Patents Examined by Jeffrey A Parker
  • Patent number: 10522100
    Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes compensating first pixel data corresponding to a first pixel of a plurality of pixels in the display panel based on at least one of a first decision, a second decision, or a third decision and generating a first data voltage corresponding to the compensated first pixel data. The first data voltage is applied to the first pixel through a data line. The first decision includes determining, based on a position of the first pixel, whether compensation for the first pixel data is required. The second decision includes determining, based on previous subpixel data and present subpixel data for the first pixel, whether the compensation for the first pixel data is required. The third decision includes determining whether the first pixel data complies with a compensation avoidance condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Won Jeong, Kwan-Young Oh, Ga-Na Kim, Gyeong-Ub Moon, Po-Yun Park, Ji-Woong Jeong, Kyung-Uk Choi, Sang-Ho Park
  • Patent number: 10437309
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for employing proximity sensing mechanisms in augmented reality (AR) systems. Sensors strategically placed on AR eyeglasses in locations such as right and/or left arms, bridge, or flip-up feature of the eyeglasses may be used to detect AR eyeglass usage for power management and/or to provide user interface elements like volume control, display controls, user input, and comparable ones. According to some examples, the sensors may be mechanical sensors, capacitive sensors, optical sensors, inductive sensors, magnetic sensors, and/or similar components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Peter N. Milford
  • Patent number: 10229649
    Abstract: A user terminal apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a first body, a second body mounted on one side of the first body to be slidably connected to the first body, a transparent display formed on the second body, and a controller configured to provide different user functions to a first area in the transparent display, which overlaps with the first body, and a second area which is a remaining part of the transparent display in response to the second body being slid from the first body to open the first body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-young Park, Kil-soo Jung
  • Patent number: 10073555
    Abstract: A sensing device includes a comparator, a first and a second variable capacitor units. The first and second variable capacitor units charge a first and a second comparator inputs, respectively, according to a first and a second driving signals, such that the first and second comparator inputs have a first and a second voltages, respectively, in which a voltage level of the first driving signal is higher than a voltage level of the second driving signal. The comparator is configured to compare the first voltage and the second voltage to generate a comparator output signal. The first variable capacitor unit is adjusted according to the comparator output signal to perform potential compensation for the first comparator input, or the second variable capacitor unit is adjusted according to the comparator output signal to perform potential compensation for the second comparator input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Nuvoton Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Cheng-Chih Wang
  • Patent number: 10068728
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques related to a touchpad with capacitive force sensing. The described techniques may determine the point or region of a user-engagement surface contacted by a user. In addition, the described techniques may also determine a force of the user's finger press on the user-engagement surface using one or more capacitance force-sensors. Furthermore, the described techniques may offer active tactile feedback (i.e., haptics) to the user's finger touching the user-engagement surface. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Andrew P. Huska, Douglas M. Krumpelman, Cody G. Peterson
  • Patent number: 10048775
    Abstract: A touch input device configured to detect stylus signals generated by an external stylus is provided. The touch input device includes a plurality of stylus signal detectors that can receive the stylus signal and estimate the start and end time of the stylus signal in order to facilitate windowed demodulation of signal. The touch input device also includes circuitry to determine which of the plurality of detectors is most likely to have received the stylus signal and based on that determination can demodulate the signal and extract data embedded within the stylus signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Shahrooz Shahparnia, John Greer Elias
  • Patent number: 10043462
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes an image analyzer that analyzes image data and outputs an interrupt signal at a period during which the image data of a low frequency change to the image data of a high frequency, a frequency detector that detects the high frequency, a frame rate controller that outputs a vertical synch signal of the high frequency in response to the interrupt signal, a polarity compensation controller that determines a last frame of the low frequency based on an interrupt period at which the interrupt signal is generated, generates a reversed polarity signal with respect to a polarity signal of the last frame and outputs the reversed polarity signal during a polarity compensation period close to the interrupt period, and a data driver circuit that outputs a data signal based on the reversed polarity signal to a data line during the polarity compensation period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Su-Hyeong Park, Kyoung-Won Lee, Sang-Mi Kim, Ji-Myoung Seo, Hyun-Dae Lee, Ho-Yong Jung, Hee-Soon Jeong
  • Patent number: 10019057
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for managing the display of images on a head mounted device (HMD). One method includes an operation for tracking the gaze of a user wearing the HMD, where the HMD is displaying a scene of a virtual world. In addition, the method includes an operation for detecting that the gaze of the user is fixed on a predetermined area for a predetermined amount of time. In response to the detecting, the method fades out a region of the display in the HMD, while maintaining the scene of the virtual world in an area of the display outside the region. Additionally, the method includes an operation for fading in a view of the real world in the region as if the HMD were transparent to the user while the user is looking through the region. The fading in of the view of the real world includes maintaining the scene of the virtual world outside the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Osman, Xiadong Mao, Jeffrey Roger Stafford
  • Patent number: 10014068
    Abstract: A semiconductor device in which a decrease in the yield by electrostatic destruction can be prevented is provided. A scan line driver circuit for supplying a signal for selecting a plurality of pixels to a scan line includes a shift register for generating the signal. One conductive film functioning as respective gate electrodes of a plurality of transistors in the shift register is divided into a plurality of conductive films. The divided conductive films are electrically connected to each other by a conductive film which is formed in a layer different from the divided conductive films are formed. The plurality of transistors includes a transistor on an output side of the shift register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakakura, Yuugo Goto, Hiroyuki Miyake, Daisuke Kurosaki
  • Patent number: 9983679
    Abstract: A portable electronic device comprises means for generating or receiving a signal indicating that it has been placed in a predetermined position. The portable electronic device is configured upon receiving said signal to enable user interaction with the portable electronic device by a touchless interaction mode. Also disclosed are various arrangements of a peripheral device and a portable electronic device which cooperate to provide a touchless interaction mode—e.g. through transducers and/or processing means being provided in the peripheral device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: ELLIPTIC LABORATORIES AS
    Inventor: Tobias Dahl
  • Patent number: 9952720
    Abstract: A processing system for a capacitive touch screen comprises sensor circuitry and control logic. The sensor circuitry is configured to communicatively couple with sensor electrodes of the capacitive touch screen. The control logic is configured to operate the capacitive touch screen in a first mode comprising interference sensing at a first level and input object sensing. The control logic is also configured to operate the capacitive touch screen in a second mode instead of the first mode in response to: interference measured in the first mode meeting an interference condition; and a determination that input is in a sensing region of the capacitive touch screen. Operating in the first mode, interference sensing is performed during a non-display update time. Operating in the second mode, interference sensing with the capacitive touch screen is either not performed or is performed at a second level, lower in fidelity than the first level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Adam Schwartz, Tracy Scott Dattalo, Robin Hodgson, Joseph Kurth Reynolds
  • Patent number: 9946343
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes a display element with a two-dimensional array of pixels, and an enclosure at least partially enclosing the display element. The head-mounted display device also includes a plurality of light sources located on the enclosure for determining a position of the head-mounted display device. Each light source of the plurality of light sources is uniquely identifiable based at least in part on light emitted by the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: OCULUS VR, LLC
    Inventor: Youngshik Yoon
  • Patent number: 9927624
    Abstract: A display screen (E), advantageously of the flat type, comprising a matrix of pixels (P) arranged in rows and columns perpendicular to said rows, each pixel comprising three or more sub-pixels (SP) of different colors (RGB), in alignment in the direction of said rows and presenting a shape that is elongate, the screen being characterized in that each said sub-pixel presents a main dimension forming a non-zero angle ? relative to the direction of said columns. The screen may advantageously be fitted with an angle selection array for autostereoscopic display having main axes forming an angle ? relative to the direction of said columns and at a pitch that enables M?2 sub-pixels to be covered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: ALIOSCOPY
    Inventor: Pierre Allio
  • Patent number: 9921649
    Abstract: A user input element includes a first part having a first capacitive surface, a second part having a second capacitive surface configured to be movable relative to the first capacitive surface, and an insulator positioned in between the first capacitive surface and the second capacitive surface so that a haptic effect is generated when the second capacitive surface is moved relative to the first capacitive surface from a first position to a second position. The user input element may be part of a haptic feedback interface system configured to provide haptic effects to a user operating the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: Danny A. Grant, Daniel Gregory Parker
  • Patent number: 9898960
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit, its driving method, an OLED display panel and an OLED display device. The pixel circuit includes row pixel units each including subpixel units. The row pixel unit includes an auxiliary compensating circuit, which is configured to generate a switching control signal inputted to a subpixel driving circuit according to a scanning signal from a gate driving circuit, and generate a compensating control signal inputted to the subpixel driving circuit according to a control signal from the gate driving circuit. The subpixel driving circuit is configured to receive a data voltage from a data line accordance to the switching control signal, control a driving transistor to drive an OLED to emit light according to the data voltage, and compensate for a threshold voltage of the driving transistor according to the compensating control signal when the driving transistor drives the OLED to emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei Yang, Chen Zhang, Yue Wu
  • Patent number: 9898123
    Abstract: A sensing device includes a comparator, a first and a second variable capacitor unit. A first comparator input of the comparator is electrically coupled to a touch pad. The first variable capacitor unit is configured to charge the first comparator input such that the first comparator input has a first potential. The second variable capacitor unit is configured to charge a second comparator input of the comparator such that the second comparator input has a second potential. The comparator is configured for comparing the first potential and the second potential to generate a comparator output signal. In a condition of the touch pad being operated, the first variable capacitor unit is adjusted according to the comparator output signal to perform potential compensation for the first comparator input, or the second variable capacitor unit is adjusted according to the comparator output signal to perform potential compensation for the second comparator input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Nuvoton Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Chih Wang, Chih-Ping Lu
  • Patent number: 9891761
    Abstract: There are provided a touch sensing device and a touchscreen device. The touch sensing device includes: a driving circuit applying a driving signal having a predetermined first period to a node capacitor; a buffer circuit converting capacitance of the node capacitor into a voltage signal; a buffer capacitor being charged and discharged depending on an output voltage from the buffer circuit; and an integration circuit integrating voltages charged in the buffer capacitor, wherein, in a normal touch mode, the buffer circuit integrates capacitance of the node capacitor to generate the voltage signal, and, in a proximity touch mode, the buffer circuit generates the voltage signal by following the voltages charged in the node capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byeoung Hak Jo, Moon Suk Jeong, Yong Il Kwon, Tah Joon Park
  • Patent number: 9870053
    Abstract: Systems and methods for haptic feedback using laterally driven piezoelectric actuators are disclosed. For example, one described apparatus for haptic feedback using laterally driven piezoelectric actuators includes: a base; a touch-sensitive interface comprising an interface surface, the touch-sensitive interface affixed to the base and configured to move in a direction lateral to the interface surface; and a piezoelectric actuator mounted to the base and to the touch-sensitive interface and configured to receive a haptic signal and output a force in a direction lateral to the interface surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: Ali Modarres, Li Jiang, Manuel Cruz, Remy Pieron, Frank Ye, Pedro Gregorio, Danny Grant, Neil Olien
  • Patent number: 9865199
    Abstract: A backlight drive circuit supplies drive current to a plurality of backlights, each of the backlights is extinguished before a signal voltage is written to a liquid crystal pixel group of a line corresponding to the backlight, each drive current in the lit period of each of the backlights is a first current when the adjustment value is a first adjustment value and a second current whose current value is higher than the first current when the adjustment value is a second adjustment value that is lower than the first adjustment value, and the lighting duty ratio to obtain a given luminance using the second current is smaller than the lighting duty ratio to obtain the luminance using the first current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kita, Kazuhiro Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 9817522
    Abstract: A touch screen and a touch point positioning method are disclosed. The touch screen comprises a display panel and a touch point positioning device, the touch point positioning device comprises a timing unit, a calculating unit and n receiving units, the receiving units are provided in edge areas of the display panel, the receiving units are connected with the timing unit, and the timing unit is connected with the calculating unit. According to technical solutions of the present invention, the receiving units receive an acoustic wave signal generated at a touch point when the display panel is touched, the timing unit records reception times when the receiving units receive the acoustic wave signal, and the calculating unit calculates a position coordinate of the touch point on the display panel according to the reception times of the receiving units recorded by the timing unit, thus achieving positioning of the touch point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jin Sha