Patents Examined by Nitin Patel
  • Patent number: 10983650
    Abstract: A dynamic input surface for an electronic device and a method of reconfiguring the same is disclosed. The input surface has a partially-flexible metal contact portion defining an input area, and a group of indicators. The indicators may be group of holes extending through the contact portion. The group of holes may be selectively illuminated based on a gesture performed on the contact portion. A size of the input area may be dynamically varied based on the gesture. Additionally, the group of indicators indicates a boundary of the input area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brett W. Degner, Daniel D. Sunshine, Ron A. Hopkinson, Christiaan A. Ligtenberg, William F. Leggett, Patrick Kessler
  • Patent number: 10969873
    Abstract: In some examples, a computing device may include a swipeable portion with a material having a textured surface. A primary sensor may receive motion-generated data when a swipe gesture is performed on the swipeable portion and send primary data to an embedded controller (EC). The primary sensor may be mounted between two layers of vibration damping material. The EC may filter the primary data to create filtered data. The EC may determine that the filtered data satisfies one or more criteria to determine that the swipe gesture was performed. In response, the EC may perform one or more associated actions, such as determining and displaying a battery level of a battery of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L P
    Inventors: Geroncio Ong Tan, Timothy Carlyle Shaw, Tsu Yi Kuo, Ting-Chang Chang
  • Patent number: 10971055
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display adjustment method and a display device. The method comprises steps of: obtaining a first pixel data of an image displayed by the display device; converting the first pixel data into a second pixel data after the first pixel data enters a timing controller; converting at least one of the second pixel data into sub-pixel data whose amount of stored data is reduced relative to the second pixel data to obtain a corresponding third pixel data; outputting the third pixel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: HKC Corporation Limited
    Inventor: Shuixiu Hu
  • Patent number: 10969640
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a driving method thereof are provided. The drive circuit of the liquid crystal display device outputs a drive voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode of a pixel. When a transmittance of the sub-pixel is changed from a first transmittance to a second transmittance higher than the first transmittance in a first frame period, the drive voltage is higher than a first target drive voltage corresponding to the second transmittance in a front half period of the first frame period, the drive voltage is equal to the first target drive voltage in a rear half period of the first frame period, and the drive voltage is equal to the first target drive voltage in other frame periods after the first frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Huailiang He
  • Patent number: 10963117
    Abstract: A configurable, force-sensitive input structure for an electronic device is disclosed. The input structure has a metal contact layer, a sense layer positioned below the metal contact layer, and a drive layer capacitively coupled to the sense layer. The input structure may also have a compliant layer positioned between and coupled to the sense layer and the drive layer, a rigid base layer positioned below the drive layer, and a set of supports positioned between the metal contact layer and the rigid base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: John B. Morrell, Ron A. Hopkinson, Peter M. Arnold, Mikael M. Silvanto, William F. Leggett
  • Patent number: 10964246
    Abstract: A foldable display device and a method of driving the same are discussed. The foldable display device can include a display panel having a display area including a plurality of pixels and a non-display area surrounding the display area; a first base pattern in the non-display area; a first capacitive pattern in the non-display area, the first capacitance pattern forming a first capacitance with the first base pattern; a driving unit generating a comparison signal corresponding to the first capacitance; and a calculating unit sensing an unfolding state and a folding state of the display panel using the comparison signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Bin Park, Zong-Gun Oh
  • Patent number: 10964244
    Abstract: [Object] An object is to suppress an occurrence of display unevenness in a pause-and-drive operation. [Solution] A display device configured to perform pause-and-drive operation includes an nth stage circuit connected to one end of an nth gate bus line, and an nth transistor connected to the other end of the nth gate bus line. One of a first clock signal group (AGCK1 to AGCK6) is input to the nth stage circuit. One of a second clock signal group (BGCK1 to BGCK6) is input to the nth transistor. In a pause period in which all clock signals of the first clock signal group are fixed at an inactive level, one or more pulses (P3 to P6) are included in the second signal group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Tagawa, Yasuaki Iwase, Jun Nishimura, Takuya Watanabe, Yohei Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10942608
    Abstract: A capacitive sensing device has a first plurality of sensor electrodes, and a second plurality of sensor electrodes overlapping the first plurality of sensor electrodes. A first sensor electrode of the second plurality of electrodes overlaps a first subset of the first plurality of electrodes and comprises apertures disposed according to first codes. The first codes comprise first and second coefficients and along one of the first plurality of sensor electrodes. Each aperture may correspond to one of the first coefficients. The capacitive sensing device further comprises a processing system coupled to the first and second plurality of sensor electrodes. The processing system may be configured to receive resulting signals with the second plurality of sensor electrodes to determine positional information for an input object within a sensing region of the capacitive sensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tanemura, Petr Shepelev
  • Patent number: 10935839
    Abstract: A display device includes a fixed light source, a heat dissipator, a liquid-crystal panel, and a controller. The heat dissipator is attached to the light source. The liquid-crystal panel includes a display area and is movable with respect to the light source. The controller controls movement of the liquid-crystal panel to change the distance between the liquid-crystal panel and the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10923030
    Abstract: An EL display apparatus is provided. A display screen includes pixels arranged in a matrix, with each pixel including an EL device and a pixel circuit. A source driver circuit is configured to output an analog video signal to each pixel. A gate driver circuit is on at least one side of the display screen, with the gate driver circuit including first and second gate driver circuits. Each pixel includes a driving transistor, a first switch transistor, and a second switch transistor. A gate terminal of the first switch transistor is connected to a first gate signal line of the first gate driver circuit, and a gate terminal of the second switch transistor is connected to a second gate signal line of the second gate driver circuit. The first and second switch transistors are on/off controlled, independently, by the first and second gate driver circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takahara, Hitoshi Tsuge
  • Patent number: 10923036
    Abstract: A display panel and an electroluminescence display using the same are discussed. The display panel includes pixels in which data lines and gate lines are crossed and which are arranged in a matrix form, and a gate driver configured to supply a gate pulse to the gate lines. Each pixel circuit of the pixels includes one or more n-type transistors and two or more p-type transistors. A gate driver of the display panel includes a first gate driving circuit configured to supply a first gate signal to an n-type transistor of the pixel circuit using a plurality of n-type transistors, a second gate driving circuit configured to supply a second gate signal to one of the p-type transistors of the pixel circuit using a plurality of p-type transistors, and a third gate driving circuit configured to supply a third gate signal to the other one of the p-type transistors of the pixel circuit using a plurality of n-type transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Youngjang Lee
  • Patent number: 10921926
    Abstract: An interfacing apparatus may sense an input object and move at least one interface object displayed on a display toward the sensed input object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Ju Han, Joon Ah Park, Du Sik Park, Hyun Surk Ryu, Ki Myung Lee
  • Patent number: 10916176
    Abstract: A display driver includes a plurality of source amplifiers configured to drive a plurality of source lines of a display panel, and an amplifier control system configured to control the source amplifiers. Each of the source amplifiers is configured to drive a source line with a drive voltage corresponding to a grayscale value specified by an image data associated with each of the source amplifiers. The amplifier control system is configured to control execution and stopping of an amplifying operation of each of the source amplifiers based on the image data associated with each of the source amplifiers is a grayscale value corresponding to black portions of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Kota Kitamura, Makoto Kimura
  • Patent number: 10909930
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate including a trench portion, a display area, and a non-display area. The non-display area includes a first non-display area. The display area includes a main area and first and second display areas protruding from the main area. The first non-display area and the trench portion are between the first and second display areas. The display apparatus further includes: first scan lines transmitting scan signals to pixels in the first display area; second scan lines transmitting scan signals to pixels in the second display area; connection scan lines in the first non-display area and connecting the first scan lines and the second scan lines; and driving voltage lines transmitting driving voltages to pixels in the main area. A plurality of first driving voltage lines among the driving voltage lines extend to the first non-display area, and overlap the plurality of connection scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeonghun Kim, Byeongguk Jeon
  • Patent number: 10909953
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a display panel including sub-pixels of three primary colors, and pixels having a high-luminance color having higher luminance than that of the primary colors. The three primary colors include a first primary color, a second primary color, and a third primary color. The number of the sub-pixels is smaller than twice the number of the pixels, sub-pixels of the same color are arranged at even intervals in a row direction and at even intervals in a column direction, and the sub-pixels of the same color are arranged in a staggered manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shuji Hayashi, Takayuki Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 10901465
    Abstract: An electronic device or a foldable display device includes a flexible substrate and a display layer disposed on the flexible substrate. The display layer includes a first display portion, a second display portion, and a foldable display portion connecting the first display portion and the second display portion. A method of unfolding the foldable display device includes providing a first predetermined angle; sensing a folding angle between the first display portion and the second display portion; comparing the folding angle with the first predetermined angle; changing the folding angle with a first angular velocity when the folding angle is less than the first predetermined angle; and changing the folding angle with a second angular velocity greater than the first angular velocity when the folding angle is equal to or greater than the first predetermined angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan-Lin Wu, Kuan-Feng Lee, Chandra Lius
  • Patent number: 10901558
    Abstract: A capacitive touch-sensing device includes a substrate and a plurality of configurable resonant circuits. Each configurable resonant circuit includes at least one respective touch capacitor electrode and at least one inductor. The electrodes of the plurality of resonant circuits are distributed on the substrate, and the at least one inductor is a thin film inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Bahman Hekmatshoartabari
  • Patent number: 10896652
    Abstract: An image data output unit includes first and second line buffers that store image data for one line in image data of first and second systems and a timing controller that alternately outputs image data for one line, which are read out from the first line buffer and the second line buffer, to a driver unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kimihiko Masuda, Yushi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10896654
    Abstract: Disclosed are a GOA circuit and a liquid crystal display device. The GOA circuit includes multiple stages of GOA sub-circuits connected in cascade. In a pull-down unit of a GOA sub-circuit, a first thin film transistor and a second thin film transistor are connected in series. Leakage current at Q point in the GOA circuit can be reduced, stability of the GOA circuit can be improved in harsh environments, and reliability of a liquid crystal panel can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenying Li
  • Patent number: 10877609
    Abstract: [Object] To make information processing based on a given application program operable by contactless operations. [Solution] A display unit forming a capacitive touch panel is provided. Changes in the capacitance values of respective capacitive sensors in the display unit are detected during a contactless operation, and on the basis of such changes in capacitance values, a contactless operation mode (gesture) of the contactless operation and two-dimensional coordinate information corresponding to the contactless operation mode are detected. Then, execution of information processing corresponding to the detected contactless operation mode and two-dimensional coordinate information from among respective information processing in the currently activated application program is controlled. Thus, information processing in a given application program can be made operable by a contactless operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Tokutake