Patents Examined by Mark W Regn
  • Patent number: 10627934
    Abstract: An in-cell touch panel, a display device and a driving method thereof. The in-cell touch panel includes: an array substrate and an opposing substrate that are arranged opposite to each other; touch detection electrodes; touch-pressure sensing electrodes disposed between a layer provided with the touch detection electrodes and a base substrate of the array substrate. A capacitor structure is formed by the touch-pressure sensing electrodes and a metal layer disposed below the array substrate; and a touch detection chip configured to simultaneously apply touch detection signals to the touch detection electrodes and the touch-pressure sensing electrodes in a touch period, determine a touch position by detecting capacitance variations of the touch detection electrodes, and determine a touch pressure value by detecting capacitance variations of the touch-pressure sensing electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Ding, Xue Dong, Xiaochuan Chen, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu, Shengji Yang, Weijie Zhao, Tao Ren
  • Patent number: 10620719
    Abstract: [Object] There has been a demand for a technique of improving the manipulability in a case in which an input manipulation is performed using a plurality of manipulators. [Solution] According to the present disclosure, provided is an information processing device including a control unit that performs an action based on an indication position in a display region on the basis of movement of a plurality of manipulators and restricts movement of the indication position responsive to a pointing manipulation. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to perform the action based on the indication position in the display region more accurately. Therefore, according to the present disclosure, it is possible to improve manipulability in a case in which an input manipulation is performed using a plurality of manipulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Akihisa Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10620699
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: acquiring data for, and generating, images based on: (i) input operations received from a hand-held input device, and (ii) at least one of a position and attitude of the input device; and displaying the images on a display device disposed on an inner surface of a head-mounted display worn by the user on the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Yosuke Kurihara
  • Patent number: 10614759
    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 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takao Tanikame
  • Patent number: 10614757
    Abstract: An organic EL panel 10 is a bendable display panel including a plurality of pixel circuits 60 each having a light emitting element and a drive element. A data line drive circuit 15 performs, by driving data lines, an operation of writing a voltage to a control terminal of the drive element and an operation of measuring a current flowing through the drive element for the pixel circuits 60 selected by a scanning line drive circuit 14. A bending detection unit 90 detects a bending state of the organic EL panel 10 based on a measurement result of the current flowing through the drive element. A correction unit 80 corrects a video signal VS1 based on the detected bending state. With this, the bending state of a screen is detected and a change in brightness or color when the screen is bent is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo Takizawa, Noritaka Kishi, Naoko Gotoh, Hideki Uchida, Katsuhiro Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 10593267
    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: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daichi Nishikawa, Yasuyuki Ogawa, Kaoru Yamamoto, Noritaka Kishi, Shigetsugu Yamanaka, Masanori Ohara, Noboru Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10579195
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Bidirectional Display, Inc.
    Inventors: Hsuan-Yeh Chang, Anping Liu
  • Patent number: 10579198
    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: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10529287
    Abstract: A display device and a method of controlling the display device are discussed. The display device includes a first display configured to display a first line at a first time and configured to display a second line at a second time at a position spaced a predetermined distance apart from the position at which the first line is displayed, a second display configured to display the second line at the first time and configured to display the first line at the second time, a first driver IC configured to drive the first display, a second driver IC configured to drive the second display, and a controller configured to transmit, to the first driver IC, information on the first line at the first time and information on the second line at the second time and configured to supply, to the second driver IC, information on the second line at the first time and information on the first line at the second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: SunKyung Shin, Beom-Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 10528157
    Abstract: A digital pen systems and methods are provided. The digital pen comprises an internal pen module comprising a cartridge and a pressure sensor, a body housing the internal pen module, and a shuttle connected to the internal pen module on a first end of the digital pen and connected to a twist mechanism on a second end of the digital pen. The shuttle moves the cartridge and the pressure sensor when the twist mechanism is engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jon Anderson, Jefferson Blake West, Conan Zhang, David Quijano
  • Patent number: 10522082
    Abstract: Disclosed is an OLED device which is capable of preventing a source voltage of a driving transistor so as to compensate for a deterioration of an organic light emitting diode from being out of a sensing voltage range of an analog-to-digital converter, and a method for driving the same, wherein a sensing timing is controlled in such a way that the source voltage of the driving transistor sensed for a sensing mode is included within the sensing voltage range. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent the source voltage of the driving transistor from being out of the sensing voltage range of the analog-to-digital converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: YongKon Lee, Dong-Uk Lee
  • Patent number: 10522097
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device for displaying an image on a liquid crystal panel. The method includes: controlling a timing controller to load a pre-set image from a pre-programmed memory after the liquid crystal panel is powered on, wherein the liquid crystal panel comprises the timing controller, the timing controller is connected with the memory; judging whether the pre-set image is valid; and controlling the liquid crystal panel to display the pre-set image until an external source image is received when the pre-set image is valid. The disclosure solves the technical problem in the related art that a liquid crystal panel cannot display any image before an external system provides an external source image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignees: Analogix (China) Semiconductor, Inc., Analogix International LLC
    Inventor: Adam Chen
  • Patent number: 10509507
    Abstract: If a user operates a touch panel, a display device notifies the user of a factor of change into a state in which a touch operation has been accepted to restore a state in which a normal touch operation is accepted. The display device monitors coordinate information output from the touch panel, and if it is determined that an operation disabled area located in a first touch panel area excluding the position of an assigned key has entered a state of being designated and a second touch panel area has entered a state of being designated, displays, on a display screen, that the operation disabled area has been designated. The display device thereby notifies the user that operations are not accepted because of a touch operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shozo Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 10503292
    Abstract: A display device integrated with touch function and a driving method thereof, the display device comprising: a display unit (101); a touch detection circuit (102) configured to conduct touch detection, and generate a plurality of touch detection signals; and a driving unit (105) configured to simultaneously driving a data refresh of the display unit (101) and the touch detection of the touch detection circuit (102), wherein region for data refresh and region for touch detection do not overlap at the same time period. The present disclosure prolongs the charging time for the display pixels and solves the problem of insufficient charging time of the integrated touch high resolution display device by a simultaneous touch and the display driving. In the meantime, by incorporating a reference unit, a reference voltage which is not affected by touching and can reflect in real time the signal interferences caused by display driving (namely, data refresh) is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guangliang Shang, Jiayang Zhao, Haoliang Zheng, Mingfu Han, Feng Liao
  • Patent number: 10489035
    Abstract: A system includes a breathing apparatus, a touch screen unit and a processing unit. A first content is displayed at a first screen location of the touch screen. Upon a user input, comprising a gesture of one or more gestures, at the first screen location, a second content related to the first content is selected and displayed in dependence of the gesture and the first content. The first content (30) is free of an indication of the second content, such as an indication comprised in the list of an icon, soft-button or a menu configured to activate the second content upon user selection on the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: MAQUET CRITICAL CARE AB
    Inventor: Anette Sunna
  • Patent number: 10491870
    Abstract: An image display apparatus and a method of displaying an image. The image display apparatus includes an image-light projection device configured to display a display image, and a display controller configured to determine chromaticity coordinates of a display color of the display image based on data of a chromaticity coordinate area of background light such that the display color of the display image is set outside the chromaticity coordinate area of the background light. The method includes determining chromaticity coordinates of a display color of a display image based on data of a chromaticity coordinate area of background light such that the display color of the display image is set outside the chromaticity coordinate area of the background light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichi Ichikawa, Naoki Sakai, Shohta Kobashigawa, Hiroki Hiraguchi, Yumiko Kishi
  • Patent number: 10475413
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for adjusting a backlight brightness of a screen, and a mobile terminal are provided. At least one of a display frame characteristic of the screen, a user behavior characteristic, a camera status and a scene characteristic of the screen is obtained when a backlight control function is enabled. A target backlight control level is determined according to the at least one of the display frame characteristic of the screen, the user behavior characteristic, the camera status and the scene characteristic of the screen. The backlight brightness of the screen is adjusted dynamically based on the target backlight control level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengjun Gou, Yongpeng Yi, Xiaori Yuan, Zhiyong Zheng, Gaoting Gan, Hai Yang, Deliang Peng
  • Patent number: 10467967
    Abstract: A control circuit of a driving circuit of a backlight LED is provided. The driving circuit includes a DC/DC converter that supplies a driving current to the backlight LED. The control circuit includes a pulse signal generating circuit configured to switch between a quasi-resonant mode and a continuous current mode to generate a pulse signal based on a selected mode and a driver configured to drive the DC/DC converter based on the pulse signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masao Yonemaru, Kenichi Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 10466849
    Abstract: A method, a device and a terminal for preventing unintentional triggering of a touch key are disclosed. The method is applicable to a terminal having a touch key and a touch screen including a touch area. The method includes obtaining a current direction state of the touch screen. The method also includes detecting a first touch operation to a touch key when the current direction state of the touch screen is a first direction state. Furthermore, the method includes determining that the first touch operation is an unintentional operation if a second touch operation to the touch area is detected within a preset time period, when the first touch operation is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiang Zhang, Yixue Ge, Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 10459231
    Abstract: An augmented reality display system includes a pair of variable focus lens elements that sandwich a waveguide stack. One of the lens elements is positioned between the waveguide stack and a user's eye to correct for refractive errors in the focusing of light projected from the waveguide stack to that eye. The lens elements may also be configured to provide appropriate optical power to place displayed virtual content on a desired depth plane. The other lens element is between the ambient environment and the waveguide stack, and is configured to provide optical power to compensate for aberrations in the transmission of ambient light through the waveguide stack and the lens element closest to the eye. In addition, an eye-tracking system monitors the vergence of the user's eyes and automatically and continuously adjusts the optical powers of the pair of lens elements based on the determined vergence of those eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel A. Miller, Paul M. Greco, Brian T. Schowengerdt