Patents Examined by Keith Crawley
  • Patent number: 10192479
    Abstract: A system including a display module and a system module. The display module is integrated in a portable device with a display communicatively coupled to one or more of a driver unit, a measurement unit, a timing controller, a compensation sub-module, and a display memory unit. The system module is communicatively coupled to the display module and has one or more interface modules, one or more processing units, and one or more system memory units. At least one of the processing units and the system memory units is programmable to calculate new compensation parameters for the display module during an offline operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventor: Gholamreza Chaji
  • Patent number: 10147374
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is configured to create an aesthetic effect while on low power by performing a single color driving operation in standby mode. The liquid crystal display device further includes a standby mode controller which is provided in the timing controller, in addition to the usual data driver, and runs in standby mode to perform the standby mode function with minimum power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: NamKon Ko, HeeJung Hong, JinWoo Cha
  • Patent number: 10140946
    Abstract: A method, system, and display assembly is disclosed herein. The aspects disclosed herein include the providing of at least two lenses covering a respective display, with the two lenses bonded together with an optical clear adhesive. The optical clear adhesive may be shaped in a predetermined manner, such as a curve. Also included herein are systems for driving electronic signals to the respective displays. The signals may undergo processing in order to provide a seamless look via the display assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Debra A. Finkenbiner-Pepper, Robert Edward Belke, Theodore Charles Wingrove, James Joseph Kornacki, Michael Eichbrecht, Kyle Entsminger, Andrew DeScisciolo
  • Patent number: 10133373
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display that has an adjustable transparency; a sensor configured to detect bending of the display; and a controller configured to recognize the display as being divided into a plurality of areas based on the detected bending, and individually control the transparency and a rendering state of each of the plurality of areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung-chul Kim, Sung-hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10101961
    Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: detecting a first physiological parameter of a user; obtaining a change in the first physiological parameter of the user based on the first physiological parameter of the user; controlling, based on the change in the first physiological parameter of the user, an image outputting unit to output the adjusted image information; determining an audio adjustment parameter for an audio outputting unit based on the change in the first physiological parameter; and adjusting output power of the audio outputting unit based on the audio adjustment parameter, and controlling the audio outputting unit to output audio information at the adjusted output power, so that the outputted audio information coincides with the outputted adjusted image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lixin Gao
  • Patent number: 10068516
    Abstract: A display device includes a timing controller, a data driver, and a display panel. The timing controller includes a first compensator receiving a first image data, selecting a temperature compensation value in accordance with the external temperature, and converting the first image data to a second image data on the basis of the selected temperature compensation value and a second compensator selecting a kickback voltage compensation value predetermined in accordance with the areas of the display panel and converting the second image data to the output image data on the basis of the kickback voltage compensation value selected in accordance with the areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nam-Gon Choi, Joon-Chul Goh, Gigeun Kim, Byungsun Kim, Jung-Won Kim, HongSoo Kim, Donggyu Lee, Jakyoung Jin, Bonghyun You
  • Patent number: 10061437
    Abstract: Techniques for removing display-based corrupting components from a capacitive sensing signal when display and capacitive sensing is performed at or nearly at the same time. A routing carrying display related signals (e.g., a source signal for sub-pixel updating) may induce a corrupting current into a routing for carrying capacitive sensing signals. This corrupting current would reduce the ability to determine presence of an input object via the sensing signal. Therefore, the corrupting signal is effectively removed from a signal received from a sensor electrode when driven for sensing. The corrupting component may be removed either in analog or digitally. In analog, the corrupting component is removed via a tunable capacitance. Digitally, a corrupting component is calculated as an impulse response convolved with the source driver voltage. This corrupting component is then subtracted from a digital value output by the sensing circuitry to obtain a “clean” value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kasra Khazeni, Joseph Kurth Reynolds
  • Patent number: 10055036
    Abstract: A method in which a sensor controller is connected to a sensor having an electrode group provided together with a display panel configured to operate in during a variable refresh cycle among a plurality of refresh cycles, and an active stylus performs bidirectional communication with the sensor controller. According to the method, the sensor controller acquires a present refresh cycle among the plurality of refresh cycles of the display panel, generates an uplink signal, which serves as a reference for synchronization corresponding to the acquired present refresh cycle, and transmits the uplink signal to the active stylus, which is not detected as yet or is detected already, at the present refresh cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: WACOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Koike, Hideyuki Hara
  • Patent number: 10042445
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques for adaptively displaying graphic elements (e.g., user interface elements) on a display of a device based on sensing proximity of an input device (e.g., a hand or fingertip of a user, a stylus, etc.) to the display of the device. For example, in response to an input device being detected to be less than a threshold distance from the display of the device, one or more graphic elements are presented or dynamically resized on the display. However, in response to no input device being detected to be less than the threshold distance from the display, the one or more graphic elements are not presented or are maintained in their current size on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Joshua Joel Boelter
  • Patent number: 10037100
    Abstract: A touch controller can dynamically balance performance criteria, such as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) thresholds, with power consumption for touch sensitive devices. A touch controller can be configured to reduce power consumption by reconfiguring bank boundaries for an active mode scan so as to reduce the number of banks scanned with a banked active mode scan. Additionally or alternatively, the stimulation signal amplitude and integration time of the touch controller can be dynamically adjusted to balance performance criteria with power consumption. Default integration times and default stimulation signal amplitudes can be increased in higher-noise operating environments to raise SNR, and can be reduced to save power in lower-noise operating environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Nayyar, Shahrooz Shahparnia
  • Patent number: 9997120
    Abstract: When an intermittent driving mode is carried out in a TFT using LIPS and ?-Si for a pixel transistor, a flicker easily occurs. A display device includes a TFT including a gate, a source, and a drain; a signal line connected to the source; a pixel capacitance connected to the drain; a first power supply configured to supply a potential that breaks electricity conducted between the source and the drain to the gate; and a switch configured to supply a potential of the first power supply to the gate. The display device includes a scan period and a dwell period. The switch is turned on in the scan period, and the switch is turned off in the dwell period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yukio Tanaka, Daiichi Suzuki, Kenji Nakao
  • Patent number: 9971456
    Abstract: A display device including a surface for viewing an image comprising a stack of layers configured to display the image. A processor is configured to include switchable detection modes. Each mode is preconfigured to detect an object on or near the surface based on a given sensitivity to light, and has a different sensitivity than other of the modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Adiel Abileah, Willem den Boer
  • Patent number: 9965097
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides in some embodiments a pixel driving circuit, a display panel, a method for driving the display panel, and a display device. The pixel driving circuit includes a preset unit, a driving unit, a compensation unit, an energy storage unit, and a driving signal output unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengji Yang, Xue Dong, Hailin Xue, Haisheng Wang, Xiaochuan Chen, Hongjuan Liu, Tuo Sun, Lifei Ma, Yingming Liu, Weijie Zhao, Changfeng Li
  • Patent number: 9927930
    Abstract: A touch sensing device includes a panel including pixels disposed in a matrix form defined by data lines and gate lines, the pixels including thin film transistors (TFTs). The touch sensing device includes at least one touch sensor having a mutual capacitance and a sensor driving circuit configured to receive an electric charge from the mutual capacitance. The touch sensing device further includes a display driving circuit configured to supply a first parasitic capacitance suppressing signal to the data lines and a second parasitic capacitance suppressing signal to the gate lines during a touch sensor driving period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dukhyo Lee, Beomjin Kim
  • Patent number: 9928804
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device, including a display panel including red, green, first blue, and second blue sub-pixels, a data drive unit configured to receive an image signal and output data output signals, a de-multiplexer circuit configured to distribute data output signals to the data lines connected to the red, green, and the first blue sub-pixels, in response to receiving a first blue drive selection signal, or to the data lines connected to the red, green, first blue, and the second blue sub-pixels, in response to receiving a mixed drive selection signal, and a control unit configured to process a raw image data into the image signal, provide the image signal to the data drive unit, and provide the first blue drive selection signal or the mixed drive selection signal to the de-multiplexer circuit in a frame unit of the raw image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Il Nam Kim, Rang Kyun Mok, Jong In Baek, Yi Joon Ahn
  • Patent number: 9910578
    Abstract: A user interface for controlling a plumbing fixture includes an electronic display configured to display multiple different graphical menus for controlling a plurality of valves. The user interface includes a selector control configured to receive input from a user for navigating the multiple different graphical menus and for selecting items displayed in the multiple different graphical menus. A controller receives a first user input from the selector control and causes the electronic display to switch from displaying one of the graphical menus to another of the graphical menus in response to the first user input. The controller receives a second user input from the selector control and causes the plurality of valves to make multiple different adjustments in response to the second user input based on which of the multiple different graphical menus are displayed when the second user input is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: KOHLER CO.
    Inventors: Donald P. Freier, Rafael Alfredo Rexach
  • Patent number: 9886120
    Abstract: There is provided a gate driving circuit and driving method thereof, and display apparatus. The method comprises: performing gate drive scanning on shift register units located in a first region in the gate driving circuit; performing touch scanning after the gate drive scanning of the shift register units in the first region is completed; scanning again a last stage of shift register unit located in the first region before the touch scanning is completed, so that the last stage of shift register unit located in the first region pre-charges a first stage of shift register unit located in a second region; and performing gate drive scanning on shift register units located in the second region in the gate driving circuit, the last stage of shift register unit located in the first region connected in cascades with the first stage of shift register unit located in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuanbo Zhang, Jiayang Zhao, Seung Woo Han, Xiangxiang Zou
  • Patent number: 9864453
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus of embodiments of the present invention include a classification system configured to treat edge contact of a touch screen as a separate class of touch events such that any touches occurring near the edge of the touch screen are to be processed by a classifier that is configured to process edge contacts as compared to a classifier that is configured to process other contacts that may occur in the approximate middle of the touch screen which may be wholly digitized. An apparatus may employ two separate and distinct classifiers, including a full touch classifier and an edge touch classifier. The touch screen may be configured to have two different sensing regions to determine which of the two classifiers is appropriate for a touch event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: QEEXO, CO.
    Inventors: Taihei Munemoto, Julia Schwarz, Chris Harrison
  • Patent number: 9858857
    Abstract: A signal processor and an OLED display including the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a plurality of pixels and a luminance deterioration calculator configured to receive input image data and calculate luminance deterioration values of the pixels. A data compensator is configured to calculate compensation coefficients for each of the pixels based at least in part on the luminance deterioration values, adjust a compensation margin based at least in part on the maximum value of the compensation coefficients, and generate compensation image data for each of the pixels based at least in part on the compensation coefficients and the compensation margin. A panel driver is configured to generate data signals based at least in part on the compensation image data and transmit the data signal to the pixels and a timing controller configured to control the panel driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong-Kyun Kim, Dong-Hak Pyo
  • Patent number: 9823833
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for an electronic interactive device having a haptic enabled flexible touch sensitive surface are disclosed. In one embodiment, the electronic interactive device includes a flexible touch sensitive surface, a flexible screen (or display), and an actuator. The flexible touch sensitive surface is deposited over the flexible screen and is capable of receiving an input, such as, for example, from a user. The flexible screen displays an image via a displaying window. The actuator is coupled to the flexible screen and provides haptic feedback in response to the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: Danny A. Grant, Juan Manuel Cruz Hernandez, Christophe Ramstein