Patents Examined by James S Nokham
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Patent number: 11314348Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, scan lines, data lines, sub-pixels, a first conductive line, a second conductive line, and a conductive layer. The sub-pixels are arranged in columns along a first direction and arranged in rows along a second direction. Each of the sub-pixels includes an active element and a pixel electrode electrically connected with the active element. The active element is electrically connected with a corresponding scan line and a corresponding data line. The conductive layer overlaps the sub-pixels. The conductive layer includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is electrically connected with the first conductive line. The second electrode is electrically connected with the second conductive line. The second electrode is separated from the first electrode. One of the first electrode and the second electrode is a touch electrode, and another one is a common electrode.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Yu-Min Chi, Sung-Yu Su
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Patent number: 11300784Abstract: A device, such as a head-mounted device (HMD), may include a frame and a plurality of mirrors coupled to an interior portion of the frame. An imaging device may be coupled to the frame at a position to capture images of an eye of the wearer reflected from the mirrors. The HMD may also include a mirror angle adjustment device to adjust an angle of one or more of the mirrors relative to the imaging device so that the mirror(s) reflect the eye of the wearer to the imaging device.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: FotoNation LimitedInventors: Cosmin Nicolae Rotariu, Istvan Andorko
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Patent number: 11263939Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose various display control methods and apparatuses and various display devices, wherein one of the display control methods comprises: adjusting display pixel density of at least one display unit in a display array as uneven distribution; and displaying multiple first images respectively via multiple display units in the adjusted display array, to splice and/or superimpose the multiple first images to be displayed as a second image, the multiple display units comprising the at least one display unit. The present application can increase the actual utilization rate of display pixels of the display array, and improve splicing and/or image local display quality.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: BEIJING ZHIGU RUI TUO TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Liang Zhou, Lin Du
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Patent number: 11217139Abstract: A gate scanning unit circuit is applied in a display panel including a number of gate lines and a driver configured to output clock signals. The gate scanning unit circuit is configured to scan the number of gate lines. The gate scanning unit circuit includes a flip-flop and at least two output units. The flip-flop is configured to output a trigger signal. Each output unit is connected to the flip-flop and the driver. Each of the at least two output units is connected to the number of gate lines one-to-one. The output unit is configured to output a gate scan signal to the corresponding connected gate line according to the trigger signal and the clock signals.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo Sato, Mitsuru Goto, Wei-Cheng Chen, Chun-Jung Shih
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Patent number: 11170679Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose time division display control methods and apparatus and display devices, wherein a time division display control method disclosed comprises: displaying a first image by a display device; and changing display pixel distribution of the display device at least once within a preset permitted staying duration of vision of human eyes and displaying the first image by the display device changed each time, to cause the displayed first images to be displayed in human eyes as a second image in an overlapped manner. According to the present application, utilization of display pixels of a display device and a display quality of at least a local part of an image can be improved, thereby better meeting diversified actual application demands of users.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: BEIJING ZHIGU RUI TUO TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Liang Zhou, Lin Du
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Patent number: 11158270Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may receive a target image with a first number of bits per color. The system may access masks that each includes dots associated with a grayscale range. A subset of the dots associated with each of the masks may be associated with a subrange of the grayscale range. The dots within the subsets of dots associated with the masks may have different positions. The system may generate a number of images based on the target image and the masks. Each of the images may have a second number of bits per color smaller than the first number of bits per color. The system may display the images sequentially on a display for representing the target image.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventor: Edward Buckley
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Patent number: 11151960Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a display; an illumination sensor; and a processor. The processor is configured to carry out a predetermined operation based on the illumination value being greater than or equal to a threshold, falling below the threshold for a predetermined time and thereafter being greater than or equal to the threshold. The processor is further configured to turn on the display based on the illumination value being greater than or equal to the threshold, falling below the threshold for the predetermined time and thereafter being greater than or equal to the threshold; or the illumination value being less than or equal to a second threshold, rising above the second threshold for the predetermined time, and thereafter being less than or equal to the second threshold, the second threshold being less than the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Sang-won Lee
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Patent number: 11144115Abstract: Disclosed herein are related to a system and a method for porting a physical object in a physical space into a virtual reality. In one approach, the method includes detecting an input device in a physical space relative to a user of the input device. In one approach, the method includes presenting, by a display device to the user, a virtual model of the detected input device in a virtual space at a location and an orientation. The location and the orientation of the virtual model in the virtual space may correspond to a location and an orientation of the input device in the physical space relative to the user. In one approach, the method includes visually providing relative to the virtual model in the virtual space, through the display device, spatial feedback on the user's interaction with the input device in the physical space.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Jan Herling, Adrian Brian Ratter
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Patent number: 11126345Abstract: A first electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises: a communication module; a touch screen; and a processor, wherein the processor receives first data, from a second electronic device registered with the first electronic device, representing the second electronic device via the communication module, and, in response to the movement of the second electronic device to the touch screen, displays second data, corresponding to the first data, on a first area of the touch screen corresponding to the movement of the second electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Min-Seok Han, Dong-Seok Kim
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Patent number: 11086160Abstract: A light control device including a light control sheet including light control units each reversibly change light transmittance and positioned according to a first arrangement that has a regularity, a detection sheet including detection units each detect external input and positioned according to a second arrangement that has a regularity same as the regularity of the first arrangement, a driving unit that outputs to each of the light control units a change signal for changing light transmittance, and a light control processing unit which associates each of the detection units with at least one of the light control units, and causes the driving unit to output the change signal to the light control unit associated with the detection unit that has detected the external input.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masanori Sakamoto, Shinobu Sumi, Wataru Ookubo
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Patent number: 11061562Abstract: A method for providing haptic feedback to an operator of a touch-sensitive display device. The method includes providing an operator interface to be represented in the display device as image data; the operator interface having at least one button assigned to a function to be controlled, graphically displayed in the operator interface, and graphically delimited from the rest of the operator interface; analyzing the image data for a presence and a position of shapes for representing a button; determining an intended display region of a shape, which is to be represented and is identified as a button; representing the image data of the operator interface in the touch-sensitive display device; outputting haptic feedback in response to detection of contact with the touch-sensitive display device in the region of a surface of the touch-sensitive display device which is assigned to a display region of a shape identified as a button.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Holger Kussmann, Ingo Hermanns, Markus Langenberg, Werner Poechmueller
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Patent number: 11021112Abstract: A display control device is provided, which includes an image storing section for storing a plurality of captured images in association with image capturing locations on a road, and a display control section for causing a captured image to be successively displayed, the captured image corresponding to each of a plurality of positions that are identified based on a user operation, where the display control section causes the captured image and an object related to an image capturing location of the captured image to be displayed such that the object is arranged on a position of a display screen corresponding to the image capturing location.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Nishikawa, Mutsumi Katayama, Naohide Aizawa
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Patent number: 11023067Abstract: A device may be controlled using a fingerprint input. Data indicative of a fingerprint is received from a sensor. It is determined that the fingerprint is associated with a first finger profile that is usable to distinguish a first finger from other fingers of a user of the device. A user control that is associated with the finger profile is identified. The user control is configured to control a setting of a function executing on the device. The user control is input to control the first setting.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Tim Schoenauer, Bernhard Raaf
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Patent number: 11013087Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device which can prevent appearance of an after-image after power on. Before or after supply of a power voltage applied to a light-emitting element is cut, a potential of a gate electrode of a transistor controlling the supply of the power voltage to the light-emitting element is initialized. Specifically, in the case where the transistor is n-channel type, the potential of the gate electrode is initialized so that a gate voltage is equal to or lower than a threshold voltage. In the case where the transistor is p-channel type, the potential of the gate electrode is initialized so that the gate voltage is equal to or higher than the threshold voltage.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2013Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kouhei Toyotaka, Koji Kusunoki
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Patent number: 11004371Abstract: A display device includes a display area configured to include a plurality of pixels and a plurality of data lines connected to the pixels. A hole area is disposed within the display area. A hole crack detection line is disposed adjacent to the hole area and surrounds the hole area. The device includes first and second detection lines which include first and second detection transfer lines and first and second detection receiving lines, respectively. A test controller electrically connects the first detection receiving line to a first data line and the second detection receiving line to a second data line. Pixels connected to the first data line that is connected to a first bright-line transistor and pixels connected to the second data line that is connected to a second bright-line transistor are configured to emit light when a crack occurs in the hole crack detection line.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kwang Sae Lee, Won Kyu Kwak, Ki Myeong Eom
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Patent number: 10990339Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device and a control method therefor. The electronic device may include a housing, a processor disposed in the housing, and at least one memory disposed in the housing, connected to the processor, and storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: detect connection of a plurality of displays to the processor; determine connection types of the plurality of connected displays; display a first screen according to a first mode when all of the plurality of connected displays are internal displays that are exposed via at least a part of the housing; and display a second screen according to a second mode when some of the plurality of connected displays are internal displays and the remaining displays are external displays connected to the electronic device via an interface, a part of which is exposed via the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Cha-Hoon Park, Sung-Geun Joo, Ga-Young Jung
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Patent number: 10983621Abstract: A touch display device and a driving method thereof are provided. A driving signal line configured to drive light emitting unit to emit light is multiplexed as a detection electrode. Moreover, the capacitance is formed between the detection electrode and a transparent conductive layer, the capacitance can be changed according to a change in touch force, so that when a position of the detection electrode is pressed, a distance between the detection electrode and the transparent conductive layer changes, and the capacitance between the detection electrode and the transparent conductive layer changes accordingly. In this way, a magnitude of the force at a touch position can be determined by a change in a capacitance value between the detection electrode and the transparent conductive layer, so that a force touch function can be realized.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignees: Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Xu, Tongmin Liu, Jin Sha, Dayu Zhang
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Patent number: 10977999Abstract: A display device includes a driving transistor, an organic light emitting diode (OLED), a first switch, and a second switch. The driving transistor has a first terminal (e.g., a drain terminal) and a second terminal (e.g., a source terminal). The OLED includes a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the driving transistor. The first switch is configured to couple the first terminal of the driving transistor to a first voltage (e.g., VDD) to turn on the OLED, and to couple the first terminal to an intermediate voltage to turn off the OLED. The second switch is configured to couple a second electrode of the OLED to a second voltage (e.g., VSS) to turn on the OLED, and to couple the second electrode of the OLED to the intermediate voltage to turn off the OLED. The intermediate voltage is in between the first voltage and the second voltage.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: YunGil Lee, YoungSik Kim, Jonghyun Yun
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Patent number: 10951253Abstract: 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: March 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dong-Churl Kim, Kyung-Wan Park, Jin-Hyoung Park
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Patent number: 10923072Abstract: A method and a device for displaying non-standard resolution data are provided. The method includes: reading signal source data and determining whether the signal source data is standard resolution data; in a case that the signal source data is non-standard resolution data, determining whether the non-standard resolution data is already stored in a memory; in a case that the non-standard resolution data is already stored in the memory, displaying the non-standard resolution data; and in a case that the non-standard resolution data is not stored in the memory, storing the non-standard resolution data in the memory and displaying the non-standard resolution data.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., K-TRONICS (SUZHOU) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Zhihao Yan