Patents Examined by Jonathan Boyd
  • Patent number: 10198989
    Abstract: A display device includes an image display panel and a control unit that outputs an output signal to the image display panel and causes an image to be displayed. The control unit includes an input signal acquisition unit that acquires a correction input signal including a control input signal in which a part of data is input signal data including information of an input signal value for causing a pixel to display a predetermined color, and another part of data is a display control code, a processing content determination unit that determine processing content for processing the input signal data to generate an output signal value of the output signal based on the display control code, and an output signal generation unit that generates the output signal based on the processing content determined by the processing content determination unit and the input signal data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakanishi, Tatsuya Yata
  • Patent number: 10186215
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel having a display area with a plurality of pixel areas and a non-display area adjacent the display area, the display panel may include a substrate including at least one thin film transistor in each of the pixel areas and a display element connected to the thin film transistor; lighting circuits in the non-display area on the substrate to check lighting states of the display element; signal wires in the non-display area on the substrate to supply a signal to the lighting circuits; dummy circuits including a plurality of dummy capacitors, each of which include a first dummy capacitor electrode and a second dummy capacitor electrode, wherein the dummy circuits collect external static electricity coming through the signal wires before the external static electricity flows into the lighting circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Seon Seo, Sun Ja Kwon, Yang Wan Kim, Seung Woo Sung, Yun Kyeong In
  • Patent number: 10181286
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel in which a data line and a scan line are disposed; a driving circuit configured to supply a data voltage to the data line, control an operation timing of a scan pulse applied to the scan line, and output a voltage output control signal to a signal transmission line; and a power module circuit configured to generate one or more of first and second driving voltages in response to the voltage output control signal received from the signal transmission line, wherein the voltage output control signal includes a preparation field and a channel selection field, wherein the power module circuit recognizes the voltage output control signal in response to the preparation field, and outputs the one or more of the first and second driving voltages to the driving circuit in response to the channel selection field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Byoungwook Kang
  • Patent number: 10175805
    Abstract: The application of a watershed algorithm to pixels and their touch values obtained from a scan of a touch sensor panel to determine patches corresponding to images of touch is disclosed. Prior to applying the watershed algorithm, background pixels having little or no touch values can be eliminated. A primary merge algorithm can then merge adjacent patches together when the saddle point between them is shallow as compared to the peak represented by the patches. However, if two candidate patches for merging have a total number of pixels below a certain threshold, these two patches may not be merged under the assumption that the patches might have been caused by different fingertips. Conversely, if two candidate patches for merging have a total number of pixels above a certain threshold, these two patches can be merged under the assumption that the patches were caused by a single thumb or palm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Carl Westerman, Joshua A. Strickon
  • Patent number: 10156918
    Abstract: A TFT substrate comprising a first conductive layer, a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, a second conductive layer formed over the first semiconductor layer, a first transparent layer, a third conductive layer, and a second transparent layer. The TFT substrate further comprises a plurality of touch sensor units. Each of the touch sensor units includes a plurality of first wires and a plurality of second wires crossed with the first wires. The first wires and the second wires are electrically connected each other for detecting touch operations at a position corresponding to a junction of the first wires and the second wires. Each of the touch sensor units comprises two sub-pixel electrodes and a TFT structure; the TFT structure simultaneously drives the two sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Fu Weng, Chien-Wen Lin, Chia-Lin Liu
  • Patent number: 10146321
    Abstract: The systems described herein integrate virtual keyboard technology and gesture-based controllers into a single module or into a laptop or other mobile computing device in order to make laptops, personal computers, and other mobile computing devices more convenient, more versatile, and with less clutter or fewer peripheral devices than is typically the case with a traditional combination of a physical keyboard with a mouse, touchpad, or track ball. Users of the embodiments disclosed herein will be able to enter data or commands merely by typing or making hand gestures or hand movements, which will lead to greater flexibility, creativity, and productivity, while reducing user ennui and fatigue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
    Inventors: Michal Knas, Jiby John
  • Patent number: 10139921
    Abstract: Hand gesture detection electrical device for detecting hand gestures, comprising an IC electronically integrating: (a) First interface connecting to imaging device(s). (b) Second interface connecting to controlled unit. (c) Data storage storing sequential logic models representing a hand gestures. The sequential logic models map a sequence of pre-defined hand poses and/or motions. (d) Memory storing code. (e) Processor(s) coupled to the first and second interfaces, data storage and memory for executing the code to: (1) Receive timed images depicting a user's moving hand. (2) Generate a runtime sequence mapping runtime hand datasets each defined by discrete hand values indicating current state of the moving hand. (3) Estimate which hand gesture(s) best match the runtime sequence by optimizing the runtime sequence compared to the sequential logic models using SSVM functions. (4) Initiate action(s) to the controlled unit. The action(s) are associated with selected hand gesture(s) based on the estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kfir Karmon, Eyal Krupka, Adi Diamant
  • Patent number: 10140915
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device, a display system and a display method. The display device includes a driver circuit, a display panel, and an interference unit arranged at a display side of the display panel. The driver circuit is configured to drive the display panel to display an image, and a time period for each frame of the image includes a display period and an interference period. During the display period, the interference unit is in a transparent state so as to enable light beams from the display panel to pass through the interference unit, and during the interference period, the interference unit is in an interference state so as to interfere with the light beams from the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunbing Zhang, Xianjuan Zhan, Yichiang Lai
  • Patent number: 10108082
    Abstract: A persistence of vision device is provided and includes an element shaft, wherein the element shaft includes shaft front surface and a shaft length, and wherein the element shaft is flexible in a sagittal plane. The device further includes at least one light source, wherein the at least one light source is associated with the shaft front surface and extends along a portion of the shaft front surface length and a processing device, wherein the processing device is communicated with the at least one light source to control the operation of the at least one light source. Furthermore, the device includes a displacement device having a displacement device shaft movable in the coronal plane, wherein the element shaft is connected to the displacement device shaft such that the element shaft is movable in the coronal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Inventor: Christopher F. Hoth
  • Patent number: 10102807
    Abstract: There is provided a display device including a display including a first pixel connected to a first data line and a second pixel connected to a second data line, a data signal generator configured to generate an output signal, and a signal divider configured to divide the output signal, to generate a first data signal and a second data signal, and to apply the first data signal and the second data signal to the first data line and the second data line, respectively, wherein the data signal generator is configured to generate the output signal based on a coupling effect of a first parasitic capacitor formed between the first data line and the second data line and a coupling effect of a parasitic capacitor of a data line formed by the first data line and second data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Keun Lim, Jong Hee Kim, Ji-Sun Kim, Young Wan Seo, Chong Chul Chai
  • Patent number: 10096373
    Abstract: A shift register, a method for driving a shift register, a gate driver on array (GOA) circuit and a display device are provided. It relates to the field of display technology and solves nonuniform display due to inadequate gate signal in large-sized GOA display products. The shift register for the GOA circuit includes a pulling up (PU) node, a capacitor and an output control module. The output control module comprises a first thin film transistor. A control end of the first thin film transistor is connected to a first end of the capacitor via the PU node, a first clock signal is input to a first end of the first thin film transistor, and a second end of the first thin film transistor is connected to a second end of the capacitor. The shift register further includes a pre-charging module, used to receive a signal from the PU node and output, before the shift register outputs a valid voltage, a pre-charging voltage having an identical polarity to the valid voltage to an output terminal of the shift register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junwei Wang
  • Patent number: 10096287
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, an illuminance sensor to measure illuminance, and a display controller which includes a processor a brightness controllers. The processor calculates an external illuminance value with reference to a signal from the illuminance sensor. The brightness controller turns off at least one of the pixels and controls the brightness of the display panel when the calculated external illuminance value is in a first region. The first region may be, for example, in a mesopic region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun Jin Sung, Jong In Baek, Ji Young Moon, Il Nam Kim, Won Sang Park, Byeong Hee Won
  • Patent number: 10095310
    Abstract: An input apparatus includes an input device, a support device, a reaction force generator and an adjustment structure. The reaction force generator includes a magnetic pole formation part, a coil, and a magnetic flux induction part, and that exerts electromagnetic force, which is generated by an application of current to the coil, on the input device as operation reaction force in a direction along the operation plane. The adjustment structure causes pressing force to increase or decrease in a direction where the input device intersects the operation plane by adjusting a total of magnetic attraction force obtained by the magnetic pole formation part attracting the magnetic flux induction part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinsuke Hisatsugu
  • Patent number: 10088917
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a light source to transmit non-visible light pulses strobed at a frequency and a duty cycle. A detector a detector receives a pattern of reflected light from a display in response to the non-visible light pulses. The pattern of reflected light had at least two different polarization states, where the detector determines a spatial location of the detector relative to the display based on discriminating between the at least two polarization states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Fred Thomas
  • Patent number: 10082903
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel comprises an array substrate including a plurality of pixel sequences arranged in a first direction, a plurality of first touch control electrodes arranged in the first direction, and a plurality of first touch control electrode signal lines. A pixel sequence includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction. A pixel includes N number of sub-pixels continuously arranged in the first direction, N being a positive integer equal to or greater than 3. An orthogonal projection of a first touch control electrode onto the array substrate covers an orthogonal projection of M number of pixel sequences onto the array substrate, M being a positive integer. L number of first touch control electrode signal lines are electrically connected to a same first touch control electrode, and L satisfies L?M×(N?2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignees: Xiamen Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wenbin Yang
  • Patent number: 10082902
    Abstract: A touch screen controller identifies a multi-touch gesture associated with a display feature such as scale or orientation. The touch screen controller applies a discrete value change to the display feature from an ordered set of discrete values. The number of points of contact in the multi-touch gesture may be interpreted by the touch screen controller as step changes in the ordered set of discrete values when applying the value change to the display feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Sarah Barber, Bryan C. Schultz
  • Patent number: 10073669
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an image display device and a method of controlling the image display device. The image display device includes an image acquirer configured to acquire a user image, an image outputter configured to display the user image, a communicator configured to perform communication with a mobile terminal, a controller configured to perform a real time image display operation. The real time image display operation includes displaying the user image in real time and transmitting image data processed from the user image to the mobile terminal when a real time image display command is input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yui Yoon Lee
  • Patent number: 10067624
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a substrate; a drive electrode that extends in a first direction; and a plurality of touch detection electrodes that are metal wirings extending in a second direction different from the first direction. The metal wirings are arranged with a predetermined pitch so as to make capacitive coupling with the drive electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa, Kohei Azumi
  • Patent number: 10068510
    Abstract: A display panel is discussed. The display panel according to an embodiment includes driver integrated circuits (ICs); data lines disposed in an active region; input pads disposed in a pad region; output pads disposed in a first inspection circuit included in the pad region, the output pads receiving first signals from the input pads; and a first switching circuit disposed in the first inspection circuit and connected to the output pads. The first switching circuit is configured to supply the first signals to the data lines. The display panel further includes first signal lines configured to supply the first signals to the output pads; a second switching circuit disposed in a second inspection circuit and connected to the data lines in the active region; and a second signal line configured to supply second signals to the second switching circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: JunYeob Lee
  • Patent number: 10061172
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a driver circuit portion; a pixel portion; a signal generation circuit for generating a control signal for driving the driver circuit portion and an image signal which is supplied to the pixel portion; a memory circuit; a comparison circuit for detecting a difference of image signals for a series of frame periods among image signals stored for respective frame periods in the memory circuit; a selection circuit which selects and outputs the image signals for the series of frame periods when the difference is detected in the comparison circuit; and a display control circuit which supplies the control signal and the image signals output from the selection circuit, to the driver circuit portion when the difference is detected in the comparison circuit, and stops supplying the control signal to the driver circuit portion when the difference is not detected in the comparison circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Jun Koyama, Hiroyuki Miyake, Masashi Tsubuku, Kosei Noda