Patents Examined by Jose Soto Lopez
  • Patent number: 10241613
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a touch screen; a stylus pen including a pressure sensor and an optical sensor; a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with the stylus pen; and a controller configured to drive the stylus pen in a first operation mode in which the pressure sensor provided in the stylus pen is activated and the optical sensor is deactivated, when sensing information sensed by the pressure sensor indicates the stylus pen is in contact with the touch screen, and drive the stylus pen in a second operation mode in which both the pressure sensor and the optical sensor provided in the stylus pen are activated, when the sensing information sensed by the pressure sensor indicates the stylus pen is not in contact with the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hongjo Shim, Hyunok Lee, Youngho Sohn, Mihyun Park, Jisoo Park
  • Patent number: 10209514
    Abstract: A method of operating a device is provided. The method includes acquiring an image, determining whether an object registered in a device exists in the image, and if it is determined that the registered object exists in the image, displaying associated information of the registered object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Woo-sung Kang
  • Patent number: 10203812
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media are provided for receiving data input via touch-free gestures and movements. For example, a data input device includes at least one processor for receiving information from a sensor. The processor may be configured to receive sensor data from the sensor of a user's hand spaced a distance from a displayed keyboard and in non-contact with the displayed keyboard, and track, using the received sensor data, one or more fingers in air a distance from the displayed keyboard image. The processor may also be configured to correlate locations of the one or more fingers in the air with images of a plurality of keys in the displayed keyboard, and select keys from the keyboard image based on the correlated locations of the one or more fingers in the air, and a detection of a predefined gesture performed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Eyesight Mobile Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: Itay Katz
  • Patent number: 10197414
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device controls a virtual image display performed by a head-up display which superimposes a display image on outside scenery of the host vehicle. The host vehicle is equipped with an automatic control unit which executes an automatic control to the host vehicle. The vehicle display control device includes: a route information acquisition unit that acquires route information related to a scheduled route of the host vehicle, the automatic control unit setting the scheduled route for the host vehicle; and a route image formation unit that forms a route image indicative of the scheduled route based on the route information acquired by the route information acquisition unit. The head-up display projects the route image as the display image in a virtual image display region that is superimposed on a forward traveling road included in the outside scenery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sei Iguchi
  • Patent number: 10191315
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus which facilitates minimized thickness by innovatively removing a case and some portions of a set cover, which have been regarded as indispensable structures for the display apparatus, and simultaneously facilitates good aesthetic exterior appearance of the display apparatus by a novel design. The display apparatus comprises a set cover exposed externally and formed to have a storage space; a guide frame received in the storage space; a screw coupled to the guide frame by penetrating through the set cover so as to fix the guide frame to the set cover; a display unit placed onto the guide frame; and an adhesive member for fixedly adhering the display unit to the guide frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Nam Jean, Nam Do Son, Kyeong Tak Baek, Dong Yong Kim, Min Jae Kim
  • Patent number: 10175821
    Abstract: A touch calibration system and method thereof are provided in the present invention. When a touch pad stops receiving a touch signal generated from a user to make the touch calibration system be at a calibration mode, a first step of the touch calibration method is providing a fixed count value to a counter of the touch calibration system. A second step is provided that a wave-generation module generates an oscillation wave, a counter counts an oscillation number corresponding to the oscillation wave, and a timer counts a calibration oscillation time. A third step is provided that determining whether the oscillation number achieves the fixed count value. When the oscillation number achieves the fixed count value, a storage module is received the calibration oscillation time to store the calibration oscillation time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: ADVANCED ANALOG TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Kun-Hsu Lee
  • Patent number: 10162176
    Abstract: Provided is a head-up display device with which it is possible to display an image easily recognized by a user. A display for a display mechanism in the head-up display device includes: a light source unit capable of generating light that is the origin of a scanning line; a scan unit for scanning light in a first direction and in a second direction using a first scan element and a second scan element, respectively; a processing unit for generating a first drive signal having a frequency that matches the resonance frequency of the first scan element; and a drive unit for executing a resonance mode that is based on the first drive signal. The processing unit generates a second drive signal having a variable display waveform that is dependent on the resonance frequency, fixed first non-display waveforms that are not dependent on the resonance frequency, and a variable second non-display waveform that is dependent on the resonance frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yamakawa, Makoto Hada
  • Patent number: 10162462
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provide a dual optical and capacitance sensor. During a first time period, the dual sensor uses optical sensing to capture a fingerprint (e.g., to identify or verify the fingerprint). During a second time period, the dual sensor uses one or more capacitive sensor electrodes to perform capacitive sensing. The capacitive sensing may be absolute capacitive sensing or transcapacitive sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Guozhong Shen
  • Patent number: 10162425
    Abstract: An input device includes a touch panel incorporating a switch electrode region, and an actuator. The switch electrode region includes a switch electrode and a ground electrode disposed side by side with the switch electrode. The actuator includes a push button having an operation surface, an elastic body, a conductor, and a facing surface. The conductor faces the switch electrode region and is separated from the switch and ground electrodes. The conductor moves in line with a press put on the push button such that a capacitance value between the conductor and each of the switch and ground electrodes changes in response to a distance between the conductor and the switch electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaya Nakamura, Naoyuki Takagi
  • Patent number: 10152920
    Abstract: A current sensing unit can include a current sink circuit connected to a sensing line, which reduces a pixel current fed via the sensing line by an amount equal to a sink current; a current integrator connected to the sensing line, which accumulates an adjusted current from the sensing line and outputs an integrated value based on the pixel current minus the sink current; a sampling part that samples and holds the integrated value; and an analog-to-digital converter that converts the integrated value from an analog value to a digital sensed value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chulwon Lee, Seungtae Kim
  • Patent number: 10152923
    Abstract: A display panel includes: pixel units, where each pixel unit includes sub-pixels in a row direction; gate lines and data lines crossed to define sub-pixel regions, each sub-pixel region includes one sub-pixel and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) driving circuit, OLED driving circuits in a same column are connected with one data line, OLED driving circuits in a same row are connected with one gate line; and at least two sub-pixel regions adjacent in a column direction being a first region and a second region respectively, and in the first and second regions in a same group, the sub-pixel in the first region is connected with the OLED driving circuit in the second region, and the sub-pixel in the second region is connected with the OLED driving circuit in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Li, Dong Qian, Dongxu Xiang, Renyuan Zhu, Gang Liu
  • Patent number: 10146354
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication; a touchscreen; a motion sensor configured to detect a motion of the mobile terminal; and a controller configured to receive a touch input through the touchscreen in combination with a rotation of the mobile terminal detected through the motion sensor, and execute a specific function on the mobile terminal corresponding to the combination of the touch input and the rotation of the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangwon Kim, Jeongyun Heo
  • Patent number: 10134350
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a shift register unit, a method for driving the shift register unit, a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus. The shift register unit comprises a first input module, a first output module, a first reset module, a first storage module and a second reset module. The first input module is configured to output a first pull-up signal to the first output module based on a first input signal. The first output module is configured to output an output signal based on the first pull-up signal and a first clock signal. The first storage module is configured to store the first pull-up signal. The first reset module is configured to reset the first storage module based on a first reset signal. The second reset module is configured to reset the output from the first output module based on a second reset signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qiujie Su
  • Patent number: 10114473
    Abstract: An interactive system includes a display, a processor and a remote controller. The display includes at least one reference beacon for providing light with a predetermined feature. The remote controller includes an image sensor configured to capture an image containing the reference beacon and calculates an aiming coordinate according to an imaging position of the reference beacon in the captured image. The processor calculates a scale ratio of a pixel size of the display with respect to that of the image captured by the image sensor and moves a cursor position according to the scale ratio and the aiming coordinate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC
    Inventors: Chi-Yang Huang, Chia-Cheun Liang, Chao-Chien Huang, Han-Ping Cheng, Ming-Tsan Kao
  • Patent number: 10114512
    Abstract: An example system in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure includes a projector unit to project an image on to a projector display area on a touch sensitive mat, an all-in-one computer attachable to the projector unit, and a camera communicatively coupled to the all-in-one computer, the camera having a lens with a field of view wider than the projector display area. The touch sensitive mat is communicatively coupled to the all-in-one computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Bradley Neal Suggs
  • Patent number: 10114496
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring coordinates of input from an input means and a control method thereof are provided. The control method includes displaying a user input interface and receiving a user input from the input means, detecting an increase in a distance between the input means and the apparatus for measuring the coordinates, determining whether a hover event is completed, based on the distance between the input means and the apparatus for measuring the coordinates, and displaying a result of recognizing the user input as text when the hover event is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Gi-Yong Lee
  • Patent number: 10114486
    Abstract: Methods and a support object are provided to facilitate the receipt of a wide variety of touch inputs from a user, such as in a manner that is comfortable and does not fatigue the user. In the context of a method, touch input is received from a user who engages and moves a support object relative to a touch sensitive surface. The method also includes receiving the touch input from the user via the touch sensitive surface. The method further includes determining a relative position of the touch input with respect to the support object and then determining a type of touch input based upon the relative position of the touch input with respect to the support object. The method also includes causing an action to be taken in response to the type of touch input. Corresponding apparatus and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: CHANGE HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Cliff Edwards, Allan Noordvyk
  • Patent number: 10082693
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus which facilitates minimized thickness by innovatively removing a case and some portions of a set cover, which have been regarded as indispensable structures for the display apparatus, and simultaneously facilitates good aesthetic exterior appearance of the display apparatus by a novel design. The display apparatus comprises a set cover exposed externally to have a storage space; a support cover placed onto the storage space and formed to have a supporting space; a backlight unit received in the supporting space; a guide frame connected to the support cover while being supported by the support cover, and received in the storage space; and a liquid crystal display panel placed onto the guide frame, wherein the liquid crystal display panel displays images by adjusting transmittance of light emitted from the backlight unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nam Do Son, Song Ryol You, Kyeong Tak Baek, Seong Rok Kim, Dong Yong Kim, Ki Nam Jean
  • Patent number: 10076998
    Abstract: An electronic mirror system comprising: an imaging portion that captures an image around a vehicle, and outputs the image to an image display control apparatus; and a display portion that displays an image received from the image display control apparatus. The image display control apparatus comprising: a shift amount calculation portion that calculates a shift amount of an object image that shows an object within an image; a following speed determination portion that determines a following speed of an additional image for the object image; an elapsed time calculation portion that calculates the elapsed time; a shift amount determination portion that determines a shift amount of the additional image; an additional image synthesis portion that synthesizes the additional image to the object image; and a display controller that allows the display portion to display a synthetic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kai Itou
  • Patent number: 10042388
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for controlling functions associated with a touch-sensitive device (100) capable of being worn by a user. The touch-sensitive device (100) includes a substrate (110) with an outside surface (112) and an inside surface (114) opposite from the outside surface (112). A first contact sensing component (120) generates a first signal upon detection of a first contact with the outside surface (112), and a second contact sensing component (130) generates a second signal upon detection of a second contact with the inside surface (114). A processor (140) may be configured to interface with the first contact sensing component (120) and the second contact sensing component (130) and perform operations including: analyzing the first signal and the second signal to determine that a predetermined condition is satisfied, and in response to the analyzing, initiating a function associated with the predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Dickinson, Rachid M. Alameh