Patents Examined by Kent Chang
  • Patent number: 9933860
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an alphabet input system comprising: a plurality of representative keys for inputting matched first letters of the alphabet; and a combination key for generating combination letters of the alphabet that are excluded from the first letters and that are input by a combination with one of the plurality of representative keys, wherein each combination letter is pictographically derived from the shape of the first letter matched respectively to the plurality of representative keys and from a combination symbol of the combination key having a “reverse J” shape. Accordingly, the alphabet can be input more quickly and accurately by combining intuitive and consistent pictographic symbols in a miniaturised input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Inventor: Sun-Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 9936190
    Abstract: An optical modulation device is provided. The optical modulation device includes first and second plates facing each other, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second plates, and first and second electrodes. The liquid crystal layer includes a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. The first plate includes a first aligner. The second plate includes a second aligner. A first alignment direction of the first aligner and a second alignment direction of the second aligner are substantially parallel to each other. The first and second electrodes extend to cross each other. The first and second electrodes are insulated from each other. The second electrode extends to cross the second alignment direction. An angle ?P formed between a vertical axis of the second alignment direction and an extending direction of the second electrode is a value between 5° and 45°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-Hyun Cho, Seung Jun Jeong, Seong Min Cho
  • Patent number: 9933898
    Abstract: Provided herein is a matrix switching type touch panel comprising a plurality of touch pads disposed in a visible area on a substrate in a dot matrix format, the touch pads spaced from one another, and a plurality of signal lines disposed in a space between the touch pads, each signal line connecting a touch pad and a touch driving circuit of a invisible area, wherein the matrix switching type touch panel comprises: unit electrodes made of a transparent electroconductive material and disposed within a visible area on the substrate; touch pad areas each determined in an area corresponding to each touch pad; signal line areas each determined in an area corresponding to each signal line; and bridges electrically connecting the plurality of unit electrodes disposed in each touch pad area and each signal line area, configuring touch pads and signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Hydis Technologies, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Woon Kim, Dong Hae Seo
  • Patent number: 9927913
    Abstract: Disclosed is a touch window including a substrate, an electrode part on the substrate, a wire electrically connected with the electrode part, a wire pad to connect the wire with the electrode part, and a reinforcement electrode making contact with the wire pad. Provided is a touch device including a touch window, and a driving unit on the touch window, in which the touch window includes an electrode part to sense a position, a wire electrically connected with the electrode part, a wire pad to connect the wire with the electrode part, and a reinforcement electrode making contact with the wire pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon Hyuk Yang, Jae Hong Lee, Yu Hong Jeon
  • Patent number: 9927971
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes circuitry configured to execute a process for outputting a chart object corresponding to a handwritten chart. When a first stroke group extending over first and second areas in the handwritten chart does not substantially overlap any ruled lines, a character recognition result of a stroke in the first area is included in a first cell, and a character recognition result of a stroke in the second area is included in a second cell. When the first stroke group extending over the first and second areas substantially overlaps a ruled line, an object of a text box including a character recognition result of the first stroke group is added to the chart object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hideki Tsutsui, Junichi Nagata
  • Patent number: 9921660
    Abstract: This document describes techniques using, and devices embodying, radar-based gesture recognition. These techniques and devices can enable a great breadth of gestures and uses for those gestures, such as gestures to use, control, and interact with computing and non-computing devices, from software applications to refrigerators. The techniques and devices are capable of providing a radar field that can sense gestures from multiple actors at one time and through obstructions, thereby improving gesture breadth and accuracy over many conventional techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Ivan Poupyrev
  • Patent number: 9921668
    Abstract: A touch panel controller is disclosed herein. The controller includes output circuitry for driving a touch panel sensor and input circuitry for determining when an object performs a touch event over the touch panel sensor. The controller is configured to cause the output circuitry to generate drive signals having a different frequency characteristic when the controller determines noise present within the sensor is above a noise threshold. The controller communicates with a software device driver on a host processor to store signal baseline images for a range of frequencies during production test and power-up. The controller is configured to receive a signal baseline image from the host processor when the controller causes change to a different drive frequency. The controller is configured to cause change to the different drive frequency while the object is still performing the touch event over the touch panel sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Trishabh Chadda, Guozhong Shen, Jon Pearson
  • Patent number: 9921745
    Abstract: Particular embodiments receive multiple touch events detected by a touchscreen. Each touch event may be associated with at least one position on a touchscreen, and at least a portion of the touch events may be located along a line. Particular embodiments may determine that the touch events are approaching an edge of the touchscreen, and may determine a first extrapolated position based on the determination that the touch events are approaching the edge of the touchscreen. The first extrapolated position may anticipate that one or more future touch events will turn before reaching the edge of the touchscreen. Particular embodiments may also provide display information based on the touch events and the first extrapolated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Benoit Schillings, Feng Qian, Jonathan Kaldor, Gueorgui Djabarov
  • Patent number: 9922236
    Abstract: Eyeglasses include a left lens, a right lens and an IMU sensor and a GPS unit. A camera and a memory are coupled to the eyeglasses. A processor is connected to the IMU, the GPS unit and the at least one camera and is adapted to recognize objects by analyzing image data based on the stored object data and inertial measurement data or location data. The processor is also adapted to determine a desirable event based on the object, previously determined user data, and a time. The processor is also adapted to determine a destination based on the determined desirable event and determine a navigation path for navigating the eyeglasses to the destination based on the determined destination, image data, and inertial measurement data or location data. The processor is also adapted to determine output data based on the determined navigation path. A speaker is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Douglas A. Moore, Joseph M. A. Djugash, Yasuhiro Ota
  • Patent number: 9916046
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided that includes a first detection unit configured to determine whether or not a user control member is within a first threshold distance of the touch panel. The apparatus also includes a second detection unit configured to determine a direction of movement of the user control member with respect to a touch panel when the user control member is not in contact with the touch panel, and a display control unit configure to, when the user control member is determined to be moving within the threshold distance and in a predetermined direction, generate signals to alter a first displayed object such that the altered first displayed object appears to move closer to the user control member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunichi Kasahara, Ritsuko Kano, Tomoya Narita
  • Patent number: 9916817
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display method of a display panel, a display panel and a display device, and the display method of a display panel is used for enabling each row of N pixel units in the display panel to display an image having 2N+x?1 pixel points. The display method comprises steps of: acquiring an image, each row of which comprises 2N+x?1 pixel points corresponding to the N pixel units; and determining a display parameter of each sub-pixel according to the components, which have the same color as the sub-pixel, in the pixel points corresponding to the sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhongjun Chen, Peng Liu, Pengcheng Lu, Xue Dong
  • Patent number: 9916008
    Abstract: A microfluidic transducer is overlaid on a two-dimensional display and controlled in accordance with metadata corresponding to a displayed image to cause raising of a surface of the microfluidic transducer to represent objects depicted in the image and at least the relative distance of such objects from a viewing point of the image to form a touch screen allowing the image to be navigated and manipulated in the form of a tactile display, particularly for persons having visual impairment. The distance information is preferably captured during initial capture of the image and stored as metadata but can also be determined by image analysis. Object analysis is also provided for objects in the image for identification that can be conveyed by touch or audibly and the relative hardness of softness, texture and color of objects is conveyed by compliance, motion and/or temperature of the surface of the microfluidics transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James E. Bostick, John M. Ganci, Jr., Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Craig M. Trim
  • Patent number: 9911378
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. In one aspect the display includes a display panel having first through fourth pixels and a scan driving unit that outputs a scan signal to the display panel. The display also includes a data driving unit that alternately outputs a first data signal for the first pixels and a second data signal for the second pixels to the display panel, alternately outputs a third data signal for the third pixels and a fourth data signal for the fourth pixels to the display panel, and begins outputting the first and third data signals before one horizontal period begins The display further includes a demultiplexing unit that alternately applies the first and second data signals to the first and second pixels and the third and fourth data signals to the third and fourth pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae-Du Roh
  • Patent number: 9912940
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device includes a display panel, a scan driver, and a data driver. The display panel includes pixels coupled to data lines and scan lines. The pixels do not emit light during a data pre-addressing period and pixels emit light during a data addressing period. The scan driver supplies scan signals to the scan lines. The data driver supplies data voltages to the data lines in synchronization with the scan signals. The scan driver supplies first scan signals to the scan lines during the data pre-addressing period, and supplies second scan signals to the scan lines during the data addressing period. Each of the first scan signals has one pulse, and each of the second scan signals has a plurality of pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Taek Kim, Bong-Hyun You
  • Patent number: 9904055
    Abstract: An HMD device is configured to check the placement of newly introduced objects in a virtual reality environment such as interactive elements like menus, widgets, and notifications to confirm that the objects are significantly present within the user's field of view. If the intended original placement would locate the object outside the field of view, the HMD device relocates the object so that a portion of the object is viewable at the edge of the HMD display closest to its original placement. Such smart placement of virtual objects enables the user to readily discover new objects when they are introduced into the virtual reality environment, and then interact with the objects within a range of motions and/or head positions that is comfortable to support a more optimal interaction and user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Burns, Ben Sugden, Tom Salter
  • Patent number: 9898112
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display module (100; 200) and an electronic terminal. The display module (100; 200) comprises: a first display unit (130; 240) configured to display first image information in a first direction; a second display unit (140; 250) configured to display second image information in a second direction; and a sensor unit (150; 260) provided between the first display unit (130; 240) and the second display unit (140; 250) and configured to sense an object's approach or touch on the first display unit (130; 240) and/or the second display unit (140; 250). With the display module (100; 200), the object's approach or touch on the first display unit (130; 240) and the second display unit (140; 250) can be sensed by a single sensor unit (150; 260). There is no need to provide a sensor unit (150; 260) for each of the display units (130; 240; 140; 250) for touch sensing function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignees: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED, BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD.
    Inventors: Zhuqiang Wang, Xiang Shao
  • Patent number: 9899997
    Abstract: There are provided an apparatus for supplying gate driving voltages, a method for supplying gate driving voltages and a display apparatus to which the apparatus for supplying gate driving voltages is applied to. In the apparatus for supplying gate driving voltages, there is disposed a starting voltage boost module connected with a starting voltage output module. The starting voltage boost module is configured to boost a second preset voltage to a third preset voltage higher than a first preset voltage in advance within a predetermined period of time when the second preset voltage is restored to the first preset voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yiqiang Lai
  • Patent number: 9898125
    Abstract: Disclosed is a touch window including a substrate, an electrode part on the substrate, a wire electrically connected with the electrode part, a wire pad to connect the wire with the electrode part, and a reinforcement electrode making contact with the wire pad. Provided is a touch device including a touch window, and a driving unit on the touch window, in which the touch window includes an electrode part to sense a position, a wire electrically connected with the electrode part, a wire pad to connect the wire with the electrode part, and a reinforcement electrode making contact with the wire pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon Hyuk Yang, Jae Hong Lee, Yu Hong Jeon
  • Patent number: 9898961
    Abstract: A data processing method and an apparatus for an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ui-Taek Jeong, Tae-Gung Kim, Jung-Hyeon Kim
  • Patent number: 9898103
    Abstract: A stylus for use with a digitizer sensor includes a housing confined by a first and second end, a primary tip positioned at the first end of the housing and associated with a first transmitting element, the first transmitting element having a first diameter, a secondary tip positioned at the second end of the housing and associated with a second transmitting element, the second transmitting element having a second diameter that is larger than the first diameter, a transmitting unit for transmitting a first signal with a first amplitude via the first transmitting element and for transmitting a second signal with a second amplitude via the second transmitting element, wherein the first amplitude is at least twice the second amplitude and a powering unit for powering transmission of the first and second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yuval Stern, Ilan Geller, Yair Leshem