Patents Examined by Nitin Patel
  • Patent number: 11064274
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display panel, and a vibration generator including a plurality of sound-generating modules configured to vibrate the display panel, the plurality of sound-generating modules being configured as touch sensors for sensing a touch pressure applied to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: SeYoung Kim
  • Patent number: 11061237
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a left portion corresponding to a left eye of a user and a right portion corresponding to a right eye of the user, each portion includes at least one image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a physical space, and a display unit configured to display a video image based on a captured image obtained by the image capturing unit. The image capturing unit is arranged on an inside of an angle formed by lines extending from the pupil of the corresponding eye to each side of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihito Taketani
  • Patent number: 11054930
    Abstract: Disclosed in various examples of the present invention are a method and a device for enabling a system function using a system button to be used according to a user input, when displaying a picture related to an application through the entire area of a display without displaying a system button (provided transparently or translucently). According to various examples of the present invention, an electronic device comprises a display, a memory, and a processor electrically connected to the display and the memory, wherein the processor can be configured so as to sense, on the display, a user input through a touch region including the system button, identify the user input, and execute a system function by means of the system button or an application function according to the user input in the touch area including the system button. Various examples are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventors: Seung Wook Nam, Youngmi Kim, Youngseong Kim, Hyo-Sang Bang, Sangsu Lee, Youngjay Lee, Jae Myoung Lee, Kyungsoo Lim, Soe-Youn Yim, Martin Jung, Jinhoon Cho, Hyunyeul Lee, Jongmoo Lee, Seung-Min Choi
  • Patent number: 11054880
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display, a power supply configured to supply power to the display, a port, and a controller configured to control the power supply to supply power to an external apparatus through the port based on the external apparatus being connected to the port and control the power supply to adjust an amount of power supplied to the display based on a power supply characteristic of the port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jeongil Kang
  • Patent number: 11054682
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a driving method thereof are provided. The driving circuit of the liquid crystal display device outputs a drive voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode of a sub-pixel of a display panel. When a transmittance of the sub-pixel is changed from a transmittance value to another transmittance value higher than the transmittance value in a first frame period, the drive voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode is lower than or equal to a target drive voltage corresponding to the another transmittance value in a front half period of the first frame period, the drive voltage is higher than the target drive voltage in a rear half period of the first frame period, and the drive voltage is equal to the target drive voltage in other frame periods after the first frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Huailiang He
  • Patent number: 11054942
    Abstract: A processing system is disclosed. The processing system includes an amplifier configured to generate a feedback signal by amplifying each of multiple reduced noise signals based on a gain value and a cardinality of the reduced noise signals. The processing system also includes multiple charge integrators configured to obtain resulting signals from capacitive sensor electrodes coupled to a noise source and generate the reduced noise signals by mitigating noise in the resulting signals using the feedback signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Chunbo Liu
  • Patent number: 11049427
    Abstract: A flexible display panel includes a first display area adjacent to a first end portion of the flexible display panel and a second display area adjacent to a second end portion of the flexible display panel. The flexible display panel is scanned from the first end portion of the flexible display panel to the second end portion of the flexible display panel in a first mode. In a second mode, the flexible display panel is concurrently scanned from the first end portion of the flexible display panel to a central portion of the flexible display panel and from the second end portion of the flexible display panel to the central portion of the flexible display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wontae Kim, Jihye Kim, Jin-Wook Yang
  • Patent number: 11051005
    Abstract: A virtual reality device and the operation method of virtual reality device, and the method includes: the virtual reality device displays an image content according to a corresponding viewing angle of a user; and when the time of virtual reality device detects that the viewing elevation angle is greater than a predetermined angle for a time period which exceeds a predetermined time period, the virtual reality device enters a locking mode; in the locking mode, the virtual reality device displays the image content with a fixed main field, and the virtual reality device constrains the viewing angle of the image content from the movement or rotation of the user. The present invention can determine whether to enter the locking mode according to a preset condition, and provide the main image content of the fixed field of view in the locking mode in order to achieve user convenience and save power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SUZHOU RAKEN TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Che-Chia Ho, Chia-Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 11042193
    Abstract: A foldable mobile terminal and related products include: a flexible display screen; a housing assembly including a first housing and a second housing, the flexible display screen being provided on the first housing and the second housing; a first rotating assembly that is at least partially received in the first housing and can extend or retract with respect to the first housing in a sliding manner, the first rotating assembly being provided with a first groove; a second rotating assembly that is at least partially received in the second housing and can extend or retract with respect to the second housing in a sliding manner; and a first roller and a first spring provided between the first rotating assembly and the first housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yugui Lin
  • Patent number: 11030927
    Abstract: There is provided a method of performing a sensing operation in an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device including a plurality of pixels, the method including performing a one-line sensing operation for pixels in one line among the plurality of pixels, determining whether a sensing error occurs based on a result of the one-line sensing operation, when the sensing error is determined not to occur, performing a frame-sensing operation for all of the plurality of pixels, detecting an abnormal sensing-data line from among frame-sensing data generated by the frame-sensing operation, and replacing the abnormal sensing-data line by a data line generated based on at least one sensing-data line that is adjacent to the abnormal sensing-data line in the frame-sensing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyungman Kim, Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 11023066
    Abstract: A display device may include: a first touch sensor including first sensing electrodes and second sensing electrodes, arranged in a sensing area intersecting each other; a display panel including: pixels arranged in a display area overlapping with the sensing area; and a second touch sensor including photo sensors disposed between the pixels or in the pixels; and a driving circuit configured to drive the first touch sensor and the display panel, wherein the driving circuit may be configured to detect a touch input by comparing a first touch detection value detected by the first touch sensor and a second touch detection value detected by the photo sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Inventor: Ji Woong Kim
  • Patent number: 11016619
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a touch panel a method of manufacturing the touch panel and a touch display panel. The touch panel includes a touch substrate; and a plurality of touch electrodes on the touch substrate, the plurality of touch electrodes being spaced apart from each other in a first direction and extending in a second direction different from the first direction, wherein a width of each of the touch electrodes gradually increases or decreases in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Xie, Tsungchieh Kuo, Jing Wang, Tengfei Zhong, Yaying Li
  • Patent number: 11009968
    Abstract: Data receiving systems, methods and computer products are provided that include actuators in mechanical communication with fingers. Each of the actuators is arranged to apply a mechanical stimulus to a respective finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Tap Systems Inc.
    Inventor: David B. Schick
  • Patent number: 11011095
    Abstract: The present application relates to the technical field of display and provides a display panel and an image control device and an image control method thereof; wherein, the image control device includes a high-voltage gamma module, a low-voltage gamma module and a first selection module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignees: CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Wenqin Zhao
  • Patent number: 10996805
    Abstract: A display device comprising: a display region including a first pixel and a second pixel arranged apart from each other, and a third pixel, and a touch sensor includes a first sensor electrode and a second sensor electrode, wherein the touch sensor overlaps the display region, the first sensor electrode has an opening part in a region overlapping the first pixel and the second pixel, and surrounding the first pixel and the second pixel, and the second sensor electrode overlapping the third pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yuki Hamada, Hajime Akimoto
  • Patent number: 10998512
    Abstract: A power saving system using a plurality of flexible display devices placed on various places is provided. A structure of a bendable portion in a display device is improved. Specifically, a wiring partly including a metal nanoparticle is used. Openings are formed in an insulating layer so that the wiring becomes substantially longer by meandering in cross section. When a plurality of openings are formed and aligned, a portion that is easy to bend is formed along the line where they are aligned. A plurality of display panels are used for one display portion. The flexible display portion can be provided on a surface, specifically, a curved surface of furniture such as a chair or a sofa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideaki Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 10990195
    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 captures reflection of a light emitting to the structure to detect 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, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Lin Chung, Kai-Ho Tsai
  • Patent number: 10991324
    Abstract: An overdrive method and device, a controller, a display apparatus, and a storage medium is provided. The method includes: acquiring a first grayscale value and a second grayscale value, the first grayscale value being a grayscale value of a first image displayed by a target sub-pixel and the second grayscale value being a grayscale of a second image to be displayed by the target sub-pixel; acquiring a hold duration that the target sub-pixel holds the first grayscale value in response to the first grayscale value being not equal to the second grayscale value; determining a target overdrive compensation voltage according to the first grayscale value, the second grayscale value, and the hold duration; and applying an overdrive pixel voltage to the target sub-pixel in response to the target sub-pixel displaying the second image, the overdrive pixel voltage being obtained according to the target overdrive compensation voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yujie Gao, Zhihua Sun, Shulin Yao, Yinlong Zhang, Wenpeng Ma, Tong Lu, Pengfei Hu, Ning Zhang
  • Patent number: 10989972
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: common electrodes that are opposed to pixel electrodes respectively; a detection circuit that detects a waveform of a common potential at the plurality of common electrodes; and a determination circuit that determines abnormality of the liquid crystal display device based on the waveform detected by the detection circuit. A plurality of pixels are divided into a plurality of segments, the common electrodes are provided corresponding to the plurality of segments, and the detection circuit detects the waveform of the common potential at each of the common electrodes when a predetermined data signal is input to at least one of data signal lines whiled a predetermined gate signal is input to at least one of gate signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Hirata, Masashi Kuno
  • 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