Patents Examined by Jeffrey Parker
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Patent number: 10928893Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program code are provided. The method comprises: monitoring a viewer's gaze direction towards a first display while the first display is displaying primary visual content and secondary visual content; determining that the viewer's gaze is directed towards the secondary visual content displayed by the first display; and causing the secondary visual content to be expanded by a second display, different from the first display.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Jussi Leppänen, Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi
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Patent number: 10896649Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first odd source electrode and a first odd drain electrode on a first odd semiconductor layer have the same shapes as a first even drain electrode and a first even source electrode on a first even semiconductor layer, and when viewed in a plan view, a shape of a even pixel, except for a first even transistor, has substantially inversion symmetry with a shape of a odd pixel about a point on a virtual line parallel to a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jang-Il Kim, Sei-yong Park, Yongdoo Park, Joonggun Chong, Sunghee Hong
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Patent number: 10891005Abstract: A electronic device and a display method thereof are provided. A control method of the electronic device includes: detecting a touch input on an auxiliary display area; in response to a touch input being detected on a first area of the auxiliary display area in a and the electronic being in a state in which the electronic is gripped by a user, processing the touch input as a user input; and, in response to the touch input being detected on a second area of the auxiliary display area different from the first area and the electronic being in the state in which the electronic is gripped by the user, disregarding the touch input.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yu-dong Bae, Hyun-sub Park, Dae-myung Kim, Jin-hyoung Park, Shi-yun Cho, So-young Kim, Hee-seok Jeong, Ho-seong Seo, Yu-su Kim
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Patent number: 10872555Abstract: A circuit apparatus is provided for driving source electrodes of a display panel based on image data and to control a backlight of the display panel. For example, the circuit apparatus includes a display drive (DD) circuit having a parameter generation (PG) part and an image data conversion (IDC) part. The PG part is operable to generate an image data-conversion parameter and a backlight control parameter based on a brightness distribution of the image data of one frame. The IDC part is operable to convert the image data based on the image data-conversion parameter. The DD circuit is operable to output source signals generated based on the converted image data and output, control the backlight based on the backlight control parameter, and stop an action of the parameter generation part in response to no change in the image data of one frame from image data of a preceding frame being detected.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Synaptics Japan GKInventor: Atsushi Shikata
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Patent number: 10852156Abstract: An aircraft cockpit display includes among other things an LCD panel having a liquid crystal matrix, and backlight assembly for illuminating the liquid crystal matrix. The remainder of the display allows for single point failures within the architecture that impact only a portion of the primary display functions of the LCD panel.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2012Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LIMITEDInventors: Mark Anthony Bushell, Brett Allen Eddy
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Patent number: 10838535Abstract: A method of sensing a touch in a display apparatus includes: determining a display frame rate of an input image applied to the display apparatus; determining a number of touch driving blocks according to the display frame rate; and sensing a touch based on driving one touch driving block of the determined touch driving blocks at each display frame.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Seon-Ki Kim
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Patent number: 10831304Abstract: There is provided a capacitive touch device including a touch panel and a control chip. The touch panel includes detection electrodes configured to form self-capacitance and mutual-capacitance. The control chip includes an emulation circuit and a subtraction circuit. The emulation circuit is configured to output a reference signal. The subtraction circuit is coupled to the emulation circuit and the detection electrode, subtracts the reference signal outputted by the emulation circuit from a detected signal outputted by the detection electrodes to output a differential detected signal, and identifies a touch event according to the differential detected signal to reduce the power consumption for touch detection.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.Inventor: Sung-Han Wu
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Patent number: 10824278Abstract: A electronic device and a display method thereof are provided. A control method of the electronic device includes: detecting a touch input on an auxiliary display area; in response to a touch input being detected on a first area of the auxiliary display area in a and the electronic being in a state in which the electronic is gripped by a user, processing the touch input as a user input; and, in response to the touch input being detected on a second area of the auxiliary display area different from the first area and the electronic being in the state in which the electronic is gripped by the user, disregarding the touch input.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yu-dong Bae, Hyun-sub Park, Dae-myung Kim, Jin-hyoung Park, Shi-yun Cho, So-young Kim, Hee-seok Jeong, Ho-seong Seo, Yu-su Kim
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Patent number: 10795448Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a system for human-computer interface, comprising an input device configured to provide two or more dimensions of operational input to a processor based at least in part upon a rubbing contact pattern between two or more digits of the same human hand that is interpreted by the input device. The input device may be configured to provide two orthogonal dimensions of operational input pertinent to a three-dimensional virtual environment presented, at least in part, by the processor. The input device may be configured to detect the rubbing between a specific digit in a pen-like function against one or more other digits. The input device further may be configured to detect the rubbing between the specific digit in a pen-like function and one or more other digits in a receiving panel function.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2012Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventor: Samuel A. Miller
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Patent number: 10788692Abstract: An LCD device includes a transmissive LCD panel assembly, a backlight assembly for supplying light to the LCD panel assembly, and a selective reflection film provided between the backlight assembly and the LCD panel assembly. A display region of the LCD has a low-resolution area and a high-resolution area, and a pixel formed in the low-resolution area that is larger than a pixel formed in the high-resolution area.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2009Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kee-Han Uh, Hyung-Guel Kim, Sang-Woo Kim, Seung-Kyu Lee, Bo-Young An, Won-Sang Park, Jae-Hyun Kim, Hae-Young Yun, Jae-Young Lee, Poundaleva Irina, Sung-Eun Cha, Young-Joo Chang, Jae-Ik Lim, Ki-Hun Jeong
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Patent number: 10775945Abstract: There is provided a capacitive touch device including a touch panel and a control chip. The touch panel includes a detection electrode configured to form a self-capacitor. The control chip includes an emulation circuit and a subtraction circuit. The emulation circuit is configured to output a reference signal. The subtraction circuit is coupled to the emulation circuit and the detection electrode, subtracts the reference signal outputted by the emulation circuit from a detected signal outputted by the detection electrode to output a differential detected signal, and identifies a touch event according to an amplified differential detected signal so as to improve the touch sensitivity.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.Inventor: Sung-Han Wu
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Patent number: 10720112Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and device for dimming the backlight of an LCD. A number of pixels at each grayscale level of an input image is determined. The determined number of pixels at each grayscale level is accumulated to generate an accumulated distribution of the number of pixel and the accumulated distribution is filtered. A threshold grayscale level at which the filtered accumulated distribution exceeds a threshold value is determined. A scaling factor is determined based on the threshold grayscale level. The grayscale level of pixels of the input image having a grayscale level lower than or equal to the threshold grayscale level are up-scaled based on the scaling factor, the grayscale value of pixels of the input image having a grayscale level greater than the threshold grayscale level are set to have a predetermined clipping grayscale level, and the LCD backlight is dimmed based on the scaling factor.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyungjoon Kwon, Cheon Heo
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Patent number: 10706757Abstract: There is provided a method of displaying an image on a display device, the method including moving an image displayed at an image display region of the display device, and reducing a first region and enlarging a second region, the first and second regions included in the image, wherein the image has a smaller size than the image display region.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Byung Ki Chun, Jin Woo Noh, Jun Gyu Lee
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Patent number: 10678352Abstract: A virtual touch knob assembly is provided that translates sensed movement of a user's fingers around a knob into control signals for operation of an appliance. A knob is provided on a user control panel of an appliance. The knob is fixed, i.e., does not turn or rotate. A system is provided that can sense the user's fingers moving around the fixed knob and translate the sensed input to control signals for setting the operation of the appliance or device.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KGInventors: Anthony Dmytriw, Robert Alvord, Sam Toktaeng, Ralph Stohr, Joachim Lyszus, Bruno Fuhge
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Patent number: 10650904Abstract: There are provided a shift register unit and a driving method thereof. The shift register unit includes: an input circuit, whose first terminal receives an input signal of the shift register unit, and second terminal is connected to a pull-up node, the input circuit being configured to output the input signal to the pull-up node; an output circuit, whose first terminal is connected to a clock signal terminal, second terminal is connected to the pull-up node, third terminal is connected to an output terminal of the shift register unit, the output circuit being configured to output a signal of the clock signal terminal to the output terminal under the control of the pull-up node; a pull-up node control circuit, and the pull-up node control circuit being configured to discharge the pull-up node through third power supply voltage terminal under the control of a first power supply voltage terminal.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiong Xiong, Rongcheng Liu, Jinliang Liu, Xiaozhe Zhang, Huanyu Li
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Patent number: 10650758Abstract: Provided are a multi zone backlight controlling method and a device thereof. The method includes: obtaining original grayscale values of pixels of the image; obtain a backlight control coefficient correction factor according to the original grayscale value; obtaining a first backlight control coefficient and a second backlight control coefficient based on the backlight control coefficient correction factor and the original grayscale values, and adjusting backlight brightness according to the first backlight control coefficient and the second backlight control coefficient, thereby reducing difference between the display image and the real image.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Guowei Zha
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Patent number: 10642402Abstract: A display substrate includes a conductive pattern arranged on a base substrate, a plurality of pressure sensing units arranged on the base substrate, and a first pressure sensing line and a second pressure sensing line connected to the plurality of pressure sensing units and each configured to output a pressure sensing signal. At least one of the first pressure sensing line or the second pressure sensing line is within a same layer and made of a same material as the conductive pattern, or the conductive pattern is multiplexed as at least one of the first pressure sensing line or the second pressure sensing line.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Lijun Zhao, Yuzhen Guo, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu, Yanan Jia
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Patent number: 10613749Abstract: An information processing device includes: a display section; and control unit functioning as a display control section, gesture receiving section, and setting candidate receiving section. When the gesture receiving section receives a selection gesture performed on a shortcut button, the display control section causes the display section to: (i) display, in the setting screen, a pop-up image showing a setting item and the setting candidate associated with the selected shortcut button; (ii) scroll-display the setting item list displayed on scrolling display area until the setting item associated with the selected shortcut button is displayed in the setting screen; and (iii) move the pop-up image to where the setting item which is in the setting item list and associated with the selected shortcut button is displayed, and display, as the information representing the setting candidate currently set in the setting item list, the setting candidate associated with the shortcut button.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Takanori Miyamoto
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Patent number: 10607555Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first odd source electrode and a first odd drain electrode on a first odd semiconductor layer have the same shapes as a first even drain electrode and a first even source electrode on a first even semiconductor layer, and when viewed in a plan view, a shape of a even pixel, except for a first even transistor, has substantially inversion symmetry with a shape of a odd pixel about a point on a virtual line parallel to a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jang-Il Kim, Sei-yong Park, Yongdoo Park, Joonggun Chong, Sunghee Hong
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Patent number: 10586834Abstract: A display panel, a method for driving the same and a display device are provided. Each pixel element includes an infrared detector, a light-emitting element and a first control unit, the infrared detector includes a first electrode, an infrared-sensitive layer and a second electrode, and the light-emitting element includes a pixel circuit, a third electrode, a light-emitting function layer and a fourth electrode. The second electrode is electrically connected with the third electrode, the first electrode is connected with the fourth electrode through the first control unit, and the first control unit is configured to connect the first electrode with the fourth electrode in an infrared detection mode, and to disconnect the first electrode from the fourth electrode in a display mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qianqian Bu, Weipin Hu