Patents Examined by Ilana Spar
  • Patent number: 9519145
    Abstract: A mobile device, system and method for controlling a heads-up display device is provided. A mobile device is in communication with a heads-up display (HUD) device. The mobile device is enabled to: transmit a portion of display data to the HUD device for display thereupon, rather than provide the portion to a display of the mobile device; and display a remaining portion of the display data at the display. The HUD device is enabled to: receive from the mobile device the display data for display at the HUD; display the data at the HUD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventor: Terrill Mark Dent
  • Patent number: 9514701
    Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes: selectively providing a resistance using resistor parts in response to address signals, where the resistor parts have resistances, respectively; and outputting common voltages to the display panel based on the selectively provided resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki-Hyun Pyun, Tong-Ill Kwak, Jong-Hyun Lee, Woon-Yong Lim, Eui-Myeong Cho
  • Patent number: 9513746
    Abstract: Provided is a touch sensitive display, for integration into an electronic device configured to function in a predetermined temperature range, comprising a display panel and an acoustic isolating means. The acoustic isolating means is configured and arranged such that it presents a damping ratio of 5% or less with a variation of this damping ratio of 2 percentage points or less in the predetermined temperature range. Also provided is a touch sensitive display comprising a display panel and an acoustic isolating means. The acoustic isolating means comprises an elastic material in a first region on the front side of the display panel, with the front main side of the display panel being the displaying side, and an elastic material in a second region on the back side of the display panel and a compression controlling means for compressing the first and/or second region by a predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Estève, Olivier Schevin
  • Patent number: 9513796
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a device for controlling contents of a user terminal having a touch screen, a recording medium therefor, and a user terminal having the same. The present invention relates to a method for controlling the contents of a user terminal having a touch screen, wherein, when a touch is detected on the touch screen while executing contents conversion, a part of the contents gets fixed on the basis of the detected location of the touch. Therefore, two or more contents can be easily compared using the fixed contents region as reference contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jae-Jeung Kim, Sang-Tae Kim, Ho-Won Lee, Dong-Ho Cho
  • Patent number: 9507458
    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 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9507219
    Abstract: A vertical alignment liquid crystal display device (VA-LCD) includes a display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel unit includes a first thin film transistor (TFT), a second TFT, and a liquid crystal capacitor having a pixel electrode and a common electrode. The common electrode is applied with a common voltage, a first gray voltage is applied to the pixel electrode through a first TFT, and a second gray voltage is applied to the pixel electrode through a second TFT different from the first gray voltage, such that liquid crystal capacitor maintains two different gray voltages in a display frame time of the VA-LCD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yueh-Ping Chang, Chao-Yi Hung
  • Patent number: 9501971
    Abstract: The described technology relates generally to an organic light emitting display and a method for driving the same. According to an exemplary embodiment, an image is displayed by dividing one frame into a plurality of sub-fields, and a gamma curve is realized with a combination of a plurality of sub-fields respectively corresponding to a plurality of grays of image data so that image data can be compensated without adding a memory. In addition, the embodiment can extract the one combination by setting a combination of sub-fields that exceeds one frame time among the plurality of sub-fields to be an exception condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ji-Gong Lee
  • Patent number: 9489090
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a touch technology and provides a capacitive touch panel which has low-visibility metal jumper. The touch panel comprises of a transparent substrate and at least one metal juniper. A mask layer, reflectance of which is lower than that of the metal jumper, is set between the metal jumper and the transparent substrate to block the light reflected by the metal jumper. The mask layer can reduce light reflection of the metal jumper so as to reduce visibility of the metal jumper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc.
    Inventors: Kwan-Sin Ho, Hao Zhang
  • Patent number: 9491888
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, an input device, a sliding groove and an actuating unit. The input device is disposed on the housing, wherein the input device includes a first input interface and a second input interface, and the first input interface and the second input interface are respectively disposed on opposite surfaces of the input device. The sliding groove is formed on the housing. The actuating unit is connected to the input device, the actuating unit automatically moves between a first position and a second position of the sliding groove to rotate the input device, the first input interface faces outward from the housing when the actuating unit is in the first position, and the second input interface faces outward from the housing when the actuating unit is in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Wistron Corp.
    Inventor: Ren-Jing Wei
  • Patent number: 9489123
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for sensing touch pressure on a digital device by using image data sensed by a camera unit. To achieve these objects and other advantages, the present invention provides the method for sensing touch pressure and a digital device using the same, wherein the method comprises obtaining image data sensed by a camera unit of the digital device; obtaining illumination value sensed by a illumination sensor of the digital device; extracting color information of the image data; determining whether a touch input has been performed on the camera unit; and sensing the touch pressure of the touch input based on the extracted color information and the obtained illumination value, if it is determined that the touch input has been performed in the determining step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Seung Il Kim
  • Patent number: 9489092
    Abstract: A display device having a touch sensor and a manufacturing method thereof. The display device includes a pixel defining layer, first electrodes, an emissive layer, second electrodes, and an insulating layer. The first electrodes are exposed and arranged through the pixel defining layer. The emissive layer is formed on each first electrode. Each second electrode is connected to the emissive layer, and the second electrodes are arranged to be spaced apart from each other. The insulating pattern is formed on the pixel defining layer exposed between adjacent second electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki-Hoon Kim, Hee-Sang Park
  • Patent number: 9483131
    Abstract: An LCD device and a method of driving the same are provided. The LCD device includes a panel, one or more gate driver IC, a timing controller, and a source driver IC. The gate driver IC sequentially drives a plurality of gate lines formed in the panel. The timing controller controls the gate driver IC. The source driver IC simultaneously transfers image data from a first latch to a second latch according to a latch signal, converts the image data transferred from the second latch into data voltages, and outputs the data voltages to the panel at a falling time of a source output enable signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Cheol Hong, Pil Sung Kang, Man Gyu Park, Seung Cheol Oh
  • Patent number: 9483976
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a system for display compensation relate to the field of display technique. The method for display compensation includes: measuring luminance of each of pixels in a full-color test picture outputted from a display apparatus in a uncompensated status when the display apparatus outputs the full-color test picture; obtaining a reference luminance value according to the measured luminance values of the respective pixels; obtaining compensation coefficients for the respective pixels according to the reference luminance value and the luminance values of the respective pixels; performing a compensation and correction on signals inputted to the respective pixels respectively according to the compensation coefficients. By utilizing the method, the issue of the non-uniformity of the display effect in the display apparatus can be addressed effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Hyup Jeon, Bongyeol Ryu, Seong Jun An
  • Patent number: 9478189
    Abstract: In one aspect, a touch sensor includes a dielectric surface layer; drive electrodes disposed on the dielectric surface layer and arranged radially about a center, the drive electrodes defining a perimeter about the center, and a sense electrode disposed on the dielectric surface layer and arranged between two of the drive electrodes. Each drive electrode can include: an outer radial section extending radially along the perimeter; a central section extending from the outer radial section towards the center; and an inner radial section comprising a first section extending radially away from the central section in a first radial direction and a second section, shorter than the first section, extending radially away from the central section in a second radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventor: Lowry D. Lewis
  • Patent number: 9477084
    Abstract: A light guide member includes four or more curved surfaces including three or more non-axisymmetric curved surfaces so that video light emitted from a video element and passing through the light guide member is displayed to an observer on a divergent optical path in an enlarged manner. Reflection of the video light is made four times by four surfaces different from one another in the inside of the light guide member, such that at least total reflection is performed on a third surface as a second reflection among the four times of reflections, total reflection is performed on a first surface as a third reflection, reflection is performed on a second surface as the fourth reflection, and the video light reaches the eyes of the observer by being transmitted through the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Komatsu, Takahiro Totani, Masayuki Takagi, Takashi Takeda, Toshiaki Miyao
  • Patent number: 9471216
    Abstract: A mobile terminal having a circle type display and a method for controlling the same is disclosed herein. A scroll bar is provided at an edge of the circle type display in response to a user input. The user may control the mobile terminal and the circle type display through touch inputs on the scroll bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seonmi Lee, Sijin Lim, Yeonkyung Kim, Eunjin Kim
  • Patent number: 9472939
    Abstract: A remote display system including a portable display that wirelessly receives data and power from a primary station. The primary station, which is remote from and without a tangible connection with the portable display, includes a data transmitting element and a power transmitting element. The portable display includes a power receiving element that receives power wirelessly from the power transmitting element and a data receiving element operable to receive data from the data transmitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory M. Hart, Jeffrey P. Bezos
  • Patent number: 9465441
    Abstract: An optical navigation device, including a radiation source capable of producing a beam of radiation; a sensor for receiving an image; and an optical element for identifying movement of an object on a first surface to thereby enable a control action to be carried out. The optical element is such that a whole of the imaged area of the first surface is substantially covered by the object in normal use. The device is operable to receive from the object on the first surface an input describing a pattern, to compare the received pattern to a stored reference pattern and to perform a predetermined function if the received pattern and stored reference pattern are substantially similar. The pattern may be a continuous line, the device being operable to store the continuous line as a set of turning points in chronological order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited
    Inventor: Benjamin E. Norman
  • Patent number: 9459721
    Abstract: Disclosed are an AMOLED pixel unit circuit, a display panel and an electronic product, to integrate a TSP in Cell circuit into the AMOLED pixel unit circuit, and to manufacture the AMOLED display panel having a touch screen function and the electronic product having the display panel. The AMOLED pixel unit circuit comprises a driving module configured to amplify an induction signal generated by the touch sensing module, output the induction signal through an induction signal outputting module, and drive a light emitting module; a light emission controlling module configured to control the light emitting module to emit light; a threshold compensating module configured to compensate a threshold voltage for the driving module; a touch sensing module configured to generate the induction signal and output the induction signal to the driving module; and the induction signal outputting module configured to output the induction signal amplified by the driving module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen Tan, Xiaojing Qi, Bo Wu
  • Patent number: 9459482
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a touch panel includes: display drive circuits that are disposed respectively at the outsides of the sides opposing to a display region, and that apply sequential scanning signal potentials to scanning signal lines; touch panel drive circuits that are disposed respectively further to the outsides of the display drive circuits, and that apply sequential drive pulses to a plurality of drive electrodes among common electrodes; and switching circuits that are disposed respectively at insides of the display drive circuits, and that switch between applying common electric potentials for controlling the alignment of the liquid crystal composition and applying a touch drive pulse that detects the touching to the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Abe, Hideo Sato, Takayuki Suzuki