Patents Examined by Prabodh M. Dharia
  • Patent number: 11159161
    Abstract: A button for a touch panel that includes a first operating unit made of a conductor and to be operated by being pushed down; a supporting portion made of an insulator and to be fixed on a capacitive touch panel, the supporting portion supporting the first operating unit; and an elastic member accommodated inside the supporting portion, a surface of the elastic member being nonconductive, the surface being fixed to the touch panel, the elastic member is elastically, deformed when the first operating unit is pushed down, in which the pushing operation of the first operating unit is detected by the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Aoki, Hiroki Akatsuka
  • Patent number: 11146556
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods and systems for contiguous utilization of individual end-user-based cloud-storage subscriptions. Methods including the steps of: upon receiving a write request for writing a data file into at least one cloud-storage allocation unit, identifying unused available storage in the cloud-storage allocation unit; fragmenting the data file into chunk files; encrypting each chunk file; writing each chunk file to the cloud-storage allocation unit to satisfy the write request; and updating a metadatabase having metadata associated with the data file and the chunk files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Parablu Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Prahlad, Inbaraj Karuthakannan
  • Patent number: 11137865
    Abstract: A touch screen, a method for manufacturing the same and a touch display device are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: MIANYANG BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xuan Wang
  • Patent number: 11124904
    Abstract: Weaving equipment may include strand positioning equipment that positions warp strands and that inserts weft strands among the warp strands to form fabric. The weaving equipment may include one or more guide arms that pushes warp strands in the weft direction during weaving. Fabrics having warp strands that extend in both the warp direction and the weft direction may be used in forming circuitry in fabrics such as touch sensor circuitry. For example, a touch sensor in a fabric may be formed using first conductive warp strands that form first touch sensor electrodes and second conductive warp strands that form second touch sensor electrodes that overlap with the first touch sensor electrodes. The second conductive warp strands may each have a first portion that extends in the warp direction and a second portion that extends in the weft direction across the first touch sensor electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel A. Podhajny, Yohji Hamada, Kathryn P. Crews, Joseph B. Walker, Daniel D. Sunshine
  • Patent number: 11119322
    Abstract: An imaging display system in the field of augmented reality technology comprises a waveguide structure (14) disposed on an outer surface of an exit surface (7) of a polarization beam splitter (3) of an optical engine module (A). The waveguide structure is tubular. One end (15) of the waveguide structure is connected to the exit surface and together with the exit surface forms a preset angle (?). The other end of the waveguide structure is a free end. The imaging display system expands an eye motion box (EMB) by means of the waveguide structure. The preset angle formed between the waveguide structure and the exit surface causes light (22) incident on the waveguide structure to undergo total internal reflection inside the waveguide structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: YUTOU TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang Guan, Kun Li
  • Patent number: 11114014
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit including first color subpixels, second color subpixels, and third color subpixels, a scan driver for applying scan signals to scan lines connected to the first color subpixels, the second color subpixels, and the third color subpixels, a switch circuit for selecting first data lines connected to the first color subpixels and the second color subpixels for a first section, and selecting second data lines connected to the third color subpixels for a second section after the first section, and a data driver for applying data signals corresponding to the third color subpixels to the switch circuit for a third section between the first section and the second section, and applying data signals corresponding to the first color subpixels and the second color subpixels to the switch circuit for a fourth section after the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Eup Lee, Ji-Hyun Ka, Ki Myeong Eom
  • Patent number: 11106039
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a single-stream foveal display transport are disclosed. A system includes a transmitter sending an image over a display transport as a sequence of equi-sized rectangles to a receiver coupled to a display. The receiver then scales up the rectangles with different scale factors to cover display areas of different sizes. The pixel density within a rectangular region is uniform and scaling factors can take on integer or non-integer values. The rectilinear grid arrangement of the image results in simplified scaling operations for the display. In another scenario, the image is transmitted as a set of horizontal bands of equal size. Within each band, the same horizontal amount of transmitted pixels are redistributed across multiple rectangular regions of varied scales. The display stream includes embedded information and the horizontal and/or vertical distribution and scaling of rectangular regions, which can be adjusted for each transmitted image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Guennadi Riguer, Syed Athar Hussain
  • Patent number: 11107379
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display portion, an illuminance sensor and a controller. The display portion has a display screen. The illuminance sensor measures an ambient brightness of the display screen at a first interval. The controller shifts the illuminance sensor to a state in which the illuminance sensor measures the ambient brightness at a second interval which is longer than the first interval when a change of the brightness is relatively small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Nobuaki Takasu
  • Patent number: 11106351
    Abstract: An evaluating apparatus includes a notifying unit and an evaluating unit. The notifying unit notifies a terminal device of a reply request. The evaluating unit calculates subjective data which expresses a subjective intuition of a target person by an evaluation value, from objective data which is calculated based on plural touch operations performed by the target person on the terminal device which is notified of the reply request in consideration of intervals between the touch operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Yuhei Shimada
  • Patent number: 11107418
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including pixels, a luminance controller that divides the display panel into blocks based on coordinate information, calculates a block reference current based on a block current sensed in each of the blocks when reference images are sequentially displayed on the blocks, calculates a target current based on the block reference current and a block load of each of the blocks based on input image data, and calculates a scaling factor based on the target current and a sensing current sensed in each of the blocks when an input image corresponding to the input image data is displayed on the display panel, and a data driver that generates a data voltage corresponding to the input image data and supplies the data voltage to the pixels by adjusting a voltage level of the data voltage based on the scaling factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kihyun Pyun, Sung-In Kang, Kyunho Kim
  • Patent number: 11100865
    Abstract: A display panel includes a substrate and a plurality of pixels arranged on the substrate, and the pixel includes a plurality of sub pixels, and a driving circuit. The sub pixel includes a first electrode layer on the substrate, a light-emitting layer on the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer on the light-emitting layer. The driving circuit is arranged between the substrate and the first electrode layer, and electrically coupled with the sub pixels. The driving circuit includes a driving control module and a drive line electrically coupled with the driving control module. The driving control module is arranged below a part of the sub pixels electrically coupled with the driving circuit, and the drive line is electrically coupled with the sub pixels, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsangchih Wu, Yung Chi Wen
  • Patent number: 11098218
    Abstract: Patterned and plasma-treated coatings for surfaces of electronic devices are disclosed. The patterned and plasma-treated coatings may include a linear fluorinated oligomer or linear fluorinated polymer and may be transparent. Regions of a patterned coating may be micro-sized. The pattern defined by the coating may not be visually discernable, but may affect the frictional properties of the coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Naoto Matsuyuki, Manish Mittal, Matthew S. Rogers
  • Patent number: 11087656
    Abstract: A system and method for sensing drive current in a pixel. In some embodiments, the system includes: a first pixel, a second pixel, a differential sensing circuit, a reference current source, and a control circuit. The differential sensing circuit may have a first input, a second input, and an output, the first input being connected to a node at which a reference current generated by the reference current source is subtracted from a first pixel current, the first pixel current including a current generated by the first pixel. The second input may be configured to receive a second pixel current, the second pixel current including a current generated by the second pixel. The output may be configured to produce an output signal based on a difference between a current received at the first input and a current received at the second input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anup P. Jose, Amir Amirkhany, Mohamed Elzeftawi
  • Patent number: 11087680
    Abstract: A display device comprises a pixel area in which a plurality of pixels are arranged, and a dummy pixel area which is provided around the pixel area and in which a plurality of dummy pixels are arranged. Each of the pixel and the dummy pixel includes a light-emitting element including a first electrode and a second electrode, and a driving transistor. The first electrode of the light-emitting element is connected to the driving transistor in the pixel, and in the dummy pixel, the light-emitting element is not connected to the driving transistor, a first potential is supplied to the first electrode, a second potential is supplied to the second electrode, and the light-emitting element does not emit light at a potential difference between the first potential and the second potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromasa Tsuboi, Yasushi Matsuno, Takehiko Soda
  • Patent number: 11087693
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, a driving method of the pixel circuit, a display panel and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes: a resetting sub-circuit, a charging sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit, a light-emitting sub-circuit, a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The light-emitting sub-circuit is connected to a first node and a first voltage input end. Two ends of the first capacitor are respectively connected to the first node and the first voltage input end. Two ends of the second capacitor are respectively connected to the first node and a second node. The resetting sub-circuit is connected to the first node, a resetting signal input end and a third control signal input end. The charging sub-circuit is connected to the second node, a scanning signal input end, a data signal input end and a first control signal input end. The driving sub-circuit is connected to the first node, the second node, a second control signal input end and a second voltage input end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xinshe Yin
  • Patent number: 11086450
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch circuit, a touch device, and a touch method. The touch circuit includes: at least one photodetection circuit, and a first capacitor electrically connected to the at least one photodetection circuit. Each photodetection circuit is configured to detect modulated light reflected by a touch object, generate a modulation signal according to the modulated light, and output the modulation signal through the first capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Ding, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu, Xueyou Cao, Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 11075358
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel having a display region on which an image is displayed, a non-display region adjacent to the display region, a folding region configured to be folded along a folding axis and overlapping the display region, and a flat region adjacent to the folding region and extending in a direction perpendicular to the folding axis, and a protection film on a lower portion of the display panel and including a shear thickening fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sanghoon Kim, Seongjin Hwang
  • Patent number: 11068151
    Abstract: A content display device includes: a display unit for displaying a content in a displayable area; a position detecting unit for detecting a touch position; a determination unit for determining whether or not the detected touch position is on the displayed content; and, a content movement control unit that, when the determination unit has determined that the detected touch position is on the displayed content while part of the content resides outside the displayable area of the display unit, performs a control so as to move and display the content in such a manner that an entire content is displayed within the displayable area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyuki Koyama, Satoshi Terada, Kazunori Urano
  • Patent number: 11062681
    Abstract: A monitoring system includes a monitoring device to collect and retain the monitoring information item that is a result of monitoring by a monitor terminal, a configuration information item management device to retain a configuration information item that is information about the monitor terminal connected to the monitoring system, a data model management device to generate display data intended for display of the monitoring information item by means of a data model that includes information associating the monitoring information item with the configuration information item, and a display device to obtain the display data and control the display of the monitoring information item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shintaro Yanagihara
  • Patent number: 11054950
    Abstract: A display device and a touch sensor, the display device including a first substrate in which a display area and a peripheral area around the display area are defined; an element layer which is located on the first substrate and comprises a first light emitting element located in the display area and a second light emitting element at least partially located in the peripheral area; and a touch sensor which is located on the element layer. The touch sensor includes: a touch electrode portion which is located in the display area and overlaps the first light emitting element; a touch signal line which is located in the peripheral area and is connected to the touch electrode portion; and a light transmission control pattern portion which is located in the peripheral area, overlaps the second light emitting element, and extends along a boundary between the display area and the peripheral area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Yong Eom, Ki Cheol Kim, Jae Yoon Chang, Won Kyu Kwak, Young Bae Jung