Patents Examined by Ifedayo Iluyomade
  • Patent number: 9250747
    Abstract: A touchless input device has image sensors on the side of a surface to capture the positions and movement of fingers or any visible objects working near or on the surface. Embodiments include touchless data entry keyboards, touchless pointing devices, and touchless screens. It provides better performance, finer resolution, and more clearly defined action space than infrared beam based touchless input devices. In particular, one embodiment merges the space for data entry and the space for cursor movement into one and reduces the number of devices and working space needed by users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Inventor: Yong Yan
  • Patent number: 9244567
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a display processor and a controller. The display processor is configured to display an object on a touch screen display. The object includes a first line segment and a second line segment which is not parallel to the first line segment. The controller is configured to acquire first positional data from a first trace of the first line segment on the touch screen and second positional data from a second trace of the second line segment on the touch screen. The controller is further configured to set a correction value for correcting a deviation between a display position of traces and a detection position of a touch input on the touch screen display, by using the first and second positional data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shigeru Motoi, Toshiya Takano
  • Patent number: 9239650
    Abstract: A curved touch display apparatus for providing tactile feedback is provided. The curved touch display comprises a curved screen, in which an image is displayed; and a projector including an infrared irradiator for irradiating infrared rays to the curved screen. An infrared camera photographs an infrared image reflected from the curved screen. An ultrasonic wave array module includes a plurality of ultrasonic wave generators which generate airborne ultrasonic waves. A controller determines a touched point on the curved screen based on the infrared image, and controls an operation of the ultrasonic wave array module to generate airborne ultrasonic waves directed to the touched point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Jong Bok Lee
  • Patent number: 9235267
    Abstract: Methods and systems for processing touch inputs are disclosed. The invention in one respect includes reading data from a multi-touch sensing device such as a multi-touch touch screen where the data pertains to touch input with respect to the multi-touch sensing device, and identifying at least one multi-touch gesture based on the data from the multi-touch sensing device and providing an appropriate multi-haptic response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bobby G. Burrough, Benjamin J. Pope
  • Patent number: 9225950
    Abstract: Disclosed are a device for user interaction with a combined projector and camera and a method and a device for user interaction for recognizing an actual object to augment relevant information on a surface or a periphery of the actual object. The device for user interaction, includes: at least one projector-camera pair in which a projector and a camera are paired; a motor mounted in the projector-camera pair and configured to control a location and a direction of the projector-camera pair; and a body including a computer capable of including a wireless network and configured to provide connection with an external device, and a projection space and a photographing space of the projector-camera pair overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Joo Haeng Lee, Hyun Kim, Hyoung Sun Kim
  • Patent number: 9218561
    Abstract: The examples describe the integration of a RFID tag with a touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventor: Esat Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 9214129
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels each of which is connected to a corresponding gate line of a plurality of gate lines and a corresponding data line of a plurality of data lines, the plurality of data lines crossing the plurality of gate lines. The display apparatus also includes a control signal generator configured to generate a plurality of control signals in response to a date enable signal, a gate driver configured to drive the gate lines in response to at least one control signal among the plurality of control signals, a data driver configured to drive the plurality of data lines, and a timing controller configured to control the data driver in response to at least one received image signal and at least one received image control signal, and apply the data enable signal to the control signal generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong-Young Kim, BumJin Kim, Young-Joo Nam, Hyungbo Shim
  • Patent number: 9214506
    Abstract: A pixel unit driving circuit provides a method for driving a pixel unit for operating a display device. The circuit comprises four TFT transistors and two capacitors. The display process is divided into three processes, which are a pre-charging phase, a compensation phase and a display phase. As compared with the conventional pixel structure, the nonuniformity and the shift of the threshold voltage of the depleted TFT or the enhanced TFT driving transistor, and the nonuniformity of the OLED voltage may be effectively compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hongjun Xie
  • Patent number: 9213450
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, and a transparent conductive layer disposed on the second surface of the substrate. The transparent conductive layer is disposed in a pattern so that the transparent conductive layer includes a plurality of discrete conductive pads, with the pads being conductively connected to at least one connecting region of the substrate via respective conductive traces. The pads are associated with respective buttons of a display device disposed at the substrate, such that the user may touch or approach the substrate and pads at selected areas in response to the displayed buttons as viewed by the user through the pads and substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Scott C. Ippel
  • Patent number: 9190000
    Abstract: A driving method for liquid crystal display (LCD) panel includes the following steps: A. sending feedback signals to a monitoring module before timing control modules (T-CONs) sends driving signals to drive display of the LCD panel; B. generating control signals when the monitoring module receives the feedback signal of each of the T-CONs, and then simultaneously sending the control signals to each of the T-CONs; C. sending a driving signal to drive display of the LCD panel when each of the T-CONs receives the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Inventors: Xiaoping Tan, Yong Zhang, Jiehui Qin
  • Patent number: 9183780
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display includes a display panel including data lines, gate lines crossing the data lines, and pixels and a panel driving circuit which supplies a data voltage to the pixels of the display panel during a power-on period and then is additionally driven for a predetermined power-on delay duration time delayed from a power-off start time of a power input signal. The panel driving circuit supplies a reverse polarity recovery voltage having a polarity opposite the data voltage to the pixels or supplies a recovery voltage, which is different from a gate voltage of a driving element of each of the pixels, to a source terminal of the driving element of each pixel for the predetermined power-on delay duration time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungtae Kim, Byungchul Ahn, Joonyoung Kim, Joongsun Yoon
  • Patent number: 9182855
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a touch sensitivity of a touch sensor in a portable terminal and an apparatus thereof are provided. The method includes measuring a permittivity of an object located within a preset distance by a grip sensor disposed at a rear portion of the portable terminal when the touch sensor turned-on, and setting and adjusting a touch sensitivity corresponding to the measured permittivity of the object corresponding to the touch sensor of the portable terminal. The method adjusts the touch sensitivity of a touch sensor in a portable terminal according to a peripheral environment to improve the touch sensitivity of the touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myung Geun Koh, Yi Kyu Min, Kyung Goo Lee, Byoung Il Son
  • Patent number: 9176341
    Abstract: A transmissive-type display device having a display area which is sequentially scanned; and a lighting device arranged on a rear face of the display device, including lighting units arranged so as to be aligned in a direction from one toward the other end portion side along a direction in which the display area is sequentially scanned. The lighting units are in a light emitting state over a light emitting period after sequential scanning of display units including portions of the display area corresponding to the lighting units is completed, and the lighting units are sequentially scanned from one toward the other end portion side in accordance with the sequential scanning of the display area. A length of waiting time from the completion of sequential scanning of the display unit until the corresponding lighting unit emits light is nonlinearly decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro Kuwayama, Satoshi Tomioka, Ryo Miyao, Yutaka Imai
  • Patent number: 9171503
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display, a method for driving the same, and a method for manufacturing the same are discussed. The organic light emitting display according to an embodiment includes a panel including subpixels each having a compensation circuit including a reference voltage supply transistor, which receives a reference voltage and initializes a node of a gate electrode of a driving transistor using the reference voltage, a scan driver supplying a scan signal to scan lines of the panel, a data driver supplying a data signal to data lines of the panel, a timing controller controlling the scan driver and the data driver, and a reference voltage compensation unit which varies the reference voltage on each scan line and supplies the reference voltage to the subpixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jihun Kim, Sangho Yu, Woojin Nam, Joongsun Yoon, Minkyu Chang
  • Patent number: 9165495
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a crosstalk compensation method and a display apparatus using the same. The method includes: configuring a compensation range with the compensation range set between the maximum gray level and the minimum gray level; establishing a look-up table to record compensation values for each gray level in the compensation range; determining whether the gray level of a first color sub-pixel on the display panel is set within the compensating range. When it is determined that the gray level of the first color sub-pixel is set within the compensation range selects a compensating value for configuring an initial gray level of an adjacent second color sub-pixel to a correction gray level. When it is determined that the gray level of the first color sub-pixel is set outside the compensation range, maintains the gray level of the second color sub-pixel at the initial gray level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo-Chin Tsuei, Yao-Lien Hsieh, Chih-Ting Chen
  • Patent number: 9164589
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are described including starting a gesture recognition engine in response to detecting an initiation gesture and using the gesture recognition engine to determine a hand posture and a hand trajectory in various depth images. The gesture recognition engine may then use the hand posture and the hand trajectory to recognize a dynamic hand gesture and provide corresponding user interface command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Tong, Dayong Ding, Wenlong Li
  • Patent number: 9158416
    Abstract: A light-based touch sensitive device, including a housing, a surface encased in the housing, a layer of elastic material above the surface, a plurality of light pulse emitters mounted in the housing, that transmit light pulses through the layer, a plurality of light pulse receivers mounted in the housing, that receive the light pulses transmitted through the layer, and a calculating unit, mounted in the housing and connected to the receivers, that determines a location of a pointer that touches the layer and creates an impression in the layer, based on outputs of the receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Neonode Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Eriksson, Michael Lawrence Elyan
  • Patent number: 9159297
    Abstract: An image-displaying device includes an image data generation section, a progress information acquisition section and a display control section. The image data generation section is configured to perform processing for generating image data indicative of an image of a subject based on output data from an image-capturing section that captures the image of the subject, the image data being composed of a plurality of predetermined data units. The progress information acquisition section is configured to acquire progress information indicative of a status of progress of the processing for generating the image data with respect to each of the predetermined data units of the image data. The display control section is configured to control the display section to display at least one of the predetermined data units of the image data for which the processing for generating the image data is ended based on the progress information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Ryuichi Shiohara
  • Patent number: 9134824
    Abstract: A touch sensing device includes a touch screen including Tx lines, Rx lines crossing the Tx lines, and touch sensors formed at crossings of the Tx lines and the Rx lines, a Tx driving circuit for supplying a driving signal to each of the Tx lines N times, where N is a positive integer equal to or greater than 2, and an Rx driving circuit for double sampling signals received through the Rx lines in one period of the driving signal. The Rx driving circuit includes a multiplexer which receives first and second signals and switches on or off a signal transmission path of the first and second signals, and an integrator which samples and integrates the first and second signals received from the multiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyeongwon Kang, Jaehun Jun
  • Patent number: 9135881
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel driver circuit includes a control circuit board, and an LCD panel. The LCD panel includes scan lines and data lines; the control circuit board includes a data driver module that drives the data lines. The LCD panel is configured with a switch module, and the data driver module is coupled to each of the data line via the switch module. The switch module is turned off before a drive of a last line of the scan line ends, and the switch module is turned on when a drive of the next row of the scan line starts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Inventors: Dongsheng Guo, Jiang Zhu