Patents Examined by Jennifer Zubajlo
  • Patent number: 9760224
    Abstract: A wireless control system, a touch-sensitive pad structure, a touch-sensitive module and a method for manufacturing the touch-sensitive module are provided. The wireless control system includes a controlled device and a remote controller which includes the touch-sensitive module. The touch-sensitive module includes a plurality of sensor pads. The controlled device is controlled by detecting changes of physical properties of the sensor pads without touching the sensor pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: TOUCHPLUS INFORMATION CORP.
    Inventors: Shih-Hsien Hu, Yi-Feng Wei, Yao-Chih Chuang
  • Patent number: 9753545
    Abstract: An input device is a device determining an input by a user based on a motion of a hand of the user in picked-up images associated with an operation screen displaying a selectable area. The input device includes an input determiner (155) determining whether or not the input by the user is a select operation of a selectable area or is a gesture operation based on, in the picked-up images, a change in shape of the hand of the user caused by the moving hand. The determined input is transmitted to an application subjected to an operation through a transmitter (156).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Solutions Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Akiyoshi
  • Patent number: 9735208
    Abstract: A transparent display panel including a transparent substrate and a plurality of display units formed on the substrate is provided. Each of the display units includes a color light area and a least one of transparent areas disposed around the color light area. The color light area has a geometric center, a first color pixel structure, a second color pixel structure, and a third color pixel structure. The first, second and third color pixel structures take the geometric center as a center in each display unit and are disposed in a radial way corresponding to the center to form the color light area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Hwa Lee, Hsueh-Yen Yang
  • Patent number: 9728142
    Abstract: A reduced blur, low flicker display system is provided, comprising: a display device comprising an array of pixel devices, each configured to be driven to a given output intensity value by changing each of the pixel devices between at least two intensity values within an image frame, including: a first intensity value and a second intensity value, higher than the first intensity value; and, a computing device configured to: spatially drive the pixel devices, according to image frames of image data, on a pixel-by-pixel basis and independent of one another, to respective output intensity values, according to at least two different spatio-temporal driving modes within a same image frame, a first set of the pixel devices driven according to a first spatio-temporal driving mode, and a second set of the pixel devices driven according to a second spatio-temporal driving mode, each within the same image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: CHRISTIE DIGITAL SYSTEMS USA, INC.
    Inventor: Stuart James Myron Nicholson
  • Patent number: 9696797
    Abstract: A head-mounted information system is provided, the head-mounted information system comprising a frame configured to be mounted on a head of a user, a display unit coupled to the frame, a sensor unit coupled to the frame comprising one or more motion sensors, and, a processor unit coupled to the frame and connected to receive signals from the motion sensors. The processor unit comprises a processor and a memory accessible by the processor. The processor unit is configured to monitor the received signals and enter a gesture control mode upon detection of a gesture control enable signal. In the gesture control mode the processor is configured to convert signals received from the motion sensors into menu navigation commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hamid Abdollahi, Dan Eisenhardt, Li Chen
  • Patent number: 9684204
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display which prevents the boundary line between a frame region and a display region from being observed in a mirror mode and which thus has improved design quality. The mirror display of the present invention includes a half mirror plate including a half mirror layer, and a display device disposed behind the half mirror plate, the display device including a display panel and a frame component that supports a peripheral portion of the display panel, and the mirror display including a reflectance adjuster that makes equal the reflectance in a display region where the half mirror layer and the display panel face each other and the reflectance in a frame region where the half mirror layer and the frame component face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sakai, Takayuki Nishiyama, Masahiro Hasegawa, Hidefumi Yoshida, Shigeaki Mizushima
  • Patent number: 9678345
    Abstract: A binocular display vergence correction system is described. The binocular display vergence correction system includes a binocular display, a display tracking system, and a controller. The binocular display, being pixelated, includes a left eye image display and a right eye image display. The display tracking system is configured to determine the position and angular orientation of the binocular display relative to an origin position and origin angular orientation. The controller, includes a processor, and is configured to correct the vergence of the binocular display based on an apparent viewing distance from an eye position of the binocular display to a target object to be viewed on a screen based on the determined position and angular orientation of the binocular display. A method of correcting vergence for a pixelated binocular display is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Melzer, Wyatt L. Hendrick, Augusto H. Alvarez, Juan C. Salazar, David M. Leath, Wei L. Wang
  • Patent number: 9672770
    Abstract: A pixel circuit is disclosed, comprising: a driving module, an energy storage module, an electroluminescence module, a data voltage write module and a threshold compensation module, the threshold compensation module being connected with a compensation voltage input end, a first end of the energy storage module and at least one control signal input end, adapted to compensate the voltage of the first end of the energy storage module as a sum of the startup threshold of the driving module and the compensation voltage accessed by the compensation voltage input end in response to the control signal accessed by the connected control signal input end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengji Yang, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Hailin Xue, Xiaochuan Chen, Xiaoliang Ding, Yingming Liu, Weijie Zhao, Hongliang Yuan, Kaixuan Wang, Wei Li
  • Patent number: 9671861
    Abstract: An electronic device is configured to measure an angle of a user's face and rotate a screen thereof. In a method, the electronic device verifies that a face of a user is included in photographed image information, recognizes the face of the user included in the image information, and rotates a screen of the electronic device according to an angle of the recognized face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-Gil Roh
  • Patent number: 9619008
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a primary integrated display platform and a secondary integrated display platform attached via a hinge, and including a passive cooling system, a dynamic thermal management system, and a processor. The information handling system further includes an application window locator system for determining a location of a software application display window running on the information handling system on the primary integrated display platform or the secondary integrated display platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Travis C. North, Charles D. Hood, III, Lawrence E. Knepper, Deeder M. Aurongzeb, Jorge A. Abullarade
  • Patent number: 9594444
    Abstract: A haptic feedback method includes providing a user with an image that is updated based on a collision event, generating collision data including a type of the collision event and an impulse amount, generating a haptic pattern based on the collision data, and generating a vibration based on the haptic pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yu-Dong Bae, Eun-Hwa Lee, Jeong-Seok Lee, Young-Min Lee
  • Patent number: 9588729
    Abstract: A projector, an image output apparatus, and a control method thereof are provided. In the method, a search signal transmitted by a controller is received, and accordingly at least one user apparatus supporting a wireless protocol is searched from surroundings by using the wireless protocol and a wireless connection is established with each user apparatus. Then, a control signal transmitted by the controller is received, and accordingly one of the at least one user apparatus is selected. An image provided by the selected user apparatus is received through the wireless connection and projected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Chi-Hsiang Liu, Yung-Sen Lin, Chang-Ping Chang
  • Patent number: 9571208
    Abstract: Provided is an input/output device, including: a touch unit that is touched by a human body; an information processing unit that performs information processing based on a touch made on the touch unit by the human body; and a human-body communication unit that performs human-body communication by using the human body touching the touch unit as a path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahide Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9557856
    Abstract: An optical detector (110) is disclosed, the optical detector (110) comprising: at least one spatial light modulator (114) being adapted to modify at least one property of a light beam (136) in a spatially resolved fashion, having a matrix (132) of pixels (134), each pixel (134) being controllable to individually modify the at least one optical property of a portion of the light beam (136) passing the pixel (134); at least one optical sensor (116) adapted to detect the light beam (136) after passing the matrix (132) of pixels (134) of the spatial light modulator (114) and to generate at least one sensor signal; at least one modulator device (118) adapted for periodically controlling at least two of the pixels (134) with different modulation frequencies; and at least one evaluation device (120) adapted for performing a frequency analysis in order to determine signal components of the sensor signal for the modulation frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert Send, Ingmar Bruder, Stephan Irle, Erwin Thiel, Henrike Wonneberger
  • Patent number: 9552756
    Abstract: A method for repairing an organic light emitting display having a plurality of unit pixels each including a white subpixel is provided. The method includes detecting a defective white subpixel by checking circuit units of the white subpixels, connecting a circuit unit of a neighboring subpixel positioned adjacent to the defective white subpixel in the unit pixel with a light emitting unit of the defective white subpixel using a repair conductive pattern, storing a repair position to which the repair conductive pattern is connected, and compensating for digital video data that will be input to the repair position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Tani, Joonmin Park, Shinji Takasugi
  • Patent number: 9552186
    Abstract: A data processing method and an electronic device are disclosed. The method comprises: causing at least one display content displayed by the at least one input/output display unit respectively to be independent from each other, so that processing on one current input/output display unit only affects the display content of the current input/output display unit, but does not affect other input/output display unit(s); obtaining a user operation on the at least one display area; synchronizing a system message between the at least one input/output display unit in response to the user operation, so that consistent system service is obtained from the at least one input/output display unit, wherein the at least one display content are identical or not identical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignees: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited, Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd.
    Inventor: Ping Guo
  • Patent number: 9547378
    Abstract: In one implementation, a housing has a first surface and a second surface. A first side may be between the first surface and the second surface. An input device on may be on the first surface. A sensor on the first side may generate data representing an object detected by the sensor. A controller may process the data and control movement of the cursor on a display when the controller determines that the object is in the shape of a hand in a grip form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Chun-Chieh Chen, James M. Mann
  • Patent number: 9541966
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for utilizing acceleration event signatures. One method for utilizing acceleration event signatures in an electronic device comprises receiving, by the electronic device, one or more acceleration events. The method further comprises determining whether the received one or more acceleration events correspond to one or more predefined signature definitions and invoking one or more functions based on the one or more acceleration events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: HTC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rodney Owen Williams, Gregory A. Dunko
  • Patent number: 9529525
    Abstract: A method for reducing line display latency on a touchpad device is disclosed. The method comprises storing information regarding a plurality of prior touch events on a touch screen of the touchpad device into an event buffer. It further comprises determining an average speed and a predicted direction of motion of a user interaction with the touch screen using the plurality of prior touch events. Next, it comprises calculating a first prediction point using the average speed, the predicted direction, and a last known touch event on the touch screen. Subsequently, it comprises applying weighted filtering on the first prediction point using a measured line curvature to determine a second prediction point. Finally, it comprises rendering a prediction line between the last known touch event on the touch screen and the second prediction point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bojan Skaljak, Arman Toorians, Michael Chu
  • Patent number: 9524040
    Abstract: An image editing apparatus and an image editing method for selecting an area of interest, in which a user more accurately selects an area desired to be selected using a finger by setting a position of a touch input as a selection start point for starting image selection if the user performs the touch input on a background image at the time of image editing, sets a trace generated by moving the background image or the selects start point as a selection image area, and selecting the set selection image area from the background image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Do-Hyeon Kim, Dong-Chang Lee, Dong-Hyuk Lee, Seong-Taek Hwang