Patents Examined by Olga Merkoulova
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Patent number: 9648183Abstract: An electric device, including a chassis and an operation panel, is provided. The operation panel is disposed on a face of the chassis and has one end and the other end opposite from the one end. The operation panel includes a first capacitive touch switch configured to be responsive to a touch and a second capacitive touch switch configured to be responsive to a touch. The first capacitive touch switch has a first sensitivity for responding to the touch, and the second capacitive touch switch has a second sensitivity for responding to the touch. The second capacitive touch switch is arranged in a position closer to the one end of the operation panel than the first capacitive touch switch, and the second sensitivity of the second capacitive touch switch is lower than the first sensitivity of the first capacitive touch switch.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji Akagi, Masaaki Wakizaka
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Patent number: 9639168Abstract: A vehicle having a touch recognition function includes a touch pad recognizing a writing signal in a touch form input by a user. A display displays a touch trace corresponding to the writing signal recognized by the touch pad. A controller is configured to calculate writing coordinates of the writing signal, to obtain a writing recognition load by analyzing a touch trace speed of the calculated writing coordinates, and to increase a processing priority of a writing recognition task among service tasks within the vehicle when the obtained writing recognition load is greater than or equal to a reference value.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Sung Un Kim
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Patent number: 9632615Abstract: A system for processing user input with reduced control response latency includes an input device, an input processing unit, a high-latency subsystem, a low-latency subsystem, input processing unit software for generating signals, and an output device. The low-latency subsystem receives the signals and generates low-latency output and the high-latency subsystem processes the signals and generates high-latency output. In an embodiment, the signals comprise an identification of a defined cross-control behavior.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.Inventors: Benjamin McCanny, Clifton Forlines, Daniel Wigdor
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Patent number: 9626020Abstract: Techniques and architectures for detecting the handedness of a user from touch input and suppressing unintentional touch input are described. The techniques and architectures may analyze short-lived contacts that occur on a touch surface around a same time as input from an input tool to determine a hand that a user is using to hold the input tool. An inactive region may be established for the touch surface based on the hand determination and/or contextual information related to the user, the touch surface and so on. The inactive region may allow unintentional input to be identified and suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Olumuyiwa M Durojaiye, David Abzarian
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Patent number: 9626047Abstract: The invention discloses a capacitive touch unit, including a sensing electrode, connected to a control unit through a sensing electrode lead; and a plurality of scan electrodes, disposed at two sides of the sensing electrode; the scan electrode being connected to the control unit through a scan electrode lead, and the scan electrodes and the sensing electrode being coplanar; wherein the sensing electrode comprising a plurality of identical sensing electrode units, the plurality of sensing electrode units being arranged regularly along a same direction, the plurality of sensing electrode units being electrically connected; each scan electrode comprising a plurality of identical scan electrode units, the plurality of scan electrode units being arranged regularly along a same direction and the direction the same as sensing electrode units, and the plurality of scan electrode units being electrically connected. The invention also provides a capacitive touch screen with the capacitive touch unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventors: Jie Qiu, Yung-lun Lin
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Patent number: 9619141Abstract: A device includes a display unit which displays display screens, an input unit which receives a gesture input, and a controller which detects whether a gesture, input on the input unit, is in a gesture input region where gesture input is accepted on one of the display screens of the display unit. The controller displays gesture input regions for the display screen when the gesture is not detected in the gesture input region.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Shuichi Konami
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Patent number: 9588617Abstract: A display device and method are discussed. The display device can include a display panel having a pixel array with touch sensors embedded therein; a display driving circuit that time-divides 1 frame period into a plurality of pixel driving periods and a plurality of touch sensing periods and writes input image data to the pixels block by block during the pixel driving periods; and a touch sensing circuit that drives the touch sensors during the touch sensing periods. The display driving circuit includes a gate driver formed on the display panel. A shift register of the gate driver includes a transistor that supplies a high-potential voltage to a Q node of the shift register in response to a compensation pulse generated during the touch sensing periods.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2015Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jieun Chae
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Patent number: 9588684Abstract: A tactile interface for a computing device includes a tactile layer defining a primary guide and a secondary guide. The primary guide is tactilely distinguishable from an adjacent peripheral region and arranged adjacent a first input region of a touch-sensitive surface. The secondary guide is tactilely distinguishable from the adjacent peripheral region, arranged adjacent a second input region of the touch-sensitive surface, and defines a peripheral boundary of a range of motion of a finger moving between the primary guide and the secondary guide. The first input region is independent from the primary guide, the second input region independent from the secondary guide.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Tactus Technology, Inc.Inventor: Micah Yairi
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Patent number: 9591226Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image acquisition part configured to acquire a captured image including at least a part of a pattern projected by a projector on a projection plane, a projectable area determination part configured to determine a projectable area on the projection plane on the basis of the captured image, and a projector controller configured to control the projector in a manner that an image is projected in the projectable area.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Okamori, Yuuji Takimoto, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 9588678Abstract: A method of operating electronic handwriting includes receiving at least two handwriting strokes from a touch screen, determining whether the at least two handwriting strokes overlap each other, selecting at least one of the overlapped handwriting strokes into a group, and recognizing a handwriting stroke belonging to the group. An electronic device for recognizing handwriting includes at least one of a touch device configured to receive a handwriting strokes, a storage configured to store information comprising the at least one handwriting stroke, and a controller configured to determine whether at least two handwriting strokes overlap each other, select at least one of the overlapped handwriting strokes into a group, and perform text recognition on a handwriting strokes belonging to the group.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyojin Kim, Inhyung Jung
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Patent number: 9582120Abstract: A display device which may enhance recognition precision of an operation command input by a user, a mobile terminal which communicates with the display device, and a method of controlling the same are provided. The display device includes a display panel, an image collector configured to collect an image of an object in a first direction, a communicator configured to receive an image of the object collected in a second direction by a mobile terminal, and a controller configured to process the collected image and the received image together into a processed image, to recognize a motion of the processed image, determine an operation command corresponding to the recognized motion, and control an operation of the display panel based on the determined operation command.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Jong Hyuk Kim
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Patent number: 9566512Abstract: An apparatus for providing input via a selectively arrangeable, multi-mode input controller is disclosed. A method and computer program product also perform the functions of the apparatus. The apparatus includes a processor, a first body having a first input device, a second body pivotably connected to the first body and having a second input device, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor, the code comprising code that receives indication of an orientation of the first body with respect to the second body and code that alters operation of the first input device based on the orientation of the first body with respect to the second body.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Daniel Jordan Schantz, Michaela Rose Case
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Patent number: 9563284Abstract: An information processing device and a control method applied to the information processing device is described. The information processing device includes a display unit configured to display images; an input unit configured to receive inputs from a user; a motion detecting unit configured to detect motion of the information processing device and to generate data related to the motion; and a processing unit connected to the display unit, the input unit and the motion detecting unit. The processing unit is configured to receive the motion-related data from the motion detecting unit, and enable/disable of the display unit and/or the input unit based on the data related to the motion.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2011Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Chunlei Zhao, Wei Wei
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Patent number: 9542892Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels. Each pixel may have a light-emitting diode that emits light under control of a drive transistor. The organic light-emitting diodes may have a common cathode layer, a common electron layer, individual red, green, and blue emissive layers, a common hole layer, and individual anodes. The hole layer may have a hole injection layer stacked with a hole transport layer. Pixel circuits for controlling the diodes may be formed from a layer of thin-film transistor circuitry on a substrate. A planarization layer may cover the thin-film transistor layer. Lateral leakage current between adjacent diodes can be blocked by shorting the common hole layer to a metal line such as a bias electrode that is separate from the anodes. The metal line may be laterally interposed between adjacent pixels and may be formed on the planarization layer or embedded within the planarization layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2015Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Apple, Inc.Inventors: Jae Won Choi, John Z. Zhong, Kwang Ohk Cheon, Shih Chang Chang, Young Bae Park
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Patent number: 9542087Abstract: An information processing device is provided that includes a display portion, a user recognition portion, a button selection portion, and a display control portion. The display portion displays at least one function button that is related to a function that the information processing device is capable of performing. The user recognition portion recognizes a user who is operating the information processing device. The button selection portion selects, from among the at least one function button that is displayed on the display portion, at least one function button that corresponds to the user who has been recognized by the user recognition portion. The display control portion moves the function button that has been selected by the button selection portion from an initial position on a display screen of the display portion such that the function button is close to a specified position on the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2010Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Koji Arai
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Patent number: 9529445Abstract: A device that is worn on a portion of a user's body and inputs a command into a controller, includes a sensor that obtains angular velocities and an acceleration in a first coordinate system fixed in the input device, a processor that performs setting a second coordinate system for a reference posture of the user, calculating a rotation matrix that converts the angular velocities in the first coordinate system into angular velocities in the second coordinate system using the acceleration in the first coordinate system, calculating feature amounts in the second coordinate system using the angular velocities in the second coordinate system, and specifying the command using the feature amounts, and a transmitter that transmits the command to the controller.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2014Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Moyuru Yamada
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Patent number: 9524003Abstract: An input device, that is worn on a portion of a user's body, includes: a sensor unit configured to obtain angular velocities and an acceleration in a first coordinate system fixed in the input device; a reference posture specification unit configured to generate a second coordinate system for a reference posture of the user; a rotation matrix calculator configured to calculate a rotation matrix that transforms the angular velocities in the first coordinate system into angular velocities in the second coordinate system using the acceleration in the first coordinate system; a characteristic value calculator configured to calculate characteristic values in the second coordinate system using the angular velocities in the second coordinate system; a command specification unit configured to specify a command according to the characteristic values; and a transmitter configured to transmit the command to the controller.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Moyuru Yamada
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Patent number: 9519375Abstract: An improved portable device has at least one touch-sensitive input surface for operator input and at least one sensor for detecting the input on the input surface. There is at least one sensor for monitoring the input surface which is designed to receive large-area and/or nearly simultaneous inputs, and at least one preset special function on the device which is able to be triggered by large-area input and/or nearly simultaneous inputs.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Unify GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Thomas Lederer
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Patent number: 9514703Abstract: Provided are a timing control unit and method for adjusting a speed of a system and a display apparatus and method using the same. The display apparatus includes: a panel unit including a plurality of cells and a plurality of electrodes for driving the plurality of cells; and a driving controller which, when a three-dimensional (3D) image signal is input, sends a common signal to an electrode group combining a certain number of electrodes of the plurality of electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2015Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung-soo Kim, Jong-hee Han
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Patent number: 9507500Abstract: A system for processing user input includes an input device, an input processing unit, a high-latency subsystem, a low-latency subsystem, input processing unit software for generating signals in response to user inputs, and an output device. The low-latency subsystem receives the signals and generates low-latency output and the high-latency subsystem processes the signals and generates high-latency output.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2013Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.Inventors: Daniel Wigdor, Steven Leonard Sanders, Ricardo Jorge Jota Costa, Clifton Forlines