Patents Examined by Mark Regn
  • Patent number: 10235933
    Abstract: A display degradation compensation system and method for adjusting the operating conditions for pixels in an OLED display to compensate for non-uniformity or aging of the display. The system or method sets an initial value for at least one of peak luminance and an operating condition, calculates compensation values for the pixels in the display, determines the number of pixels having compensation values larger than a predetermined threshold compensation value, and if the determined number of pixels having compensation values larger than said predetermined threshold value is greater than a predetermined threshold number, adjusts the set value until said determined number of pixels is less than said predetermined threshold number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Arokia Nathan, Gholamreza Chaji, Stefan Alexander, Peyman Servati, Richard I-Heng Huang, Corbin Church
  • Patent number: 10228768
    Abstract: In an example, a system for detecting an object in an area over a screen of a mobile device may comprise a light source and a photodetector tilted toward the screen. Since a field of view of the photodetector and a radiation field of the light source may be directed toward the screen, the system may detect that a user performed a non-contacting gesture in the area over the screen. In another example, a system for detecting multiple modes of finger gestures may detect at least one of a signature gesture, a thumb joystick mode, or a thumb mouse mode. The system can execute a calendar application upon detecting that a user gestured in the shape of a letter ā€œCā€. When detecting a thumb gesture, the system may utilize a sensor having a reduced range relative to the range needed for hand gestures and, thereby, reduce power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
    Inventor: Young Han Kim
  • Patent number: 10216341
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a touch display panel, a driving method and a touch display device. The panel includes: a plurality of first electrode groups arranged in a first direction and a plurality of second electrode groups arranged in a second direction, wherein each first electrode group includes a plurality of first electrodes arranged in the second direction, and each second electrode group includes a plurality of second electrode subgroups disposed adjacent to each other and arranged in the second direction, each of the second electrode subgroups including a plurality of second electrodes arranged in the first direction; and wherein the first and second electrodes are disposed in different layers respectively, and projections of the second electrodes on the layer in which the first electrodes are disposed do not overlap with the first electrodes and are alternately arranged with the first electrodes in both the first and second directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Ding, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu, Weijie Zhao, Shengji Yang, Wei Liu, Tao Ren
  • Patent number: 10204537
    Abstract: A display driving method and device and a display device are disclosed. The method includes: receiving an image signal to be displayed; converting the image signal to be displayed into a virtual pixel array formed by virtual sub-pixels of three colors, and determining the gray scale of each virtual sub-pixel; dividing three successive sub-pixels in a row direction into a pixel unit, and arranging a sampling area at a corresponding position of each pixel unit in the virtual pixel array; and determining the gray scale of the sub-pixel of each color in the pixel unit according to the gray scale of the virtual sub-pixel of each color covered by the sampling area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Yang, Xiurong Wang, Xue Dong, Chenru Wang
  • Patent number: 10175754
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch glove and smart wearable system, wherein a contact area, at least one touch area, a control module and a signal transmission module are disposed on the glove body; when the touch area is touched by the contact area, a control signal is generated and transmitted to a corresponding smart device, controlling it to perform a corresponding operation. Thus, control over the smart device may be achieved by only making one part of the touch glove touch another part without directly contacting the smart device, which is especially convenient when the smart device is inconvenient to be directly contacted; meanwhile operations over a plurality of smart devices may be integrated into the touch glove, control over each smart device may be achieved by only moving fingers instead of moving the smart device and the arms, and even blind operation may be achieved without using eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xianlin Ding, Ting Zeng, Zhongzheng Yang, Ming Hu, Taofeng Xie, Juntao Chen
  • Patent number: 10175736
    Abstract: There is disclosed a touch panel, a mobile terminal and a wireless input apparatus applied to the touch panel and the mobile terminal and the touch panel includes a cover unit having a touchable front surface and a rear surface opposite to the front surface, a touch sensing unit provided under the back surface to sense a preset touch signal, and magnetic field generation unit provided under edges of the touch sensing unit to generate a magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Younghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 10175766
    Abstract: A method to operate a gesture recognition system for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The method includes: detection of a movement gesture by a detection unit; generation of a movement vector, which represents the moment gesture, by the detection unit; transmission of the movement vector to a processing unit; comparison of the movement vector with at least two limit curves, which define at least three separate regions in a section of the vector space; and determination of a direction of the movement gesture as horizontal if the movement vector lies in a first region, as vertical if the movement vector lies in a second region, and as not able to be classified if the movement vector lies in a third region. The limit curves are defined by functions which depend on spatial directions in a non-linear manner in order to increase recognition and classification reliability of the gesture recognition system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Volker Entenmann
  • Patent number: 10152184
    Abstract: An indicator detecting device that can limit input by an indicator to a partial region within a panel surface is provided. The indicator detecting device includes a sensor having a detecting region for detecting a finger. The sensor outputs an output signal corresponding to a position indicated by the finger in the detecting region. The indicator detecting device includes a position calculating processor that calculates a value indicating the position based on the output signal. The indicator detecting device includes a controller that performs signal processing corresponding to the position based on the calculated value. When a plurality of calculated values indicate that the finger has designated a region within the detecting region, the controller performs different processing of the calculated value indicating a position corresponding to the inside of the designated region than that indicating a position corresponding to the outside of the designated region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Wacom Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10139941
    Abstract: A touch panel, manufacturing method thereof, and a touch device, the touch panel including a substrate; a metal mesh layer located on the substrate; and at least one layer of a functional layer having an anti-moire pattern. The functional layer reduces the occurrence of moire fringes in a display picture and improves display effect of a touch device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Zhang, Ming Hu, Yubo Xu, Weigang Gong
  • Patent number: 10133364
    Abstract: The present technique relates to an image processing apparatus, method, and program which can improve operability. A short distance image separation unit generates a short distance image indicating a short distance object located at the side of an imaging unit, on the basis of a clipped image which is clipped from an input image captured by the imaging unit, and a distance image indicating the distance to an object in each region of the clipped image. A contour extraction unit extracts, as an adjustment image, a contour of the short distance image, and a display image generation unit generates an output image on the basis of the adjustment image and displays the output image on an image display unit. The user moves his/her hand while viewing the output image displayed on the image display unit so that his/her hand overlaps with the region of the hand in the output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryuichi Shimoda
  • Patent number: 10109251
    Abstract: A gate driver on array (GOA) circuit of an IGZO thin film transistor and a display device thereof are described. The GOA circuit of the IGZO TFT includes a plurality of cascade GOA units. The GOA unit in the stage N includes a pull-up control unit, a pull-up unit, a pull-down unit, a pull-down holding unit, a transferring unit, a bootstrap capacitor, a first constant voltage with a negative level electrical potential, and a second constant voltage with a negative level electrical potential. The present invention solves the problem of the failure of the GOA circuit in the IGZO TFT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Longqiang Shi, Shujhih Chen
  • Patent number: 10101834
    Abstract: An array substrate, a touch display device, and a driving method are provided. The array substrate includes a data line layer which includes a plurality of first touch electrodes; a common electrode layer which includes a plurality of second touch electrodes; and a first switch signal line. Each first touch electrode includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of first switch elements, a control terminal (a) of the first switch element is connected to the first switch signal line, a first terminal (b) of the first switch element is connected one of the data lines in the first touch electrode, and a second terminal (c) of the first switch element is connected another of data lines in the first touch electrode, so that all of the data lines in the first touch electrode are electrically connected to each other upon the first touch electrode being turned on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dan Zheng
  • Patent number: 10102804
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel array section, the pixel array section having pixels arranged in a matrix form, at least one of the pixels including an electro-optical element, a write transistor, a capacitor, a drive transistor, and a switching transistor. A write scan line is disposed for each pixel row of the pixel array section and adapted to convey a write signal to be applied to a gate electrode of the write transistor. The wiring structure of the write scan line does not cross a wiring pattern connected to a gate electrode of the drive transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takao Tanikame
  • Patent number: 10102798
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a detection circuit, a detection method and a drive system. The detection circuit comprises a switching unit, a reset unit and a comparison unit. The switching unit is used for switching the operations of the reset unit and the comparison unit. The reset unit is used for resetting the acquisition unit before the acquisition unit begins acquisition. The comparison unit is used for comparing a signal acquired by the acquisition unit with a standard signal to obtain a characterization quantity of the to-be-detected voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Danna Song, Zhongyuan Wu, Junjie Lin, Cuili Gai, Lirong Wang, Chen Song, Szuheng Tseng
  • Patent number: 10089911
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a laser scanning display device capable of achieving high-resolution projection display while ensuring that the luminance and the size of the pixels are uniform to maintain the quality of the projection display. The scanning display device is configured to apply noise from a dither noise generator (21) to a horizontal scanning position on an oscillating mirror (11,12) determined by a scanning position determination unit (13); normalize the horizontal scanning position to which the noise was applied using a normalizing unit (22); acquire a pixel address corresponding to the normalized horizontal scanning position by referring to a pixel address table (23); read pixel data corresponding to the pixel address from an image memory (14); and modulate laser light by driving a light source (17) for emitting the laser light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki Kobori, Yoshiho Seo, Yuya Ogi, Satoshi Ouchi
  • Patent number: 10074313
    Abstract: In a current measurement period set in a pause period, a display device of the present invention applies measurement voltages to data lines (S1 to Sm) and measures currents outputted to monitoring lines (M1 to Mm) from m pixel circuits (18), and then applies data voltages generated corresponding to video signals to the data lines (S1 to Sm).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daichi Nishikawa, Yasuyuki Ogawa, Kaoru Yamamoto, Noritaka Kishi, Shigetsugu Yamanaka, Masanori Ohara, Noboru Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10068950
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, a driving method thereof and a display apparatus, the pixel circuit comprises a data voltage writing module (100), two driving modules and two light emitting modules; wherein the data voltage writing module (100) is connected with a data voltage line (Vdata), a writing control line (R) and the two driving modules, and is configured to write a first data voltage on the data voltage line (Vdata) to a first driving module (210) at first and then write a second data voltage to a second driving module (220) according to inputs from the writing control line (R); the first driving module (210) is connected with a first light emitting module (310), the second driving module (220) is connected with a second light emitting module (320); and both of the two driving modules are connected with an operating voltage line (Vdd) and a driving control line (S), and are configured to drive the corresponding light emitting module to emit light under the control of the driving control line (S).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shengji Yang
  • Patent number: 10068118
    Abstract: A smart phone device has a display screen overlaid by a touch screen and a processor and a memory in the device hosting functions to perform display and touch functions. A logic executing in the processor in the device programmed to use a part of the touch screen as a biometric sensor. The logic sets aside a space on the touch screen for that specific space to function as the biometric sensor. The biometric sensor configured to use and uses either a finger of the hand or a thumb and thus captures either a fingerprint or a separate and distinct thumbprint, where a fingerprint and a thumbprint are different biometric samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Inventor: Tara Chand Singhal
  • Patent number: 10067570
    Abstract: To improve the user's convenience related to non-contact operation. An on-vehicle device 1 includes a control section that is configured to detect non-contact operation, and is configured, in a first mode, to analyze the detected non-contact operation and determine, on the basis of a first rule, whether or not the non-contact operation is an effective operation, and in a second mode, to analyze the detected non-contact operation and determine, on the basis of a second rule, whether or not the non-contact operation is an effective operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shizue Kato
  • Patent number: 10055067
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a sensor device capable of detecting an operation position and a pressing force with high accuracy. [Solution] A sensor device includes a first conductor layer, an electrode substrate, and a plurality of first structural bodies configured to separate the first conductor layer from the electrode substrate. At least one of the first conductor layer and the electrode substrate has flexibility. The electrode substrate includes a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes intersecting the plurality of first electrodes. At least one of the first and second electrodes includes a plurality of sub-electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Shinkai, Kei Tsukamoto, Tomoko Katsuhara, Hiroto Kawaguchi, Hayato Hasegawa, Fumihiko Iida, Takayuki Tanaka, Tomoaki Suzuki, Taizo Nishimura, Hiroshi Mizuno, Yasuyuki Abe