Patents Examined by Nitin Patel
  • Patent number: 10410595
    Abstract: First to N-th latches capture N pieces of pixel data indicative of the luminance levels of respective pixels in synchronization with first to N-th capture clock signals each having different edge timing. Voltages corresponding to the pieces of pixel data output from the first to N-th latches are applied to each of the data lines of the display device. In this case, first to N-th flip-flops formed in an N-stage shift register capture a single pulse load signal which is synchronized with a horizontal synchronizing signal in a video signal while sequentially shifting the load signal to subsequent stages in synchronization with a reference timing signal supplied from the outside. Outputs of the first to N-th flip-flops in the N-stage shift register are supplied as first to N-th capture clock signals, to the first to N-th latches, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Ishii
  • Patent number: 10410588
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display method of a multi-primary color sphere display device. The method includes the steps of: dividing a pixel color gamut into color patches; determining a color patch to which a pixel chromaticity coordinate belongs; displaying through three dynamic sub-pixels according to the color patch to which the pixel chromaticity coordinate belongs; and determining output brightness of the dynamic sub-pixels by coordinates of a white point, coordinates of the dynamic sub-pixels, an output brightness value when gray level 255 in red is input, an output brightness value when gray level 255 in green is input, and an output brightness value when gray level 255 in blue is input respectively. When input gray level values of RGB three pixels are approximately the same, output brightness and white chromaticity are basically close to the same, guaranteeing the consistency of the chromaticity coordinates of the white point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Fan
  • Patent number: 10409383
    Abstract: A wearable device includes a communication unit configured to communicate with a host device, a sensing unit configured to recognize at least one motion, and a control unit configured to control the host device to transmit to an external device first content mapped to a first motion recognized by the sensing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae-min Moon
  • Patent number: 10402811
    Abstract: A user terminal supporting mobile payment service is provided. The user terminal includes a display, a memory in which a payment application is stored, and a processor configured to run the payment application. If at least one specified user input occurs on the display while in a locked state, the processor runs the payment application without unlocking the locked state. Thus the payment application may be quickly launched from the locked state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Man Park, Han Na Kim, Mi Yeon Park, You Bi Seo, Hwa Youn Suh, Sae Ah Oh, Byung In Yu
  • Patent number: 10394391
    Abstract: In an example, a processing system for an integrated display device and capacitive sensing device includes driver circuitry and a driver module. The driver circuitry is configured for coupling to a plurality of source lines and a plurality of sensor electrodes, where each of the plurality of sensor electrodes comprises at least one common electrode configured for display updating and capacitive sensing. The driver module is coupled to the driver circuitry and configured to drive the plurality of sensor electrodes for capacitive sensing during a first non-display update period that occurs between first and second display line update periods of a display frame, where the non-display update period is at least as long as one of the first and second display line update periods. The driver module is further configured to operate each of the plurality of source lines to reduce display artifacts during the non-display update period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Stephen L. Morein, Prashant Shamarao
  • Patent number: 10394283
    Abstract: A display system may include a first display apparatus and a second display apparatus. The first display apparatus may include a first image-display surface. The second display apparatus may include a second image-display surface. At least one of the first image-display surface and the second image-display surface may perform at least one of extending and bending in response to at least one of a first condition and a second condition. The first condition may be related to that the second image-display surface moves relative to the first image-display surface. The second condition may be related to that a distance between the first image-display surface and the second image-display surface becomes equal to a predetermined length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gunmo Kim, Jinkoo Kang, Bekhyun Lim
  • Patent number: 10394434
    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 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Ju Han, Joon Ah Park, Hyun Surk Ryu, Du Sik Park, Ki Myung Lee
  • Patent number: 10386918
    Abstract: A method for generating augmented reality content includes receiving an augmented reality mode execution request for generating augmented reality content based on electronic book content, activating a camera in response to the request to provide a preview image, loading book data of the electronic book on the preview image, detecting an event occurring in the augmented reality mode, retrieving reaction data pre-mapped to the event, and loading the reaction data on the preview image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daekyu Shin, Kyusung Cho, Ikhwan Cho
  • Patent number: 10379663
    Abstract: An apparatus and method, the apparatus including a sensor array including a plurality of first sensors configured to detect a first attribute; at least one second sensor configured to detect a second attribute; wherein the at least one second sensor is configured such that, in response to detecting a trigger input including the second attribute the second sensor enables a first portion of the sensor array to be powered on while a second portion of the sensor array remains powered off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Samiul Haque, Alan Colli, Salvatore Zarra, Stefano Borini
  • Patent number: 10379666
    Abstract: A position measuring apparatus that measures an input position of a pen is disclosed. A position measuring apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include one or more electrodes, and a control unit that controls to transmit an electric field transmission signal generated from one or more electrodes to the pen and receives an electric field reception signal corresponding to the electric field transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Soo Park, Gwan-Hyung Kim
  • Patent number: 10379608
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a main body, a fixing body, and a first display unit provided on the main body and/or the fixing body, wherein the first display unit has a first visible area and when the eyes of the viewer are a first distance away from the first visible area, a first image area of the image is perceived by the viewer, and when the eyes of the viewer are a second distance away from the first visible area, a second image area of the image is perceived by the viewer. The second image area includes the first image area and the first distance is larger than the second distance. A first content in the first image is displayed in the first image area, wherein the first content is perceived by the viewer when eyes of the viewer are the first distance away from the first visible area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junfeng Liu
  • Patent number: 10373565
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of unit pixels. Each unit pixel includes a plurality of sub-pixels, each coupled to a respective data line. The plurality of sub-pixels includes a red sub-pixel, a first green sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel, and a second green sub-pixel. The display device further includes a data driver configured to output data signals via output channels. The display device additionally includes a plurality of demultiplexers configured to selectively connect data signals output from the output channels to the plurality of sub-pixels in response to a plurality of select signals that are sequentially provided to the plurality of demultiplexers. The display device further includes a scan driver configured to provide scan signals to the unit pixels through the scan lines, and a timing controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae-Hoon Kwon, Seung-Kyu Lee, Seung-Ji Cha
  • Patent number: 10373567
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing additional information to a visible light communication terminal through visible light communication by an information display device having a back light unit is provided. The method includes, when the visible light communication terminal is located in one area corresponding to at least one additional information providing area that is disposed within a screen of the information display device, receiving time slot information allocated to the one area through the visible light communication, when the visible light communication terminal is located in remaining areas of the at least one area corresponding to the at least one object, except for the one area, receiving additional information on all objects from the remaining areas through the visible light communication, and acquiring additional information on the object corresponding to the one area from among the additional information on all the objects by using the allocated time slot information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae-Han Bae, Seung-Hoon Park, Jae-Seung Son, Eun-Tae Won
  • Patent number: 10372268
    Abstract: An spatial image display apparatus and method for displaying a spatial image in an aerial space, sensing an object traversing the spatial image, calculating the position of the object's effective centroid, and performing an input operation is disclosed. The spatial image display apparatus detects distances from the object's surface thrust into the aerial display to more precisely determine the position on the spatial image at which the user intends to indicate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Tsuyoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 10372213
    Abstract: A haptic glove comprises a glove body including a glove digit corresponding to a phalange of a user hand. The glove digit has a first ribbon layer of a first average width and a second ribbon layer of a second average width greater than the first average width. The first and second ribbon layers are configured to be positioned on a first surface of the digit and formed lengthwise along a bend centerline of the glove digit that bisects a surface of the glove digit. A central axis of the second ribbon layer is aligned with a central axis of the first ribbon layer. The first ribbon layer comprises a first extendible material having a first range of elastic extensibility and the second ribbon layer comprises a second extendible material having a second range of elastic extensibility greater than the first range of elastic extensibility of the first ribbon layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sean Jason Keller, David R. Perek, Tristan Thomas Trutna, Garett Andrew Ochs, Nicholas Roy Corson, Raymond King
  • Patent number: 10365761
    Abstract: A capacitive sensing methodology is suitable for sensing touch position along a sensor track based on touch capacitance based on touch position and touch pressure. The method is operable with a capacitive sensor including first and second capacitive sensor electrodes juxtaposed in a complementary configuration to define the sensor track, the complementary first and second sensor electrodes configured such that, as touch position moves along the sensor track, the electrode capacitance CSA of one sensor electrode monotonically decreases, and the electrode capacitance CSB of the complementary other sensor electrode monotonically increases, so that the touch capacitance corresponds to a combination of CSA and CSB. Pressure-compensated touch position data is generated from touch position information generated based on position and pressure functions, where the position function generates position information based on CSA and CSB, and the pressure function generates pressure information based on CSA and CSB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Dongtai Liu
  • Patent number: 10359877
    Abstract: A touch panel and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The touch panel includes a first axial electrode containing a plurality of first conductive units. Two adjacent first conductive units are separated and electrically connected by a first jumper and one first conductive unit has an extending part. The touch panel also includes a second axial electrode containing a plurality of second conductive units. Two adjacent second conductive units are connected through a connection part at the first jumper. Two adjacent second conductive units are separated and electrically connected by a second jumper at the extending part of the first conductive unit. The first axial electrode is insulated from and intersects the second axial electrode. The first and second jumpers have different axial directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc.
    Inventors: Yanjun Xie, Yau-Chen Jiang, Bixin Guan, Zhuxiu Lin
  • Patent number: 10353487
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a structure and an optical navigation circuit. A first end of the structure is located inside the electronic apparatus and its second end corresponds to a user's control. The structure can be moved forward/backward in a specific direction and/or rotated in another direction. The optical navigation circuit emits light to the structure, captures reflected light from the structure to sense/receive an image from the surface of the structure, detects displacement of the image along a specific axis of the structure, and determines the user's operating behavior as a specific operation according to a change of the sensed displacement of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Lin Chung, Kai-Ho Tsai
  • Patent number: 10354576
    Abstract: An optical device includes a display panel displaying an image and an optical modulation device that includes a first plate and second plate disposed to face each other and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first plate and the second plate and including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules, wherein the first plate includes a plurality of lower electrodes extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction and the second plate include and an upper electrode. When the display panel displays a first image during a first subframe, the optical modulation device applies a first driving signal to the plurality of lower electrodes, and when the display panel displays a second image during a second subframe following the first subframe, the optical modulation device applies a second driving signal different from the first driving signal to the plurality of lower electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-Hyun Cho, Junghwan Yi, Chunki Choi
  • Patent number: 10345928
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch sensitive processing method for calibrating a pressure value to a stylus. The method includes receiving a pressure value to the stylus; receiving a tilt angle between the shaft of the stylus and a touch screen plane; and calculating a calibrated pressure value based on the pressure value and the tilt angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Shang-Tai Yeh