Patents Examined by Mark W Regn
  • Patent number: 10452220
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display substrate, a display panel and a display device. The display substrate comprises: a base substrate; at least one pressure sensor provided on the base substrate and comprises a first pressure-sensitive resistor and a second pressure-sensitive resistor, wherein the first pressure-sensitive resistor comprises at least two first sub-pressure sensitive resistors connected in series, and the second pressure-sensitive resistor comprises at least two second sub-pressure sensitive resistors connected in series, a first principal strain induction direction of the first sub-pressure sensitive resistor intersects a second principal strain induction direction of the second sub-pressure sensitive resistor, and a second end of the first pressure-sensitive resistor and a first end of the second pressure-sensitive resistor are electrically connected with a pressure-sensitive signal output line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang Liu, Xingyao Zhou, Feng Lu
  • Patent number: 10453897
    Abstract: An OLED display substrate, a touch display panel and a display device are provided. The OLED display substrate has a base substrate and a display region, the display region includes: a plurality of first sub-regions arranged at intervals and second sub-regions located between the first sub-regions; at least one OLED light-emitting unit located in the first sub-regions; a plurality of optical sensing units located in the second sub-regions, and first drive electrode lines and first transmission electrode lines connected with the optical sensing units and intersecting with each other; wherein, the optical sensing unit includes a photosensitive sensor, and the photosensitive sensor is configured to generate an electric signal according to a light intensity change of a sensed touch point; and the first drive electrode line and the first transmission electrode line are configured to provide the electric signal to determine a position of the touch point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Long Wang, Libin Liu, Pan Li, Jiayang Zhao, Chun Jan Wang, Li Zhou
  • Patent number: 10429960
    Abstract: A control-knob selection system includes a smartphone or electronic tablet having a front face equipped with a display and a video camera, a support equipped with a control-knob button, and a receiving area able to receive and retain the smartphone or electronic tablet, such that when the smartphone or electronic tablet is positioned in the receiving area, an optical path between a light source emitted by the display and the video camera is selectively established or interrupted depending on the angular position of the control-knob button about the axis A, with at least one reflection on an optical reflector, whereby the control-knob function uses the smartphone resources and can operate with just one software application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: Continental Automotive France, Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventor: Jérôme Wroblewski
  • Patent number: 10429905
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus having a hole area and a controlling method of are provided. More particularly, an electronic apparatus having a hole area which may enlarge an image or application screen through analysis and a method for controlling a hole area of an electronic apparatus are provided. Some embodiments provide an electronic apparatus having a hole area, capable of analyzing an edge (or edge of an application screen) of an image and displaying on one of an entire area or a main area and a method for controlling a hole area of the electronic apparatus. In addition to above, various exemplary embodiments are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-moo Lee, Seung-min Choi, Dae-hyun Kim, So-young Kim, Min-sik Kim, Geon-soo Kim, Jin-wan An, Ji-woo Lee, Hyun-suk Choi
  • Patent number: 10388217
    Abstract: The organic EL display device includes: a current monitoring section that measures a current flowing in a circuit element and outputs a digital measured value in accordance with the measured current; and an averaging section (36) that calculates an average value of a plurality of input values. The current monitoring section measures the current flowing in a circuit element in each pixel circuit a plurality of times in a fixed amount of time. For each pixel circuit, the averaging section (36) receives a plurality of measured values outputted from the current monitoring section in a fixed amount of time as a plurality of input values and outputs an average value of the plurality of digital measured values as a value for use in compensation computation to compensate for degradation of the circuit element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Furukawa, Noritaka Kishi, Kazuyoshi Yoshiyama, Tamotsu Sakai, Naoko Goto, Noboru Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10386963
    Abstract: A method of identifying a crack in a touchscreen display system includes measuring a distance between a first layer of the touchscreen display system and a second layer of the touchscreen display system, detecting a change in the distance at a portion of the touchscreen display system, identifying a crack in the first layer at the portion of the touchscreen display system based on the change in the distance, and adjusting one or more parameters of the touchscreen display system based on the crack in the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicholas G. Danyluk, Eli M. Dow, Kavita Sehgal, Diane M. Stamboni, Sneha M. Varghese, John S. Werner, Sarah Wu
  • Patent number: 10379605
    Abstract: A head-mounted display wearable on the head of a user includes: a display device disposed on an inner surface of the head-mounted display worn by the user on the head; a touch pad disposed on an outer surface of the head-mounted display worn by the user on the head, the touch pad being able to detect contact with or proximity of a body part of the user; and a display controlling unit acquiring data of an image generated on the basis of input information indicative of the touch pad detecting the contact with or the proximity of the body part of the user, the display controlling unit further causing a display device to display the acquired image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Yosuke Kurihara
  • Patent number: 10338804
    Abstract: A display input device including: a display panel provided for the display panel; and a control unit that recognizes user operation content, recognizes a drag operation whereby a predetermined start area in the display panel is touched and, while said touch is continued, the touch position is slid towards a predetermined end area, recognizes arrival at the touch position end area as a power supply OFF command that instructs a power supply to turn OFF, and causes processing for turning off the power supply when a power supply OFF command is recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Makoto Ochi
  • Patent number: 10338707
    Abstract: An integrated front light assembly, a manufacturing method thereof and a reflective display device are disclosed. The integrated front light assembly includes a protective substrate; a touch-control layer disposed on the protective substrate; a light guide layer disposed on the touch-control layer; and a light source disposed on at least one side of the light guide layer. The reflective display device comprises a display panel and the integrated front light assembly. In this way, a thickness of the reflective display device can be reduced and a display effect of the reflective display device can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Long Wang, Guangkui Qin, Fangzhen Zhang, Xiaoling Xu, Chun Wei Wu, Yanfeng Wang, Li Zhou
  • Patent number: 10319275
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels divided into sub-pixels of a first type, sub-pixels of a second type, sub-pixels of a third type and sub-pixels of a fourth type, each type of sub-pixels being configured to display a different color. An area of an aperture region of any of the fourth-sub-pixel type is smaller than an area of an aperture region of each sub-pixel of the first-sub-pixel type, the second-sub-pixel type and the third-sub-pixel type. Each pixel group also includes at least two display elements. Each of the display elements is associated with one of the sub-pixels in the pixel group, and the at least two display elements are disposed within the non-aperture region of the fourth sub-pixel type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignees: Shanghai AVIC OPTO Electronics Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huijun Jin, Wantong Shao
  • Patent number: 10310265
    Abstract: A head mounted display for displaying computer-generated information in conjunction with a physical display of a computer system is provided. The head mounted display includes a generation logic, a see through display, and a presentation unit. The generation logic is used to generate at least one virtual display. The presentation unit is used to present the at least one virtual display on the see-through display. The see-through display is configured to enable a user of the head mounted display to view the at least one virtual display and the physical display in a real-world scene. The at least one virtual display is presented on the see-through display as an additional object in the real-world scene, and the at least one virtual display is used in conjunction with the physical display to present the computer-generated information in an extended desktop from a visual perspective of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yair Giwnewer, Tomer Rider, Aviv Ron, Yevgeniy Kiveisha, Minghao Jiang
  • Patent number: 10311799
    Abstract: A display device according to example embodiments includes an image analyzer configured to calculate contrast and load of an image of a frame based on R, G, and B image data input corresponding to the frame, an image processor configured to control a peak control coefficient applied to W image data to adaptively control peak luminance based on the contrast and the load, and to respectively generate R?, G?, and B? image data by subtracting a product of the W image data and the peak control coefficient from each of the R, G, and B image data, a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a data driver configured to generate a data signal based on the R?, G?, B, and W image data, and to provide the data signal to the display panel, and a scan driver configured to provide a scan signal to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Ho Park, Jin-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 10302978
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display panel and a driving method thereof. The liquid crystal display panel includes a common electrode, a plurality of common electrode lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of gate lines, and at least a part of the data lines overlap with the common electrode and/or the common electrode line. The plurality of data lines are divided into at least two groups. The driving method includes: starting to supply, to the data lines in different groups, data signals corresponding to a gate line at different time points after the gate line is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Saichang Yun
  • Patent number: 10304379
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit which includes a plurality of pixels each including an organic EL element; and a control unit which adjust a value of a luminance signal to be supplied to a target pixel to be corrected, such that an actual luminance of the target pixel is equal to a reference luminance, the reference luminance being an actual luminance of a reference pixel obtained when the luminance signal to be supplied to the target pixel is supplied to the reference pixel. The reference pixel has predetermined attenuation characteristics for light emission amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: JOLED, INC.
    Inventors: Masafumi Matsui, Eiji Iwauchi, Tomoyuki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10275100
    Abstract: Provided is an optically transparent conductive material which does not cause moire or grain even when placed over a liquid crystal display, that is, has a favorably low visibility (moire and grain are less recognizable), and has a high reliability. The optically transparent conductive material has, on an optically transparent base material, an optically transparent conductive layer having sensor parts and dummy parts, the sensor parts and/or the dummy parts being formed of a metal mesh pattern consisting of Voronoi edges formed based on a plurality of generators arranged in a plane tiled using polygons longer in the first direction than in the second direction, the mesh pattern being characterized in that each polygon has only one generator arranged in the polygon and that the generator is at an arbitrary position within a reduced polygon formed by connecting points at 90% or less of the direct distance from the center of gravity of the polygon to each vertex of the polygon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Sunada, Yasuhiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10261635
    Abstract: A touch substrate includes a base substrate and at least one driving electrode chain and at least one sensing electrode chain each of which is arranged parallel to each other on the base substrate. Each driving electrode chain includes a plurality of driving electrodes which are connected in series, and each sensing electrode chain includes a plurality of sensing electrodes which are connected in series. The driving electrodes and/or the sensing electrodes are made of a metal conductor, and a plurality of light transmissive regions are provided in each of the driving electrodes and/or the sensing electrodes made of the metal conductor. The touch substrate can be touched and controlled normally and can transmit light normally, while the surface resistance of each of the driving electrodes and/or the sensing electrodes therein is decreased greatly. Thus, the power consumption and production cost of the touch substrate is further decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaofang Gu, Ming Hu
  • Patent number: 10223966
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes a plurality of sub-pixels each including a first organic EL element and a second organic EL element, a temperature information detector configured to measure current-voltage characteristics of the second organic EL element included in each of the sub-pixels, and to detect, on the basis of a result of the measurement, temperature information of the second organic EL element included in each of the sub-pixels, and a correction unit configured to correct a driving signal of the first organic EL element included in each of the sub-pixels on the basis of the temperature information of the second organic EL element included in the same sub-pixel as the sub-pixel including the relevant first organic EL element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Inoue, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Hideki Uchida, Manabu Niboshi, Yoshiyuki Isomura, Yuto Tsukamoto