Patents Examined by Kuo Woo
  • Patent number: 10168004
    Abstract: There is provided a light emitting apparatus, including a plurality of light emitting elements having biased light properties; and a mounting substrate where the light emitting elements are arranged such that the biased light properties are complemented within a group including at least two light emitting elements among a plurality of the light emitting elements. Also, there are provided a light emitting unit, a display apparatus, an electronic device and a light emitting element using a plurality of point light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Ohmae, Yusuke Kataoka, Ippei Nishinaka, Tatsuo Ohashi, Gen Sakoda, Goshi Biwa
  • Patent number: 10062328
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes: pixels including driving transistors positioned in regions divided by scan lines and data lines; a data accumulating unit arranged to accumulate first data; a first storage unit storing current and voltage change information corresponding to a degradation of an organic light emitting diode (OLED); a second storage unit storing a compensation value corresponding at least partially to channel length modulation of the driving transistors; and a timing controller programmed to carry out an altering of first data corresponding to an ith pixel so as to generate second data to be supplied to the ith pixel, the altering carried out according to: accumulation stress information for the ith pixel, the accumulation stress information corresponding to the accumulated first data and being stored in the data accumulating unit, the current and voltage change information, and a compensation value corresponding to the ith pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Lee, Jin Woo Kim, Do Hyung Ryu, Jae Woo Song, Hae Goo Jung
  • Patent number: 10043466
    Abstract: A plurality of source signal lines extend parallel to each other. Gate signal lines extend parallel to each other while crossing the plurality of source signal lines. A pixel switching element is provided at an intersection of each of the source signal lines and each of the gate signal lines. Driving terminals receive signals to be input to the plurality of source signal lines. Leading lines connect the plurality of driving terminals and the plurality of source signal lines in one to one relationship. A repairing line has a conductive part extending parallel to the plurality of leading lines. An end part of one leading line or each of more leading lines near the source signal line and the driving terminal corresponding to this one or each of these leading lines can become connected through this conductive part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Ishibashi, Yuichi Masutani, Katsuaki Murakami
  • Patent number: 10025409
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a transparent conductive thin film, a substrate, a touch screen and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The transparent conductive thin film comprises a first metal oxide layer, a metal layer and a second metal oxide layer arranged in a stacking manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chengshao Yang, Binbin Cao, Yinhu Huang, Zhixiang Zou
  • Patent number: 10013058
    Abstract: One embodiment of a touch-based user interface may include a haptic feedback layer with one or more actuators configured to supply a haptic feedback. The one or more actuators may be embedded in a nonconductive material. The touch-based user interface may further include a printed circuit board layer underlying the haptic feedback layer. The printed circuit board layer may include one or more conductive traces configured to supply a voltage to the one or more actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul G. Puskarich, Michael Pilliod
  • Patent number: 10007384
    Abstract: A touch screen panel includes a touch recognition area that recognizes a touch input and a non-recognition area that does not recognize the touch input. The touch recognition area includes first touch electrodes connected in a first direction and second touch electrodes connected in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The non-recognition area includes a driver that obtains coordinate information of the touch input by using the first and second touch electrodes and outer wires connecting the first and second touch electrodes and the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jungmok Park
  • Patent number: 9977532
    Abstract: An input apparatus includes a sensor section configured to include a plurality of detection units, and to control positive and negative polarities of a detection signal at each detection position, a control unit configured to generate a group of combined detection signals in which polarity patterns are different from each other, and a signal reproduction unit configured to reproduce signal levels of a group of detection signals on the basis of a group of combined detection signals and a group of polarity patterns, in which at least some of the plurality of detection units differ in the number of detection positions, and the control unit selects the group of polarity patterns according to the number of detection positions so that the number of positive polarities and the number of negative polarities included in each of the polarity patterns are similar to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Takahashi, Shinichi Sagawai
  • Patent number: 9965062
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to selectively enhancing content displayed on a display device. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method comprising tracking a gaze location at which a gaze of a user intersects the graphical user interface, and upon detecting a gaze pattern that meets a defined gaze pattern condition indicative of difficulty in perceiving an item at the gaze location, displaying the item in at the gaze location a visually enhanced form via a user interface object displayed separately from the item at the gaze location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Pablo Luis Sala
  • Patent number: 9952723
    Abstract: A touch window includes a first electrode disposed on an electrode substrate, an intermediate layer on the electrode substrate, and a second electrode disposed on the intermediate layer. A material of the electrode substrate is different from a material of the intermediate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD
    Inventors: Soung Kyu Park, Mun Suk Kang, Do Youb Kwon, Ji Chang Ryu, Seok Pyo Yun, Gyu Rin Lee, Jin Seok Lee, Chung Wan Lee, Jae Hak Her
  • Patent number: 9946076
    Abstract: A system projects a user-viewable, computer-generated or -fed image, wherein a head-mounted projector is used to project an image onto a retro-reflective surface, so only the viewer can see the image. The projector is connected to a computer that contains software to create virtual 2-D and or 3-D images for viewing by the user. Further, one projector each is mounted on either side of the user's head, and, by choosing for example a retro angle of less than about 10 degrees, each eye can only see the image of one of the projectors at a give distance up to 3 meters, in this example, from the retro-reflective screen. The retro angle used may be reduced with larger viewing distance desired. These projectors use lasers to avoid the need for focusing, and in some cases there projectors use instead of lasers highly collimated LED light sources to avoid the need for focusing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Inventors: Gerard Dirk Smits, Dan Kikinis
  • Patent number: 9934721
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting display device including: a display unit having a first display region and a second display region, and comprising a plurality of pixels; and a controller configured to calculate an OPR (On Pixel Ratio) of the plurality of pixels from video data input from an outside, and to generate corrected video data for decreasing driving current of the plurality of pixels based on the OPR, the OPR including a first OPR that corresponds to the first display region and a second OPR that corresponds to the second display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Young An, Ho Suk Maeng
  • Patent number: 9933849
    Abstract: A method, a computing device and a computer program product are provided in order to automatically apply window leveling to an image, such as a medical image. In the context of a method, a gaze location within an image is determined based upon a determination that a user is staring at the gaze location. The method also determines a region of interest within the image based upon the gaze location and determines pixel values for pixels within the region of interest. The method also establishes window level values based upon the pixel values for pixels within the region of interest and applies window leveling based upon the window level values established based upon the pixel values for pixels within the region of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: CHANGE HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Mahmoud Ramze Rezaee, Clifford Edwards
  • Patent number: 9922614
    Abstract: A source driver circuit includes a receiver, a plurality of amplifying buffers, and a control logic circuit. The receiver receives a data signal and a control signal through an input terminal. Each of the amplifying buffers outputs a driving signal generated based on the image data signal through an output terminal. The control logic circuit controls the receiver and the plurality of amplifying buffers based on the control signal. When a power-down signal is provided to the receiver, the control logic circuit is to turn off at least one of the receiver and the plurality of amplifying buffers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chulho Choi
  • Patent number: 9911236
    Abstract: An optical see-through head-mounted display device includes a see-through lens which combines an augmented reality image with light from a real-world scene, while an opacity filter is used to selectively block portions of the real-world scene so that the augmented reality image appears more distinctly. The opacity filter can be a see-through LCD panel, for instance, where each pixel of the LCD panel can be selectively controlled to be transmissive or opaque, based on a size, shape and position of the augmented reality image. Eye tracking can be used to adjust the position of the augmented reality image and the opaque pixels. Peripheral regions of the opacity filter, which are not behind the augmented reality image, can be activated to provide a peripheral cue or a representation of the augmented reality image. In another aspect, opaque pixels are provided at a time when an augmented reality image is not present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Avi Bar-Zeev, Bob Crocco, Alex Kipman, John Lewis
  • Patent number: 9891663
    Abstract: A user terminal device and a displaying method thereof are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELCTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hae-yoon Park, Ji-yeon Kwak, Hyun-jin Kim, Yun-kyung Kim
  • Patent number: 9891744
    Abstract: The touch detecting circuit is a capacitive detecting circuit correctable with a sensor capacitance, and includes an integration capacitance. In the touch detecting circuit, a sensor capacitance connected with the touch detecting circuit is charged and discharged; electric charges to input and output for charging and discharging the sensor capacitance are cumulatively added to the integration capacitance. The electric charges to he added to the integration capacitance are inverted in polarity according to directions of charge transfer accompanying the charge and discharge. Not only when charging the sensor capacitance, but also when discharging the sensor capacitance, the absolute values of electric charges to be moved are integrated and therefore, the amount of signals is doubled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventor: Takayuki Noto
  • Patent number: 9891731
    Abstract: A touch panel of the present invention includes: a cover substrate; a connector being provided on an area of the cover substrate other than a display area, and including a color layer and a shield layer, the shield layer being formed from a multilayer structure, the multilayer structure being configured so that a metal layer and a dielectric layer which is thicker than the metal layer are alternately laminated; and a touch panel substrate being arranged to face the cover substrate with the connector interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: ULVAC, INC.
    Inventors: Manabu Harada, Atsuhito Ihori, Toshihiro Suzuki, Hidenori Yanagitsubo, Masahiro Matsumoto, Masashi Kubo, Makoto Arai
  • Patent number: 9886121
    Abstract: A touch control display panel is disclosed. The touch control display panel includes a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The panel also includes a preliminary touch system having a plurality of preliminary touch electrodes located in at least either of a part of the display area and the non-display area, the preliminary touch system is configured to detect whether there is a touch in at least either of the part of the display area and the non-display area of the touch control display panel. The panel also includes a master touch system having a plurality of master touch electrodes located in the display area. In addition, the master touch electrodes are configured to detect whether there is a touch in the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignees: SHANGHAI AVIC OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiangchun Wang, Xupeng Wang, Zhengyuan Huang, Li Li
  • Patent number: 9852685
    Abstract: There are provided a pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit comprises: a first transistor (T1), a second transistor (T2), a third transistor (T3), a storage capacitor (C1) and a light emitting device (L).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liye Duan, Zhongyuan Wu, Lirong Wang, Kun Cao
  • Patent number: 9727191
    Abstract: This relates to adding multi-touch functionality to a display without the need of a separate multi-touch panel or layer overlaying the display. Instead, embodiments of the invention can advantageously utilize existing display circuitry to provide multi-touch functionality while adding relatively little circuitry that is specific to the multi-touch functionality. Thus, by sharing circuitry for the display and the multi-touch functionalities, embodiments of the invention can be implemented at a lower cost than the alternative of superimposing additional multi-touch related layers onto an existing display panel. Furthermore, since the display and multi-touch functionality can be implemented on the same circuit, they can be synchronized so that noise resulting from the display functionality does not detrimentally affect the multi-touch functionality and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Inventors: Steven P. Hotelling, John Z. Zhong