Patents Examined by Joseph Haley
  • Patent number: 9236017
    Abstract: A display device and a method for controlling a luminance of the display device are disclosed. The display device includes an average picture level (APL) calculator which calculates an APL of an input image and outputs the APL of the input image and an APL curve data, a luminance adjuster which adjusts the APL curve data and includes at least two luminance adjusting units which are enabled in response to a user input through a user interface, a data modulator for modulating data of the input image using a luminance defined in the APL curve data adjusted by the luminance adjuster, and a display panel driving circuit which writes data from the data modulator on a display panel and reproduces the input image on the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Sungjin Park
  • Patent number: 9235267
    Abstract: Methods and systems for processing touch inputs are disclosed. The invention in one respect includes reading data from a multi-touch sensing device such as a multi-touch touch screen where the data pertains to touch input with respect to the multi-touch sensing device, and identifying at least one multi-touch gesture based on the data from the multi-touch sensing device and providing an appropriate multi-haptic response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bobby G. Burrough, Benjamin J. Pope
  • Patent number: 9235307
    Abstract: A stylus and touch sensitive device are disclosed. The stylus includes a stylus transmitter for transmitting a stylus signal. The touch sensitive device includes row conductors, each of which is associated with a row transmitter and a row receiver. The row transmitter is adapted to simultaneously transmit row signals, each on its associated row conductor, each of the row signals being orthogonal to each other of the plurality of row signals transmitted on each other of the row conductors. The row receiver is adapted to detect the stylus signal. Column conductors are provided, each associated with a column receiver that is adapted to detect the presence of each of the row signals transmitted by the row transmitter and the stylus signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.
    Inventor: Darren Leigh
  • Patent number: 9225950
    Abstract: Disclosed are a device for user interaction with a combined projector and camera and a method and a device for user interaction for recognizing an actual object to augment relevant information on a surface or a periphery of the actual object. The device for user interaction, includes: at least one projector-camera pair in which a projector and a camera are paired; a motor mounted in the projector-camera pair and configured to control a location and a direction of the projector-camera pair; and a body including a computer capable of including a wireless network and configured to provide connection with an external device, and a projection space and a photographing space of the projector-camera pair overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Joo Haeng Lee, Hyun Kim, Hyoung Sun Kim
  • Patent number: 9223340
    Abstract: For organizing display data on a multiuser display, a position module determines a user position from an audible signal. An organization module organizes display data on a multiuser display in response to the user position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Michaela Rose Case, John Weldon Nicholson, Aaron Michael Stewart
  • Patent number: 9223495
    Abstract: A touch screen that is capable of receiving touch inputs from a user includes a crossing navigation input that uses two directional input to move through content within different content groups. The touch screen includes a graphical user interface that is configured to display content on the touch screen such that similar content items are in a content group. Additionally, the graphical user interface is configured to receive, through the touch screen, a first input to access different content groups and a second input to access content within the same group. The first input includes a touch input in a first direction and the second input includes a touch input in a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sohui Won, Eui-Suk Chung, Bartley H. Calder
  • Patent number: 9218757
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device may include: a liquid crystal display panel comprising a first and a second common voltage supply line formed in a first direction at both side ends of the substrate, and at least one feedback line formed in the first direction and connected to the first common voltage supply line and/or the second common voltage supply line; and at least one common voltage compensating circuit, an output terminal of which is connected to the first and the second common voltage supply lines, and an input terminal of which is connected to the feedback line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: WoongKi Min, HongSung Song, YoonSan Park, SangJun Lee, SungGon Park
  • Patent number: 9218561
    Abstract: The examples describe the integration of a RFID tag with a touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventor: Esat Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 9213423
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at each of at least four receivers of a stylus, a signal from an electrode line oriented along a first axis of a touch-sensing device and determining, by a processor of the stylus, a signal strength of the signal at each of the at least four receivers of the stylus. The received signal has a different signal strength at each of the at least four receivers. The method includes determining, by the processor of the stylus, a tilt direction of the stylus based on the determined signal strength at a plurality of the at least four receivers, and providing, by a transmitter of the stylus, a response signal to the touch-sensing device. The tilt direction includes a direction of the stylus along a second axis of the touch-sensing device and the second axis is oriented in a different direction than the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Bell
  • Patent number: 9214129
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels each of which is connected to a corresponding gate line of a plurality of gate lines and a corresponding data line of a plurality of data lines, the plurality of data lines crossing the plurality of gate lines. The display apparatus also includes a control signal generator configured to generate a plurality of control signals in response to a date enable signal, a gate driver configured to drive the gate lines in response to at least one control signal among the plurality of control signals, a data driver configured to drive the plurality of data lines, and a timing controller configured to control the data driver in response to at least one received image signal and at least one received image control signal, and apply the data enable signal to the control signal generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong-Young Kim, BumJin Kim, Young-Joo Nam, Hyungbo Shim
  • Patent number: 9214506
    Abstract: A pixel unit driving circuit provides a method for driving a pixel unit for operating a display device. The circuit comprises four TFT transistors and two capacitors. The display process is divided into three processes, which are a pre-charging phase, a compensation phase and a display phase. As compared with the conventional pixel structure, the nonuniformity and the shift of the threshold voltage of the depleted TFT or the enhanced TFT driving transistor, and the nonuniformity of the OLED voltage may be effectively compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hongjun Xie
  • Patent number: 9214139
    Abstract: An image display apparatus has: a first image generator that defines each position between a predetermined start point and end point of a tubular structure as a first viewpoint and generates a first image obtained by observing an image of the inside of the tubular structure from each first viewpoint toward the end point; a second image generator that defines each position between the start point and the end point as a second viewpoint and generates a second image obtained by observing an image of the inside of the tubular structure from each second viewpoint toward the start point; and a user interface that is provided with an operation part, a monitor and a display controller and is configured so that, in response to an instruction from the operation part, the display controller makes the monitor display the first image and the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Michito Nakayama
  • Patent number: 9213450
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, and a transparent conductive layer disposed on the second surface of the substrate. The transparent conductive layer is disposed in a pattern so that the transparent conductive layer includes a plurality of discrete conductive pads, with the pads being conductively connected to at least one connecting region of the substrate via respective conductive traces. The pads are associated with respective buttons of a display device disposed at the substrate, such that the user may touch or approach the substrate and pads at selected areas in response to the displayed buttons as viewed by the user through the pads and substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Scott C. Ippel
  • Patent number: 9210752
    Abstract: A backlight device, used in a liquid crystal display device, comprising: a substrate including first and second areas; a plurality of first light emitting diodes (LEDs) arranged in the first area at a density equal to or higher than a predetermined density; a plurality of second LEDs arranged in the second area at a density lower than the predetermined density; and a control unit configured to control current supplied to the first LEDs with respect to the temperature of the first area, and current supplied to the second LEDs with respect to the temperature of the second area so as to make the rate of change in effective value of the current supplied to the first LEDs different from the rate of change in effective value of the current supplied to the second LEDs when temperatures of the first and second areas are higher than a predetermined temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kobayashi, Yoshio Umeda
  • Patent number: 9207902
    Abstract: A method for implementing a multi-vision system by using a plurality of portable terminals, wherein, if a user applies a touch input to each of the plurality of portable terminals in a state in which the plurality of portable terminals are disposed, each of the plurality of portable terminals transmits information relating to the touch input to a multi-vision controller, and the multi-vision controller determines how the plurality of portable terminals have been disposed by using the touch input information and then transmits picture division information indicating a respective content portion to be displayed by each portable terminal to the plurality of portable terminals, and thus, the user can conveniently and quickly implement the multi-vision system by using the plurality of portable terminals and can select an optimized disposition of the plurality of portable terminals based on the characteristics of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-hyun Kim, Je-han Yoon, Young-ri Kim, Sang-ok Cha
  • Patent number: 9195051
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for a multi-state shutter assembly. The multi-state shutter assembly can be used in an electronic display. The shutter assembly can include a movable light obstructing component. The shutter assembly also can include first and second actuators configured to move the light obstructing component between three states, including a fully light obstructive state, a substantially transmissive state, and a partially transmissive state. At least one of the three states is a neutral state in which both the first and second actuators are in an unactuated state. The shutter assembly also can include a controller configured to control the first and second actuator to selectively move the light obstructing component into each of the three states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Pixtronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Joyce Wu, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Mark B. Andersson, Gianni Taraschi, Jasper Lodewyk Steyn
  • Patent number: 9190028
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system which integrates unique lighting technologies, switching systems, mounting systems, information delivery systems and power supply systems within a support such as vehicular wheel to provide an advanced, high quality visual display apparatus in various surfaces of rotation. A displayed image may be three dimensional. These technologies, and their many unique applications, provide for a novel and useful series of video display devices that are small, lightweight, efficient and can have the capability of producing a clear, bright, high definition image that is equivalent to that of a modern day TV or high quality computer monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Lightning Wheels, LLC
    Inventors: Mark D. Gilbert, Paul Chen, Lawrence Moens
  • Patent number: 9190013
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for selecting a temporal modulation method according to an analysis of image data and for controlling a pixel array according to the temporal modulation method. The analysis may involve analyzing at least one of image content data or image gamut data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pouya Bastani, Alok Govil, Behnam Bastani
  • Patent number: 9190000
    Abstract: A driving method for liquid crystal display (LCD) panel includes the following steps: A. sending feedback signals to a monitoring module before timing control modules (T-CONs) sends driving signals to drive display of the LCD panel; B. generating control signals when the monitoring module receives the feedback signal of each of the T-CONs, and then simultaneously sending the control signals to each of the T-CONs; C. sending a driving signal to drive display of the LCD panel when each of the T-CONs receives the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Inventors: Xiaoping Tan, Yong Zhang, Jiehui Qin
  • Patent number: 9183780
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display includes a display panel including data lines, gate lines crossing the data lines, and pixels and a panel driving circuit which supplies a data voltage to the pixels of the display panel during a power-on period and then is additionally driven for a predetermined power-on delay duration time delayed from a power-off start time of a power input signal. The panel driving circuit supplies a reverse polarity recovery voltage having a polarity opposite the data voltage to the pixels or supplies a recovery voltage, which is different from a gate voltage of a driving element of each of the pixels, to a source terminal of the driving element of each pixel for the predetermined power-on delay duration time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungtae Kim, Byungchul Ahn, Joonyoung Kim, Joongsun Yoon