Patents Examined by Michael Pervan
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Patent number: 10545536Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic detection and intelligent use of segmentation on flexible display screens according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting, via one or more touch sensors, alterations in current in and around one or more areas of a flexible display screen, where the alterations represent pressure being applied to cause at least one of bending, rolling, and curving of the flexible display screen at the one or more areas. The method may further include dividing the flexible display screen into a plurality of zones corresponding to the one or more areas, where the marking/dividing logic is further to mark a plurality of portions of the plurality of zones to serve as a plurality of segments. The method may further include facilitating displaying of contents via the plurality of segments of the flexible display screen.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Tomer Rider, Ramon C. Olmo, Dor Levy, Shahar Taite
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Patent number: 10546556Abstract: There are provided a communication path specifying device, a head mounted display, a communication path specifying method, and a program each capable of reducing a time required for specifying a communication path having high communication quality. An image acquiring unit (72) acquires an image of an environment where at least either a communication device or a communication partner of the communication device is disposed. A communication path specifying unit (74) specifies a communication path for communication between the communication device and the communication partner on the basis of the image acquired by the image acquiring unit (72), the communication path passing through reflection on a reflection surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Yoshio Miyazaki, Katsuyoshi Onishi
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Method for changing display mode of liquid crystal screen and LCD projection device using the method
Patent number: 10535314Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for changing a landscape signal of a liquid crystal screen to a portrait mode. The method comprises: adjusting the setting of a built-in driving TCON (time controller) IC (chipset) of the LCD so as to change the input signal interface of the LCD from an MIPI (mobile industry processor interface) to a TTL (transistor-transistor level) data/timing interface+SPI (serial peripheral interface) command control interface; controlling the initialization, turning-on and turning-off of the driving TCON IC via the SPI interface, and realizing the switching among four projection modes, desktop front projection, desktop rear projection, ceiling front projection, and ceiling rear projection, by adjusting the up, down, left and right display directions of a screen output image; receiving, in real time, the landscape image outputted by a front-end video processing chip through the TTL data interface, and then displaying same in real time.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: LUXNPRO CHENGDU ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Jin Zhang -
Patent number: 10535284Abstract: A method of visual range mapping includes receiving a plurality of eye detection results from at least one eye tracking device and a display range from a display device, generating a visual range according to the plurality of eye detection results; comparing the visual range with the display range to generate a calibration value, and mapping the visual range into the display range according to the calibration value.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: ACER INCORPORATEDInventors: Andy Ho, Tsung-Han Yang, Szu-Chieh Wang, Jian-Chi Lin, Jason Hsiao
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Patent number: 10528191Abstract: A touch screen controller includes drive circuitry driving force lines with a force signal in a touch data sensing mode and not driving the force lines in a noise sensing mode, sense circuitry sensing touch data at the sense lines in the touch data sensing mode and sensing noise data at the sense lines during the noise sensing mode. Processing circuitry: a) samples the noise data, b) performs trigonometric manipulations of the noise data to produce imaginary noise data and real noise data, and c) determines a noise magnitude value of the noise data as a function of the imaginary noise data and the real noise data. In the noise sensing mode, (a)-(c) are performed for each of a plurality of possible sampling frequencies to be used in the touch data sensing mode in order to determine which sampling frequency is to be used in the touch data sensing mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte LtdInventors: Kusuma Adi Ningrat, Ade Putra
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Patent number: 10529292Abstract: A method of driving a display panel and a display apparatus having a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines that cross the gate lines. The method includes determining whether to compensate a gate signal or not according to input image data displayed on a display panel, transmitting a first gate signal having a first falling waveform to a first gate line and a second gate signal having a second falling waveform different from the first falling waveform to the second gate line. A first gate clock signal may be adjusted when the gate signal is determined to be compensated. A timing controller may compensate the first gate signal when an artifact would be displayed based on a variation in brightness when a first subpixel row to which the first gate signal is applied is brighter than a second subpixel row for a same target luminance.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Chanwook Shim
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Patent number: 10528174Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch screen display; a pressure sensing circuit; a fingerprint sensing circuit at least partially overlapped with the pressure sensing circuit; a wireless communication circuit; at least one processor; and a memory electrically connected with the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to detect a touch input through the touch screen display and a pressure input through the pressure sensing circuit, in a first state of the electronic device, in which the finger print sensing circuit is deactivated; activate the fingerprint sensing circuit in response to the touch input or the pressure input; detect a fingerprint of a finger of a user by using the fingerprint sensing circuit while detecting pressure of the finger of the user to the first plate; and induce the electronic device to become in a second state or third state based at least partially on the detected pressure.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Na Young Kim, Dae Hwan Kim, Seung Wook Nam, Hyung Woo Shin, Hye Mi Lee, Jin Hoon Cho, Kwang Tai Kim, Hyung Sup Byeon, Pil Joo Yoon, Hae Dong Lee
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Patent number: 10528199Abstract: The present invention concerns virtual reality viewers for use with touchscreen enabled mobile devices. The virtual reality viewer comprises: a housing configured to receive a mobile electronic device within an interior of the housing; and an input mechanism that is accessible from an exterior of the housing and that is moveable within the interior between a first position and an extended position, wherein a surface of the input mechanism is configured to contact the touch-screen of the mobile electronic device when in the extended position. The disclosed systems and methods facilitate receiving user inputs on the exterior of the housing and providing the user inputs to the touchscreen within the housing using the electro-mechanical input mechanism. Accordingly, the viewer can be used with a variety of smartphones without requiring magnetic switches or a wireless/cable connection between the input device and the smartphone.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: DDC TECHNOLOGY, LLCInventor: Patrick Buckley
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Patent number: 10528156Abstract: An input cueing system and method that allows a user to manually draw an image, input text, interface and gesture on an input surface, which is then brought into a computer such that the visual output from the computer is combined in an overlapping manner with the visual imagery of the user's hands, and then shown on a display. Located above the drawing surface is an image capturing device that captures live video images of the user's hands or other objects placed on the drawing surface. One or more reflectors and/or image repeating devices are disposed between the input surface and the image capturing device to effectively reduce the height and/or focal length so that the visual image is properly aligned and oriented to provide a real ‘live’ view of the users hands and/or action on the display.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2014Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Hawkvision Emmersion Computing, LLCInventor: Robert W. Hawkins
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Patent number: 10509231Abstract: A waveguide display includes a light source assembly, an output waveguide, and a controller. The light source assembly emits an image light that propagates along an input wave vector. The output waveguide includes a waveguide body with two opposite surfaces. The output waveguide includes a first grating receiving an image light propagating along the input wave vector, a second grating, and a third grating positioned opposite to the second grating and outputting an expanded image light with wave vectors matching the input wave vector. The controller controls the illumination of the light source assembly to form a two-dimensional image.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Hee Yoon Lee, Wanli Chi, Pasi Saarikko
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Patent number: 10510280Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a timing controller, a gate driver, and a data driver. The display panel includes a display area configured to display an image and a non-display area adjacent to a side of the display area in a first direction. The display area includes gate lines, data lines, gate dummy lines, data contact parts, and pixels. The data lines cross the gate lines and are insulated from at least a portion of the gate lines. The gate dummy lines are substantially in parallel to the gate lines and spaced from the gate lines. The data contact parts couple the gate dummy lines to the data lines at a side of the display panel in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The pixels are coupled to the gate lines and the data lines.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sangjin Jeon, Ilgon Kim, Dong-Won Park, Bonghyun You, Junki Jeong
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Patent number: 10504415Abstract: The invention provides a GOA circuit and driving method for foldable display panel and a foldable display panel. The GOA circuit comprises a plurality of cascaded GOA units and a switch module, the GOA units in folding area comprising a reset module; the reset module being for controlling GOA units in folding area to shut down pixels; the switch module having two ends connected respectively to last cascaded GOA unit in first active area and first cascaded GOA unit in second active area, for connecting an output end of the last cascaded GOA unit in the first active area to an input end of the first cascaded GOA unit in the second active area during folding, by using the last cascaded GOA unit in the first active area to output a gate control signal to control activation of the first cascaded GOA unit in the second active area.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTORNICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Mian Zeng
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Patent number: 10503273Abstract: An array display switch includes a plurality of display switches arranged in an array to display different frames. Users press, touch or sense any one(s) of the plurality of display switches to not only change interactively the frames displayed but also turn on/off any one(s) of the plurality of display switches. The plurality of display switches jointly displays an integrated full-screen frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Inventor: Ching-Hsiung Chu
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Patent number: 10503312Abstract: System, method, and computer program product embodiments are provided for a projected capacitive (PCAP) touch system that includes a touchscreen and two or more touch controller application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) communicatively coupled to the touchscreen, where connections between receiver (and/or driver) circuits of the two or more touch controller ASICs and touchscreen electrodes are interleaved. The two or more touch controller ASICs do not exchange raw mutual capacitance or self capacitance data during a measurement frame. Further, a processor may be coupled to the two or more touch controller ASICs, and may determine final touch coordinates based on all subsets of coarse touch coordinate data from each of the two or more touch controller ASICs. Embodiments also include determining each subset of coarse touch coordinate data based on a shape of a touch rather than a two-dimensional square or rectangular region of the touchscreen.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Yansun Xu
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Patent number: 10504413Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines crossing the plurality of data lines, the plurality of data lines including a plurality of first data lines and a plurality of second data lines, a scan driver configured to sequentially output a plurality of scan signals to the plurality of scan lines, a first data driver circuit configured to sequentially output a plurality of first data signals to the plurality of first data lines, and a second data driver circuit configured to sequentially output a plurality of second data signals to the plurality of second data lines based on a feedback signal received from the first data driver circuit.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyojin Lee, Jihye Kim, Jae-Hyeon Jeon
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Patent number: 10504411Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wontae Kim, Taegon Im
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Patent number: 10503396Abstract: A device displays a drawing region. While displaying the drawing region, the device detects a sequence of drawing inputs on a touch-sensitive display. In response to the sequence of drawing inputs, the device draws a plurality of strokes in the drawing region. The plurality of strokes correspond to a plurality of characters. After detecting the sequence of drawing inputs, the device detects a predefined gesture that corresponds to a request to perform an operation based on the plurality of characters represented by the plurality of strokes. In response to detecting the predefined gesture, the device concurrently displays a first visual prompt indicating that a first subset of one or more characters in the plurality of characters can be used to perform the operation and a second visual prompt indicating that a second subset of one or more characters in the plurality of characters can be used to perform the operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Daniel E. Gobera Rubalcava, Ryan S. Dixon
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Patent number: 10504453Abstract: A display may have a pixel array such as a liquid crystal pixel array. The pixel array may be illuminated by a backlight unit that includes an array of light-emitting diodes. A backlight brightness selection circuit may select brightness values for the light-emitting diodes. The backlight brightness selection circuit may select the brightness values based on image data, based on brightness values used in previous image frames, based on device information, and/or based on sensor information. The backlight brightness selection circuit may select the backlight brightness levels to mitigate visible artifacts such as flickering and halo. The backlight levels selected by the backlight brightness selection may be modified by a power consumption compensation circuit. The power consumption compensation circuit may estimate the amount of power consumption required to operate the backlight using the target brightness levels and may modify the target brightness levels to meet maximum power consumption requirements.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tobias Jung, Marc Albrecht, Duane M. Petrovich, Sean C. Chang, David S. Zalatimo, Pierre-Yves Emelie, Manev Luthra, Chengrui Le, Lingyu Hong, Wei H. Yao
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Patent number: 10504431Abstract: A pixel circuit for a display device includes a drive transistor configured to control an amount of current to a light-emitting device depending upon a voltage applied to a gate of the drive transistor; a second transistor connected to the gate of the drive transistor and a second terminal of the drive transistor such that, when the second transistor is in an on state the drive transistor becomes diode-connected such that the gate and a second terminal of the drive transistor are connected through the second transistor; a light-emitting device that is connected at a first node to the second terminal of the drive transistor and at a second node to a first voltage supply; a third transistor that is connected between an initialization voltage supply and the first node of the light-emitting device, wherein a node N1 is a connection of the second terminal of the drive transistor, the first node of the light-emitting device, and the third transistor; and at least one capacitor having a first plate that is connectedType: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tong Lu, Michael James Brownlow, Tim Michael Smeeton
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Patent number: 10496216Abstract: An information handling system touchscreen display interacts with totem devices by recognizing and tracking spectral signatures of the totem devices so that totem positions are reported as a single length, width and rotational orientation message to a host operating system. Ignore zones and hysteresis time periods are defined from the position message based upon totem context so that the host operating system processes touchscreen inputs with minimal latency and improved accuracy. Communication and battery charging are provided to the totem by the touchscreen display will illumination directed to the totem position.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2016Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Larry A. Stone, Jace W. Files, Yagiz C. Yildiz, Mark S. Sears