Patents Examined by Jason Olson
  • Patent number: 9239594
    Abstract: A display device and a method of controlling the display device are provided. The display device includes: a display unit for displaying visual information to a user on an overall screen region, and being configured to bend with respect to a bending portion between screen regions of the overall screen region that display the visual information; a pressure sensor a location corresponding to the bending portion, and being configured to sense a first pressure applied to the bending portion when the display unit is bent with respect to the bending portion; and a control unit for controlling the visual information provided through the display unit based on sensing information transferred from the pressure sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Joon Lee, Hae-Kang Lee, Ji-Soo Lim
  • Patent number: 9240158
    Abstract: A method comprising determining that an apparatus is in a partial display physical configuration, receiving an indication of an input that identifies a program to operate in a greater display physical configuration, determining that the apparatus has become configured in the greater display physical configuration, and causing the program to utilize at least part of a display area and at least part of another display area is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies OY
    Inventor: Catalin Gheorghiu
  • Patent number: 9229567
    Abstract: A method includes detecting a touch on a touch-sensitive display, determining a time of a display update of the touch-sensitive display, and adjusting a scanning rate of scanning electrodes of the touch-sensitive display based on the time of the display update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Premal Parekh, Amit Pal Singh
  • Patent number: 9229678
    Abstract: An image display system including a first image display apparatus, a second image display apparatus and an image processing apparatus is provided. When the first image display apparatus and the second image display apparatus each display a partial image of an image to be displayed, the first image display apparatus and the second image display apparatus each display the partial image based on a feature of the entirety of the image to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kotaro Kitajima
  • Patent number: 9224345
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display comprises: a liquid crystal panel; a panel driver for driving the liquid crystal panel; a backlight unit providing light to the liquid crystal panel, and comprising light emitting sources having light emitting diodes connected in series and driving transistors driving the light emitting sources; and a backlight unit driver comprising a transistor driver that controls the driving transistors, a DC power source that supplies DC power to the light emitting sources, and a power controller that drives the DC power source, and enables or disables an output of the DC power source with reference to signals supplied to the driving transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junhyeok Yang
  • Patent number: 9223337
    Abstract: A single layer self-capacitance touch screen and its data processing method which can realize multi-touch identification, the said touch screen includes at least two self-capacitance electrode assemblies independent of each other, all of which are located in the same plane layer and fully cover the whole touch zone of the touch screen without overlapping each other; the said self-capacitance electrode assembly includes at least a pair of self-capacitance coupling electrode couples, which include two electrode plates seated in the same plane, and these two electrode plates all include their own straight-line electrode plate coupling side and straight-line electrode plate base, which have included angle of acute angle; in the self-capacitance electrode assembly, the center lines of the self-capacitance coupling electrode couples are placed parallel to each other, and the center lines of arbitrarily two self-capacitance coupling electrode couples are also placed parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: FocalTech Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Weiping Liu, J K Zhang
  • Patent number: 9224366
    Abstract: Disclosed is a bendable stereoscopic 3D display device that includes a display panel including a plurality of left-eye pixels and a plurality of right-eye pixels, the display panel being divided into a plurality of blocks; a separator on the display panel to transmit or block images output from the left-eye pixels and the right-eye pixels; a gate driver and a data driver to drive the display panel; a timing controller to receive image data and a timing signal for driving the gate driver and the data driver; and a control unit to receive a bending information on at least one of the plurality of blocks when there is a change in curvature of the display panel, reset a view map of the at least one of the plurality of blocks based on the bending information, and rearrange the image data based on the view map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JuSeong Park, JongHee Hwang
  • Patent number: 9223159
    Abstract: A spatial light modulation device includes a phase-modulation type spatial light modulator, a temperature sensor detecting a temperature of the spatial light modulator, and a control unit providing a drive signal to the spatial light modulator. The control unit has a storage unit. The storage unit stores N correction patterns created so as to correspond to N (N is an integer not less than 2) temperature values of the spatial light modulator in order to correct phase distortion of the spatial light modulator. The control unit selects one correction pattern according to a temperature value of the spatial light modulator, and generates the drive signal based on a phase pattern created by adding the one correction pattern to a desired phase pattern. Thereby, it becomes possible to suppress phase distortion according to a temperature change while suppressing a delay in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Yuu Takiguchi, Naoya Matsumoto, Tomoko Otsu
  • Patent number: 9218768
    Abstract: Disclosed an organic light-emitting diode display device in which the number of signal lines is minimized by sharing a predetermined signal line between adjacent pixels in a display panel having a plurality of signal lines formed therein, thereby improving an aperture ratio. The organic light-emitting diode display device includes a display panel defining pixels, a gate driver, a data driver, a multiplexer (MUX) electrically connecting an output terminal of the data driver and the pixels into a 1:1, 1:N (N is a natural number) or N:N structure, and a timing controller. Accordingly, the MUX is provided between the data driver and the pixels, and each pixel and signal lines are selectively connected through the MUX, so that it is possible to reduce the number of Integrated chips (ICs) provided by allowing a compensation circuit built in the data driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HoYoung Lee
  • Patent number: 9218119
    Abstract: A computer device with a sensor subsystem for detecting off-surface objects, that carries out continued processing of the position and shape of objects detected in the vicinity of the device, associates these positions and shapes with predetermined gesture states, determines if the object is transitioning between gesture states and provides feedback based on the determined transition between the gesture states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Dan Gärdenfors, Karl-Anders Johansson, James Haliburton
  • Patent number: 9213439
    Abstract: An optical imaging device includes a display panel whereon a coordinate detecting area is formed, at least one light source disposed outside the display panel for emitting light to illuminate an object, and a depth sensor installed on a side of the display panel for sensing image data of the object. The image data include a width information corresponding to a distance between the object and the depth sensor in a first direction, and a depth information corresponding to a distance between the object and the depth sensor in a second direction. The optical imaging device further includes a control module coupled to the depth sensor for receiving the image data sensed by the depth sensor and for determining whether to calculate a coordinate value of the object according to the width information and the depth information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Yen Chen, Po-Liang Huang
  • Patent number: 9213414
    Abstract: A system and method for mirroring a touch screen interface on a mechanical keyboard is disclosed. A display screen is mapped to a touch sensing area on a keyboard having mechanical keys with key caps closely spaced to provide a relatively smooth surface. Touch position on the keyboard is detected and used to control a user interface on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: EZERO TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: David L. Henty
  • Patent number: 9214122
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which carries out a single tone display with a change in pixel luminance during a single cycle composed of first to mth frame periods (m is an integer of 4 or more), includes: pixels of a first type in which when a halftone is displayed, supply of two or more kinds of data voltage during at least either the first to nth frame periods (n is an integer of 2 or more to m or less) or the (n+1)th to mth frame periods causes liquid crystal layers to produce rise responses during the first to nth frame periods and produce decay responses during the (n+1)th to mth frame periods; and pixels of a second type in which when a halftone is displayed, supply of two or more kinds of data voltage during at least either the first to nth frame periods or the (n+1)th to mth frame periods causes liquid crystal layers to produce decay responses during the first to nth frame periods and produce rise responses during the (n+1)th to mth frame periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masae Kawabata, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Kentaroh Irie
  • Patent number: 9207860
    Abstract: A method includes detecting a swipe gesture from an initial touch location on a touch-sensitive display of an electronic device; determining touch attributes for the swipe gesture; and performing a lock function if the touch attributes correspond to a stored swipe gesture associated with the lock function. Further lock functions may be activated by detection of attributes of a further stored swipe gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Tobias Rydenhag, Per Åke Daniel Johansson, Nils Roger Andersson Reimer
  • Patent number: 9202435
    Abstract: A correction device for a display device includes a detection unit which detects the measured XYZ values of a CIE1931 color system; a first conversion unit which calculates the measured X10Y10Z10 values of a CIE1964 color system based on the measured XYZ values with reference to the characteristics of the display device; a second conversion unit which calculates the target X10Y10Z10 values of the CIE1964 color system based on the target XYZ values representing tristimulus values of a target color in the CIE1931 color system; a correction value calculation unit which compares the measured X10Y10Z10 values with the target X10Y10Z10 values so as to produce a correction value which allows those values to match each other; a correction value calibration unit which rewrites the correction value with a correction value of the CIE1931 color system; and a compensation unit which performs color correction on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuuichi Fujimura, Katsuyuki Matsui
  • Patent number: 9201861
    Abstract: A character input prediction apparatus includes: an operation input unit that obtains information of a character input operation by a user using a character key layout display which includes character keys; a dictionary storage unit that stores a dictionary including candidate character strings; an indication movement detection unit that detects an indication position and an indication direction respectively showing a position and a movement direction of the character input operation in the character key layout display, from the information of the character input operation; a filter generation unit that determines a character range located in the indication direction with the indication position as a base point, in the character key layout display; and a dictionary search unit that searches the dictionary for a predictive character string including any character included in the character range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshimi Nishii, Susumu Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Masaki Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 9202445
    Abstract: A display drive integrated circuit includes a single full frame memory having a first half frame memory region and a second half frame memory region, a mode determination unit and a control unit. The mode determination unit determines the received image data type (still image or video) and accordingly selects a normal mode or an enhance mode associated with a display quality. The control unit operates in the normal mode or the enhance mode in response to an output of the mode determination unit. In an enhance mode, the control unit divides the single full frame memory into a first half frame memory region and a second half frame memory region to store compressed image data of a current frame in the first half frame memory region and compressed image data of a previous frame in the second half frame memory region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pan-Wook Um, Hae-Woon Park, Dong-Hoon Yang
  • Patent number: 9197730
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, which facilitates display screen space of mobile terminal to be flexibly utilized in consideration of user's convenience and necessity. The present invention includes displaying 1st screen on 1st region within touchscreen, if 1st gesture is detected, forming 2nd region within the touchscreen, displaying at least one portion of the 1st screen of the 1st region at a timing point of detecting the 1st gesture as 2nd screen, when touch input to the 1st region is detected or the 2nd region is formed, changing the 1st screen of the 1st region into 3rd screen automatically, if 2nd gesture is detected, generating merged screen including at least one portion of the 3rd screen of the 1st region and at least one portion of the 2nd screen of the 2nd region, and displaying the merged screen on 3rd region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Songyi Baek, Kyunghye Seo
  • Patent number: 9196195
    Abstract: A plurality of pixel circuits provided in a display apparatus respectively include light-emitting elements OLED, first transistors that supply driving currents to the light-emitting elements, second transistors that turn on and off connection between data lines and gates of the first transistors, and third transistors. The display apparatus has first holding capacitors that are respectively inserted and connected midway on the plurality of data lines and shift levels of driving voltages of the first transistors, and holding capacitors that respectively hold potentials of the plurality of data lines. N first holding capacitors are arranged in a column direction Y, each of the first holding capacitors having an electrode width that is smaller than a width of N pixel circuits arranged adjacent to each other in a row direction X, and that is equal to or larger than a width of one pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Tamura, Takeshi Nomura
  • Patent number: 9185395
    Abstract: A method for automatically adjusting an autostereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) display device is provided. The method includes steps of: displaying an autostereoscopic 3D frame by the autostereoscopic 3D display device; capturing a left-eye frame and a right-eye frame of the autostereoscopic 3D frame by two image capturing devices located at a left-eye position and a right-eye position, respectively; selecting multiple sampling points from the left-eye and right-eye frames; and analyzing the number of the sampling points satisfying a predetermined condition to determine a display angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Wen-Lung Tsai, Sheng-Xiong Chang