Patents Examined by Michael Pervan
  • Patent number: 10545536
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomer Rider, Ramon C. Olmo, Dor Levy, Shahar Taite
  • Patent number: 10546556
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Yoshio Miyazaki, Katsuyoshi Onishi
  • Patent number: 10535314
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: LUXNPRO CHENGDU ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jin Zhang
  • Patent number: 10535284
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Andy Ho, Tsung-Han Yang, Szu-Chieh Wang, Jian-Chi Lin, Jason Hsiao
  • Patent number: 10528191
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Kusuma Adi Ningrat, Ade Putra
  • Patent number: 10529292
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chanwook Shim
  • Patent number: 10528174
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 10528199
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: DDC TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Buckley
  • Patent number: 10528156
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Hawkvision Emmersion Computing, LLC
    Inventor: Robert W. Hawkins
  • Patent number: 10509231
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hee Yoon Lee, Wanli Chi, Pasi Saarikko
  • Patent number: 10510280
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangjin Jeon, Ilgon Kim, Dong-Won Park, Bonghyun You, Junki Jeong
  • Patent number: 10504415
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTORNICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mian Zeng
  • Patent number: 10503273
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Inventor: Ching-Hsiung Chu
  • Patent number: 10503312
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Yansun Xu
  • Patent number: 10504413
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyojin Lee, Jihye Kim, Jae-Hyeon Jeon
  • Patent number: 10504411
    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: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wontae Kim, Taegon Im
  • Patent number: 10503396
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Daniel E. Gobera Rubalcava, Ryan S. Dixon
  • Patent number: 10504453
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 10504431
    Abstract: 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 connected
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tong Lu, Michael James Brownlow, Tim Michael Smeeton
  • Patent number: 10496216
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Larry A. Stone, Jace W. Files, Yagiz C. Yildiz, Mark S. Sears