Patents Examined by Kebede T Teshome
  • Patent number: 10866676
    Abstract: A touch sensitive processing apparatus comprises a touch sensitive interface for connecting electrodes of a touch screen to detect a proximity/touch event; a host interface for reporting the proximity/touch event; a halt interface; and an embedded processor configured for commanding the touch sensitive interface to cease detecting proximity/touch events and the host interface to cease reporting proximity/touch events if the halt interface is set in a first logic state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Cheng-Han Lee, Chi-Hao Tang
  • Patent number: 10854159
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of gate drivers, a scan indication signal transmission line, a plurality of subsidiary transmission lines, and a plurality of auxiliary lines. The gate drivers are sequentially coupled in series to each other. The scan indication signal transmission line is configured to transmit a scan indication signal. The subsidiary transmission lines are sequentially coupled between two adjacent gate drivers, respectively. The auxiliary lines are respectively disposed between the scan indication signal transmission line and the subsidiary transmission lines. One of the auxiliary lines is selected to be electrically coupled to the scan indication signal transmission line and the corresponding subsidiary transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Heng-Hao Chang, Chun-Hao Huang
  • Patent number: 10824263
    Abstract: A detection device and a display device include first electrodes, second electrodes, a detector, and a coupling circuit. The first electrodes are disposed side by side in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction. The second electrodes are disposed on the side facing the first electrodes and extend in the second direction. The detector receives a first detection signal output from the second electrodes based on changes in capacitance between the first electrodes and the second electrodes or a second detection signal output from the first electrodes based on changes in capacitance in the first electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakanishi, Naoki Takada, Shota Hosaka
  • Patent number: 10809856
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic device intended to be worn secured to a part of the human body, comprising a case (11) provided with a display zone (13), a wristband (12), and a control interface with capacitive measuring electrodes (14, 15, 16) arranged to detect control objects, said control interface being arranged so as to allow the detection of control objects (21) in contact with or across from (i) a detection zone superimposed on the display zone (13), (ii) at least one other detection zone (17, 18, 23) outside said display zone (13). The invention also relates to a method implemented in this device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: QuickStep Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Christophe Blondin, Didier Roziere
  • Patent number: 10809820
    Abstract: A touch pen of a pen-type electronic input device includes a shaft-shaped body, a pen tip used to input information and provided on a front end of the body, a switch unit used to perform operations and arranged in a line on a side face of the body, and an electrically conductive barrel in which a slit is formed in an axial direction, wherein the switch unit passes through the slit to be mounted on an outer face of the body in an exposed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroya Saito, Hirokazu Kawashima
  • Patent number: 10802351
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a driving method thereof and a display panel. The array substrate includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, wherein two adjacent rows of pixels are grouped into a pixel group; switching elements respectively connected with the pixels; a data line, wherein two data lines corresponds to each column of pixels arranged at two sides of this column respectively; and gate lines each located between two adjacent rows of pixels of each pixel group; wherein respective pixels in a same pixel group are connected with one gate line located between two rows of pixels though respective switching elements; two pixels adjacent to each other along a column direction in a same pixel group are respectively connected with two data lines respectively located at two sides of a column where the two pixels are located through respective switching elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xueguang Hao, Jianbo Xian, Yong Qiao
  • Patent number: 10795517
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for positioning a finger on a touch panel in a wet state and a touch detection apparatus are provided. The method includes: searching out suspect wet regions on the touch panel in a spacing coding manner, and determining a wet region from the suspect wet regions in a self-capacitive coding manner; traversing detection channels in the self-capacitive coding manner, and judging whether the detection channels satisfy a first condition; and if the detection channels in the wet region satisfy the first condition, determining a relative position relationship between a touch position of a finger and the wet region according to variations of feature data differences of the detection channels on the entire touch panel; or determining a relative position relationship between a touch position of a finger and the wet region according to variations of feature data differences of the detection channels outside the wet region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Zhou, Wingho Pang, Yejia Feng
  • Patent number: 10795441
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method of recognizing, by a controller, an intention of a user who wears a head mounted display to which electroencephalogram electrodes are attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Seong-Whan Lee, No-Sang Kwak
  • Patent number: 10755620
    Abstract: The driver calculates a white gamma curve based on a deviation of a tone (including a maximum tone) of white displayed on a liquid crystal display panel (LCD panel) with respect to a target tone value and on a measured gamma value at arbitrary tones excluding a maximum tone in a white gamma characteristic of the LCD panel. The driver calculates three primary gamma curves by applying, to the white gamma curve, a relation obtained by comparing a gamma curve of white of a reference display panel with gamma curves of respective red, green, and blue. The driver corrects a white balance of display data based on the three primary gamma curves and expected output values of respective three primary colors calculated based on highest tone values of three primary colors of the reference display panel and of white of the LCD panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takuya Matsuishi
  • Patent number: 10756734
    Abstract: A touch key of an interface for an aircraft avionics system. The touch key includes a button, a mechanical switch, and a sensor. The mechanical switch is configured to be actuated when the button is pressed. Actuation of the mechanical switch sends a switch signal to the aircraft avionics system. The sensor is configured to detect when the button is being touched independent of whether the button is being pressed. The sensor sends a touch signal indicating that the button is being touched to the aircraft avionics system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SPECTRALUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Douglas W. Daman, David E. Hiney, James A. Reynolds
  • Patent number: 10747341
    Abstract: In some implementations, a joystick includes a control unit having a first surface and a handle positioned at an angle adjacent to the first surface. The handle can have a second surface and is operably connected to the control unit. The joystick can further include a heating element, a blower, one or more vent openings in at least one of the first surface and the second surface, and a power source. The blower can move air warmed by the heating element through the at least one or more of the vent openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Inventor: Nathan Jerome Mayer
  • Patent number: 10748509
    Abstract: A control device includes: a control unit that changes a positional relationship between a detection device detecting an operation by a user on a display in midair and the display by controlling the display, wherein: the control unit is capable of changing the positional relationship by user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidenori Kuribayashi, Tatsuyoshi Tanabe, Marie Shimoyama, Hidefumi Toki, Daisaku Komiya
  • Patent number: 10732720
    Abstract: A method comprising determining an input axis that extends between an apparatus and a separate apparatus, receiving information indicative of an input object, the input object being proximate to the input axis, determining an input axis position on the input axis based, at least in part, on the input object, and determining an operational directive based, at least in part, on the input axis position is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Peter Eskolin, Juha Arrasvuori, Matthew Coyle-Gilchrist
  • Patent number: 10720121
    Abstract: A half-power buffer amplifier includes an amplification unit including first and second nodes, the amplification unit configured to differentially amplify a differential input signal and to output a differentially amplified output signal, a first output unit including a first buffer unit between a first power source having a first voltage and a second power source having a second voltage, a second buffer unit between the first and second power sources, and a first switch unit between the first and second buffer units, and a second output unit including a third buffer unit between the second power source and a third power source having a third voltage, a fourth buffer unit between the second and third power sources, and a second switch unit between the third and fourth buffer units. Each of the first to third buffer units receives the differentially amplified output signal. The first switch unit is turned on or off based on or in response to a pre-driving control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: DB HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ik Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10712815
    Abstract: A procedure includes calculating a position of a line of sight of a user in a display screen of a display device, based on information on an eyeball portion of the user included in an input image, setting a processing target region which is a target region of processing corresponding to an input operation by a line of sight and an operation region which is adjacent to the processing target region and is for receiving the input operation by the line of sight, in the display screen, based on the position of the line of sight and information on a field of view of the user, and creating screen data in which image information within the processing target region is included in image information within the operation region and which is to be displayed on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Junichi Odagiri, Osafumi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10706761
    Abstract: A control method for a display panel is provided, the display panel includes multiple gate lines, multiple data lines arranged to intersect with the gate lines in an insulative manner, multiple sub-pixels arranged in an array and a demultiplexer. The N data lines for charging the sub-pixels with different colors are connected to one signal input terminal through the demultiplexer, N is an integer greater than 1. The control method includes charging the sub-pixels connected to the demultiplexer in a direct charging manner, and the sub-pixels with the same color have the same charging time period in a preset period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Li, Renyuan Zhu, Dongxu Xiang, Yana Gao, Xingyao Zhou
  • Patent number: 10709028
    Abstract: A touch pen includes a shaft-shaped body, a pen tip provided on a front end of the body, a switch unit arranged in a line on a side face of the body, a battery disposed inside the body, and a barrel in which a slit having a front opening is formed in an axial direction. A back end of the body is inserted from the opening such that the barrel covers an outer face of the body with the switch unit positioned in the slit, and the barrel has a center of gravity on an opposite side of the slit as seen in a transverse cross-section. When the touch pen is placed horizontally in a state with the barrel mounted on the outer face of the body, the center of gravity is positioned on the opposite side of the switch unit and the switch unit is positioned on top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroya Saito, Hirokazu Kawashima
  • Patent number: 10705341
    Abstract: A waveguide display includes a source assembly, an output waveguide, and a controller. The source assembly includes a light source and an optics system. The light source includes source elements arranged in a 1D or 2D array that emit image light that is temporally incoherent and spatially coherent. In some embodiments, the light source includes an array of superluminous LEDs, an array of laser diodes, an array of resonant cavity LEDs, or some combination thereof. The optics system includes a scanning assembly that scans the image light to particular locations based on scanning instructions. The output waveguide receives the scanned image light from the scanning assembly and outputs an expanded image light. The controller generates the scanning instructions and provides the scanning instructions to the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Maxwell Parsons, Wanli Chi, Yijing Fu, Hee Yoon Lee, James Ronald Bonar, Pasi Saarikko, Scott Charles McEldowney
  • Patent number: 10684713
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate; a touch electrode disposed on the substrate; a routing wiring disposed on the touch electrode; a light blocking layer disposed on the touch electrode; a semiconductor layer disposed on the light blocking layer; a source electrode and a drain electrode spaced apart from each other and disposed on the semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode disposed on the source electrode and the drain electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyeyoung Ryu, Yujin Kim, Soyeon Park, Yousik Shin
  • Patent number: 10684481
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a first display element which is disposed on the substrate, and a plurality of diffraction patterns which are disposed on a path of light emitted from the first display element and arranged along a direction with a first period. when a width of a cross section of one of the plurality of diffraction patterns is defined as a first length, the first period and the first length satisfy Inequality (1): 0.4?d1/DP1?1,??(1) where DP1 is the first period, and d1 is the first length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Hwan Cho, So Young Lee, Sun Young Jung, Chung Sock Choi, Sun Mi Kang, Hyun Ho Kim, Cheol Jang, Sang Hyun Han