Patents Examined by James Nokham
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Patent number: 10175780Abstract: Example systems and methods of providing a user interface are presented. In one example, a graphical object is displayed on an opaque display component on a user-facing side of a computing device. Using a sensing component of the computing device, movement of a physical pointer controlled by a user is sensed. The physical pointer may be located opposite the user-facing side of the computer device. On the opaque display component, a representation of the physical pointer is displayed during the movement of the physical pointer. The graphical object, as displayed on the opaque display component, is modified based on the sensed movement of the physical pointer during the movement of the physical pointer.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: ADOBE INC.Inventors: Daichi Ito, Nathan Carr, Naoki Sasaki
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Patent number: 10151923Abstract: Provided is a heads up display system having a platform having a receiver configured to removably receive and physically support a mobile phone and/or tablet having a display screen, a medium oriented at an angle with respect to the platform, and an opening defined in the platform between the receiver and the medium. The system may include a couple configured to couple the platform to a structure or surface. The coupler can be configured to enable the platform to be coupled to the surface or structure at a selected angle.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: SENSEDRIVER TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Michael Amaru, Gustavo Herrera
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Patent number: 10146346Abstract: A touch display device including a touch display panel and a data line driving circuit is provided. The touch display panel includes a plurality of pixels and a first shift register unit. The first shift register unit provides a first shifted signal to a first portion of the pixels. A first transistor receives a clock signal, is coupled to an output node, and outputs the first shifted signal. A second transistor receives a first trigger signal, is coupled to the first transistor. A third transistor is coupled to the second transistor, receives a first operation voltage and a second trigger signal. A fourth transistor is coupled to the first source, receives a second operation voltage and the second trigger signal. A capacitor is coupled between the first transistor and stacked by a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and a third metal layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Li-Wei Sung, Yu-Chien Kao, Hsieh-Li Chou, Yu-Ti Huang, Yu-Che Chang, Chung-Le Chen, Hung-Hsun Chen
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Patent number: 10140935Abstract: A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel including gate lines, data lines, and pixels, a gate driver, a data driver, and a timing controller. The pixels include first and second pixels. The first and second pixels are arranged in pixel rows adjacent to each other, arranged in different pixel columns, connected to the same gate line, display the same color, and receive data voltages having different polarities from each other. The image data include first pixel data displayed in the first pixels and second pixel data displayed in the second pixels. When the first pixel data have a first grayscale value and the second pixel data have a second grayscale value different from the first grayscale value, the timing controller modulates the first and second pixel data to allow the first and second pixel data to have a grayscale value between the first and second grayscale values.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seokyun Son, Kuk-Hwan Ahn, BongHyun You, Jai-Hyun Koh, Sungjae Park, Dong-Won Park, Iksoo Lee, Seokha Hong
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Patent number: 10095336Abstract: The present disclosure provides an integrated touch control display panel, including a first substrate, a plurality of data lines supplying display signals to display pixels, a plurality of touch control signal lines carrying touch control signals for touch control electrodes, a plurality of first lead lines for the data lines configured outside a display region, a plurality of second lead lines for the touch control signal lines configured outside the display region, and a conductive layer configured adjacent to the second lead lines. In a direction perpendicular to the first substrate, the first lead lines overlap with the second lead lines in an overlapping region. The second lead lines are configured on the side of the first lead lines facing away from the first substrate. The conductive layer is insulated from the first lead lines, and is electrically connected to the second lead lines.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignees: Shanghai AVIC OPTO Electronics Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Huijun Jin
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Patent number: 10082671Abstract: A head-mounted display includes: a distance measurement unit that measures a distance to a target present in a predetermined range; an imaging unit that images the predetermined range and acquires different preliminary information from the measured distance; and a distance decision unit that decides a distance to the target included in a second region based on the preliminary information acquired in regard to the target included in a measured first region when the first region and the second region different from the first region are included in the predetermined range in which the target is imaged.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Naoto Aruga
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Patent number: 10061455Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The array substrate comprises a touch circuit including a plurality of first switching units, a controlling unit, and a plurality of touch detecting terminals, and a plurality of independent touch electrodes arranged in an array. The touch electrode is electrically connected to the touch detecting terminal through at least one first switching unit. When the array substrate is in a touch detecting stage, the controlling unit controls the first switching units to be turned on, such that the touch electrodes are progressively detected.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignees: Shanghai AVIC OPTO Electronics Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kerui Xi, Zhaokeng Cao, Tingting Cui
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Patent number: 10056030Abstract: A pixel structure includes a plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the sub-pixels includes a first light-emitting diode (LED) and a second LED. The first LED is configured to emit a first color light. The second LED is configured to emit a second color light. Each of the first LED and the second LED includes an anode and a cathode. The anode of the first LED and the anode of the second LED are coupled to a same signal line. The cathode of the first LED and the cathode of the second LED are coupled to different signal lines.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Tsung-Tien Wu, Tsung-Yi Lin, Cheng-Chieh Chang, Pin-Miao Liu, Kang-Hung Liu
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Patent number: 10007110Abstract: Provided is a system for presenting information to a driver in a vehicle with a steering wheel and dashboard and/or windshield includes a first enclosure that supports a mobile device and a combiner glass (e.g., half reflective mirror) on the dashboard or windshield. A second bracket releasably attaches a tactile input device to the steering wheel. The tactile input device generates signals representing motion of the driver's finger or thumb across a touch pad and the actuation of an entry key of the device. The tactile input device and the mobile device communicate wirelessly, in preferred embodiments. The enclosure supports the mobile device to have an orientation with respect to the combiner glass that produces a heads-up display that can be controlled by the driver's interaction with the tactile input device. Advantageously, the present invention provides systems and methods that minimize visual, mechanical and cognitive distractions.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: SENSEDRIVER TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Michael Amaru, Gustavo Herrera
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Patent number: 9990043Abstract: Gesture recognition systems for detecting gesture commands in light conditions and in dark conditions including a computing system having a processor and a thermographic camera configured to detect infrared radiation from a gesture made by a user and communicate gesture image information to the processor for carrying out a computer-readable gesture command are shown and described. In some examples, the computing system and the thermographic camera are supported on an eyewear article frame. In some other examples, the computing system and the thermographic camera are components of a mobile device. In even other examples, the computing system and the thermographic camera are components of a desk top computer or a laptop computer.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Atheer Labs, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Fink, Ryan Phelps, Gary Peck
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Patent number: 9978332Abstract: A display device including: a display panel including pixels and data lines; a data driver configured to apply data voltages to the data lines; an image pattern determiner configured to determine an image pattern based on an input image signal and to generate image pattern information; and a bias current control signal generator configured to generate a bias current control signal for determining a magnitude of a bias current of the data driver based on the image pattern information.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., LtdInventors: Yong Soon Lee, Moon Shik Kang, Jin Ho Park
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Patent number: 9952429Abstract: Collaborative scene sharing for overcoming visual obstructions is provided. Video feeds of a scene are obtained from multiple devices viewing the scene from different angle. An obstruction obstructs portion(s) of the scene from view by a device. An aggregation grid that partitions views of the scene into cells is established and used in providing an aggregated view of the scene to the device. This includes identifying cell(s) of the aggregation grid for which the view by the device is obstructed by the obstruction, and providing to the device video portion(s) obtained from video feed(s) from the multiple devices. The video portion(s) correspond to the cell(s) for which the view by the device is obstructed, and the video feeds from which the video portions are obtained are from other device(s), of the multiple devices, for which the view for the cell(s) is unobstructed.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Vijay Ekambaram, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Patent number: 9939925Abstract: Example systems and methods of providing a user interface are presented. In one example, a graphical object is displayed on an opaque display component on a user-facing side of a computing device. Using a sensing component of the computing device, movement of a physical pointer controlled by a user is sensed. The physical pointer may be located opposite the user-facing side of the computing device. On the opaque display component, a representation of the physical pointer is displayed during the movement of the physical pointer. The graphical object, as displayed on the opaque display component, is modified based on the sensed movement of the physical pointer during the movement of the physical pointer.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATEDInventors: Daichi Ito, Nathan Carr, Naoki Sasaki
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Patent number: 9941918Abstract: A bendable user terminal device provided with a flexible display controls the flexible display to display information on a first area while the user terminal device is maintained in a bent state based on a detected bending state of the user terminal device, and, in response to the user terminal device changing from the bent state to an unbent state, controls the flexible display not to display the information on the first area.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dong-churl Kim, Kyung-wan Park, Jin-hyoung Park
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Patent number: 9927832Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide an input device. The input device includes a first plurality of sensor electrodes disposed substantially parallel to each other and a second plurality of sensor electrodes disposed substantially perpendicular to the first plurality of sensor electrodes. An areal extent of the first and second sensor electrodes defines a sensor region. The input devices further includes a plurality of routing traces disposed within the sensor region of the input device. A first sensor electrode included in the first plurality of sensor electrodes is coupled to a first routing trace included in the plurality of routing traces, and the first routing trace is routed through a second sensor electrode included in the first plurality of sensor electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATEDInventors: Tetsuo Tanemura, Koji Kokubu
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Patent number: 9910329Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device according to an embodiment includes a liquid crystal panel in which a gate line, a dummy data line, and a data line are disposed, a timing controller configured to generate compensation data, a data driver configured to generate a compensation data voltage on the basis of the compensation data, provide the generated compensation data voltage to the dummy data line, and provide a data voltage for displaying an image to the data line, a common electrode configured to provide a common voltage to pixels of the liquid crystal panel, and a compensation capacitor positioned outside of a pixel array of the liquid crystal panel and charged upon receiving the compensation data voltage.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyujin Kim, Ooksang Yoo, Taehun Kim
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Patent number: 9881573Abstract: A liquid crystal display having adaptive pulse shaping control mechanism includes a first gate driver for providing a first gate signal based on a first modulation voltage, a second gate driver for providing a second gate signal based on a second modulation voltage, a first pixel array unit for illustrating image according to the first gate signal, a second pixel array unit for illustrating image according to the second gate signal, a timing controller for performing a pulse compare operation over the first and second gate signals so as to generate a first shaping control signal and a second shaping control signal, a first gate pulse modulation unit for providing the first modulation voltage according to the first shaping control signal, and a second gate pulse modulation unit for providing the second modulation voltage according to the second shaping control signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Meng-Sheng Chang, Hsiao-Chung Cheng, Tien-chin Huang
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Patent number: 9857656Abstract: Provided are an electrode plate using an ITO, and an electrochromic plate, an electrochromic mirror and a display device using the electrode plate, the electrode plate including a transparent electrode layer, a metal mesh pattern on the transparent electrode layer, an insulating layer provided in a space defined by an upper surface of the transparent electrode layer and the metal mesh pattern and between metal components of the metal mesh pattern, and a base substrate on the metal mesh pattern and the insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Young Dae Seo, Hyo Won Son, Joo Hyun Hwang
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Patent number: 9846321Abstract: A voltage adjustment circuit for adjusting a voltage to be supplied to scanning lines of a display device includes a slope adjustment circuit configured to adjust a slope of a decrease in the voltage based on data that is externally input, and a clamp voltage adjustment circuit configured to adjust a voltage value at which the voltage is clamped based on the data.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2013Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor CorporationInventors: Katashi Hasegawa, Masaya Mizutani
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Patent number: 9818331Abstract: A method is provided for a display system including an electronic packaging box and an electronic display device, and the electronic packaging box includes a receiving structure configured to receive the electronic display device, a transmissive/reflective component configured to form a virtual image of the image displayed on the display screen of the electronic display device when viewed by a viewer at a viewing angle.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: TRONXYZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhang Ge, Lei Song, Rui Wang, Jingwen Lai