Patents Examined by Kirk W Hermann
  • Patent number: 10429901
    Abstract: A portable information handling system with rotationally coupled housing portions having an OLED film display disposed over the housing portions automatically adapts presentation of visual images at the display based upon detection of a peripheral keyboard placed on the display. For example, a peripheral keyboard biases into a predetermined position with magnetic attraction and a keyboard manager removes content from the display beneath the keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Deeder M. Aurongzeb, Jung-Hwan Hong, Justin C. Lyles, Yulin Wang
  • Patent number: 10431999
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a charging assembly for an electronic frame and a charging method for an electronic frame. The charging assembly of an electronic frame comprises: an electronic frame having a battery and displaying time information; a take-up reel provided on a rear surface of the electronic frame for winding or unwinding a charge cable; a weight which is connected to the take-up reel by the charge cable to be raised or lowered; and a charger arranged apart from the electronic frame, for charging the battery, wherein the weight is lowered at the time of charging to be electrically connected to the charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dami Choe, Saehun Jang, Junhee Yeo, Boram Kim
  • Patent number: 10423380
    Abstract: A display module and a display apparatus having the same are provided. The display module including a circuit board, a plurality of light emitting device packages disposed on the circuit board and electrically coupled to the circuit board, and a coating unit coated with coating solution containing a light diffusion agent covers the plurality of light emitting device packages and fills in a gap between the plurality of light emitting device packages, wherein the coating unit further includes at least one first light diffusion part that is curvedly formed on a surface of the coating unit onto which light emitted from the light emitting device packages is incident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-sang Kim, Jee-su Park, Eun-lai Lee, Jae-min Lee, Tae-hyeun Ha, Suk Hyun, Cheoul-young Kim, Seung-jae Lee
  • Patent number: 10417977
    Abstract: A scan driving circuit, and an array substrate and a display panel having the scan driving circuit are disclosed. The scan driving circuit includes a plurality of cascaded scan driving units. Each scan driving unit includes an input unit and an output unit. The input unit receives the activation trigger signal, transmits to the output unit and controls the output units in a scanning state. The scan driving unit includes a scan signal modulation unit having at least two transistors. The transistors output a clock modulation signal according to a plurality of clock signals. The clock modulation signal includes at least two first voltages separated with predetermined duration. The output unit outputs scan driving signal from the scan signal output end according to the clock modulation signal. The scan signal includes two sub-scan signals to control pixel unit to receive image data within a scan cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Mang Zhao
  • Patent number: 10409364
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for head mounted display (HMD) implementations. One example implementation includes a circuit for communicating with a computing system that processes multimedia content for display in the HMD. A front unit of the HMD has a screen for displaying multimedia content, and the front unit has a set of LEDs. A rear section of the HMD has a set of LEDs. A connector is provided for coupling the front unit with the rear section of the HMD, such that adjustment of the connector changes a separation distance between at least one of the set of LEDs of the front unit and at least one of the set of LEDs of the rear section. The computing system processes image data captured of the HMD when worn by a user. The image data includes at least one of the set of LEDs of the front unit and at least one of the set of LEDs of the rear section to identify the separation distance for a current adjustment of the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Anton Mikhailov, Eric Larsen, Jeffrey Roger Stafford
  • Patent number: 10388199
    Abstract: A method of augmenting an illumination perception by one or more wearers of respective head-mountable computing devices each including at least one transparent display module is disclosed. The method comprises determining a desired light condition for said wearer in a space, determining an actual light condition for said wearer in said space; and displaying a semi-transparent image on the at least one transparent display module to filter the light passing through the at least one display module in case the actual light condition differs from the desired light condition. In embodiments, the user preferences may be used to perform a global optimization of the light output by one or more (distributed) light sources of a lighting system. Computer program products comprising computer program code for implementing such a method when executed on a suitable processor, a head-mountable computing device and a lighting system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Luca Tiberi, Ashish Vijay Pandharipande, Paul Anthony Shrubsole, Ralf Gertruda Hubertus Voncken, Maurice Herman Johan Draaijer
  • Patent number: 10386952
    Abstract: A computing device configured to take action based on user touch position and force comprises a touch system and a strain amplifying force sensing structure attached to an underside of the touch system. The strain amplifying force sensing structure comprises a force sensing layer and a support plate with a strain amplifying structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN NEW DEGREE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hao Li
  • Patent number: 10380943
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes pixels connected to scan lines, data lines, and emission control lines to emit light components in response to amounts of current that flow from a first driving power source to a second driving power source, a sensing unit connected between the first or second driving power source and the pixels to measure to at least one of current and voltage, a controller to sense a control signal in response to at least one of the current and the voltage measured by the sensing unit, a timing controller to supply a plurality of emission start signals with different widths in a one frame period in response to the control signal when the organic light emitting display device is driven at a low frequency, and an emission driver to supply emission control signals to the emission control lines in response to the emission start signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Moo Choi, Ji Hyun Ka, Won Kyu Kwak, Jin Jeon, Jin Tae Jeong
  • Patent number: 10379653
    Abstract: A touch substrate includes a first transparent electrode layer, a transparent flexible dielectric layer and a second transparent electrode layer. The first transparent electrode layer comprises first touch detection electrodes arranged in an array and insulated from each other. During the touch detection period, a first touch detection signal is loaded simultaneously to the first and second transparent electrode layer, and the touch position can be determined by detecting a change in the capacitance value of each of the first touch detection electrodes. During the pressure detection period, a second touch detection signal may be loaded to one of the first transparent electrode layer and the second transparent electrode layer, and the pressure in the z direction perpendicular to the surface of the touch screen can be determined by detecting a change in the capacitance value between each of the first touch detection electrodes and the second transparent electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Ding, Xue Dong, Xiaochuan Chen, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu, Weijie Zhao, Shengji Yang, Tao Ren
  • Patent number: 10372325
    Abstract: A touch interaction processing method, device, and system. The touch interaction processing method includes: receiving first information sent by an electromyographic signal collection device and second information sent by a location capturing device (101); if it is determined that a time gap between a first touch start time and a second touch start time is less than a preset threshold, and a quantity of touch points that is corresponding to a hand gesture is the same as a quantity of touch points that is included in the second information, generating a touch instruction, where the touch instruction includes a device identifier of the electromyographic signal collection device, the hand gesture, and coordinate information of each touch point (103); and performing an interaction operation corresponding to the touch instruction (105).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiang Ding, Xiaorong Gao, Xiaoshan Huang
  • Patent number: 10360849
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit is disclosed, including: a driving switch, connected between a driving power source and an OLED; a first switch, connected between the source and drain of the driving switch, and being a transistor of the same model as the driving switch; a control circuit, connected between the drain and source of the first switch, for inputting a first control signal and outputting a compensation current to compensate threshold voltage drift of the first switch; a storage unit, connected between the source of a second switch and gate of the first switch, for storing a compensation voltage of compensation current compensating the first switch; the gate of second switch being for inputting a second control signal and the drain for inputting a data signal, the storage unit being for storing a data voltage generated by the data signal. A display panel and pixel driving method are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yuying Cai
  • Patent number: 10359906
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for populating a virtual environment with objects. In one embodiment, an editing application may track a handheld device using sensor data from a camera, by following an image displayed on the handheld device's screen. The editing application then updates the position of an object in the virtual environment according to the tracked position of the handheld device. Initially, the handheld device may be placed at a fixed location for calibration purposes, during which the editing application initializes a mapping between the virtual and physical environments. To add an object to the virtual environment, a user may select the object on the handheld device. The user may then place the object at a desired location and orientation in the virtual environment by moving the handheld device in the physical environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Sumner, Gioacchino Noris
  • Patent number: 10353516
    Abstract: Touch sensor panel configurations for reducing wobble error for a stylus translating on a surface over and between electrodes of the touch sensor panel are disclosed. In some examples, electrodes with more linear signal profiles are correlated with lower wobble error. In some examples, diffusing elements formed of floating segments of conductive materials can diffuse signal from a stylus to a plurality of electrodes, thus, making the signal profiles associated with the electrodes more linear. In addition, diffusing elements can be configured to improve the optical uniformity of the touch sensor panel. In some examples, the diffusing elements can be formed on the same layer as floating dummy pixels and resemble a plurality of merged floating dummy pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Isaac Chan, Prathit Bugnait, Albert Lin, Chun-Hao Tung, Sunggu Kang, John Z. Zhong
  • Patent number: 10354581
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display including: a pixel array part configured to include pixels that are arranged in a matrix and each have an electro-optical element, a write transistor for writing a video signal, a drive transistor for driving the electro-optical element based on the video signal written by the write transistor, and a holding capacitor connected between gate and source of the drive transistor, wherein the holding capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode disposed to face one surface of the first electrode for forming a first capacitor, and a third electrode disposed to face the other surface of the first electrode for forming a second capacitor, and the first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected in parallel to each other electrically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sagawa, Katsuhide Uchino, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10338700
    Abstract: In one example, an inkwell charger can include a tapered portion of a cavity comprising an electrical contact to receive a corresponding tapered portion of a stylus and a magnetic portion of the cavity positioned below the tapered portion of the cavity to align the tapered portion of the stylus with the tapered portion of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Bassett, David Quijano, Owen Richard, Thomas Aaron Bondurant
  • Patent number: 10331220
    Abstract: A configurable human-machine interface for controlling an electrical apparatus includes at least one permanent magnet rigidly connected to each of utensils and a magnetometer array including N triaxial magnetometers, mechanically linked to each other without any degree of freedom to retain a known distance between each of the magnetometers, wherein N is a whole number greater than or equal to five, and a processing unit configured to: define, for each permanent magnet of a utensil, a value of at least one variable encoding a position or orientation of same in a three-dimensional reference system fixed without any degree of freedom to the array or the amplitude of the magnetic moment of same, from measurements of the magnetometers of the array, and automatically select a control law based on the value defined for the variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Tristan Hautson, Rabeb Aloui, Timothee Jobert
  • Patent number: 10319266
    Abstract: A display panel for concurrent video output and eye position tracking. The display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of visible light emitting diodes (LEDs) positioned on a side of the substrate, and a plurality of light detectors positioned on the side of the substrate. The visible LEDs transmit quasi-collimated visible light propagating away from the side of the substrate. The light detectors capture invisible light propagating toward the side of the substrate, reflected from an eye of the user. In some embodiments, non-visible LEDs are formed on the side of the substrate. The visible LEDs, light detectors, and non-visible LEDs may be arranged to form pixels of the display panel. The quasi-collimated light emitted from the visible LEDs reduces spread into beam paths of the invisible light between the non-visible LEDs and the light detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Percival, Robin Sharma
  • Patent number: 10318040
    Abstract: There is provided a touch display device including a display panel including a first electrode for touch sensing, a first support that covers a back surface of an edge area of the display panel, a second support on a back side of the first support and that covers an entirety of the back surface of the display panel, and a touch driver configured to: apply a first electrode driving signal to the first electrode, select one of the first support and the second support as a second electrode, and apply a second electrode driving signal to sense a user's touch pressure applied to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: TaeHoon Kim, JeongKil Seo, Jinsoo Chung, DongHoon Lee, JunWook Yoo
  • Patent number: 10319309
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device that comprises a display panel displaying an image, M reference voltage generators (M is an integer of 2 or greater) that respectively supply reference voltages to N display areas (N is an integer of 2 or greater) defined on the display panel, and a voltage variation corrector that corrects for voltage variations between the M reference voltages (M is an integer of 2 or greater).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junghyeon Kim, Jinhan Yoon, Hanjin Bae
  • Patent number: 10304398
    Abstract: A driver IC for driving a display panel, a display device and a method for driving the driver IC are provided. The driver IC is provided with N pins corresponding to N signal transmission lines of the display panel respectively. Each pin is connected to one corresponding signal transmission line through one transmission wire. The N pins include a first pin and a second pin. The transmission wires include a first transmission wire connected to the first pin and a second transmission wire connected to the second pin and having a length less than the first transmission wire. The driver IC includes a signal generation module configured to generate N driving signals. The N driving signals include a first driving signal corresponding to the first pin and a second driving signal corresponding to the second pin and having a current intensity less than the first driving signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liangliang Zheng, Jian He, Xia Feng, Tingting Jin