Patents Examined by Nelson Rosario
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Patent number: 10168779Abstract: A vehicle operating device includes: a pad surface that is operated by contact with a finger of an operator; an X-direction actuator and a Y-direction actuator that move the pad surface in directions parallel to the pad surface; a track pad that detects a contact position of the finger of the operator on the pad surface; and a display controller and a display unit that display at least one item on a display screen, change a display mode on the display screen in accordance with the contact operation with the finger of the operator on the pad surface, and sets a virtual cursor that virtually moves on the display screen. When the virtual cursor reaches a boundary of the item, the X-direction actuator and the Y-direction actuator move the pad surface in a direction of the contact operation of the finger of the operator.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Nobuteru Takeshi
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Patent number: 10170052Abstract: A display device may include a plurality of pixels and a driving circuit. The plurality of pixels may respectively include a plurality of pixel circuits each having at least one transistor, and a plurality of display structures connected to the plurality of pixel circuits. The driving circuit may drive the plurality of pixels. The plurality of display structures may define a display region of the display device, and the driving circuit may be disposed at a center portion of the display region.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hui Nam, Myung-Ho Lee
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Patent number: 10162386Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel and a folding part. The display panel includes an edge part curving in a first direction and a flat part connected the edge part. The folding part is below the flat part and is used to fold the display panel. The edge part includes a groove in a central portion of the edge part in a second direction crossing the first direction, and the groove extends in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jongho Chong, Eunjung Lee, Suyoung Kim
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Patent number: 10157577Abstract: Disclosed are a shift register element, a gate driver circuit, and an organic electroluminescent display panel, and the shift register element includes: a first input module, a first control module, a first scan signal output module, and a first light emission signal output module, or a second input module, a second control module, a second scan signal output module, and a second light emission signal output module, where these four modules can cooperate with each other to output both a scan signal and a light emission signal so as to lower the complexity of the circuit, to reduce a space to be occupied, and to facilitate a design of a display panel with a narrow border.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kai Zhang
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Patent number: 10150025Abstract: A method for motivating a user including the steps of providing a device with an image capturing feature; capturing an image of the user with the image capturing feature; transmitting the captured image to an identity verification device; comparing biometric data from the image to a biometric profile provided by the user; generating a motivational image of the user with a processing device, the motivational image being produced from an acquired image of the user, the acquired image depicting at least one feature of the user; and displaying the motivational image from the processing device in substantially real time to the user; wherein the motivational image exclusively depicts a real image of the user having enhanced dimensions for the at least one feature.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Envisionbody, LLCInventor: Salina Dearing Ray
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Patent number: 10150026Abstract: A method for motivating a user including the steps of providing a device with an image capturing feature; capturing an image of the user with the image capturing feature; modifying the captured image with a processing device to produce a motivational image of the user, the motivational image depicting at least one enhanced feature of the user; and displaying the motivational image from the processing device in substantially real time to the user; wherein the motivational image exclusively depicts a real image of the user having enhanced dimensions for the at least one feature.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Envisionbody, LLCInventor: Salina Dearing Ray
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Patent number: 10146262Abstract: A detachable head-mounted-display strap-interface apparatus may include (1) a strap that includes an electrical accessory that necessitates an electrical connection to a head-mounted display and (2) a mount coupled to the strap that includes (a) an interface that is mateable and demateable to an opposing interface of the head-mounted display, (b) an electrical connector that is configured to provide the electrical connection from the electrical accessory to the head-mounted display when contacting an opposing electrical connector of the head-mounted display, and (c) a latch that couples, in a first orientation, the interface and the opposing interface of the head-mounted display and enables, in a second orientation, the interface to be decoupled from the opposing interface of the head-mounted display and the electrical connector to be disconnected from the opposing electrical connector. Various other detachable head-mounted-display strap-interface apparatus, devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Oculus, VR, LLCInventors: Lesley Ribble Magrath, Paul Bongkyu Koh
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Patent number: 10147368Abstract: An image processing method includes: (a) calculating an average value of grayscale values of each of pixels in a global raw image; (b) calculating Mura threshold values of the grayscale values of all of the pixels in a local raw image; (c) calculating Mura compensation values for each of the pixels of the local raw image in accordance with the Mura threshold value; (d) obtaining updated grayscale values of each of the pixels in the local raw image by adding the grayscale values of each of the pixels in the local raw image and the corresponding Mura compensation values; (e) displaying the updated image; (f) repeating step (b) to (e) for a plurality of times for the updated image with a changed dimension, and calculating a standard deviation.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventor: Yuan Zhang
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Patent number: 10140927Abstract: A driving circuit for driving a light emitting unit includes a gray scale generation circuit and a driving unit, and a gray scale generation circuit, includes a shift register unit and a data storage unit. The shift register unit receives a luminance-related data, and the shift register unit is a k-bit shift register unit. The data storage unit has parallel input ends and a serial output end. The data storage unit receives the luminance-related data via its parallel input ends and serially outputs bits of the luminance-related data to generate a serial signal. The data storage unit determines time points to output different bits of the serial signal to generate a gray-scale control signal according to a serial-out control signal. The driving unit is coupled to the gray scale generation circuit to adjust a light-emitting time of the light emitting unit according to the gray-scale control signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: MY-SEMI INC.Inventors: Chun-Ting Kuo, Cheng-Han Hsieh
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Patent number: 10139971Abstract: A touch display panel and a display device are disclosed which achieve touch function and narrow bezel function while the required number of the vertical wiring is reduced and the aperture ratio of the touch display panel is increased.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yanchen Li, Peizhi Cai, Xi Chen, Xu Cao, Fengchun Pang, Jinyu Li, Xingyou Luo, Lei Ma
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Patent number: 10139949Abstract: An input device according to an embodiment includes an electrostatic sensor, an operation surface, and a sensitivity adjusting layer. The electrostatic sensor includes a planar detection surface. The operation surface is non-parallel to the detection surface. The sensitivity adjusting layer is adjusted so that a region in which a distance between the operation surface and the detection surface is larger has a higher electric permittivity.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LIMITEDInventor: Toshiharu Matta
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Patent number: 10127872Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a data driving part and a gate driving part. The gate driving part outputs gate signals to gate lines, respectively, increases the gate signal from a first gate off voltage to a gate on voltage, decreases the gate signal from the gate on voltage to the first gate off voltage, decreases the gate signal from the first gate off voltage to a second gate off voltage in a slope less than a slope in which the gate signal decreases from the gate on voltage to the first gate off voltage, during P (P is a natural number) horizontal time in which P gate line of the gate lines is driven, and increases the gate signal from the second gate off voltage to the first gate off voltage.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kihyun Pyun, Seung-Woon Shin
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Patent number: 10126873Abstract: An electronic handwriting device (e.g., a tablet device or smart phone) detects a first touch and a second touch (e.g., from a pen device) on or near a writing surface of the electronic handwriting device. The electronic handwriting device determines whether the first touch is a dropped touch. Upon determining that the first touch is a dropped touch, the electronic handwriting device applies data filtering to data that is potentially associated with the second touch. After the data filtering step, the electronic handwriting device determines whether to generate a stitching segment between a first line segment associated with the dropped touch and a second line segment associated with the second touch. The determination of whether to generate the stitching segment also may be based on other factors, such as the proximity of the second touch to the dropped touch.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventor: Charles Heart Ohi
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Patent number: 10120229Abstract: Disclosed are a touch panel and a method for manufacturing the same. The touch panel according to one embodiment includes the touch panel including a substrate, a first transparent electrode including a first sensor part formed on the substrate in a first direction and a first electrode connection part for electric connection of the first sensor part, and a second transparent electrode electrically insulated from the first transparent electrode, and including a second sensor part formed in a second direction crossing the first direction and a second electrode connection part for electric connection of the second sensor part. The second electrode connection part has a mesh shape. The touch panel according to another embodiment includes a substrate, a transparent electrode base spaced apart from the substrate, and a transparent electrode on the transparent electrode base.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyoung Hoon Chai, Byung Soo Kim, Keun Sik Lee, Sun Hwa Lee, Chung Won Seo, Hyuk Jin Hong
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Patent number: 10120478Abstract: Systems for detecting an amount and/or location of a force applied to a device using a piezoelectric film are provided. One example system can include a transparent piezoelectric film for generating an electric charge in response to a deformation of the film. Electrodes positioned on opposite surfaces of the piezoelectric film can be used to detect the generated electric charge and determine an amount and/or location of force applied to the film based on the generated electric charge. In another embodiment, the system can include a capacitive touch sensor for determining a location of a touch event on the device.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sinan Filiz, Brian Q. Huppi, Christopher J. Butler, Martin P. Grunthaner, Shahrooz Shahparnia, Sunggu Kang, Kai Wang
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Patent number: 10120458Abstract: A flexible display apparatus is provided. The flexible display apparatus includes a display configured to display content on a screen, a sensor configured to detect bending of the display from a first form to a second form, and a controller configured to reconstruct the content based on the bending and to display the reconstructed content in a first screen generated in one region of the display when it is determined that the display is restored to the first form.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ji-yeon Kwak, Sang-keun Jung, Jung-joo Sohn, Hyun-jin Kim, Geun-ho Lee
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Patent number: 10115361Abstract: A display device is presented which includes a timing control module, a source driving module and a gate driving module. The timing control module being configured to output a driving signal to the source driving module and the gate driving module respectively. The display device further includes a detection module and a reminding module. The detection module is configured to acquire the driving signal and detect the driving signal and configured to output a warning control signal to the reminding module when detecting an abnormity of the driving signal. The reminding module is configured to acquire the warning control signal output by the detection module and configured to output a warning under control of the warning control signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yongxin Zhang, Qingyong Li, Jianfu Liu
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Patent number: 10109254Abstract: A video processing circuit detects a boundary between a first pixel to which an application voltage which is a first voltage is applied, and a second pixel to which an application voltage which is a second voltage higher than the first voltage is applied, based on a video signal indicating a video which alternately switches a first video and a second video which is obtained by moving in parallel with the first video for each unit frame, corrects the application voltage such that a fringe electric field occurring at the boundary is decreased, when determining a boundary detected by the boundary detection unit in a kth unit frame does not exist in a (k?2)th unit frame, and the boundary is a boundary which is moved from a (k?1)th unit frame to the kth unit frame, and outputs the corrected video signal such that the liquid crystal panel is driven.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhisa Mizusako, Hiroyuki Hosaka
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Patent number: 10102800Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes pixel driving circuits to control pixels which include organic light emitting diodes. The pixel driving circuits include a first pixel driving circuit and a second pixel driving circuit, and the organic light emitting diodes include a first organic light emitting diode. The first organic light emitting diode emits light at a first brightness based on a driving current from the first pixel driving circuit in a first frame, and emits light at a second brightness based on a driving current from the second pixel driving circuit in a second frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2015Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jin-Tae Jeong
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Patent number: 10096375Abstract: A shift register unit comprises an input subcircuit for a first node to be a first level when a scan pulse is of the first level, an output subcircuit for driving an output terminal to be a first clock signal level when the first node is at the first level, a second node control subcircuit for connecting the second node with a second level when either of the scan pulse and the output terminal is of the first level, and connecting the second node with the first level when each of the scan pulse and the output signal is of the second level, a first reset subcircuit for driving the first node to be the second level when the second node is at the first level, and a second reset subcircuit for driving the output signal to be the second level when the second node is at the first level.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Silin Feng, Hongmin Li