Patents Examined by Michael J Eurice
  • Patent number: 11004420
    Abstract: A display gradation number acquisition unit acquires the number of display gradations of the video data during each horizontal scanning period based on a gradation histogram. A first display gradation holding period value generator generates a first display gradation holding period value based on a gradation value difference. A second display gradation holding period value generator generates a second display gradation holding period value based on the number of pixels for each display gradation. A holding period provisional value generator selects a display gradation holding period value having a larger value to generate a holding period provisional value. A holding period total value generator generates a holding period total value that is a sum of the holding period provisional value during each horizontal scanning period. A holding period optimum value generator generates a holding period optimum value of each display gradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 10996743
    Abstract: A computer-implement operating method includes periodically generating sensing data by determining a triggered area of each of the sensors of a surface on which each of the sensors disposed; grouping effective sensors among the sensors into a plurality of sensor groups respectively corresponding to the fingers; obtaining a bending angle of one finger among the fingers according to the sensing values of the sensing data of all effective sensors in one sensor group corresponding to the said one finger among the sensor groups; and bending one virtual finger corresponding to the said one finger among virtual fingers of a virtual hand rendered in a virtual space corresponding to the electronic system according to the obtained bending angle of the said one finger, so as to render the virtual hand having a gesture matching to a gesture of the hand sensed by the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Li-Hsun Chang, Tian-Jia Hsieh, Kuan-Ying Ou, Hsi-Yu Tseng, Chen-Fu Chang, Huan-Hsin Li, Chien-Min Wu, Tzu-Hao Lin
  • Patent number: 10997952
    Abstract: A display panel and a driving method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes: a pixel region, including a first pixel region and a second pixel region located around the first pixel region, the first pixel region and the second pixel region each including a plurality of pixels; a photosensitive layer, located at least in the second pixel region; a cover plate, on a side of the pixel region for displaying, and the cover plate including a light transmission region and a light shielding layer surrounding the light transmission region. The light shielding layer coincides with at least a portion of the second pixel region in a direction perpendicular to the cover plate, and the photosensitive layer is configured to determine a position of the light transmission region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Yik Ko, Tingliang Liu, Xiangdan Dong, Jinsan Park
  • Patent number: 10996807
    Abstract: A display device includes a first touch panel on which a first touch sensing unit including a plurality of coils is disposed, a second touch panel on which a second touch sensing unit including a plurality of sensing nodes coupled to the plurality of coils in a coupling manner with a one-to-one correspondence, and a display panel disposed between the first and second touch panels and displays an image, and the plurality of sensing nodes is formed in a divided structure grouped into first and second node groups based on a touch event detected by the first touch sensing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventor: Chulwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 10997933
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes sub-pixels each including a sub-pixel electrode, and a first and second memory; a clock signal output circuit configured to, based on a reference clock signal, output a plurality of clock signals having different frequencies; a selection circuit configured to select one of the clock signals as a selected clock signal; a memory selection circuit configured to select all of the first memories included in all the sub-pixels or all of the second memories included in all the sub-pixels in synchronization with the selected clock signal; a common electrode facing all of the sub-pixel electrodes; and a common-electrode driving circuit configured to provide a common potential to the common electrode, wherein the common potential is inverted in synchronization with the reference clock signal, wherein the sub-pixel electrode is driven based on sub-pixel data stored in the selected one of the memories to display an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yutaka Mitsuzawa, Takayuki Nakao, Yutaka Ozawa, Masaya Tamaki
  • Patent number: 10977470
    Abstract: A touch-panel control apparatus and an operation method thereof are provided. The touch-panel control apparatus includes a fingerprint sensing circuit, a touch detection circuit, and an application processor. The fingerprint sensing circuit is coupled to a touch panel to sense a fingerprint of an object. The touch detection circuit is coupled to the touch panel to detect a touch behavior of the object on the touch panel. The application processor is coupled to the fingerprint sensing circuit and the touch detection circuit. The application processor is configured to enter an encryption mode to sense the fingerprint via the fingerprint sensing circuit. The application processor detects the touch behavior via the touch detection circuit in the encryption mode. When the touch behavior changes in the encryption mode, the application processor ends the encryption mode early.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Tsen-Wei Chang
  • Patent number: 10977971
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a driving module for a display panel. The driving module includes a gate driver configured to output a scan signal according to a first input signal and comprising signal input terminals configured to receive the first input signal. The driving module includes a timing controller configured to provide the first input signal and comprising signal output terminals configured to output the first input signal. The driving module includes switching elements. A first terminal of each switching element is coupled to a corresponding one of the signal output terminals, a second terminal of each switching element is coupled to a corresponding one of the signal input terminals, and a control terminal of each switching element is coupled to a first power terminal through a first resistor circuit or coupled to a second power terminal through a second resistor circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lingxiao Hu, Xiang Wang
  • Patent number: 10971050
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method for driving a display panel for displaying images. The method includes determining multiple subpixels in a bright area of an image to be displayed by the display panel. The bright area is an image display area having a luminance value maintained greater than a threshold luminance value for a duration longer than a threshold duration. Additionally, the method includes driving the multiple subpixels to emit light alternatingly in a period of alternate light-emission for displaying the image. Furthermore, the method includes driving all adjacent subpixels surrounding any one subpixel that is not emitting light during the period of alternate light-emission to provide luminance rendering to the one subpixel such that the luminance value of the bright area is greater than the threshold luminance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yicheng Lin, Mingi Chu
  • Patent number: 10969870
    Abstract: An input device includes an input member to which a pressing operation is input, a base member on which the input member is mounted, an actuator disposed at least on an input member side and configured to vibrate the input member in a direction perpendicular to a pressing direction of the pressing operation, a braking member disposed to be in contact with the input member, a holding member disposed on a base member side and holding the braking member, and a position adjusting mechanism configured to adjust a position of at least one of the input member and the holding member with respect to the pressing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Togashi
  • Patent number: 10963087
    Abstract: Pressure sensitive key techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a device includes at least one pressure sensitive key having a flexible contact layer spaced apart from a sensor substrate by a spacer layer, the flexible contact layer configured to flex responsive to pressure to contact the sensor substrate to initiate an input, for a computing device, associated with the pressure sensitive key. At least one of the flexible contact layer or the sensor substrate are configured to at least partially normalize an output resulting from pressure applied at a first location of the flexible contact layer with an output resulting from pressure applied at a second location of the flexible contact layer that has lesser flexibility than the first location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy C. Shaw, Jim Tom Belesiu, Paul Henry Dietz, Christopher Harry Stoumbos, Dennis J. Mathias
  • Patent number: 10963105
    Abstract: An in-cell touch display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The in-cell touch display panel includes a base substrate, a touch electrode, and a touch driver chip. The touch electrode includes a plurality of sub-electrodes that are independent from each other. The display panel further includes a plurality of touch leads that are in one-to-one correspondence with the sub-electrodes. Each of the sub-electrodes is connected to the touch driver chip through a corresponding touch lead. At least one sub-electrode has at least one non-conductive region, and an orthographic projection of the non-conductive region of the sub-electrode and that of the touch lead corresponding to the sub-electrode on the base substrate at least partially overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengcheng Lu, Shengji Yang, Xiaochuan Chen, Minghua Xuan, Lei Wang, Jie Fu, Li Xiao, Jian Gao, Changfeng Li
  • Patent number: 10964917
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display module and a method for preparing the same. The display module includes a display panel and a light-concentrating layer arranged on a light-exiting surface of the display panel, in which the light-concentrating layer includes a plurality of light-concentrating units for concentrating light from the light-exiting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hongqiang Luo
  • Patent number: 10956016
    Abstract: A computer system in an aircraft cockpit includes a touch sensitive input device with symbology replicated at a predetermined location of a heads-up display. The touch input symbology is generally organized for input selection via directional movement; and the system orients the input origin point based on the first point of contact for each new input. The system is adapted for written text recognition with the written text and recognized letters replicated on the heads-up display at a predetermined location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Angela N. Dunlay, Steven L. Kamada, Joshua J. Ehlinger, Jeremy D. Wills, Tony Adams, John Kassie
  • Patent number: 10957233
    Abstract: A control method, suitable for a display panel including M scan lines and a plurality of source lines, include following operations. M is a positive integer. M gate signals are generated sequentially in M time periods during a first display frame to the M scan lines of the display panel. A level of a data signal to one of the source lines is updated in the M time periods during the first display frame. N gate signals are generated in N time periods selected from the M time periods during a second display frame to N scan lines selected from the M scan lines. (M-N) gate signals are suspended during the second display frame. The level of the data signal is updated in the N time periods and is not updated in the (M-N) time periods during the second display frame. N is a positive integer smaller than M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Te-Hsien Kuo, Chin-Hung Hsu
  • Patent number: 10936904
    Abstract: Provided is a method for recognizing handwritten characters in a terminal through federated learning. In the method, a first common prediction model for recognizing text from handwritten characters input from a user is applied, the handwritten characters are received from the user, feature values are extracted from an image including the handwritten characters, the feature values are input to the first common prediction mode, first text information is determined from an output of the first common prediction model, the first text information and a second text information received from the user for error correction of the first text information are cached, and the first common prediction model is learned using the image including the handwritten characters, the first text information, and the second text information. In this way, the terminal can determine the text from the handwritten characters input by the user, and can learn the first common prediction model through a feedback operation of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Heeyeon Nah, Daesung Kim, Jaewoong Yun
  • Patent number: 10929701
    Abstract: There is provided a 2-stage moving average filter for a navigation device including a delta regulator and an N-taps average circuit. The delta regulator is used as a first stage to receive motion delta at a varied frequency, and combine or split the received motion delta to output a regulated motion delta at a fixed frequency. The N-taps average circuit receives and averages N regulated motion delta and outputs the averaged motion delta at a fixed frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Zi-Hao Tan, Kevin Len-Li Lim
  • Patent number: 10930191
    Abstract: A display driving circuit includes a control sub-circuit and a gate drive sub-circuit connected to the control sub-circuit. The control sub-circuit is configured to: receive an effective display data enable signal; determine whether the effective display data enable signal is lost; and control each stage of shift register in the gate drive sub-circuit to output a disabling signal via an output terminal of the shift register in response to determining that the effective display data enable signal is lost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenguo Tian, Shuang Hu, Lijun Xiong, Shuai Chen, Taoliang Tang, Xing Dong, Xuebo Liang, Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 10930195
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method for driving a display panel for displaying images. The method includes determining multiple subpixels in a bright area of an image to be displayed by the display panel. The bright area is an image display area having a luminance value maintained greater than a threshold luminance value for a duration longer than a threshold duration. Additionally, the method includes driving the multiple subpixels to emit light alternatingly in a period of alternate light-emission for displaying the image. Furthermore, the method includes driving all adjacent subpixels surrounding any one subpixel that is not emitting light during the period of alternate light-emission to provide luminance rendering to the one subpixel such that the luminance value of the bright area is greater than the threshold luminance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yicheng Lin, Mingi Chu
  • Patent number: 10928923
    Abstract: A key assembly for a keyboard may include a key cap that includes a touch sensor that is communicatively coupled to a control device. When the touch sensor senses a touch event, the touch sensor may send a touch signal to the control device, and when the touch sensor senses an absence of touch, the touch sensor may send a control signal to the control device. The key assembly may further include a switch that is communicatively coupled to the control device and that is movable between a pressed position and an un-pressed position. When the switch is in the pressed position, the switch may send a closed signal to the control device, and when the switch is in the un-pressed position, the switch may send an open signal to the control device. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Harrison Imm, Grantland Lee Lim Chew
  • Patent number: 10908753
    Abstract: A touch device has a plurality of row conductors and a plurality of column conductors. Located proximate to where the row conductors and the column conductors interact are additional conductor arrangements that are able to increase the capacitive interaction that occurs on the touch device. The conductor arrangements are formed from different column conductors and row conductors located proximate to the where the row and column conductors interact and form different arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.
    Inventor: Braon Moseley