Patents Examined by Jason Mandeville
  • Patent number: 9691326
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including: a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels including: a first switching transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a scan line, a first electrode coupled to a data line, and a second electrode coupled to a first node; a first driving voltage transistor including a gate electrode coupled to the first node, and a first electrode coupled to a first driving voltage; a write transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a write line, a first electrode coupled to a second electrode of the first driving voltage transistor, and a second electrode coupled to a second node; a second switching transistor including a gate electrode coupled to the second node, a first electrode coupled to a first power voltage, and a second electrode coupled to an organic light emitting diode; and a first capacitor coupled between the first node and the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Gi Chang Lee
  • Patent number: 9693452
    Abstract: An apparatus including a substrate; at least one conductive path extending over the substrate and including a first portion of indium tin oxide connected in electrical series to a second portion of a different conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Aaron B. Konvisser, Mohammad Ali Mockarram-Dorri, Pasi Laine
  • Patent number: 9684427
    Abstract: A three-dimensional virtual-touch human-machine interface system (20) and a method (100) of operating the system (20) are presented. The system (20) incorporates a three-dimensional time-of-flight sensor (22), a three-dimensional autostereoscopic display (24), and a computer (26) coupled to the sensor (22) and the display (24). The sensor (22) detects a user object (40) within a three-dimensional sensor space (28). The display (24) displays an image (42) within a three-dimensional display space (32). The computer (26) maps a position of the user object (40) within an interactive volumetric field (36) mutually within the sensor space (28) and the display space (32), and determines when the positions of the user object (40) and the image (42) are substantially coincident. Upon detection of coincidence, the computer (26) executes a function programmed for the image (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tarek El Dokor, Joshua T. King, James E. Holmes, William E. Glomski, Maria N. Ngomba
  • Patent number: 9678583
    Abstract: Systems for surface-free pointing and/or command input include a computing device operably linked to an imaging device. The imaging device can be any suitable video recording device including a conventional webcam. At least one pointing/input device is provided including first, second, and third sets of actuable light sources, wherein at least the first and second sets emit differently colored light. The imaging device captures one or more sequential image frames each including a view of a scene including the activated light sources. One or more computer program products calculate a two-dimensional or three-dimensional position and/or a motion and/or an orientation of the pointing/input device in the captured image frames by identifying a two-dimensional or three-dimensional position of the activated light sources of the first, second, and/or third sets of light sources. Certain activation patterns of light sources are mapped to particular pointing and/or input commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventor: Fuhua Cheng
  • Patent number: 9678626
    Abstract: A computing device is configured with a multifunctional backlit display. The backlighting can be operated in at least a first mode and a second mode. In a first mode, the backlighting provides luminance to the display so that images on the display can be easily seen. In a second mode, the backlighting provides visual stimulus for relaying information to a user or a user's surroundings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: 9588592
    Abstract: An information display apparatus with proximity detection performance contains a display device that displays image information, a sensor constituted of plural detection electrodes, and an adjusting device of detection resolution that adjusts the detection resolution to be detected based on a distance between the sensor and an object that is contacted to any one of the detection electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Koshiyama, Haruo Oba
  • Patent number: 9582124
    Abstract: A touch screen panel, a flat panel display apparatus integrated touch screen panel, and a method of manufacturing the same. The touch screen panel includes: first touch detection patterns extending in a first direction and spaced apart from each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and second touch detection patterns extending in the second direction and spaced apart from each other in the first direction. Each of the first touch detection patterns includes a first transparent conductive pattern and a first edge conductive pattern surrounding an edge of the first transparent conductive pattern, and each of the second touch detection patterns includes a second transparent conductive pattern and a second edge conductive pattern surrounding an edge of the second transparent conductive pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Byung-Uk Han
  • Patent number: 9542033
    Abstract: Described is an interactive control device (1) for at least one service apparatus (2), comprising a control unit (3), a screen (4) operatively connected to the control unit (3) having touch selection means (5) for interacting with the user. The touch selection means (5) are configurable between an active condition wherein they receive the touch information of the user and an inactive condition wherein they do not receive the touch information of the user. More specifically, the interactive control device (1) comprises a presence and distance sensor (7) operatively connected to the control unit (3) and configured for generating a detection signal (8) representing the presence and the distance of a user relative to the sensor (7). The control unit (3) is configured for receiving the detection signal (8), for processing it and for generating a control signal of at least part of the service apparatus (2) as a function of the processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: INTEREL TRADEMARKS B.V.
    Inventor: Andrea Benoni
  • Patent number: 9514673
    Abstract: Discussed is an organic light emitting display device. The organic light emitting display device includes a first substrate configured to include an active area including a plurality of pixels and upper, lower, left, and right inactive areas defined near the active area, and a second substrate facing-coupled to the first substrate. The first substrate includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines formed in the active area, a plurality of driving power lines formed in parallel with the plurality of data lines to supply a driving voltage to the pixels, a cathode electrode layer connected to the pixels in common to supply a cathode voltage to the pixels, a plurality of driving power pads provided in each of the upper and lower inactive areas, and a plurality of cathode connection parts provided in each of the left and right inactive areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Wook Kwon, Bum Sik Kim, Kil Hwan Oh, Hye Mi Oh
  • Patent number: 9501146
    Abstract: An exemplary electronic device includes: a housing; a display configured to display an operation area; a touch screen panel configured to detect at least an input operation made by a user to the operation area; a first vibrator configured to vibrate at least one of the display and the touch screen panel; a second vibrator configured to vibrate the housing; and a vibration controller configured to control vibration of the first vibrator and the second vibrator in accordance with the input operation of the user to the touch screen panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Inata, Yusuke Adachi, Akira Koga, Ryo Okumura, Naoto Yumiki
  • Patent number: 9454260
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a system and method for enabling multi-display input. According to one embodiment, the presence of an object is detected within a display area of a first display panel or a second display panel via at least one optical sensor coupled to a processor. Positional data of the object is received from the optical sensor, and a control operation associated with either the first display or second display panel is determined based on the positional data received from the optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Campbell, John P. McCarthy, Bradley Neal Suggs
  • Patent number: 9449543
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to reduce a cause of pseudo contour when display is performed with a time gray scale method. According to the present invention, one pixel is divided into m sub-pixels so that an area ratio of each sub-pixel becomes 20:21:22: . . . :2m-3:2m-2:2m-1 (m is an integer number of m?2), and one frame is divided into n sub-frames so that a ratio of a lighting period in each sub-frame becomes 20:2m:22m: . . . :2(n-3)m:2(n-2)m:2(n-1)m (n is an integer number of n?2). Then, a gray scale is expressed by controlling a manner of lighting in each of the m sub-pixels in each of the n sub-frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Shishido, Hajime Kimura, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9430069
    Abstract: A touch scanning method includes, in the absence of a touch, performing a coarse scanning on the touch screen, and in the presence of a touch, performing a fine scanning on a full detection-activated region containing a touch point while performing the coarse scanning on the remaining region other than the full detection-activated region. During coarse scanning, in first M frames of M+N successive frames, drive lines spaced apart from one another by at least one of the drive lines are driven, and sense lines spaced apart from one another by at least one of the sense lines are detected. In the succeeding N frames of the M+N frames, there is no activity in the drive and sense lines. During the fine scanning, each drive line and each sense line within the full detection-activated region is driven and detected, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignees: Shanghai AVIC OPTO Electronics Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhifeng Zhu, Xupeng Wang, Baolei Guo, Shanrong Wang, Xiaoyuan Ding
  • Patent number: 9430067
    Abstract: Discussed herein is an information processing apparatus that detects a touch input at a touch panel disposed on or formed integrally with a display panel, performs sampling of the detected touch position and utilizes a predictive filter to estimate the coordinates of the touch position. The apparatus comprises a controller that actuates the predictive filter based on the application being executed and updates the display panel with the estimated coordinates when a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji Tokutake
  • Patent number: 9341851
    Abstract: An observer can observe a video in a state in which the visual line of the observer is caused to overlook the downward side. In particular, in a virtual image display apparatus, even when the positions of the eyes, the nose, and the ears of the observer deviate from standard positions and the observer cannot observe a video in a targeted overlooking direction in a worn state in standard setting, it is possible to change an angle in an overlooking direction with respect to a front direction and cause the observer to perform observation in a suitable visual line by changing, with a nose receiving section functioning as an adjusting section, the posture of the virtual image display apparatus and adjusting an emission state of video light from a light guide member according to individual differences of the observer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriaki Hiraide
  • Patent number: 9342202
    Abstract: A conductive multi-touch touch-sensitive panel includes two intersecting but electrically isolated arrays of linear conductors which can be brought into electrical contact by touching the panel. A display element may be positioned beneath the two arrays of linear conductors to provide a touchscreen panel. A touch to a cover plate or member causes one or more linear conductors in one array to contact one or more linear conductors in the other array. The location of a touch to the panel can be detected by individually or sequentially applying an electrical signal, such as a voltage or current, to each linear conductor in one array while sensing voltage or current on each of the linear conductors in the other array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mustafa Keskin, Cheong Kun, Louis Dominic Oliveira
  • Patent number: 9324303
    Abstract: Embodiments of techniques and apparatus for open angle detection and processing are described. In embodiments, an apparatus may comprise a first panel having a display, a second panel movably coupled with the first panel. The first and second panels variably define an angle between these two panels. One or more sensors may be disposed in the apparatus and configured to detect an angle change event of the variable angle between two panels. The angle changing information may be used by an application to vary output of the application onto the display. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Liwei Ma, Jiqiang Song, Gansha Wu, Zhuo Wang
  • Patent number: 9269320
    Abstract: A gate driver and a liquid crystal display using the same are provided. The gate driver includes a scan signal generating unit and a compensation unit. The scan signal generating unit has a plurality of output channels, and is used for sequentially outputting a scan signal through the output channels according to a basic clock and a start pulse. The compensation unit is coupled to the scan signal generating unit, and used for compensating the total resistance of each of the output channels, and sequentially receiving and transmitting the scan signal to a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ching-Lin Li, Yu-Chun Tsai, Chao-Ching Hsu, Shih-Yuan Su
  • Patent number: 9230493
    Abstract: A driver circuit of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a drive line driving a lightbar of the LCD device. A discharge module and a switch module are in series connection between the drive line and a ground end of the LCD device driver circuit in sequence; a starting signal sent by the LCD device is coupled to the switch module. When the starting signal is an OFF signal, the switch module is turned on, and when the starting signal is an ON signal, the switch module is turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Inventor: Xianming Zhang
  • Patent number: 9213438
    Abstract: An optical touchpad including a prism having a four-sided cross section including a light entry interface, a light exit interface, a touch interface and a back interface substantially parallel to and spaced apart from the touch interface. Collimated light enters the prism through the light entry interface, is reflected from the touch interface by total internal reflection, and exits the prism through the light exit interface. A first image sensor detects the collimated light exiting from the light exit interface and a second image sensor detects the image of an object positioned over the touch interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ming-Chun Su, Cheng-Yu Tsai