Patents Examined by Julie Anne Watko
  • Patent number: 10670865
    Abstract: A head-up display device for a vehicle may include: a light source part configured to generate light; a lens part configured to concentrate the light irradiated from the light source part; a film part configured to make a scattering angle of the light different in horizontal and vertical directions, the light having passed through the lens part; and an image generation part configured to generate image information using the light having passed through the film part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ki Hyuk Song
  • Patent number: 10664014
    Abstract: A flexible display panel includes a non display part and at least a first screen, a second screen and a third screen. The first screen and the second screen are oppositely located. The third screen is connected between the first screen and the second screen. The first screen, the second screen and the third screen jointly form a display region. The non display part is connected to one side of the display region and is provided with a drive chip that drives the first screen, the second screen and the third screen to show images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Lei Cui
  • Patent number: 10664108
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, and a capacitance measurer configured to measure mutual capacitances between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes. Each of the first electrodes includes a plurality of loop patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongkyun Kim, Seogwoo Hong, Byungkyu Lee, Seokwhan Chung
  • Patent number: 10657891
    Abstract: A source driving circuit of a display device includes a plurality of unit driving circuits configured to drive a plurality of connection nodes connected to a display panel. Each unit driving circuit includes a plurality of driver circuits and output switches. The driver circuits perform analog-conversion and amplification operations on a plurality of digital data signals to generate a plurality of analog data signals. The output switches are connected in parallel between the driver circuits and a corresponding connection node among the plurality of connection nodes. The output switches transfer the plurality of analog data signals alternately to the corresponding connection node. Each one of the plurality of connection nodes may be driven by more than one of the plurality of driver circuits. The source settling time is reduced and performance of the display device is enhanced by disposing a plurality of unit driving circuits to each connection node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: In-Suk Kim, Chan-Bong Yu
  • Patent number: 10650743
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for driving a pixel circuit. The method includes steps of obtaining an actual threshold voltage and an actual current-to-voltage conversion factor of a driving thin film transistor as well as actual luminous efficiency of an organic light emitting diode in sequence; and calculating a compensation data signal inputted to a source of a switching thin film transistor based on the obtained actual threshold voltage and actual current-to-voltage conversion factor of the driving thin film transistor and the obtained actual luminous efficiency of the organic light emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuchao Zeng, Pengfei Liang
  • Patent number: 10649518
    Abstract: A GPU performs dynamic power level management by switching between pre-defined power levels having distinct clock and voltage levels. The dynamic power level management includes identifying a first performance metric associated with processing workloads at the for a consecutive number of measurement cycles. In some embodiments, the consecutive number of measurement cycles includes a current measurement cycle and at least one previous measurement cycle. Based on a determination that the consecutive number of measurement cycles exceeds a minimum hysteresis number, an estimated optimization is determined to be applied to the GPU for a future measurement cycle. A power level setting at the GPU for the future measurement cycle is adjusted based on the estimated optimization. By considering performance metrics including, for example, different processing workloads and hardware configurations, the GPU is able to dynamically adapt its power settings to the particular workload that it is currently processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventors: Soon Kyu Kwon, Jun Huang, Shahriar Pezeshgi, Alexander Sabino Duenas
  • Patent number: 10650744
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for compensating a pixel driving circuit of an OLED display panel. In the compensation method, a driving transistor is enabled to operate stably in a saturation region for twice, and a threshold voltage of the driving transistor is calculated based on a collected charging voltage and charging time. A pixel driving circuit is compensated by establishing a threshold-voltage compensation table. The compensation method is easy to operate and can significantly improve a detecting speed of a threshold voltage. Moreover, an effect of a voltage-current conversion factor on detecting accuracy of a threshold voltage can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yufeng Jin, Hongjun Xie
  • Patent number: 10636353
    Abstract: An electro-optical device a pixel circuit located at a position corresponding to an intersection of a scan line and a data line, a first potential line supplies a first potential, a second potential line supplies a second potential, and a third potential line supplies a third potential. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element and a memory circuit. The memory circuit that is disposed between the first potential line and the second potential line, and that includes a first transistor. A source of the first transistor is electrically connected to the first potential line. The light emitting element is disposed between a drain of the first transistor and the third potential line. An absolute value of a potential between the first potential and the second potential is smaller than an absolute value of a potential between the third potential and the second potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsutoshi Miyasaka, Yoichi Momose, Kiyoshi Sekijima
  • Patent number: 10620663
    Abstract: A multiple display system having at least two mechanical arrangements such that in one of the at least two arrangements one of the multiple displays is stowed, out of the way mechanically and visually, when only a first display is in use; and one of the other of the at least two arrangements wherein the other of the multiple displays is substantially coplanar and adjacent to the one screen when both screens are in use. The other display in the one of the other of the at least two arrangements also runs the graphical user interface of an application, permitting the multiple display system to offer at least two programs running simultaneously, each with its own visual user-interface operating on its own display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Village Green Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Tina Ebey, Peter B. Bishop
  • Patent number: 10613387
    Abstract: A method for preventing dark banding in a liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) device, comprising illuminating, during a first timeframe, a transparent conductive layer of the LCoS device with a first illumination, the LCoS device including liquid-crystal layer between the transparent conductive layer and a reflective pixel-array. The method also includes illuminating, during a second timeframe, the transparent conductive layer with a second illumination, the second timeframe following both the first timeframe and a gap time-interval temporally between the first and second timeframes. The method also includes applying, to the transparent conductive layer, a layer-voltage equal to (i) during the first and second timeframes, an intra-frame voltage having an intra-frame root-mean-square amplitude and, (ii) during the gap time-interval, a gap voltage signal having a gap root-mean-square amplitude less than the intra-frame root-mean-square amplitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Sinsuk Lee
  • Patent number: 10614754
    Abstract: A stage includes an output, an input, signal processors, and a stabilizer. The output supplies a voltage of a first or second power source to an output terminal based on voltages of first and second nodes. The input controls voltages of third and fourth nodes based on signals to a first and second input terminals. A first signal processor controls the voltage of the first node based on the voltage of the second node. A second signal processor is connected to a fifth node and controls the voltage of the first node based on a signal to a third input terminal. A third signal processor controls the voltage of the fourth node based on the voltage of the third node and the signal to the third input terminal. The stabilizer is connected between the second signal processor and input to control voltage drop widths of the third and fourth nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Kyu Lee, Seung Ji Cha, Ji Hyun Ka, Tae Hoon Kwon, Min Ku Lee, Jin Tae Jeong
  • Patent number: 10606427
    Abstract: A mutual capacitive touch panel includes a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer. The first electrode layer includes a plurality of electrode groups and a plurality of electrode groups arranged in an array. The first electrode groups located at the same column are electrically connected to a form a first electrode series, and the second electrode groups located at the same column are electrically connected to form a second electrode series. The second electrode layer includes a plurality of electrode strip groups insulated from one another and sequentially arranged along a column direction of the array, wherein each of the electrode strip groups extends along a row direction of the array and overlaps, a perpendicular projection direction, electrode groups of two adjacent rows, and two adjacent of the electrode strip groups overlap, in the perpendicular projection direction, the electrode groups of the same row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: ILI TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsien Hsu, Guo-Kiang Hung, Ching-Chun Chiang, Wei-Lun Kuo, Peng-Yun Ding
  • Patent number: 10591993
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are structures, devices, methods and systems for providing haptic output on an electronic device. In some embodiments, the electronic device includes an actuator configured to move in a first direction. The electronic device also includes a substrate coupled to the actuator. When the actuator moves in the first direction, the substrate or a portion of the substrate, by virtue of being coupled to the actuator, moves in a second direction. In some implementations, the movement of the substrate is perpendicular to the movement of the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Alex J. Lehmann, Juan Pu, Paul X. Wang, Qiliang Xu, Zheng Gao
  • Patent number: 10578911
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, thin film transistors, a color filter layer, a light blocking pattern, a second substrate, pixel electrodes, and, a plurality of first spacers. The first substrate includes a display area having a plurality of pixel areas and a non-display area surrounding at least part of the display area, the display area including an interior area and at least one peripheral area disposed exteriorly of the interior area. The second substrate defines with the first substrate a space to contain light transmittance material. The plurality of first spacers is disposed in the light transmittance space between the first and second substrates and only in the interior area of the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeun Tae Kim, Min Wook Park, Sang Il Park, Ji Won Sohn, Jun Bo Sim
  • Patent number: 10572036
    Abstract: A system and method for determining location of a touch event on or in proximity to a touch sensitive device is disclosed. The touch sensitive device includes row conductors and column conductors that each only transmit or receive signals during a given frame. Each of the orthogonal row signals is transmitted on a respective one of at least some of the row conductors. Signals are received on each of the column conductors an amount of each of the row signals present on each of the plurality of column conductors is detected. Orthogonal column signals are transmitted on the column conductors. Signals are received on each of the row conductors and an amount of each of the orthogonal column signals present on each of the row conductors is detected. The detected amount of each of the orthogonal row signals and the detected amount of each of the orthogonal column signals is used to determine a location of a touch event on or in proximity to the touch sensitive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.
    Inventors: Clifton Forlines, Darren Leigh
  • Patent number: 10559233
    Abstract: A segment display device includes: a housing including an upper, cover and a lower cover connected to the upper cover, the upper cover defining a plurality of upper connection holes and a display window, the lower cover defining a plurality of lower connection holes at positions corresponding to the upper connection holes, the upper connection holes and the lower connection holes being configured for connecting the housing, to a building block, and the housing defining an interlace opening; as circuit board arranged within the housing and including a first circuit port and a second circuit port, the first circuit port and the second circuit port being located at the interface opening; and a segment display arranged on the circuit board at a position corresponding to the display window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP.
    Inventors: Xiongyuan Fang, Xiaochu Zhong, Kai Xu, Youjun Xiong
  • Patent number: 10546550
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device for driving a GOA circuit, a time controller and a display device. The method includes steps of: determining a bright-dark period for striped patterns on a display panel; and compensating for data signals at rows where the striped patterns are located periodically in accordance with the bright-dark period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhihua Sun, Xu Zhang, Guohuo Su, Zhihao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10514806
    Abstract: An operation detection device includes: first and second illuminations that irradiate illumination light from different positions onto an operation surface on which a user performs an operation, and a camera that captures the operation surface together with at least two fingers of a same hand of the user. First and second shadows of a same hand of the user are extracted from captured images obtained by the camera. Respective touch points of the same hand of the user on the operation surface are detected including when the first and second shadows corresponding to first and second fingers of the same hand have overlapping areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Matsubara, Sakiko Narikawa, Naoki Mori
  • Patent number: 10509515
    Abstract: A touch input to a propagating medium is identified based on one or more of the following: (1) a determination that a third propagating signal (from a second transmitter to a first receiver) was interfered with while a first propagating signal (from a first transmitter to the first receiver) was not interfered with or (2) a determination that the second propagating signal (from a first transmitter to a second receiver) was interfered with while the fourth propagating signal (from the second transmitter to the second receiver) was not interfered with. In response to the touch input to the propagating medium being identified, a system which includes the first transmitter, the second transmitter, the first receiver, and the second receiver updates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Sentons Inc.
    Inventors: Lapoe E. Lynn, Stanislav Maximov
  • Patent number: 10474269
    Abstract: A display panel, a pressure detection method of the display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes: a plurality of pressure sensors including first and second sensing signal measurement terminals; a detection module; a first multiplexer and a second multiplexer. Each first signal inputting terminal of the first multiplexer is electrically connected to one of the first sensing signal measurement terminals. Each second signal inputting terminal of the first multiplexer is electrically connected to one of the second sensing signal measurement terminals. First and second signal outputting terminals of the first multiplexer are electrically connected to first and second detection signal terminals, respectively. The first multiplexer controls a connection between one of the first signal inputting terminals and the first detection signal terminal and a connection between one of the second signal inputting terminals and the second detection signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wentao Ji, Jiancai Huang, Zhilong Zhuang