Patents Examined by Kathy Wang-Hurst
  • Patent number: 9204136
    Abstract: A display device includes a backlight unit, a light guiding plate which is overlappingly arranged on an optical panel, light emitting elements which are arranged on the side surface of the light guiding plate, and a light source driving unit which drives the light emitting elements. The light source driving unit intermittently turns on all of the light emitting elements when displaying a 3D image on the optical panel. In contrast to this, when displaying a 2D image on the optical panel, each light emitting intensity of the light emitting elements in a part of rows is set to be the same as that in a 3D mode, and each light emitting intensity of the light emitting elements in a part of rows other than that is set to be lower than that in the 3D mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi Momose, Nobutaka Urano, Junichi Taira
  • Patent number: 9203395
    Abstract: A gate driver includes a plurality of stages, wherein an n-th stage includes: a pull-up unit configured to output a high voltage of a clock signal as a high voltage of an n-th gate signal; a pull-down unit configured to decrease the high voltage of the n-th gate signal to a first low voltage; a discharging unit configured to discharge a voltage of the first node to a second low voltage lower than the first low voltage; a carry unit configured to output the high voltage of the clock signal as an n-th carry signal; an inverter unit configured to output a signal in synchronization with the clock signal; a first node storage unit configured to maintain the voltage of the first node at the second low voltage; and a second node storage unit configured to maintain the voltage of the second node at the first or second low voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kang Nam Kim, Duc-Han Cho, You Mee Hyun, Jeong-Il Kim, Jong Woong Chang
  • Patent number: 9201587
    Abstract: A portable apparatus and an operation method thereof are provided. The portable apparatus has a screen and a touch pad, and a touch area of the touch pad is mapped to a display area of the screen. In the operation method, a first touch operation is detected by using the touch pad, and a cue area is displayed at a first display position on the screen mapped to a first touch position of the first touch operation. A second touch operation is detected by using the touch pad, and whether a second display position on the screen mapped to a second touch position of the second touch operation is within the cue area is determined. If the second display position is within the cue area, an operation function is executed on an object within the cue area. Otherwise, the cue area is moved to the second display position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Yen-Lin Lin, Ming-Che Weng
  • Patent number: 9195329
    Abstract: These needs, and others, are met by at least one embodiment of the disclosed invention which provides for a touch sensitive screen for an electronic device wherein there is a sparse pattern of sensors disposed within the active area and a dense pattern of sensors disposed within the viewing area. In this configuration, the pixels in the active area may have a larger aspect ratio and provide a more pleasing image while the dense sensors disposed within the viewing area provide more accurate touch sensitivity. Further, the software, or other electronics, used to create the image, may be structured to position menus or other selectable images adjacent to the viewing area. Similarly, certain images, such as icons, can be programmed to be displayed directly under the sensors in the active area. Generally, this configuration provides for the best of both worlds; a bright, clear image with some touch sensitivity in the active area and a sensitive sensor grid in the viewing area where there are no pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Robert Lowles, James Alexander Robinson
  • Patent number: 9196196
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light emitting display device for providing a compensation period of a threshold voltage. The organic light emitting display device includes: a scan driver configured to supply a plurality of scan signals to a plurality of scan lines, each of the scan signals having a width greater than two horizontal periods; a data driver configured to supply a plurality of data signals to a plurality of data lines; and a pixel including an organic light emitting diode, a pixel circuit having a first transistor for controlling an amount of current supplied to the organic light emitting diode, and a compensation circuit configured to control a voltage of a gate electrode of the first transistor to compensate for deterioration of the organic light emitting diode; wherein the scan driver is configured to supply a current scan signal which partially overlaps in time with a previous scan signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Yong Chung, Yong-Sung Park
  • Patent number: 9189086
    Abstract: An interactive input system comprises at least one imaging assembly having a field of view looking into a region of interest and capturing image frames and processing structure in communication with the at least one imaging assembly. When a pointer exists in captured image frames, the processing structure demodulates the captured image frames to determine frequency components thereof and examines the frequency components to determine at least one attribute of the pointer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Grant McGibney, Tim Radke
  • Patent number: 9189069
    Abstract: At least one tilt sensor generates a sensor value. A context information server, receives the sensor value and sets at least one context attribute. An application uses at least one context attribute to determine that a flinging gesture has been made and to change an image on a display in response to the flinging gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth P. Hinckley
  • Patent number: 9189829
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is A head mounted display including: (A) an eyeglasses frame-like frame to be mounted to an observer's head; (B) an image display device; (C) an image sensing device mounted to the frame; and (D) a correction section, wherein the image display device includes (B-1) an image generating device, and (B-2) see-through type light guide section which is mounted to the image generating device, on which beams emitted from the image generating device are incident, through which the beams are guided, and from which the beams are emitted toward an observer's pupil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Komori, Hiroshi Mukawa
  • Patent number: 9183795
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device which can reduce a chip size and improves an electrostatic discharge capability. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel for displaying a picture, and a driving circuit unit for driving the liquid crystal panel, wherein the driving circuit unit includes an input/output unit having a plurality of input units for receiving signals from an outside and a plurality of output units for forwarding signals to an outside, a logic unit having a plurality of logical cells each having a plurality of digital logical devices for receiving or forwarding a signal through the input/output unit, and an electrostatic shielding unit for protecting the digital logical devices from an external static electricity, wherein some of elements of the electrostatic shielding unit are formed in spaces among the logical cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae-hun Jun
  • Patent number: 9183783
    Abstract: Provided is an organic EL display device including an array of pixel circuits 10 each having: organic EL element 32; storage capacity 33 that holds a voltage corresponding to an image signal; drive transistor 34 that applies a current corresponding to the voltage of storage capacity 33 to the organic EL element 32; and current switch 35 that either connects or disconnects the drive transistor 34 with the organic EL element 32. The organic EL display device also includes an inter-pixel switch 15 that connects or disconnects a node between organic EL element 32(p, j) and current switch 35(p, j) in one pixel circuit 10(p, j) out of the pair of the pixel circuits 10 that are adjacent to each other, and a node between organic EL element 32(p+1, j) and current switch 35(p+1, j) in the other pixel circuit 10(p+1, j) out of the pair of the pixel circuits 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Maeda
  • Patent number: 9182841
    Abstract: An input apparatus includes a pointing device which has a main unit and an operation unit, and a fixing unit which fixes the pointing device to a hand. The pointing device is attached to the hand via the fixing unit when the input apparatus is used. The fixing unit fixes the main unit to the thumb side or the back side of the hand when the input apparatus is attached to the hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hitoshi Saito
  • Patent number: 9164593
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flexion state detecting and handling method and apparatus for detecting and handling a flexion state of a flexible display. A sensing unit includes a bend sensor array having a plurality of bend sensors arranged on the flexible display in a predetermined form. Each of the bend sensors detects a degree of bending as the bend sensor is bent along a flexion of the flexible display at a point where the bend sensor is arranged. A controller generates flexion state information indicating a flexion state of the flexible display based on the degree of bending detected by the bend sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byoung-Duck Chae, Jong-In Kwak
  • Patent number: 9165505
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device where power consumption can be suppressed and the number of gray scales can be increased without a scanning line driver circuit on both sides of a pixel portion. In a display device having a scanning line driver circuit, a shift register included in the scanning line driver circuit has 4m-stage (m is a natural number) flip-flop circuits in every m scanning lines, and a signal which selects the scanning line in a first half period of one scanning line selection period and a signal which selects the scanning line in a second half period of the one scanning line selection period are output to the scanning line by another start pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Aya Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 9159294
    Abstract: In one example, a method includes determining, by a first motion module of a computing device and based on first motion data measured by a first motion sensor at a first time, that the mobile computing device has moved, wherein a display operatively coupled to the computing device is deactivated at the first time; responsive to determining that the computing device has moved, activating a second motion module; determining, by the second motion module, second motion data measured by a second motion sensor, wherein determining the second motion data uses a greater quantity of power than determining the first motion data; determining a statistic of a group of statistics based on the second motion data; and responsive to determining that at least one of the group of statistics satisfies a threshold, activating the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Etienne Le Grand, Michael Andrew Sipe
  • Patent number: 9158121
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display device and a driving method thereof in 2D/3D display field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuting Zhang
  • Patent number: 9159289
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and the driving method thereof are disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels, data lines for transmitting data driving signals to the pixels, a scanning driver for generating scanning driving signals, a waveform shaping circuit for connecting with the scanning driver, a plurality of scanning lines for transmitting the shaped scanning driving signal to the pixels. The waveform shaping circuit shapes the waveforms of the scanning driving signal along a rising edge. In this way, the voltage difference between the pixel electrodes is eliminated. Thus, the color shift is reduced, and the display performance of the liquid crystal display is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bing Han, Jiang Zhu, Shih-Hsun Lo
  • Patent number: 9147357
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a display panel and a plurality of memory circuits. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of sub-pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix, and the display panel is divided into at least a first region and a second region in which at least one of the predetermined maximum number of displayable gradations and maximum resolution is different from that of the first region. The memory circuits are located under the sub-pixel electrodes and each of the memory circuits stores therein pixel potential corresponding to gradation to be applied to at least one of the sub-pixel electrodes. The arrangement of the sub-pixel electrodes is the same in the first region and the second region of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takayuki Nakanishi, Masaya Tamaki, Yoko Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 9141209
    Abstract: A touch panel includes: first electrodes extending in a first direction; second electrodes extending in a direction intersecting the first direction; and an insulating layer insulating and separating the first electrodes from the second electrodes. The second electrodes are strip-shaped electrodes which include first island-shaped electrodes formed in the same layer as the first electrodes and relay electrodes electrically connecting two adjacent first island-shaped electrodes to each other and crossing over the first electrodes. The insulating layer has contact holes at positions corresponding to both ends of each of the relay electrodes in a longitudinal direction. A distance between two contact holes provided so as to correspond to both the ends of each of the relay electrodes in the longitudinal direction is the same as or shorter than a distance between two first island-shaped electrodes coming into contact with both the ends of each of the relay electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Takeshi Kurashima
  • Patent number: 9134806
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device includes: a display surface; a display control module that displays on the display surface a first input screen with a plurality of character keys which input characters and a second input screen having larger intervals between at least some of adjacent character keys than intervals between all of adjacent character keys of the first input screen, in a switchable manner between the two input screens; and a delete key for deleting a character input by the character key. In this arrangement, the display control module executes control for changing the first input screen to the second input screen based on fulfillment of a condition for changing including deletion of a character by the delete key when the first input screen is displayed on the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Yamada, Yoshihiko Inaoka
  • Patent number: 9135838
    Abstract: A large scale LED display has a cable and rigid link support structure for a number of LED modules. The cable and rigid link support structure is flexible but has sufficient structural integrity to prevent misalignment of the pixel modules. The LED modules are removable from the support structure individually and as a group so as to facilitate repair of the display. The LED modules are rugged so as to withstand harsh outdoor conditions and they provide sufficient luminescence for use in sunlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: ADTI MEDIA, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel S. Kline, Matthew W. Shankle, David F. Cox, James C. Lee, Sam R. Sarcia