Patents Examined by Ngan T Pham Lu
  • Patent number: 9895605
    Abstract: There is provided a system and method for communicating with a first peripheral device, of a plurality of peripheral devices, using a touch-sensitive system that has a processor and a touch surface. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method includes detecting, using the processor, a plurality of touches on the touch surface of the touch-sensitive system that are made by the first peripheral device. The method further includes identifying, using the processor, the first peripheral device based on the plurality of touches on the touch surface of the touch-sensitive system that are made by the first peripheral device. The method additionally includes communicating data, using the processor, to a receptive circuit of the first peripheral device in response to the identifying of the first peripheral device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher W. Heatherly, Armen Mkrtchyan, Jonathan Backer, Brian White
  • Patent number: 9891746
    Abstract: A display apparatus capable of image scanning and a driving method thereof are provided. A display apparatus capable of image scanning includes a plurality of contact sensors each of which includes an N-type transistor, a P-type transistor connected to a gate electrode of the N-type transistor, and a sensing capacitor, the plurality of contact sensors being arranged so as not to cover a unit color pixel area of a color filter layer; a first scan line to which a selective signal is periodically applied, the first scan line being connected to a source electrode of the N-type transistor; a second scan line to which a selective signal is applied followed by the first scan line, the second scan line being connected to the gate electrode and source electrode of the P-type transistor; and a readout line connected to the drain electrode of the N-type transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: CRUCIALTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Seong Bae, Ho Sik Jeon, Woo Young Choi, Jong Uk Kim, Jun Suk Lee, So Hyun Jeong, Ju An Yoon, Sang A Oh
  • Patent number: 9854089
    Abstract: A communications device receives a trigger event and, in response to the trigger event, retrieves identification information and identifies a correspondent entity associated with the trigger event based on the identification information. Communication information relating to one or more communications events associated with the correspondent entity is then retrieved, organized, and displayed in one or more views on the communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: David P. Conway
  • Patent number: 9830004
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a recognizing unit configured to recognize a position of an operator and a position of a hand or the like of the operator, a calculating unit configured to regard a position of the operator in a screen coordinate system set on a screen as an origin of an operator coordinate system and multiply a position of the hand or the like with respect to the origin of the operator coordinate system by a predetermined function, thereby calculating a position of display information corresponding to the hand or the like in the screen coordinate system, and a control unit configured to cause the display information to be displayed at the position in the screen coordinate system calculated by the calculating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Shigeta, Takuro Noda
  • Patent number: 9823785
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive device with stylus includes a touch panel, a touch panel drive unit, a stylus sense unit, and a measurement unit. A touch by a stylus proximate to a touch panel electrode changes a capacitive coupling between the touch panel electrode and a stylus electrode. The amplitude of the response signal is responsive to the capacitive coupling between the touch panel electrode and the stylus electrode, and is measured to provide an indication of the position of the stylus electrode relative to the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Billy L. Weaver, Thomas J. Rebeschi, Brock A. Hable
  • Patent number: 9812051
    Abstract: A video processing circuit for specifying an applied voltage that is applied to a liquid crystal included in each pixel on the basis of a video signal, the video processing circuit includes a correction unit configured to, if the applied voltage specified by the video signal is a voltage of a level lower than a voltage level that is sufficient to an extent that can provide liquid crystal molecules with initial inclination angles, perform correction so that the applied voltage has a voltage level that is sufficient to an extent that can provide the liquid crystal molecules with initial inclination angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosaka, Hidehito Iisaka
  • Patent number: 9799285
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel which displays an image, a compensation area determiner which divides a display area of the display panel into a compensation area and a normal area, a compensation coefficient determiner which determines a compensation coefficient corresponding to input data of the compensation area, a compensation look up table which stores a noise compensation data which compensates a luminance difference of the compensation area by an interference noise of a light-source driving signal, and a correction data calculator which calculates a correction data corresponding to the input data of the compensation area using the compensation coefficient and the noise compensation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-Eun Jang, Seung-Hwan Moon, Sung-In Kang, Kyun-Ho Kim, Min-Ho Park, Shim-Ho Yi, Go-Eun Cha
  • Patent number: 9791989
    Abstract: A stretchable display includes: a stretchable substrate including first areas and second areas; main pixels disposed on the first areas of the stretchable substrate, the main pixels configured to display different colors; and at least one sub-pixel disposed on the second areas of the stretchable substrate, the at least one sub-pixel being configured to display one color that is the same as any one of the main pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Ho Hong, Won Sang Park, Won Il Choi
  • Patent number: 9772714
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods and systems for mitigating pathogen transmission via a touch surface of a touch input device. Mitigation is accomplished through selective touch surface sterilization and through touchscreen user interface reorganization. The touch surface includes a pixel array for illuminating selected portions of the touch surface with ultraviolet light of a sterilization wavelength based upon the received touch inputs. The selective illumination may occur while receiving a touch input or after an accumulation of touch inputs have been received. The user interface may also be reorganized based on received touch inputs in order to locate user interface icons to lesser touched locations of the touch surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Guy Cohen, James R. Kozloski, Clifford A. Pickover
  • Patent number: 9769781
    Abstract: A system and method for tracking a wireless communications device of a user may include, in response to receiving a request to track the wireless communications device, notifying a plurality of wireless networks of different communications carriers to collect geographic coordinates at which a wireless communications device is located. Geographic coordinates of the wireless communications device may be collected from at least one of the wireless networks and communicated to a requestor for tracking the wireless communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Robert J. Morrill, Lynn T. Greene, Amar Nath Ray
  • Patent number: 9746970
    Abstract: A touch screen system includes a capacitive touch screen (1) including a plurality of row conductors (7-1, 2 . . . n) and a column conductor (5-1). A plurality of contemporaneous orthogonal excitation signals (S1(t), S2 (t) . . . Sn(t)) are simultaneously driven onto the row conductors, respectively. The capacitively coupled signals on the column conductor may be influenced by a touch (10) on the capacitive touch screen. Receiver circuitry (50) includes a sense amplifier (21-1) coupled to generate an amplifier output signal (r1(t)) in response to signals capacitively coupled onto the column conductor. WHT-based circuitry (35) determines amounts of signal contribution capacitively coupled by each of the excitation signals, respectively, to the amplifier output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: William R. Krenik, Anand Dabak
  • Patent number: 9740336
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical touch-sensitive device and a method of determining a position and determining a position change of an object contacting an optical touch sensitive device. In particular, the present invention relates to an optical touch pad and a method of determining a position and determining a position change of an object contacting an optical touch pad. A touch-sensitive device, according to the present invention may comprise a light source, a touch-sensitive waveguide, a detector array, and a first light redirecting member, wherein at least a part of the light propagating towards a specific point of the detector array is prevented from being incident upon the specific point of the detector array when an object contacts a touch-sensitive surface of the touch-sensitive waveguide at a corresponding specific contact point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: O-Net WaveTouch Limited
    Inventors: Michael Linde Jakobsen, Vagn Steen Gruner Hanson, Henrik Chresten Pedersen
  • Patent number: 9736747
    Abstract: A method, a system and a device for maintaining user service continuity are provided in an embodiment of the present invention. The method includes prohibiting a UE from accessing a forbidden network before handover is complete when the UE needs to perform network handover if the UE adopts a SIM access technology, thus avoiding service interruption of a SIM user due to access to an incorrect network. A system and a device for maintaining user service continuity are provided in an embodiment of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanmei Yang, Xiaojun Zhuang
  • Patent number: 9733727
    Abstract: A surface navigation device for a computer or similar graphical display and methods for implementing its operation. The device moves sensitively and precisely over a surface such as a desktop and operator generated changes in its position relative to targetable objects on that desktop arranged about the circumference of a pseudo-circle are described in terms of a lumped motion vector. The motion vector is decomposed into a translational and rotational part by metrical and topological methods. The device communicates each part of the decomposed motion quickly and accurately to a computer screen or other display where it may implement the motion of a cursor or it may be used to manipulate objects having a 3D character by providing them with translational and rotational motions. The rotational parameter generated by the device may also be used independently to trigger some computer action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Inventor: Wen-Chieh Geoffrey Lee
  • Patent number: 9735569
    Abstract: A driving circuit applied in a display system includes a node, a current control circuit, a protecting circuit and a timing controller, wherein the node is arranged to connect to a lighting element; the current control circuit is coupled to the node and arranged to selectively provide a current to the lighting element according to a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signal; the protecting circuit is coupled to the node and arranged to be selectively enabled to limit the voltage of the node according to a control signal to make the voltage of the node maintain a predetermined voltage, wherein the lighting element does not have any current passed through when the voltage of the node maintains the predetermined voltage; and the timing controller is arranged to generate the PWM signal and the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Silicon Touch Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Chi-Yuan Chin, Kuei-Jyun Chen
  • Patent number: 9690402
    Abstract: A touch panel system includes micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) groups. Each group includes an emitter producing a beam, and a MEMS mirror located about a corner of a touch panel screen. The MEMS mirror reflects the beam to create a beam sweep across a touch panel surface. An array of photo sensors is located parallel to an edge of the touch panel screen to detect reflected beams from an object about the touch panel surface. Based on when the reflected beams are detected, the angular positions of the MEMS mirrors can be determined and correlated to the object's position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED NUMICRO SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yee-Chung Fu, Hsing C. Cheng
  • Patent number: 9591276
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a signal processing unit that converts an input value of a input HSV color space of an input signal into an extension value of an extended HSV color space extended with a first color, a second color, a third color, and a fourth color to generate an output signal; performs peaking processing for analyzing the input signal of the imaged image to detect a focusing region; and determines whether to perform display in a peaking mode for highlighting the focusing region. When it is determined to perform display in the peaking mode, the signal processing unit increases a value of the output signal of the fourth color of a pixel in an outer edge of the focusing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Amane Higashi
  • Patent number: 9541993
    Abstract: Mobile device operation using grip intensity. An embodiment of a mobile device includes a touch sensor to detect contact or proximity by a user of the mobile device; a memory to store indicators of grip intensity in relation to the touch sensor; and a processor to evaluate contact to the touch sensor. The processor is to compare a contact with the touch sensor to the indicators of grip shape and firmness to determine grip intensity, and the mobile device is to receive an input for a function of the mobile device based at least in part on determined grip intensity for the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sai Prasad Balasundaram, David Graumann, Giuseppe Raffa, Sangita Sharma
  • Patent number: 9523853
    Abstract: A head mounted display (“HMD”) includes a display module that displays a primary viewing image at a focus distance. The display module also displays a focusing cue image at the focus distance to aid a user of the HMD in focusing on the primary viewing image at the focus distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Eliezer Peli, Anurag Gupta
  • Patent number: 9495938
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a display module and a solar cell module is provided. The display module displays image content and provides a charging light, wherein the energy of the charging light is related to the image content. The solar cell module is disposed at one side of the display module to receive the charging light and proceed to charge, wherein the efficiency of charging for the solar cell module is related to the image content displayed by the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventor: Chueh-Pin Ko