Patents Examined by Jennifer L Zubajlo
  • Patent number: 11037510
    Abstract: A pixel driving system for AMOLED display device and driving method are disclosed. The pixel driving system for AMOLED display device includes a sub-pixel driving circuit and a node voltage generating module electrically connected to the sub-pixel driving circuit. Wherein the node voltage generating module is inputted with the a red-green-blue display data for processing the red-green-blue display data, obtaining an APL value of a current frame of the AMOLED display device, and according to the APL value and a preset node voltage calculation formula, the node voltage generating module generates a corresponding node voltage and outputting to the source of the driving thin-film transistor. Adjusting the gate-to-source voltage of the driving thin-film transistor by using the APL value, thereby adjusting the driving current flowing through the light-emitting diode to adjust the entire display brightness of the AMOLED display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shan Wang, Yichien Wen
  • Patent number: 11003352
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a signal from a first touch screen control in response to invocation of the first touch screen control. The first touch screen control is a control from a first cluster of touch screen controls of a plurality of different clusters of touch screen controls of an ultrasound imaging system touch screen user interface. The method further includes identifying a type of the first touch screen control based on the signal. The method further includes obtaining a control configuration for the touch screen controls based on the type of control. The method further includes constructing a control layout for the touch screen user interface based on the configuration. The method further includes visually rendering the control layout via the touch screen user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Inventors: Torben Svanberg Nielsen, John Antol, Kaj Dunkan, Jesper Helleso Hansen
  • Patent number: 10971045
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a pixel array, a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of de-load lines. The pixel array includes a plurality of display rows, each of the display rows includes a plurality of pixel circuits, and each of the pixel circuits includes a first transistor and a second transistor coupled in series between a data line and a display pixel. A control end of the first transistor of each of the pixel circuits is coupled to one of the gate lines for receiving a gate driving signal. A control end of the second transistor of each of the pixel circuits is coupled to one of the de-load lines for receiving a de-loading signal. Where an enable time period of the de-loading signal received by each of the pixel circuits covers an enable time period of the gate driving signal received by each of the pixel circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chun-Feng Lin, Chuang-Cheng Yang, Ming-Hsien Lee, Yi-Cheng Lin, Wei-Chia Chiu
  • Patent number: 10964272
    Abstract: A display module includes first to third pixels emitting different colors, first light emission control lines connected to the first pixels among the first to third pixels, and second light emission control lines connected to the second pixels among the first to third pixels. Each of the first light emission control lines and each of the second light emission control lines are alternately arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soyeon Park, Wonho Kim, Keunsoo Lee, Jeongho Lee, Yanghee Kim, Hyungchul Lim
  • Patent number: 10950196
    Abstract: A shift register, a method for driving the same, a gate driving circuit, and a display device are described. The shift register includes a pull-up control circuit which outputs the voltage of a signal input terminal, a pull-up circuit which outputs the voltage of a first clock signal input terminal, a pull-down control circuit which outputs the voltage of a second clock signal input terminal, or pulls down the voltage of the pull-down node, a pull-down circuit which pulls down voltages of the pull-up node and the signal output terminal to the first voltage terminal, respectively, a reset circuit which pulls down voltages of the pull-up node and the signal output terminal to the first voltage terminal, respectively, and a noise reduction control circuit which outputs the voltage of a noise reduction control signal terminal to the pull-down node in the blanking time of an image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruifang Du, Zijun Cao, Xiaoye Ma, Rui Ma
  • Patent number: 10930361
    Abstract: A voltage control circuit, a shift register unit, and a display device are provided. The voltage control circuit is applied to a shift register unit, the shift register unit includes a gate-driving-signal output end, and the voltage control circuit includes a discharge control end, a discharge circuit and a discharge voltage end. The discharge circuit is configured to, under control of a signal inputted by the discharge control end, control to electrically disconnect the gate-driving-signal output end from the discharge voltage end during a display period of a display screen, and control to electrically connect the gate-driving-signal output end to the discharge voltage end during a shutdown period of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shenghua Hu, Chunyang Nie, Ke Dai, Kun Yang, Ruilian Li
  • Patent number: 10921629
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise methods and apparatus for increased sensitivity of a capacitive proximity sensor. The method and apparatus may comprise a sense electrode and a drive electrode configured to create at least one inflection point corresponding to an increase or decrease in rate of change of capacitance within one or more sensing regions of the electrical field of the capacitive sensor. In alternative embodiments, the sense electrode may be configured to create multiple zones that may be used to indicate a desired signal such an upcoming replacement period and a replace now period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Takayasu Otagaki, Kazuyoshi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10908419
    Abstract: Smartglasses, methods, and systems to control presentation and display of information related to mobile device tasks and applications to the smartglasses or a paired or connected smartwatch or smartphone, based on oral commands or requests, and enhance presentation and display augmented reality information, based on default settings of a device mobile application controlling display of information related to tasks and applications and oral override or switch commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Lucyd Ltd.
    Inventors: Clifford M Gross, Harrison Gross
  • Patent number: 10909910
    Abstract: A display apparatus and control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus including: a display configured to display an image; a backlight unit including a plurality of light sources configured to emit light to a screen of the display; an image processor configured to divide an input image into a plurality of blocks, identify target brightness for each block, and adjust a control value of each of the plurality of light sources based on priority of each of the plurality of light sources; and a driver configured to drive the plurality of light sources based on the control value. Thus, the duty for controlling the quality of light from the light source is identified considering the duty of the light source corresponding to an area of which previously identified priority is high, and thus dimming control is possible taking effects of light diffusion from adjacent neighboring light sources into account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-hoon Jeong, Doo-seop Choi, Young-su Moon
  • Patent number: 10885882
    Abstract: According to the invention, a method for reducing aliasing artifacts in foveated rendering is disclosed. The method may include accessing a high resolution image and a low resolution image corresponding to the high resolution image, and calculating a difference between a pixel of the high resolution image and a sample associated with the low resolution image. The sample of the low resolution image corresponds to the pixel of the high resolution image. The method may further include modifying the pixel to generate a modified pixel of the high resolution image based on determining that the difference is higher than or equal to a threshold value. The modification may be made such that an updated difference between the modified pixel and the sample is smaller than the original difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Tobii AB
    Inventors: Daan Pieter Nijs, Fredrik Lindh
  • Patent number: 10877576
    Abstract: A stylus pen according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a main body; a holder that is connected to the main body and of which an opening is formed at an end thereof; a stylus tip that is formed by being partially or wholly derived in the opening of the holder, and of which at least a part has a shape of a sphere or a shape of which some area contacting a sense surface has a constant curvature; and a conductive member that is electrically connected to the stylus tip and extends to the holder and the interior of the main body. According to the exemplary embodiments of the present invention, a program caused due to tilting of the stylus pen can be solved and touch sensitivity of the stylus tip can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: HIDEEP INC.
    Inventors: Seyeob Kim, Hyoungwook Woo, Joohyun Go
  • Patent number: 10871834
    Abstract: A mouse with an air levitation sliding device is disclosed. The mouse body has a top surface, a bottom surface, an internal chamber and a signal line. The main feature is that the mouse is further provided with an air levitation sliding device, including an air supply source, an air supply pipeline and an air injection channel, the air injection channel is disposed on the bottom surface of the mouse body, and the air supply source is disposed outside the mouse body, and two ends of the air supply pipeline are respectively connected to the air supply source and the air injection channel. Thereby, the air pressure generated by the air supply source is transmitted to the air injection channel through the air supply pipeline to eject out from the bottom surface of the mouse body, so that the mouse the mouse can be in the air levitation sliding state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Inventor: Chien-Kuo Lo
  • Patent number: 10871847
    Abstract: Disclosed are electronic devices and methods of their operation that use force sensors to detect user applied forces on an input surface and determine their locations on the input surface, using only force sensors. The locations may be determined using weighted averages of the positions of the force sensors and their values. The methods may compare dynamically updated baseline force values to received force sensor values to distinguish user applied forces from changes in the force sensor values caused other sources. After detection of a user applied force, the baseline force values are frozen, and the force sensor values used to find the location on the input surface where the user applied the force. The electronic device can operate according to a state space model, with a first state in which there is no user applied force, and a second state in which there is user applied force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Julian K. Shutzberg, Baboo V. Gowreesunker, Collin R. Petty
  • Patent number: 10872552
    Abstract: A display driver comprises: subpixel rendering (SPR) circuitry configured to use, in SPR, predetermined regions which fall within two lines of input subpixels of an input image; buffer memory circuitry configured to store first subpixel data for a plurality of first subpixels of the input subpixels, wherein the plurality of the first subpixels each are encompassed in the predetermined regions; and a register configured to store coefficients, wherein the coefficients respectively correspond to shapes of the portions of the first subpixels encompassed in the predetermined regions. The SPR circuitry is configured to calculate second subpixel data for second subpixels of an output image, based on the first subpixel data stored in the buffer memory circuitry and the coefficients stored in the register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tomoo Minaki, Hirobumi Furihata, Takashi Nose
  • Patent number: 10866641
    Abstract: A vibration system includes a linear vibration motor, and a controller that controls a drive current waveform of the vibration motor. The drive current waveform includes consecutively arranged large unit waves having the same waveforms side by side on a time axis. Each large unit wave includes a first region having a waveform with a smaller amplitude in one period, which is a width of the large unit wave on the time axis, and a second region having a waveform with a larger amplitude than the amplitude in the first region. The first region and the second region alternatively appear on the time axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: NIDEC CORPORATION, NIDEC SEIMITSU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsufumi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10860144
    Abstract: A projector includes a projection section that projects a projection image on a projection surface, a display control section that displays a marker on the projection image, an imaging section that captures an image of the projection surface to produce a captured image, a detection section that detects a change in the position of the marker based on the captured image, and a processing section that carries out a predetermined process when the change in the position of the marker is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shiki Furui
  • Patent number: 10854126
    Abstract: A display device comprises a plurality of pixel unit sets and a plurality of common electrode (VCOM) signal generation circuits. Each of the pixel unit sets comprises a first portion pixel unit and a second portion pixel unit. Each of the first portion pixel unit and each of the second portion pixel unit comprise a plurality rows of pixel units. Each row of the pixel units comprises a plurality of pixel units. The VCOM signal generation circuits are respectively coupled to one of the pixel unit sets. The VCOM signal generation circuits are divided into a plurality of groups of number m. The VCOM signal generation circuits in each of the groups generate a first VCOM signal and a second VCOM signal to the coupled pixel unit set according to a first clock signal, a second clock signal and one of a plurality control signal sets of number m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Wei-Chien Liao, Meng-Chieh Tsai
  • Patent number: 10825397
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a shift register unit. The shift register unit includes a first input circuit configured to transmit a first voltage signal to a pull-up node, a pull-up circuit configured to transmit a first clock signal to a signal output terminal, a first pull-down control circuit configured to transmit a second clock signal to a pull-down node, a second pull-down control circuit configured to transmit a second voltage signal to the pull-down node, a pull-up control circuit configured to transmit the second voltage signal to the pull-up node, a pull-down circuit configured to transmit the second voltage signal to the signal output terminal, and a holding circuit configured to maintain the pull-up node at a low level and/or maintain the pull-down node at a high level under control of a second input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenwen Qin, Zhen Wang, Jian Sun, Xiaozhou Zhan, Jiguo Wang, Yun Qiao, Fei Huang, Han Zhang, Zhengkui Wang, Lele Cong
  • Patent number: 10802610
    Abstract: A position pointer includes a signal generation circuit, which generates at least one signal. The position pointer in operation transmits the at least one signal to a sensor of a position detector. The position pointer includes a first electrode arranged to protrude from one end portion of a pen-shaped housing along an axial center direction and a second electrode including at least three electrode pieces disposed near the first electrode in such a manner as to surround a central axis of the housing. The at least three electrode pieces are electrically isolated from each other. The position pointer has a signal supply control circuit, which, in operation, controls supply of signals to selectively supply the at least one signal to the second electrode that includes the at least three electrode pieces and to the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Munakata, Takashi Suzuki, Hideyuki Hara, Yoshihisa Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 10795488
    Abstract: A switching circuit is disclosed. The switching circuit can comprise a plurality of pixel mux blocks, each of the pixel mux blocks configured to be coupled to a respective touch node electrode on a touch sensor panel, and each of the pixel mux blocks including logic circuitry. The switching circuit can also comprise a plurality of signal lines configured to be coupled to sense circuitry, at least one of the signal lines configured to transmit a touch signal from one of the respective touch node electrodes to the sense circuitry. The logic circuitry in each pixel mux block of the plurality of pixel mux blocks can be configured to control the respective pixel mux block so as to selectively couple the respective pixel mux block to any one of the plurality of signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Christoph H. Krah