Patents Examined by Kimnhung Nguyen
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Patent number: 9057922Abstract: Disclosed is a driver circuit structure integrated in a display panel. The driver circuit structure includes a plurality of transistors and a backup transistor. After completing the driver circuit structure, the disclosure inspects it to find an inactive transistor. The inspection process first, isolates the electrical connection between the inactive transistor and the first electrode line and/or the electrical connection between the inactive transistor and the second electrode line. Next, the source electrode of the backup transistor and the first electrode line and/or electrically connecting the drain electrode of the backup transistor and the second electrode line are electrical connected.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Kuo-Chang Su, Chun-Hsin Liu, Min-Feng Chiang
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Patent number: 9052821Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for adjusting soft keyboard layout. The method includes: displaying an option for adjusting a soft keyboard layout; receiving information that a user selects the option for adjusting the soft keyboard layout, and after receiving the information that the user selects the option for adjusting the soft keyboard layout, displaying a soft keyboard adjustment interface on a touch screen, and receiving an adjustment scheme input by the user; and modifying the soft keyboard layout according to the adjustment scheme. In this way, a requirement of a user for adjusting a keyboard according to personal preference is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2012Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: HUAWEI DEVICE CO., LTD.Inventors: Shibao Zhao, Hongchao Leng
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Patent number: 9052745Abstract: A multi-monitor computer system includes a plurality of display devices communicating with at least one computing device executing an application management procedure. The application management procedure enables an application window available on one display device to be moved entirely to another display device by selecting the other display device from a dialog box displayed in response to a pointer-dragging input gesture on the application window.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2009Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: SMART Technologies ULCInventors: Douglas B. Hill, Michael Rounding, Daniel Mitchell, David Martin, Luqing Wang, Gregory Forrest
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Patent number: 9052076Abstract: A lamp (100) comprises: at least one light-generating element (2); a partially transparent shade (5) arranged to surround the light-generating element (2) over an angle of at least 180° but preferably 360°; at least one LCD screen (10) arranged between the light generating element and the shade; a controller (20) for controlling the LCD screen such as to display an image. In horizontal cross-section, the LCD screen extends in two dimensions, with a concave side towards the light generating element. The LCD screen preferably is flexible, and may be bent to a cylindrical shape around the light-generating element.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2010Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventor: Willem Jan Peters
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Patent number: 9052757Abstract: A display device which can achieve compatibility between the simplicity of the configuration or control of electronic equipment and the maintaining of its high operability includes: a display panel and a touch panel arranged on a front surface side of the display panel as viewed from a viewer. The touch panel includes one transparent substrate and a conductive pattern disposed on the substrate. A plurality of detection areas in each of which a touch position can be detected are provided in the touch panel. A non-detection area in which the touch position is not detected is provided between two detection areas next to each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2012Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Masaki Kubo, Shigeyuki Nishitani
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Patent number: 9046686Abstract: A head-mount type display device adapted to allow a user to visually recognize a virtual image in a state of being worn on the head of the user includes an image display section having an image light generation section adapted to generate an image light representing an image, a light blocking section adapted to transmit external light at a predetermined transmittance, and a virtual image forming section adapted to transmit the external light transmitted through the light blocking section and to form the virtual image in an eye of the user with the image light, and configured to allow the user to visually recognize the virtual image and an external image, an operation section with which the user inputs operation data, and a control section adapted to perform control of changing the transmittance of the light blocking section in accordance with operation data from the operation section.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2013Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Hitoshi Saito
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Patent number: 9041656Abstract: A keyboard device for a small size tablet personal computer is provided. The keyboard device includes a first casing, a connecting plate, and a second casing. The first casing includes a first keyboard plate and a first recess. The second casing includes a second keyboard plate and a second recess. The connecting plate is connected with the first casing and the second casing. Consequently, the second casing is rotatable relative to the first casing. The first keyboard plate and the second keyboard plate are collectively defined as a whole keyboard to be operated by both hands of the user. Moreover, the small size tablet personal computer is accommodated within the first recess and the second recess collaboratively.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2013Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.Inventor: Chih-Hung Lin
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Patent number: 9035891Abstract: For digit identification on a multi-point touch sensitive sensor, an assignment module assigns a digit identity to each digit of at least two digits in contact with a multi-point touch sensitive sensor during a learning phase. The digit identity includes a distinct representation of each digit. A receiving module detects a digit interaction of one or more particular digits of the at least two digits with the multi-point touch-sensitive sensor. A determination module recognizes the assigned digit identity for each particular digit involved in the digit interaction.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Lisa Seacat Deluca
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Patent number: 9035907Abstract: A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time and at distinct locations in the plane of the touch panel and to produce distinct signals representative of the location of the touches on the plane of the touch panel for each of the multiple touches is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Steve Hotelling, Joshua A. Strickon, Brian Q. Huppi
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Patent number: 9035869Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which includes a first pixel and a second pixel which are arranged close to each other and are allocated to the same color, and color filters which differ in color tone and are formed on the first pixel and the second pixel, wherein a voltage for driving liquid crystal of the first pixel and a voltage for driving liquid crystal of the second pixel are controlled independently from each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Igeta, Toshiki Asakura
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Patent number: 9035886Abstract: A computer program product for a multi-point touch-sensitive sensor user interface using distinct digit identification. The computer program product may include a relationship module, an assignment module, a receiving module, a determination module, and an initiation module. The relationship module may determine a relationship between at least two digits. The assignment module may assign a distinct digit identity to each digit of the at least two digits. The receiving module may receive a digit event comprising at least one digit interaction. The determination module may determine a digit identity for each digit involved in the digit event and a digit interaction associated with each digit of the digit event. Finally, the initiation module may initiate a digit event function associated with the determined digit identity and the digit interaction. Therefore, a user has greater control over a device through the interface with each digit having a distinct function and identity.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2008Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Lisa A. Seacat
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Patent number: 9035899Abstract: Systems and methods for piezo-based haptic feedback are disclosed. For example, one described apparatus for piezo-based haptic feedback includes a polymer matrix, and a piezoelectric actuator at least partially embedded within the polymer matrix, the piezoelectric actuator configured to output a haptic effect.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2014Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: IMMERSION CORPORATIONInventors: Ali Modarres, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Danny Grant
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Patent number: 9030389Abstract: A display device in which the current load of wirings are distributed and display variations due to voltage drop are suppressed. An active matrix display device of the invention comprises a first current input terminal, a second current input terminal, and a plurality of current supply lines extending parallel to each other. Each current supply line is connected to a plurality of driving transistors in a line. One end of each current supply line is connected to the first current input terminal via a first wiring intersecting with the current supply lines, and the other end thereof is connected to the second current input terminal via a second wiring intersecting with the current supply lines. Accordingly, a current is supplied to each current supply line from both the first and the second current input terminals. The first and the second current input terminals are provided separately from each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2014Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshifumi Tanada
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Patent number: 9030421Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for adjusting characteristics of a touch sensing device in the presence of a wireless power field are disclosed. According to one aspect, the presence of a wireless power field may be detected, and a characteristic of a touch sensing device may be adjusted to reduce interference of the wireless power field with the touch sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ryan Tseng, Adam A. Mudrick
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Patent number: 9030374Abstract: The present invention provides composite display modules which have reduced visible dead space between display modules. This is of particular interest for the price rail, where it is desirable to achieve a long (about 3-4 ft) section of an active module. The present invention is directed to a composite display module comprising: (a) more than one single display module, wherein said single display modules are not edge-sealed and they are mounted on a single back support structure and are kept tightly close to each other right up to their edges; and (b) said composite display module is edge sealed.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2011Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: E Ink California, LLCInventors: Robert A. Sprague, Bryan Hans Chan
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Patent number: 9024844Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to the recognition via a see-through display system of an object displayed on an external display device at which a user of the see-through display system is gazing. For example, one embodiment provides a method of operating a see-through display system comprising acquiring an image of an external display screen located in the background scene via an outward facing image sensor, determining via a gaze detection subsystem a location on the external display screen at which the user is gazing, obtaining an identity of an object displayed on the external display screen at the location determined, and performing an action based upon the identity of the object.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ben Vaught, Ben Sugden, Stephen Latta
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Patent number: 9024937Abstract: A method for calibrating an image processing device performs first processing to first image data, using a three-dimensional lookup table, and performing second processing to image data that has been processed by the first processing, using a one-dimensional lookup table on the output side of the three-dimensional lookup table. The method includes first setting step for setting first calibration information for each color component to have a target color temperature at the one-dimensional lookup table, second setting step for setting second calibration information for mapping the first image data to a target color space at the three-dimensional lookup table, and correction step for correcting the first calibration information based on an error from a target characteristic using image data that has been processed by the second processing.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tadashi Hayashi, Shigeki Kanazawa
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Patent number: 9024929Abstract: A transistor connected to a power source for driving a light-emitting element driving transistor and a transistor setting to a predetermined voltage a source voltage of the light-emitting element driving transistor are commonly controlled by a control signal that takes one of three levels.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Junichi Yamashita
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Patent number: 9019216Abstract: Disclosed is a touch panel including an upper conductive layer; a lower conductive layer facing the upper conductive layer with an interval between the upper conductive layer; a capacitive sensing unit that detects a coordinate position by a capacitive coupling under a condition where a predetermined electric potential is applied to the upper conductive layer; and a resistive sensing unit that detects a coordinate position based on an electric potential at a position where the upper conductive layer and the lower conductive layer contact under a condition where a potential gradient is generated on either one of the upper conductive layer and the lower conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2012Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Fujitsu Component LimitedInventors: Satoshi Sakurai, Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Shiro Hirota, Norio Endo
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Patent number: 9019179Abstract: A pixel circuit of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) is provided. The pixel circuit includes an OLED, a first transistor, a second transistor and a capacitor. The OLED receives a first voltage. A terminal of the first transistor is coupled to the OLED, and another terminal of the first transistor receives a second voltage. A terminal of the second transistor is coupled to the terminal of the first transistor, another terminal of the second transistor is coupled to a control terminal of the first transistor, a control terminal of the second transistor receives a scan signal. The capacitor is coupled between the control terminal of the first transistor and a third voltage. When the scan signal is enabled, the second voltage is set to a data voltage, the third voltage is set to a reference voltage, and the first voltage is set to a low voltage.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2013Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.Inventors: Bo-Jhang Sun, Chin-Hai Huang, Szu-Chi Huang