Patents Examined by Nan-Ying Yang
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Patent number: 10809551Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: INFOVISION OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Te-Chen Chung, Weifeng Fan, Peiyang Lin, Huilong Zheng
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Patent number: 10809822Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Tetsuya Akama, Junichiro Miyatake
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Patent number: 10802276Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: THALESInventors: Pierre-Yves Dumas, Thierry Ganille, Bruno Aymeric
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Patent number: 10795518Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Katherine Kuan, Nickolas Fotopoulos
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Patent number: 10776064Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yeon Cu Kim
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Patent number: 10768743Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Dongli Wang, Xiaoyan Yu, Jiang Liu, Ziqian Ding
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Patent number: 10768669Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) LimitedInventor: Zhixun Lian
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Patent number: 10768744Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Yaw-Guang Chang, Wei-Song Wang
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Patent number: 10759461Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: John Charles Rafferty, Lou M. Pope, Clinton J. Williams
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Patent number: 10761629Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Ming Hsi Wang
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Patent number: 10754469Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 4, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: MELFAS INC.Inventors: Byung Sang Rhim, Jae Woo You, Min Suk Woo
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Patent number: 10739901Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joo Han Bae, Chang Min Park, Jin Seok Jang, Jae Won Choi
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Patent number: 10739903Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Kohei Azumi, Koji Ishizaki, Hideki Kaneko, Tsutomu Harada
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Patent number: 10741129Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 1, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignees: eMagin Corporation, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMYInventors: Ihor Wacyk, Hyuk Sang Kwon, Russell Draper, David Fellowes
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Patent number: 10726795Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: ChangHo Lee, YoonSung Tak
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Patent number: 10725603Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventors: Akitoshi Sakaue, Kenji Matsumoto, Yutaka Takezawa, Yuta Hasegawa
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Patent number: 10718948Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshiaki Hiroi
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Patent number: 10713848Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Hsin-Hao Lee, Ching-Hao Lee
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Patent number: 10713993Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yong Seok Choi, Do-Hyung Kim, Joon Ho Song, Sang Jo Lee, Won Chang Lee
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Patent number: 10713001Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Jun Tamaoki, Haruyoshi Yamamoto, Tetsukazu Nakanishi