Patents Examined by Josemarie G Acha, III
  • Patent number: 9361284
    Abstract: Apparatus is configured to cause to be displayed, in a first area of a display, an object and to cause to be displayed, in a second area of the display, a first comment associated with the object, wherein the second area is in a fixed location relative to the first area. The apparatus is responsive to a first dynamic tactile user input within the second area of the display to cause the first comment to be at least partially hidden and to cause to be displayed, in the second area of the display, a second comment that was not visible prior to the first dynamic tactile user input without moving the object on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Risto Matias Ylivainio
  • Patent number: 9354748
    Abstract: Optical stylus interaction techniques are described. In an implementation, a display of a computing device includes optical sensors capable of detecting images projected by a stylus. A stylus may include a projection system to project various images used to convey interaction information that may be interpreted by the computing device. Based on recognition of different projected images, a context for interaction of the stylus may be ascertained and corresponding operations may be performed by the computing device. This may include resolving a spatial position of the stylus relative to the display device as well as movement of the stylus and images that defines various stylus-based gestures. In addition, the environment for optical stylus interaction enables a writing mode that emulates natural writing by mapping different projectable images to changes in pressure applied to the stylus when in contact with the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John M. Lutian, Liang Wang, Karlton D. Powell, Steven Nabil Bathiche
  • Patent number: 9348467
    Abstract: Surface acoustic waves in a radial pattern are used to detect touch. Different radial transducer arrangements may allow for locating multiple simultaneous touches without ambiguity. Instead of transmitting along a line to be reflected at multiple points, the surface acoustic waves are transmitted radially. The surface acoustic waves are transmitted along different angles in an angular span spread out over at least part of the touch region. Using acoustic waves traveling along intersecting paths, a point location of a touch may be determined by detection, in part, of at least one angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: ELO TOUCH SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel H. Scharff, Joel C. Kent, Kyu-Tak Son
  • Patent number: 9343030
    Abstract: A gate driving circuit includes N stages (where N is a natural number greater than or equal to 2). The N stages are cascaded, and each of the N stages has a gate line connected thereto. A first stage group includes k stages of the N stages (where k is a natural number less than N), and the first stage group outputs a first output signal in response to a start signal. A second stage group (including N?k stages) generates a second output signal in response to the first output signal and outputs the second output signal to a corresponding gate line. The first stage group includes a first buffer and a second buffer, each of which receives the start signal. A size of the first buffer is smaller than a size of the second buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyuk-Jin Kim, Kyung-ho Park, Sang Yong No, YoungJe Cho, Kook Hyun Choi, Yongjo Kim, Sung Hoon Kim, Hyo-Seop Kim
  • Patent number: 9305501
    Abstract: A method to drive a display device includes: transmitting at least one data voltage to one or more of a plurality of data lines, scanning one or more of a plurality of gate lines to enable transmission of a gate signal in association with a first frame of a first hold section of a first still image section associated with display of a still image, and scanning one or more of the plurality of gate lines to enable transmission of the gate signal every frame of a first refresh section. The first still image section comprises the first refresh section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Jun Choi, Hyun Seok Ko, Po-Yun Park, Min Joo Lee, Jung-Hwan Cho
  • Patent number: 9298316
    Abstract: An optical touch display panel includes a plurality of resetting signal lines, a plurality of scanning signal lines, and a plurality of optical sensing touch units. Each optical sensing touch unit includes an optical sensing element and a storage capacitor. The optical sensing elements in a first direction are connected electrically to different scanning signal lines, and are configured to respectively receive a control signal. The optical sensing elements in a second direction includes a plurality of groups, and the optical sensing elements of each group are connected electrically to different resetting signal lines, so that each group receives a reset signal. Each optical sensing element outputs a charging signal corresponding to the reset signal to the storage capacitor according to the control signal, so as to reset a voltage of the storage capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Han-Ming Chen, Yueh-Hung Chung, Ya-Ling Hsu, Hsueh-Ying Huang
  • Patent number: 9275602
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel including gate and data line that cross each other; a first control signal generation unit generating a source output enable signal and a first gate output enable signal in synchronization with a data enable signal modulated according to a spread frequency clock signal; a second control signal generation unit counting a number of clocks of a fixed-frequency clock signal based on a point of time at which a logic high state of the source output enable signal ends, and outputting a second gate output enable signal when the number of the counted clocks becomes equal to a reference value; and a gate driving unit controlling outputting of a gate signal to the gate lines using the second gate output enable signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young-Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 9274661
    Abstract: A touch sensing circuit is provided. The circuit is configured to connect to a conducting wire in a touch area for measuring a signal variation. In a driving mode, the wire is coupled to AC voltage. If a first voltage variation which exceeds a first threshold is measured by the circuit, it is determined that something is approaching the touch area near the wire. In a passive mode, the wire is coupled to DC voltage. If a second voltage variation which exceeds a second threshold is measured by the circuit, it is determined that something is approaching the touch area near the wire. When measuring the second voltage variation, no AC voltage is coupled to the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: EGALAX—EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Shang-Tai Yeh
  • Patent number: 9245477
    Abstract: A display device which displays an image having a size corresponding to a display area exposed outside a housing is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a flexible display panel having a recognition pattern, a housing, and a light-receiving sensor. The recognition pattern includes a plurality of self-luminous indicators arranged according to a first direction, and having different colors or different light-emitting intensities. The housing is coupled to the flexible display panel for entering/discharging of the flexible display panel according to the first direction such that a display area of the flexible display panel is variously exposed. The light-receiving sensor is positioned corresponding to the recognition pattern in the housing and respectively recognizes a plurality of indicators to sense the exposed display area of the flexible display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun-Ho Kwack, Joon-Sam Kim, Jong-Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 9240139
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device includes a plurality of pixels, each one of the plurality of pixels including: a switching transistor that is connected to a gate line and a data line; a driving transistor, wherein a data voltage of the data line passing through the switching transistor is reflected into a gate of the driving transistor; a sampling transistor that samples a threshold voltage of the driving transistor, wherein a gate of the sampling transistor is connected to a control line, and the sampled threshold voltage is reflected into the gate of the driving transistor; an initializing transistor, wherein a gate of the initializing transistor is connected to a previous or next gate line, and an initialization voltage passing through the initializing transistor is reflected into the gate of the driving transistor; and an organic light emitting diode that is connected to the driving transistor, wherein a driving current of the organic light emitting diode is adjusted according to a voltage of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hak-Su Kim, Sang-Ho Yu, Won-Kyu Ha
  • Patent number: 9235281
    Abstract: A method for protecting a touch-sensitive device includes: switching the touch-sensitive device from a normal mode to a protection mode when a preset operation is exerted; determining whether a touch operation is exerted after the touch-sensitive device enters the protection mode, and further determine whether a duration of the touch-sensitive device in the protection mode exceeds a preset time interval; comparing a touch size of the touch operation with a preset size when the duration of the touch-sensitive device in the protection mode exceeds the preset time interval; and generating an alarm signal when the touch size is less than the preset size. A related touch-sensitive device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian-Jun Zhou, Jun Zhang, Tsung-Jen Chuang, Shih-Fang Wong
  • Patent number: 9208720
    Abstract: An organic EL displaying apparatus which suppresses a defective display caused by a leak current at a time when an emission period controlling transistor is off is provided. The organic EL displaying apparatus comprises a plurality of pixels each of which includes an organic EL element, a power supply line, a driving transistor and the emission period controlling transistor, a data line, and a control line. In this apparatus, in a certain one of the pixels, a resistance Roff—ILM between source and drain electrodes of the emission period controlling transistor in an off state of the emission period controlling transistor, and a resistance Rbk—Dr between source and drain electrodes of the driving transistor in a state that a minimum gradation displaying data voltage has been applied to a gate electrode of the driving transistor satisfy Roff—ILM?Rbk—Dr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junya Tamaki, Nobuhiko Sato, Masami Iseki, Kouji Ikeda, Masahiro Tamura, Takeshi Izumida, Naoki Tokuda
  • Patent number: 9196202
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) backlight driving circuit of the present disclosure includes a monitor module, a first light cluster, a first boost voltage module that drives the first light cluster, a second light cluster, and a second boost voltage module that drives the second light cluster. The first boost voltage module includes a first detection unit that detects an output current of the first boost voltage module, and the second boost voltage module includes a second detection unit that detects an output current of the second boost voltage module. The monitor module includes a current comparing unit coupled to the first detection unit and the second detection unit, and an actuator coupled to the current comparing unit. The actuator controls running states of the first boost voltage module and the second boost voltage module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Inventors: Xianming Zhang, Xiang Yang
  • Patent number: 9195327
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch panel with features enabling the external form to be downsized without degrading a detection accuracy of a touch input area and applying an electric voltage to a pair of the electrodes and detecting the output electric voltages inverting the polarity of the voltage. A touch panel of the present invention uses the principle of Apollonius' circle for the touch position detection. Said touch panel is fabricated so that two substrates having a transparent conductive film thereon are place in a manner that said each transparent conductive film is facing each other. A first substrate has one electrode and a second substrate has two pairs of point electrodes. Said two pairs of the point electrodes are arranged in a circumference region of said second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Ito, Ichiro Hazeyama, Shizuo Morishita
  • Patent number: 9164579
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device. The electronic device includes at least one sensing unit recognizing a plurality of pointing means, a display unit displaying a pointer following a movement of a pointing means having the authority to control the electronic device among the plurality of pointing means, and a controller obtaining context awareness information related to the electronic device, determining the number of pointers required for controlling the electronic device according to the context awareness information, and selecting at least one point means having the authority to control the electronic device from among the plurality of pointing means based on the number of required points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Soungmin Im, Sunjin Yu, Taehyeong Kim, Hyunsook Lee
  • Patent number: 9164607
    Abstract: A multi-layer touch panel having an upper and a lower electrode that cross over one another. The electrode pattern for either electrode at the cross over area is complementary to the other electrode at the cross over area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Matthew H. Frey
  • Patent number: 9152270
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for improving touch detection of a touch screen device. The method includes determining touch coordinates when the touch screen device is touched. Subsequently, a sampling time is adjusted, depending on the touch coordinates relative to initial coordinates of the touch screen device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: STANDARD MICROSYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miroslav Oljaca, Srinivas K. Pulijala
  • Patent number: 9153189
    Abstract: Disclosed is an LCD apparatus having improved display characteristics. A clock generator applies first and second clock signals to a gate driver so as to control a pulse width of a gate driving signal. A discharging transistor connected to first ends of gate lines discharges a present stage before operating a next stage. The gate lines include a first gate driver and a second gate driver for operating the gate lines while the first gate driver is operated in an abnormal state. Accordingly, the LCD apparatus may be operated in high-speed and prevent the gate driving signal from being delayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung-Hwan Moon
  • Patent number: 9153190
    Abstract: A gate driver that comprises n shift registers, wherein n is an integer equal to or larger than 1, each of the n shift registers includes; a start stage which outputs a gate signal and starts its operation in response to a start signal, and a plurality of subsequent stages which are connected to each other in sequence, and which sequentially output a plurality of gate signals in response to a signal output from the start stage, wherein at least one stage of the plurality of subsequent stages is reset by the start signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soon-Il Ahn, Ho-Kyoon Kwon, Byoung-Sun Na, Dong-Hyon Ki, Seung-Soo Baek, Hye-Seok Na
  • Patent number: 9141265
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, a motion vector acquisition unit acquires the movement of a cursor of a pointing device as a motion vector. A display unit displays an execution screen for an application. The display unit displays an operation area for operating an operation target in the application in an area of a display screen different from an area for displaying the execution screen. A conversion unit obtains the moving direction and the amount of displacement of the display position of the operation target based on the motion vector, acquired by the motion vector acquisition unit, of the cursor of the pointing device in the operation area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Ryota Akao, Tatsuya Suzuki, Hiroshi Aruga