Patents Examined by Ivelisse Martinez Quiles
  • Patent number: 9508294
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of adjusting flicker of the liquid crystal panel, comprising: providing a Nth liquid crystal panel to be implemented with flicker adjustment; counting a mathematical expectation ? and a standard deviation ? of the optimized voltage values of common electrodes of 1st to N?1th liquid crystal panels; setting an initial range (VL, VH) of adjusting voltage values of common electrodes, wherein VL=??M?, VH=?+M?; showing a flicker image, and writing VH, VL, (VH+VL)/2 into a random access memory of the Nth liquid crystal panel one by one, and measuring corresponding flicker values; determining whether the flicker value corresponding to (VH+VL)/2 is a minimum among the three flicker values in the fourth step; if it is not the minimum, adjustment is accomplished; if it is the minimum, the adjustment is proceeded; writing the voltage values of common electrodes in the initial range (VL, VH) into the random access memory one by one and from low to high, and measuring corresponding f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Jian He
  • Patent number: 9489907
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gate driver circuit basing on IGZO process, comprising GOAs in cascade connection comprising a Nth-stage GOA, wherein the Nth-stage GOA further comprising a pull-up control part 100, a pull-up part 200, a transfer part 300, a pull-down part 400, a pull-down holding part 500, a boost part 600, a first negative supply VSS1, a second negative supply VSS2, a third negative supply VSS3, which are three gradually decreasing negative supplies and pull down an output terminal G(N), a first node Q(N), a second node P(N), and a driving single ST(N) to prevent the electrical leakage of TFTs effectively. And channels of the TFT switches of the gate driver circuit basing on the IGZO process are oxide semiconductor channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Juncheng Xiao
  • Patent number: 9480147
    Abstract: A touch window includes a substrate, a sensing electrode on the substrate, a wire electrically connected with the sensing electrode, a ground wire adjacent to the wire, and a printed circuit board connected with the wire and the ground wire. An overlap length between the ground wire and the printed circuit board is longer than an overlap length between the wire and the printed circuit board. Alternatively or simultaneously, a line width of the ground wire is wider than an interval or gap between the wire parallel to the printed circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byeong Seob Kim, Ji Sung Ahn
  • Patent number: 9436277
    Abstract: A method for computing output using a non-contact (invisible) input signal includes acquiring depth data of a scene captured by a depth-capable sensor. The method includes generating a temporal series of depth maps corresponding to the depth data. The method includes generating at least one volumetric attribute from the depth data. The method includes generating an output based on the volumetric attribute to control actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Michael R. Furst, Edgar A. Bernal, Robert P. Loce, Lalit K. Mestha
  • Patent number: 9411453
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch-controlled display panel, which comprises an array substrate, a color filter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the array substrate and the color filter substrate. The array substrate comprises a scan line, a data line, a pixel electrode, a first touch-controlled driving line, and a touch-controlled sensing line. The present invention further provides a touch-controlled display device. The present invention integrates the common line with the touch-controlled driving line and the touch-controlled sensing line, thereby improving the efficiency in manufacturing the touch-controlled display panel and reducing the manufacture cost thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun Kai Chang, Yung-Lun Lin, Jie Qiu, Chengliang Ye, Ruhai Fu
  • Patent number: 9389717
    Abstract: A reduced-latency ink rendering system and method that reduces latency in rendering ink on a display by bypassing at least some layers of the operating system. “Ink” is any input from a user through a touchscreen device using the user's finger or a pen. Moreover, some embodiments of the system and method avoid the operating system and each central-processing unit (CPU) on a computing device when initially rendering the ink by going directly from the digitizer to the display controller. Any correction or additional processing of the rendered ink is performed after the initial rendering of the ink. Embodiments of the system and method address ink-rendering latency in software embodiments, which include techniques to bypass the typical rendering pipeline and quickly render ink on the display, and hardware embodiments, which use hardware and techniques that locally change display pixels. These embodiments can be mixed and matched in any manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Bathiche, Paul Henry Dietz, Hrvoje Benko, Andreas Georg Nowatzyk
  • Patent number: 9377989
    Abstract: An information processing method and device is provided. According to the method, a first position parameter of a first device and a second position parameter of a second device are acquired. Based on the position parameters, whether a relative position relationship between the first device and the second device meets a preset condition is judged to acquire a result. If the judgment result is positive, the first device communicates with the second device, data of a first part of a first object to be displayed on the first device is acquired, a first application program corresponding to the first object in the second device is synchronously executed, and the data of the first part of the first object is displayed on the first device while data of a second part of the first object is displayed on the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Fanzhi Li, Hao Liu, Qiang Guo, Mingxu Mao
  • Patent number: 9342158
    Abstract: A method for making a lower frame rate of an optical navigation sensor mimic a higher frame rate of the optical navigation sensor includes: receiving a motion delta of the optical navigation sensor at the lower frame rate; dividing the motion delta into a smaller number of parts; dividing a time period of the lower frame rate to generate a time threshold which is shorter than the time period of the lower frame rate; receiving a clock signal for updating a counter; and outputting a first part of the delta when the counter reaches the time threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging (Penang) SDN. BHD.
    Inventors: Zi Hao Tan, Joon Chok Lee
  • Patent number: 9336705
    Abstract: Provided is a self-luminous display device including a data calculation section configured to calculate, by using a supplied video signal, data relating to a luminance amount accumulated in a unit of a first block in a target region for luminance control in a screen on which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix, each of the pixels including a light emitting element which emits light by itself according to a current amount, a resampling section configured to resample the data relating to the luminance amount in the target region, in a unit of a second block, the data relating to the luminance amount being calculated by the data calculation section, the second block being larger than the first block, and a scaling section configured to generate data for luminance control in the target region by scaling the data resampled by the resampling section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Joled Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuo Inoue, Yohei Funatsu, Hidehisa Shimizu, Takashi Uchida
  • Patent number: 9336723
    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: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vasudha Gupta, Shih Chang Chang, Young-Bae Park, Ting-Kuo Chang
  • Patent number: 9323353
    Abstract: A mechanism for utilizing multiple reconfigurable hover sensing arrays to detect the 3D location of an object with respect to a capacitive panel is disclosed. The multiple reconfigurable hover sensing arrays may change size and shape by integrating multiple capacitive sensor electrodes. The distance to an object relative to the capacitive panel may be determined by applying a distance formula to capacitive signals detected by the reconfigurable hover sensing arrays. In addition, a user interaction interface that may change the shape of the identifier of the interface corresponding to the detected 3D movement of the object is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: American Megatrends, Inc.
    Inventor: Clas G. Sivertsen
  • Patent number: 9318066
    Abstract: A display panel comprises a plurality of pixels. A first pixel among the plurality of pixels comprises a first subpixel which further comprises a first subpixel electrode, a first switching element configured to apply a data voltage to the first subpixel electrode, and a second switching element applying a boosting voltage to the first subpixel electrode. The first pixel further comprises a second subpixel comprising a second subpixel electrode and a third switching element applying the data voltage to the low pixel electrode. Accordingly, the display quality and the reliability of the display panel may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youn-Hak Jeong, Gak-Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 9304587
    Abstract: A force sensing input device (such as a force sensing mouse) includes at least one force sensor and at least one top portion movably connected to at least one bottom portion. When a force is applied to the top portion, the top portion exerts pressure on the force sensor. The force sensor obtains force data based upon the pressure. The amount of force applied to the top portion, within a range of force amounts, is determined from at least the force data. In this way, a broader range of inputs may be receivable from the force sensing input device as compared to input devices that merely detect whether or not a button or similar element has been pushed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Wright, Keith J. Hendren
  • Patent number: 9304574
    Abstract: A remote device includes an image sensor, a readout circuit and a processing unit. The image sensor successively captures a first image and a second image containing at least one reference beacon image. The readout circuit is configured to read first image data of the first image and second image data of the second image from the image sensor. The processing unit is configured to calculate an image feature of the at least one reference beacon image according to the first image data and control the readout circuit to only read the second image data of a range of interest in the second image according to the image feature. There is further provided a power saving method of an interactive system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Ming-Tsan Kao, Chia-Cheun Liang
  • Patent number: 9280927
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device capable of displaying an image with two or more gray levels. The display device includes: a voltage division circuit adapted to generate a plurality of voltages using a resistance division circuit; a gamma correction section adapted to gamma-correct the image using the voltages generated at division points of the resistance division circuit; an amplification circuit adapted to amplify a given voltage and supply the amplified voltage to at least one of the division points of the resistance division circuit; and an adjustment section adapted to adjust an amplification factor of the amplification circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Teisuke Kishikawa
  • Patent number: 9274741
    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: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yoonji Moon
  • Patent number: 9251753
    Abstract: A level shifter circuit has a plurality of channels for providing signals to a capacitive load and has circuits for sharing charge stored in the capacitive load between the channels. A first pair of channel clock generating circuits are coupled respectively to a first pair of channels. A second pair of channel clock generating circuits are coupled respectively to a second pair of channels. A pair of switches couple the first pair of channels together and the second pair of channels together, respectively, for sharing charge between the channels. A single resistor is coupled in circuit with all of the channels for controlling a slope of charge sharing between channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan A. Reithmaier, Josy Bernard, Carsten I. Stoerk, Nicolas M. Guibourg
  • Patent number: 9250723
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for stroke acquisition, and an ultrasonic electronic stylus are provided. The method is applied to the ultrasonic electronic stylus. In the case that the ultrasonic electronic stylus contacts with a writing board and a pressure generated on the writing board by the ultrasonic electronic stylus reaches a first predetermined value, the ultrasonic electronic stylus is controlled to generate a first signal so that a signal receiver of an electronic device acquires a first stroke based on the first signal. After the first signal is generated, an operation parameter of the ultrasonic electronic stylus is adjusted. In the case that the pressure is smaller than the first predetermined value and a preset condition is satisfied, a second signal is generated so that the electronic device continues to acquire a second stroke based on the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xueyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 9235309
    Abstract: An input device having a plurality of low-visibility sensor electrodes and method for fabricating the same are provided. In one example, an input device includes a display device having an array of pixels and a plurality of sensor electrodes disposed on a viewing side of the display device. At least a first sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes includes a plurality of spaced apart conductive traces forming a conductive mesh, wherein mesh having a first periodicity defined by intersections of the conductive traces forming the mesh. A terminal portion of one of the conductive traces terminates at an edge of the first sensor electrode and has an attached light occluding element. The attached light occluding element is disposed over a subpixel having the same color as a subpixel which an intersecting trace would lay over when the intersection occurs in an interior region of the sensor electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: James Dunphy, Bob Lee Mackey, Joseph Kurth Reynolds
  • Patent number: 9224335
    Abstract: Discussed are an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a method for driving the same. The OLED display device includes pixels each including a light emitting element, and a pixel driving circuit. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving switching element connected in series between high and low-level voltage supply lines, together with the light emitting element, a first switching element for connecting a data line and a first node connected to a gate of the driving switching element in response to a first scan signal, a second switching element for connecting an initialization voltage supply line and a second node connected to a source of the driving switching element in response to a second scan signal, and a third switching element for connecting the high-level voltage supply line and a drain of the driving switching element in response to an emission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Hun Yoon, Jung-Min Lee