Patents Examined by Kwin Xie
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Patent number: 9190004Abstract: An LCD device is disclosed which includes: at least one sensor module configured to sense an amount of external light; a liquid crystal display panel configured to display images; at least one light source module disposed under the liquid crystal display panel and configured to emit light; and at least one light guide plate configured to convert light from the at least one light source module into two-dimensional light and apply two-dimensional light to the liquid crystal display panel. The at least one light source module includes infrared LEDs and visible LEDs which are selectively driven according to a sensed light quantity sensed by the at least one sensor module and allow infrared light and visible light to be selectively emitted.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Jung Han, Se Min Lee, Joo Young Yeon
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Patent number: 9152278Abstract: A location of contact with a touch sensitive device is determined. Values associated with each electrode of a plurality of electrodes formed on a single layer of the touch sensitive device are sampled. A determination is made as to whether a contact with the touch sensitive device has occurred. Values sampled subsequent to the contact are adjusted based on selected stored sampled values. A location of contact is then determined based on the adjusted values.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2011Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Joel C. Kent, Selina Li, Jong Yi
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Patent number: 9082362Abstract: A display panel includes a display area, a peripheral area which includes a first peripheral area, and a second peripheral area opposite to the first peripheral area, a plurality of pixels in the display area, a plurality of data lines, a first gate line, a second gate line, a first gate driving circuit and a second gate driving circuit. Each data line corresponds to two pixel columns. The first gate line is at a first side of a pixel row. The second gate line is at a second side of the pixel row. The first gate driving circuit is in the first peripheral area and includes a first stage which provides a gate signal to the first gate line. The second gate driving circuit is in a second peripheral area of the display area and includes a second stage which provides a gate signal to the second gate line.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yu-Han Bae, Jae-Hoon Lee, Seung-Hwan Moon
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Patent number: 9081450Abstract: A touch panel controller may include a communications module configured to receive pixel values, where each pixel value represents a capacitance associated with a pixel formed at a drive electrode and a sensor electrode of a touch panel. The touch panel controller may also include a processing module configured to discard pixel values below a noise threshold, discard pixel values for non-zero pixels that are not adjacent to non-zero pixels, reject detected input for pixel values associated with a palm input, compute an initial centroid associated with the pixel values, reject detected input for pixel values associated with a hover input, and provide detected input that is not associated with palm input or hover input.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.Inventor: Rishi Mohindra
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Patent number: 9076401Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device capable of displaying a moving image and a still image, a reduction in contrast due to light scattering in a reflective pixel portion or the like is suppressed and consumed power is reduced. As a driving method of a transflective liquid crystal display device including a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of light-transmitting pixel portions and a reflective pixel portion, an image signal for color display is supplied to the plurality of light-transmitting pixel portions and a signal for black display is supplied to the reflective pixel portion in a moving-image display period, and an image signal of black-and-white grayscale is supplied to the plurality of light-transmitting pixel portions and the reflective pixel portion in a still-image display period.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2011Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyake, Ryo Arasawa
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Patent number: 9075526Abstract: A capacitive touch keyboard includes an insulating substrate that defines a plurality of press key zones, and a first and a second conductive layers, both disposed on the insulating substrate. Each conductive layer includes a plurality of electrode lines arranged in two different directions. Each electrode line includes a plurality of electrode units connected in series. Each electrode unit is disposed at a position corresponding to a respective one of the press key zones. For each of the press key zones, the electrode units of the first the second conductive layers that are disposed therein are adjacent to each other and cooperate to form a touch sensing structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: Sentelic CorporationInventors: Jaoching Lin, Linabel Chu, Chung-Yi Shen, Gary Lee
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Patent number: 9058081Abstract: An electronic device may include a housing having a mousing surface, and a navigation device carried by the housing and comprising a proximity detector. The proximity detector may include a single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) configured to detect movement of an activator adjacent the mousing surface. For example, the proximity detector may detect movement along three axes.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) LIMITEDInventor: David Patrick Baxter
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Patent number: 8970558Abstract: A digit hood to enable a user to quickly and accurately actuate keys of a hand held device. The digit hood can include a cover configured to be disposed over a digit. The cover can include an opening configured to receive the digit. One or more raised protrusions can extend from the cover and away from the digit for actuating the keys of the hand held device. A plurality of joint holes can be disposed through the cover to allow the digit to bend. A plurality of ventilation holes can be disposed through the cover to provide ventilation to the digit.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Inventor: Damaris Dixie-Rose Gore
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Patent number: 8963853Abstract: A multi-display device is adapted to be dockable or otherwise associatable with an additional device. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the multi-display device is dockable with a smartpad. The exemplary smartpad can include a screen, a touch sensitive display, a configurable area, a gesture capture region(s) and a camera. The smartpad can also include a port adapted to receive the device. The exemplary smartpad is able to cooperate with the device such that information displayable on the device is also displayable on the smartpad. Furthermore, any one or more of the functions on the device are extendable to the smartpad, with the smartpad capable of acting as an input/output interface or extension of the smartpad. Therefore, for example, information from one or more of the displays on the multi-screen device is displayable on the smartpad.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Z124Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Martin Gimpl, John Steven Visosky, Alexander de Paz
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Patent number: 8963840Abstract: A multi-display device is adapted to be dockable or otherwise associatable with an additional device. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the multi-display device is dockable with a smartpad. The exemplary smartpad can include a screen, a touch sensitive display, a configurable area, a gesture capture region(s) and a camera. The smartpad can also include a port adapted to receive the device. The exemplary smartpad is able to cooperate with the device such that information displayable on the device is also displayable on the smartpad. Furthermore, any one or more of the functions on the device are extendable to the smartpad, with the smartpad capable of acting as an input/output interface or extension of the smartpad. Therefore, for example, information from one or more of the displays on the multi-screen device is displayable on the smartpad.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Z124Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Martin Gimpl, John Steven Visosky, Alexander de Paz
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Patent number: 8941592Abstract: Techniques are described to transmit commands to a display device during vertical or horizontal blanking intervals. The commands can be transmitted using fields that would otherwise be used to transmit color information. A Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS) compliant interface can be used to transmit the commands.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2010Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Seh W. Kwa, Ravi Ranganathan, Jun Shi, Maximino Vasquez
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Patent number: 8933909Abstract: According to one embodiment, a touch panel includes first interconnections, second interconnections, sensor units and a control unit. The first interconnections are arranged along a first direction, and extend along a second direction intersecting with the first direction. The second interconnections are arranged along a third direction intersecting with the first direction, and extend along a fourth direction intersecting with the third direction. The sensor units are provided in intersection portions of the first and second interconnections, include first and second ferromagnetic layers, and an intermediate layer, allow a current to be passed, and have one end connected to the first interconnections and another end connected to the second interconnections. The control unit is connected to the first and second interconnections. An electric resistance of the sensor units changes in accordance with a stress applied. The control unit senses a change in the electric resistance.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Devin Giddings, Nobuyoshi Saito, Hideaki Fukuzawa, Yoshihiko Fuji, Michiko Hara, Hajime Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8907904Abstract: A multi-display device is adapted to be dockable or otherwise associatable with an additional device. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the multi-display device is dockable with a smartpad. The exemplary smartpad can include a screen, a touch sensitive display, a configurable area, a gesture capture region(s) and a camera. The smartpad can also include a port adapted to receive the device. The exemplary smartpad is able to cooperate with the device such that information displayable on the device is also displayable on the smartpad. Furthermore, any one or more of the functions on the device are extendable to the smartpad, with the smartpad capable of acting as an input/output interface or extension of the smartpad. Therefore, for example, information from one or more of the displays on the multi-screen device is displayable on the smartpad.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Z124Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Martin Gimpl, John Steven Visosky, Alexander de Paz
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Patent number: 8884911Abstract: A resistive touch controlling system includes a first sensing module, a second sensing module and a processing circuit. The first sensing module includes a plurality of sensing line groups. The processing circuit is electrically coupled to the first sensing module and the second sensing modules. When the first sensing module senses at least two touch points, the processing circuit takes a combination of touch points sensed by the first and second sensing modules as a first candidate list. After that, the processing circuit turns off some of the sensing line groups of the first sensing module sensing one of the sensed touch points, and takes a touch point(s) sensed by the first sensing module and the second sensing module as the second candidate list. Finally, the processing circuit compares the first candidate list with the second candidate list to determine a current touch sensing result.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2010Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Pixart Imaging Inc.Inventors: Ming-Tsan Kao, Shu-Sian Yang
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Patent number: 8866748Abstract: A multi-display device is adapted to be dockable or otherwise associatable with an additional device. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the multi-display device is dockable with a smartpad. The exemplary smartpad can include a screen, a touch sensitive display, a configurable area, a gesture capture region(s) and a camera. The smartpad can also include a port adapted to receive the device. The exemplary smartpad is able to cooperate with the device such that information displayable on the device is also displayable on the smartpad. Furthermore, any one or more of the functions on the device are extendable to the smartpad, with the smartpad capable of acting as an input/output interface or extension of the smartpad. Therefore, for example, information from one or more of the displays on the multi-screen device is displayable on the smartpad.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Z124Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Martin Gimpl, John Steven Visosky, Alexander de Paz
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Patent number: 8860770Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes driving a first sub area and a second sub area of a pixel part in a two-dimensional (2D) image mode, wherein a first luminance difference exists between the first and second sub areas in the 2D image mode, and driving the first sub area and the second sub area of the pixel part in a three-dimensional (3D) image mode, wherein a second luminance difference exists between the first and second sub areas in the 3D image mode, the second luminance difference being smaller than the first luminance difference.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yong-Ju Jeong, Jong-Hee Na, Young-Min Choi, Jae-Kil Lee, Seung-Kuk Yun, Ji-Eun Jang
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Patent number: 8830184Abstract: Disclosed is an image displaying device including a first touch panel arranged on a display screen and generating first coordinate information representing a first coordinate pair denoting the location of a touch on the panel surface; a second touch panel arranged at the rear of the display screen and generating second coordinate information representing a second coordinate pair denoting the location of a touch on the panel surface; and a control unit detecting concurrent touches on the surfaces of the first and second touch panels and, if the concurrent touches are detected, detecting coordinate pairs overlapping between the first coordinate pairs and the second coordinate pairs to determine whether or not the overlapping coordinate pairs exist in a number not lower than specified. A method of and a program for displaying an image on such an image displaying device are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2010Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Ryo Ono
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Patent number: 8803864Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes outputting odd-numbered and even-numbered gate signals having a first gate-on voltage during a first period, outputting first data of odd-numbered and even-numbered horizontal lines in response to the odd-numbered and even-numbered gate signals having the first gate-on voltage, outputting odd-numbered or even-numbered gate signals having a second gate-on voltage during a second period, wherein the second gate-on voltage is lower than the first gate-on voltage, and outputting second data of the odd-numbered horizontal lines in response to the odd-numbered gate signals having the second gate-on voltage, or outputting second data of the even-numbered horizontal lines in response to the even-numbered gate signals having the second gate-on voltage.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Woo-Won Lee, Bum-Jin Kim
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Patent number: 8767022Abstract: An array substrate is provided comprising a base substrate; an array of pixel electrodes formed on the base substrate; a plurality of gate lines, each of which is formed corresponding to each row of pixel electrodes; a plurality of data lines, each of which is formed corresponding to each odd number column of pixel electrodes and the next adjacent even number column of pixel electrodes; a plurality of first switching devices, each of which is connected with each odd-number-column pixel electrode, and the data lines charging the corresponding odd-number-column pixel electrodes via the corresponding first switching devices under driving control in corresponding time sequence; a plurality of second switching devices, each of which is connected with each even-number-column pixel electrode, and the data lines charging the corresponding even-number-column pixel electrodes via the corresponding second switching devices under driving control in corresponding time sequence.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hailin Xue, Yubo Xu, Cheng Li, Xiaochuan Chen, Xin Li, Shunshun Qiu
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Patent number: 8754863Abstract: A fixed display system that can interact with a communication device includes a display system including a fixed display operable to display information. A sensor is operable to provide a first signature upon an occurrence of a predetermined event, and the communication device is also operable to provide a second signature upon the occurrence of the same predetermined event. A processor compares the first and second signatures and determines whether these first and second signatures describe the same predetermined event, whereupon the processor initiates a communication session between the display system and the communication device. In addition, personal information of the user on the communication device may be used locally or partially/fully transferred to the display system to provide a personalized interactive experience for the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Veeraraghavan A. Anantha, Lorne C. Liechty, Patrenahalli M. Narendra