Patents Examined by Julie Anne Watko
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Patent number: 10157581Abstract: A image display medium driving device includes a voltage application unit that applies a voltage between a pair of substrates, at least one of which is transparent, of an image display medium including plural types of particles which are sealed between the pair of substrates, are attached to the substrates, and start to be separated from the substrates at different times when a predetermined voltage is applied and a control unit that controls the voltage application unit such that a time when the voltage is applied between the pair of substrates varies depending on image information.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2017Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Taijyu Gan, Ryota Mizutani, Yasufumi Suwabe, Yoshinori Machida, Naoki Hiji
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Patent number: 10158773Abstract: A control section allows a screen of a display section to display a plurality of numeric keys, detects a touch gesture on the individual numeric key through a touch panel to allow an input of a numeric number corresponding to the numeric key subjected to the touch gesture, and detects an action on each of hard keys to accept an instruction to perform a function corresponding to the hard key subjected to the action. When a predetermined action is performed on one or more individuals of the hard keys, the control section assigns numeric numbers to the respective hard keys and detects an action on the individual hard key to allow an input of the numeric number corresponding to the hard key subjected to the action.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2016Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Yasushi Takatsuki
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Patent number: 10156949Abstract: A force-touch sensor with multilayered electrodes includes an upper substrate, a first electrode layer arranged on one face of the upper substrate and having a plurality of first sensing electrodes, a second electrode layer arranged opposite to the first electrode layer and having a plurality of second sensing electrodes, each second sensing electrode being electrically connected with one corresponding first sensing electrode to constitute a touch-sensing electrode, a plurality of touching sensing traces, each electrically connected with one touch-sensing electrode and electrically isolated with other touch-sensing electrodes, a resilient dielectric layer arranged on one face of the second electrode layer and opposite to the upper substrate, and a third electrode layer arranged on the resilient dielectric layer and having at least one force-sensing electrode. The force-touch sensor with has enhanced performance due to the multilayered electrodes structure.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATIONInventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin
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Patent number: 10140921Abstract: Various embodiments relate to an EM signal control circuit, an EM signal control method, and an organic light emitting display device. The EM signal control circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention includes additional elements (e.g., a transistor and a capacitor) configured to separate a set signal from a gate electrode of a transistor coupled to an output node and to stably keep turn-off of a transistor coupled to the output node. Voltage levels of a first emission power source and a first gate power source may be set differently from each other according to the present invention. Therefore, despite of a threshold voltage change of a transistor coupled to an output node, the transistor may remain turned off stably, thereby improving the reliability of the EM signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyoung-Su Kim, Euitae Kim, KiSeob Shin, Yongmin Jeong
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Patent number: 10126854Abstract: A device may determine touch position information representing a position where a touch surface is touched by an object, and may determine force information representing a force being applied by the object to the touch surface. Based on the force information, the device may determine that the force applied to the touch surface does not satisfy a force threshold. Afterwards, the device may determine that a particular duration has not elapsed. Finally, after determining that the particular duration has not elapsed, the device may provide the touch position information for further processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Magnus Johansson, Magnus Midholt, Andreas Sandblad, Markus Andreasson, Ola Thorn, Olivier Moliner
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Patent number: 10120444Abstract: A wearable device includes a detection module configured to be worn by an upper limb of a user and detect a body motion in the upper limb, and a controller configured to detect the body motion in the upper limb on a basis of a detection result from the detection module and generate a control signal in accordance with the body motion. If the controller detects, as the body motion, at least two of a finger motion, a hand motion, and an arm motion in the upper limb within a first predetermined period of time, the controller recognizes the two body motions as a series of body motions and generates, as the control signal, a first control signal in accordance with the series of body motions.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Hikaru Nekozuka
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Patent number: 10114499Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for enabling efficient control of a media application at a media electronic device by a user electronic device, and, more particularly, for more practically handling initial and subsequent user touch events on a surface of a touchpad input component with respect to a potentially intended default center position and/or for more accurately enabling full saturation of a particular directional control.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jacques P. Gasselin de Richebourg, Norman N. Wang, James J. Cwik
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Patent number: 10088921Abstract: A method, such as a computer implemented method, of data management, wherein content utilized by a first user can be identified and information about such content can be shared to at least one additional user such that the at least one additional user can pull the identified content from the content source.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Muzik Inc.Inventor: Jason Hardi
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Patent number: 10082870Abstract: According to the invention, a system for presenting graphics on a display device is disclosed. The system may include an eye tracking device for determining a gaze point of a user on a display device. The system may also include a graphics processing device for causing graphics to be displayed on the display device. The graphics displayed on the display device may be modified such that the graphics in an area including the gaze point of the user have at least one modified parameter relative to graphics outside the area. The size of the area may be based at least in part on an amount of noise in the gaze point over time and at least one other secondary factor.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: Tobii ABInventors: Robin Thunström, Märten Skogö, Denny Rönngren, Anders Clausen
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Patent number: 10079598Abstract: A gate driving circuit includes: a plurality of stages configured to output a plurality of gate signals, wherein an Nth stage of the plurality of stages includes: an output pull-up unit including a control electrode connected to a first node, wherein the output pull-up unit is configured to increase an electric potential at the first node and is further configured to receive a clock signal and to output a gate signal of the Nth stage; a control node pull-up unit configured to charge the first node according to an (N?1)th control signal and an (N?2)th control signal; a control node pull-down unit configured to discharge a voltage of the first node as a first low voltage according to an (N+1)th control signal; and an output pull-down unit configured to discharge a gate signal of the Nth stage as the first low voltage according to the (N+1)th control signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Hyun Park, Sung Hwan Kim, Se Young Song, Kyoung Ju Shin
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Patent number: 10079069Abstract: An array substrate and a method for forming the same are provided. The array substrate includes: a gate driver in a non-display area, wherein the gate driver includes M shift register circuits and each shift register circuit includes two shift register groups, which includes N shift registers each, where M is a positive even number and N is a positive integer greater than 2; in each of the shift register groups, a gate output end of an nth shift register has signal wires; along a direction perpendicular to the non-display area, at least one of the signal wires of one shift register group are stacked above at least one of the signal wires of another shift register group. Accordingly, a display panel using this array substrate may realize a narrow side frame design.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignees: SHANGHAI AVIC OPTO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Huijun Jin
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Patent number: 10056058Abstract: A driver includes a plurality of driver chips and an operation method thereof are provided. Each of driver chips includes a first transmission interface, a second transmission interface and a third transmission interface. The driver chips are coupled to each other by the first transmission interfaces and the second transmission interfaces, and the third transmission interfaces are commonly coupled to a parameter source to receive a plurality of operation parameters during an operation initiating period. When an abnormal signal is not returned after receiving the operation parameters, the driver chips end the operation initiating period. When the abnormal signal is returned after receiving the operation parameters, the driver chips receive the operation parameters again.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Cheng-Hsien Hsu, Yung-Shu Lin
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Patent number: 10042467Abstract: An input device includes a first sensor array having a first plurality of sensor electrodes disposed in a sensing area, wherein the first sensor array has a first pixel density, and a second sensor array having a second plurality of sensor electrodes disposed in the sensing area, wherein the second sensor array has a second pixel density different from the first pixel density. The input device also includes a processing system coupled to the second plurality of sensor electrodes and configured to electrically float a sensor electrode in the second plurality of sensor electrodes during a sensing period of the first sensor array.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Adam L. Schwartz, Paul Wickboldt, Guozhong Shen, Patrick Smith, Marc Ostrowski
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Patent number: 10043441Abstract: A pixel including: an organic light emitting diode; a first transistor configured to control an amount of current that passes through the organic light emitting diode to flow to a second power from a first power that is connected to a first electrode of the first transistor corresponding to a voltage of a first node; a second transistor between a data line and the first node; a third transistor between the first node and a reference power; a fourth transistor between a second node and an initialization power, the second node being connected to an anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode; a first capacitor; and a second capacitor connected in series to the first capacitor, the first and second capacitors being between the first node and the first power.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae Jin Kim, Jong Soo Kim, Myoung Seop Song, Myung Ho Lee
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Patent number: 10032403Abstract: An electro optical device has a pixel array constituted by pixels arranged in matrix, each pixel including four subpixels, the four subpixels including RGB subpixels and a subpixel of a similar color to a specific color among RGB, and the four subpixels being arranged in two rows and two columns. In each pixel, a first subpixel having the highest emission luminance and a second subpixel having the second highest emission luminance among subpixels needed for white display are arranged on one diagonal line of the pixel, and the other subpixels are arranged on the other diagonal line.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Yojiro Matsueda, Keita Hamada
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Patent number: 10032402Abstract: System, method, and device for maximizing brightness of solid-state illuminators while minimizing power usage based on individual scene contents. An embodiment varies power to each of the solid-state illuminators (red, green, & blue) based on the scene content that is being displayed optimizing the non-linear brightness response of solid-state illuminators.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventor: Jeffrey Matthew Kempf
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Patent number: 10013089Abstract: A semiconductor device having a novel data input and output panel with high definition is provided. A method for driving the semiconductor device having the novel data input and output panel with high definition is provided. The data input and output panel includes, over a substrate, proximity sensors, signal lines electrically connected to the proximity sensors, and pixels electrically connected to the signal lines. The signal lines can supply image signals to the pixels, can supply control signals to the proximity sensors, and can be supplied with sensing signals from the proximity sensors.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasuhiko Takemura
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Patent number: 10007354Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling a smart device. The method includes: when a first hand gesture is detected, preparing to switch a control relationship according to the first hand gesture and a first mapping relationship, the first mapping relationship including a corresponding relationship between hand gestures and respective control functions; when a second hand gesture is detected, determining a target controlled device according to the second hand gesture and a second mapping relationship, the second mapping relationship including a corresponding relationship between hand gestures and locations of respective controlled devices; establishing a first control relationship with the target controlled device; acquiring a third hand gesture; and controlling, according to the third hand gesture and the first mapping relationship, the target controlled device to perform an operation corresponding to the third hand gesture.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.Inventors: Xin Liang, Li Fan
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Patent number: 9997116Abstract: An integrated circuit device that drives an electro-optical panel using a driving waveform which is set in a plurality of phases includes: a driving voltage generation unit that operates while receiving a supply of a power supply voltage generated by a power supply circuit, and generates a plurality of driving voltages to be applied to a plurality of electrodes in the electro-optical panel in each of a plurality of phases, in accordance with display data; and a power supply control unit that sets current supply capability of the power supply circuit to a first level synchronously with a timing of start of a phase, and sets the current supply capability to a second level, which is lower than the first level.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kota Muto, Shigeaki Kawano
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Patent number: 9977519Abstract: A processing system for an input device, the processing system including: a sensor module coupled to sensor circuitry and configured to: initiate a current beacon period including a plurality of timeslots by broadcasting a current beacon signal to a plurality of active pens; receive, during a first timeslot, a first downstream packet from a first active pen transceiver; and receive, during a second timeslot, a second downstream packet from a second active pen transceiver; and a determination module configured to: determine an attribute of a first active pen including the first active pen transceiver from at least the first downstream packet.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Jeff Lukanc, Kirk Hargreaves, David Sobel, Joseph Kurth Reynolds