Patents Examined by Joseph Haley
  • Patent number: 9454236
    Abstract: Provided are a three-dimensional mouse device using several body parts, and a marionette control system using the same. The three-dimensional mouse device includes: a support member that is worn on at least one of a head, a face, an arm, and a foot among body parts; an action recognition module that is mounted on the support member; and an action recognition module that is attached to the support member to sense a motion of the body parts and output a sensing signal to the action recognition module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Hoseo University Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Keun Ho Rew, Kyeong Min Cheon, Seok Bum Lee, Hak Su Kim, Dong Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 9449576
    Abstract: A gate drive device and a display device are provided. With the gate drive device, a clock signal is used in place of a forward scan signal and/or a clock signal is used in place of a backward scan signal and/or a reset signal and a first initial trigger signal (or a second initial trigger signal) are used in place of a low level signal and/or the same signal is used as a first initial trigger signal and a second initial trigger signal to thereby reduce the number of transmission lines for signals driving the gate drive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignees: Shanghai AVIC OPTO Electronics Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huijun Jin, Zhiqiang Xia
  • Patent number: 9448632
    Abstract: A view may be displayed on a multi-touch display based on force from a detected touch to a tactile point and an indentation of a clear layer. A detailed view related to the view may also be displayed on the multi-touch based on a detected further indentation of the tactile point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: HJ Laboratories Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Harry Vartanian, Jaron Jurikson-Rhodes
  • Patent number: 9442587
    Abstract: A touch sensor controller system for use in a vehicle of the type utilizing a software application to be interfaced with by an operator of the vehicle includes a touch sensor and a touch detector associated with the touch sensor. A touch gesture processor is provided which prevents unwanted or unintended touch gestures from being communicated to the application software during certain operating conditions of the vehicle. The touch gesture processor receives inputs of the operating conditions of the vehicle and receives touch gesture information from the touch detector, and the touch gesture processor is operative to determine the types of touch gestures to be permitted to be passed to the software application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: L-3 COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jerome Conway, Marcus Dutton
  • Patent number: 9442580
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a touch operating method thereof are provided. The touch operating method is adapted to an electronic apparatus having a touch display and includes the following steps. A touch performed on the touch display by a touch input device is detected. According to this touch, a dielectric parameter of the touch input device is determined. An operating function corresponding to the dielectric parameter is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Lung Chen, Chao-Kuang Yang
  • Patent number: 9442611
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a pixel electrode; a touch detection electrode; a display drive unit for outputting the pixel signal to the pixel electrode in synchronization with a display drive signal; an operation drive unit for supplying the display drive signal in a display operation period to perform a display operation and supplying a touch detection drive signal in a touch detection period to perform a touch detection operation; a touch detection unit for detecting a detection signal outputted from the touch detection electrode; and a control unit for executing the display operation period and the touch detection period in a time divisional manner. The touch detection unit performs a noise detection operation for detecting a disturbance noise superimposed on the touch detection electrode in the display operation period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Kohei Azumi
  • Patent number: 9436335
    Abstract: Described in this disclosure is an input transformative device having an input side and an output side. The input transformative device may be configured to transfer a touch input at an input location on the input side to one or more output locations on the output side. The output side of the input transformative device may be positioned proximate to a touch sensor of a user device. The touch sensor may then detect the touch input of the user as occurring at the one or more output locations, rather than the input location. Interconnection between the input side and the output side may be predetermined and used to secure user input to the touch sensor. The interconnection pattern of inputs to outputs of the input transformative device may be fixed or reconfigurable. In some implementations, input using the input transformative device may be used to authenticate the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan David Scherer, Darren Ernest Canavor, Daniel Wade Hitchcock, Jesper Mikael Johansson, Jon Arron McClintock, Gregory Branchek Roth, Andrew Jay Roths
  • Patent number: 9436342
    Abstract: A screen comprising a transparent panel and a photon-generating layer in order to form each luminous pixel visible through the transparent panel, this layer being housed behind the transparent panel. There is a human/machine interface able to control the photon-generating layer in order to modify the display of an image by the screen. The interface includes a localizing device for localizing a movable permanent magnet able to be moved directly by hand by a human being in front of the panel, this device comprising for this purpose. The interface also includes a network of magnetometers comprising N tri-axis magnetometers mechanically connected to one another with no degree of freedom in order to maintain a known distance between each of these magnetometers, where N is a whole number higher than or equal to five.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventors: Tristan Hautson, Timothée Jobert, Jean-Luc Vallejo
  • Patent number: 9430035
    Abstract: Interactive drawing recognition is described. In one example, a command is received indicating a type of drawing and a user drawing is observed. A library of drawing templates associated with the drawing type is accessed based on the command. The observed drawing is compared to the drawing templates to identify the observed drawing, and attributes are assigned to the identified drawing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Glen J. Anderson, Cory J. Booth
  • Patent number: 9430147
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining data from a touchpad, the data being associated with the location and movement of a user's finger and/or hand and not associated with an image of the user's finger from an image sensor, when the user operates the computerized system using the touchpad. The method further includes communicating the data from the touchpad to the computerized device, the touchpad being located in a location that is different from the location of the display screen. The method further includes analyzing the data in accordance with a model of a human hand, and assigning the data to at least one of a multitude of fingers of the model, computing a graphical representation of at least one finger of the user in accordance with the model, and displaying the graphical representation on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Handscape Inc.
    Inventor: Tong Luo
  • Patent number: 9429997
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a hollow display cover structure. The hollow display cover structure may be formed from a structure having an inner surface. The structure may be an elongated member having a longitudinal axis. A material such as sapphire, other crystalline materials, or other transparent materials may be used in forming the hollow display cover structure. A flexible display layer such as an organic light-emitting diode display layer or other flexible display structure may be wrapped around the longitudinal axis to cover the interior surface of the hollow display cover structure. The electronic device may have a touch sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, and other sensors for gathering input such as user input. The electronic device may use one or more sensors to gather information on rotational motion of the device and can display content on the flexible display layer accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott A. Myers, Derek Wright, Fletcher R. Rothkopf
  • Patent number: 9423912
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, a touch sensing electrode, and an optical compensation layer. The touch sensing electrode is disposed on the substrate. The optical compensation layer is disposed on the substrate and covers the touch sensing electrode. A refraction index of the optical compensation layer is smaller than or equal to a refraction index of the touch sensing electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: TPK Holding Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Wei Yin, Ming-Kung Wu, Shin-Chieh Huang, Hsuan-Ta Chen, Yu-Ting Lin, Chih-Hsien Lien, Wei-Min Chen, Wei-Chih Hsu, Su-Ming Lin, Peng-Chih Yu, Ping-Wen Huang
  • Patent number: 9423905
    Abstract: A mobile electronic device may have a multi-touch display device and a texturizing polymer layer. The texturizing polymer layer may elevate a surface portion of the texturizing polymer layer to a level to texturize information displayed on the multi-touch display device. A gesture may be detected for the elevated surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: HJ Laboratories Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Harry Vartanian, Jaron Jurikson-Rhodes
  • Patent number: 9423650
    Abstract: A display device includes: a transmission-type display member having a display area that is sequentially scanned; and an illumination member that is arranged on a rear face of the display member and includes a plurality of illumination units that are arranged so as to be aligned in a direction from one end portion side toward the other end portion side along a direction in which the display area is sequentially scanned. The illumination unit is in a light emitting state over a predetermined light emitting period after sequential scanning of display units formed from a portion of the display area, which corresponds to the illumination unit, is completed, and the illumination units are sequentially scanned from one end portion side to the other end portion side in accordance with the sequential scanning of the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro Kuwayama, Satoshi Tomioka
  • Patent number: 9418608
    Abstract: A display device (1) in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: an LCD driving section (20) and an LCD controller (30) for causing an image based on an image signal to be displayed on an LCD (10); and a CPU (40) for supplying an image signal to the LCD controller (30), the LCD controller (30) being configured to supply, to the CPU (40), a control signal that instructs the CPU (40) to supply an image signal, and the CPU (40) being configured to supply an image signal in a case where the CPU (40) receives a control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuki Takahashi, Akizumi Fujioka, Taketoshi Nakano, Toshihiro Yanagi, Kouji Kumada, Noriyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9412799
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shih Chang Chang, Ming-Chin Hung, Cheng-Ho Yu, Ting-Kuo Chang, Kyung-Wook Kim, Chun-Yao Huang, Szu-Hsien Lee, Yu-Cheng Chen, Hiroshi Osawa
  • Patent number: 9412312
    Abstract: A one-pixel structure of a display panel included in an auto-stereoscopic image display device adopts an in-plane switching mode. Transparent counter electrodes that are not provided in a liquid crystal panel of a normal in-plane switching mode are formed correspondingly to pixel peripheral regions on a second transparent substrate side and, in 3-dimensional image display, a vertical electric field is forcibly generated between the transparent counter electrodes and the comb-shaped electrodes, which causes the liquid crystal molecules to rise to show black display in the pixel peripheral regions. In 2-dimensional image display, meanwhile, the transparent counter electrodes are set to be floating, and the display panel is caused to have a structure substantially equivalent to a structure in which the transparent counter electrodes are not provided, to thereby make the display in pixel peripheral regions identical to the display (brightness) in a pixel main region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki Fujino, Yasunori Niwano, Syuichi Kira, Shingo Nagano, Akimasa Yuuki
  • Patent number: 9412342
    Abstract: Disclosed are a timing controller, a driving method thereof, and an LCD device using the same. The timing controller includes a receiver configured to receive a timing signal and input video data, a control signal generator configured to generate a control signal by using the timing signal, a data aligner configured to output image data aligned, and a transferor configured to include a plurality of ports for transferring the aligned image data and the control signal to a plurality of source driving ICs. When number of source driving ICs is greater than number of ports, each of the ports is connected to at least two or more source driving ICs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Hun Choi, Geon Young Hwang, Jin Won Lee
  • Patent number: 9411479
    Abstract: A touch panel including a touch sensor is disclosed. In one aspect, the touch panel includes a substrate, a first touch electrode layer and a second touch electrode layer formed over the substrate and an insulating layer interposed between the first and second touch electrode layers. The first touch electrode layer includes a plurality of first touch electrodes each configured to independently receive a driving signal. Each of the first touch electrodes includes a plurality of sub-electrodes arranged at a predetermined interval and a plurality of sub-electrode connectors electrically connecting the sub-electrodes to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Joon Kim, Byung-Jun Lee, Kwan Young Han, Hwan-Hee Jeong
  • Patent number: 9412307
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels connected to a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of initializing control lines, and a plurality of light emission control lines, a scan driver to output scan signals to the scan lines and initializing signals to the initializing control lines, and a data driver to output data signals to respective ones of the data lines. A first pixel and a second pixel may be commonly connected to a scan line and a data line. The scan driver may output at least one first initializing signal and at least one second initializing signal to the first pixel and second pixel, respectively. The scan signals and the first and the second initializing signals may be activated at different points in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sun-Ja Kwon, Jae-Sic Lee