Patents Examined by Mark Regn
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Patent number: 10055033Abstract: An active capacitive stylus and methods for touch detection and feedback actuation thereof are disclosed. The active capacitive stylus includes a conductive tip, a signal processing module and a capacitor. The conductive tip is configured to detect a touch-screen actuation signal emitted from a touch screen and to transfer a feedback actuation signal output from the signal processing module. The signal processing module is configured to process the touch-screen actuation signal received by the conductive tip and to synchronously produce the feedback actuation signal. The capacitor is disposed between the conductive tip and the signal processing module and is configured to couple the touch-screen actuation signal obtained by the conductive tip to an input of the signal processing module during the detection and to isolate the feedback actuation signal during the feedback actuation. It is achievable to accurately determine the position of the conductive tip of the active capacitive stylus.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignees: SHANGHAI YISHANG INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., IPEN TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Jianfeng Zhang, Xitian Zhou
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Patent number: 10055016Abstract: An image display apparatus and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The method for operating an image display apparatus includes setting a position and size of a first undo/redo region based on a gaze of a user if the gaze of the user is to a first position, displaying the set first undo/redo region, extending the first undo/redo region based on movement of the gaze of the user if the gaze of the user is moved from the first position to a second position, displaying a second undo/redo region obtained by extending the first undo/redo region, reducing the size of the second undo/redo region if a time when the gaze of the user is to the second position exceeds a predetermined time, and displaying a third undo/redo region obtained by reducing the second undo/redo region.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2013Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Tae Hoon Lee, Kyung Min Lee, Yong Taek Gong
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Patent number: 10048796Abstract: A touch module, a touch screen panel, a touch positioning method thereof and a display device are disclosed. The touch module includes a plurality of first touch electrode lines and a plurality of second touch electrode lines which are intersected with and insulated from each other; a plurality of third touch electrode lines which are intersected with and insulated from the first touch electrode lines and the second touch electrode lines; intersections of orthographic projections of the plurality of first touch electrode lines on a film layer provided with the third touch electrode lines and orthographic projections of the plurality of second touch electrode lines on the film layer provided with the third touch electrode lines are located on the third touch electrode lines.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Peng Han, Xiurong Wang, Bo Gao
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Patent number: 10043485Abstract: A portable electronic device including one or more sensors for detecting ambient light through the user's skin is disclosed. The sensors can be optical sensors such as ambient light sensors (ALS) and/or cameras. Examples of the present disclosure include a device that can determine the intensity of ambient light and can change the operating state of the portable electronic device based on the ambient light environment. The device can also determine the type of ambient light and generate notifications to the user based on the determined type.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nevzat Akin Kestelli, Ueyn L. Block, Serhan O. Isikman
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Patent number: 10026368Abstract: A display device includes a display section (11) having a first display surface and a second display surface (S1, S2) facing each other. The display section (11) includes a first display panel (111) disposed on the first display surface (S1) side, and including a plurality of light emitting elements, and a second display panel (112) disposed on the second display surface (S2) side, and including a plurality of light control elements each performing light control for control of transmission or reflection of incident light performing reflective image display utilizing the reflection of the incident light.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yukinori Hidaka, Ken Ootsuka, Naoto Kinoshita
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Patent number: 10025433Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch display device and a method for manufacturing the same. The touch display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate is provided with a common electrode and a driving electrode. The second substrate is provided with a detection electrode and a driving electrode. The detection electrode is opposite to the common electrode. A coverage area of the detection electrode is smaller than a coverage area of the common electrode, the coverage area of the detection electrode on the second substrate does not overlap with a coverage area of the driving electrode on the first substrate when the first substrate and the second substrate are assembled to form a cell. The suspension electrode is arranged on at least one side of the detection electrode and insulated from the detection electrode.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2014Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaoliang Ding, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Shengji Yang, Tao Ren
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Patent number: 10001890Abstract: The present invention provides a touch tag having a conductivity pattern corresponding to a touch point of a capacitive touch panel. A capacitive touch tag according to the present invention includes: a substrate; a plurality of capacitive touch points which are formed on the substrate and are arranged at arbitrary positions on a virtual lattice corresponding to a touch input sector of a capacitive touch panel of a personal information device; a conductive wire for connecting the capacitive touch points; and an electric charge transfer unit for transferring electric charges to the capacitive touch points through the conductive wire. When the capacitive touch tag comes into contact with a smartphone, the capacitive touch points are recognized according to a predetermined rule, a result of the recognition is transmitted to a server, and information corresponding thereto is received and displayed.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Korea Institute of Industrial TechnologyInventors: Jin Kie Shim, Chang Kee Lee, Sang Bong Lee
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Patent number: 9997114Abstract: A display device includes a display section (11) having a first display surface and a second display surface (S1, S2) facing each other. The display section (11) includes a first display panel (111) disposed on the first display surface (S1) side, and including a plurality of light emitting elements, and a second display panel (112) disposed on the second display surface (S2) side, and including a plurality of light control elements each performing light control for control of transmission or reflection of incident light performing reflective image display utilizing the reflection of the incident light.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yukinori Hidaka, Ken Ootsuka, Naoto Kinoshita
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Patent number: 9990091Abstract: A charge sensing circuit generates a voltage in a sensing period that is indicative of sensed charge. The generated voltages are accumulated by an accumulator circuit over a number of sensing periods. A noise detection circuit senses when the voltage generated by the charge sensing circuit is outside of a boundary and generates a detection signal in response thereto. A control circuit, in response to the detection signal, controls the accumulator circuit to block accumulation of the voltages generated by the charge sensing circuit during at least the sensing period in which the detection signal is generated. An analog-to-digital converter circuit then converts an accumulated output voltage from the accumulator circuit to a digital value at the end of an accumulation time period that includes the sensing periods. The end of the accumulation time period is delayed by at least one sensing period in response to the detection signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTDInventors: Chee Weng Cheong, EngJye Ng, Dianbo Guo, Chaochao Zhang, Kusuma Adi Ningrat
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Patent number: 9983753Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical-capacitive sensor panel device. In one aspect, the panel device includes a transparent substrate having a first surface; an optical sensor array formed on the first surface of the transparent substrate, the optical sensor array including a plurality of photosensitive pixels spaced apart from each other and arranged on the first surface to form a lattice structure; a plurality of row electrodes formed on the optical sensor array and electrically coupled to a first group of the photosensitive pixels; a plurality of column electrodes formed on the optical sensor array crossing the row electrodes and electrically coupled to a second group of the photosensitive pixels; and an insulating layer formed between the row electrodes and the column electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Bidirectional Display Inc.Inventors: Hsuan-Yeh Chang, Anping Liu
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Patent number: 9969263Abstract: An on-vehicle system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention causes a mobile terminal device 40 and an on-vehicle device 50 to work together, and allocates and displays two pieces of application software information about a widget from the mobile terminal device 40 on two display areas of gadget displays 61V and 62V connected to the on-vehicle device 50. Also, the allocation of the application software information is conducted via a touch panel 3 on the mobile terminal device 40 provided with a display device 6 for displaying a widget setting screen.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Seiichi Tsunoda, Daiki Isogai, Yasutomo Kato
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Patent number: 9959836Abstract: An image output apparatus includes a light emitting unit, a power supplying unit, and a control unit. The light emitting unit is configured to emit a laser beam. The power supplying unit is configured to supply power to the light emitting unit at a predetermined voltage. The control unit is configured to control the power supplying unit to supply the power to the light emitting unit in a predetermined period at the voltage associated with a peak light emission amount of the light emitting unit in image data for the predetermined period.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2013Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuki Nishino, Susumu Seino
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Patent number: 9959821Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, a drive unit is controlled in a direction of eliminating a polarity bias of a data voltage corresponding to image data at a point of time when a refresh signal for updating an image displayed on a display unit by periodical refreshment or forced refreshment is generated, and the polarity bias is obtained for each of subsequent frame periods. In this manner, not only the polarity bias after the point of time when the refresh signal is generated is obtained so that the polarity bias at the point of time when the refresh signal is generated is eliminated, but also the polarity bias is repeatedly obtained in the same way every time the refresh signal is generated, and accordingly, the polarity bias can be prevented from being increased.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2014Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kentaroh Uemura, Norio Ohmura, Tatsuhiko Suyama, Noriyuki Tanaka
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Patent number: 9927936Abstract: A touch screen driver includes a touch screen including Tx channels, Rx channels crossing the Tx channels, and sensor nodes formed at crossings of the Tx channels and the Rx channels, a Tx driving circuit supplying a driving pulse to the Tx channels, an Rx driving circuit which samples voltages of the sensor nodes supplied through the Rx channels in response to Rx sampling clocks and converts the sampled voltages into digital data, and a touch controller which modulates the Rx sampling clocks based on an RC delay deviation between the Rx channels, supplies the modulated Rx sampling clocks to the Rx driving circuit, differently controls sampling times of the Rx channels, and analyzes the digital data using a previously determined touch recognition algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyeongwon Kang, Beomjin Kim
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Patent number: 9910528Abstract: An information terminal is provided with a display device, a position detection unit that detects the position of a portion receiving a tactile force sense, an information processing unit that changes content according to the detected position and calculates the tactile force sense on the basis of the changed content, and a tactile force sense providing device. The tactile force sense providing device includes a fitting member including an operation input unit, a conveyance member that conveys a force via the fitting member, a drive unit that produces the force to the conveyance member, and a control unit that provides a tactile force sense by increasing or reducing an initial force, and outputs a signal to the information processing unit according to input from the operation input unit by a user. The information processing unit changes content according to the signal from the control unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Shin Norieda
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Patent number: 9905311Abstract: A shift register circuit has a plurality of unit circuits that are cascade-connected to one another and that output received pulse signals as output signals in accordance with a clock signal, the shift register circuit sequentially outputting the output signals from the plurality of respective unit circuits. The output circuits each include a double-gate transistor having first gate electrode that controls conductivity between the drain electrode and the source electrode, and a second gate electrode formed through an insulating layer and disposed to face the first gate electrode across a semiconductor layer between the drain electrode and the source electrode. The shift register circuit applies a prescribed voltage to the second gate electrode in accordance with a voltage applied to the first gate electrode.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuyuki Ogawa, Kaoru Yamamoto, Akihiro Oda, Masahiro Tomida
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Patent number: 9865192Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a video signal control technique capable of suppressing deterioration in display quality of a display device in which FRC is employed. A video signal control method for display device according to the present invention includes: (a) acquiring coordinate information and time information in a display screen of a display device; (b) selecting, with reference to an LUT storing a plurality of FRC parameters, a FRC parameter corresponding to the coordinate information and the time information; and (c) outputting the selected FRC parameter as a FRC parameter for controlling red and blue pixels and a FRC parameter for controlling green pixels opposite in phase to the FRC parameter for controlling red and blue pixels.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2013Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Yohei Iida
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Patent number: 9829995Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for managing a location of a cursor on a display. The method may include the step of receiving an input from a user. The method may also include the step of detecting a gaze of the user within the display. The method may also include the step of displaying the cursor on the display within the gaze of the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventors: Colin D. Reed, Bryan C. Schultz, Timothy J. Wittkop, David L. Leedom
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Patent number: 9817567Abstract: A touch panel device includes: first and second touch panels that detect contact of an object, and a control unit that associates images that are displayed on the first touch panel and that indicate data with the display positions of the images on the first touch panel, and determines on the basis of the state of contact detected on the second touch panel, from among a plurality of types of processes that have been determined in advance, a process that is to be performed upon data indicated by a selected image that is an image that corresponds to the position of contact detected on the first touch panel.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2012Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Ryo Matsunami
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Patent number: 9811158Abstract: A system and method are provided for calibrating an eye gaze tracking system. The method comprises obtaining gaze data; obtaining at least one key point corresponding to a portion of media content being displayed; linking the gaze data to the at least one key point; and generating one or more calibration parameters by comparing gaze data with associated ones of the at least one key point.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Mirametrix Inc.Inventors: Craig A. Hennessey, Jacob Fiset, Nicholas Sullivan