Patents Examined by Leonid Shapiro
  • Patent number: 9671662
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an array substrate and liquid crystal display panel, wherein in the array substrate, each pixel unit includes a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode and a third pixel electrode; and each pixel unit includes a first control circuit and a second control circuit; the first control circuit affects first pixel electrode to make first pixel electrode in a state corresponding to displaying a black image in 3D display mode; the second control circuit affects second pixel electrode to change the voltage of second pixel electrode. As such, the present invention can reduce color difference at large viewing angle, improve opening ratio in 2D mode, reduce signal cross-talk in 3D mode, and reduce the number of data line drivers to reduce the cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Je-hao Hsu, Jingfeng Xue, Juanning Dang
  • Patent number: 9651421
    Abstract: A device includes a substrate is substantially transparent and includes a contact surface and an interface surface. The interface surface includes a plurality of electrical contacts. The device further includes a semiconductor die, which includes a plurality of connections, a first photo detector and a second photo detector. Each of the plurality of connections includes a connection bump formed thereon to couple to the plurality of electrical contacts of the interface surface of the substrate. The plurality of connections positioned relative to the first and second photo detectors to alter a directional response of at least one photo detector of the plurality of photo detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Miroslav Svajda, Steve Gerber, Wayne T. Holcombe
  • Patent number: 9646531
    Abstract: A light emitting device and an element substrate which are capable of suppressing variations in luminance intensity of a light emitting element among pixels due to characteristic variations of a driving transistor without suppressing off-current of a switching transistor low and increasing storage capacity of a capacitor. A gate potential of a driving transistor is connected to a first scan line or a second scan line, and the driving transistor operates in a saturation region. A current controlling transistor which operates in a linear region is connected in series to the driving transistor. A video signal which transmits a light emission or non-emission of a pixel is input to the gate of the current controlling transistor through a switching transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Yamazaki, Aya Anzai, Mitsuaki Osame
  • Patent number: 9618780
    Abstract: A stereoscopic display device, an LCD panel, and an array substrate are provided. The array substrate includes gate lines, share lines, and a switching circuit including a vertical switching circuit, a first switch, a second switch, and an inverter. The first switch includes a gate, a first terminal, and a second terminal; respectively connected with the vertical switching circuit, the Nth share line, and the (N+X)th gate line. The second switch includes a gate, a first terminal, and a second terminal; respectively connected with the vertical switching circuit, the Nth share line, and a control signal. The inverter disposes between the gate of the first or second switch and the vertical switching circuit. The share lines can be independent controlled and low color shift effect is achieved. No additional IC chips and COFs are required, and solving the image blurs and the brightness difference of the two eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Tien-Hao Chang, Hua Zheng, Cheng-hung Chen, Shishuai Huang
  • Patent number: 9612137
    Abstract: A process transmitter has a housing that contains transmitter circuitry. The transmitter circuitry is configured to provide a display output and is also configured to couple to a process control loop. A LCD display is embedded within a transparent or translucent polymeric layer in the housing. The LCD display is coupled to the display output and is configured to display information through the polymeric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Rosemount Inc.
    Inventor: Carl R. Gansen
  • Patent number: 9601076
    Abstract: A source driver that responds to image data by generating an output signal which can be used to drive a flat panel display. The source driver includes a gamma decoder and an amplifier. The gamma decoder selects a first voltage among first analog gray voltages based on some upper bits of the image data, selects a second voltage among second analog gray voltages based on other upper bits of the image data, and selectively outputs at least one of the first and second voltages as a plurality of distributed analog signals in response to lower bits of the image data. The amplifier interpolates between the distributed analog signals from the gamma decoder to generate the output signal of the source driver. The amplifier includes bias circuits that are each configured to generate a bias current, and a plurality of MOSFETs. Each of the MOSFETs includes a source, a drain, and a gate terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung-tae Kim, Woo-nyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 9589544
    Abstract: A method of optimizing pixel signals for a liquid crystal display includes receiving the first, second and third pixel signals for the (n?1), (n) and (n+1)th frames. The first and second pixel signals are compared to determine if the second pixel signal requires overshooting or undershooting. The second and third pixel signals are compared to determine if the second pixel signal requires to be increased for pre-titling. The second pixel signal is compensated accordingly, thereby increasing liquid crystal response time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jang-Kun Song, Dong-Won Park
  • Patent number: 9541999
    Abstract: A system includes a three dimensional display device configured to project computer generated controls and a target image in a three dimensional target volume; and an actuator configured to be worn by an operator. The system further includes one or more sensors configured to sense a movement of the actuator, wherein the controls are configured to be manipulated corresponding with the movement of the actuator within the target volume to alter an appearance of the target image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: F. POSZAT HU, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Anderson, Saquib Ibrahim
  • Patent number: 9524085
    Abstract: A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a case having one or more major surfaces. A visual display and a touch interface are disposed on at least one of the major surfaces. A processor is operably coupled to the visual display and touch screen. Instructions executable by the processor may be configured to: a) present an image on the visual display containing one or more active elements; b) correlate one or more active portions of the touch interface to one or more corresponding active elements in the image on the visual display; and c) present a transformed active element corresponding to a particular one of the one or more active elements on the visual display in response to a user interaction with a corresponding one of the one or more active portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Charles Nicholson, Gary M. Zalewski
  • Patent number: 9507465
    Abstract: A technique for operating a capacitive sensor array. The technique includes logically grouping capacitance sensors of an array of capacitance sensors into sensor groups. The sensor groups each include at least two capacitance sensors of the array of capacitance sensors. Values indicative of a capacitance for each of the sensor groups are measured. The measured values are then analyzed to determine a location of a user interaction with the array of capacitance sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Mark R. Lee, Ryan D. Seguine
  • Patent number: 9495927
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display apparatus is provided with a display unit, a video signal driving circuit, a scanning signal driving circuit, a common electrode potential controlling circuit, and a synchronizing circuit. The display unit has a scanning electrode, a video signal electrode, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in matrix form, a plurality of switching elements which transmit video signals to the pixel electrodes, and a common electrode. After the scanning signal driving circuit scans the entire scanning electrodes and transmits video signals to the pixel electrodes, the common electrode potential controlling circuit changes the potential of the common electrode into a pulse shape, overdrives video signals, or increases a torque required to return to a state in which no voltage is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Takatori, Hiroyuki Sekine, Ken Sumiyoshi
  • Patent number: 9478184
    Abstract: A method of driving a display panel includes generating compensated grayscale data by increasing grayscale data corresponding to an N-th gate line of a plurality of gate lines of the display panel, where N is a natural number, generating a data voltage based on the compensated grayscale data, outputting the data voltage to the display panel including a plurality of pixel electrodes and a plurality of data lines, where each of the plurality of data lines is alternately connected to the plurality of pixel electrodes in a first pixel column and the plurality of pixel electrodes in a second pixel column, generating a storage voltage having a first level and a second level, where the second level is lower than the first level, and applying the storage voltage to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-Jun Choi, Jae-Suk Choi
  • Patent number: 9471183
    Abstract: A mobile device providing a mobile processing function such as a mobile telephone and/or a personal digital assistant. The mobile device includes a mobile device body, a processing system within the body providing at least part of the mobile processing function, a projector coupled to the body to project an image onto a substantially planar surface when the mobile device body is on the surface such that the projector projects at a predetermined angle relative to the surface, and a pen-location transcription system coupled to the processing system to record the positions of a writing implement or stylus at a plurality of instants of time by transmitting acoustic energy between the writing implement or stylus and a device mechanically coupled to the mobile device body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: PNF CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ari Birger, Philip A. Weaver
  • Patent number: 9461258
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a light-emitting device and an electronic device which can provide an image with excellent image quality. One of the present inventions is a light-emitting device including a plurality of light-emitting elements each exhibiting a different emission color. At least one of the plurality of light-emitting elements has n light-emitting layers (n is a natural number, n?2) between a pair of electrodes. Further, at least one of the n light-emitting layers includes a substance which provides emission from a triplet excitation state. In a light-emitting device having such a structure, an image is displayed by combining emissions from the plurality of light-emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Hajime Kimura, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9460654
    Abstract: A self-luminous display panel driving method for driving a self-luminous display panel of the active matrix driving type, includes the step of executing threshold value correction operation for a driving transistor divisionally in a plurality of periods within at least one of which, after a point of time of an end of a preceding correction period till a point of time of a start of a succeeding correction period, a potential to be applied to the drain electrode of the driving transistor is controlled to an intermediate potential between a first potential for lighting driving of the driving transistor and a second potential for initialization applied within a preparation period of the first one of the correction periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: JOLED Inc.
    Inventors: Yukihito Iida, Yutaka Mitomi, Mitsuru Asano, Tetsuo Minami, Takao Tanikame, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 9443461
    Abstract: To provide a novel driving method for driving an electronic device by using digital gray scale and time gray scale in combination, which secures high duty ratio, which can display an image normally even when a sustain period is shorter than an address period, and which is hardly affected by dulled signal waveform. In a sub-frame period (102) where a sustain period is shorter than an address period, a clear period (105) is squeezed in between completion of a sustain period (104) and start of an address period of the subsequent sub-frame period. The length of the sustain period (104) thus can be set without being limited by the length of an address period (103). This non-display period is provided by changing the electric potential of a storage capacitor line. Therefore, unlike the case where the non-display period is provided by changing the electric potential of a cathode wiring, the present invention is hardly affected by dulled signal waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Yoshifumi Tanada
  • Patent number: 9430043
    Abstract: Bioacoustic sensors and wireless technologies are used for the control of electronic devices, such as wireless telephones, pagers, music/media players or personal laptops and personal digital assistant (PDA) devices. Such control is implemented with certain systems, methods and apparatus which include bioacoustic sensors, a processor coupled to the bioacoustic sensors, and a transmitter coupled to the processor. The present invention is operative to detect particular hand and/or finger gestures, and to transmit control signals corresponding to the gestures for operative control of an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Brian Amento, William Colyer Hill, Loren Gilbert Terveen
  • Patent number: 9417732
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a backlight unit, a backlight control circuit, sensors, a read-out circuit and a sensor auxiliary circuit. The display panel includes pixels and displays an image. The backlight unit includes a first light source which emits a first light in a infrared light range. The backlight control circuit controls a brightness of the first light source. The sensors sense an external signal and outputs first sensing signals. The read-out circuit outputs the first sensing signals as second sensing signals. The sensor auxiliary circuit compares a maximum value and a minimum value of the second sensing signals and provides a brightness control signal to the backlight control circuit based on the compared difference to control the brightness of the first light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heetae Kim, Hyeonyong Jang, Byungchoon Yang, Dongkwon Kim, Young-keun Lee, Ho-young Kim
  • Patent number: 9413865
    Abstract: A handheld electronic device is provided, which includes a body and a key layout. The body has a base surface. The key layout is disposed on the base surface of the body and includes a plurality of keys. The key layout is a QWERTY key layout and the keys are adapted for users to press with their left or right thumb while holding the body in single hand or both hands. Each key has a curved surface protruded from the base surface and each curved surface has an inflection point. A distance between two inflection points of the curved surfaces of any two adjacent keys is greater than a distance between two figure centers of the orthogonal projections on the base surface of the curved surfaces of the two adjacent keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Shen Wang, Hsiao-Chuan Huang, Yi-Bin Ho, Meng-Sheng Chiang
  • Patent number: 9413310
    Abstract: A buffer circuit applied to a source driver output stage circuit includes a buffer and a D-class amplifier. The buffer is coupled to an input voltage for accordingly outputting an output voltage. The D-class amplifier includes a comparator and a switch device. The comparator is for comparing the input voltage and the output voltage and accordingly outputting a comparison signal. The switch device is coupled to an operational voltage for adjusting the output voltage according to the comparison signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Kuo-Chan Huang, Chih-Haur Huang