Patents Examined by Ivelisse Martinez Quiles
  • Patent number: 10401920
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic apparatus has a board plate provided in a position apart from the operating direction of push buttons for receiving depressing operations. Detection switches for detecting the depressing operations of the push buttons are provided on the lower surface side of the board plate, and the push buttons are provided adjacent to the side part of the board plate and includes a vertically-movable operation surface part for receiving depressing operations and a detection arm, which protrudes from one edge part of the operation surface part to the lower surface side of the board plate and presses the detection switches by moving in the opposite direction to the direction of the vertical movement of the operation surface part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Mitsuo Horiuchi, Eiji Shinohara
  • Patent number: 10394401
    Abstract: A wiring body includes: a first resin layer; an electrode layer on the first resin layer and formed by first conductor lines; a first lead wire layer on the first resin layer and formed by second conductor lines; and a boundary line interposed between the electrode layer and the first lead wire layer. The wiring body satisfies W1<W2 and L1>W3 where W1 represents a width of the first conductor lines in a direction orthogonal to an extending direction of the first conductor lines, W2 represents a width of the second conductor lines in a direction orthogonal to an extending direction of the second conductor lines, L1 represents a length of the boundary line in its extending direction, and W3 represents a width of the one end part of the first lead wire layer in a direction orthogonal to an extending direction of the first lead wire layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsu Hammura
  • Patent number: 10386970
    Abstract: A device configured to determine the location and magnitude of a touch on a surface of the device. The device includes a transparent touch sensor that is configured to detect a location of a touch on the transparent touch sensor. The device also includes a force-sensing structure disposed at the periphery of the transparent touch sensor. The force sensor includes an upper capacitive plate and a compressible element disposed on one side of the upper capacitive plate. The force sensor also includes a lower capacitive plate disposed on a side of the compressible element that is opposite the upper capacitive plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jonah A. Harley, Peter W. Richards, Brian Q. Huppi, Omar Sze Leung, Dhaval N. Shah, Martin P. Grunthaner, Steven P. Hotelling, Miguel C Christophy, Vivek Katiyar, Tang Yew Tan, Christopher J. Butler, Erik G. de Jong, Ming Sartee, Rui Qiao, Steven J. Martisauskas, Storrs T. Hoen, Richard Hung Minh Dinh, Lee E. Hooton, Ian A. Spraggs, Sawyer I. Cohen, David A. Pakula
  • Patent number: 10379689
    Abstract: A touch panel includes an insulating substrate; a plurality of touch drive electrodes 61Xn+1, 61Xn, and 61Xn?1 arranged on the insulating substrate so as to be arrayed in a first direction, each of the touch drive electrodes extending in a second direction that intersects with the first direction; touch detection electrodes arranged on the insulating substrate so as to be arrayed in the second direction, each of the touch detection electrodes extending in the first direction; and a dummy electrode 63 that is arranged between adjacent ones of the touch detection electrodes, in which a slit extending substantially in the first direction is provided. The dummy electrode 63 is segmented by the slit into a plurality of electrode portions 631 arrayed in the second direction, and two adjacent ones of the electrode portions 631 with the slit being interposed therebetween are divided at positions different in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 10365752
    Abstract: A touch control display panel and a touch control display device are provided. The touch control display panel comprises a substrate having a first extending direction and a second extending direction; and at least one force sensing bridge including a first sensing resistor, a second sensing resistor, a third sensing resistor, and a fourth sensing resistor. The first sensing resistor has a longer extending length in the first extending direction than in the second extending direction. The second sensing resistor has a longer extending length in the second extending direction than in the first extending direction. The third sensing resistor has a longer extending length in the first extending direction than in the second extending direction. The fourth sensing resistor has a longer extending length in the second extending direction than in the first extending direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignees: Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Liu, Feng Lu, Shaolong Ma, Qijun Yao, Xingyao Zhou
  • Patent number: 10326963
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel; and a frequency controller which receives an image data signal and an input frequency information and outputs the image data signal and a timing control signal. The frequency controller includes: an image processor which receives the image data signal; a frame memory which stores the image data signal; an output frequency determining unit which receives the input frequency information and determines an output frequency based on a variation amount of the input frequency; and an image output unit which receives the image data signal from the image processor, receives an output frequency information from the output frequency determining unit, and outputs the image data signal and the timing control signal. When an input frequency varies, the output frequency determining unit determines the output frequency based on the following equations: K = ? FREQ - P_FREQ M_FREQ ? × SLOPE + OFFSET , and FREQ ? = FREQ × K + P_FREQ × ( 1 - K ) .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Jaihyun Koh, Jaehoon Lee, Jeongbong Lee
  • Patent number: 10318021
    Abstract: The mouse includes a circuit board having a position detecting unit for detecting the movement of the mouse, a switch for operating the mouse, and a wireless communication unit for wirelessly transmitting the data related to the movement detected at the position detecting unit and the data related to the operation of the switch to the outside. The circuit board and a power source are mounted on a bottom part. The bottom part is covered with a housing. Electronic devices including the circuit board, the power source, and other devices are accommodated in the internal space formed by the bottom part and the housing that have resistance to and strength against the change in pressure and temperature. The entire areas of the outer surfaces of the bottom part and the housing are covered with a resin cover having elasticity, heat resistance, and waterproofness. The cover seals the internal space formed by the bottom part and the housing. The electronic devices are enclosed with a heat insulating sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Susa, Inc.
    Inventor: Yukinori Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10296138
    Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel, a method for determining touch center coordinates and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes: multiple touch electrodes arranged in an array, where the multiple touch electrodes include multiple touch electrode columns arranged in a first direction and multiple touch electrode rows arranged in a second direction. The array substrate also includes multiple touch leads, where each of the multiple touch leads is electrically connected to one of the multiple touch electrodes. The array substrate still includes multiple repair leads, where an insulation overlapped region is provided between each of two of the multiple touch leads corresponding to two adjacent ones of the multiple touch electrodes arranged in the first direction or the second direction and at least one of the multiple repair leads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: SHANGHAI AVIC OPTO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kerui Xi, Huiping Chai
  • Patent number: 10289237
    Abstract: A touch-control panel and a touch-control display device are provided. The touch-control panel comprises a plurality of touch-control emitting electrodes arranged along a first direction, a plurality of touch-control receiving electrodes arranged along a second direction, and a touch-control driving circuit electrically with the plurality of touch-control emitting electrodes. The plurality of touch-control emitting electrodes are divided into a plurality of touch control emitting electrode groups along the first direction. The first direction crosses or intersects the second direction. In a first touch-control mode, the touch-control driving circuit is configured to electrically connect all touch-control emitting electrodes in a same touch-control emitting electrode group, and sequentially transit a touch-control detecting signal to the plurality of touch-control emitting electrode groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignees: Shanghai AVIC OPTO Electronics Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kerui Xi, Tingting Cui
  • Patent number: 10289228
    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: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Abe, Takayuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10282033
    Abstract: A method for rendering drawing events on an electro-optic display such that a stylus (pen) stroke is perceived as actually writing on the electro-optic display. Typically, a first line segment is detected and its area is updated using a first drive scheme having faster waveforms. Then a second line segment is detected and its area 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, typically involving slower waveforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Crounse, Timothy J. O'Malley
  • Patent number: 10283075
    Abstract: A strain quantity obtaining unit is provided that obtains a strain quantity at an interval faster than variation in the strain to be detected and stores the maximum value of the strain quantity. When a touch coordinate is obtained at a predetermined sampling interval, if the maximum value of the strain quantity when the touch coordinate is obtained does not exceed a strain quantity threshold value, the touch coordinate is not caused to be effective. However, if the maximum value of the strain quantity when the touch coordinate is obtained exceeds a strain quantity threshold value, the touch coordinate is caused to be effective. If a touch coordinate is caused to be effective once, the touch coordinate is caused to be effective continuously until an instructing object is separated from an operation surface of a touch panel unit at a predetermined distance or more in a perpendicular direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Yamaguchi, Tomoki Takano
  • Patent number: 10261641
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of providing input to an electronic unit comprising a touch-sensitive surface that is configured for registering application of touch by a flexible unit and a toy comprising an electronic unit comprising a touch-sensitive surface and a structure; the structure configured from a material that cannot be registered by the touch-sensitive surface, and it comprises, either at the periphery or within the periphery, at least one marked position. One or more flexible units that comprise(s) material that can be registered by the touch-sensitive surface, wherein the one or more flexible units extend(s) past the top side of the structure and to the bottom side of the structure, to the effect that the registration of a flexible unit is conditioned by the configuration of the at least one marked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Maiken Hillerup Fogtmann, Jens Valentin Laulund, Daniel W. Mathiasen
  • Patent number: 10257929
    Abstract: A variable stiffness film, a variable stiffness flexible display, and a manufacturing method thereof may include a lower electrode, a variable fluid, and an upper electrode. A polymer layer may be formed on the lower electrode, and a variable fluid receiving portion is patterned on the polymer layer. A variable stiffness layer is formed by putting a variable fluid in the variable fluid receiving portion. The upper electrode is formed on the variable fluid layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soo Chul Lim, Joon Ah Park, Hyun Jeong Lee, Seung Ju Han
  • Patent number: 10247976
    Abstract: A display panel and a method for manufacturing the same, an electronic paper and a driving method thereof are provided. The display panel includes: a first base substrate, a second base substrate arranged oppositely to the first base substrate, and multiple temperature-induced transmittance reversible components which not contacted with each other and arranged in an array between the first base substrate and the second base substrate. Each of the temperature-induced transmittance reversible components includes: a temperature-induced transmittance reversible unit and a temperature control unit. The temperature control unit is used to adjust temperature of the temperature-induced transmittance reversible unit to control transmittance of the temperature-induced transmittance reversible unit with respect to the visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bing Bai, Inho Park, Weitao Chen, Hanyan Sun, Na Li
  • Patent number: 10207585
    Abstract: An input apparatus, a method of inputting a command, and a vehicle equipped with the input apparatus are provided. The input apparatus includes a base frame and a movable manipulation unit installed at the base frame to be movable to at least one selectable position of a plurality of selectable positions. Additionally, a controller is configured to select an application to be executed according to the at least one selectable position to which the movable manipulation unit has moved and operate the movable manipulation unit to execute an operation that corresponds to the selected application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jong Min Oh, Gi Beom Hong, Jung Sang Min
  • 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