Patents Examined by Nathan Brittingham
  • Patent number: 9693087
    Abstract: The communication apparatus obtains a projection image to be projected. In a case where a change from a first projection image to a second projection image has been detected, the communication apparatus distributes second distribution data based on the second projection image to an external apparatus. In a case where the second distribution data has already been distributed, the communication apparatus controls not to distribute data based on the second projection image as new distribution data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kensuke Inagaki
  • Patent number: 9600027
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a device, including: a primary display unit; and at least one mounting mechanism operatively coupled to at least one side of said primary display unit that allows the mounting of at least one additional display unit; the mounting mechanism including electrical connections that facilitate detection of said additional display unit. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Robert Brian Postage
  • Patent number: 9575592
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including: a display panel including data lines and gate lines; a touch screen including a plurality of touch screens; a data driving circuit for supplying a data voltage to the data lines; a gate driving circuit for supplying a gate voltage to the gate lines; a touch sensing circuit for applying a driving signal to the touch sensors to sense a change in a voltage or a capacitance value of the touch sensors; and a timing controller for time-dividing a first frame period into a first driving period for sensing the touch sensors and a second driving period for performing display on the display panel, wherein the timing controller performs a control to supply a data voltage to a first area of the first driving period adjacent to a boundary surface between the first driving period and the second driving period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: SungChul Kim
  • Patent number: 9575566
    Abstract: Technologies for performing two-dimensional gesture recognition are described. In some embodiments the technologies include systems, methods, and computer readable media for performing two-dimensional gesture recognition on one or more input images. In some embodiments the technologies use an object detector to detect one or more suspected gestures in an input image, and to generate a first set of hits correlating to detected gestures in the input image. At least a portion of false positive hits may then be removed by the application of one or more filters to the first set of hits. Custom hand gesture filters are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron DeBattista, Michael E. Kounavis
  • Patent number: 9569044
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel having a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display-region. The touch panel comprises a transparent substrate, a sensing electrode layer, a conductive light-shielding layer, an insulated light-shielding layer, and a wiring layer. The conductive light-shielding layer is formed in the non-display region and between the sensing electrode layer and the wiring layer, and the whole non-display region is covered by the conductive light-shielding layer and the insulated light-shielding layer. With such an arrangement, the touch panel not only maintains the signal transmit function, but also ensures good optical performance in the display region near its interface. Accordingly, a touch screen comprising the touch panel can have good touch sensing functions and good optical performance at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: LIYITEC INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Shu-Chen Hsu
  • Patent number: 9563306
    Abstract: Disclosed is a touch sensor, including: a plurality of driving electrodes; a plurality of detection electrodes positioned to cross the driving electrodes; and a driver configured to supply driving signals corresponding to driving codes to the driving electrodes, in which the driver supplies the same driving signal as that of a previous driving period to a corresponding driving electrode for a current driving period when the driving code is set to a first value, and supplies a driving signal different from that of the previous driving period to the corresponding driving electrode for the current driving period when the driving code is set to a second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd., UNIST Academy—Industry Research Corporation
    Inventors: Junil Kwon, Jaejoon Kim, Franklin Don Bien, Hyunggun Ma, Sanghyun Heo
  • Patent number: 9564080
    Abstract: A display device includes a panel assembly including: a display area including a plurality of pixels, and a non-display area at a periphery of the display area; an optical measuring component at the non-display area of the panel assembly and configured to measure light generated from the pixels; and a controller configured to control the panel assembly to sequentially display an emission pattern in which the pixels emit light and a non-emission pattern in which the pixels do not emit light, wherein the controller is configured to calculate a pure emission value by comparing an emission measurement value obtained by measuring the emission pattern through the optical measuring component with a non-emission measurement value obtained by measuring the non-emission pattern through the optical measuring component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Byoung-Kwan An
  • Patent number: 9513705
    Abstract: An electronic device including a housing having a first surface and a second surface, and an interactive display having a keyboard-enabled mode and a keyboard-disabled mode. The interactive display includes a first image display device disposed at the first surface that displays image data, and a physical keypad disposed at the second surface that provides tactile feedback to a user only when the interactive display is in the keyboard-enabled mode, the physical keypad being substantially smooth when the interactive display is in the keyboard-disabled mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: TACTILE DISPLAYS, LLC
    Inventor: R. O'Neal Gray
  • Patent number: 9513724
    Abstract: A method for adjusting object illumination with a mobile device having a display device is described. The method includes detecting illumination of an object and generating illumination data information; and adjusting a luminance of the display device in dependence on the object illumination data to adjust image lighting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Alexander Samson Hirsch
  • Patent number: 9489167
    Abstract: A display unit that moves into a first position and a second position with respect to a main body portion includes setting, where the display unit is in the first position, any of a plurality of settings including a first setting, with which a normal image of an image is displayed, and a second setting, with which a mirror image of an image is displayed, and displaying, where the display unit is in the second position with the first setting, an image that has an orientation opposite to that of the image displayed when the display unit is in the first position with the first setting, and when the display unit is in the second position with the second setting, an image is displayed with the same orientation as the image displayed when the display unit is in the first position with the second setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kurumi Mori, Tomohiro Ota, Toshimichi Ise, Akio Yoshikawa, Kyota Saito
  • Patent number: 9489068
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for preventing an accidental touch operation. The method includes determining, when detecting a touch point in a display area on a touch screen, whether the touch point is within an invalid touch area based on the detected touch point in the display area; and making a response to the touch point only if it is determined that the touch point is not within the invalid touch area. If it is determined that the touch point is within the invalid touch area, no response to the touch point is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kun Niu, Xinyu Liu, Zhongliang Qiao
  • Patent number: 9436325
    Abstract: A capacitive sensing device detects the presence of an actively modulated input object, such as an active pen, using a matrix of sensor electrodes. The capacitive sensing device include receiver channels configured to perform capacitive sensing of the active pen based on one frequency, and other receiver channels configured to perform capacitive sensing of other input objects based on another frequency. The receiver channels for sensing the active pen may be multiplexed across the matrix of sensor electrodes to track the location of the active pen in a tracking window manner. The receiver channels for sensing the active pen may also be multiplexed across the matrix of sensor electrodes to broadly search for the location of the active pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Stephen L. Morein, Joseph Kurth Reynolds
  • Patent number: 9436304
    Abstract: In one general aspect, a method can include receiving a plurality of indicators of interactions of a user with a plurality of locations of a touch-sensitive surface of an input area included in a base portion of a computing device. The method further includes receiving a plurality of indicators of pressure associated with at least a portion of the plurality of interactions, selecting a first interaction profile based on a first portion of the plurality of indicators of interactions and based on a first portion of the plurality of indicators of pressure, associating a first input mode with the first portion of the plurality of indicators of interactions based on the first interaction profile. The method still further includes associating a second input mode with a second portion of the plurality of indicators of interactions based on a second interaction profile different from the first interaction profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Leiba, Daniel Fourie, Matthew Dominic Tenuta, Aaron Matthew Eash
  • Patent number: 9436333
    Abstract: A processing method for implementing high resolution output of a capacitive touch pad on a low-end single-chip microcomputer. The low-end single-chip microcomputer device comprises a master control single-chip microcomputer unit (MCU), a self-checking capacitance sensing module and a capacitive touch pad. The master control single-chip microcomputer module controls the self-checking capacitance sensing module to obtain source data acquired by the self-checking capacitance sensing module from the capacitive touch pad, then the source data are subjected to touch position computing by the master control single-chip microcomputer to obtain an original coordinate data of a touch point, and then a coordinate position can be obtained through an optimizing computation processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: GEMSTAR TECHNOLOGY (CHINA) CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Ivan Li
  • Patent number: 9424770
    Abstract: An error compensator and an organic light emitting display device using the same. The organic light emitting display device includes pixels each having a driving transistor and an organic light emitting diode; and a sensing unit extracting at least one of a first information including the threshold voltage of the driving transistor or a second information including the degradation of the organic light emitting diode from a pixel of the pixels. In the organic light emitting display device, the sensing unit includes an amplifier amplifying a voltage corresponding to the at least one of the first information or the second information; and an error compensator compensating for error components of elements included in the amplifier and the error compensator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Yeon Kim, Oh-Jo Kwon, Hee-Sun Ahn
  • Patent number: 9423950
    Abstract: A display control apparatus, allowing a plurality of input operations to be performed by a touch panel, increasing application performance, and decreasing power consumption, is realized. The display control apparatus performs a coordinate sampling processing at a short (fast) coordinate sampling cycle t1 until a predetermined time T elapses from the starting of touch, and performs the sampling in a coordinate sampling cycle t2 that is longer (slower) than t1 after the predetermined time T elapses. The display control apparatus can certainly distinguish an operation in a coordinate sampling cycle of a necessary minimum speed by setting a coordinate sampling cycle to be high-speed at immediately after starting, and changing a coordinate sampling cycle to be low-speed in the other period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasutaka Naka
  • Patent number: 9417740
    Abstract: An apparatus including a plurality of capacitive sensing cells distributed over a sensing area, wherein each capacitive sensing cell includes a capacitive sensor electrode and at least one switch; a plurality of output conductive traces, wherein each output conductive trace is configured to provide an output from multiple capacitive sensing cells; a plurality of control conductive traces, wherein each control conductive trace is configured to provide a control input to multiple capacitive sensing cells, wherein the switch of a capacitive sensing cell is configured to be controlled by one of the plurality of control conductive traces to enable a conductive path between the capacitive sensor electrode of the capacitive sensing cell and one of the plurality of output conductive traces; and a shield electrode overlying at least portions of the output conductive traces or the control conductive traces while exposing at least portions of the capacitive sensor electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jyri Rauhala, Juha Harri-Pekka Nurmi, Seppo Turunen
  • Patent number: 9411474
    Abstract: An apparatus including: an array of capacitive sensor electrodes including a plurality of distinct capacitive sensor electrodes distributed over a sensing area; conductive traces connected to respective ones of the plurality of distinct capacitive sensor electrodes; and a shield electrode overlying, in the sensing area, conductive traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jyri Kalervo Rauhala, Seppo Tapio Turunen
  • Patent number: 9405369
    Abstract: A user interface device includes a flexible layer comprising a touch surface configured to receive a touch by a user, a plurality of haptic cells covered by the flexible layer, each haptic cell comprising a haptic output device, a sensor configured to sense an amount and/or rate of deformation of the flexible layer when a user touches the touch surface, and a processor configured to receive an output signal from the sensor, generate a haptic control signal based on the output signal from the sensor, and output the haptic control signal to at least one haptic output device of the plurality of haptic cells to cause the haptic output device to deform an associated haptic cell in response to the sensed deformation of the flexible layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Immersion Corporation, Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Modarres, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Danny A. Grant, Vincent Levesque
  • Patent number: 9405391
    Abstract: Techniques for reflowing content on a handheld electronic device are described herein. For example, content may be rendered on a display of a handheld electronic device. A user may grasp the device. In some cases, grasping the device may cause at least a portion of the rendered content to be obscured. The device may reflow the rendered content. For example, the device may reflow the content around the grasp of the user to enable the rendered content to be viewed without the user's grasp being altered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: James D. Mackraz