Patents Examined by Nitin Patel
  • Patent number: 10852818
    Abstract: An information provision device and an information provision method. Each of the information provision device and information provision method includes projecting an image light to a light transmission member so as to display a for-driver information image, sensing a relative distance of an object to be detected existing around the mobile object in the direction of travel, detecting a location of a viewpoint of the driver, and changing a position at which an object image indicating the object to be detected is displayed according to a result of the detecting so as to change a perception distance of the driver influenced by a motion parallax of the object image according to the relative distance of the object to be detected in the direction of travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichiroh Saisho
  • Patent number: 10845902
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels, a touch sensor electrode made of a conductive and opaque material that is located directly on the display panel and overlaps a portion of the display panel in between a portion of the plurality of sub-pixels, a feedline that is made of the conductive and opaque material and connected to the touch sensor electrode, overlaps a portion of the display panel in between a portion of the plurality of sub-pixels that is not overlapped by the touch sensor electrode, and routes the touch sensor electrode to a touch sensor controller, and a feedline extension that is made of the conductive and opaque material, extends from the feedline and overlaps a portion of the display panel in between a portion of the plurality of sub-pixels that is not overlapped by the touch sensor electrode and the feedline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nick Clark, Tim Michael Smeeton
  • Patent number: 10831292
    Abstract: An example force sensitive touch panel device can include a device body; a touch surface for receiving a touch force; a sensor for sensing touch force that is arranged between the device body and the touch surface; and a membrane configured to mechanically isolate the device body and the touch surface. Additionally, the membrane can apply a preload force to the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: NextInput, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Douglas Campbell, Ryan Matthew Diestelhorst
  • Patent number: 10832606
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display driving device capable of determining whether a display panel is shorted, based on a voltage level shared by data lines. The display driving device may include: a data driving unit configured to provide source driving signals to data lines of a display panel in a data output period, and control the data lines to share charges in a charge sharing period; and a short monitoring unit configured to detect a voltage level shared in the charge sharing period, and compare the voltage level with a reference voltage that varies according to the voltage level to monitor whether the display panel is shorted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Bok Kim, Beom Rak Choi
  • Patent number: 10818253
    Abstract: A display device comprises a display panel, a drive circuit configured to drive the display panel, a timing controller configured to control the drive circuit, and a power supply configured to output a supply voltage to the display panel. The timing controller is configured to output a vertical synchronization signal having an image display period and a blanking interval. The power supply is configured to vary a level of the supply voltage during the blanking interval of the vertical synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nojin Park, Jeonga Lee, Jiwoong Park
  • Patent number: 10818235
    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: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takahara, Hitoshi Tsuge
  • Patent number: 10812888
    Abstract: Various aspects include wearable audio devices. In some particular implementations, a wearable audio device includes: an acoustic transducer having a sound-radiating surface for providing an audio output; a controller coupled with the acoustic transducer; a printed circuit board (PCB) coupled with the controller; and a capacitive touch interface coupled with the PCB, the capacitive touch interface having: a contact surface for receiving a touch command; and a set of at least two electrodes underlying the contact surface for detecting the touch command at the contact surface, where neighboring electrodes in the set share a border having an arcuate profile across the contact surface or a piecewise profile approximating a non-linear path across the contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: BOSE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Joji Ueda
  • Patent number: 10802650
    Abstract: A coordinate input device includes an operation detecting unit for detecting an input operation performed by an operation body and a calculation unit for computing a calculation result from the input operation, wherein, in a case where the input operation detected by the operation detecting unit continues for a predetermined time, the calculation unit acquires a first position coordinate at a first time and a second position coordinate at a second time is detected after the first time, calculates an input vector from the first position and directed toward the second position, calculates a movable distance between an end and another end of the operation detecting unit on a line connecting the first position and the second position, and computing an output vector by increasing a correction value for correcting a value of the input vector so that the shorter the movable distance, the larger the correction value is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Hatano, Shinya Abe, Masafumi Takagi
  • Patent number: 10803829
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first controller that outputs an output image signal having the same resolution as that of pixels to an image display panel; and a second controller that transmits an input image signal to the first controller, generates second luminance distribution data divided into regions at a second density lower than a first density equal to the resolution, and transmits the second luminance distribution data to the first controller. The second controller generates first luminance distribution data divided into regions at a third density lower than the second density, controls an illuminator based on the first luminance distribution data, and generates the second luminance distribution data by applying a polynomial interpolation to the first luminance distribution data. The first controller generates third luminance distribution data having the resolution, and generates the output image signal by adjusting the input image signal based on the third luminance distribution data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Harada, Kazuhiko Sako
  • Patent number: 10802630
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an array substrate, a method for fabricating the same, a display panel, and a display device, and the array substrate includes: a base substrate, a pressure-sensitive component, a plurality of dual-gate transistors, and a plurality of pixel transistors, where the pressure-sensitive component includes a first electrode layer, a pressure-sensitive layer, and a second electrode layer which are arranged on the base substrate in that order, and the second electrode layer includes a plurality of second electrodes arranged corresponding to the respective dual-gate transistors in a one-to-one manner; and the dual-gate transistors and the pixel transistors are arranged above the second electrode layer, and each of the plurality of second electrodes is electrically connected with a bottom-gate electrode in a corresponding dual-gate transistor, so that a pressure can be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yuzhen Guo, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Chun-wei Wu, Xueyou Cao, Yingming Liu, Xiaoliang Ding, Chih-Jen Cheng
  • Patent number: 10802319
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, lead wirings provided on the first substrate or the second substrate and a first insulator part provided on an upper surface of the second substrate. The lead wirings are arranged in a peripheral region when seen in a plan view and the first insulator part is arranged so as to overlap a display region when seen in a plan view. Second insulator parts or spaces with a permittivity lower than a permittivity of the first insulator part are provided at sides of the first insulator part. The second insulator parts or the spaces are arranged so as to overlap the lead wirings in the peripheral region when seen in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Masanobu Ikeda, Hayato Kurasawa, Yoshihiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10795451
    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: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: John B. Morrell, Ron A. Hopkinson, Peter M. Arnold, Mikael M. Silvanto, William F. Leggett
  • Patent number: 10789881
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes a display panel having a display region and a peripheral region, an OLED at the display region and including an end connected to a first voltage, a pixel circuit at the display region, a repair pixel circuit at the peripheral region, a repair line for connecting the repair pixel circuit to the OLED, and a switching circuit configured to apply a second voltage to the repair line during a power-up of the OLED display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyong-Tae Park
  • Patent number: 10789909
    Abstract: A picture adjusting method includes steps of measuring a plurality of first original parameters in a first picture and measuring a plurality of second original parameters in a second picture for a plurality of color patterns; calculating a first gain factor according to the first original parameters and the second original parameters of at least one of the color patterns except a black pattern; subtracting a product of the first original parameters of the black pattern and the first gain factor from the second original parameters of the black pattern to obtain a plurality of first offset values; adding the first offset values to the first original parameters of each color pattern to obtain a plurality of first updated parameters in the first picture; and multiplying the first updated parameters by a second gain factor to obtain a plurality of first adjusted parameters in the first picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventors: Chung-Ting Yen, Feng-Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 10782807
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a flexible display device with a touch sensor that flexibility is maintained in a normal operation as a display; however, rigidity is added to the display device when the touch sensor is used. The representative structure of the invention is, a display device comprising: a touch sensor and a display panel, wherein a laminated body of a first actuator and a second actuator is adhered to the rear surface of the display panel, the first actuator itself can bend when voltage is applied, the second actuator itself can bend when voltage is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Tohru Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10777116
    Abstract: An electronic display includes a timing controller configured to distribute emission periods throughout an active area of the display over time by generating a plurality of emission clock phases. The electronic display also includes multiple row drivers configured to cause rows of pixels to emit at multiple different emission periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad B. Vahid Far, Tore Nauta, Hopil Bae, Yafei Bi
  • Patent number: 10747362
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to the identification and suppression of inadvertent touches on a touch device, such as a touchpad or a touch screen. A suppression region is monitored on the touch device, and received touches are classified as intended or inadvertent based on the touches inside or outside of the suppression region. The suppression region is continually monitored, even while touches determined to be intended are being captured. Inadvertent touches are suppressed, and intended touches are allowed to be displayed or otherwise processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Robbie Edgar, Yi-Min Huang, Nathan Ukrainetz
  • Patent number: 10746351
    Abstract: A head-mounted-display strap assembly may include a flexible lining member having (1) a head-contact layer positioned to abut a head portion of a user, (2) a mounting layer overlapping the head-contact layer, the mounting layer defining a wiring channel, and (3) a mesh layer disposed between the head-contact layer and the mounting layer such that a portion of the mesh layer overlaps the wiring channel. A method may include (1) attaching a head-contact layer for a head-mounted-display strap assembly to a mesh layer and (2) attaching a mounting layer to the mesh layer such that the mesh layer is disposed between the head-contact layer and the mounting layer the mounting layer defining a wiring channel, and a portion of the mesh layer overlapping the wiring channel. Various other head-mounted-display strap assemblies, head-mounted-display systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shane Michael Ellis, Lesley Ribble Magrath
  • Patent number: 10747005
    Abstract: A head-mounted-display adjustment apparatus may include a strap that includes (1) a proximal section coupled to a proximal area of a head-mounted display and (2) a distal section coupled to a distal area of the head-mounted display in a manner that holds the head-mounted display, when being worn by a user, against the user's face. The apparatus may also include a spring that couples the proximal section of the strap to the proximal area of the head-mounted display. In addition, the apparatus may include an adjustment mechanism connected to the spring such that (1) actuation of the adjustment mechanism adjusts the spring and (2) adjusting the spring changes an amount of force that the head-mounted display, when being worn by the user, applies to the user's face. Various other head-mounted-display adjustment devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Patrick Sullivan
  • Patent number: 10741167
    Abstract: Controlling a reading machine while reading a document to a user by receiving an image of a document, accessing a knowledge base that provides data that identifies sections in the document and processing user commands to select a section of the document. The reading machine applies text-to-speech to a text file that corresponds to the selected section of the document, to read the selected section of the document aloud to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: KNFB READER, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond C. Kurzweil, Paul Albrecht, Lucy Gibson