Patents Examined by Julie Anne Watko
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Patent number: 10466830Abstract: An electronic device, a method of controlling an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium are provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first surface, a second surface, and lateral sides; a touch screen display; a pressure sensor; a wireless communication circuit; at least one processor electrically, and the wireless communication circuit; and a memory electrically, wherein the memory stores instructions to cause the at least one processor to display a first user interface (UI) including at least one first item on the touch screen display, display a second UI including at least one second item while controlling or not controlling the first UI, and remove the second UI while reconstructing the first UI to restore a state before the controlling of the first UI or not reconstructing the first UI.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Yo-Han Lee, Han-Vit Kang, Geon-Soo Kim, Bo-Kun Choi, Doo-Suk Kang, Kyu-Hong Kim, So-Young Kim, Seung-Min Choi, Yong-Joon Jeon
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Patent number: 10451912Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a control portion. The control portion has a function of receiving image data, and a function of generating and supplying first data and second data on the basis of the image data. The display panel includes a pixel and an optical element. The pixel includes a first display element and a second display element. The second display element includes a region adjacent to the first display element. The optical element includes a first region overlapping with the second display element. The first region has a function of directing light which enters a region overlapping with the second display element to the first display element. The first display element is a reflective display element. The second display element is a light-emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hisao Ikeda, Fumito Isaka
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Patent number: 10444501Abstract: The image display device further includes a scanning unit that uses light from the light source to scan the movable screen and the fixed screen, and an optical system that uses light from the movable screen and the fixed screen to generate a virtual image, a drive unit that moves the movable screen, a structure body that supports the fixed screen at a fixed position such that the fixed screen is closer to the optical system than the movable screen is, and a magnetic cover that covers a movable part of the drive unit. The structure body covers an area around an opening of the magnetic cover to shield the movable part of the drive unit from stray light travelling backward via the optical system.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Furuya, Akira Kurozuka, Yuta Yamamoto, Susumu Uragami
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Patent number: 10437102Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel; a driver IC that outputs a driving signal to the display panel; a flexible substrate on which the driver IC is mounted; a first frame that supports the display panel from a side of a light source; and a second frame that supports the light source while being provided independently of the first frame. The first frame includes a metallic frame unit which is opposite to the driver IC from the side of the light source.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Katagiri, Masaki Tsubokura
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Patent number: 10416771Abstract: A haptic output system configured to generate haptic effects, through a user input surface, by varying one or more haptic output characteristics of one or more haptic elements (e.g., vibrating elements, electrostatic elements, thermal elements, and so on) based on substantially real-time touch input and/or force input information. In this manner, the haptic output system effectively simulates the presence of a physical object (e.g., having textures, edges, features, mechanical responses, and so on) on the user input surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Christina E. Warren
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Patent number: 10416718Abstract: The present application discloses a flexible display panel, including a non display part, a first screen, a second screen and a third screen, and the first screen and the second screen are oppositely located, and the third screen is connected between the first screen and the second screen, and the first screen, the second screen and the third screen form a continuous display region together, and the non display part is connected to one side of the display region, and the non display part is employed to be installed with a drive chip, and the drive chip is employed to drive the first screen, the second screen and the third screen to show images.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventor: Lei Cui
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Patent number: 10403704Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a scan line extending in a first direction; a first data line and a second data line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction; a fixed voltage line extending in the second direction between the first and second data lines and configured to receive a fixed voltage; an auxiliary line between the fixed voltage line and one of the first and second data lines, wherein the fixed voltage is applied to the auxiliary line; a transistor circuit comprising a second transistor coupled to the scan line and the first data line and a first transistor coupled to the second transistor and the fixed voltage line; and a light emitting device coupled to the transistor circuit, wherein at least a portion of the transistor circuit is between the fixed voltage line and the auxiliary line.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Se Byung Chae
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Patent number: 10401968Abstract: For indirect determination of digit movement, apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed. The apparatus for indirect determination of finger movement includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The processor obtains frequency data corresponding to movement of a user's limb, extracts frequency data having a predetermined feature value from the measured frequency data; and determines from the extracted frequency data whether the movement of the limb corresponds to a predetermined digit motion.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Susumu Shimotono, Yasushi Tsukamoto, Jun Luo, Hiroshi Itoh, Ryohta Nomura
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Patent number: 10394371Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a sensor and at least one processor configured to display content on the display, detect rotation information of the electronic device upon detecting shape change information of the display through the sensor, determine control information based on the rotation information of the electronic device, generate additional content corresponding to the content based on the control information, and display the content and the additional content on different display areas of the display.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jiwon Kim, Sungyoun An
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Patent number: 10397530Abstract: A method of determining a touch position and a touch projection system using the above-mentioned method are provided. The touch projection system has multiple interactive projection apparatuses. The method includes steps of: projecting each of the projection sub-images to a projection touch area, and forming a blending projection image having an overlap area; capturing the blending projection image within a viewing angle range of an image capture unit; providing a portion of information of a positioning pattern to each of the projection units, projecting each of the projection sub-images to the projection touch area, and capturing each of the projection sub-images having a portion of the positioning pattern, and forming a positioning image respectively; confirming a coordinate range of the overlap area located within the blending projection image according to each of the positioning images.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Coretronic CorporationInventors: Yung-Chih Chen, Je-Fu Cheng, Yai-Chien Hong
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Patent number: 10395611Abstract: Methods and systems for compensating for VCOM variations include determining a voltage change in pixels between frames to be displayed on an electronic display. Based on the determined voltage change, VCOM variation is calculated based on coupling the VCOM to one or more data lines of the electronic display. VCOM compensation is determined and applied to offset for the VCOM variation. Using the VCOM offset, subsequent pixel content for the one or more pixels is written using the compensated VCOM.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fenghua Zheng, Howard H. Tang, James C. Aamold, Sandro H. Pintz, Chaohao Wang, Paolo Sacchetto
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Patent number: 10380941Abstract: An OLED pixel circuit and a display apparatus comprising the OLED pixel circuit. An OLED pixel circuit comprises an OLED and driving units (TFT1, S1, C) for driving the OLED to emit light, wherein one electrode of the OLED is connected to the driving units (TFT1, S1, C). The OLED pixel circuit further comprises compensation units (R1, S2, TFT2, R2). The compensation units (R1, S2, TFT2, R2) comprises a sensing element (R1) which can sense light and convert an optical signal of the OLED into an electrical signal. The compensation units (R1, S2, TFT2, R2) compensate for currents used by the driving units (TFT1, S1, C) to drive the OLED according to the light-emitting brightness of the OLED.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Chen Song
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Patent number: 10380954Abstract: Methods for driving electro-optic displays, especially bistable displays, include (a) using two-part waveforms, the first part of which is dependent only upon the initial state of the relevant pixel; (b) measuring the response of each individual pixel and storing for each pixel data indicating which of a set of standard drive schemes are to be used for that pixel; (c) for at least one transition in a drive scheme, applying multiple different waveforms to pixels on a random basis; and (d) when updating a limited area of the display, driving “extra” pixels in an edge elimination region to avoid edge effects.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Demetrious Mark Harrington, Kenneth R. Crounse, Alain Bouchard, Stephen J. Telfer, Ana L. Lattes
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Patent number: 10372260Abstract: Methods and devices for adjusting a power mode of a display are disclosed. An example method includes detecting a set of contact signals on a surface of the device and determining whether the set of contact signals correspond to a contact signature associated with an in-use state of the display. The example method further includes transitioning the power mode of the display to a power saving mode in response to determining that the set of contact signals do not correspond to the contact signature associated with the in-use state of the display, and retaining the power mode of the display in a current power mode in response to determining that the set of contact signals correspond to the contact signature associated with the in-use state of the display. An additional example method may further include detecting whether a proximity sensor at the device is occluded prior to the transition.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Katherine B. Huffman, Kyle T. Beck
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Patent number: 10373551Abstract: An image processing unit includes: a gain calculating section obtaining, based on first luminance information for each pixel, a first gain, in which the first gain is configured to increase with an increase in pixel luminance value in a range where the pixel luminance value is equal to or larger than a predetermined luminance value, and in which the pixel luminance value is derived from the first luminance information; and a determination section determining, based on the first luminance information and the first gain, second luminance information for each of the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomoya Yano, Makoto Nakagawa, Mitsuyasu Asano, Yasuo Inoue, Shoji Araki, Hidehisa Shimizu
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Patent number: 10353493Abstract: Methods and devices for synchronizing a digitizer with a pen are disclosed. An example method describes detecting that the digitizer has lost tracking of the pen. The example method further includes the digitizer searching for a subsequent beacon from the pen based on at least a previous location of a previous beacon during a tracking mode of the digitizer. The digitizer synchronizes with the pen based on a subsequent location of the subsequent from the pen identified during the search.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Dmitry Birenberg, Zvi Zmiri
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Patent number: 10353464Abstract: A system is disclosed which may include an eye tracking device and a processor. The eye tracking device may be for determining a gaze direction of a user. The processor may be configured to cause a first image to be displayed on a display device. The processor may also be configured to determine a velocity of a saccade by a user based at least in part on the gaze direction. The processor may further be configured to modify the first image to generate a second image based at least in part on the velocity of the saccade. Modifying the first image may include altering an image quality of an area of the first image, and the area may be selected based at least in part on the velocity of the saccade.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Tobii ABInventors: Mårten Skogö, Anders Olsson, Erik Kenneth Holmgren
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Patent number: 10354616Abstract: A display device includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels to display a display image, a luminance detector to detect luminance of an image on the display unit, and a display driver. The display divider is to divide the display unit into image areas symmetrical to each other and to adjust a luminance of an image area having a relatively lower luminance value among the image areas symmetrical to each other based on a luminance detection result.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Su Mi Lee, Sang Ho Kim, Jong Ho Chong, Young Sang Ha
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Patent number: 10347199Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a driving method and a driving device of display panels. The driving method includes: obtaining three-color sub-pixel data of each of pixels of a current image, obtaining a saturation value corresponding to each of the pixels in accordance with the three-color sub-pixel data of each of the pixels, obtaining a current background-white ratio in accordance with the three-color sub-pixel data and the saturation value of each of the pixels, determining whether the current background-white ratio is within a predetermined adjustment range, and reducing a white grayscale value of four-color sub-pixel data of the current image in accordance with the current background-white ratio and outputting the reduced white grayscale value to a display panel. In this way, the darker pure-color effect due to the high contrast may be reduced, which effectively enhances the darker pure-color issue of the RGBW display panel.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventors: Xingling Guo, Xiaoping Tan, Jiehui Qin
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Patent number: 10347203Abstract: Disclosed is a GOA drive circuit, including a plurality of GOA drive units. Each trigger unit in first K GOA drive units includes a first thin film transistor, which has a gate connected to a trigger clock corresponding to the trigger unit. The trigger clock is configured to turn off the trigger unit when a scan clock of an output unit corresponding to the trigger unit is at a high level.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tuo Feng, Xiangyang Xu