Patents Examined by Nalini Mummalaneni
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Patent number: 9581815Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a main body, an operation unit, and a controller. The main body includes a display unit capable of displaying an image in front of an eye of a user. The operation unit includes a buffer that is connected to the main body and deformable with respect to the main body, and a first detector configured to output a detection signal depending on the deformation. The controller is configured to generate an image signal for generating an image based on the detection signal and to output the image signal to the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2013Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takeshi Iwatsu, Tsubasa Tsukahara, Masatoshi Ueno, Tetsuro Goto, Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Shinobu Kuriya
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Patent number: 9570015Abstract: The present invention discloses a signal conversion device, a signal conversion method and a display device. The signal conversion device includes a gamma conversion unit, a brightness detection unit and a brightness processing unit, wherein the gamma conversion unit is used for performing a gamma conversion process on RGB input signals and generating RGB brightness input values; the brightness detection unit is used for generating a W brightness input value based on RGB proportional coefficients and the RGB brightness input values; and the brightness processing unit is used for generating RGBW output signals based on the RGB proportional coefficients, the RGB brightness input values and the W brightness input value. With the present invention, the brightness of a displayed image can be increased without increasing the power consumption, so that the contrast of the displayed image is increased, and the display quality of the image is also improved.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2014Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Fei Yang, Chen Zhang
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Patent number: 9569036Abstract: A multi-touch system is provided. In the multi-touch system, there is a plurality of touch sensing sub-systems. The touch sensing sub-systems are arranged in a touch sensing row in sequence and the touch sensing row has a pair of longitudinal sides opposite to each other and a pair of end sides opposite to each other. A light reflective frame is configured on one of the longitudinal sides and both of the end sides. Each of the touch sensing sub-systems comprises at least two sensors arranged at two corners of the corresponding touch sensing sub-system at one longitudinal side opposite to the other longitudinal side having the light reflective frame arranged thereon. A sensing range of both of the sensor covers the corresponding touch sensing sub-system.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2013Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Wistron CorporationInventors: Yu-Yen Chen, Po-Liang Huang, Chia-Jui Liu, Kuo Hsing Wang
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Patent number: 9557833Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a signal at a stylus. The stylus is operable to wirelessly transmit signals to and receive signals from a device. The stylus includes a plurality of electrodes disposed in a tip of the stylus. The method includes determining a characteristic of the signal, and based at least in part on the characteristics of the signal, a threshold for determining whether to process signals received wirelessly from the device is dynamically adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Kishore Sundara-Rajan, Trond Jarle Pedersen, Vemund Kval Bakken
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Patent number: 9552084Abstract: A manner of reducing the power consumption is utilized in a tablet terminal equipped with a digitizer for inputting with an electronic pen. When another tablet terminal or a smartphone approaches the tablet terminal, each digitizer detects input. When the digitizer detects the input, it is determined whether the input is electronic pen input from the electronic pen or proximity input caused by the proximity of the other tablet terminal or the smartphone. In the case of electronic pen input, coordinate information is transferred to a system, while in the case of proximity input, the system takes an action such as shifting a tablet terminal to a sleep state.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Hiromoto Takahashi, Takenobu Nakao, Takumi Imai
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Patent number: 9552768Abstract: A display device is provided with an image processing circuit that outputs a pixel value of each pixel to a pixel driving circuit, the pixel driving circuit that inputs a pixel voltage to each of pixels based on the pixel value of each of the pixels, and a control circuit that detects a defective pixel. Here, the image processing circuit corrects the pixel value of the defective pixel in the image data to be displayed which is input to the image processing circuit, to a pixel value for black, and then outputs each pixel value of the image data to be displayed in which the pixel value of the defective pixel is corrected to the pixel value for black, to the pixel driving circuit.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Nobuhiro Takeda, Toshihiro Sato
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Patent number: 9547783Abstract: Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags may be affixed to one or more personal objects, such as a key, a watch, a wallet, a purse, a medicine container, or the like. A mobile telephone may be associated with the plurality of RFID tags. A display of the mobile telephone may indicate whether each of the RFID tags is in communication with an RFID reader. For example, the RFID reader may be embedded in a drawer lining, embedded in the mobile telephone itself, or embedded in a handheld wand. The mobile telephone may generate an alert when at least one of the plurality of RFID tags is not in communication with the RFID reader. For example, a trigger RFID may be affixed to a doorway. The trigger RFID may cause the mobile telephone to alert the user to a missing item.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: John E. Lewis, Justin McNamara, Fulvio Cenciarelli, Jeffrey Mikan
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Patent number: 9536484Abstract: A liquid crystal array substrate includes a number of pixels, each pixel includes a main region, a first sub-region, and a second sub-region. The main region includes a first thin film transistor (TFT), the first sub-region comprises a second TFT, and the second sub-region comprises a third TFT. Gates of the first TFT, the second TFT, and the third TFT of each pixel are connected to a first scan line, a source of the first TFT is connected to a first data line, a drain of the first TFT is connected to one corresponding pixel electrode; sources of the second TFT and the third TFT are connected to a second data line, drains of the second TFT and the third TFT are respectively connected to corresponding pixel electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventors: Je Hao Hsu, Jingfeng Xue, Xiaohui Yao
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Patent number: 9530342Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to modifying a display of a portable electronic device to account for ambient light. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method comprising determining an ambient light history including a plurality of ambient light color conditions sensed over a duration of device operation by an ambient light sensor, reading a display-ready image having a plurality of pixels from an image source, adjusting a manner in which the display-ready image is displayed by color-shifting at least a subset of the plurality of pixels based on the plurality of ambient light color conditions in the ambient light history to thereby generate a color-modified image, and displaying the color-modified image on the display of the portable electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2013Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Cynthia Sue Bell, Kevin Woo, Philip L. Barnes, Steven C. Glenner
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Patent number: 9501195Abstract: A smartphone may be provided that includes: a cover layer; an LCD panel which is located under the cover layer and includes a liquid crystal layer, and a first glass layer and a second glass layer between which the liquid crystal layer is placed, wherein at least a portion of a touch sensor which senses touch in a capacitive manner is located between the first glass layer and the second glass layer; and a backlight unit which is located under the LCD panel and includes an optical film, a light source, a reflective sheet and a cover. The backlight unit further includes a pressure sensor attached on the cover between the reflective sheet and the cover.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2015Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: HIDEEP INC.Inventors: Seyeob Kim, Bonkee Kim, Sangsic Yoon, Young ho Cho
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Patent number: 9480147Abstract: A touch window includes a substrate, a sensing electrode on the substrate, a wire electrically connected with the sensing electrode, a ground wire adjacent to the wire, and a printed circuit board connected with the wire and the ground wire. An overlap length between the ground wire and the printed circuit board is longer than an overlap length between the wire and the printed circuit board. Alternatively or simultaneously, a line width of the ground wire is wider than an interval or gap between the wire parallel to the printed circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Byeong Seob Kim, Ji Sung Ahn
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Patent number: 9478164Abstract: There are provided a compensation pixel circuit and a display apparatus. The compensation pixel circuit comprises an organic light emitting diode (D1) and a driving transistor (M1), a first terminal of the driving transistor (M1) being connected to an anode of the organic light emitting diode (D1). The compensation pixel circuit further comprises: a resetting module, a data voltage writing module, a light emitting control module and a switching module. The resetting module includes a capacitor (C1) whose first terminal is connected to a gate of the driving transistor (M1) and configured to make the gate of the driving transistor (M1) discharge so that a gate voltage is reduced to a magnitude of a threshold voltage of the organic light emitting diode (D1).Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventor: Zhanjie Ma
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Patent number: 9467903Abstract: A method for transmitting information required for user equipment mobility state detection is provided. The method includes broadcasting, at a base station, system information including frequency information and cell identifiers (IDs) of cells co-located with a current cell geographically; and transmitting, when an handover is detected, a handover command message including a handover factor indicator indicating whether the handover was triggered by movement of the user equipment, wherein the user equipment detects the mobility state based on the information provided by the system information and the handover command message.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2009Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyeong In Jeong, Soeng Hun Kim, Jung Soo Jung
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Patent number: 9467823Abstract: The present invention discloses a value-added service for short message service, VAS-SMS, processing method and a VAS-SMS processing center, which include: the VAS-SMS processing center receives an original short message forwarded from the short message service center, generates a value-added service short message associated with the original short message in accordance with data of VAS-SMS subscribed by the calling and called parities of the original short message, submits the value-added service short message to the short message service center, and receives a delivery status report returned from the short message service center, and the value-added service for short message service processing center takes the delivery result of the value-added service short message as that of the associated original short message and sends a delivery result notification of the original short message to the short message service center.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2009Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiaolong Hou, Ning Chen
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Patent number: 9459735Abstract: An electrode pattern structure of a capacitive touch panel is provided. The electrode pattern structure of a capacitive touch panel of the present invention, in one embodiment, comprises a substrate, at least one first electrode disposed on said substrate, an insulator disposed on said at least one first electrode, at least one second electrode disposed on said insulator and overlapped with said at least one first electrode at least one intersection, and at least one protective block located on said at least one second electrode and positioned at said at least one intersection.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2010Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: TPK TOUCH SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Chen-Yu Liu, Lu-Hsing Lee
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Patent number: 9436277Abstract: A method for computing output using a non-contact (invisible) input signal includes acquiring depth data of a scene captured by a depth-capable sensor. The method includes generating a temporal series of depth maps corresponding to the depth data. The method includes generating at least one volumetric attribute from the depth data. The method includes generating an output based on the volumetric attribute to control actions.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Michael R. Furst, Edgar A. Bernal, Robert P. Loce, Lalit K. Mestha
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Patent number: 9436307Abstract: Embodiments described herein include an input device comprising a display device having an integrated capacitive sensing device, a processing system, and a method for detecting presence of an input object. In each of these embodiments, a modulation source provides modulation signals between a back plate and a system ground of the input device. Other embodiments include a display device having a capacitive sensing device, a processing system and a method for detecting presence of an input object using a capacitive sensing device, wherein the capacitive sensing device includes a matrix of discrete sensor electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2013Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATEDInventor: Jeffrey A. Small
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Patent number: 9430980Abstract: The present invention provides an liquid crystal display panel and an liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display panel comprises a second substrate. The second substrate comprises a plurality of pixel units. The pixel unit comprises a brightness adjustment pixel which is employed for changing the display brightness of itself to adjust the brightness of the liquid crystal display panel. The contrast ratio and the brightness of the liquid crystal display panel can be raised at outdoor or in a strong ambient light environment and the power consumption can be decreased.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO.Inventor: Xiangyang Xu
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Patent number: 9411453Abstract: The present invention provides a touch-controlled display panel, which comprises an array substrate, a color filter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the array substrate and the color filter substrate. The array substrate comprises a scan line, a data line, a pixel electrode, a first touch-controlled driving line, and a touch-controlled sensing line. The present invention further provides a touch-controlled display device. The present invention integrates the common line with the touch-controlled driving line and the touch-controlled sensing line, thereby improving the efficiency in manufacturing the touch-controlled display panel and reducing the manufacture cost thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chun Kai Chang, Yung-Lun Lin, Jie Qiu, Chengliang Ye, Ruhai Fu
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Patent number: 9389717Abstract: A reduced-latency ink rendering system and method that reduces latency in rendering ink on a display by bypassing at least some layers of the operating system. “Ink” is any input from a user through a touchscreen device using the user's finger or a pen. Moreover, some embodiments of the system and method avoid the operating system and each central-processing unit (CPU) on a computing device when initially rendering the ink by going directly from the digitizer to the display controller. Any correction or additional processing of the rendered ink is performed after the initial rendering of the ink. Embodiments of the system and method address ink-rendering latency in software embodiments, which include techniques to bypass the typical rendering pipeline and quickly render ink on the display, and hardware embodiments, which use hardware and techniques that locally change display pixels. These embodiments can be mixed and matched in any manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Steven Bathiche, Paul Henry Dietz, Hrvoje Benko, Andreas Georg Nowatzyk