Patents Examined by Ifedayo Iluyomade
  • Patent number: 9983737
    Abstract: A projector includes: a display section that displays an image on a screen; a communicating section that communicates with an indicator that indicates a position on the screen; an acquiring section that acquires output destination information for specifying an output destination retained in the indicator through the communicating section; and an output control section that performs a control for outputting the image information to an output destination specified by the acquired output destination information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Natori
  • Patent number: 9978315
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a first light modulation device that includes a plurality of display pixels and modulates light based on input first image information; an illumination unit that includes a plurality of light adjustment elements and emits adjusted light to the first light modulation device; an illumination distribution storage unit that stores an illumination range in which the light emitted from the light adjustment elements illuminates the display pixels of the first light modulation device; and a light adjustment information decision unit that decides light adjustment information to control the light adjustment elements of the illumination unit based on a feature amount of the first image information corresponding to the display pixels of the illumination range stored in the illumination distribution storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koichi Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 9972228
    Abstract: An annular multi-surface display device includes: a display panel, with two opposite sides of the display panel being bent toward a back surface of a display area respectively and being sealed together, so that a cross section of the display panel which is obtained along a direction perpendicular to the two opposite sides forms a closed annular structure; where an outer surface of the display panel with the cross section being the closed annular structure is a tubular surface, and a display surface of the annular multi-surface display device is the outer surface of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiaheng Wang, Feng Bai, Jiuxia Yang, Jiantao Liu
  • Patent number: 9965128
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch sensing unit, a touch substrate and a method for producing the touch substrate, a touch display panel and a touch display apparatus. The sensing unit includes: at least one pair of first electrode and second electrode spaced apart from each other; at least one elastic base body in which pressure-sensitive conductive material is contained, the at least one elastic base body forcing the corresponding first electrode and second electrode in the at least one pair of first electrode and second electrode to be electrically connected with each other when it is deformed by a force; and a touch panel arranged at the side of the at least one elastic base body to which the force is applied. It may sense touch action of a finger by conductive property of pressure-sensitive conductive material to improve convenience of finger touching and multiple point touch performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xinxing Wang
  • Patent number: 9953557
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged along a row direction and a column direction. One pixel includes a set of sub-pixels including two sub-pixels that correspond to two colors complementary to each other and are arranged adjacent to each other along one of the row direction and the column direction, and two or more combinations of sub-pixels for outputting white light by combining adjacent sub-pixels are present for one sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yata, Takayuki Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 9927867
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing an image based on detected information are provided. The method includes obtaining information relating to properties of the image, property information related to the image; obtaining ambient environment information of a display device for displaying the image; and processing the image based on the property information and the ambient environment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jee-young Yeom, Min-Woo Lee, Jong-Ho Kim, Hyun-Hee Park, Hak-gyun Bae, Seul-ki Jang, Jeong-hoon Park
  • Patent number: 9898981
    Abstract: Provided herein is a liquid crystal driving apparatus and a liquid crystal display comprising the same, the liquid crystal driving apparatus including a gate driver configured to sequentially supply a basic scan pulse to gate lines for 2H period of time using a first clock signal (CPV1); and a data driver configured to supply a data voltage to liquid crystal cells, wherein the gate driver provides an additional scan pulse before or after the 2H period of time using a second clock signal (CPV2), the additional scan pulse being provided for a period of time overlapping a basic scan pulse being supplied to a neighboring gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Hydis Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ji-Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 9898037
    Abstract: An electronic device and a display method includes a main body apparatus with a processing unit that generates a first image and performs display control; a fixing apparatus connected with the main body apparatus, which maintains a relative location relationship between the electronic device and at least a part of body of a user; and a first display unit arranged on the main body apparatus and/or the fixing apparatus, which outputs the first image; wherein the first display unit comprises a first display component which displays the first image, and a first optical component which receives light corresponding to the first image emitted from the first display component, and changes the light path of the light corresponding to the first image to form a magnified virtual image corresponding to the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang He, Junfeng Liu, Weidong Wei
  • Patent number: 9880668
    Abstract: A method for identifying input information, an apparatus for identifying input information and an electronic device are provided. The method for identifying input information is applied to an electronic device. The electronic device includes a first panel and a second panel, and further includes a collimated light generator arranged on the first panel and two or more optical detection devices arranged on the first panel. In the method, firstly an information input operation is acquired; then a variation of shadow of the information input operation blocking collimated light beams generated by the collimated light generator is acquired via the optical detection device; and the input information corresponding to the information input operation is acquired according to the variation of shadow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiang Shao
  • Patent number: 9848183
    Abstract: A display system is configured to display a stereoscopic three dimensional relief effect in aerial space from a two dimensional image source. The display system has a reflector, having a generalized cylindrical concave surface. The two dimensional image source is arranged between the first side and the second side facing the generalized cylindrical concave surface. The reflector reflects light from the two dimensional image source outward as an aerial image. The aerial image exhibits the stereoscopic three dimensional relief effect. A support structure is operably connected to the reflector and the two dimensional image source. The reflector and the two dimensional image source are adapted to be individually rotated and tilted relative to one another while their position is physically secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Inventor: Roger William Holden
  • Patent number: 9842556
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display unit and a driver unit. The driver unit includes a display drive unit, a power supply unit and a control unit. The control unit instructs a display period in which the image is displayed in the display unit and a non-display period in which the image is not displayed to the display drive unit, and instructs mitigation driving which mitigates a difference in an electrical load of the display drive unit between the display period and the non-display period to the power supply unit in the non-display period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Ota, Hidetoshi Komatsu, Ryutaro Nitobe, Nobuhiko Yokoo
  • Patent number: 9841812
    Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing device is provided. The information processing device includes at least one electrode configured to generate at least one signal related to eye blinking of a subject; and a processing circuit configured to receive the at least one signal and detect eye blinking of the subject based on the at least one signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Kitazawa, Seiji Wada, Kota Aizawa, Yutaka Fukuyama
  • Patent number: 9836156
    Abstract: An in-cell touch panel and a display device are provided. The in-cell touch panel includes an array substrate (100) and a counter substrate (200), with a black matrix pattern (210) provided on the array substrate (100) or the counter substrate (200). A common electrode layer (110) of the array substrate (100) includes a plurality of first touch electrodes (111) and a plurality of common electrodes (112) that are insulated from each other; the counter substrate (200) comprises a plurality of second touch electrodes (220), projections of the second touch electrodes (220) on the array substrate (100) lie within regions where the common electrodes (112) are located. Regions of the first touch electrodes (111) corresponding to the black matrix pattern (210) protrude toward the counter substrate (200) entirely or in part, and/or regions of the second touch electrodes (220) corresponding to the black matrix pattern (210) protrude toward the array substrate (100) entirely or in part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingming Liu, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Shengji Yang, Chunlei Wang, Liguang Deng, Yafeng Duan
  • Patent number: 9830003
    Abstract: Ring button devices and systems are disclosed herein. In one example, an electronic stylus is provided. The stylus includes a shaft, a circuit positioned within the shaft, a ring button positioned around an axis of the shaft, and a ring button sensor positioned within the shaft and connected to the circuit. The ring button is configured to contact the ring button sensor to activate a function of the stylus or a function of an electronic device in communication with the stylus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Large, Kurt A. Jenkins
  • Patent number: 9830860
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display includes: a display panel including pixels at crossing regions of data lines and scan lines; a scan driver configured to divide one frame into a plurality of sub-fields, to divide each of the subfields into p (p is a positive integer of 2 or more) periods, and to supply scan signals to the scan lines; and a data driver configured to supply data voltages to the data lines concurrently with supply of respective scan signals, wherein a gray scale voltage from among (P+1) gray scale voltages is supplied as at least one of the data voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hai-Jung In, Yong-Sung Park, Il-Hun Jeong
  • Patent number: 9823802
    Abstract: An array pressure sensing imaging device is provided. The array pressure-sensing imaging device includes a flexible surface sensing layer, a pressure sensing layer, a three-dimensional pressure sensing layer, a pressure adjustment layer laminated in a sequence and communicatively connected to a control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yangkun Jing, Xing Wu
  • Patent number: 9817628
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display system including a first display terminal and a second display terminal. The first display terminal includes a first display unit, an acquiring unit configured to acquire information indicating display content which are being displayed by the first display unit, and a sending unit configured to send the information indicating the display content acquired by the acquiring unit to the second display terminal which is communicatably connected to the first display terminal. The second display terminal includes a second display unit, a receiving unit configured to receive the information indicating the display content which is sent from the first display terminal, and a control unit configured to control the second display unit to display relevant information which is related to the display content of the first display unit based on the information indicating the display content received by the receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadahiro Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 9811163
    Abstract: A device including an elastic layer that, when depressed by an object, causes a local indentation in the layer, the geometry of the local indentation being in accordance with a force of depression, light emitters, light detectors, a light guide between the emitters and the layer directing light beams from the emitters into the layer at an angle such that the light beams, after entering the layer, remain confined to the layer by total internal reflection, a light guide between the detectors and the layer that directs light beams exiting the layer onto the detectors, each detector having a reference output value corresponding to expected light detection when no object is touching the layer, and a processor determining the object's force of depression based on the geometry of the local indentation in the layer, as calibrated by a deviation between actual and reference output values for one of the detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Neonode Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Eriksson, Michael Lawrence Elyan
  • Patent number: 9785264
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a touch controller includes a touch frame processing component adapted to receive sensor signals containing information about a touch point on a touch screen. The touch frame processing component processes the sensor signals to generate touch information associated with each touch point. A touch coordinate processing component is coupled to receive touch information from the touch frame processing component and includes virtual area parameters that define a plurality of virtual areas on the touch screen. The touch coordinate processing component is operable to identify which one of the plurality of virtual areas contains the current touch point and to report or filter the current touch point as a function of the identified virtual area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
    Inventor: Maria Rhea Santos
  • Patent number: 9784978
    Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a shell, a display generation unit, a processing unit, at least one pressure sensor, and a linkage mechanism. The display generation unit includes at least an optical engine and a mirror connected to the optical engine. The processing unit is electrically connected to the optical engine and the pressure sensor, and the pressure sensor detects an external force applied to the shell and outputs a pressure signal to the processing unit. The linkage mechanism is electrically connected to the processing unit and connected to the display generation unit. The processing unit actuates the linkage mechanism to cause the mirror of the display generation unit to move away from the user's face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Chwen-Tay Hwang, Chi-Wu Hsiao, Chun-Li Lu, Chih-Lung Chen