Patents Examined by Jason Olson
  • Patent number: 9280234
    Abstract: A system and method determines whether a finger touch on a touch screen device is outside the defined boundary of a touch target. In such situations a device may adjust the location coordinates of the finger touch to adaptively correspond to an appropriate touch target based on such factors as context, region, distance from touch target, user history, device movement, parallax, etc. The method and system may also be applied to overlapping touch targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Arnaud Marie Froment, Nadim Awad, Kenneth Paul Kiraly
  • Patent number: 9275589
    Abstract: A gate drive circuit, comprising: a plurality of shift register units each having a signal output end, wherein the signal output end of one of the plurality of shift register units except the last one is connected to the signal input end of the next one; L arithmetic units each having a plurality of input ends, wherein L is an integer equal to or larger than 2, and one of the plurality of input ends of each of the L arithmetic units is connected to the signal output end of a respective shift register unit; and a clock generation unit having a plurality of clock output ends for outputting different clock signals, wherein at least one of the plurality of clock output ends is connected to at least one of the other input ends of a respective arithmetic unit except the one input end connected to the signal output end of the shift register unit, so that the L arithmetic units output L different drive signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Like Hu, Xiaojing Qi
  • Patent number: 9275604
    Abstract: A constant speed display method applied in an electronic device is provided. The electronic device is in a full screen view for illustrating images in a photograph. The method has the following steps of: determining whether consecutive swiping touch actions matching specific criteria have been received by the electronic device; and displaying an aligning animation of the images in the photograph at a constant speed without being affected by a next swiping action after the consecutive swiping touch actions matching the specific criteria have been received by the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: I-Fen Shih, Sheng-Chin Chuang, Mao-Hung Lee
  • Patent number: 9275568
    Abstract: A detection circuit and a detection method for liquid crystal display are provided. The detection circuit comprises gate driver for providing row scan signal to liquid crystal cell to be detected; signal source for providing polarity inversion signal to source driver, polarity inversion signal comprises continuous high level signal and continuous low level signal; source driver for performing digital-analog conversion on received display data signal according to preset reference voltage and polarity inversion signal, generating pixel voltage signal, and sending pixel voltage signal to liquid crystal cell to be detected, polarity inversion mode formed by pixel voltage signal is column inversion mode. The polarity inversion mode of column inversion, formed by pixel voltage signal in technical solution makes white dot of damaged area of alignment film is more prominent during detection process, so it would be easy for the operator to recognize it and avoid the issue of missing detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhilong Peng, Xiangfei He, Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 9274660
    Abstract: Electronic devices may use touch pads that have touch sensor arrays, force sensors, and actuators for providing tactile feedback. A touch pad may be mounted in a computer housing. The touch pad may have a rectangular planar touch pad member that has a glass layer covered with ink and contains a capacitive touch sensor array. Force sensors may be mounted under each of the four corners of the rectangular planar touch pad member. The force sensors may be used to measure how much force is applied to the surface of the planar touch pad member by a user. Processed force sensor signals may indicate the presence of button activity such as press and release events. In response to detected button activity or other activity in the device, actuator drive signals may be generated for controlling the actuator. The user may supply settings to adjust signal processing and tactile feedback parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Avi Cieplinski, Brett W. Degner, Duncan Kerr, Patrick Kessler, Paul Puskarich, Marcelo H. Coelho, Aleksandar Pance
  • Patent number: 9261972
    Abstract: Sliding and non-sliding touch input to an electronic device may be selected so that the motions associated with a character to input are intuitive and thus easy to remember. The motions for the contacts of the touch input may be selected ergonomically in a way enabling touch-typing, thus increasing user comfort for longer periods of use. Multiple repositionable finger contact regions are maintained on a contact surface in an arrangement that is easily accessible for the user's fingertips. Each available input character is associated with a unique finger contact or set of simultaneously-entered contacts, each contact being either sliding or non-sliding contact, and the sliding contacts having a direction associated with the character. One example touch surface is a touch screen. Another example touch surface is the table upon which the electronic device sets and thus separate from the electronic device and freeing space on the device for other use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: INPRIS INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS LTD
    Inventors: Nissan Yaron, Ben Etzion Yaron
  • Patent number: 9261980
    Abstract: The invention applies to a pointing device of a mobile element, for example a cursor, on a plane surface. The pointing device comprises a first sensor for measuring the angular rates of the device and a second sensor of the linear accelerations along three dimensions of said device. Preferably, the first sensor is a two-axis or three-axis gyrometer and the second sensor is a three-axis accelerometer. The invention makes it possible to render the movements of the mobile element in the surface of the orientation in which the pointing device is held by its user. This result is achieved by global resolution of the angles of torsion by combining the measurements of the first and second sensors either within an extended Kalman filter or by application of an optimization criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignees: MOVEA, COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Cindy Bassompiere, Yanis Caritu, Bruno Flament, Andrea Vassilev
  • Patent number: 9262020
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive display includes a substrate, pixel electrodes disposed on the substrate, scanning electrodes interspersed with the pixel electrodes, sense electrodes spaced from the scanning electrodes, and a display material disposed between the scanning electrodes and the sense electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Jackson Chi Sun Lai
  • Patent number: 9261990
    Abstract: A hybrid touch screen device applied to an electric device. The hybrid touch screen device preferably includes a touch panel, a pen touch panel, a display panel, and at least one processor. The touch panel detects an input event by a direct touch. The pen touch panel detects a touch pen input and an input event from an entry into a predetermined detection distance before a touch. The display panel displays a screen according to the touch panel, the pen touch panel, and a user operation. The processor also performs control to execute a relevant function according to an input event inputted to the touch panel and the pen touch panel. The processor also performs control so that an input event of the touch pen and an input event of the touch panel are detected independently of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Jin Choi, Ho-Seung Shin, Ju-Seung Lee
  • Patent number: 9261749
    Abstract: A display device includes gate lines, data lines, first wires and second wires extending in the directions of the gate lines and data lines, and pixels having a first subpixel and a second subpixel each. The first subpixel has a first subpixel electrode and a first switching element, and the second subpixel has a second subpixel electrode and second and third switching elements. The control terminals of the three switching elements are connected to the same gate line, and the input terminals of the first and second switching elements are connected to the same data line. The first and second switching elements have output terminals connected to the first and second subpixel electrodes, respectively. The second switching element's output terminal connects to the third switching element, which has an output terminal connected to a second wire. The first wires and the second wires are connected in a pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Hwa Park, Jong-In Kim, Yeo Geon Yoon, Min-Wook Park, Jang-Il Kim, Joon-Chul Goh, Hyo-Seop Kim, Bum Ki Baek, Young-Soo Yoon, Hak Bum Choi, Kyung Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 9262001
    Abstract: A high-accuracy OLED touch display panel structure of narrow border includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate, an OLED layer configured between the upper and lower substrates, a sensing electrode layer, a thin film transistor layer, a cathode layer, and an anode layer. The sensing electrode layer has a plurality of first conductor line units. The thin film transistor layer includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of source lines, and a plurality of second conductor line units. The plurality of first conductor line units and the plurality of second conductor line units form a sensing touch pattern structure for sensing an approaching external object. The plurality of first conductor line units and the plurality of second conductor line units are disposed corresponding to positions of the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of source lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: SuperC-Touch Corporation
    Inventor: Hsiang-Yu Lee
  • Patent number: 9256321
    Abstract: A touch device, a processor and a touch signal accessing method thereof are provided. The touch signal accessing method of the touch device includes the following steps. A current touch point is received. Whether a spatial continuity is smaller than a spatial threshold, and a time continuity is smaller than a time threshold are determined. If the spatial continuity is smaller than the space threshold and the time continuity is smaller than the time threshold, then the current touch point is added to a temporary touch point set and a count value is accumulated. Whether the current touch point is a significance point is determined. If the current touch point is the significance point, a touch point reporting procedure is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Shen-Po Wang, Bo-Wen Xiao, Yen-Lin Pan
  • Patent number: 9257066
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, a method of operating an image data processing circuit which controls an operation of an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display includes transforming at least one first RGB value into at least one luminance value and at least one chroma value. The method further includes adjusting the at least one luminance value and the at least one chroma value based on at least one first control value. The method further includes generating at least one second RGB value based on the at least one adjusted luminance value and the at least one adjusted chroma value. The method further includes outputting the second RGB values to the OLED display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Ho Roh, Eun Ji Kang, Kyoung Man Kim, Jong Hyup Lee, Kee Moon Chun
  • Patent number: 9256307
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a touch panel, including: a transparent substrate; an electrode formed in a mesh pattern on the transparent substrate; and a wiring formed in a wavy pattern on the transparent substrate and connected to the electrode, the wiring having curve shape of first peaks and second peaks alternately continuing along a longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Hwan Oh, Youn Soo Kim, Ho Joon Park
  • Patent number: 9250791
    Abstract: A display control device according to the present invention includes a detection unit for detecting contact of an operating object on a display surface of a display unit, a position calculation unit for calculating a contact position, on the display surface, of the operating object whose contact has been detected by the detection unit, an operation process determination unit for determining, from a plurality of operation processes associated with a motion of the operating object, one operation process to be performed, according to a length of a contact time of continuously contacting the display surface within a first area including a reference contact position which is a contact position of the operating object at a time of the operating object being made to contact the display surface after a state of separation from the display surface, and an operation processing unit for changing display of the display unit by the operation process that is performed, based on a motion of the operating object that is furt
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Miyashita, Tatsushi Nashida
  • Patent number: 9250750
    Abstract: A flat panel display with a built-in touch panel includes a display panel having a lower substrate, an upper substrate, and a plurality of touch sensing patterns on the upper substrate. The plurality of touch sensing patterns includes a plurality of sensing cells on a bottom surface of the upper substrate that faces the lower substrate, a plurality of outer lines on the bottom surface of the upper substrate that connect lines of sensing cells of the plurality of sensing cells along at least one of a first direction or a second direction to a driving circuit, a plurality of connection lines that correspond to respective outer lines on the lower substrate. The plurality of outer lines are connected to the driving circuit via the plurality of connection lines on the lower substrate, and the plurality of outer lines are electrically connected to the corresponding connection lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Myung-Sook Jung
  • Patent number: 9250681
    Abstract: A system and method for improving power consumption by providing the ability to detect whether a cover is placed on top of Infrared, IR, touch device. While the cover is in the open state, a certain amount of the light transmitted by the IR transmitters is directed upward and away from the IR receivers in the device. When the cover is closed, this light is reflected off of the cover and is incident on the IR receivers. The system of the present invention recognizes this increased level of received IR light and determines that the cover is in a closed position. Having made such a determination that the cover is placed on the device, the device's power savings system can switch to an appropriate power saving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: NOOK DIGITAL, LLC
    Inventor: Songan Andy Chang
  • Patent number: 9244531
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive sheet member contains a body having predetermined hardness and a sheet shape and a sense-of-touch-representing unit that represents a sense of touch. The sense-of-touch-representing unit has a predetermined size and is arranged at positions of the body or at a predetermined position of the body. The touch-sensitive sheet member also contains a medium-supplying unit that supplies medium to the sense-of-touch-representing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Shun Kayama, Takashi Sawada, Yukiko Shimizu, Tsutomu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9244647
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: an interface unit which connects a device; a device control unit which, when a communication device is connected to the interface unit, executes communication via the communication device; and a display unit which displays an image based on image data received via the communication device; wherein the device control unit acquires communication information about the communication using the communication device when detachment of the communication device from the interface unit is detected, and detects that a storage device capable of storing data is connected to the interface unit, and stores the communication information into the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nakamura, Yoshinori Minamide
  • Patent number: 9240133
    Abstract: A detection circuit and a detection method for liquid crystal display are provided. The detection circuit comprises gate driver for providing row scan signal to liquid crystal cell to be detected; signal source for providing polarity inversion signal to source driver, polarity inversion signal comprises continuous high level signal and continuous low level signal; source driver for performing digital-analog conversion on received display data signal according to preset reference voltage and polarity inversion signal, generating pixel voltage signal, and sending pixel voltage signal to liquid crystal cell to be detected, polarity inversion mode formed by pixel voltage signal is column inversion mode. The polarity inversion mode of column inversion, formed by pixel voltage signal in technical solution makes white dot of damaged area of alignment film is more prominent during detection process, so it would be easy for the operator to recognize it and avoid the issue of missing detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhilong Peng, Xiangfei He, Wei Wang