Patents Examined by Liliana Cerullo
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Patent number: 10884540Abstract: A display device includes: a foldable display panel having flexibility; a touch detector disposed selectively on one panel face side of the display panel and capable of detecting a plurality of touch areas; and a determiner for detecting that the display panel is folded only if the touch areas detected by the touch detector are three or more in number, and a largest first touch area thereof is located between the touch areas other than the first touch area.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuo Murata, Tomohiro Kimura, Naru Usukura
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Patent number: 10877616Abstract: A sensing method of a touch sensing antenna of a touch device and a touch sensing antenna structure of a touch device, which provide a wire-free electromagnetic touch antenna circuit having a tandem line and a plurality of branch lines on a touchpad. The tandem line is disposed on the touchpad, the branch lines are respectively connected to the tandem line, and each of the branch lines is connected to a controller. The controller is set to make two of the branch lines with a regular interval to form a loop, then, all combinations of two of the branch lines that can form the loop are formed once within a cycle time, and complete one scan of the touchpad; then the touchpad is repeatedly scanned repeatedly through the mentioned cycle time so that the touch pen can be interpreted at any time and at any point of the touchpad.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Chih-Ming Liu
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Patent number: 10872554Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display screen, a display device and a luminance compensation method. The display screen includes a window area and a bezel area; wherein the window area includes a first sub-area for actual display and a second sub-area provided around the first sub-area, the bezel area is provided in a periphery of the window area; the display screen further includes an auxiliary pixel area provided with multiple auxiliary pixels, the auxiliary pixel area covers at least the second sub-area, and the auxiliary pixels are controlled to present a same color as the bezel area when the display screen is switched on.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Hongliang Lv, Libao Cui, Boning Wang, Ruifeng Yang, Litao Fan, Yufei Liu, Huaxu Yang, Qingnan Al
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Patent number: 10866669Abstract: There is provided a flat panel display device and a method of manufacturing the same. A flexible and transparent material is coated on a supporting substrate to a small thickness so that film substrates are easily formed. Step differences are formed in the film substrates so that a distance between pads of the two film substrates is reduced. Since conductive balls with reduced diameters are used so that the pads may be electrically connected, the distance between pads is reduced so that it is possible to easily miniaturize a high resolution flat panel display device, to prevent electrical connection defect between the pads, and to reduce manufacturing expenses.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Inventor: Jung Ho Choi
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Patent number: 10838617Abstract: A portable electronic device with a touch-sensitive display is disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which the portable electronic device: displays an application on the touch-sensitive display; and when the application is in a predefined mode, performs a predefined operation in response to each gesture of a set of multiple distinct gestures on the touch-sensitive display. Another aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which the portable electronic device: displays a first application; when the first application is in a first mode, performs a first operation upon detecting a first gesture on the touch-sensitive display; and performs the first operation upon detecting a second gesture on the touch-sensitive display, wherein the second gesture is different from the first gesture.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bas Ording, Scott M. Herz, Wayne C. Westerman, Scott Forstall, Gregory N. Christie
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Patent number: 10825401Abstract: A method, device of compensating viewing angle chromatic aberration of a display device, and a display device are provided, wherein the method includes the steps as follows: receiving an inputted image, looking-up each of pixel driving signals of the inputted image and obtaining a first driving signal and a second driving signal corresponded to each of pixels within two adjacent frames of the image individually, computing a mean value of the first driving signals and a mean value of the second driving signals individually, computing a mean value of the first the second driving signals in the same frame of the image individually, computing a brightness compensation signal required in a backlight module of a backlight region based on the computed mean values and a predetermined standard brightness signal; and compensating viewing angle chromatic aberration of post frames of the image based on the brightness compensation signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
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Patent number: 10817078Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present invention, a stylus pen can comprise: a pen body extended along an axial line; a touch tip provided on one end portion of the pen body; a cap arranged on the other end portion of the pen body; a first structure for changing the length of the stylus pen by moving the cap along the axial line; and a second structure coming in contact with at least a part of the first structure, and restricting the movement of the cap and/or the first structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Chung Keun Yoo, Young Sun Park, Seung Hyun Hwang, Sang Min Kim, Dae Young Noh, Young Jin An, Soon Woong Yang, Seung Hoon Lee, Yun Jae Han
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Patent number: 10817240Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a multi-screen display method and a display device including a curved surface display screen. The method is applied to the display device and includes the following steps. Position information of preset folding lines in the curved surface display screen is obtained when screen is bent according to the preset folding lines, wherein the preset folding lines are boundaries between the two adjacent sub-curved surface display screens formed thereby. A display interface of the screen is divided into a plurality of display sub-interfaces according to the position information, wherein screen splitting lines between two adjacent display sub-interfaces coincide with the preset folding lines. The display contents selected by the user in the plurality of display sub-interfaces are obtained; and the selected display contents are displayed in the display sub-interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
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Patent number: 10817022Abstract: An electronic device and a control method therefor are provided. The electronic device comprises: a housing including a roll; a touch display which is wound on a roll, is capable of changing the size of a display area according to the rotation of the roll, and detects a touch of a user; a sensing part for sensing the size of the display area; and a processor which is electrically connected to the display and the sensing part, wherein if the size of the display area increases by the rotation of the roll while a user touch is detected in one area of the touch display while an execution screen of an application is being provided in the display area, the processor may control the touch display so as to provide new information to the display area.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyu-hyun Cho, Hee-seok Jeong
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Patent number: 10802633Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to recognize proximity of a coil without an increase in material cost and production cost. A liquid crystal display panel includes a TFT substrate (6) and a CF substrate (7). A touch panel (2) includes (i) a plurality of touch sensing electrodes (3) which are provided on the TFT substrate (6) so as to detect an electric capacitance between the touch panel (2) and a subject of a touch or a change in the electric capacitance and (ii) a proximity sensing electrode (4) which is provided on the CF substrate (7) so as to detect proximity of a coil (10).Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2017Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Jean Mugiraneza
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Patent number: 10802659Abstract: A novel input device that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. A novel input/output device that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. A semiconductor device is provided. The present inventors have reached an idea of a structure including a plurality of conductive films configured to be capacitively coupled to an approaching object, a driver circuit that selects a conductive film from a plurality of conductive films in a predetermined order, and a sensor circuit having a function of supplying a search signal and a sensing signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Patent number: 10795522Abstract: Proximity of a coil is recognized without increasing a material cost or a manufacturing cost. Provided is a touch panel (1) that includes a plurality of drive electrodes (4) that are formed in a drive layer (2) and a plurality of touch sense electrodes (5) that are formed in a sense layer (3), in which a proximity sense electrode (7) by which proximity of a coil is detected is formed in the sense layer (3).Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Jean Mugiraneza, Ryo Yonebayashi, Miho Yamada, Tomohiro Kimura, Yasuhiro Sugita
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Patent number: 10795153Abstract: A head mounted display device is provided. The head mounted display device includes a left eye display unit which displays an image for a left eye and is disposed along a trajectory of a left eye ellipse having a first eccentricity, and a left eye lens which faces the left eye display unit and refracts the image for the left eye in a direction of a user's left eye.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Min Seong Yi, Jae Wook Kang, Il Hun Seo, Yun Mo Chung, Mi Yeon Cho
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Patent number: 10790310Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate, and a metal connecting member, a first insulating layer, a signal line, a second insulating layer and a first electrode which are disposed on the base substrate in this order. The first insulating layer is located between the metal connecting member and the signal line, and the second insulating layer is located between the signal line and the common electrode. A material of the metal connecting member is different from a material of the signal line. The signal line is electrically connected to the first electrode through the metal connecting member. A contact resistance between the material of the metal connecting member and a material of the first electrode is smaller than a contact resistance between the material of the signal line and the material of the first electrode.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hong Liu, Xinguo Wu, Fengguo Wang, Dawei Shi, Zifeng Wang, Wentao Wang, Lu Yang, Feng Li, Zhixuan Guo, Yuanbo Li, Bo Ma
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Patent number: 10788890Abstract: A technique for encouraging a user towards a selected mental or emotional state includes: determining an influencing directive for encouraging the user towards the selected mental or emotional state; selecting environmental content, based upon the influencing directive, from a plurality of different types of environmental content; presenting the environmental content to the user via sensory immersion equipment, wherein the includes at least one environmental display for altering an ambience of a room; generating observation data based upon observing a user reaction to the environmental content with an observation system, the observation system including at least one sensor capable of observing the user reaction; and determining whether to adjust the environmental content based upon the observation data to encourage the user towards the selected mental or emotional state.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Philip Watson, Christian Ervin
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Patent number: 10782790Abstract: A system and method to collect gesture input through wrist tendon and muscle sensing are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: a sensor array integrated into a wristband, the sensor array including a plurality of pressure sensors positioned for contact with particular locations on a wrist of a user wearing the wristband; and a controller unit, the controller unit including a communication interface, the controller unit being configured to: receive a plurality of sensor signals generated by the sensor array, the plurality of sensor signals corresponding to movement detected at particular locations on the wrist of the user; convert the plurality of sensor signals to a digital representation; generate a composite data packet by combining the plurality of converted sensor signals into a composite digital value; and provide the composite digital value to a processing unit of a wearable device for use in control of a user interface in the wearable device.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Marcio Juliato
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Patent number: 10782738Abstract: An electronic device and a control method therefor are provided. The electronic device comprises: a housing including a roll; a touch display which is wound on a roll, is capable of changing the size of a display area according to the rotation of the roll, and detects a touch of a user; a sensing part for sensing the size of the display area; and a processor which is electrically connected to the display and the sensing part, wherein if the size of the display area increases by the rotation of the roll while a user touch is detected in one area of the touch display while an execution screen of an application is being provided in the display area, the processor may control the touch display so as to provide new information to the display area.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2016Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyu-hyun Cho, Hee-seok Jeong
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Patent number: 10777138Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the application disclose pixel circuits and driving methods thereof, display devices. A pixel circuit includes a first through seventh thin film transistors, a light-emitting diode, and a storage capacitance. The pixel circuit provided by exemplary embodiments of the application can compensate a power voltage during a light-emitting stage of the light-emitting diode, so that the current flowing through the LED is related to a data voltage and a reference voltage input into the pixel circuit, and is independent of the power voltage, thereby effectively avoiding the problem of the display unevenness of the display device, due to the difference in the current flowing into the LED caused by the power voltage drop.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yanan Ji, Wenzhi Fan
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Patent number: 10775919Abstract: A display device including a bottom cover, a window disposed on the bottom cover, a frame disposed between the bottom cover and the window, a display panel disposed between the frame and the window, a bracket disposed between the display panel and the frame, and a pressure sensing portion disposed between the bracket and the display panel, in which the frame includes a base portion disposed between the bottom cover and the bracket, a first support portion protruding from an edge of the base portion toward an edge of the window, and a second support portion protruding from the first support portion, disposed between an edge of the bracket and the base portion, and spaced apart from the base portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Taehee Lee, Wonki Hong
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Patent number: 10762841Abstract: The disclosure discloses a pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, a display device. The pixel circuit includes a first through six thin film transistors, a light-emitting diode and a storage capacitor. A gate of the first thin film transistor is separately connected to a source of the second thin film transistor, a source of the third thin film transistor and one end of the storage capacitor. The other end of the storage capacitor is separately connected to a drain of the fourth thin film transistor and a source of the fifth thin film transistor. A source of the first thin film transistor is connected to a first power source. A drain of the first thin film transistor is separately connected to a drain of the second thin film transistor and a source of the sixth thin film transistor.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yanan Ji, Wenzhi Fan