Patents Examined by Maheen Javed
  • Patent number: 9483972
    Abstract: A display method includes: performing display by driving a display pixel at a drive interval that conforms to a weight of each bit in a gray-scale code that includes the bits; and so correcting the drive interval, the gray-scale code, or both of the drive interval and the gray-scale code as to change a luminance of the display pixel smoothly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoro Yoshinaga
  • Patent number: 9430971
    Abstract: An electro-optical unit includes pixels provided correspondingly to portions where a plurality of pairs of data lines and a plurality of gate lines intersect with each other. Each of the pixels has an electro-optical device and a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit has a holding circuit connected with one of the plurality of pairs of data lines and one of the plurality of gate lines, and a selection circuit connected with an output of the holding circuit and the electro-optical device. The holding circuit is capable of sampling and holding a first image signal to be applied to one of the pair of the data lines, while sampling and holding a second image signal to be applied to the other of the pair of the data lines. The selection circuit is capable of outputting the first image signal and the second image signal to the electro-optical device selectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouzi Tsukamoto, Kazuhiro Takeda, Takamitsu Urakawa, Naoki Andou, Kazutoshi Ono
  • Patent number: 9400562
    Abstract: An image projection device for projecting an image on a projection object includes a detecting unit configured to detect a detection object present within an object space corresponding to the image projected by the image projection device; a recognizing unit configured to recognize an instruction motion of a user based on detection of the detection object by the detecting unit; and an output unit configured to generate an output corresponding to the instruction motion recognized within the object space by the recognizing unit from the instruction motion and the image projected by the image projection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Takazawa
  • Patent number: 9377886
    Abstract: An optical touch display apparatus including a backlight module, a display panel, and at least an optical detector is provided. The backlight module is capable of providing a visible beam and an invisible beam. The display panel is disposed at one side of the backlight module. A sensing space is located in front of the display panel, and the display panel is located between the backlight module and the sensing space. The visible beam and the invisible beam are capable of passing through the display panel and then being transmitted to the sensing space. The optical detector is disposed outside the display panel for sensing the invisible beam from the sensing space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Jhu, Chen-Lung Chen, Chwen-Tay Hwang, Hai-Yuan Wu
  • Patent number: 9372343
    Abstract: A head-up display including a casing, a control circuit board, a display panel, and a plate is provided. The control circuit board is disposed in the casing. The display panel is disposed in the casing and electrically connected to the control circuit board. The plate is fixed to the casing and covers the display panel. The transmittance of the plate is capable of being changed, so that an image displayed on the display panel is projected out through the plate, or external light is stopped from illuminating the display panel through the plate. A vehicle having the head-up display and a controlling method of the head-up display are provided as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Bing-Yen Lee, Shu-Hsiang Yang
  • Patent number: 9360941
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a control-permission/denial storage unit that stores therein permission/denial information as to whether or not execution of respective control actions in response to a predetermined motions made by users is permitted to roles of the users; a motion detecting unit that detects a predetermined motion from images captured by an image capturing device; and a control-permission/denial determining unit that determines whether or not execution of a control action in response to a predetermined motion made by a user and detected by the motion detecting unit is permitted to a role of the user based on the control-permission/denial storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuichiroh Hayashi, Kazuhiro Takazawa, Satoshi Mitsui
  • Patent number: 9351237
    Abstract: Embodiments are described for displaying charging status on a multi-screen device. In embodiments, a determination is made that the device is connected to a power source for charging the battery. In response to the determination, a battery charging indicator is displayed. In some embodiments, if the device was originally powered off or in a standby mode, after a predetermined period of time, the device will be powered off or returned to the standby mode, and the battery charging indicator will no longer be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventor: Mohammed Selim
  • Patent number: 9342192
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining an acoustic response attributed to a location of an impact, in particular a touch event, on a surface of an object including at least one transducer comprising the steps of: Injecting a predetermined acoustic bending wave by the transducer at the transducer position (5a, 5b), Sensing a bending wave parameter at a secondary location (11) on the surface different to the transducer position, determining the acoustic response based on the sensed bending wave parameter and properties of the predetermined acoustic bending wave effectively as if the injection took place at the at least one secondary location (11) on the surface different to the transducer position and the sensing took place at the transducer position based on reciprocity principles, and determining the acoustic response attributed to at least one location (9) on the surface different to the at least one secondary location (11) on the surface different to the transducer position based on at le
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Estève, Olivier Schevin
  • Patent number: 9342237
    Abstract: A technology for facilitating testing of a web application is provided. In some embodiments, a data file including recorded data of one or more recorded gesture-events is received. A test case is loaded with the recorded data. The one or more recorded gesture events are replayed in the test case and the web application is executed to generate test results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Xian Zeng, Chuan Wang, Yu Hao, Xiaoqian Geng
  • Patent number: 9329728
    Abstract: A first electronic device is operated in the presence of a second electronic device. Both are configured to transmit acoustic signals, the first being configured to transmit signals with a first characteristic. The first device determines the presence of the second device and thereafter transmits acoustic signals having a second, signal characteristic, different from the first characteristic, and giving a reduced interference between signals transmitted from the first and second devices respectively than the first signal characteristic. Acoustic signals comprising reflections of the transmitted signals from an object are received at the first device, and are used to characterise the motion of the object and thereby control a function of the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Elliptic Laboratories AS
    Inventor: Tobias Dahl
  • Patent number: 9329725
    Abstract: A display device comprises a timing controller and a touch sensing unit. The timing controller drives a display panel such that a display mode for displaying an image in the display panel and a touch mode for sensing a user' s touch are alternately driven. The touch sensing unit differentially applies DTX (display touch crosstalk) compensation values by compensation area to sense the user' s touch in the touch mode, each of touch sensing block being a sensing unit for a user' s touch. Each compensation area is set based on a distance between a data driver and the compensation area. Each DTX compensation value is a value for compensating for an error of touch data caused by changes in respective grayscale values applied to pixels corresponding to a specific touch sensing block. The touch sensing blocks are divided in a column direction depending on arrangement of multiplexers in the data driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Eun Pyo, Sung Chul Kim
  • Patent number: 9329398
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device, including: an image displaying unit including a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels displaying a left-eye image and a right-eye image, a first light blocking unit having a lattice structure including a plurality of openings corresponding to the plurality of pixels, and a second light blocking unit extending from the first light blocking unit into horizontal center portions of the plurality of openings; and a parallax barrier opposed to the image displaying unit, the parallax barrier including transmitting regions and blocking regions, the transmitting regions and the blocking regions extending in a vertical direction and being alternately disposed to spatially divide the left-eye image and the right-eye image displayed by the image displaying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chang-Woong Chu
  • Patent number: 9317141
    Abstract: A system adapted for selectively attracting an object to and moving the object on a surface. The system includes an oscillating element including a contact surface such as a computer tablet with a touch screen or a table with a ferrous surface. The system includes a drive (or vibration inducing) assembly coupled to the oscillating element operable to oscillate the oscillating element to linearly move the contact surface first in a first direction and second in a second direction opposite the first direction (e.g., along an X-axis or Y-axis). The system further includes a preferential friction assembly operating to first create an attractive force between the contact surface and the object and second to modify the attractive force. This causes the object to move with the contact surface when the attractive force is created and the contact surface to move relative to the object when the attractive force is modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Lanny S. Smoot, Quinn Y. Smithwick
  • Patent number: 9298009
    Abstract: A method of controlling a wearable display device according to one embodiment of the present specification can provide an optimized display in a manner of evaluating a front visual field of a wearer and a visual field of the wearer for a reference display area. And, in evaluating the front visual field of the wearer, it may provide the wearable display device capable of providing much more information as well as safer information in consideration of the reference display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Junseok Ham, Yoonho Shin, Sangrae Kim, Sungjae Chung, Jungah Park, Yoonseong Kim
  • Patent number: 9298304
    Abstract: An electronic device and a corresponding touch-sensing method are provided. The electronic device includes a display module integrated with a first touch sensor, a second touch sensor, and a sense circuitry. The first touch sensor generates a first sensing signal in response to a first driving signal. The second touch sensor generates a second sensing signal in response to a second driving signal. The sense circuitry is coupled to the first and the second touch sensors. The sense circuitry receives and analyzes the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Pi-Lin Lo, Te-Mu Chen, Cheng-Hsi Liu, Yi-Fan Hsueh
  • Patent number: 9256324
    Abstract: An interactive operation method of an electronic apparatus is provided. An image sequence is captured by an image capturing unit. An image pre-processing is executed on an image of the image sequence. A fingertip candidate region is obtained from the image. Whether the fingertip candidate region is connected with a hand region is determined. If the fingertip candidate region is connected with the hand region, the fingertip candidate region serves as a target fingertip region. Whether a click event occurs is determined by continuously tracking the target fingertip region. When the click event occurs, a corresponding function is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Bai-Ruei Huang, Chang-Hong Lin, Chia-Han Lee
  • Patent number: 9250743
    Abstract: A sensor device includes sensor elements two-dimensionally arranged and a sensor driving section driving the sensor elements. Each of the sensor elements includes a photoelectric conversion element generating electric charge according to an amount of received light, a charge storage section connected to one end of the photoelectric conversion element and storing electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion element, a readout section reading either a voltage value resulted from the electric charge in the charge storage section or the stored electric charge, to output the read voltage value or the read electric charge and a reset section resetting the electric charge in the charge storage section through supplying a predetermined reset voltage to the charge storage section. The sensor driving section controls the reset section so that the predetermined reset voltage is continuously or intermittently supplied to the charge storage section over a period exceeding one horizontal scan period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Takatoku, Michiru Senda
  • Patent number: 9189071
    Abstract: A method is provided for detecting gesture inputs in response to a consecutive reciprocating movement before a detecting device, wherein, the consecutive reciprocating movement is made of a first type of gesture and a second type of gesture, each capable of being recognized by the detecting device to output a different control signal. The method comprises the steps of receiving the consecutive reciprocating movement starting with a first type of gesture among the two types, wherein, the first type of gesture and the second type of gesture occur alternately, and outputting control signals corresponding to the first type of gesture with times number equaling to the number of the first of type gesture contained within the consecutive reciprocating movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Peng Qin, Lin Du
  • Patent number: 9104251
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to increase a transmit (TX) signal generated by an active stylus without increasing the power consumption of the active stylus. In one aspect, the active stylus increases the amplitude of the TX signal. In another aspect, the active stylus increases the TX signal by providing the capacitance of a body of a user to the stylus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Ruslan Omelchuk, Mykhaylo Krekhovelskyy
  • Patent number: 9095058
    Abstract: A touch panel includes first and second sets of electrodes separated by a dielectric and oriented so that the electrodes of the first set intersect with the electrodes of the second set without touching. Each of the electrodes can be made of a plurality of individual conductors shorted together. The conductors can be provided in the form of flat cable or clockspring material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: TOUCHSENSOR TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: David Gradl, Courtney Heron, Mark Mathews