Patents Examined by Ilana Spar
  • Patent number: 9830859
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, a display panel and a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Di Wang, Hao Zhang, Lingyun Shi, Xue Dong
  • Patent number: 9830070
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a request receiving unit configured to receive a deactivation request signal to deactivate touch input signals; an area distinguishing unit configured to divide a display area of the display apparatus into a first area and a second area; a mode determining unit configured to determine whether an operation mode of the display apparatus is a motion picture playback mode; and an input receiving unit configured to process touch operations based on the association from the area distinguishing unit, the operation mode of the display apparatus, and the deactivation request signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sukjae Park
  • Patent number: 9830868
    Abstract: A display device including a first common electrode, an active device array substrate, a display medium layer and a power system is provided. The active device array substrate includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of transistors, a plurality of pixel electrodes and a second common electrode. Each of the transistors is electrically connected to one scan line and one data line, and the pixel electrodes are electrically connected to the transistors, respectively. The second common electrode and the pixel electrodes form a plurality of storage capacitors. The display medium layer is disposed between the first common electrode and the active device array substrate. The power system is electrically connected to the first common electrode and the second common electrode through two separated conductive routes, respectively. A reset method of a display device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Ya-Wen Lin, Yi-Ming Wu, Pei-Lin Huang
  • Patent number: 9824660
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a timing controller which receives a first image signal and a first control signal from an external device and outputs a second image signal and a second control signal, and a data driving part including a plurality of source integrated circuits (“IC”s) having different channel numbers based on a distance thereof from the timing controller, in which the data driving part receives the second image signal and the second control signal and outputs a third image signal and a third control signal to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Won Park, Bong-Hyun You
  • Patent number: 9823765
    Abstract: A touch sensor integrated type display device includes gate lines and data lines disposed to cross over each other, pixel electrodes respectively disposed in areas defined by the crossing of the gate lines and the data lines in an active area, 1-1 electrodes arranged in at least two rows and at least two columns in the active area, 1-2 electrodes positioned outside the 1-1 electrodes and extending from the active area to a bezel area, and first routing wires respectively connected to the 1-1 and 1-2 electrodes and arranged in parallel. Each gate line extends from the active area to the bezel area on opposite sides of the active area, and each data line extends from the active area to the bezel area on opposite sides of the active area crossing the gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaegyun Lee, Jihyun Jung, Sangkyu Kim, Seungrok Shin, Jeonghoon Lee
  • Patent number: 9817517
    Abstract: A touch device includes a first touch input receiving a touch and a second touch input acquiring a capacitance which occurs when the touch is inputted to the first touch input. A controller is configured to detect the touch inputted to the first touch input and to detect the acquired capacitance. The controller change touch sensitivity of the first touch input according to the detected capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Sung Un Kim
  • Patent number: 9812067
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device, including a display unit including a plurality of pixels each having an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), a controller configured to accumulate image data of each frame and to generate compensated image data using a degradation compensation method determined, based on the accumulated image data, to compensate for the degradation of the OLED of each of the pixels, and a data driver configured to generate a data voltage according to the compensated image data and to provide the data voltage to the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Su Min Yang, Sung Hoon Bang, Young Wook Yoo
  • Patent number: 9811177
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an electronic writing device comprising an image data specifying portion and a transmission control portion. The image data specifying portion configured to, in a case where a writing determining portion determines that the writing action has been performed, and further a entry determining portion determines that either one of a first storage instruction entry column included in a first page and a second storage instruction entry column included in a second page has been filled in, specify the image data in response to an entry mode in the either one of the storage instruction entry columns as a storage target in an external storage device. The transmission control portion controls a communication device triggered by the entry determining portion detecting entry in the storage instruction entry column to perform transmission for storing the image data specified as the storage target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nako Yoshimura, Yoshihiko Sugimura
  • Patent number: 9805692
    Abstract: In a method of interference avoidance for a capacitive sensor device, a transmitter signal is transmitted with a transmitter electrode of the capacitive sensor device. A resulting signal is received with a receiver electrode of the capacitive sensor device. The resulting signal corresponds to the transmitter signal. A first demodulated output is acquired by demodulating the resulting signal in a first way. A second demodulated output is acquired by demodulating the resulting signal in a second way, where the second way and the first way differ. A shift is made from using the first demodulated output for determining positional information to using the second demodulated output for determining positional information. The shift is based at least in part upon an amount of interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Shahrooz Shahparnia, Adam Schwartz, Joel Jordan
  • Patent number: 9804773
    Abstract: The disclosure is a method and device for drawing a figure in correspondence to an input made with a first input tool and a second input tool to the terminal including an input unit capable of detecting physical touch and electrical input according to the present invention includes detecting a touch input made with the first and second input tools to the input unit; displaying at least one line movable according to contact points of the detected input on a display unit of the terminal; receiving a selection command based on the electrical input made with at least one of the first and second input tools; and displaying one of the at least one line as the line of which at least one of length and direction is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaemyoung Lee, Saegee Oh, Jinyoung Jeon, Hyunmi Park
  • Patent number: 9804703
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a touch input device includes a cover layer; a touch sensor; a display panel which is located under the cover layer; a pressure electrode which is located under the display panel; and a first converter which converts a signal comprising information for electrical characteristics outputted from the pressure electrode to a digital signal; wherein a driving signal is applied to the touch sensor and a touch position is detected from a sensing signal which is outputted from the touch sensor; and wherein a magnitude of a touch pressure is detected from the digital signal converted by the first converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: HIDEEP INC.
    Inventors: Bonkee Kim, Seyeob Kim, Sangsic Yoon, Sunyoung Kwon, Hojun Moon, Taehoon Kim
  • Patent number: 9804686
    Abstract: A Head Mount Display (HMD) and a method for controlling the HMD are disclosed. The method includes detecting an external device in an image captured by the HMD, recognizing at least one component from a first User Interface (UI) of the external device, the at least one component including a keypad or a window for outputting data corresponding to an input signal to the keypad, generating a second UI including the recognized at least one component, displaying the second UI in the HMD, wherein the at least one component of the first UI being displayed on the external device is overlaid with the displayed second UI using the image from which the external device is detected, and displaying data corresponding to an input signal currently received at the external device on the second UI in the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Hyorim Park
  • Patent number: 9799267
    Abstract: Provided is an active matrix display device using an organic EL panel including: a plurality of pixel circuits each including an organic light emitting diode arranged in a pixel region of the organic EL panel and a plurality of transistors configured to drive the organic light emitting diode; a plurality of scanning lines arranged along a first direction in the organic EL panel; and a plurality of data lines arranged along a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. In at least one set of pixel circuits that are adjacent in the first direction, gate electrodes and impurity diffusion regions of the plurality of transistors have an axisymmetric layout. Gate electrodes of at least one set of transistors that are symmetrically arranged in the at least one set of pixel circuits are integrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Nomura
  • Patent number: 9787975
    Abstract: A method of displaying a stereoscopic image includes outputting a left-eye image to a first and a second display block of a display panel during an N-th frame. Light is provided to the first display block during a first period of the N-th frame and light is provided to the second display block during a second period of the N-th frame. A right-eye image is output to the first and second display blocks of the display panel during an M-th frame. Light is provided to the first display block during a first period of the M-th frame and light is provided light to the second display block during a second period of the M-th frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nam-Hee Goo, Byoung-Jun Lee, Yun-Jae Kim, Myoung-Chul Kim, Jae-Ho Choi, Bo-Ram Kim, Ji-Woong Kim, Jong-Yoon Lee
  • Patent number: 9785277
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, the touch drive device includes a plurality of drive electrodes arranged side by side to extend in a single direction, a detection electrode which extends in a direction crossing the direction in which the drive electrodes extend, and generates capacitances at intersections of the detection electrode and the drive electrodes, and a driver (DDI) which groups the drive electrodes into a plurality of drive electrode portions each including at least one drive electrode, and performs a touch scanning drive by supplying a touch drive signal (TSVCOM) having a pulse waveform for detection of a closely situated external object to a target drive electrode portion which is a selected one of the drive electrode portions. The number of the drive electrodes included in each of the drive electrode portions and the target drive electrode portion to which the touch drive signal (TSVCOM) is supplied can be designated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kohei Azumi, Hidetoshi Komatsu, Jin Ota, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Makoto Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9785228
    Abstract: An NUI system to provide user input to a computer system. The NUI system includes a logic machine and an instruction-storage machine. The instruction-storage machine holds instructions that, when executed by the logic machine, cause the logic machine to detect an engagement gesture from a human subject or to compute an engagement metric reflecting the degree of the subject's engagement. The instructions also cause the logic machine to direct gesture-based user input from the subject to the computer system as soon as the engagement gesture is detected or the engagement metric exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Schwesinger, Eduardo Escardo Raffo, Oscar Murillo, David Bastien, Matthew H. Ahn, Mauro Giusti, Kevin Endres, Christian Klein, Julia Schwarz, Charles Claudius Marais
  • Patent number: 9785396
    Abstract: A mobile device includes a main body, a display secured to the main body, and at least one refractor integrated with the display. The main body includes a storage device, a controller, and a switch unit coupled to the controller. A video content is stored in the storage device, and a switch unit is used to open or close the controller. The at least one refractor is used to define at least one projection region. When the controller is opened by the switch unit, the video content is divided into a plurality of video segments to be played on the display and the at least one projection region, and when the controller is closed by the switch unit, the video content is displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., HON HAI PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu Liang
  • Patent number: 9778788
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a plurality of pixel circuits arrayed two-dimensionally. Each of the pixel circuits comprises a display element and a pixel memory configured to store a signal to drive the display element. An X-directional driver and a Y-directional driver can select arbitrary pixel circuits and drive the pixel circuits. A touch panel controller converts a sensing output of a touch-type input panel to coordinate data. A display controller receives the coordinate data and partially rewrites the coordinate data in units of pixel circuits of the display device via the X-directional driver and the Y-directional driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9778742
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods of glove touch detection are described. One method performs a first scan to detect an object proximate to a sense array. The first scan comprises a first sensitivity parameter. The method compares touch data from the first scan against a plurality of thresholds. The method performs a second scan to detect a touch event when the first scan's touch data exceeds a glove saturation threshold of the plurality of thresholds. The second scan comprising a second sensitivity parameter that is different than the first sensitivity parameter. The method reports a glove touch event when the first scan's touch data does not exceed the glove saturation threshold and exceeds a glove-reporting threshold of the plurality of thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daniel Tate, Andriy Yarosh, Oleh Slezinskyy
  • Patent number: 9772691
    Abstract: A mobile device has a user interface comprising a plurality of keys arranged in a plurality of groups. A processor is operatively coupled to the user input device to receive user input from the user input device and to identify which group of keys has received the user input. A display is operatively coupled to the processor for displaying characters corresponding to the keys of the group in response to the user input. The keys may have capacitive touch sensors with haptic feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Melecio Leano Mortel