Patents Examined by Kent Chang
  • Patent number: 9977642
    Abstract: The invention relates to an encoder and a decoder and methods therein for supporting screen sharing, where the screen sharing comprises encoding pictures F representing pixels of a shared screen, providing said pictures to a decoder where they are decoded. The method performed by the encoder comprises deriving information related to an object which is moved on the shared screen between two pictures Fn and Fn+1. At least part of the derived information is related to an intermediate position of the object, on the shared screen, between the two pictures Fn and Fn+1. The method further comprises providing said information to the decoder, thereby enabling the decoder to generate intermediate pictures, FIMD, in addition to the pictures, F, based on the provided information, wherein the object is generated in different positions in said intermediate pictures, FIMD, thus reconstructing the movement of the object between two provided pictures Fn and Fn+1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Martin Pettersson, Jonatan Samuelsson, Ying Wang
  • Patent number: 9971430
    Abstract: A touch panel comprises a sensing area, a periphery area, a plurality of wires and a plurality of bonding pads. The periphery area is disposed around the sensing area. The periphery area comprises a bonding area. The wires are disposed in the periphery area. The bonding pads are disposed in the bonding area and electrical connected to the wires correspondingly. Each of the bonding pads comprises at least a bending portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignees: TPK Touch Systems (XIAMEN) Inc, TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc
    Inventors: Pu-Hsin Chang, Jui-Hsing Li, Fucheng Chen, Manyi Lin, Pudi Hong, Tsai-Kuai Wei, Xiaoxin Bai, Caijin Ye, Defa Wu
  • Patent number: 9972281
    Abstract: A method of compensating an image to be display on a display panel is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes receiving a first input image and adjusting a contrast sensitivity of the first input image. The method also includes calculating a first derivative of luminance of a pixel included in the adjusted image, calculating a second derivative of the luminance of the pixel, and accumulating the first and second derivatives. The method further includes determining a burn-in causing boundary based at least in part on the accumulated first and second derivatives, receiving a second input image, and comparing the burn-in causing boundary to a boundary of the second input image to determine whether to apply burn-in compensation. The method finally includes compensating a portion of the second input image corresponding to the burn-in causing boundary based at least in part on an unsharpening filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Won Park, Yong-Jun Jang, Gi-Geun Kim, Won-Sik Oh, Eun-Ho Lee, Hyun-Dae Lee
  • Patent number: 9972238
    Abstract: A shift register and a driving method therefor, a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus. The shift register comprises a trigger reset module, a pull-up module, a first capacitor and a pull-down module, and further comprises a denoising module. The pull-up module is used for pulling up a signal output from an output terminal of the shift register and a signal output from a transmission signal output terminal. The pull-down module is used for pulling down a signal output from the output terminal of the shift register and the signal output from the transmission signal output terminal. The denoising module is used for cutting off the connection path between the transmission signal output terminal and a second terminal of the first capacitor in a pull-down phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinyu Li, Xi Chen
  • Patent number: 9972249
    Abstract: A pixel structure, a driving method of the pixel structure, an organic light emitting display panel and a display apparatus. The pixel structure includes N light emitting devices, pixel compensation circuits connected with the light emitting devices in one-to-one correspondence, one potential conversion circuit, and one voltage input control circuit. The pixel compensation circuits are connected to the same potential conversion circuit and the same voltage input control circuit, so that pixel compensation circuits share one potential conversion circuit and one voltage input control circuit, the occupation area of the pixel compensation circuits in pixel regions can be reduced, so that the aperture ratio of each pixel region is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kan Zhang, Dianzheng Dong, Bin Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Guangxing Wang, Pengming Chen
  • Patent number: 9971486
    Abstract: Apparatus and method are provided that are capable of controlling a display in response to reliable detection of a sliding movement operation of a pointer (e.g., a user's finger) that passes through an end of a display region. The apparatus and method utilize a position detection sensor, which is superposed on the display and configured to detect the pointer's position discretely and successively at a predetermined time interval. Based on a first position detected by the position detection sensor and a second position detected, at the predetermined time interval since the detection of the first position, by the position detection sensor, which together indicate a moving operation of the pointer, it is determined whether the moving operation of the pointer has crossed an end of the display region. If it is so determined, a passed end position of the display region is calculated based on the first and second positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kobori, Sadao Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9971436
    Abstract: A touch user interface may be implemented at a display edge, such as a display included with a portable information handling system. An edge touch element may provide structural support for the display along with touch functionality. The edge touch element may be integrated with a touch panel included with the display. The edge touch element may wrap around to a back face of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Stefan Peana, David Michael Meyers, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 9965103
    Abstract: In a touch module, a light emitted by the light source undergoes a total reflection in the third substrate. when a first spacer is pressed against a third substrate by pressing a location on a second substrate, the light undergoing the total reflection in the third substrate escapes out of the third substrate and irradiates onto a photosensitive part corresponding to the pressed first spacer, the irradiated photosensitive part generates an electrical signal, and a pressed location on the second substrate is determined by detecting the electrical signal transmitted to an optical current detection line electrically connected to the irradiated photosensitive part. The touch module may reduce the cost and is adapted to be applied to a large size touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingchao Wang, Junwei Wang
  • Patent number: 9965059
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices are provided for providing user interface navigation of screen display metrics of a device. In one example, a device is configured for capture of activity data for a user. The device includes a housing and a screen disposed on the housing to display a plurality of metrics which include metrics that characterize the activity captured over time. The device further includes a sensor disposed in the housing to capture physical contact upon the housing. A processor is included to process the physical contact to determine if the physical contact qualifies as an input. The processor enables the screen from an off state when the physical contact qualifies as the input. The screen is configured to display one or more of the plurality of metrics in accordance with a scroll order, and a first metric displayed in response to the physical contact that qualifies as the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Myers, Christine Brumback, Timothy Roberts, James Park, Dave Knight, Shelten Yuen, Jayson Messenger
  • Patent number: 9966032
    Abstract: A driving circuit in this disclosure includes plural stages of shift register circuits. Every stage in the shift register circuits includes an enabling control circuit, a first output circuit, a second output circuit and a disabling control circuit. The enabling circuit is configured to control the voltage of the first operation node according to enabling signal. The first output unit is configured to generate the first driving signal according to the voltage of the first operation node and the first clock signal. The second output unit is configured to generate the second driving signal according to the voltage of the first operation node and the second clock signal. The disabling control unit is used to pull low the voltage of the first operation node and output terminal of the first and second output unit to the reference voltage according to the first, third, and fourth clock signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: CHUNGHWA PICTURE TUBES, LTD.
    Inventors: Han-Lung Liu, Wei-Lien Sung, Wen-Chuan Wang, Shao-Lun Chang, Shih-Chieh Lin
  • Patent number: 9958980
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a driving method and device of a touch control display configured to resolve the problems such as image smearing and jittering caused by the touch control displaying during the image displaying by the display with the touch functions. The driving method of the touch control display includes: detecting whether or not a touch currently occurs on the touch control panel after the touch control display panel displaying the present image frame and before displaying the next image frame; when a occurred touch event is detected, controlling the display panel to display the inserted image with equal grayscale for each pixel of the display during a prescribed period; and controlling the touch control panel to execute the touch control command based on the touch signal corresponding to the occurred touch event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuai Xu, Yao Yu, Zhengxin Zhang
  • Patent number: 9958940
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including a display control unit configured to control a display unit in a manner that a plurality of symbols is visibly displayed to a user, and a position acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a pointing position for specifying one or more symbols among the plurality of symbols. The display control unit controls the display unit in a manner that a predetermined object is displayed to indicate a group to which the plurality of symbols belongs according to the pointing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Takahashi, Shinichi Kawano, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 9953597
    Abstract: A driving unit of display panel includes a data driving part, a timing controlling part and a gate driving part. The data driving part is configured to receive reference image data and includes a first data driving circuit part having a first channel outputting a first reference data signal based on the reference image data and a k-th channel outputting a k-th reference data signal based on the reference image data. The timing controlling part is configured to detect a time difference between the first reference data signal and the k-th reference data signal. The gate driving part is configured to output a gate signal to each of gate lines. By delaying data signals based on the gate signal delay caused by long line load and RC delay, the present invention may improve display quality of a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Hyun Yeo, Eun-Seon Kim, Yong-Bum Kim, Suk-Jin Park, Byung-Kil Jeon, Su-Hyun Jeong
  • Patent number: 9952697
    Abstract: A touch module and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The touch module includes a substrate, at least one first touch electrode, and at least one second touch electrode. The first touch electrode is embedded into the substrate. The second touch electrode is embedded into the substrate. A height of the first touch electrode relative to a first surface of the substrate is different from a height of the second touch electrode relative to the first surface of the substrate, such that the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode are insulated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Shun-Ta Chien, Chen-Yu Liu
  • Patent number: 9953216
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for performing actions in response to gestures made by a user in captured images. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented system is provided that includes an image capture device that captures at least one image, a memory device that stores instructions, and at least one processor that executes the instructions stored in the memory device. In some implementations, the processor receives, from the image capture device, at least one image including a gesture made by a user and analyzes the at least one image to identify the gesture made by the user. In some implementations, the processor also determines, based on the identified gesture, one or more actions to perform on the at least one image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Raziel Alvarez
  • Patent number: 9952679
    Abstract: To give various movement instructions by body gestures to an object in a virtual space, a method includes detecting movements of controllers held by both hands of a user. The method further includes determining a first movement instruction based on the movements of the controllers. The method further includes causing a first character gazed at by the user to perform a first movement and causing a second character not gazed at by the user to perform a second movement depending on the first movement instruction. With this, instructions are given to the characters in the virtual space by means of body gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: COLOPL, INC.
    Inventor: Ippei Kondo
  • Patent number: 9946413
    Abstract: A touch module and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The touch module includes a substrate, at least two first touch electrodes, at least two second touch electrodes, at least one electrode channel, and at least one bridge. All of the first touch electrodes, the second touch electrodes, and the electrode channel are embedded in the substrate. The electrode channel is configured to connect the second touch electrodes to each other. The bridge crosses over the electrode channel, is configured to electrically connect the first touch electrodes to each other. The first touch electrodes and the second touch electrodes are insulated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Chen-Yu Liu, Lu-Hsing Lee, Che-Chieh Chang, Huai-San Ku
  • Patent number: 9946402
    Abstract: A method includes determining a presence of a protective liner on a display of a device using a capacitive sensor positioned proximate the display. An alignment guide is generated on the display responsive to determining the presence of the protective liner. A device includes a display, a capacitive sensor positioned proximate the display, and a processor to determine a presence of a protective liner on the display using the capacitive sensor and to generate an alignment guide on the display responsive to determining the presence of the protective liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Daniel S Thorstenson, Roger W Ady
  • Patent number: 9946133
    Abstract: An electrically suppressed helix (ESH) ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) display cell with fast response includes: a liquid crystal layer, disposed between two transparent substrates, wherein helix pitch of chiral smectic liquid crystals of the liquid crystal layer is less than the thickness of the liquid crystal layer; at least one polarizer; and a voltage source, configured to apply electrical driving voltage pulses to electrodes of the display cell with amplitude greater than a critical voltage for helix unwinding of the chiral smectic liquid crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Abhishek Kumar Srivastava, Vladimir Grigorievich Chigrinov, Hoi Sing Kwok
  • Patent number: 9940896
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure describes an electronic display. The electronic display includes a display driver that write image frames to pixels of the electronic display with a first refresh rate or a second refresh rate, in which the second refresh rate is less than the first refresh rate. Additionally, the electronic display includes a timing controller that receives image frames from an image source, in which one or more of the image frames are configured to be displayed on the display panel to play video content; determines a capture rate of the video content based at least in part on a cadence with which the image frames are received, in which the capture rate describes a rate at which each of the one or more image frames was captured by an image sensor; and instructs the display driver to write the one or more of the image frames at the second refresh when the second refresh rate is an integer multiple of the capture rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Christopher P. Tann, David S. Zalatimo, Marc Albrecht, Sandro H. Pintz, Satish S. Iyengar