Patents Examined by Jennifer L Zubajlo
  • Patent number: 10754484
    Abstract: The invention provides a touch panel, manufacturing method for touch panel and a touch device. The touch panel comprises: a substrate; a plurality of first electrode chains disposed on the substrate, spaced apart, each of the first electrode chains comprising a plurality of first electrodes; a plurality of second electrode chains disposed on the substrate, spaced apart, each of the second electrode chains comprising a plurality of second electrodes, the second electrode chains being cross-insulated from the first electrode chains; at least a conductive bridge, electrically connected to the first electrode chain, the conductive bridge extending into a contour region of the second electrode chain and insulated from the second electrode chain. The invention improves the mutual capacitance between the first electrode chain and the second electrode chain to provide higher touch detection accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenjie Shi
  • Patent number: 10747304
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention receive line pattern data generated by a stylus point drawing a line pattern on a touch screen surface that includes a velocity value of the stylus point relative to the touch screen surface, and a pressure value exerted by the stylus point on the touch screen surface. Aspects responsively manipulate deformable fabric thread components of an e-textile clothing garment to generate a representation of the drawn line pattern from the generated line pattern data as a linear series of sequential surface deformations that exert force upon a skin surface of a person wearing the e-textile clothing in proportion to the stylus point pressure value and trace the line pattern at a tracing velocity proportionate to the velocity value of the stylus point relative to the touch screen surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Martin G. Keen, John M. Ganci, Jr., James E. Bostick
  • Patent number: 10706818
    Abstract: A method and system to a system to provide a sensor data to a host device is disclosed. The system includes a first clock generator that generates a first clock. The system also includes a second clock generator that generates a second clock. The sensor data is sampled based on the first clock. The sensor data is presented to the host device, based on the second clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: INVENSENSE, INC.
    Inventors: William Kerry Keal, James B. Lim
  • Patent number: 10678430
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a controller, a display displaying an image based on a control by the controller, and a sensor detecting oscillation. The controller displays, in response to a predetermined oscillation detected by the sensor, enlarged display content which is a portion of an image displayed on the display, the enlarged display content being enlarged and displayed in an enlarged display region. The sensor may be able to detect oscillation and posture, and the controller may obtain from the sensor the posture at the time when the sensor detected the oscillation and determine a position of the enlarged display region in the display according to the obtained posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinsaku Abe
  • Patent number: 10672914
    Abstract: To provide a field-effect transistor, containing: a gate electrode configured to apply gate voltage; a source electrode and a drain electrode, both of which are configured to take out electric current; an active layer formed of a n-type oxide semiconductor, provided in contact with the source electrode and the drain electrode; and a gate insulating layer provided between the gate electrode and the active layer, wherein work function of the source electrode and drain electrode is 4.90 eV or greater, and wherein an electron carrier density of the n-type oxide semiconductor is 4.0×1017 cm?3 or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Matsumoto, Naoyuki Ueda, Yuki Nakamura, Mikiko Takada, Yuji Sone, Ryoichi Saotome, Sadanori Arae, Yukiko Abe
  • Patent number: 10642417
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for determining touching action and a display device. The method comprises the following steps of: determining a first touching region where a variation value of capacitance is larger than or equal to a first preset value during each period of N consecutive periods, in which N?2; and outputting a touching signal according to the first touching region, wherein each period of the N consecutive periods is a scanning period of the touch pane. The embodiment of the present disclosure may scan all of the touching regions of the touch panel during N consecutive scanning periods, and then determine the first touching region has a variation value of capacitance larger than or equal to the first preset value during the N consecutive scanning periods to be a region touched by the user so as to output a touch signal based on the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Hua, Qing Yang, Hongchao He
  • Patent number: 10643560
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of signal lines, each of which includes first and second line portions and an inner connection portion (connection portion) that connects the first and second line portions. The first and second line portions of one of two adjacent signal lines are made of first and second conductive layers, respectively, and the first and second line portions of the other of the two adjacent signal lines are made of second and first conductive layers, respectively. The position of the connection portion of each of the signal lines is determined in accordance with the layout position of that signal line in the line region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yohsuke Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 10627969
    Abstract: In various examples there is an apparatus for sensing a touch event. The apparatus has a plurality of transmit electrodes arranged to carry a signal, each of the transmit electrodes comprising a transmit body section and a transmit bridge section. The apparatus has a plurality of receive electrodes arranged to receive the signal via electrostatic coupling with the transmit electrodes, each of the receive electrodes comprising a receive body section and a receive bridge section. Individual ones of the transmit and receive bridge sections are arranged to cross such that a gap is formed between the transmit and receive bridge sections. One or more regions of floating conductive material are positioned in proximity to the transmit and receive body sections, each region comprising one or more members of conductive material extending into the gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Ori Laslo
  • Patent number: 10628994
    Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) for displaying images to a user includes a sensor unit configured to detect motion of a head of the user of the HMD. The HMD also includes one or more processors configured to, in response to the motion, reduce contrast in a peripheral area of an image displayed to the user from an original contrast of the image, the image having a foveal area and the peripheral area relative to the optical axis of the eye of the user, the contrast being least reduced in a first portion of the peripheral area closest the foveal area and being most reduced in a second portion of the peripheral area farthest from the foveal area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Eliezer Peli
  • Patent number: 10613718
    Abstract: A content display method for a mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal includes at least two hierarchical structures each having at least two contents at a level. The content display method includes: displaying, in response to selection of a content, a window associated with the selected content; displaying, in response to input of a multi-window display request, windows associated with contents at the same level as the selected content together on a single screen; and rearranging, in response to input of a window movement request, the content windows by window movement to display the rearranged content windows together on a single screen. As a result, same-level contents or application windows in execution can be displayed together on a single screen according to a user request. Hence, the user can readily transition between contents or applications with enhanced user convenience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Hoon Jin, Su Yeul Lee
  • Patent number: 10599235
    Abstract: A tactile input device may include a top surface, a sensor beneath the top surface, a controller beneath the top surface, and a securement mechanism. The controller may be configured to process input received by the sensor. The securement mechanism may be configured to secure the tactile input device to a portable computing device. The sensor, the controller, and the securement mechanism may all be superposed by the top surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Hayashida, Joshua Boilard
  • Patent number: 10600382
    Abstract: An array substrate, data driving circuit, data driving method and display apparatus are provided. The array substrate comprises multiple rows of first scan lines, multiple rows of second scan lines, and multiple columns of data lines. The first scan lines and the data lines define crosswise pixel regions in which pixel electrodes, common electrodes, first switch unit and second switch unit are disposed. The pixel electrode is connected to data line adjacent in first row direction through first and second terminals of first switch unit. The common electrode is connected to data line adjacent in second row direction through first and second terminals of second switch unit. The first and second scan lines are connected to control terminals of first and second switch unit within odd-numbered and even-numbered column pixel regions respectively. The amount of the data lines and the number of pins of data driving chip can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Zheng, Jun Long, Lei Guo, Lingyun Shi
  • Patent number: 10572208
    Abstract: A display device includes a signal receiver configured to receive an image signal; a display including a plurality of modules each including a plurality of light sources, and display an image based on the received image signal; and a controller configured to perform first uniformity calibration between light sources within each individual module with regard to the modules, and second uniformity calibration between the modules, wherein the controller controls the first uniformity calibration to be applied to the image signal received in the signal receiver based on a first coefficient determined for each of the light sources within each individual module, controls the second uniformity calibration to be applied to the image signal subjected to the first uniformity calibration based on a second coefficient determined for each of the modules, and controls a calibrated image to be displayed based on the image signal subjected to the second uniformity calibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-yong Park, Min-jung Kim, Sang-kyun Im, Young-hoon Cho
  • Patent number: 10564425
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for detecting movement of the computing device during playback of media content on a display of the computing device, receiving movement data from one or more sensors of the computing device, analyzing the movement data to determine a direction of movement, calculating a rotation of the display of the media content based on the direction of movement, and causing the display of the media content to rotate relative to the direction of movement to display a portion of the media content associated with the direction of movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Bamberger, Matthew Hanover, Nathan Litke, Michael Brian Murray
  • Patent number: 10559273
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a display screen control method and apparatus, and a terminal. The method in the embodiments of the present invention includes obtaining a height difference and an acceleration that are generated when a terminal moves from an initial position to a target position and determining, according to the height difference and the acceleration, whether a first predetermined movement is satisfied. The method also includes when the first predetermined movement is satisfied, triggering the terminal to turn on a display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Liu, Zhenqi Zhang
  • Patent number: 10546551
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a sensor module configured to sense a pressure applied to the electronic device and to send a pressure value corresponding to the sensed pressure to a processor and the processor configured to perform an operation corresponding to the pressure value received from the sensor module, wherein if the sensed pressure belongs to a first interval, the sensor module sends a first pressure value, which represents the first interval, to the processor, wherein if the sensed pressure belongs to a second interval higher than the first interval, the sensor module sends a second pressure value corresponding to the sensed pressure to the processor, and wherein if the sensed pressure belongs to a third interval higher than the second interval, the sensor module sends a third pressure value, which represents the third interval, to the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Woong Park, Byung Jin Kang, Nam Hoi Kim, Do Hyung Lee, Sae Rom Lee
  • Patent number: 10528188
    Abstract: An operation input device includes a touch panel, a hand detecting processor, and a region setting processor. The hand detecting processor detects a position and a shape of a hand that is proximate to the touch panel. The region setting processor sets a touch invalid region in the touch panel based on the position and the shape of the hand detected by the hand detecting processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Ryo Shiomi
  • Patent number: 10528126
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for determining the orientation of an object relative to a moving or moveable platform. The object may for example be a helmet worn by a pilot of an aircraft in which orientation of the helmet relative the aircraft while in flight may usefully be known, in particular when determining the position of space-stabilised symbols being displayed in an associated helmet-mounted digital display system. The method and apparatus rely upon a combination or orientation rate data output by an inertial sensor arrangement associated with the object and orientation data output by a non-inertial tracker system associated with the object. Orientation data of the moveable platform is also used to reference the non-inertial tracker output to inertial space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLC
    Inventors: Simon Trythall, John Richard Williams, Peter Michael Knight
  • Patent number: 10503265
    Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a MEMS laser beam display to implement mixed-mode depth detection comprises an imaging engine to project an image in a field of view of the MEMS laser beam display, a time of flight (TOF) depth detector to determine a distance to a target within the field of view in a first mode of depth detection, wherein the TOF depth detector determines coarse depth data of the target, and a structured light depth detector to determine a distance to the target in a second mode of depth detection, wherein the structured light depth detector determines fine depth data of the target. Depth processing circuitry may generate a composite three-dimensional (3D) image of the target, or may identify a gesture region of the target for gesture recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Microvision, Inc.
    Inventor: P. Selvan Viswanathan
  • Patent number: 10466892
    Abstract: Provided are an interactive handwriting display device and an interactive handwriting capture device. The interactive handwriting display device has a display panel and a patterned band-pass filter component, and the patterned band-pass filter component has a substrate and multiple band-pass filter units. The interactive handwriting capture device includes an optical signal selector, an image-forming module, a photodetector chip and a microprocessor. By using the interactive handwriting display device with a patterned filtering function and the interactive handwriting capture device with the recognition function, the addressable ITO sensor's need of electrical connection is eliminated, providing interactive operating function and the writing function of high sensitivity and accuracy. Also, the manufacturing complexities are reduced and the integration of components is improved as the touch screens get larger in size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: CHI HSIANG OPTICS CO., LTD., NEOLAB CONVERGENCE TAIWAN INC.
    Inventors: Po-Hung Yao, Hsien-Ching Chang