Patents Examined by Jose Soto Lopez
  • Patent number: 9875685
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display including a plurality of pixels; and a controller configured to: receive an external input image signal, adjust the external input image signal to compensate for brightness deviations of the pixels, and transmit corresponding image data signals to the pixels, wherein the controller includes: a data input section configured to receive the external input image signal and transmit a test image data signal to the pixels through a data driver, a luminance information extracting section configured to: extract brightness information for the pixels after displaying a test image in accordance with the test image data signal, and calculate first, second, and third parameters, using the brightness information, and a data compensating section configured to generate the image data signals by adjusting the external input image signal based on the first, second, and third parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Oh-Jo Kwon, Won-Tae Choi, Choong-Sun Shin, Jeong-Kyoo Kim
  • Patent number: 9875677
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a gain calculation section determining a gain, on the basis of a first partial image in a first frame image that includes a process target line; and a correction section correcting pixel luminance information regarding the process target line, on the basis of the gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: JOLED Inc.
    Inventor: Fumihiko Fujishiro
  • Patent number: 9842522
    Abstract: A display includes a stretchable display panel, an optical unit that transmits an image displayed on the display panel for image formation, a mechanical unit that changes a physical shape of the display panel in order to compensate a distortion aberration due to the optical unit, and a control unit that drives the display panel in response to an image source signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chan Young Park
  • Patent number: 9837046
    Abstract: A display control device comprises calibration unit configured to display an image for colorimetry on a screen of a display panel and performing calibration processing of adjusting display quality of the display panel on the basis of a colorimetry result obtained by colorimetry with a sensor; detection unit configured to detect a predetermined event that can decrease an accuracy of colorimetry of the sensor while the calibration processing is executed; and determination unit configured to perform determination processing of determining whether or not to stop the calibration processing by comparing the colorimetry results before the detection and after the detection of the predetermined event with the sensor when the detection unit has detected the predetermined event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Kudo, Tomoyuki Ohno
  • Patent number: 9829996
    Abstract: System and method for invoking 2D and 3D operational modes of a 3D pointing device in a 3D presentation system. A 3D stereoscopic scene and a 2-dimensional (2D) scene are displayed concurrently via at least one stereoscopic display device. A current cursor position is determined based on a 6 degree of freedom 3D pointing device. The cursor is displayed concurrent with the 3D stereoscopic scene and the 2D scene, where the cursor operates in a 2D mode in response being inside a specified volume, where, in the 2D mode, the cursor is usable to interact with the 2D scene, and where the cursor operates in a 3D mode in response to being outside the specified volume, where, in the 3D mode, the cursor is usable to interact with the 3D stereoscopic scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: zSpace, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan J. Hosenpud
  • Patent number: 9829523
    Abstract: A capacitive sensor array may comprise a plurality of column sensor electrodes and a plurality of row sensor electrodes. The column sensor electrodes may be capacitively coupled with the row sensor electrodes to form a plurality of unit cells each including an intensity center identifying a location of greatest capacitance sensitivity between a row electrode and a column electrode. An axis of a set of row sensor electrodes may cross at least a portion of each row electrode in the set, and the intensity centers associated with the row electrodes in the set may be staggered on alternating sides of the axis. For each of the plurality of unit cells, a distance between the intensity center of the unit cell and a nearest intensity center of another unit cell at a perimeter of the unit cell may be at least 0.7 times the height of the unit cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan R Peterson, Cole D Wilson, Patrick N Prendergast
  • Patent number: 9824636
    Abstract: A display device and a method of adjusting backlight brightness of the display device are provided. The method includes converting original RGB signals of each pixel to corresponding RGBW signals; determining the color and original brightness value of each pixel based on the gray value ratio of the original RGB signals of each pixel; determining the backlight brightness value of each pixel based on the color of each pixel after the original RGB signals being converted; and performing weighted average calculation on the backlight brightness values of each pixel after the signals being converted, so as to obtain a whole backlight brightness adjustment value of all pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pengcheng Lu, Zhongjun Chen, Xue Dong, Renwei Guo, Peng Liu, Mubing Li, Jinghua Miao
  • Patent number: 9817525
    Abstract: The touch panel includes a plurality of touch pads arranged in an array on the touch panel. Each of the touch pads are arranged in N columns and M rows, the touch pad in the ith column and in the jth row is coupled to the touch pad in the (i?1)th column and in the (j?1)th row and the touch pad in the (i+1)th column and in the (j+1)th row, or the touch pad in the ith column and in the jth row is coupled to the touch pad in the (i+1)th column and in the (j?1)th row and the touch pad in the (i?1)th column and in the (j+1)th row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Shih-Jung Lu, Wing-Kai Tang
  • Patent number: 9818356
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including gate lines, data lines, and pixels connected to the gate line and the data lines, a gate driver driving the gate lines, a level shifter applying a gate clock signal to the gate driver, a data driver driving the data lines, a timing controller generating control signals to control the level shifter, the gate driver, and the data driver, and a backlight unit providing light to the display panel. The level shifter sets a voltage level of a gate-on voltage of the gate clock signal to a voltage level of a first gate-on voltage or a voltage level of a second gate-on voltage higher than the first gate-on voltage in response to a gate-on control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myung-Ho Won, Jin-Mo Kwon, Yonghwan Kim, Chul Shin, Kwan-Woo Lee, Sung-Woon Im
  • Patent number: 9817488
    Abstract: An automatic magnification adjusting method is applied to an optical navigation device. The optical navigation device has an illumination channel, a reference channel and an imaging channel. The reference channel has a reference feature with a known parameter. The automatic magnification adjusting method includes driving the illumination channel and the reference channel to alternatively output a detecting image and a reference image, capturing a series of navigation images consisting of the detecting image and the reference image by the imaging channel, analyzing the reference image to recognize the reference feature, calculating a compensating factor according to a detected parameter of the reference feature, and adjusting magnification of the detecting image by the compensating factor to output corresponding coordinate displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging (Penang) SDN. BHD.
    Inventor: Sai Mun Lee
  • Patent number: 9804429
    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: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    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: 9740341
    Abstract: An combination interpolating force sensitive resistor (IFSR) array touch sensor and capacitive touch sensor, or a modified IFSR sensor, is configured to detect touches resistively and capacitvely. By comparing resistive and capacitive signals, touches may be accurately characterized. The IFSR array may also be used in conjunction with an active stylus to determine a position of the active stylus relative to the IFSR array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya D. Rosenberg, Julien G. Beguin
  • Patent number: 9727197
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, a display, an electrostatic-capacitance touch panel, a transparent member that protects the touch panel, and a depression detector. The touch panel is configured to detect a pair of two-dimensional coordinates indicated by an indicator having predetermined conductivity, wherein when the touch panel detects a plurality of pairs of two-dimensional coordinates and when the depression detector detects a predetermined amount of deformation, at least one pair of two-dimensional coordinates detected during a predetermined time period prior to a time when the deformation is detected is validated; and a pair of two-dimensional coordinates detected before the predetermined time period prior to the time when the deformation is detected, is not validated, wherein the predetermined time period does not include a deformation of an amount equal to or greater than the predetermined amount of deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomoki Takano, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Yuuichi Takizawa
  • Patent number: 9727152
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for controlling an object movement on a screen. The method senses a first change in a position of a pointing device in a coordinate system to obtain a first displacement, and controls the object movement by a first displacement output ratio according to the first displacement. The method senses a second change in a position of the pointing device in a coordinate system to obtain a second displacement, and controls the object movement by a second displacement output ratio when a difference between a direction of the first displacement and a direction of the second displacement exceeds a first angle threshold, wherein the second displacement output ratio is lower than the first displacement output ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Incorporation, R.O.C.
    Inventors: Chia-Cheun Liang, Yi-Hsien Ko
  • Patent number: 9697779
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving method and apparatus of a liquid crystal display apparatus and a liquid crystal display apparatus, and belongs to a liquid crystal display field. The driving method comprises: generating gray scale data of sub-pixels according to received image data; taking a plurality of sub-pixels as a processing unit, generating gray scale voltage polarity signals, which are used for making gray scale voltages of the plurality of sub-pixels tend to zero entirely, respectively corresponding to the gray scale data of the plurality of sub-pixels; outputting the gray scale data and the corresponding polarity signal of the each sub-pixel to a source driver of the liquid crystal display apparatus. The present disclosure may improve display defects caused by turbulence in a common voltage, such as a green attachment, a crosstalk, a flicker, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haifeng Lu, Hengbin Li
  • Patent number: 9691336
    Abstract: Disclosed are a flat panel display and a method for fabricating the same to connect defective sub-pixels to normal sub-pixels adjacent thereto, drive defective sub-pixels using thin film transistors of the normal sub-pixels and thereby repair the defective sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Hyup Lee, Jeong-Hoon Jang
  • Patent number: 9688148
    Abstract: A device for controlling a plurality of different functions of a motor vehicle has an operator control element with which in each case one of the plurality of different functions can be actuated, and a touch-sensitive field which has a plurality of sections, each of which is at least temporarily assigned one of the different functions and which are provided with symbols corresponding to the respective function. A function can be selected by selecting one of the sections. In each case the function which was selected from the touch-sensitive field can be actuated the operator control element. A display device, in which the respectively selected function can be displayed a symbol, is provided on the operator control element or in the direct vicinity of the operator control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Jacques Helot
  • Patent number: 9653020
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a pixel array section including a row of first and second scanning lines, a column of signal lines, and pixels in a matrix, each of the pixels disposed at an intersection of both of the lines; and a drive section. The drive section performs line progressive scanning on the pixels. The pixel includes a light emitting device, a sampling transistor, a driving transistor, a switching transistor, and a holding capacitor. The sampling transistor samples a video signal on the signal line to hold the signal potential in the holding capacitor, the driving transistor makes the light emitting device conductive to be in a luminous state in accordance with the held signal potential, and the switching transistor becomes ON in accordance with the control signal supplied in advance of the sampling of the video signal to change the light emitting device to a non-luminous state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: JOLED Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9645683
    Abstract: A recognition method for an input device is disclosed in the present invention, which is applied to an electronic device with a capacitive touch screen having a function of height detection, different input devices have different electric field height information. The method includes: obtaining the electric field height information of the input device, upon detection of a touch control operation of the input device; and determining attribute information of the input device according to a preset correspondence between the electric field height information and the attribute information of the input device. In the recognition method for the input device disclosed in the present disclosure, after it is determined that a touch control operation is performed on the capacitive touch screen by the input device, the electric field height information of the input device is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guang Yang
  • Patent number: 9542047
    Abstract: A common electrode for a display, which is originally provided in a liquid crystal display element, is also used as one (drive electrode) of a pair of electrodes for a touch sensor, and the other (detection-electrode-for-the-sensor) of the pair of electrodes is newly formed. An existing common drive signal as a drive signal for display is used in common for a drive signal for the touch sensor. A capacitance is formed between the common electrode and the detection-electrode-for-the-sensor, and touch detection is performed by utilizing a change of this capacitance caused by a finger touch of a user. Thus, a display device with a touch sensor is also applicable to a mobile device in which electric potential of the user is inconstant in many cases. The newly-provided electrode is only the detection-electrode-for-the-sensor, and it is unnecessary to newly prepare a drive signal for the touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Daisuke Takama, Yoshitoshi Kida