Patents Examined by Kwin Xie
  • Patent number: 10877270
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for providing a high transmission see-through view of the environment while trapping escaping light from the display system. In embodiments, a camera system is also provided that is aligned with the display system to provide images of the environment in a viewing direction of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventor: John N. Border
  • Patent number: 10866724
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for further implementing a virtual screen which interworks with a screen of a terminal is provided. The method preferably includes determining a virtual screen which interworks with a screen of the terminal, providing the screen of the terminal and the determined virtual screen together, and displaying an operation according to touch input on the provided virtual screen on the virtual screen and the screen of the terminal, which interworks with the virtual screen. The virtual screen can be overlaid on a software screen and can further visually distinguish the virtual screen from the main screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chan-Hyoung Park
  • Patent number: 10831316
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for a surface interface. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a system can include a plurality of surface transducers, a user transducer, and a user device. The plurality of surface transducers are in contact with a surface that is to be used as an input interface for a user. The user transducer is in contact with the user. The user device can include a processor and memory. The memory can stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. In particular, the processor can analyze a received portion of a signal to determine a relative location of a part of a body of the user on the surface, and can perform a function responsive to the relative location of the part of the body of the user on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Christopher Baldwin, Brian Amento
  • Patent number: 10817090
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display apparatus with integrated touch screen and a method of manufacturing the display apparatus, which prevent short circuit between touch electrodes. The display apparatus with integrated touch screen including a light emitting layer disposed on a substrate, an encapsulation layer disposed on the light emitting layer, a plurality of touch electrodes disposed on the encapsulation and spaced apart from each other, and an upper PAC layer disposed on the plurality of touch electrodes. The upper PAC layer is patterned to be disposed on the plurality of touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyangmyoung Gwon, Minjoo Kim, Sungjin Kim, Jaehyung Jang
  • Patent number: 10810949
    Abstract: A signal processing method includes: driving multiple backlight zones to emit respectively; detecting multiple first luminance values corresponding to the backlight zones when each of the backlight zones emits; calculating a diffusion matrix according to the first luminance values; obtaining multiple first correction signals corresponding to the backlight zones according to the diffusion matrix and multiple target luminance values corresponding to the backlight zones; and controlling the backlight zones to display according to the first correction signals respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chun-Chieh Huang
  • Patent number: 10768730
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of data lines connected to the pixels, an inspection circuit unit connected to the data lines, a driving circuit unit connected or configured to be connectable to the data lines, a bonding region comprising a first pad, a second pad, a third pad, and a fourth pad, the first pad and the second pad being electrically connected to each other through a first conductor, and the third pad and the fourth pad being electrically connected to each other through a second conductor, a first wire connected to the driving circuit unit and the third pad, a second wire connected to the driving circuit unit and the inspection circuit unit and a third wire connected to the inspection circuit unit and the first pad, where the second pad and the fourth pad are electrically connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young Bin Kim
  • Patent number: 10747330
    Abstract: An electronic device determines an estimate of angular position based on an accelerometric signal supplied by an accelerometric sensor and as a function of at least one of a gyroscopic signal from a gyroscopic sensor and a magnetic signal from a magnetic-field sensor. A processing module implements a complementary filter, which is provided with a first processing block, a second processing block, and a combination block. The first processing block receives the acceleration signal and an input signal indicative of the magnetic signal and generates a geomagnetic quaternion. The second processing block receives a signal indicative of the gyroscopic signal (gyro) and generates a gyroscopic quaternion. The combination block determines the estimate ({circumflex over (q)}) of angular position by complementarily combining the geomagnetic quaternion and the gyroscopic quaternion based on a combination factor that has a dynamic value and an adaptive value and that varies as a function of the operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Antonio Micali, Alberto Zancanato, Federico Rizzardini
  • Patent number: 10747326
    Abstract: The present invention provides a motion detecting system, which includes a light source module, a plurality of image sensors and a control unit. The light source module illuminates at least one object. The image sensors respectively detect the object under the light emitted by the light source module to generate a plurality of detection results. The control unit is coupled to the image sensors, and generates a control command according to the detection results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Sen-Huang Huang, Ming-Tsan Kao, En-Feng Hsu, Yu-Hao Huang, Nien-Tse Chen
  • Patent number: 10725554
    Abstract: The present invention provides a motion detecting system, which includes a light source module, a plurality of image sensors and a control unit. The light source module illuminates at least one object. The image sensors respectively detect the object under the light emitted by the light source module to generate a plurality of detection results. The control unit is coupled to the image sensors, and generates a control command according to the detection results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Ting-Yang Chang, Yen-Min Chang, Nien-Tse Chen
  • Patent number: 10698526
    Abstract: A compensation circuit, a gate driving unit, a gate driving circuit, driving methods thereof and a display device are provided. The compensation circuit includes: a pull-up node voltage control sub-circuit configured to control a first voltage input end to output a first voltage to a pull-up node voltage output end under the control of a control node; and a control node control sub-circuit configured to control a voltage compensation clock signal input end to input a voltage compensation clock signal to the control node under the control of a pull-up input end, control a second voltage input end to input a second voltage to the control node under the control of a voltage compensation resetting end, and control a touch ending signal input end to input a touch ending signal to the control node under the control of a pull-up node voltage output end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng Li, Liang Zhang, Yu Ma, Qi Sang
  • Patent number: 10691269
    Abstract: A location of contact with a touch sensitive device is determined. Output signals associated with a plurality of electrodes such as formed on a single layer of the touch sensitive device are measured to identify a first electrode positioned at an approximate location of contact with the touch sensor. An output signal associated with a different electrode that is separated from the first electrode is measured to determine an undesired signal amount, such as due to deflection. An undesired single amount associated with the first electrode may be estimated based on the undesired signal amount measured at the other electrode. The signal amount measured at the first electrode is then compensated by the estimated undesired signal amount. The location of contact with the touch sensor is then determined based on the compensated signal amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel C. Kent, Selina Li
  • Patent number: 10678379
    Abstract: An acoustic touch apparatus is provided that includes a substrate capable of propagating surface acoustic waves, such as Rayleigh-type or Love-type waves. The substrate has a front surface, a back surface, and a curved connecting surface formed between the front surface and the back surface. The apparatus also includes at least one acoustic wave transducer and at least one reflective array, the acoustic wave transducer and the reflective array behind the back surface of the substrate. The acoustic wave transducer is capable of transmitting or receiving surface acoustic waves to or from the reflective array. The reflective array is capable of acoustically coupling the surface acoustic waves to propagate from the back surface and across the front surface via the curved connecting surface. Various types of acoustic touch apparatus with edge sensitive touch functions can be provided, according to specific embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Tanaka, Ting Gao, Joel C. Kent, Jeffrey T. Haller, Daniel H. Scharff, Timothy O. Avery
  • Patent number: 10620443
    Abstract: A virtual imaging display device includes a base board; a panel configured to be rotatably provided at one of sides of the base board; a lens mounting board configured to be rotatably provided at a side of the panel facing the base board; a projecting lens configured to be mounted on the lens mounting board; and a plurality of half-transmitting mirrors configured to be rotatably provided at remaining sides of the base board, respectively. The virtual imaging display device has a deployed state in which the lens mounting board and the half-transmitting mirrors are configured to abut on each other to define together a frustum structure, and a collapsed state in which the half-transmitting mirrors each are configured to rest on the base board, the lens mounting board is configured to rest on the panel, and the panel is configured to rest on the base board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaojian Yang, Hui Zheng, Shumeng Sun, Huaxu Bao, Xiaofeng Liu, Inho Park, Weitao Chen
  • Patent number: 10620730
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes: first to third lines in first to third line layers, respectively, a signal that is different from a signal supplied to the first lines and the second lines being supplied to the third lines; first connection lines that connect the first lines or the second lines with first terminals; second connection lines that connect the third lines with second terminals; inspection TFTs 61 connected with the second connection lines; and common lines 63, 64. Each of the second connection lines 24c is connected to any one of the common lines through the inspection TFT 61. A space between the adjacent two second connection lines 24c connected to the same common line through the second connection line switching elements is wider than a space between the second connection lines 24c connected to different ones of the common lines, respectively, through the second connection line switching elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Yoshida, Isao Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 10613689
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a method for manufacturing a touch screen, a touch screen, and a display device having a touch screen. An embodiment of the method for manufacturing a touch screen may include forming a touch sensor and a fingerprint sensor concurrently on a glass substrate; thinning the glass substrate at a portion facing the fingerprint sensor to a predetermined thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Taofeng Xie, Lingyan Wu, Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 10579175
    Abstract: An electronic device including a touch screen including a fingerprint sensing region overlapped with a touch sensing region and configured to sense a fingerprint input on the fingerprint sensing region with a second sensing resolution higher than a first sensing resolution of a touch input on the touch sensing region, and a controller configured to display a fingerprint image in the fingerprint sensing region of the touch screen, in response to an event requiring an authentication procedure, sense a fingerprint of a fingerprint touch applied to the fingerprint image, perform the authentication procedure based on the sensed fingerprint, display at least one function icon adjacent to the fingerprint image based on a result of the authentication procedure, and execute a function corresponding to the at least one function icon based on a touch applied to the at least one function icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jie Seol
  • Patent number: 10573250
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of a time division driving system, capable of preventing an occurrence of a color shift without causing flickering or image sticking, is achieved. The liquid crystal display device includes: a stable arrival gradation data acquisition unit (122) configured to acquire stable arrival gradation data indicating an arrival gradation estimation value at a start timing of each field of the last frame, in a case where a virtual display process of three or more frames is performed based on input gradation data for one frame; and an input gradation data compensation unit configured to acquire writing gradation data by compensating the input gradation data based on the stable arrival gradation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidekazu Miyata, Masamitsu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10565927
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display device and a method of compensating for electrical characteristics of the electroluminescent display device are disclosed. The electroluminescent display includes a storage memory storing an average current-voltage expression of a display panel and a current value for each pixel, a parameter calculation unit calculating an offset and a gain for each pixel for causing current characteristics for each pixel based on the current value for each pixel to coincide with average current characteristics based on the average current-voltage expression, and a data correction unit correcting input image data to be written to each pixel based on the offset and the gain for each pixel. The average current-voltage expression and the current value for each pixel are obtained through a camera-based sensing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungyoup Suk, Hyungnyuck Cho
  • Patent number: 10540925
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a shift register unit circuit, a method for driving the same, a gate drive circuit and a display panel. The shift register unit circuit includes a first switch circuit configured to transmit an input signal to a first node; a second switch circuit configured to transmit a first voltage to a signal output; a third switch circuit configured to transmit a second clock signal to a second node; fourth switch circuit configured to transmit the second voltage signal to a third node; a fifth switch circuit configured to transmit a second voltage signal to the signal output; a sixth switch circuit configured to transmit the second voltage signal to a fourth node; a first capacitor connected between the second clock signal and the third node; and a second capacitor connected between the first node and the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: 10528230
    Abstract: Methods and devices for presenting a virtual keyboard are provided. More particularly, in connection with a multiple screen device, a virtual keyboard can be presented in a first mode using all of one of the screens. In a second mode, the virtual keyboard can be presented using portions of both of the screens. More particularly, with the screens of the device in a landscape orientation, one screen can be devoted to present the virtual keyboard while the other screen remains available to present other information. In a portrait orientation, the virtual keyboard can span the two screens, such that a first portion of the first screen and a first portion of the second screen operate cooperatively to present the virtual keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Robert Csiki