Patents Examined by Nelson Lam
  • Patent number: 10739649
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display panel, wherein the driving brightness of a first pixel of the display panel is greater than the original brightness thereof, and a first pixel electrode partially overlaps with a first common electrode; the driving brightness of a second pixel is smaller than the original brightness thereof, and a second pixel electrode partially overlaps with a second common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., HKC Corporation Limited
    Inventor: Chihtsung Kang
  • Patent number: 10732997
    Abstract: A software application includes a plurality of views and an application state. The application includes instructions for displaying one or more views, where a respective view includes a respective gesture recognizer having a corresponding delegate, detecting one or more touches on a touch-sensitive surface, and processing a respective touch. The processing includes obtaining a receive touch value based on the application state by executing the delegate; when the receive touch value meets predefined criteria, processing the respective touch at the respective gesture recognizer; and conditionally sending information corresponding to the respective touch to the software application in accordance with an outcome of the processing by the respective gesture recognizer and in accordance with the receive touch value determined by the delegate. The software application is executed in accordance with the outcome of the processing of the respective touch by the respective gesture recognizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Joshua H. Shaffer, Bradford Allen Moore, Jason Clay Beaver
  • Patent number: 10719950
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that provides screen information to be displayed on an image display apparatus that is worn by a user on the head or face and used for viewing an image. On the basis of an image of a head mount display (HMD) captured by a camera mounted on an information terminal, the mutual positional relationship and posture between the HMD and the information terminal are grasped, and screen information transmitted from the information terminal is superimposed and displayed in a contents reproducing screen of the HMD being viewed with an appropriate posture at an appropriate position on the reproducing screen. Since only the information terminal is present with the same position and posture as in the real world in the contents reproducing screen, a user can perform a screen operation of the information terminal with the HMD on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenta Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 10706777
    Abstract: An image display device includes: a pixel array part formed of first to fourth scanning lines arranged in rows, signal lines arranged in columns, pixel circuits in a matrix connected to the scanning lines and signal lines, and a plurality of power source lines which supplies first to third potentials necessary for the operations of pixel circuit; a signal part which supplies a video signal to the signal lines; and a scanner part which supplies a control signal to the first to fourth scanning lines, and in turn scans the pixel circuit for every row, wherein the pixel circuits include a sampling transistor, a drive transistor, first to third switching transistors, a pixel capacitance, and a light emitting device, and a channel length of the drive transistor is made longer than a channel length of the switching transistors to suppress fluctuations in threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Yutaka Mitomi, Tetsuo Minami, Takao Tanikame
  • Patent number: 10699669
    Abstract: A circuit for duty cycle detection and correction, for a serial data transmitter. The circuit includes a pattern generator having a pattern data output configured to be selectively connected to the data input of the serial data transmitter, and a duty cycle detection circuit, connected to the output of the serial data transmitter. The pattern generator is configured to produce a pattern including a sequence including an odd number of consecutive zeros and a same number of consecutive ones. The duty cycle detection circuit is configured to measure a difference between a first interval and a second interval, in a signal at the output of the serial data transmitter, the first interval corresponding to the odd number of consecutive zeros within the sequence and the second interval corresponding to the odd number of consecutive ones within the sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Amir Amirkhany, Mohammad Hekmat
  • Patent number: 10699659
    Abstract: A gate driver on array (GOA) circuit includes cascaded GOA unit circuits. An nth stage GOA unit circuit includes a clock signal source, a constant voltage supply, a pull-up control circuit, a pull-up circuit, a downlink circuit, a pull-down circuit, a pull-down maintaining circuit, a bootstrap capacitor and a conducting control circuit. An output terminal of the pull-up control circuit is electrically connected to the pull-up circuit, the downlink circuit, the pull-down circuit, the pull-down maintaining circuit, and the bootstrap capacitor. The constant voltage supply is electrically connected to the pull-down maintaining circuit and the pull-down circuit. The clock signal source is electrically connected to the pull-up circuit, the downlink circuit, and the conducting control circuit. The conducting control circuit is electrically connected to the pull-down maintaining circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiangyang Xu
  • Patent number: 10664103
    Abstract: A curved display apparatus providing an air touch input function including: a curved display including a concavely curved monitor to display a three-dimensional image; a three-dimensional filter unit having the same radius of curvature as the curved monitor and disposed in front of the curved monitor; a position input unit disposed in front of the three-dimensional filter unit and configured to detect a three-dimensional position according to a user's non-touch motion in a predetermined sensing region; and an image control unit configured to control a three-dimensional image displayed on the curved monitor by transmitting position information sensed through position input unit to the curved display, wherein air touch input through a user's non-touch motion is performed in a concave region of the curved display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: TOVIS CO., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Beom Kim, Joon Seog Kim
  • Patent number: 10649536
    Abstract: Hand dimensions are determined for hand and gesture recognition with a computing interface. An input sequence of frames is received from a camera. Frames of the sequence are identified in which a hand is recognized. Points are identified in the identified frames corresponding to features of the recognized hand. A value is determined for each of a set of different feature lengths of the recognized hand using the identified points for each identified frame. Each different feature length value is collected for the identified frames independently of each other feature length value. Each different feature length value is analyzed to determine an estimate of each different feature length, and the estimated feature lengths are applied to a hand tracking system, the hand tracking system for applying commands to a computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alon Lerner, Shahar Fleishman
  • Patent number: 10642048
    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein relate to folded optical systems for near-eye display. In one embodiment, an optical device includes a first polarizer, a second polarizer, and a partial reflector positioned between the first polarizer and the second polarizer. The first polarizer is configured to polarize incident light into light of a first circular polarization state. The second polarizer is configured to transmit light of a second circular polarization state and reflect light of the first circular polarization state without changing its polarization state. The partial reflector is configured to transmit light from the first polarizer, and reflect light from the second polarizer. The light reflected by the partial reflector and the light from the second polarizer have different polarization states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fenglin Peng, Lu Lu, Mengfei Wang, Ying Geng, Jacques Gollier
  • Patent number: 10621936
    Abstract: In an apparatus for modulating light, a spatial light modulator includes a plurality of pixels and configured to modulate input light in response to a drive voltage for each of the pixels. An input value setting unit is configured to set an input value for the each of pixels. The input value is a digital value, an entire gray level of the digital value is “N”, and “N” is a natural number. A converting unit is configured to convert the input value to a control value. A control value is a digital value, an entire gray level of the control value is “M”, and “M” is a natural number greater than “N”. A driving unit is configured to convert the control value to a voltage value and drive the each of the pixels in response to the drive voltage corresponding to the voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Naoya Matsumoto, Takashi Inoue, Norihiro Fukuchi, Yuji Kobayashi, Tsutomu Hara
  • Patent number: 10613653
    Abstract: A dual-sided display device includes a first display panel having one side portion provided with a first solder pad; a second display panel arranged opposite to the first display panel and having one side portion provided with a second solder pad; and a flexible circuit board including an input end, a first output end, and a second output end. The first output end is electrically connected with the first solder pad. The second output end is electrically connected with the second solder pad. The input end receives an input signal. This structural arrangement helps lower down cost and make assembling and connection easy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yuejun Tang
  • Patent number: 10600387
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for controlling the same are provided. The method for controlling the display apparatus according to the present disclosure includes receiving an image; distinguishing the image into a plurality of blocks to detect a maximum pixel value each of the plurality of blocks; determining a target diffuser value usable for compensating for a duty of a backlight based on the detected maximum pixel value for each block; and driving the backlight for each of the plurality of blocks based on a backlight duty value compensated based on the target diffuser value. Therefore, the display apparatus according to the present disclosure may address a problem that gradation overcompensation occurs in a region of a certain block, when the backlight is driven in a unit of the plurality of blocks, using a local dimming mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwa-seok Seong, Young-hun Jo, Gang-mo Koo, Sang-su Lee
  • Patent number: 10565918
    Abstract: A pixel arrangement structure and a display panel. The pixel arrangement structure includes a first pixel unit including a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel and a fourth sub-pixel; a center of the first sub-pixel is coincident with a first vertex of a first virtual diamond; a center of the second sub-pixel is coincident with a second vertex of the first virtual diamond; a center of the third sub-pixel is coincident with a third vertex of the first virtual diamond; and a center of the fourth sub-pixel is coincident with a fourth vertex of the first virtual diamond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuan Wu, Luxia Jiang, Hongwei Dai
  • Patent number: 10545590
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, at least a connecting pad and at least a strengthening sheet. The substrate has a display area and a periphery area around the display area. The connecting pad is disposed in the periphery area. The strengthening sheet is disposed in the periphery area and at an edge of the connecting pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc.
    Inventors: Yuncong Su, Zhuanyuan Zhang, Yan Lin, Li Huang
  • Patent number: 10528176
    Abstract: A touch display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, a driving method thereof and a display device. The touch display panel includes: a display region which is provided with a touch circuit; and a non-display region which is provided with a near field communication (NFC) antenna circuit and a control circuit. The NFC antenna circuit includes at least one coil, a first connecting line connected with one end of the coil, and a second connecting line connected with another end of the coil; and the first connecting line and the second connecting line are connected with the control circuit, and the first connecting line and the second connecting line are connected or disconnected with each other under the control of the control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haodi Liu, Hongna Ye
  • Patent number: 10528137
    Abstract: A control interface with haptic feedback for a motor vehicle to take into account an action of a user by providing the user with a haptic feedback. The control unit includes a magnetorheological fluid module that has a rotary element which rotates about an axis of the magnetorheological fluid module, said rotary element being in contact with magnetorheological fluid and designed to be coupled to a grip element, and an application unit for applying a magnetic field to the magnetorheological fluid, designed to modify the strength of the magnetic field. The control interface also includes a control unit having a fixed tactile surface arranged at the centre of the grip element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: DAV
    Inventors: Stéphane Vanhelle, Jean-Marc Tissot
  • Patent number: 10477170
    Abstract: Undesirably high energy-consumption in illuminating devices can be caused at least in part by wasted (attenuated) light. Optically efficient illumination systems that may be used to project light, including images, use light redirection. Phase modulating devices may be applied to create desired light fields. Some embodiments provide dual or multiple modulation display or projection systems in which some or all of the modulators not only attenuate amplitude, but also amplify amplitude, or change the phase, frequency and polarization of the light provided by the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: MTT Innovation Incorporated
    Inventors: Gerwin Damberg, Anders Ballestad
  • Patent number: 10446082
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a pixel circuit including a reset module, a data write module, a storage module, a compensation and hold module, a drive module, and a light emitting device. The reset module is connected to the storage module and the light emitting device. The data write module is connected to the drive module. The compensation and hold module is connected to the drive module and the storage module. The storage module is connected to the drive module. The drive module is connected to the light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xueguang Hao, Hongfei Cheng, Zhanjie Ma, Yong Qiao, Xinyin Wu
  • Patent number: 10446097
    Abstract: A method for detecting grayscale compensation data of a LCD panel is provided. The method includes obtaining a first grayscale compensation data according tothephotographed screen of the LCD panel in the brightest state. According to a second grayscale value to be photographed, a predetermined grayscale compensation data scaling algorithm, and the first grayscale compensation data, a second grayscale compensation data corresponding to the second grayscale value is calculated and used to compensate a second grayscale data. The display screen of the LCD panel driving by the compensated second grayscale data is then photographed to obtain a third grayscale compensation data. The third grayscale compensation data is the grayscale compensation data of the LCD panel itself corresponding to the second grayscale value. The influence of the brightness difference of the test backlight module is eliminated. The grayscale compensation data of the LCD panel itself is accurately obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hua Zhang
  • Patent number: 10444864
    Abstract: A multifunctional wireless ring mouse with a laser pointer function includes a mouse body, an optical sensor cover, a rotating sleeve, a finger ring, a steel loop, a wheel, a laser emission port and an optical sensor, wherein a screw guide hole, a charging socket and the laser emission port are arranged on an upper end of the mouse body, a power switch is arranged on a back side of the mouse body, the wheel, a selection button, a confirmation button, and a laser micro switch are arranged on a left side of the mouse body; a cylinder is arranged on a lower end of the mouse body; an outer groove is arranged outside the cylinder, an inner groove is arranged on an inner cylindrical wall of the cylinder, and a limit protruded ridge is arranged within the inner groove; a flange is arranged on the optical sensor cover, and limit ridge is arranged on the flange; a limit ring, a limit protruded ridge and a positioning screw are arranged on the rotating sleeve; a through groove is arranged on the finger ring, and the st
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: Chongqing Industry Polytechnic College, Chongqing Zhire Technology Development Company, Chongqing Ruihao Technology Development Company
    Inventors: Gang Ouyang, Jingyun Ouyang, Shu Su