Patents Examined by Kathy Wang-Hurst
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Patent number: 9204136Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 25, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Momose, Nobutaka Urano, Junichi Taira
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Patent number: 9203395Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kang Nam Kim, Duc-Han Cho, You Mee Hyun, Jeong-Il Kim, Jong Woong Chang
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Patent number: 9201587Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 26, 2012Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Yen-Lin Lin, Ming-Che Weng
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Patent number: 9195329Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 4, 2007Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Robert Lowles, James Alexander Robinson
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Patent number: 9196196Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 31, 2010Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bo-Yong Chung, Yong-Sung Park
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Patent number: 9189086Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 1, 2010Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: SMART Technologies ULCInventors: Grant McGibney, Tim Radke
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Patent number: 9189069Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 1, 2011Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventor: Kenneth P. Hinckley
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Patent number: 9189829Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 20, 2014Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Komori, Hiroshi Mukawa
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Patent number: 9183795Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 9, 2010Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jae-hun Jun
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Patent number: 9183783Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 5, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventor: Tomoyuki Maeda
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Patent number: 9182841Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 27, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Hitoshi Saito
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Patent number: 9164593Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 11, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Byoung-Duck Chae, Jong-In Kwak
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Patent number: 9165505Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 10, 2007Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Aya Miyazaki
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Patent number: 9159294Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Etienne Le Grand, Michael Andrew Sipe
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Patent number: 9158121Abstract: Disclosed are a display device and a driving method thereof in 2D/3D display field.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuting Zhang
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Patent number: 9159289Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 29, 2013Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bing Han, Jiang Zhu, Shih-Hsun Lo
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Patent number: 9147357Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 11, 2013Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INCInventors: Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takayuki Nakanishi, Masaya Tamaki, Yoko Fukunaga
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Patent number: 9141209Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 13, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Takeshi Kurashima
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Patent number: 9134806Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 13, 2012Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Seiji Yamada, Yoshihiko Inaoka
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Patent number: 9135838Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 21, 2011Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: ADTI MEDIA, LLCInventors: Daniel S. Kline, Matthew W. Shankle, David F. Cox, James C. Lee, Sam R. Sarcia