Patents Examined by Patrick Edouard
  • Patent number: 9881542
    Abstract: Disclosed is a GOA circuit cell, comprising a GOA registering module having a shift register unit and a GOA output module having a digital logic circuit. An current-stage excitation pulse, a second additional clock signal, a first clock signal and a second clock signal are provided to the digital logic circuit, such that only during a first half pulse width of the current-stage excitation pulse, a first gate line driving pulse corresponding to a first half cycle of the first clock signal is output at a first current-stage output terminal, and a second gate line driving pulse corresponding to a second half cycle of the second clock signal is output at a second current-stage output terminal. It also discloses a GOA circuit formed by cascading the GOA circuit cell and a display panel comprising the driver circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kai Zhang
  • Patent number: 9880682
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (CD) comprising a capacitive keyboard (KB) constituted of a plurality of keys (KY), each key comprising an active electrode (AEL) and an active ground plane (AGP), a microcontroller (MC) connected to said keyboard (KB) through active electrode (AEL) and active ground plane (AGP). Said microcontroller (MC) is adapted for managing said keyboard (KB) in a reverse manner for emulating a sequence of tactile contacts on a capacitive screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: François-Xavier Marseille, Michel Thill
  • Patent number: 9874981
    Abstract: A detection method and device for a touch screen is provided. When a pen touching or approaching the touch screen is detected, only the location of the pen in a predetermined range is provided, and the locations of all other objects within the predetermined range are not provided, such as the location of a palm. Only when the pen is no longer detected over a predetermined period of time, then the locations of objects other than the pen in the predetermined range are provided again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Shang-Tai Yeh
  • Patent number: 9872214
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a method and a device for intra-cell handover, and a method and a device for path switching, used for avoiding network side and user equipment (UE) side next hop chaining counter (NCC) desychronization when a UE switches out of a relay node (RN), so as to avoid communication failure. The method for intra-cell handover provided in the present application comprises: an RN determining whether the value of the difference between the UE side NCC and the NCC most recently received by the RN and allocated for the UE by a mobility management entity (MME) serving the UE meets the preset triggering requirement for intra-cell handover; if the value of the difference meets the triggering requirement, then the RN initiates intra-cell handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Wei Bao, Yi Yang, Haijing Hu, Bin Jiao
  • Patent number: 9858031
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, computer program products and computer systems that create a virtual extended display on mobile devices by providing a first device in a first location d at least a second device in a second location, followed by joining together the first and second devices within an aggregation session via a network. Logical data of visual content is shared between the first and second devices, and the viewed output display of the visual content split amongst the first and second device displays within the aggregation session. During the aggregation session, at least one of the devices therein is manipulated by movement or changing device parameters to virtually change the viewed output display of the visual content on the manipulated device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas S. Brown, John F. Kelley, Todd Seager, Robert J. Torres
  • Patent number: 9857970
    Abstract: Techniques involving gestures and other functionality are described. In one or more implementations, the techniques describe gestures that are usable to provide inputs to a computing device. A variety of different gestures are contemplated, including bimodal gestures (e.g., using more than one type of input) and single modal gestures. Additionally, the gesture techniques may be configured to leverage these different input types to increase the amount of gestures that are made available to initiate operations of a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth P. Hinckley, Koji Yatani, Michel Pahud
  • Patent number: 9858875
    Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a first and second substrate, a sealant, a liquid crystal layer, and a first and second electrode. The first substrate includes a display region in which a plurality of pixel electrodes are aligned in a matrix. The second substrate includes a common electrode. The sealant is disposed between the first and second substrate so as to surround the display region. The liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first substrate, the second substrate and the sealant. The first electrode is disposed between the display region and the sealant. The second electrode is disposed between the display region and the first pixel electrode. The first electrode is supplied a first signal. The second electrode is supplied a second signal. The pixel electrodes are supplied an image signal. A frequency of each of the first and second signals are lower than a frequency of the image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Tomikawa
  • Patent number: 9858859
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a light emission control driver, and a brightness compensator. The display panel includes first pixels in a first display area and second pixels in a second display area. The light emission control driver controls light emission times of the first and second pixels. The brightness compensator detects a degree of deterioration of the first pixels and a degree of deterioration of the second pixels. The degrees of deterioration of the first and second pixels are different. The brightness compensator controls the light emission control driver to set the light emission times of the first pixels differently from the light emission times of the second pixels based on the different degrees of deterioration of the first and second pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-koo Her, Mukyung Jeon, Jihye Lee
  • Patent number: 9860847
    Abstract: This disclosure includes a method and system for conveying battery state information about a mobile communication terminal to a third-party caller using a voicemail system and an Integrated Services for Digital Network (ISDN) message. A battery state indicator corresponding to the battery state of a mobile communication terminal is inserted into ISDN header and transmitted to a voicemail system. The voicemail system extracts the ISDN header and determines which voicemail message to send to third-party callers based on the battery state of the mobile communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peeyush Jaiswal, Fang Wang
  • Patent number: 9852688
    Abstract: A pixel including an organic light-emitting diode, a capacitor, a first transistor including a gate electrode connected to a second node, a first electrode connected to a first source voltage line, and a second electrode configured to output a current corresponding to a voltage applied to the second node, a second transistor including a gate electrode connected to a first scan line, an electrode connected to a data line, a third transistor including a gate electrode connected to the first scan line, a first electrode connected to the first transistor, and a second electrode connected to the first transistor, a fourth transistor including a gate electrode connected to a second scan line, a first electrode connected to the first transistor, and a second electrode connected to an initialization voltage line, and a fifth transistor including a gate electrode and an electrode connected to an emission control line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changho Lee, Keumnam Kim
  • Patent number: 9852687
    Abstract: A display device comprising pixel circuits arranged in a matrix, in which each of the pixel circuits includes: an EL element; a capacitor for storing voltage; a drive transistor that provides, to the EL element, a current corresponding to the voltage stored in the capacitor to cause the EL element to emit light; a voltage supplier that applies a reference voltage to the drive transistor in an initialization period, and applies a reverse bias voltage to the drive transistor in a predetermined period before the initialization period, the reference voltage being higher than a threshold voltage of the drive transistor and providing a forward bias between the gate and source electrodes of the drive transistor, the initialization period being a period for initializing the pixel circuit, the reverse bias voltage providing a reverse bias between the gate and source electrodes of the drive transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Tsuge, Kouhei Ebisuno, Shigeo Homura
  • Patent number: 9841850
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices are described for operating an electronic system which includes a pliable component having an input surface, a first array of sensor electrodes, a second array of sensor electrodes, and a third array of sensor electrodes. The input device also includes a conductive substrate spaced apart from the pliable component and a compliant component disposed between the pliable component and the conductive substrate. In response to pressure applied by an input object to the input surface, the pliable component and the first, second, and third arrays of sensor electrodes locally deform and the compliant component locally compresses such that a spacing between the conductive substrate and at least one electrode from each of the first, second, and third arrays decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard R. Schediwy, Pascale El Kallassi
  • Patent number: 9841844
    Abstract: An image display device includes an image display component, a projection component that forms an optical image corresponding to an image displayed by the image display component, a distance measurement component having a detector that detects an indicator for performing an touch operation relative to the optical image to acquire distance information from the detector to the indicator, and a controller that determines whether or not the indicator has performed the touch operation relative to the optical image based on the distance information and relative movement information between the distance measurement component and at least one of the image display component and the projection component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takahashi, Atsuhiko Chikaoka, Ken Nishioka
  • Patent number: 9817510
    Abstract: A display device with an integrated touch screen and a method of driving the same are provided. In a method of driving a display device including an integrated touch screen, including a panel including a plurality of electrodes that are divided into n number of groups, where n is an integer greater than or equal to two, and a touch sensing unit, the method includes: applying data voltages to a plurality of pixels of the panel, during a high logic period of a horizontal sync signal, and applying, by the touch sensing unit, a touch scan signal to one of the n groups every n or more low logic periods of the horizontal sync signal, the touch scan signal being applied to each of the n groups at least one time, during one frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung Chul Kim
  • Patent number: 9816836
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with identifying mismappings of electric meters using voltage data are described. In one embodiment, a method includes selecting an electric meter from a plurality of electric meters represented in a connectivity model. The connectivity model is an electronic data structure that specifies information about connections between the plurality of electric meters and transformers in an electric distribution grid. The example method may also include analyzing mismapping metrics that characterize voltage data about the selected electric meter in relation to a set of electric meters that are geographically related to the selected electric meter to determine whether the connectivity model includes a mismapping of the selected electric meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Patrick Steigler
  • Patent number: 9817568
    Abstract: A method, computer readable storage medium, and electronic device are provided which operates on hierarchical data having a plurality of levels by detecting one of a plurality of gestures on a touch-sensitive input mechanism of the electronic device. Each of the plurality of gestures is associated with a different level in the hierarchical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Robert Felice Mori, Philip Gabriel Yurkonis, Jonathan Haking Lo
  • Patent number: 9817506
    Abstract: A sensor array for capacitive sensing includes: a plurality of sensor electrodes, the plurality of sensor electrodes comprising: a plurality of transmitter electrodes and a plurality of receiver electrodes, wherein the plurality of receiver electrodes include a plurality of imaging receiver electrodes and a reference receiver electrode, and wherein each of the plurality of receiver electrodes overlaps with the plurality of transmitter electrodes; wherein each of the plurality of transmitter electrodes is configured to be driven by sensing signals and each of the plurality of receiver electrodes is configured to receive detected signals corresponding to the sensing signals driven onto the transmitter electrodes; and conductive shielding disposed proximate to the reference receiver electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Guozhong Shen, Ozan Ersan Erdogan, Yongqian Tang
  • Patent number: 9812082
    Abstract: The application provides a pixel circuit, a driving method, a display panel and a display device. The pixel circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a fifth transistor, a sixth transistor, a driving transistor, a storage capacitor and a light emitting element, and by cooperative driving of the respective transistors and the storage capacitor, the driving current of the driving transistor can be independent of the gate-source voltage and the threshold voltage of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dan Chen, Dong Qian, Hanyu Gu
  • Patent number: 9812060
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including: a display portion for displaying an image; and a first pad coupled with the display portion and for receiving an out signal from the display portion; a driver coupled with the display portion for supplying a driving signal to the display portion; a cover covering the display panel; and a connection unit coupling the first pad and the driver to each other to transmit the out signal to the driver, wherein at least a portion of the connection unit is in the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bon-Seog Gu, Jin-Wook Yang
  • Patent number: 9812065
    Abstract: A data driver capable of displaying images with a substantially uniform brightness, an organic light emitting display device using the same, and a method of driving the organic light emitting display device. The data driver includes a plurality of current sink units for controlling predetermined currents to flow through data lines, a plurality of voltage generators for resetting values of gray scale voltages using compensation voltages generated when the predetermined currents flow, a plurality of digital-to-analog converters for selecting one gray scale voltage among the gray scale voltages as a data signal in response to bit values of the data supplied from the outside, and a plurality of switching units for supplying the data signal to the data lines. The predetermined currents may be set equal to pixel currents that correspond to a maximum brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University
    Inventors: Do Hyung Ryu, Bo Yong Chung, Hong Kwon Kim, Oh Kyong Kwon