Patents Examined by Michael Pervan
  • Patent number: 10429978
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch panel structure, which includes a conductive channel region and a second dummy metal pattern. The conductive channel region includes a metal mesh and a first dummy metal pattern. The metal mesh is a conductive channel. The first dummy metal pattern is intersecting the metal mesh and has at least one breakpoint at every point of intersection with the metal mesh. The metal mesh is separated from the first dummy metal pattern to be insulated from the first dummy metal pattern at the at least one breakpoint. The second dummy metal pattern is disposed on the both sides of the conductive channel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: Interface Technology (Chengdu) Co., Ltd., Interface Optoelectronics (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., General Interface Solution Limited
    Inventors: Jhe-Wei Zeng, Yue-Feng Yang, Po-Lin Chen, Ju-Xiang Liu, Yen-Heng Huang
  • Patent number: 10423379
    Abstract: A method and device for screen-off display in the field of information processing are disclosed. A content element for screen-off display and format information corresponding to information content to be displayed via screen-off display are acquired. A reference time is acquired. The reference time refers to a system time acquired by an Application Processor (AP) at turnoff of a screen. The information content is displayed via screen-off display according to the reference time, the format information, and the content element for screen-off display. With embodiments herein, after the screen goes off, display is done straightforwardly according to the reference time, the format information, and the required content element, without the need to awaken the AP every minute to acquire an instant time, or to do plotting every minute according to the acquired instant time, thereby reducing power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Guosheng Li
  • Patent number: 10423230
    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: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: CK MATERIALS LAB CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeong Jun Kim, Jong Hun Lee, Nam Seok Kim, Myung Sun Park, Ji Goo Kang
  • Patent number: 10423242
    Abstract: A head protection device has a distance-measuring device with a spatial directional characteristic, a light beam generation device as well as at least one control unit. The distance-measuring device is configured to determine distance information relative to a focusing range of the spatial directional characteristic and to provide the determined distance information to the control unit. The light beam generation device is configured to generate a light beam in the direction of the focusing range. The control unit provides a control signal, which indicates a request for a brightness modulation frequency of the light beam as a function of the distance information, to the light beam generation device on the basis of the distance information in a first operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Frank Franz, Stefan Morley, Livio Fornasiero
  • Patent number: 10424250
    Abstract: This invention provides an AMOLED display device. The OLED panel comprises a plurality of subpixels. Each row of subpixels is electrically connected with one of the rows of OVSS. At least one of the subpixels located in a central area of the substrate is a detecting subpixel. While driving, a maximum value of the negative voltage of the detecting pixel is detected by the detection module, and the corresponding minimum positive voltage is obtained from the look-up table stored in the storage module according to the highest grayscale value and or the highest data signal voltage, and the maximum value of the negative voltage. Then a corresponding positive voltage to the OLED panel is generated from the voltage output module which is controlled by the control signal. This invention provides a driving method of AMOLED display device with low power consumption and high display quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhenling Wang
  • Patent number: 10417880
    Abstract: Systems using haptic effect output devices with stretch characteristics are provided. In some embodiments, the stretch haptic effect output devices provide stretch effects responsive to software control. In other embodiments, the stretch haptic effect output devices provide stretch effects responsive to user input as well. Moreover, in some embodiments, the stretch haptic effect output devices provide stretch effects in conjunction and coordination with non-stretch haptic effect output devices as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: IMMERSION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert W. Heubel, Francis Jose
  • Patent number: 10418425
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting display module including an active area, a pad area, and a boundary area between the active area and the pad area. Unlike the active area and the pad area, since the boundary area does not include an inorganic layer, less stress is applied to the boundary area when the boundary area is bent. Display panel pads and touch sensing member pads are disposed at the same height without having a height difference therebetween. Thus, a dummy pad may be added to remove the height difference between the display panel pads and the touch sensing member pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-hwan Park, Jongseok Kim, Miyoung Kim, Chiwook An
  • Patent number: 10416795
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for employing and facilitating a thumb sensor at a computing device. A method of embodiments of the invention includes extending a touch panel of a computing device into a flap of the touch panel to be used as a side sensor of the computing device, and sensing a use of the side sensor, the use including touching of the side sensor by a user, where sensing may include detecting a change at one or more intersecting points of a plurality of intersecting points of conductive lines. The method may further include facilitating an action in response to the use of the side sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: David L. Graumann
  • Patent number: 10410569
    Abstract: A data processing system can store a long-term history of pixel luminance values in a secure memory and use those values to create burn-in compensation values that are used to mitigate burn-in effect on a display. The long-term history can be updated over time with new, accumulated pixel luminance values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul S. Drzaic, Ross Thompson, Guy Cote, Christopher P. Tann, Jerrold V. Hauck, Yifan Zhang, Jean-Pierre Guillou, Ian C. Hendry, Vanessa C. Heppolette, Tae-Wook Koh, Arthur L. Spence
  • Patent number: 10409125
    Abstract: A display device includes, on an insulating substrate, a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of sub-pixel regions each surrounded by a pair of scanning lines and a pair of signal lines, a plurality of semiconductor layers in the sub-pixel regions, and a base electrode connected to one end of the semiconductor layer. The other end of the same is connected to one of the pair of signal lines. When it is assumed that a signal connected to the semiconductor layer is a first signal line while a signal line not connected to the semiconductor layer is a second signal line in each sub-pixel region, a distance between the first signal line and the semiconductor layer is larger than a distance between the second signal line and the semiconductor layer at a connecting position between the semiconductor layer and the base electrode in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Motoharu Miyamoto, Yoshinori Aoki
  • Patent number: 10401994
    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 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: H.C. STARCK INC.
    Inventors: Helia Jalili, Francois Dary, Barbara Cox
  • Patent number: 10394364
    Abstract: A touch pressure sensitivity correction method may be provided that includes: defining a plurality of reference points on a touch sensor panel; generating a reference data for a capacitance change amount sensed by applying the same pressure to the plurality of reference points; generating an interpolated data corresponding to a capacitance change amount for a random point present between the plurality of reference points; calculating, on the basis of the reference data and interpolated data, with respect to the reference points and the random point respectively, a correction factor for correcting a sensitivity of a touch input device to a target value; and correcting uniformly for the touch pressure sensitivity of the touch input device by applying the calculated correction factor to each corresponding point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: HiDeep Inc.
    Inventors: Bong Jin Seo, Ho Jun Moon, Myung Jun Jin, Hwan Hee Lee, Tae Hoon Kim, Se Yeob Kim, Won Woo Lee, Sang Sic Yoon, Bon Kee Kim
  • Patent number: 10386568
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a combined enhanced diffused reflector and back cover for a display stack. The back cover may be assembled proximate to a light guide panel layer of a display stack to receive light from a light guide panel and to reflect and diffuse light received from the light guide panel back to the light guide panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Arvind Sundaram
  • Patent number: 10386873
    Abstract: Provided are a power supply voltage control circuit and a method thereof, a driver integrated circuit, and a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Boya Zhang, Zhaohui Meng, Chenggeng Zhang, Lintao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10388226
    Abstract: A temperature compensation circuit and method for a display panel and a display panel are provided. The display panel includes a control circuit, a driving circuit, a detection circuit and a pixel circuit; wherein the detection circuit is configured to obtain a current threshold voltage of a transistor of the pixel circuit, the control circuit obtains a current voltage difference between the current threshold voltage and an initial threshold voltage, obtains a current compensation gain matching the current voltage difference according to a predetermined related data of a voltage difference and a compensation gain, and controls the driving circuit to drive the pixel circuit by using the current compensation gain. By practice of the disclosure, the temperature compensation for a display panel could be achieved without the additional temperature sensor, so the service life of the display panel could be extended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tai-jiun Hwang, Zhenling Wang
  • Patent number: 10387097
    Abstract: A cart for providing service to passengers in a vehicle. The cart includes a housing having a storage volume with one or more openings to the storage volume, opposite housing sidewalls, and wheels connected to the bottom of the housing. The cart also includes a wireless communication module supported by the housing, with the wireless communication module configured to establish a data communications link in accordance with at least one wireless communication protocol. A data processor is supported by the housing and connected in communication with the wireless communication module with the data processor executing a control system, and the control system receiving information via the data communications link. Sidewalls of the housing support an electronic display connected in communication to the control system and displaying information in accordance with commands received from the control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Avionics Corporation
    Inventors: Shrenik Shah, Steven Bates, Feng Jiang
  • Patent number: 10373359
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method for erasing a writing path on an infrared electronic white board, the method including: adding data points to a writing path to obtain a complete writing path in which the distance between any two adjacent data points is no more than an erasing distance corresponding to a selected erasing mode; determining an erasing area according to an input erasing path and the erasing mode; and erasing those data points on the complete writing path, which lie in the erasing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: Hisense Electric Co., Ltd., Hisense USA Corporation, Hisense International Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Wang, Chunhua Li, Zhenbao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10374177
    Abstract: The organic light emitting diode display may comprise a cover window including a display region and a non-display region that surrounds the display region; a flexible substrate arranged on a lower portion of the cover window, and including a first region that is spaced apart from the cover window and a second region that extends from the first region toward the cover window; and an adhesive layer arranged between the cover window and the flexible substrate to make the cover window and the flexible substrate adhere to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Sang Ahn, Chang Min Park, Sang Wol Lee, Gyeong Ho Jeong
  • Patent number: 10359864
    Abstract: An input display device includes a display unit that displays a screen for handwriting input on an input screen including a plurality of input fields, a stroke data processing unit that groups stroke data which is input to a capture screen by handwriting into stroke data representing characters to generate grouped stroke data as grouping stroke data, a character recognition unit that conducts character recognition on the grouping stroke data to convert the grouping stroke data into at least one recognized character, and a control processing unit that displays the at least one recognized character at the plurality of input fields of the input screen correlated with positions, at which handwriting input was performed, in the screen for handwriting input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyuki Koyama, Satoshi Terada
  • Patent number: 10353521
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mutual-capacitance touch screen comprising multiple parallel first electrodes and multiple parallel second electrodes coupled to a touch sensitive processing apparatus; and a covering layer for covering the first and the second electrodes, wherein a thickness of the covering layer and a third distance between one of the first electrodes and an adjacent second electrode form a third ratio range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chin-Fu Chang, Shang-Tai Yeh