Patents Examined by Nan-Ying Yang
  • Patent number: 10705338
    Abstract: A method and system for providing head orientation relative to an adaptive reference orientation, implemented by a processing unit and comprising receiving head data from a head sensor, said head data describing a first head orientation of a user; receiving second data from a second sensor; adapting said adaptive reference orientation by moving it at least partly towards said first head orientation by an amount which is varied at least partly in accordance with said second data, thereby generating a new adaptive reference orientation; and generating, in accordance with said first head orientation and said new adaptive reference orientation, a second head orientation of the user as said first head orientation relative to said new adaptive reference orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: WAVES AUDIO LTD.
    Inventors: Matan Ben-Asher, Meir Shashoua, Gal Alchanati, Nadav Nehoran
  • Patent number: 10706798
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display driving method, device and device, an original gray scale data group of the pixel units in the preset display area and of the content to be displayed is acquired; average gray scales of each of the hues in the preset display area are determined according to the original gray scale data group; original light source intensities of the hues in the preset display area and of the content to be displayed are acquired; the original gray scale data group is divided into a first gray scale data group and a second gray scale data group and the driving light source intensities of each of the hues in the preset display area are determined according to the original gray scale data group of the pixel units, the average gray scales of each of the hues, and the original light source intensities; the gray scales of each of the hues of the first gray scale data group are the maximal gray scale in the original gray scale data group; the gray scales of each of the hues of the second gr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Jianfeng Shan
  • Patent number: 10698268
    Abstract: A liquid crystal lens, a manufacturing method and a corresponding curved display device are disclosed. The liquid crystal lens is configured to be adhered over a flat display device for achieving curved display, and includes liquid crystals, a first electrode and a second electrode for driving the liquid crystals, and an elevation layer. The first electrode includes a plurality of independent electrodes separate from each other, each independent electrode being arranged on the elevation layer. The elevation layer is further configured such that each independent electrode is located in a different position along a thickness direction of the elevation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenqing Zhao, Qian Wang, Rui Xu, Ming Yang, Jian Gao, Pengcheng Lu, Xiaochen Niu, Changfeng Li
  • Patent number: 10691161
    Abstract: A joystick includes a body, a feature identifier and a processor. The body has a lateral portion and a bottom portion connected with each other. The bottom portion is adapted to be pressed, and the lateral portion whereon an identification element is disposed is adapted to support the bottom portion. The feature identifier is disposed under the body and adapted to acquire an identification result about the body. The processor is electrically connected with the feature identifier and adapted to analyze state of the identification element within the identification result for generating a control signal. The feature identifier is an image sensor, and accordingly the identification result is a frame captured by the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Jr-Yi Li, Chi-Yang Huang
  • Patent number: 10686972
    Abstract: A method for rotating a field of view represented by a displayed image is disclosed. The method may include displaying a first image representing a first field of view. The method may also include determining a gaze direction of a user toward the first image. The method may further include identifying a subject in the first image at which the gaze direction is directed, wherein the subject is in a first direction from a center of the first image. The method may further include receiving a directional input in a second direction. The method may additionally include, based at least in part on the second direction being substantially the same as the first direction, displaying a second image representing a second field of view, wherein the subject is centered in the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Tobii AB
    Inventor: Denny Rönngren
  • Patent number: 10672312
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a display panel including a display area in which pixels are arranged and a non-display area disposed in vicinity of the display area, a scan driver applying scan signals to the pixels, a source driver chip connected to the non-display area to apply a data voltage to the pixels and generating an input signal, a light emitting control driver applying light emitting control signals to the pixels, a detecting capacitor disposed in the non-display area, and first and second test lines connected between the source driver chip and the detecting capacitor to apply the input signal to the detecting capacitor. The source driver chip outputs a charging time of the detecting capacitor on the basis of the input signal as an output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Sung Un Park
  • Patent number: 10664054
    Abstract: A tactile sense presenting device that includes a piezoelectric film, a first diaphragm and a second diaphragm. The piezoelectric film deforms in a planar direction when a voltage is applied thereto. The first diaphragm and the second diaphragm sandwich the piezoelectric film. Opposed ends of the first diaphragm and opposed ends of the second diaphragm are fixed, respectively, to opposed ends of the piezoelectric film such that the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm are in a warped state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junichi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10642419
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter is a palm rejection technique utilizing temporal features, iterative classification, and probabilistic voting. Touch events are classified based on features periodically extracted from time windows of increasing size, always centered at the birth of the event. The classification process uses a series of decision trees acting on said features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Julia Schwarz, Chris Harrison
  • Patent number: 10635186
    Abstract: Electrical equipment such as a tablet computer cover, a laptop computer, or other equipment may include a keyboard. The keyboard may have an array of key members. The key members may have key symbols that are illuminated with light from light-emitting diodes. Each key member may be supported by a corresponding key member support structure. A fabric layer such as a woven fabric layer having warp and weft strands formed from polymer or other materials may be sandwiched between each key member and corresponding key member support structure. Opaque masking material may be formed on peripheral portions of each key member support structure. Each key member may have a symbol formed from coating layers such as a white ink coating for light diffusing, a patterned black ink coating with a symbol-shaped opening, and a clear overcoat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Xiaopeng Wang, Markus Diebel, Aidan N. Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 10636849
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device includes an organic light-emitting array including a plurality of pixel areas, the pixel areas being arranged in a matrix; and a plurality of blocks, in each of which a plurality of touch wires are arranged in a first direction and a second direction. Each of the sub-pixels has a light-emitting part, the light-emitting part of one of the sub-pixels is larger than the light-emitting parts of the other sub-pixels, and an intersection of the touch wires arranged in the first direction and the second direction is located in the sub-pixel having the largest light-emitting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hae-Yeon Jeong, Jong-Hyun Han
  • Patent number: 10635457
    Abstract: An input device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a band including a contracted or extended flexible area; a sensor which detects a change of the flexible area and outputs a signal corresponding to the detected change of the flexible area; and a main body which is connected to the band and determines a cause operation for the change of the flexible area based on the signal output from the sensor, in which the flexible area includes fixed units, and connection units which connect the fixed units and are contracted or extended, and a distance between the fixed units is changed according to the cause operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: TYRENN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sug Whan Kim
  • Patent number: 10635211
    Abstract: A display device includes an input sensing unit. The input sensing unit includes sensors and signal lines connecting the sensors to a driving circuit for sensing a touch. The signal lines may include reception signal lines and transmission signal lines. A resistance value of the reception signal line connected to the sensor relatively far from the driving circuit is smaller than a resistance value of the reception signal line connected to the sensor relatively close to the driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwan-ho Kim, Gyeongnam Bang, Sangwon Lee, Hyunjae Na, Hoseok Son, Sungyeon Cho, Jaseung Ku, Taehyeog Jung
  • Patent number: 10629126
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method for driving a pixel circuit, a drive device and a display device. The method includes: receiving grayscale data to be displayed; determining a voltage compensation value, which corresponds to theoretical drive voltage corresponding to the grayscale data to be displayed, according to a pre-acquired correspondence relationship between theoretical drive voltage corresponding to respective grayscale data, and corresponding voltage compensation values; wherein the voltage compensation value is a voltage drop caused by a detection transistor and a drive transistor in the pixel circuit; and compensating the theoretical drive voltage corresponding to the grayscale data to be displayed with the determined voltage compensation value, and then driving a light-emitting diode in the pixel circuit to emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lirong Wang, Quanhu Li, Fei Yang, Danna Song, Mingi Chu, Song Meng, Yu Wang, Yi Chen, Zhongyuan Wu
  • Patent number: 10627942
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a touch control structure of an active-matrix organic light-emitting diode display screen, comprising a transmitting structure and a receiving structure that are mutually inductive, the transmitting structure comprises a first encapsulation film, a first patterned electrode and a second encapsulation film; the receiving structure further comprises a flexible polymer foil sheet and a second patterned electrode formed on the flexible polymer foil sheet, the receiving structure and the transmitting structure are assembled by adhering the surface of the flexible polymer foil sheet having the second patterned electrode formed thereon to the second encapsulation film; wherein, the first encapsulation film comprises multiple layers of films including at least one layer of inorganic film, the second encapsulation film comprises multiple layers of films including at least one layer of inorganic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Inventors: Shaopeng Zhu, Hideo Hirayama, Xiuqi Huang
  • Patent number: 10627970
    Abstract: A display device includes first electrodes, second electrodes, lines, and a controller, and includes a substrate, pixel electrodes, a display functional layer, and a common electrode stacked in this order. An insulating layer is between the common electrode and the first and second electrodes. The controller controls the pixel electrodes, the common electrode, the lines, and the first and second electrodes. During a display period, the pixel electrodes are supplied with a pixel signal through the lines, and the common electrode is supplied with a common signal. During a first sensing period, the lines are supplied with a first drive signal to generate a magnetic field. During a second sensing period, the lines are supplied with the first drive signal to generate the magnetic field, and an electromotive force corresponding to a distance between the lines and the first electrodes is generated in the first electrodes by the magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Tadayoshi Katsuta
  • Patent number: 10620723
    Abstract: An input device includes a housing, an operation unit, a vibrating body, a piezoelectric element, a picker, and a signal processing unit. The operation unit is movable relative to the housing. The vibrating body has elasticity. The vibrating body includes a first end partially fixed to the housing, and a second end provided so as to be vibratable. The piezoelectric element is provided to the vibrating body. The piezoelectric element is configured to convert vibration energy of the vibrating body into electrical energy as the vibrating body vibrates. The picker flicks the vibrating body to allow the vibrating body to vibrate in conjunction with the operation unit. The signal processing unit is configured to receive power generated by the piezoelectric element to operate and transmit, through wireless communications, detection information to be generated as the operation unit moves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Konishi, Hidenori Katsumura, Masahisa Niwa, Takefumi Inoue, Hideki Takahashi, Masaki Sawada
  • Patent number: 10599241
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch panel and a method for manufacturing the same, and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a substrate, a touch electrode provided in a touch region of the substrate, and a plurality of signal transmission lines provided in a non-touch wiring region of the substrate, the non-touch wiring region of the substrate is located in a bezel of the touch panel, the signal transmission lines are coupled to the touch electrode for transmitting a touch signal, the signal transmission lines in the non-touch wiring region are arranged in at least two layers overlapping with each other, and the signal transmission lines of adjacent layers are insulated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning Li, Jianming Jiang, Wei Gu, Tengli Wang, Daqing Sun, Ganlin Ruan
  • Patent number: 10578904
    Abstract: In a field sequential type liquid crystal display apparatus in which each frame period is configured with first to fourth transparent subframe periods and blue, green, white, and blue subframe periods, a backlight unit is driven as follows. Light sources are in a turn-off state in the transparent subframe periods. In a second half of the blue, green, and red subframe periods, each of blue, green, and red light sources is in a turn-on state. In a second half of a white subframe, all light sources are in the turn-on state. Driving image data that corresponds to such a configuration of the frame period is generated from input image data, and a liquid crystal panel is driven based on the driving image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masamitsu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10576824
    Abstract: A representation of information on a movably mounted display surface is controlled depending on the available space on the display surface. In order to allow an optimal usability of the display surface a portion of the display surface which is hidden from view of a passenger compartment when the display surface moves physically and a remaining, still visible portion of the display surface, are defined. The remaining, still visible portion, defines the available space on the display surface. In addition, depending on the physical movement of the display surface and a consequential accompanying size change of the visible portion, a layout of the representation of the information is changed such that the information is displayed on the visible portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jacques Hélot, Joris Mertens
  • Patent number: 10580381
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of accounting for the kickback voltage in an LCD display. For example, a method may include obtaining, via a processor, a difference between a nominal voltage of a common electrode of a display and a measured voltage of the common electrode. The processor may obtain image data associated with an image to be displayed on the display. The processor may adjust the image data of a pixel of the display based on the difference. The processor may output an image signal indicative of the adjusted image data to a pixel electrode of the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Chaohao Wang, Paolo Sacchetto, Yunhui Hou