Patents Examined by Ilana Spar
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Patent number: 9904409Abstract: A method and electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a first touch sensor and a processor. The processor implements the method, which includes detecting, via a first touch sensor of the electronic device, sensor information from a touch object, determining, via a processor of the electronic device, a state of the touch object based on analysis of the detected sensor information, and adjusting a touch sensitivity for the electronic device according to the determined state of the object.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sung Jun Lee, Min Jung Kim, Won Huh
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Patent number: 9898661Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a method for storing data include an object storing unit for storing at least one target object set in advance; an image pick-up unit for picking up a first image; a recognizing unit for determining whether one or more of target objects appear in the first image and generating a first recognition result; an image storing unit for storing the first image in which the target object appears as object image of the target object for each target object; a receiving unit for receiving an input from a user; a first acquiring unit for determining the target object indicated by a search input, and acquiring object image corresponding to the target object indicated by the search input; and a display unit for displaying the acquired object image.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Xinru Hou, Shifeng Peng, Zhenyi Yang
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Patent number: 9898152Abstract: A capacitive touch panel and a display device using the capacitive touch panel are provided. The capacitive touch panel includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a dielectric layer disposed between two layers. The first electrode layer has a plurality of first A electrode strings and first B electrode strings extended along a first direction. The first A electrode string and the first B electrode string respectively has a plurality of first direction electrodes. The second electrode layer has a plurality of second direction electrodes connected in series along a second direction. The first A and B electrode strings are disconnected in the first electrode layer while they are simultaneously detected for presence of signal variation.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2015Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Tun-Chun Yang, Seok-Lyul Lee, Chih-Jen Hu, Kuo-Hsing Cheng, Yao-Jen Hsieh, Mei-Sheng Ma, Hsin-Hung Lee, Yuan-Chun Wu, Chun-Huai Li
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Patent number: 9892687Abstract: The present invention provides an organic light-emitting diode (OLED). The OLED comprises a driving circuit having a power module and a regulation unit. The power module is used to input an initial voltage to the power input terminal of pixel-driving unit. The regulation unit regulates the initial voltage, which is outputted from the power input terminal, based on the real voltage of the power input terminal in the pixel-driving unit for equalizing the real voltage of the power input terminal to a predetermined voltage.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.Inventor: Hao Li
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Patent number: 9880653Abstract: A pressure-sensing touch system that utilizes total-internal reflection of light is disclosed. The touch system includes a transparent sheet having a surface. At least one light source and at least one detector are operably arranged relative to the transparent sheet respective to transmit light through the sheet and to detect the transmitted light. A touch event at the top surface of the transparent sheet causes light to scatter from the transparent sheet, thereby changing the amount of light received at the detector. Since the amount of scattered light generated at the touch event location is a function of the applied pressure at the touch event, the change in the detector signal is used to determine the relative amount of applied pressure. Embodiments that include multiple waveguides and channel waveguides, as well as force-sensing devices, are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Izhak Baharv, Jeffrey Stapleton King
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Patent number: 9880676Abstract: Electronic devices may include force sensitive sensors. The sensor may include a first layer of electrodes, a second layer of electrodes and a deformable dielectric material separating the first layer of electrodes and the second layer of electrodes. A conductive material may be disposed to negate capacitive effects between an object near to or touching the touch surface and the electrodes of the first layer and the electrodes of the second layer. A force applied to the sensor may be detected based at least in part on a change in capacitance between at least one electrode of first layer and at least one electrode of the second layer resulting from deformation of the deformable dielectric material. This disclosure also describes techniques for assembling electronic devices including these components.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Debanjan Mukherjee, Lakshman Rathnam, Omar Sze Leung
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Patent number: 9871082Abstract: An organic light emitting display integrated with a touch screen panel includes a first substrate, the first substrate having pixels and having signal lines coupled to the pixels, and a second substrate, the second substrate being on the first substrate to seal the first substrate, the second substrate having sensing electrodes of the touch screen panel on a surface thereof. The signal lines include first and second signal lines, the first and second signal lines being arranged in a direction that intersects the sensing electrodes, the first and second signal lines receiving different signals, respectively, and functioning as first and second driving electrodes of the touch screen panel.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2014Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Mu-Kyung Jeon
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Patent number: 9864127Abstract: Arrangement for use with a touchscreen, includes a substrate, such as an optically substantially transparent film or a film defining a through hole, the substrate including support electronics, such as printed electronics including a number of printed conductors, for providing power, control and/or communications connection to further electronic components, a number of emitters and detectors arranged on the substrate into contact with the support electronics, for emitting and detecting light, respectively, and a lightguide arranged onto the substrate such that the emitters and detectors, and optionally at least part of the support electronics, are substantially immersed in the lightguide material, the properties of the lightguide including the refractive index of the lightguide material being selected and the emitters and detectors being configured so as to enable, when in use, total internal reflection (TIR)-type propagation of light within the lightguide between the emitters and detectors and recognition ofType: GrantFiled: October 23, 2009Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: TACTOTEK OYInventors: Janne Aikio, Antti Keranen
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Patent number: 9865203Abstract: A display apparatus includes pixels. A first pixel group of the pixels displays a first grayscale image on the basis of a first gamma curve during three sub-frame periods among consecutive first to fourth sub-frame periods and displays a second grayscale image based on of a second gamma curve during a remaining one sub-frame period of the first to fourth sub-frame periods. A second pixel group of the pixels displays a third grayscale image based on the first gamma curve during three sub-frame periods among the first to fourth sub-frame periods and displays a fourth grayscale image based on the second gamma curve during a remaining one sub-frame period of the first to fourth sub-frame periods. A sub-frame period in which the first pixel group displays the second grayscale image is different from a sub-frame period in which the second pixel group displays the fourth grayscale image.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jung-won Kim
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Patent number: 9858855Abstract: A wearable display device comprises: a set of position sensors, wherein the position sensors provide positioning data that describe a physical three-dimensional orientation of the wearable display device in real time; an exterior display surface that comprises a continuous display with a dynamically adjusted display region; and a video display controller, wherein the video display controller displays a video content on the region directed to the user's eyes on the dynamically adjusted display region based on the physical three-dimensional orientation of the wearable display device.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ilse M. Breedvelt-Schouten, Jana H. Jenkins, Jeffrey A. Kusnitz, James L. Lentz
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Patent number: 9858861Abstract: A method of driving a display device with a plurality of pixels including a video signal wire, a first power supply wire supplied with a first potential, a second power supply wire supplied with a second potential different to the first potential, a light emitting element arranged between the first power supply wire and the second power supply wire, a drive transistor controlling a value of a current supplied to the light emitting element, and a switch arranged between the video signal wire and the drive transistor, and inputting a signal of the video signal wire to a gate terminal of the drive transistor, wherein a minimum gradation level potential is supplied to the video signal wire after a video signal is written to the capacitor of an Nth row pixel until a video signal is written to the capacitor of an Mth (N<M) row pixel.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2016Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yutaka Umeda, Duzen Peng, Ilin Wu, Makoto Shibusawa, Hiroyuki Kimura
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Patent number: 9857863Abstract: A display apparatus includes an image display unit that enables a user to visually recognize an image and transmits external scenery therethrough, a first battery, a second battery, a communication unit, and a control unit that switches a power source between the first battery and the second battery. The control unit causes an operation mode of the display apparatus to transition from a normal operation mode to a battery replacement mode in which power consumption of the image display unit and the communication unit is lower than that in the normal operation mode in a case where the power source is changed from the first battery to the second battery. The communication unit is maintained in a communicable state in the battery replacement mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9852683Abstract: A display and a sub-pixel driving method therein are provided. The display includes a data line and a sub-pixel. The data line is configured to provide a data voltage signal. The sub-pixel includes a driving unit, a first light-emitting unit and a second light-emitting unit. The driving unit is configured to generate a driving current according to the data voltage signal. The first light-emitting unit is configured to emit light by the driving current and generate an operating voltage according to the driving current. The second light-emitting unit is selectively substituted for the first light-emitting unit to emit light according to a variation of the operating voltage.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventor: Yi-Cheng Liu
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Patent number: 9851849Abstract: A system for data communication between a plurality of touch devices is disclosed. The system can include a first touch device having a first touch surface, and at least one other touch device having at least one other touch surface. The first touch device and the at least one other touch device can include a touch controller detecting communications coupling between the first touch surface and the least one other touch surface. The first touch device and the at least one other touch device can include a communication unit communicating data between the first touch device and the at least one other touch device, via the first touch surface and the at least one other touch surface, when the communications coupling is detected. The communications coupling can be detected when a coupling conduit contacts, or is proximate to, the first touch surface and at least one other touch surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2010Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christoph Horst Krah, Steven Porter Hotelling
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Patent number: 9846503Abstract: The touch driver circuit comprises a photosensor module, a data writing module, a driver module, and a control module. The data writing module transmits a scan signal at a scan signal terminal to the driver module under the control of the scan signal terminal. When the scan signal drives the driver module to turn on, the driver module outputs a touch sensing signal to the control module; the touch sensing signal decreases with the increase of an intensity of light irradiated on the photosensor module. Under the control of the control signal, the control module outputs the touch sensing signal output by the driver module to the touch signal sensing terminal, thereby realizing the touch sensing function.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2013Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Leisen Nie, Xiaojing Qi, Quanguo Zhou
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Patent number: 9846494Abstract: An information processing device, such as a tablet computer or a smartphone, executes diverse processes by an intuitive operation combining a stylus pen and a finger in an input operation of information for performing the startup of an application program, the search for or editing of information, or the like. The information processing device is provided with an information input control program that identifies a first input such as a stylus pen and a second input such as a finger, identifies information input by the first input, recognizes a region designated by the second input, and from the information identified in the recognized region, executes a predetermined process that starts an application program, or searches for or edits information. It is possible to execute diverse processes an intuitive operation using two inputs.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2013Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: UEI CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuro Masuda, Makoto Kondo, Hidemi Tsuji, Makoto Hamatsu
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Patent number: 9842554Abstract: The present disclosure provides driving circuit used to a liquid crystal display, which includes a boost module, a power management module, a power detection module and a micro controller unit, the power management module is connected to the boost module and the micro controller unit, the boost module, the power detection module and the micro controller unit are connected in sequence, the power detection module detects an output power of the boost module, and the micro controller unit switches a working mode of the boost module according to the output power. The driving circuit of the present disclosure may select different working modes according to a magnitude of the output power, so as to distribute the power and increase the efficiency, thus it may effectively solve the problem of lower efficiency and higher temperature of the component under the high power condition.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventors: Dan Cao, Xianming Zhang
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Patent number: 9836168Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes a controller, touch wiring that supplies a touch drive signal to drive electrodes, and a plurality of switch groups that are provided for each of the drive electrodes, each of the plurality of switch groups having selection switches. The plurality of switch groups select a drive electrode to be coupled to a touch wiring based on a selection signal from the controller. The selection switches for each of the plurality of switch groups are coupled in parallel with each other between a corresponding drive electrode and the touch wiring, and for each of the drive electrodes, all of the selection switches operate in accordance with the selection signal, couple the corresponding drive electrodes and the touch wiring, and apply the touch drive signal to the corresponding drive electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2014Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Toshiaki Fukushima
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Patent number: 9837037Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes comparing a previous line data and a present line data to generate a charge sharing enable (EQ) signal indicating whether or not a charge sharing is to be applied to a pixel; selectively applying the charge sharing to the present line data utilizing a charge sharing voltage according to the EQ signal to generate a data voltage; and outputting the data voltage to the pixel.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun Sik Hwang, Bong-Im Park, Ik Hyun Ahn, Won-Sik Oh, Yoon-Gu Kim, Ho-Seok Son, Young-Woo Choi
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Patent number: 9837020Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for power control in an Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display device are described. In an embodiment, a method includes monitoring a level of current draw from an Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display device. The method may also include comparing the level of current draw to a threshold value. Additionally, a method may include throttling system power consumption in response to the level of current draw exceeding the threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Lawrence Edward Knepper, Deeder M. Aurongzeb