Patents Examined by Nathaniel P Brittingham
  • Patent number: 10255834
    Abstract: A parallel redundant integrated-circuit system includes an input connection, an output connection and first and second active circuits. The first active circuit includes one or more first integrated circuits and has an input connected to the input connection and an output connected to the output connection. The second active circuit includes one or more second integrated circuits and is redundant to the first active circuit, has an input connected to the input connection, and has an output connected to the output connection. The second integrated circuits are separate and distinct from the first integrated circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: X-Celeprint Limited
    Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, Robert R. Rotzoll, Christopher Bower, Matthew Meitl
  • Patent number: 10254902
    Abstract: A touch sensor device includes first touch electrodes and second touch electrodes disposed on a substrate, and a polymer layer including a polymer material disposed on the first and second touch electrodes and on a substantially entire area of the substrate, in which the polymer layer includes conductive and non-conductive regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byeong-Jin Lee, Sung Ku Kang, Jung-Yun Kim, Joo-Han Bae, Dong Eun Lee, In Nam Lee
  • Patent number: 10228778
    Abstract: A touch-sensing system comprises an active stylus including a probe electrode and associated sensory logic. The sensory logic is configured to receive a synchronization pulse sequence via the probe electrode between consecutive touch-sensing frames of a capacitive touch screen, to use the synchronization pulse sequence to establish a timing scheme shared between the active stylus and the capacitive touch screen, to receive an excitation pulse via the probe electrode within a given touch-sensing frame, and to use the excitation pulse to maintain the shared timing scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Westhues, Tianzhu Qiao
  • Patent number: 10222920
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel device configured to execute touch panel drive processing while appropriately preventing discoloration of a semi in-cell touch panel. A touch panel-equipped display device 1000 includes a touch panel TP and a touch panel controller 1. The touch panel TP is configured as a semi in-cell touch panel, and includes a color filter layer, a sense electrode layer provided with sense electrodes Rx11 Rx38, and a drive electrode layer provided with drive electrodes Tx11 to Tx38. The sense electrode layer and the drive electrode layer oppose each other with the color filter layer interposed therebetween. The touch panel controller 1 generates a drive signal such that an integrated value of a potential difference between the drive electrode and the sense electrode is less than a first value in a predetermined period of driving the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Gotoh, Shinichi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 10216279
    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: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Tactile Display, LLC
    Inventor: R. O'Neal Gray
  • Patent number: 10217431
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel having fan-out lines, data lines, a first dummy line, and a second dummy line. The fan-out lines are sequentially disposed along a first direction. The data lines are connected to the fan-out lines at first through nodes. The first dummy line is connected to one of the nodes. The second dummy line is connected to another of the nodes. A first data driver is configured to output data voltages to some of the fan-out lines based on a data signal. A second data driver is configured to output voltages to other fan-out lines based on the data signal. A timing controller is configured to compensate the data signal based on a voltage of nodes that the dummy lines are connected to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyunho Kim, Sung-In Kang, Seunghwan Moon
  • Patent number: 10209771
    Abstract: A method is provided, including the following method operations: receiving captured images of an interactive environment in which a head-mounted display (HMD) is disposed; receiving inertial data processed from at least one inertial sensor of the HMD; analyzing the captured images and the inertial data to determine a predicted future location of the HMD; using the predicted future location of the HMD to adjust a beamforming direction of an RF transceiver towards the predicted future location of the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Todd Tokubo
  • Patent number: 10206609
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are described that can facilitate recognition of an engagement between an object and a touch screen in the absence of human contact. Upon the engagement, an electrically conductive path can be established that extends from a surface of the touch screen such that sufficient electrons flow from the touch screen through the electrically conductive path to enable the recognition of the object on the touch screen in the absence of human contact with the object during continued presence of the object on the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jay L. Alberts, David D. Schindler
  • Patent number: 10198099
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus may include a control unit to control processing on an operation object, where an operation right of the operation object is given to a user, displayed on a display unit based on detection of a user from at least one information signal input to the apparatus from outside of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Yusuke Sakai
  • Patent number: 10198997
    Abstract: A scan driving circuit includes a plurality of stages, each having a shift register and a scan signal output unit. The shift register has a first node to receive a first driving voltage according to a control signal and a second node to receive the first driving voltage according to a reset signal. The scan signal output unit outputs scan signals to respective scan lines. The scan signal output unit has a plurality of clock switches controlled according to a voltage of the first node and a plurality of switches controlled according to a voltage of the second node. The clock switches sequentially output clock signals to respective third nodes, which are connected to respective scan lines. The switches output a second driving voltage to the third nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Tae Jeong, Ji Su Na
  • Patent number: 10191709
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes an image inputter configured to perform communication with an external device; and a processor configured to: determine a resolution of image contents received through the image inputter, determine a bandwidth to transmit the received image contents to another display apparatus based on the determined resolution, determine a processing mode to transfer the received image contents to the different display apparatus, and control the image inputter to transmit the image contents processed according to the determined processing mode based on the determined bandwidth to the other display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seo-ye Seo, Dong-jin Kim
  • Patent number: 10185438
    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: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: GEMSTAR TECHNOLOGY (CHINA) CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Ivan Lee
  • Patent number: 10180726
    Abstract: A keyboard that can yield a favorable keying feeling to a user is disclosed. The keyboard includes multiple keys, a pressure sensor configured to sense a pressure used for pressing a key, a haptic device configured to generate haptic feedback that involves a micro vibration, and a feedback control unit configured to issue a signal used for driving the haptic device according to the pressure that the pressure sensor has sensed. In response to one-time key pressing, the feedback control unit issues a drive signal for generating a first haptic feedback when the pressure that the pressure sensor has sensed reaches a first threshold value, and a drive signal for generating a second haptic feedback when the pressure that the pressure sensor has sensed reaches a second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Yasushi Tsukamoto, Fusanobu Nakamura, Mitsuhiro Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10175764
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling an operation of a camera that allows a user to conveniently control a camera apparatus according to a gesture of a subject input through a lens of a camera, and the camera apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving an image input through a camera lens; generating an image frame; detecting a motion of a subject included in the image frame by comparing the image frame with at least one previous frame stored before the image frame is generated; determining whether the motion of the subject is a User Interface (UI) gesture; and performing, if the motion is the UI gesture, an operation corresponding to the UI gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sung-Do Choi, Moon-Sik Jeong, Ivan Koryakovskiy, Arin Jumpasut
  • Patent number: 10175775
    Abstract: A keyboard set may be provided on chair armrests. The keyboard set includes a left keyboard, a right keyboard, a first detachable support, a second detachable support, and two multidirectional angle adjusting mechanisms. Each of the left keyboard and the right keyboard includes a plurality of keys. One end of the first detachable support is combined with the left keyboard, and one end of the second detachable support is combined with the right keyboard. The two multidirectional angle adjusting mechanisms are respectively provided between the first detachable support and the left keyboard, and between the second detachable support and the right keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Inventor: Bing-Yang Yao
  • Patent number: 10170054
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display that defines a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form as a plurality of pixel row groups, each of which includes the same number of pixel rows and individually drives the respective pixel row groups. The organic light emitting display includes a display unit including the plurality of pixels, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of scan lines: a scan driving unit configured to apply scan signals to the plurality of pixels; a data driving unit configured to apply data voltages that are provided to the plurality of pixels to a first output line; and a data distribution unit configured to selectively connect at least two data lines that are continuously arranged to the first output line according to demultiplexing signals. The demultiplexing signals that correspond to the pixel rows included in the respective pixel row groups have different pulse widths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Hun Park, Dong Wan Park, Myoung Seop Song
  • Patent number: 10168789
    Abstract: Systems and methods to facilitate user interactions with virtual content having two-dimensional representations and three-dimensional representations are presented herein. The system may include one or more of a headset, a mobile computing platform, and/or other components. The headset may be configured to provide an interactive space by generating images of virtual content that are superimposed over the user's view of the real-world. The interactive space may include views of virtual content having three-dimensional representation. The mobile computing platform may be configured to present virtual content having two-dimensional representations. The user may perform gestures to “move” virtual content from the two-dimensional representation on the mobile computing platform to a three-dimensional representation within the interactive space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Meta Company
    Inventors: Diego Leyton Soto, Cecilia Abadie, Florian Benjamin Radke
  • Patent number: 10082826
    Abstract: A device includes a processor and memory coupled to the processor. The memory is encoded with instructions that are executable by the processor to provide content signals. The device also includes a display screen extendable to present an extended portion comprising display pixels configured to display content using the content signals. The display screen comprises a scroll element which may provide a base substrate on which thin film circuits are fabricated, and may also provide motive force during retraction. The scroll element is attached to a pull bar and the pull bar is attached to an extensible support member that provides support during extension and retraction of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: I-BLADES, INC.
    Inventor: Peter C. Salmon
  • Patent number: 10048797
    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: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: SungChul Kim
  • Patent number: 10048795
    Abstract: A display device with fingerprint identification and touch detection includes a first substrate, a second substrate parallel to the first substrate, a display material layer configured between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a thin-film-transistor-and-sensing-electrode layer. The thin-film-transistor-and-sensing-electrode layer is disposed at one surface of the first substrate facing the display material layer. The thin-film-transistor-and-sensing-electrode layer has a plurality of sensing electrodes for performing fingerprint identification sensing and touch sensing at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin