won Sang Park
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Patent number: 10768761Abstract: A detection device includes a first substrate including a first region, a second region and a third region, the second region arranged between the first region and the third region; a detection electrode arranged on the first substrate; a first electrode coupled to the detection electrode, continuously formed from the first region to the third region in a first direction on the first substrate, and including a plurality of concave portions in the second region; and a protective layer formed on the first electrode in the first region, wherein the protective layer is formed on a first one of the concave portions in the second region, wherein the protective film is not formed on a second one of the concave portions in the second region, the second one of the concave portions is arranged nearer to the third region than the first one of the concave portions.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Daisuke Sonoda, Toshimasa Ishigaki
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Patent number: 10768762Abstract: A method and related processing system and input device are disclosed, the method comprising driving a first capacitive sensing signal with first sensing frequency onto a first group of a plurality of sensor electrodes, and acquiring first capacitive measurements of resulting signals received by a second group of the plurality of sensor electrodes. Acquiring first capacitive measurements comprises applying a first demodulation signal with a predefined first mixing period defined within a sensing period associated with the first sensing frequency. The method further comprises driving a second capacitive sensing signal having a second sensing frequency different than the first sensing frequency onto a third group of the plurality of sensor electrodes, and acquiring second capacitive measurements of resulting signals received by a fourth group of the plurality of sensor electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATEDInventors: Eric Scott Bohannon, Marshall J. Bell, Jr.
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Patent number: 10761718Abstract: For the purpose of improving the usability of an electronic whiteboard in, for example, setting work by a user, an electronic whiteboard (2) of the present invention includes: an event acquisition unit (22, 24) configured to acquire information indicating an object coming into contact with a display (3, 115) and event information such as the coordinates of a contact location; an identifying unit (25, 38) configured to identify whether the contact object is an electronic pen (4) or a user's hand, and identify the event type, such as stroke drawing, UI operation, or gesture operation, from the coordinates of a contact location and the model name of an electronic whiteboard; and a processing unit (26, 27, 32) configured to perform processing on the event the type of which has been identified.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Shigeru Nakamura, Yuichi Kawasaki
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Patent number: 10748440Abstract: A projectorless simulator that includes an adjustable frame is disclosed. The adjustable frame defines an interior volume, and is adjustable in width and height to allow a shape of the interior volume to be varied. A chromakey screen is coupled to the adjustable frame to at least partially enclose the interior volume. A plurality of lights is mounted with respect to the adjustable frame. The plurality of lights is configured to emit light in a direction toward the chromakey screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: Joshua D. Kitain, O'Shae M. Bridges, Nolan Lucht, David J. Macannuco, Adam R. Breed
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Patent number: 10726769Abstract: An object is to provide a technique capable of suppressing a power consumption of an LED. An LED display device includes voltage supply parts, which can supply a multiple types of voltages being different from each other and a driver which drives an LED display using the multiple types of voltages. The driver switches a combination of an LED array in a lighting target group which is one of the plurality of groups being subject to lighting-up and the multiple types of voltages which should be supplied in parallel with the LED array, under a time sharing control, and turns on some LEDs, which should be turned on by the voltages which should be supplied to the LED array, in the plurality of LEDs included in the LED array in the lighting target group.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2016Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Yoneoka, Shigenori Shibue, Yoshinori Asamura