Patents Examined by Nan-Ying Yang
  • Patent number: 10809551
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having switchable viewing angles includes a display panel and a display control module. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The display control module is used for controlling the display panel to display images. The first substrate is provided with a first electrode. The second substrate is provided with a second electrode and a third electrode. The liquid crystal display device further includes a viewing angle control module. The display control module is further used to provide a synchronization signal to the viewing angle control module. According to the synchronization signal, when a next frame following a current frame on which a viewing angle switching signal is received starts to display, the viewing angle control module outputs a periodic alternating voltage for switching viewing angle to the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Te-Chen Chung, Weifeng Fan, Peiyang Lin, Huilong Zheng
  • Patent number: 10809822
    Abstract: An example touch pen attachment is attachable to a game controller including a controller-side slide portion. The touch pen attachment includes a housing, an attachment-side slide portion, a stopper portion, and a touch pen portion. The attachment-side slide portion is configured to slidably engage with the controller-side slide portion in a slide direction, wherein the attachment-side slide portion has a first side and a second side with respect to the slide direction, and the controller-side slide portion is insertable into the attachment-side slide portion from the first side. The stopper portion stops a slide movement, in an insertion direction, of the controller-side slide portion. The touch pen portion is on at least one of an end portion of the housing on the first side in the slide direction and another end portion thereof on the second side in the slide direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Akama, Junichiro Miyatake
  • Patent number: 10802276
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display system included in a device for traveling a path between at least two distinct points and for using at least one heading datum, wherein the display system comprises at least: an image sensor configured to acquire environmental images during the path traveled by the device; an image processing module capable of determining the drift of the device in real time; a module for determining information that is representative of the route taken by the device, a module for real-time determination of the true heading followed by the device from the information that is representative of the route and the drift of the device, a module for returning to the user information that is representative of the true heading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves Dumas, Thierry Ganille, Bruno Aymeric
  • Patent number: 10795518
    Abstract: Baseline update for input object detection includes determining raw measurements from resulting signals acquired for a sensing region, obtaining a masked region of the sensing region based on the raw measurements, and generating a baseline update value using a subset of the raw measurements corresponding to an unmasked region. A baseline value of the masked region is updated using the baseline update value to obtain an updated baseline. A location of an input object is detected using the updated baseline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Katherine Kuan, Nickolas Fotopoulos
  • Patent number: 10776064
    Abstract: A video wall-type display device may include: a plurality of display modules, each including: a display area including: a first sub-area; and at least one second sub-area disposed to adjoin and to surround the first sub-area; and a non-display area disposed to surround the display area, wherein the first sub-area may include at least one first pixel unit. The at least one first pixel unit includes: a first pixel configured to display a first color; a second pixel configured to display a second color; and a third pixel configured to display a third colors, the first, second, and third colors being different from each another. The second sub-area may include at least one second pixel unit, the at least one second pixel unit including: the first pixel, the second pixel, and the third pixel; and at least one fourth pixel configured to display a white color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yeon Cu Kim
  • Patent number: 10768743
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a foam is located below an OLED display, and a film is located below the foam. Multiple bridge circuits are disposed on the film. Each bridge circuit includes two parallel branches. A first branch includes a first and a third resistor. A second branch includes a second and a fourth resistor. At least one of the four resistors is bonded to the foam. At least one resistor is not bonded to the foam. The resistor that is bonded to the foam is made from a first material. A strain sensitivity coefficient of the first material is greater than 100. A film area in which the resistor that is bonded to the foam is located is covered by a second material. A Young's modulus of the second material is greater than 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongli Wang, Xiaoyan Yu, Jiang Liu, Ziqian Ding
  • Patent number: 10768669
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include an electronic device. The electronic device includes a body and a display screen. The body includes at least a first surface. The display screen includes a first portion and a second portion separated from the first portion by a first bending portion. The second portion is secured to the first surface of the body. The bending portion deforms to rotate the first portion with respect to the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventor: Zhixun Lian
  • Patent number: 10768744
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch panel and a controlling method thereof. The controlling method comprises: during a display period of the touch panel, turning on a bias voltage generation circuit to generate a bias voltage signal, turning on a reverse bias voltage generation circuit to generate a reverse bias voltage signal, turning on a positive voltage generation circuit to generate a positive voltage signal, turning on a negative voltage generation circuit to generate a negative voltage signal, and turning off a modulating voltage generation circuit; during a touch period of the touch panel, turning off the bias voltage generation circuit, the reverse bias voltage generation circuit, the positive voltage generation circuit, and the negative voltage generation circuit, and turning on the modulating voltage generation circuit to generate a modulating voltage signal, wherein the modulating voltage signal is same as a touch sensing signal of the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Yaw-Guang Chang, Wei-Song Wang
  • Patent number: 10759461
    Abstract: A multi-function input apparatus of a steering wheel that includes an outer dial having a planar surface and a center dial having a capacitive surface such that the center dial is responsive to capacitive touch along the capacitive surface. The center dial being disposed within the outer dial and the outer dial is rotatable about a rotation axis independent of the center dial such that the center dial is rotatably fixed when the outer dial rotates. The outer dial including a recessed portion positioned along the planar surface such that the recessed portion is rotatable about the center dial. The recessed portion of the outer dial is translatable along the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: John Charles Rafferty, Lou M. Pope, Clinton J. Williams
  • Patent number: 10761629
    Abstract: A flexible touch display panel includes a flexible display substrate, and a color film layer disposed above the flexible display substrate. The color film layer includes a plurality of color filter blocks spaced apart, and a light shielding layer disposed between adjacent ones of the color filter blocks. The flexible touch display panel further includes a first electrode pattern and a second electrode pattern on both sides of the light shielding layer. An orthographic projection of the light shielding layer on the flexible display substrate covers orthographic projections of the first electrode patterns and the second electrode patterns on the flexible display substrate. The first electrode pattern is electrically connected with the second electrode pattern a via hole provided on the light shielding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming Hsi Wang
  • Patent number: 10754469
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a touch includes a touch panel configured to include an electrode constituting a self-capacitor together with an object, a charge-sharing unit configured to include a charge-sharing capacitor which is charge-shared with the self-capacitor, a differential signal generation unit configured to receive an output signal of the charge-sharing unit, generate a pair of pseudo differential touch signals, and detect a touch of the object, and a control unit configured to control the charge-sharing unit so that the charge-sharing unit may perform charge sharing and signal output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: MELFAS INC.
    Inventors: Byung Sang Rhim, Jae Woo You, Min Suk Woo
  • Patent number: 10739901
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a first surface on which an image is displayed and a second surface opposing the first surface, and a touch sensor, wherein the touch sensor includes a plurality of driving electrodes, a plurality of sensing electrodes disposed to intersect the plurality of driving electrodes, and a touch controller supplying driving signals to the plurality of driving electrodes, wherein, as the display panel is folded or curved, the touch controller sequentially supplies driving signals to the plurality of driving electrodes or simultaneously supplies the driving signals to at least two driving electrodes among the plurality of driving electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo Han Bae, Chang Min Park, Jin Seok Jang, Jae Won Choi
  • Patent number: 10739903
    Abstract: The reliability of a display device with an input device is improved. A plurality of detection electrodes (input position detection electrodes) forming an electrostatic capacity between them and a common electrode of a display device to detect an input position are formed on a different substrate from substrates configuring the display device. Moreover, a polarizing plate and the substrate on which the plurality of detection electrodes are formed are adhesively fixed via, for example, an adhesive layer so that the plurality of detection electrodes are fixed so as to be separated apart from the display device. Thus, a distance between electrodes (the detection electrode and a driving electrode) for detecting an input position can be set separately from a thickness of the display device, and therefore, reduction in detection sensitivity (detection reliability) for the input position due to increase in the electrostatic capacity can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Kohei Azumi, Koji Ishizaki, Hideki Kaneko, Tsutomu Harada
  • Patent number: 10741129
    Abstract: An image rendering system comprising a pixel array and variable-density column and row scanner circuits is disclosed. The variable-density column and row scanner circuits enable software-based reconfiguration of the active display area within the available screen area of the display. In addition, a hardware restore-to-black function is provided that enables pixels outside of the desired image region to be driven to black without their requiring image data or excitation. As a result, the functionality of the functionality of the display can be reconfigured to match the desired image region on a frame-by-frame basis. Therefore, displays in accordance with the present invention can operate at higher frame rates and with less power consumption that prior-art displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: eMagin Corporation, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY
    Inventors: Ihor Wacyk, Hyuk Sang Kwon, Russell Draper, David Fellowes
  • Patent number: 10726795
    Abstract: A multi-layer display device and a method for driving the same are disclosed, in which an image of a front display panel may be displayed without being affected by an image of a rear display panel, and an image of a rear display panel may be displayed without being affected by an image of a front display panel. The multi-layer display device comprises a first display panel; and a second display panel arranged on a rear surface of the first display panel. The second display panel displays a second white image for a time period when the first display panel displays a first source image. The first display panel displays a first white image for a time period when the second display panel displays a second source image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: ChangHo Lee, YoonSung Tak
  • Patent number: 10725603
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a touch panel having a sensing area that includes a conductive part made up of thin-line mesh includes a step of designing the thin-line mesh, the thin-line mesh including a plurality of intersections, wherein the intersection forms therearound an acute angular area and an obtuse angular area, the acute angular area being defined between a pair of adjacently converging thin lines that forms an acute angle therebetween, the obtuse angular area being defined between a pair of adjacently converging thin lines that forms an obtuse angle therebetween, a step of filling electrically conductive ink into a printing plate by a squeezing process using a doctor blade, the printing plate having a groove pattern that conforms with the thin-line mesh, and a step of forming the conductive part by printing, in which the electrically conductive ink is transferred to a surface of a base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Akitoshi Sakaue, Kenji Matsumoto, Yutaka Takezawa, Yuta Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10718948
    Abstract: A head-mounted display apparatus including an image display unit configured to display a display object image and a pointer image, a head movement detection unit configured to detect an amount of rotation angle of a head of a user, and a display controller configured to control a display mode of the pointer image, including a movement speed of the pointer image, within a display region of the image display unit. The display controller executes a first display control configured to change the movement speed of the pointer image in accordance with the detected amount of rotation angle so as to display the pointer image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Hiroi
  • Patent number: 10713848
    Abstract: Present disclosure relates to a system for providing a simulated environment and a method thereof. The system comprises a first wearable device and a computing unit. The first wearable device is configured to output a first scenario of the simulated environment. The computing unit is configured to provide an indication corresponding to a mobile object in the first scenario when the mobile object is detectable in a predetermined distance distanced from the first wearable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Hsin-Hao Lee, Ching-Hao Lee
  • Patent number: 10713993
    Abstract: It is an aspect of the present disclosure to provide an image processing apparatus, a display apparatus and a method of controlling of the display apparatus capable of preventing a rapid decrease in the image quality of image data. In accordance with an example aspect of the present disclosure, a display apparatus comprises: a plurality of image processing modules, each image processing module configured to perform an image processing process; a controller configured to output image data processed by any one image processing module of the plurality of image processing modules, based on state information of the plurality of image processing modules; and a display configured to display the output image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Seok Choi, Do-Hyung Kim, Joon Ho Song, Sang Jo Lee, Won Chang Lee
  • Patent number: 10713001
    Abstract: In a virtual reality space, a virtual reference body controlled to follow a player's hand, a virtual body part controlled to follow the player's ear, and a virtual smartphone being a virtual object as a prop are arranged. After the proximity of the virtual reference body to the virtual smartphone, the virtual smartphone is deemed as being gripped and the virtual reference body and the virtual smartphone are integrally moved. Stereophonic sound control is performed such that the emitted sound from the virtual smartphone is a ringtone before the proximity of the virtual reference body or the virtual smartphone to the virtual body part, and after the proximity, the emitted sound is switched to communication sound so that the player listens to the stereophonic sound by a headphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Jun Tamaoki, Haruyoshi Yamamoto, Tetsukazu Nakanishi