Patents Examined by Leonid Shapiro
  • Patent number: 8884858
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a first polarizer and a second polarizer respectively disposed at the upper side and at the lower side of the liquid crystal panel, and a light path control film disposed at an outer side of the first polarizer to redirect light transmitted through the liquid crystal panel at low angles of the viewing angle to minimize gray inversion at the low angles of the viewing angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chi Hyuck Park
  • Patent number: 8878831
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a fifth transistor, a capacitor, and an OLED. The operation of the pixel driving circuit includes three stages including discharging, data writing, and emitting. The pixel driving circuit compensates the threshold voltage of the transistor in the stage of data writing, so the driving current of the OLED can be irrelevant to the variations of threshold voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hsuan-Ming Tsai, Chun-Yen Liu
  • Patent number: 8866808
    Abstract: A method for driving a display panel is provided. The method includes the following steps. Firstly, providing a first scan signal to turn on a plurality of first sub-pixels within the ith pixel row of the display panel during a Nth frame period, so as to make the first sub-pixels respectively receive a corresponding first data signal. Next, providing a second scan signal to turn on a plurality of second sub-pixels within the ith pixel row of the display panel during the Nth frame period, so as to make the second sub-pixels respectively receive a corresponding second data signal. The amplitude of the first scan signal is different from the amplitude of the second scan signal, and N and i are positive integers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chung-Lung Li, Yun-Chung Lin, Fang-Lin Chang
  • Patent number: 8866709
    Abstract: Display an image by adjusting upper limit of brightness of the image projection light. Here, determine the target value, according to analysis result of the image data, for the detected brightness of the image projection light, and adjust the upper limit of brightness of the image projection light to cause the detected brightness to approach the target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Toyooka
  • Patent number: 8866750
    Abstract: A flexible, scalable hardware input device for interacting with a variety of devices ranging from a phone, to a media playback device to a steering wheel or a tablet PC is provided. The input device includes a set of mechanical input controls, each mapping to one or more independent functions and a set of touch sensitive input control areas (e.g., capacitive), where each touch sensitive input control area receives touch input independently. In addition, one or more of the touch sensitive input control areas interchangeably overlay one or more of the mechanical input controls, whereby interaction with the touch sensitive input control areas is processed together to determine a corresponding function for controlling the application, service or computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brett Allen Bentsen, Dennis Edward Flanagan, Gregory Sean Cox, Thamer A. Abanami
  • Patent number: 8860643
    Abstract: A display device includes an image signal modifier for modifying input image signals based on the difference between the input image signal for a pixel in a first row and the input image signal for the pixel in the adjacent row. The gate-on voltages includes a pre-charging voltage and a main charging voltage, the main charging voltage for the first row overlaps the pre-charging voltage for the second row and the pre-charging voltage for the first grow overlaps the main charging voltage for the second row for a predetermined time. The first data voltage is applied to the pixels of the first and second rows after application of the main charging gate-on voltage for the first row and the pre-charging gate-on voltage for the row, and the second data voltage is applied to the pixel of the second row after application of the main charging gate-on voltage for the second row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Baek-Woon Lee
  • Patent number: 8854333
    Abstract: Patterns of sensor elements that can be used in capacitance sensing devices are described. A plurality of sensor elements extends in a radial direction from a shared center. A first subset of the sensor elements extend like spirals in a clockwise direction, and a second subset of the sensor elements extend like spirals in a counterclockwise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Bob Lee Mackey
  • Patent number: 8836737
    Abstract: A display device includes a first sub-pixel formed by a blue-type-hue colored area included in a visible light region whose hue changes in accordance with wavelength, a second sub-pixel formed by a red-type-hue colored area included in the visible light region, a third sub-pixel and a fourth sub-pixel formed by colored areas of two types of hues included in the visible light region, the two types of hues being selected from a hue range of from a blue hue to a yellow hue, and a plurality of pixels regularly disposed horizontally and vertically and each including the first to fourth sub-pixels. At least two of the four sub-pixels have different areas, and two of the four sub-pixels having smaller areas among the four sub-pixels are disposed so as not to be adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekuni Moriya, Tsuyoshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 8836621
    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: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Takatori, Hiroyuki Sekine, Ken Sumiyoshi
  • Patent number: 8830202
    Abstract: A touch-sensing display apparatus including a touch panel, an environmentally sensitive electronic device and an adhesive layer is provided. The water/oxygen vapor transmission rate of the touch panel is lower than 10?1 g/m2*day, and the touch panel includes a first substrate, a sensing circuit and at least one water/oxygen barrier layer. The first substrate is a first flexible substrate. The sensing circuit and the water/oxygen barrier layer are disposed on the first substrate. The environmentally sensitive electronic device includes a second substrate and a pixel array. The pixel array is disposed on the second substrate and between the first substrate and the second substrate. The adhesive layer is disposed between the touch panel and the environmentally sensitive electronic device. Moreover, a fabricating method of the above-mentioned touch-sensing display apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventor: Kuang-Jung Chen
  • Patent number: 8810521
    Abstract: A plurality of LEDS used for a light source are mounted on the surface of an electromagnetic-induction touch panel in which coiled wiring is formed on a glass epoxy substrate. A dual-use touch-panel/backlight I/F FPC substrate is connected to the touch panel in order to feed power to the LEDs and to feed power and signals to the touch panel. A shield plate 7 is disposed on the reverse side of the touch panel, and a backlight light guide plate and a liquid crystal panel are disposed in the stated order on the side on which the LEDs are mounted. A liquid crystal panel I/F FPC substrate for feeding power to the liquid crystal panel is connected to the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukihiro Ito
  • Patent number: 8803853
    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: December 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Hajime Kimura, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8797308
    Abstract: In a driving method of a display apparatus using a driving circuit, when an image signal is a film image signal, first, second, and third original image signals are extracted based on the film image signal. Then, a first compensation image signal is generated based on first and second original image signals, and a second compensation image signal is generated based on second and third original image signals. The first original image signal, the first compensation image signal, the second original image signal, and the second compensation image signal are sequentially output to have a driving frequency higher than an input frequency. In addition, the first original image signal, the first compensation image signal, the second original image signal, and the second compensation image signal are output i, k, j, and k times, respectively. Thus, a trembling phenomenon perceived by a viewer of a film image may be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung-Hyuk Shin, Min-Kyu Park, Seon-Ki Kim, Jae-Ho Oh, Kyung-Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 8791928
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pixel driving method for a liquid crystal display. The pixel includes a storage capacitor and a liquid crystal capacitor. The pixel driving method includes steps of: providing a common voltage signal to a liquid crystal capacitor, and providing a bias signal to a storage capacitor wherein the bias signal is synchronized with the common voltage signal and the amplitude of the bias signal is larger than that of the common voltage signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Hannstar Display Corp.
    Inventors: Po-Yang Chen, Po-Sheng Shih, Tsu-Chiang Chang
  • Patent number: 8786641
    Abstract: A digital-to-analog (D/A) converter comprises a decoder apparatus and an operational amplifier. The decoder apparatus comprises first and second decoder unit. The first decoder unit selects a voltage of first voltage set as first and second voltage in response to a value of first gray level set. The second decoder unit selects first border voltage of second voltage set as the first and the second voltages and second border voltage of that as the first and the second voltages in response to the maximum and the minimum value of second gray level set respectively. The second decoder unit further selects the first and the second boarder voltage as the first and the second voltage respectively in response to an intermediate value of the second gray level set. The operational amplifier generates a pixel voltage having level between the first and the second voltage accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Raydium Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Ko-Yang Tso, Hui-Wen Miao, Chin-Chieh Chao
  • Patent number: 8786543
    Abstract: An image generation system including: an image generation section which generates an image; a path recognition section which performs recognition processing of a path of an input by a user, based on input information of the input from an input section which allows the user to input an arbitrary shape; and a size information generation section, wherein the image generation section generates a path image indicating the path based on the input information and a production image in accordance with the size of the path based on the size information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Namco Bandai Games Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Shinoda, Takeshi Ono
  • Patent number: 8780052
    Abstract: The game apparatus executes a storage step of repeatedly acquiring input area data representing an input area 41 in accordance with a detection result from the input device, and storing the input area data in a memory. Next, the game apparatus executes: a virtual area determination step of determining a virtual area 42 so as to follow a change of the input area 41 represented by the input area data each time the input area data is stored in the memory; and a first process execution step of executing a first process, such as a process of moving a cursor, in accordance with the virtual area 42 having been determined by the virtual area determination step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keizo Ohta
  • Patent number: 8766956
    Abstract: Detecting when the on-board power supply is powered on or off by an auto activity detection circuit by determining if the reference clock signal (TCLK) is toggling and if the reference clock signal is toggling, then charging a capacitor to a high voltage in the auto activity detection circuit based on the toggling reference clock signal, and outputting an on-board power supply activity signal based upon the high voltage by the auto activity detection circuit indicative of whether or not the on-board power supply is active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Tamiras Per Pte. Ltd., LLC
    Inventors: Ali Noorbakhsh, David Keene, John Lattanzi, Ram Chilukuri
  • Patent number: 8760409
    Abstract: An image display unit with screen input function is provided, by which it is possible to input image data directly to a screen without decreasing numerical aperture of pixel. The image display unit comprises a light detecting TFT 61 receiving a light entering from a screen of a liquid crystal display panel, said light detecting TFT 61 is connected in series to a switching TFT 60, which does not receive a light entering from the screen of the liquid crystal display panel. To a source electrode of the light detecting TFT 61, a storage capacitor Cst and a pixel electrode of a liquid crystal element are connected. The liquid crystal element is represented by a capacitor CLC. A sensor control line 140 is connected to the gate electrode of the light detecting TFT 61, and a gate line 120 is connected to the gate electrode of the switching TFT 60. A data line 110 is connected to the drain electrode of the switching TFT 60, and a storage line 150 is connected to one end of a storage capacitor Cst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays Co., Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kinoshita, Hiroshi Kageyama
  • Patent number: 8736637
    Abstract: A method for generating chopper-stabilized signals includes the following steps. First, a voltage polarity control signal is received. Next, the voltage polarity control signal is sampled to obtain a sampling signal, and a voltage transformation manner of the voltage polarity inversion of the voltage polarity control signal is judged according to the sampling signal. Then, a frame transformation signal template is obtained according to the voltage transformation manner of the voltage polarity inversion of the voltage polarity control signal and the sampling signal. Next, the frame transformation signal template is compared with the sampling signal and a frame transformation signal is generated. Then, a first chopper-stabilized signal is outputted according to the frame transformation signal and the voltage polarity control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Raydium Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Yong-Nien Rao