Patents Examined by Ivelisse Martinez Quiles
  • Patent number: 10209797
    Abstract: Disclosed are a touch apparatus and an operating method of the touch apparatus. The touch apparatus includes: a depth camera device, a display screen disposed within a viewing range of the depth camera device, and a controller connected to the display screen and the depth camera device. The depth camera device is adapted to capture a depth image within the viewing range and send the depth image to the controller. The controller is adapted to receive the depth image, calculate based on the depth image and identify a current touch operation, and output an operation interface corresponding to the current touch operation to the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yingjie Li
  • Patent number: 10152217
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal capable of carrying out time counting to execute a control function, and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal includes a display unit, and a controller configured to continuously display counting information for guiding the time counting on at least a part of an edge area of a display unit for a predetermined time when the time counting is executed in association with a terminal operation, and execute a control function associated with the terminal operation after a lapse of the predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yoonji Moon
  • Patent number: 10116927
    Abstract: A method for reproducing image information on an autostereoscopic screen including a pixel matrix and an optical grid, in which a period length defined by a lateral offset of adjacent strip-shaped structures of the optical grid is greater by a certain factor than a lateral offset of directly adjacent columns of the pixel matrix. The method including the steps of assigning an angle value and a location coordinate value to each of the specified columns, for each of the columns, calculating an extract of an image by image synthesis, wherein this image is a parallel projection of a 3D scene to be reproduced having a projection direction corresponding to the angle value assigned to the respective column, and controlling the pixels of the pixel matrix in such a way that each of the columns has written into it the extract calculated for this column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: René de la Barré, Silvio Jurk
  • Patent number: 10115351
    Abstract: A display device includes a data driver and a demultiplexer. The data driver supplies an image data signal to the demultiplexer. The demultiplexer timely divides the image data signal and outputs the divided image data signal to a data line. The demultiplexer supplies the image data signal to a first pixel column, and supplies the image data signal to a second pixel column after a predetermined time elapses, during a first frame period. The demultiplexer supplies the image data signal to the second pixel column, and supplies the image data signal to the first pixel column after a predetermined time elapses, during a second frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yang Wan Kim
  • Patent number: 10019104
    Abstract: An array substrate array, a display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes multiple touch electrode blocks, multiple pressure sensing electrode blocks, and multiple drive modules. Each of the multiple pressure sensing electrode blocks is embedded within a corresponding one of the multiple touch electrode blocks, and the pressure sensing electrode blocks are not in contact with the touch electrode blocks. The drive module is configured to electrically connect the touch electrode block to the pressure sensing electrode block embedded within the touch electrode block and input a touch sensing signal during a touch sensing period. The drive module is configured to electrically disconnect the touch electrode block from the pressure sensing electrode block embedded within the touch electrode block and input a pressure sensing signal to the pressure sensing electrode block during a pressure sensing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignees: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMAN MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yizhi Yang
  • Patent number: 10019103
    Abstract: A touch screen having touch circuitry integrated into a display pixel stackup. The touch screen can include a transistor layer, an LED layer and a first layer. The first layer can operate as an LED cathode during a display phase and as touch circuitry during a touch sensing phase. The transistor layer can be at least partially utilized for transitioning between the display phase and the touch sensing phase. The touch screen can be fabricated to reduce or eliminate damage to the LED layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vasudha Gupta, Shih Chang Chang, Young-Bae Park, Ting-Kuo Chang
  • Patent number: 10001894
    Abstract: A method of operating a contact sensor and a method of calibration of a contact sensor. The contact sensor comprises an array of discrete and spaced apart sensing elements (102, 202) connected to a resistive element (101, 201) with the location or size of a contact being detectable by measurement of one or more electrical parameter(s) relating to impedance steps along the resistive element (101, 201) is described. The method of operating involves determining a length of the sensing element between the contact and the resistive element and using this to compensate for a parasitic resistance present in the measured resistance of the resistive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: R&D CORE LIMITED
    Inventor: Thomas Papakostas
  • Patent number: 9996195
    Abstract: A touch screen electro-optic display is arranged such that upon a touch being detected on the display surface, the display surface surrounding the touch “blinks” by being driven to a different optical state, then back to its original state. A second method uses a display having a pen or stylus which can draw lines upon the display. A first line segment is detected and its area updated using a first drive scheme having short waveforms. The area of a second line segment is updated using the first drive scheme. Thereafter, the areas of both line segments are updated using a second drive scheme different from the first drive scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Theodore A. Sjodin, Yuval Ben-Dov, Kenneth R. Crounse, Jason Lin, Karl Raymond Amundson, Michael Patrick Almon, Hugh M. Enxing, Timothy J. O'Malley
  • Patent number: 9995961
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a light source. The display apparatus includes a display target configured to receive light from the light source. The display target displays an image using at least a portion of the light received from the light source. The display apparatus includes a first reflective structure configured to reduce an outgoing angle of at least a portion of the light from the light source. The display apparatus includes a second reflective structure configured to longitudinally translate at least a portion of the light from at least one of the light source and the first reflective structure toward the display target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: ROCKWELL COLLINS, INC.
    Inventors: Lu Bai, Ming Yu, Roger E. Yaffe
  • Patent number: 9978311
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit includes a first transistor configured to output a driving current corresponding to a data voltage to an output node, an OLED connected to the output node and configured to emit light according to the driving current output from the first transistor, a storage capacitor coupled to the first transistor and configured to store the data voltage, a second transistor configured to receive a reference voltage from the first transistor during a first time section, configured to diode-connect the first transistor, and configured to compensate for a threshold voltage of the first transistor, and a third transistor configured to diode-connect the first transistor during a second time section, configured to receive the data voltage through the first transistor for which the threshold voltage of the first transistor is compensated, and configured to transfer the data voltage to the storage capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngin Hwang, Jihye Kong, Yongsung Park, Inho Choi
  • Patent number: 9946349
    Abstract: A shift register, a driving method, a gate driving circuit and a display device are provided. The shift register includes a scan control module, an output module, a pull-down module, a turn-off restoring module and a touch control module. The turn-off restoring module is electronically connected to the scan control module at a first node and electronically connected to the touch control module and the output module at a second node. The turn-off restoring module controls the first node to be electrically insulated from the second node during a touch scan phase, and restores a potential of the second node to a potential at a time instant before the touch scan phase when the touch scan phase is finished. The touch control module controls the output module to output a touch scan signal to an output terminal of the shift register during the touch scan phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lihua Wang, Conghua Ma, Jialing Li, Qijun Yao
  • Patent number: 9927894
    Abstract: A display device comprises counter electrodes configured to be used as common electrodes for displaying and scan electrodes for touch sensing, a first scan circuit which scans gate lines, and a second scan circuit which scans the counter electrodes. In the display device, one frame period includes a write period for continuously scanning one screen and a touch sensing period existing between the write period and a write period in the next frame. The second scan circuit includes a shift register unit and a switch unit. The switch unit includes a seventh thin-film transistor which outputs a DC drive signal to an output node and an eighth thin-film transistor which outputs an AC drive signal to the output node. A second control signal for fixing the voltage of a third retention node to which the gate electrode of the seventh thin-film transistor is connected is inputted in the write period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Abe, Takayuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9922618
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor, a user interface, and a flexible integrated circuit. The user interface may include a user interface comprising a display, a touch sensor overlaid on the display and configured to detect tactile touches on the user interface, a cover overlaid on the touch sensor, and an antenna array comprising a plurality of antennas. The flexible integrated circuit may be configured to couple the antenna array to the processor, the flexible integrated circuit comprising a radio-frequency module for controlling radio-frequency communications to and from the antenna array and a baseband controller for controlling communication of information between the processor and the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Liam Prendergast, Brian O'Loughlin, Liam B. Quinn
  • Patent number: 9898105
    Abstract: A position indicator includes a first electrode receiving an alternating current (AC) signal from a position detecting sensor and a second electrode transmitting an AC signal to the position detecting sensor. The position indicator includes: a tubular pen-shaped chassis; a central electrode provided such that one end protrudes outside of the chassis from an opening of the chassis, and formed of an electrically-conductive member forming a first one of the first and second electrodes; a peripheral electrode surrounding the central electrode and formed of an electrically-conductive member forming a second one of the first and second electrodes; and a shield member having a hollow part housing at least a part of the central electrode surrounded by the peripheral electrode. The shield member includes a tubular part electrically connected to ground and an insulating layer formed on an inner wall surface and an outer wall surface of the tubular part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Ogata, Osamu Nagase
  • Patent number: 9880679
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display unit that displays predetermined information and an electrostatic capacitive touch panel unit through which display of the display unit passes and that determines a two-dimensional coordinate indicated by an instructing object which has some conductivity. In the electronic apparatus, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, a two-dimensional coordinate corresponding to the instructing object is caused to be effective and the effective two-dimensional coordinate is changed depending on movement of the instructing object, and when the effective two-dimensional coordinate is changed in a predetermined range for a predetermined time, the effective two-dimensional coordinate is caused to be ineffective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Yamaguchi, Tomoki Takano
  • Patent number: 9870106
    Abstract: A novel input device that is highly convenient or reliable or a novel input/output device that is highly convenient or reliable. The following structure is contemplated. The input device includes sensor units that are arranged in a matrix and each include a window portion which transmits visible light, a light-transmitting first sensing element which includes an insulating layer and a pair of electrodes between which the insulating layer is interposed and overlaps with the window portion, a second sensing element which includes a photoelectric conversion element and does not overlap with the window portion, and a sensing circuit which supplies a sensing signal on the basis of a change in the parasitic capacitance of the first sensing element or on the basis of the current flowing through the second sensing element; and a base layer supporting the sensor units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 9847068
    Abstract: A scan driving circuit includes a repair assembly, a pull-up assembly, a pull-up control assembly that drives the pull-up assembly, a pull-down maintaining assembly, and a reference low-level signal. When the pull-down maintaining assembly turns off in a work stage of a current scanning line, the repair assembly turns off. When the pull-down maintaining assembly turns on in the work stage of the current scanning line, the repair assembly is connected with the pull-down maintaining assembly. In the work stage of the current scanning line, the reference low-level signal is sent to the repair assembly via the turn-off unit, and turns off the pull-down maintaining assembly through the repair assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Chao Dai
  • Patent number: 9799260
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a dither table memory device, a dithering processor, and a display panel driver. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. Dither tables are stored in the dither table memory device. The dithering processor selects a target dither table corresponding to a grayscale level of input data from among the plurality of dither tables and performs a dithering operation on the input data using the target dither table to generate dither data. The display panel driver drives the display panel based on the generated dither data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Woo Song, Seung-Ho Park, Kang-Hee Lee, Mi-Young Joo, Jae-Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 9786222
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and an OLED display including the same are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor having a double gate structure, the driving transistor including a first gate electrode electrically connected to a first node, a second gate electrode electrically connected to a second node, a first electrode electrically connected to a first power supply voltage, and a second electrode electrically connected to the anode of the OLED. The pixel circuit also includes a switching transistor including a gate electrode configured to receive a scan signal, a first electrode configured to receive a data voltage, and a second electrode electrically connected to the first node. The pixel circuit further includes a storage capacitor and a compensation capacitor including a first electrode electrically connected to the second node and a second electrode electrically connected to the first electrode of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Keun Lim, Hui-Won Yang, Chong-Chul Chai
  • Patent number: 9785283
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device with a sensor, includes a pair of electrodes for a touch sensor, which are provided to extend to intersect, and a display panel which includes a plurality of display elements arranged in a matrix, a plurality of gate lines extending along display elements of the display elements which are arranged in a row direction, and a plurality of source lines extending along display elements of the display elements which are arranged in a column direction, wherein a common electrode for display provided in the display panel is also used as one of the electrodes for the touch sensor, the electrodes for the touch sensor are driven by the self-detection method, and an image display operation of the display panel and a drive operation of the electrodes for the touch sensor are performing in a time sharing manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi