Patents Examined by Joseph Haley
  • Patent number: 9372544
    Abstract: In one or more implementations, a static geometry model is generated, from one or more images of a physical environment captured using a camera, using one or more static objects to model corresponding one or more objects in the physical environment. Interaction of a dynamic object with at least one of the static objects is identified by analyzing at least one image and a gesture is recognized from the identified interaction of the dynamic object with the at least one of the static objects to initiate an operation of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: David Kim, Otmar D. Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, Patrick L. Olivier, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Pushmeet Kohli, David G. Molyneaux, Stephen E. Hodges, Andrew W. Fitzgibbon
  • Patent number: 9366871
    Abstract: An immersive headset device is provided that includes a display portion and a body portion. The display portion may include microdisplays having a compact size. The microdisplays may be movable (e.g., rotational) relative to the body portion and can be moved (e.g., rotated) between a flipped-up position and a flipped-down position. In some instances, when the microdisplays are flipped up, the headset provides an augmented reality (AR) mode to a user, and when the microdisplays are flipped down, the headset provide a virtual reality (VR) mode to the user. In certain implementations, the headset includes an electronics source module to provide power and/or signal to the microdisplays. The electronics source module can be attached to a rear of the body portion in order to provide advantageous weight distribution about the head of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: EMAGIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Amal Ghosh, John Chi-Liang Ho, Andrew Thomas Manning Rosen
  • Patent number: 9367204
    Abstract: In accordance with one implementation, a method is illustrated that allows a computing device to determine a user input. The method includes detecting one or more user input objects in a 3-dimensional field relative to a 2-dimensional surface. The method also includes determining coordinates for the one or more user input objects relative to the 2-dimensional surface. And, the method further includes determining a user input based on the coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Inventors: Lai Xue, Darren Lim
  • Patent number: 9367148
    Abstract: A method for selectively switching a frame rate of a mouse includes: setting a plurality of acceleration thresholds respectively corresponding to a plurality of frame rates at which the mouse is operated; operating the mouse at a first frame rate of the plurality of frame rates; determining a velocity of the mouse according to a difference between a first frame captured by the mouse at the first frame rate and a second frame following the first frame captured by the mouse at the first frame rate; determining an acceleration of the mouse between the first captured frame and second captured frame according to the velocity of the first frame, the velocity of the second frame, and the frame rate; comparing the acceleration with the plurality of thresholds; and directly switching the frame rate of the mouse to a frame rate which corresponds to the determined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging (Penang) SDN. BHD.
    Inventors: Joon Chok Lee, Kevin Len Li Lim
  • Patent number: 9367117
    Abstract: Methods and systems for attention-based rendering on an entertainment system are provided. A tracking device captures data associated with a user, which is used to determine that a user has reacted (e.g., visually or emotionally) to a particular part of the screen. The processing power is increased in this part of the screen, which increases detail and fidelity of the graphics and/or updating speed. The processing power in the areas of the screen that the user is not paying attention to is decreased and diverted from those areas, resulting in decreased detail and fidelity of the graphics and/or decreased updating speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC
    Inventors: Paul Timm, Andres Ramos Cevallos, Ryan Halvorson
  • Patent number: 9368066
    Abstract: A pixel circuit is disclosed. The pixel circuit includes first and second capacitors, and a driving transistor, which generates a driving current. The pixel circuit includes a first transistor, controlled by a first driving signal, and which transmits a data signal to the first capacitor. The pixel circuit includes a second transistor, controlled by a second driving signal, and which transmits the data signal to the driving transistor. The pixel circuit includes a third transistor, controlled by the first driving signal, and which transmits a reference signal to the driving transistor. The pixel circuit includes a fourth transistor, controlled by a third driving signal, and which transmits the driving current to the light emitting element. The first capacitor stores the data signal and stabilizes the voltage between the gate and the source of the driving transistor, and the second capacitor stabilizes a source voltage of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignees: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yingteng Zhai
  • Patent number: 9360893
    Abstract: Input device writing surface techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an input device includes a connection portion configured to form a communicative and physical coupling to a computing device sufficient to secure the input device to the computing device. The input device also includes an input portion having a writing surface configured to perform a change in optical states that is viewable by the user, the change in the optical states performable without use of electronic computation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Nabil Bathiche, Paul Henry Dietz, Bernard K. Rihn, Panos C. Panay
  • Patent number: 9363571
    Abstract: An apparatus may include a processor and a touch sensing device coupled to the processor. The apparatus may further include a force determining module operative on the processor to receive a detection signal from a first portion of the touch sensing device, determine a contact area at the first portion based upon the detection signal, map the first portion to a target operation, and send control instructions to perform the target operation based on the contact area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bran Ferren, Dimitri Negroponte, Cory J. Booth, Genevieve Bell
  • Patent number: 9361841
    Abstract: A pixel unit and a display device are proposed. The pixel unit includes a primary subpixel, a white subpixel, a display data line, a display scanning line, a common line and a mode scanning line. When the display device is in a 2D display mode, the white subpixel appears bright under the control of the display mode signal. Ehen the display device is in a 3D display mode, the white subpixel appears dark under the control of the display mode signal. Owing to the design of the present invention, power which the convention pixel and display device consumes is obviously reduced. Besides, crosstalk occurring in the conventional display device is successfully solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zuomin Liao
  • Patent number: 9354841
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for wirelessly communicating configuration data from mobile devices for use by interactive display devices. In some aspects, a processing device can identify two or more mobile devices participating in a session for utilizing an interactive display device. The processing device can receive configuration data from each of the mobile devices via a wireless transceiver. The processing device can configure an interactive display device to present outputs during the session using attributes that the processing device identifies from the received configuration data. In additional or alternative aspects, a processing device can identify at least one mobile device participating in a session for utilizing an interactive display device. The processing device can associate outputs presented by the interactive display device with an entity that is identifiable from configuration data that is received from the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Smart Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Grant McGibney, Angela Thomas, Leonardo Miguel Araneta, Phillip Warren Benson
  • Patent number: 9355586
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of display panels arranged adjacent to each other in a line scanning direction to form one screen; a master controller configured to drive one of the display panels; and one or more slave controllers configured to drive the other display panels, each of the slave controllers corresponding to each of the other display panels. The master controller is configured to drive the display panel based on a scanning control signal and a clock signal which are generated, and output the generated scanning control signal and the generated clock signal and each of the slave controllers is configured to drive the corresponding display panel based on the scanning control signal and the clock signal inputted from the master controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Terukazu Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 9348476
    Abstract: A display device with integrated touch screen is provided. The display device includes a panel configured to include a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes and a display driver IC configured to apply a common voltage to the plurality of driving electrodes and the plurality of sensing electrodes when the panel operates in a display driving mode, and when the panel operates in a touch driving mode, generate a pulse-modulated driving pulse according to a timing pulse and a pulse modulation control signal to apply the pulse-modulated driving pulse to the plurality of driving electrodes, and respectively receive a plurality of sensing signals from the plurality of sensing electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young Joon Lee
  • Patent number: 9349338
    Abstract: A memory access section 16 writes, in a memory (10), a received image signal, in a case where a current frame is one that is located right before a frame in a scanning signal. On the other hand, the memory access section 16 does not write, in the memory (10), a received image signal, in a case where the current frame is one that is located right before a frame in a pause period. This allows a further reduction in electric power used to write, in the memory (10), an image signal received from outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Kobayashi, Akizumi Fujioka, Asahi Yamato, Taketoshi Nakano, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Patent number: 9349337
    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: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki Fujino, Yasunori Niwano, Syuichi Kira, Shingo Nagano, Akimasa Yuuki
  • Patent number: 9343025
    Abstract: A display device includes a display module and a protective member that accommodates the display module. The protective member includes a first curved-line part extending in a horizontal direction and curved to have a concave surface on the top, a second curved-line part spaced apart from the first curved-line part to face the first curved-line part, formed below the first curved-line part, extending in the horizontal direction, and have a concave surface on the bottom, and connection parts that connect the first curved-line part and the second curved-line part to define an opening portion through which the portion of a display area is exposed. The display area comprises a display part exposed through the opening portion to display the effective image, a first peripheral part overlapped with the first curved-line part, and a second peripheral part overlapped with the second curved-line part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JooYoung Kim, Gicherl Kim, Junwoo You, Dongmin Yeo
  • Patent number: 9342168
    Abstract: An input apparatus, a display apparatus, a control method thereof and a display system are provided. The input apparatus includes: a communication unit which communicates with the display apparatus; a touch sensor which senses a touch input; a motion sensor which senses a motion of the input apparatus; and a controller which determines whether a value of a touch input, that sensed by the touch sensor when the input apparatus operates in a gesture mode according to the motion of the input apparatus, is greater than or equal to a first reference value, and changes an input mode of the input apparatus to a touch mode if it is determined that the value of the touch input greater than or equal to the first reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-heon Lee, Yong-hwan Kwon
  • Patent number: 9336720
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display panel is disclosed herein. The organic light-emitting diode display panel includes display units. Each of display units includes an organic light-emitting element, a light-driving circuit and stages of shift register connected in series. The light-driving circuit drives the organic light-emitting element according to a light-emitting control signal. Each of the stages of the shift register includes a shift register circuit and a control signal output circuit. The shift register circuit generates a current stage shift signal according to a previous stage shift signal and a first clock signal. The control signal output circuit outputs the light-emitting control signal according to the current stage shift signal and a previous stage carry signal. The enabling period of the light-emitting control signal is determined by the time period between the enabling period of the current stage shift signal and the previous stage carry signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kuang-Hsiang Liu
  • Patent number: 9336708
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device includes a substrate including a display unit configured to display an image and a peripheral portion surrounding the display unit, a plurality of scan lines on the substrate and extending in a first direction, a plurality of data lines on the substrate and intersecting the scan lines in a second direction, a plurality of pixels at the display unit and connected to the scan lines and the data lines, a repair ring surrounding the display unit, a plurality of driving pads on the peripheral portion and connected to ends of the plurality of data lines, a pair of dummy driving pads on the peripheral portion and connected to ends of the repair ring, and a driving circuit configured to transmit a data signal to the plurality of driving pads and to the pair of dummy driving pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Gon Kim, Jae-Sic Lee, Jin-Yup Kim, Ji Yong Park
  • Patent number: 9336706
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display includes a plurality of pixels, a luminance measuring unit, a current measuring unit, and a compensation data generator. The luminance measuring unit measures the luminance of each pixel and generates luminance information corresponding to the measured luminances. The current measuring unit measures the current output from each pixel and generates current information corresponding to the measured currents. The compensation data generator generates compensation data including a compensation value for each pixel based on the luminance information and/or the current information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung-Man Kim
  • Patent number: 9335824
    Abstract: A multi-touch display layer of a mobile electronic device may be configured with a tactile area on a clear layer on the multi-touch display layer. The mobile electronic device may display a view of information based on applied force from a detected touch to the tactile area and a detected indentation level of the clear layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: HJ Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Harry Vartanian, Jaron Jurikson-Rhodes