Patents Examined by Ngan T Pham Lu
  • Patent number: 11003262
    Abstract: An input knob for use with a touch screen device includes stationary and moveable members. The stationary member adheres to a touch screen of the device. The moveable member moves relative to the stationary member, and is secured to the surface via the stationary member. The moveable member produces touch events on the touch surface as bits of data in response to movement of the moveable member. The moveable member may include a rotary encoder. The stationary member may include conductive pads in contact with the surface and in selective contact with a conductive mass of the moveable member. The moveable member may be ring-shaped, removeable and repositionable with respect to the surface, and/or constructed of or coated by dielectric materials. The knob may lack a direct hardwired electrical connection to or through the surface. A display system includes the touch screen device and knob.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Allen Pfau, Rhodri Elliott, David Michael Whitton
  • Patent number: 10997946
    Abstract: Methods and systems relating generally to information displays, and more particularly to systems and methods for setting or dynamically adjusting the illumination pulses of a display or portions of a display on an individual color channel (typically R, G, B) basis. The illumination pulses may be adjusted for a plurality of frames at once, or on a frame by frame basis. The illumination pulses may be controlled for an entire image frame, or the illumination pulse may be controlled on a finer basis, for instance on separate areas or sub-regions of a display. Such adjustments can lead to improved sharpness, brightness, or useable lifetime of the display, and can eliminate or reduce discrepancies of visual artifacts in the visual field by providing separate or variable duty cycle capability on an individual color channel basis to the display for use in combination with display images, particularly for use with close-eye display orientations such as those used in augmented reality or virtual reality applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: VALVE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeremy Selan, Montgomery V. Goodson
  • Patent number: 10997941
    Abstract: An ESL driver circuit to be coupled to a host circuit and an ESL panel includes an ESL driver and a controlling transistor. The ESL driver has a serial clock input coupled to the serial clock port of the ESL driver circuit, a serial data input coupled to the serial data port of the ESL driver circuit, a control input coupled to the control port of the ESL driver circuit, and a busy output. The controlling transistor has a control terminal coupled to the busy output of the ESL driver, a first terminal coupled to a supply voltage level via a resistor, and a second terminal coupled to a ground level, and is configured to receive the busy output of the ESL driver to generate a busy signal at the first terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Ching-Lun Chen
  • Patent number: 10997921
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light-emitting display device. The organic light-emitting display device includes at least a pixel circuit comprising an organic light-emitting diode and a driving transistor for driving the organic light-emitting diode; a first supply voltage line transferring a first voltage to the pixel circuit; at least a second supply voltage line transferring the first voltage to the pixel circuit during a first period and transferring a second voltage to the pixel circuit during a second period; and a switch connected between the first supply voltage line and the second supply voltage line, wherein the switch is turned on during the first period and turned off during the second period. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a structure for reducing variations in supply voltages of an organic light-emitting display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Il Shin, HyoYoung Jun, SangHoon Jeong
  • Patent number: 10962785
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device comprises a first camera and a second camera, a microphone, a display, and a processor electrically connected to the first camera, the second camera, the microphone, and the display, wherein the processor can be set to display, on the display, a user interface (UI) including a plurality of objects, acquire user gaze information from the first camera, activate, among the plurality of objects, a first object corresponding to the gaze information, determine at least one method of input, corresponding to a type of the activated first object, between a gesture input acquired from the second camera and a voice input acquired by the microphone, and execute the function corresponding to the input for the first object While an activated state of the first object is maintained, if the input of the determined method is applicable to the first object. In addition, various embodiments identified through the specification are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Woong Hwang, Young Ah Seong, Say Jang, Seung Hwan Choi
  • Patent number: 10937350
    Abstract: A voltage control circuit and a method of controlling the same, and a display device are provided. The comparison sub-circuit is coupled to a first reference voltage end, a second reference voltage end, a feedback voltage end and a comparison output end which is coupled to the switching sub-circuit. The switching sub-circuit is further coupled to an output voltage end, an initial voltage end and a replacement voltage end. The comparison sub-circuit determines whether a voltage of the feedback voltage end is between the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage. The switching sub-circuit transmits a voltage of the initial voltage end to the output voltage end in response to a first control signal of the comparison output end; transmit a voltage of the replacement voltage end to the output voltage end in response to a second control signal of the comparison output end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: FUZHOU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weize Xu, Yichiang Lai, Zuwei Weng, Bin Weng, Jiujian Han, Qianglong Li, Nani Liu, Yupeng Huang
  • Patent number: 10936101
    Abstract: A touch display device, a display controller, a driving circuit, and a driving method. Even in the case that a rate (or an input cycle) at which an image supply device supplies image data is not synchronized with a rate (or a beacon cycle) at which a beacon signal for pen sensing is output to the display panel, display processing and touch sensing (e.g., pen sensing or finger sensing) is performed ordinarily by controlling data output processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: SungHoon Lee, Seungmok Shin, HoonBae Kim, SunYeop Kim
  • Patent number: 10909923
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes first to fifth transistors, a capacitor, and a light emitting element. The first transistor is coupled between first and second power lines, and includes a gate electrode coupled to a first node and a back-gate electrode coupled to a second node. The second transistor is coupled between a data line and the first node, and includes a gate electrode coupled to a first scan line. The third transistor is coupled between a third power line and the first node, and includes a gate electrode coupled to a reference scan line. The fourth transistor is coupled between a second node and a fourth power line, and includes a gate electrode coupled to a second scan line. The fifth transistor is coupled between a first power line and the one electrode of the first transistor, and includes a gate electrode coupled to a light-emitting control line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Hwi Kim, Na Young Kim, Chul Ho Kim, Wang Jo Lee, Jin Jeon
  • Patent number: 10908868
    Abstract: Performing data processing on a mobile device, where the mobile device includes a first display, a second display and a second touch panel; the first display is configured to: display a home screen which comprises an icon of a first application; display iconic controls of a first application in response to detecting a first gesture on the icon of the first application; the second display is configured to: display a first GUI of the first application in response to detecting the first gesture; the second touch panel is configured to: detect a second gesture on the second touch panel; display a second GUI of the first application on the second display in response to detecting the second gesture, wherein maintaining display iconic controls of the first application on the first display when displaying the second GUI on the second display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Juan Lan, Shuangxiong Wen, Qiang Peng
  • Patent number: 10910574
    Abstract: A display panel, terminal, and method are provided for display control in the technical field of display. The display panel may include: an image display panel; an optical sensor array in the image display panel. The optical sensor array may include a plurality of optical sensors arranged in an array. The display further includes a grating panel disposed above the optical sensor array. The grating panel includes an optical shading area that is not overlapped with an optical sensing area of the optical sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guosheng Li, Zhongsheng Jiang, Xiaoxing Yang
  • Patent number: 10852549
    Abstract: A method implemented by computer device of determining a correcting optical function to be applied on a virtual image to be displayed to a user of an optical system including an optical lens to be placed in front of a user eye and including a back face having an optical design; a see-through displaying device configured to display the virtual image towards the eye, the virtual image being transmitted at least through the back face of the optical lens defining a display area on the back face; the method includes a step, during which optical design data relating to the optical design of the back face of the optical lens are provided; a display area data providing step, during which display area data relative to at least one parameter of the display area are provided; and a correcting optical function determining step, during which a correcting optical function is determined based at least on the optical design data and on the display area data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Denis Rousseau, Benoit Callier, Marion Swital
  • Patent number: 10848753
    Abstract: A head-mounted display includes an eye tracking system, implemented to determine the location of the user's gaze, which is configured using a scanning laser assembly, photodetector, and a controller. Light with wavelengths within the infrared range is emitted toward the user's eye from the scanning laser and is reflected off at various emission angles. The reflected light is detected by a photodetector or plurality of photodetectors located along a periphery of the optics block. The photodetector records a signal intensity, determined by the emission angle of the reflected infrared light. The controller, having been previously calibrated to indicate eye movements based on these varying signal intensities, provides information pertaining to the location of the user's eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Dale Cavin, Alexander Jobe Fix, Andrew John Ouderkirk
  • Patent number: 10839765
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a gate on array (GOA) detection circuit and a detection method. The GOA detection circuit includes a GOA circuit module and a detection signal collection module. The GOA circuit module includes a plurality of scanning lines, a GOA circuit, a plurality of common control thin film transistors (TFT), and a plurality of single-stage control TFTs. An output end of each scanning line is connected to a signal collection line. A gate of each common control TFT is connected to a detection signal control wire of the detection signal collection module, and a source of each common control TFT is connected to the signal collection line. A test point for detecting an electrical signal is disposed on the signal collection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Di Zhang
  • Patent number: 10817070
    Abstract: This document describes techniques for radio frequency (RF) based micro-motion tracking. These techniques enable even millimeter-scale hand motions to be tracked. To do so, radar signals are used from radar systems that, with conventional techniques, would only permit resolutions of a centimeter or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jaime Lien, Erik M. Olson, Patrick M. Amihood, Ivan Poupyrev
  • Patent number: 10810938
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device which secures a sufficient compensation time during which a threshold voltage of a driving transistor is compensated by driving a display panel using a simultaneous emission driving method by which a plurality of pixels simultaneously emit light. The organic light emitting display device may reduce a length (or, a time) of a non-emission period by storing a data signal of a current frame into a second capacitor of the pixel in an emission period of a previous frame and by adjusting a voltage at a gate electrode of a driving transistor of the pixel based on a voltage stored in the second capacitor in a data writing period of the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ansu Lee, Jun Hyun Park, Boyong Chung, Kangmoon Jo
  • Patent number: 10795159
    Abstract: A micro display driving substrate for a head-mounted display (HMD) terminal unit worn by a user, comprises: an LCoS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) pixel array configured of one or more first electrode lines arranged while keeping a predetermined distance and one or more second electrode lines arranged to intersect with the first electrode lines while keeping a predetermined distance; a data driving unit for supplying the video data converted into an analog signal to the first electrode lines of the LCoS pixel array; a line driving unit for receiving the video control signal and providing a line selection signal for selecting a second electrode line; and a support control unit for driving a light source needed to display an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: RAONTECH INC.
    Inventor: Min-Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 10788718
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing the first substrate. A plurality of spacers is disposed between the first and second substrates. The first substrate includes a plurality of gate lines extending in a row direction, a plurality of data lines extending in a column direction, and a plurality of pixel electrodes. A first insulator covers the plurality of gate lines. A semiconductor layer is formed on the first insulator. A common electrode is formed on the second insulator and faces the plurality of pixel electrodes. A plurality of common lines extend along the plurality of data lines and supply common voltage to the common electrode. A plurality of seat regions are formed in which at least one of the plurality of gate lines, the semiconductor layer, and one of the plurality of data lines overlap to face the plurality of spacers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Teruhisa Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10788918
    Abstract: Disclosed is an in-cell touch type touch display device in which the number of touch lines is reduced to increase a transmittance, and the number of touch integrated circuits (ICs) is reduced to lower the manufacturing cost. The touch display device includes a touch display panel and a driving circuit unit. A plurality of touch sensors may be disposed in the touch display panel, and a plurality of subpixels including a common electrode may be provided between the plurality of touch sensors. The subpixels may be provided between the plurality of touch sensors which are adjacent to each other in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction. The driving circuit unit may include a touch driver, a touch sensing unit, and a power supply. The touch driver may supply a touch driving signal to the plurality of touch sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: TaeHyung Kim, HongSung Song, Jihye Jung
  • Patent number: 10782840
    Abstract: A touch panel includes first and second touch electrodes, an auxiliary touch electrode, plural counter touch electrodes, and first to third traces. The first electrode, the second touch electrode, and the auxiliary touch electrode respectively include first sub-touch electrodes, second sub-touch electrodes, and sub-auxiliary touch electrodes extending along a first direction. The first sub-touch electrodes are electrically connected to each other, second sub-touch electrodes electrically connected to each other, and sub-auxiliary touch electrodes electrically connected to each other. Two of the sub-auxiliary touch electrodes are respectively proximate to one of the first sub-touch electrodes and one of the second sub-touch electrodes. The counter touch electrodes are spaced apart from each other, in which the counter touch electrodes respectively extend along a second direction intersecting the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: HANNSTOUCH SOLUTION INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Sheng-Chia Lin
  • Patent number: 10783836
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method, and a liquid crystal display device, where the method includes: determining grayscale values of pixels in a zone image data block under a predetermined rule according to a received image signal; pre-obtaining a zone backlight value corresponding to the zone image data block according to the grayscale values; calculating an adjusted backlight value of a backlight zone corresponding to the zone image data block, based on the zone backlight value, a backlight value gain variable, and an ambient luminance revision variable; outputting the adjusted backlight value to a driver circuit of a backlight source in the backlight zone; and driving the backlight source according to the adjusted backlight value to control brightness of the backlight source in the backlight zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuxin Zhang, Shunming Huang, Zhicheng Song