Patents Examined by Michael Pervan
  • Patent number: 10923035
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes an input module, an emission control module, a compensation module, a driving transistor and a light emitting device. The input module is configured to provide a signal of a data signal terminal to a gate of the driving transistor and provide a signal of an initialization signal terminal to a second electrode of the driving transistor. The compensation module is configured to provide a signal of a power supply voltage terminal to a first electrode of the driving transistor. The emission control module is configured to provide a signal of a reference voltage signal terminal to the gate of the driving transistor and conduct the second electrode of the driving transistor with the light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: Fuzhou BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zuwei Weng, Yupeng Huang, Weize Xu
  • Patent number: 10923078
    Abstract: A photo sensor includes: a first substrate including a concave surface; a plurality of photo sensor units on the concave surface; and a cover covering the concave surface, the cover being spaced apart from the photo sensor units, and including a transmissive region and a non-transmissive region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyun Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 10921895
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a multi-directional actuating module capable of moving in various directions and capable of delivering various tactile senses such as knocking or rubbing as well as vibration by controlling at least one of the intensity, direction or frequency of a magnetic field generation unit. Further, the multidirectional actuating module according to one embodiment may comprise: a moving body capable of moving in at least two or more axial directions by means of an external magnetic field; a support for supporting the moving body so as to be movable; and at least two or more magnetic field generation units which are in the form of a coil to generate the magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: CK MATERIALS LAB CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeong Jun Kim, Jong Hun Lee, Nam Seok Kim, Myung Sun Park, Ji Goo Kang
  • Patent number: 10909901
    Abstract: A pixel arrangement includes a plurality of first groups of sub-pixels arranged in a first direction, each first group including first sub-pixels and third sub-pixels arranged alternately. A plurality of second groups of sub-pixels are arranged in the first direction, each second group including third sub-pixels and second sub-pixels alternately arranged. The first groups and the second groups are alternately arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The first groups and the second groups are arranged to form a plurality of third groups of sub-pixels arranged in the second direction and a plurality of fourth groups of sub-pixels arranged in the second direction. The third groups and the fourth groups are alternately arranged in the first direction, each third group including first sub-pixels and third sub-pixels alternately arranged, each fourth group including third sub-pixels and second sub-pixels alternately arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haidong Wu, Yansong Li, Weilong Zhou, Shanshan Bai, Yue Liu, Zhihui Xiao, Yangpeng Wang
  • Patent number: 10909906
    Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment of the inventive concept includes a data driving unit, a gate driving unit, a signal control unit for controlling driving of the data driving unit and the gate driving unit, and a display panel. The data driving unit generates an internal clock signal for outputting data voltages corresponding to image data, and the display panel displays an image corresponding to the data voltages in response to a gate driving signal outputted from the gate driving unit. The data driving unit includes a filtering unit for converting a first frequency control signal received from the signal control unit so as to generate a second frequency control signal, and a clock training unit for training a clock signal received from the signal control unit so as to generate the internal clock signal in response to the second frequency control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Inventors: Wontae Kim, Taegon Im
  • Patent number: 10891916
    Abstract: A method of controlling a display of a mobile device that includes displaying of a screen of a mobile device at least one initial complication; assigning threshold conditions for said at least one initial complication; monitoring real time conditions for the mobile device; and modifying the at least one initial complication being displayed on the screen of the mobile device for higher visibility when the conditions being monitored in real time change to trigger a display change for the complications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Martin G. Keen, John M. Ganci, Jr., James E. Bostick
  • Patent number: 10891896
    Abstract: A display device includes a first pixel arranged with a first light emitting element having a first pixel electrode and a common electrode, and a drive transistor having an input/output terminal, one end of the input/output terminal being connected to the first pixel electrode, and a second pixel adjoins the first pixel electrode, and is arranged with a second light emitting element having a second pixel electrode and the common electrode, wherein the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are connected via first switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Ilin Wu
  • Patent number: 10891033
    Abstract: Methods for enhancing touch selections for content are performed by systems and devices. Users apply a contact instrument such as a finger, stylus, or pen to a touch interface to select content displayed via a user interface. Different amounts of the content are selected based on the characteristics of the contact instrument application to the touch interface and displayed to the user. Additionally, selected portions of content can be expanded or reduced by altering the application of the contact instrument, such as changing pressure or orientation, and by receiving other selection modifying inputs from other input devices. Characteristics of interaction for contact instruments are determined and applied to selection commands by the systems and devices. Context information related to the content is also used in determining the scope of selections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Claes-Fredrik U. Mannby
  • Patent number: 10884491
    Abstract: According to the invention, a method for changing information on a display in a vehicle based on a gaze direction of a driver is disclosed. The method may include displaying information on the display in the vehicle. The method may also include receiving gaze data indicative of the gaze direction of a user. The method may further include changing the display based at least in part on the gaze data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Tobii AB
    Inventors: Erland George-Svahn, Rebecka Lannsjö, Mårten Skogö
  • Patent number: 10877582
    Abstract: In various embodiments, electronic devices such as thin-film transistors and/or touch-panel displays incorporate bilayer capping layers and/or barrier layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: H.C. STARCK INC.
    Inventors: Helia Jalili, Francois Dary, Barbara Cox
  • Patent number: 10877660
    Abstract: An electronic device detects an input via an input device. In response to detecting the input, the device monitors the input using a gesture recognizer. The gesture recognizer includes a plurality of component gesture recognizers that define requirements for recognition of a gesture. A first component gesture recognizer from the plurality of component gesture recognizers defines a first requirement for recognition of the gesture, and a second component gesture recognizer from the plurality of component gesture recognizers defines a second requirement for recognition of the gesture. In accordance with a determination that the input satisfies first gesture recognition criteria that include the first requirement of the first component gesture recognizer and the second requirement of the second component gesture recognizer, the device recognizes a first gesture using the gesture recognizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: John S. Harper, Jacob A. Xiao
  • Patent number: 10859826
    Abstract: A head-up display device displays a near virtual image and a far virtual image formed at different positions. The head-up display device includes an extension optical element, in addition to a first display surface that luminously displays a near display image and a second display surface that luminously displays a far display image. The extension optical element includes a reflective surface disposed on an optical path of light of the far display image. The extension optical element makes a far optical path distance of the far display image longer than a near optical path distance of the near display image by reflection of light by the reflective surface. The extension optical element has a transmission part that transmits light of the near display image in an area overlapping an optical path of light of the near display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hayakawa, Makoto Sakai, Takashi Takazawa
  • Patent number: 10860141
    Abstract: The invention discloses a LED circuit and a touch sensing method. Said method, as applied to an array of LEDs, comprises the following steps. First, a driving signal is provided. The driving signal is configured to set at least one of the LEDs in a driven mode or a sensing mode. When a LED is set in the sensing mode, it receives an environmental light, whose intensity is then compared to a first threshold. When said intensity is below that threshold, the location corresponding to the LED is marked as a touch location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Dynascan Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Tsun-I Wang, Ching-Chun Wu, Chia-Liang Yang
  • Patent number: 10860205
    Abstract: Provided is a control device that projects an image representing input information onto a projection surface so as to follow an input of the input information, with an effect in accordance with the type of the projection surface. As the projection surface, a thin sheet material attached on a wall surface is prepared, for example. The color of the thin sheet material is a dark color, for example, and in time with projection of the image representing a handwritten character or picture, a sound, which will come out when the character or the picture is drawn with a chalk on a chalkboard, is output from a speaker installed on the back side of the projection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Nakajima, Masao Kondo, Hirotaka Tako, Daisuke Shiono, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Yoshihito Ohki, Yusuke Tsujita, Miho Yamada, Kenichi Yamaura, Hiroshi Nakayama, Seiji Suzuki, Masanori Matsushima, Taichi Nokuo
  • Patent number: 10861397
    Abstract: An OLED display device includes a display panel including first and second partial panel regions, a scan driver configured to sequentially apply scan signals to the first and second partial panel regions in a normal driving mode, and to sequentially apply the scan signals to a driven one of the first and second partial panel regions in a partial driving mode, and a data driver configured to apply data signals to the first and second partial panel regions in the normal driving mode, and to apply the data signals to the driven one of the first and second partial panel regions in the partial driving mode. In the partial driving mode, the scan driver is configured to sequentially apply diode initialization signals to the driven one of the first and second partial panel regions, and to concurrently apply the diode initialization signals to a non-driven one of the first and second partial panel regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Hyeon Jeon, Jihye Kim
  • Patent number: 10852852
    Abstract: A method is provided to interface an active stylus with a sensor controller, wherein the sensor controller is coupled to a sensor configured to receive input from the active stylus. In the method the sensor controller caches stylus capability information of the active stylus. The stylus capability information includes setting information for inking used by an application program executed to display input from the active stylus on the sensor. The active stylus generates a hash value of the stylus capability information and transmits the hash value to the sensor controller when the active stylus enters a sensing zone of the sensor controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: David Charles Fleck, Sadao Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10855371
    Abstract: A visible light communication device is a visible light communication device capable of communicating with an other communication device, and includes an image acquisition unit and an image processing unit. The image acquisition unit acquires a first image signal including an R component, a G component, and a B component, the first image signal being output based on a communication signal of a visible light communication. The image processing unit outputs a second image signal in which an influence of the R component of the first image signal is reduced during the visible light communication with the other communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Asao, Shutai Okamura
  • Patent number: 10852885
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch controller, which includes, a monitoring circuit, configured to configured to detect a sensing signal generated via a touch sensor when a display panel is driven, and obtain at least one synchronizing signal according to the sensing signal; and a touch detecting circuit, configured to output a touch driving signal to the touch sensor according to the synchronizing signal. The touch controller provided by the present disclosure reduces the signal interference between the touch controller and the display driving circuit by using a touch sensor to obtain the synchronizing signal from the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN WEITONGBO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yung-Fu Lin, Cheng-Chung Hsu
  • Patent number: 10845886
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement a smartphone-based radar system capable of detecting user gestures using coherent multi-look radar processing. Different approaches use a multi-look interferometer or a multi-look beamformer to coherently average multiple looks of a distributed target across two or more receive channels according to a window that spans one or more dimensions in time, range, or Doppler frequency. By coherently averaging the multiple looks, a radar system generates radar data with higher gain and less noise. This enables the radar system to achieve higher accuracies and be implemented within a variety of different devices. With these accuracies, the radar system can support a variety of different applications, including gesture recognition or presence detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jaime Lien, Octavio Ponce Madrigal, Erik M. Olson, Patrick M. Amihood
  • Patent number: 10849243
    Abstract: A display apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a display unit disposed on a surface of a main body case and displaying information; a heat source layer laminated on the display unit; and a design layer laminated on the heat source layer, wherein the design layer contains a substance having light transmittance changing due to a temperature change and forms a light transmittance change region having light transmittance changing in accordance with a temperature change of the heat source layer, and a gradation region having light transmittance changing in a gradational manner along an outer periphery of the light transmittance change region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomonori Sugiyama, Shusuke Okano, Takayuki Nagahara