Patents Examined by Peter D McLoone
  • Method and system for inputting in electronic device with a touch input and a proximity input
    Patent number: 10185408
    Abstract: A method and a system for inputting in an electronic device are provided. The method includes receiving a proximity input provided by an input tool through a user interface, the input tool having a drawing means with a predetermined length which is within a distance of a proximity input supporting section of the electronic device, identifying an attribute of the received proximity input, determining a display attribute based on the identified attribute of the proximity input, and outputting a drawing on the user interface corresponding to the determined display attribute and a drawing pattern of the proximity input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehak Lee, Dooyong Park, Younggyun Lee, Minho Kim, Gyucheol Choi
  • Display system, display device, information display method, and program
    Patent number: 10175923
    Abstract: A display system includes one HMD and another HMD, and the one HMD includes an image display section adapted to display an image so that an outside view can visually be recognized, and an imaging section adapted to take an image of a range including at least a part of the outside view, which can visually be recognized in the image display section. Further, the one HMD includes a communication section, and a control section adapted to make the image display section display the image. The another HMD includes an image display section, a communication section, a display control section adapted to display the image based on the information received from the one HMD, an operation detection section, and a control section adapted to generate the guide information and transmit the guide information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Miyasaka, Naoki Kobayashi, Masahide Takano
  • Augmented reality user interface
    Patent number: 10168788
    Abstract: A technique for interacting with a computing device includes operating an AR (Augmented Reality) headset as a UI (user interface) component of the computing device. The technique includes pairing the AR headset with the computing device to establish a communication pathway between the two. Once pairing is established, the AR headset detects gestures of the user and transmits UI metadata derived from the gestures to the computing device. The computing device is configured to receive the UI metadata over the communication pathway and to map the UI metadata to user operations to be performed on the computing device. The technique thereby enables the user to control the computing device using gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: GetGo, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler McKay Hall, Albert Alexandrov
  • Method for manufacturing input assembly, input assembly and terminal
    Patent number: 10168806
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an input assembly, an input assembly and a terminal are provided. The input assembly includes a decoration enclosure, a touch panel, a fingerprint chip package structure and a display screen component, and the touch panel defines a blind hole in a surface thereof. The method for manufacturing the input assembly includes: mounting the fingerprint chip package structure in the decoration enclosure; mounting the decoration enclosure carried with the fingerprint chip package structure in the blind hole; mounting the display screen component to the surface of the touch panel, in which a first orthographic projection of the display screen component in the surface of the touch panel overlaps a second orthographic projection of the decoration enclosure in the surface of the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoukuan Wu
  • Display device and display system
    Patent number: 10156744
    Abstract: A display device in an embodiment according to the present invention includes a display region arranged above a flexible substrate, the display region including a first display region and a second display region continuing from the first display region, at least the second display region including a curved surface. The second display region is located at a position where an image displayed in the second display region is not seen directly when viewing the first display region from a perpendicular direction with respect to a center part of the first display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Naohisa Andou, Tomoki Nakamura, Yoshihiro Kanno
  • Touch sensor having jumpers
    Patent number: 10152182
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed herein that relate to sensing touch input and applied force at a common sensor using a common controller. One example provides a touch sensor with (1) a plurality of electrodes forming a transmit electrode array and a receive electrode array; (2) drive circuitry configured to drive the transmit electrode array; (3) receive circuitry coupled to at least the receive electrode array; (4) and one or more jumpers electrically coupling respective pairs of the electrodes, the one or more jumpers having an electrical resistance that varies with applied force. The touch sensor may include a controller configured to determine, based on output from the receive circuitry, a location of a touch input and an applied force of the touch input based on a capacitance associated with the output and on a resistance associated with the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: On Haran, Eliyahu Barel
  • Foot control for computer processor
    Patent number: 10152142
    Abstract: A foot control system for a computer processor including a platform attached to a pair of foot pedals, where each of the foot pedals is biased to be in contact with a depression switch when a downward force is applied. Control paddles are located around each foot pedal, wherein each of the plurality of control paddles is located proximately above a foot pedal such that an operator may activate each control paddle independently with movement of a foot. The control paddles are connected to a set of signal generating devices, where a first control paddle is located in an upper toe position, a second control paddle is located in a right side position, and a third control paddle is located in a left side position. A control processor receives control signals from the signal generating devices and transmits programming control signals to the computer processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Inventor: Toby Breeden
  • Pixel driving circuit and driving method thereof and display device
    Patent number: 10140922
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes input module, compensation module, drive module, light emitting module and control signal input module. The input module is configured to transmit a signal of a data voltage terminal to the compensation module under control of first gate signal terminal. The compensation module is configured to compensate for a threshold voltage of the drive module under control of the input module and a threshold voltage control terminal. The drive module is configured to drive the light emitting module to emit light under control of first control signal terminal. The control signal input module is configured to transmit a signal of second voltage terminal or third voltage terminal to the first control signal terminal under control of second control signal terminal and third control signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guangxing Wang, Bin Zhang, Dianzheng Dong, Qiang Zhang, Kan Zhang
  • Display unit for vehicle and display control unit
    Patent number: 10139955
    Abstract: A display unit for a vehicle includes: a display; a touch panel; a substrate mounting a main CPU that generates image data, a sub CPU that controls electric power supply, a display controller, and multiple external connectors for one external device; a plate that supports the substrate; and a housing that accommodates the display, the plate, and the substrate. The plate is arranged to face the display. The substrate is arranged on an opposite side to the display to face the plate. The plate has a base. The substrate includes a touch panel connector for a touch panel controller arranged on the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kengo Ueyama
  • Touch control display panel and display device
    Patent number: 10126865
    Abstract: A touch control display panel and a display device are provided. The touch control display panel may comprise a first touch control electrode array including a plurality of first sub-electrodes arranged in an M1×N1 array and a plurality of first connectors, and a second touch control electrode array including a plurality of second sub-electrodes arranged in an M2×N2 array and a plurality of second connectors, where M1, M2, N1, and N2 is a positive integer, respectively. The first control electrode array and the second control electrode array are configured to satisfy at least one of: in the first direction, a width of the first sub-electrode being larger than a width of the first connector, and in the second direction, a width of the second sub-electrode being larger than a width of the second connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignees: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Renhui Yu, Wenyuan Xi, Jiancai Huang, Yumin Xu
  • Head-mounted display device, control method for head-mounted display device, and computer program
    Patent number: 10114604
    Abstract: A transmission type head-mounted display device includes a sound acquiring unit configured to acquire sound on the outside, a sound identifying unit configured to identify specific sound in the acquired sound, an image display unit capable of displaying an image and capable of transmitting an outside scene, an image storing unit configured to store an execution function image representing a function executable by the head-mounted display device and a specific sound image associated with the specific sound, a display-image setting unit configured to cause the image display unit to display a combined image obtained by combining the execution function image and the specific sound image, and a function executing unit configured to execute a function corresponding to the execution function image combined with the specific sound image associated with the acquired specific sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori Sendai, Akira Suzuki, Fusashi Kimura
  • GOA circuit
    Patent number: 10102820
    Abstract: The invention provides a GOA circuit, comprising a plurality of GOA units, for a positive integer n, n-th GOA unit comprising: a first TFT (T1), a second TFT (T2), a third TFT (T3), a fourth TFT T(4), a fifth TFT (T5), a sixth TFT (T6), a seventh TFT (T7), an eighth TFT (T8), a ninth TFT (T9), a first capacitor (C1) and a second capacitor (T2). The invention, based on known GOA circuit, uses T8 and T9 connected in parallel between node H and node Qn for conduction. The gate of T8 is connected to Qn?1 (the output signal of the previous GOA unit), and the gate of T9 is connected to Qn+1 (the output signal of the next GOA unit). The invention can provide the function of the known GOA circuit to prevent the stress on TFT T7, can also prevent the output Gn from instability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yafeng Li
  • System and method for external pixel compensation
    Patent number: 10096284
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel. The display panel includes a number of pixels, each of which includes a driving thin-film-transistor (TFT) and a light-emitting diode. Compensation circuitry external to the display panel applies offset data to pixel data for each pixel of the plurality of pixels before the pixel data is provided to the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad B. Vahid Far, Jesse A. Richmond, Yafei Bi
  • Driving circuit, touch display device, and method of driving the touch display device
    Patent number: 10082907
    Abstract: A driving circuit, a touch display device, and a method of driving the touch display device. A plurality of first electrodes are disposed within a display panel. A second electrode is disposed outside of the display panel. A driving circuit detects at least one of a touch position and a touching force of a touch by sequentially applying a first electrode driving signal to at least one first electrode among the plurality of first electrodes and applying a second electrode driving signal to the second electrode in a touch driving period. When a user touches a screen, not only can a touch position be sensed, but also a touching force with which the user presses the screen can also be efficiently sensed. This provides a range of functions that existing touch position-detecting technologies have failed to provide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungkyeom Kim, SungChul Kim, Sungsu Han, JiYeon Park
  • Light sensitive circuit, light sensing panel having the light sensitive circuit and display apparatus having the light sensing panel
    Patent number: 10078011
    Abstract: A light sensitive circuit includes a light sensing capacitor and a driving transistor. The light sensing capacitor is configured to sense light of a predetermined one or more wavelengths. The driving transistor includes a gate electrode electrically connected to the light sensing capacitor and is configured to generate a light sensing current according to a voltage of the gate electrode in the driving transistor. A light sensing accuracy and a light sensing signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the display apparatus including a plurality of such light sensing capacitors may be improved relative to ones that do not include such light sensing capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joon-Chul Goh, Jae-Keun Lim
  • Sound to haptic effect conversion system using multiple actuators
    Patent number: 10074246
    Abstract: A haptic conversion system is provided that analyzes an audio signal, generates a plurality of haptic signals based on the analysis of the audio signal, and plays the generated plurality of haptic signals through a plurality of actuators to produce one or more haptic effects. The haptic conversion system maps the generated plurality of haptic signals to the plurality of actuators based on one or more audio characteristics of the audio signal. Each generated haptic signal includes one or more haptic parameters, and is played at its mapped actuator to generate the one or more haptic effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: IMMERSION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Henry Da Costa, Herve Thu Timone, Robert Heubel, Stephen Rank, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Danny Grant
  • Electronic accessory device
    Patent number: 10073498
    Abstract: The present application describes various embodiments of systems and methods for providing internal components for portable computing devices having a thin profile. More particularly, the present application describes an electronic accessory device available to extend and expand usefulness of a portable computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Brett W. Degner
  • Method for manufacturing input assembly, input assembly and terminal
    Patent number: 10042449
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an input assembly, an input assembly and a terminal are provided. The input assembly includes a decoration enclosure, a touch panel, a fingerprint chip package structure and a display screen component, and the touch panel defines a blind hole in a lower surface thereof. The method for manufacturing the input assembly includes: mounting the fingerprint chip package structure in the decoration enclosure; mounting the decoration enclosure carried with the fingerprint chip package structure in the blind hole; mounting the display screen component to the lower surface of the touch panel, in which a first orthographic projection of the display screen component in the lower surface of the touch panel overlaps a second orthographic projection of the decoration enclosure in the lower surface of the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoukuan Wu
  • Test patterns for motion-induced chromatic shift
    Patent number: 10043425
    Abstract: Display of a test pattern on a liquid crystal display (“LCD”) device or other display device can expose a problem with control logic that causes perceptible shifting in color values away from correct color values. For example, a test pattern evaluation tool determines a test pattern that is based at least in part on a base pattern of pixels. The test pattern evaluation tool successively renders the test pattern for display on a display device. In doing so, the test pattern evaluation tool offsets the base pattern by a number of pixels (e.g., shifting by one pixel horizontally) between successive rendering operations at the native refresh rate of the display device, which facilitates evaluation of whether chromatic shift is induced among at least some sub-pixel display elements of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Brunner, Andrew Rosen, Andrew Glass
  • Display device, and method for modifying image displaying on the display device
    Patent number: 10043442
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display device and a method for modifying image displaying on a display panel. The display panel includes a pixel array composed of a plurality of pixel points each including three subpixels of three different colors which are arranged in a delta arrangement. The method includes: receiving original image signals which include brightness values of respective subpixels; determining a plurality of first pixel points; for each subpixel in each of the first pixel points, modifying the brightness value of the subpixel according to the brightness value of a subpixel having the same color as the subpixel in at least one of pixel points which are adjacent to the first pixel point; and providing the pixel array with modified image signals according to the modified brightness values of respective subpixels in the first pixel points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: EverDisplay Optronics (Shanghai) Limited
    Inventor: Jung-Chung Hsu