Patents Examined by Premal Patel
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Patent number: 8970484Abstract: Provided is a three dimensional display device that includes: three dimensional image display unit (1) having display surface (11) for spatially separating and displaying parallax images corresponding to at least two viewpoints; and force sense generation unit (2) configured to generate a sound wave toward display surface (11) of three dimensional display unit (1) and then generate predetermined pressure of the sound wave reflected on display surface (11) at a position spatially similar to the position of three dimensional image (8) displayed by three dimensional display unit (1).Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Imai, Nobuaki Takanashi, Fujio Okumura
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Patent number: 8963854Abstract: A calling and display unit displays the image of a function calling icon (FCI) on at least one of the four corners of a screen of a touch panel. An icon calling unit calls function activation icons (FAI) in correspondence to a touch manipulation on the FCI. A function display unit displays the images of the called FAIs so as to be arranged on at least one of the four sides of the screen, which communicates with one of the four corners where the FCI is located. Therefore, the proportion in which the images of the displayed FAIs obstruct a display image displayed on the screen can be minimized. In this way, a data processing device minimizes the proportion in which the images of the FAIs displayed on the touch panel obstruct the display image.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2010Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Masayoshi Inomata
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Patent number: 8957851Abstract: A projector apparatus includes a light source, a projection unit to form an optical image by using the light source and to project the formed image, an input unit to input a video signal representing the image, a person detection unit to detect a person existing in a projection area, a first projection control unit to set the projector apparatus to a projection state using a preset illumination pattern, when a person has been detected in the projection area, a motion analyzing unit to analyze a person's motion in the projection area, and a second projection control unit to activate the motion analyzing unit, after setting the projector apparatus to the projection state using the preset illumination pattern.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuyasu Fukano
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Patent number: 8953000Abstract: A liquid crystal display where grayscale inversion is reduced includes a liquid crystal cell having pixel groups, each group comprising a red (R) pixel, a green (G) pixel, a blue (B) pixel, and a white (W) pixel, and drive circuitry that applies a voltage VRGB and a voltage VW satisfying the formulae (ia) and (iia) between electrodes defining the G pixel and between electrodes defining the W pixel, respectively, depending on a grayscale level L (where L satisfies 0?L?1) in grayscale where substantially the same voltage VRGB is applied between electrodes defining each of the R, G, and B pixels: for 0<L?0.03, TG=0 and TW=2*L,??(ia) for 0.03<L?0.3, 0.05<TW/(TG?0.03)<0.86;??(iia) where TG and TW each represent normalized transmittance obtained through normalization of transmittance of each of the G and W pixels assuming that white brightness in a normal direction to a display surface of the liquid crystal display is 1.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yukito Saitoh, Hiroshi Sato, Rikio Inoue
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Patent number: 8952904Abstract: A mobile phone terminal (electronic device) includes a first touch panel and a second touch panel for displaying an object corresponding to an executable function and detect a touch on the object. The mobile phone terminal also includes a control unit that, in a state where the object is displayed on the first touch panel or the second touch panel, when the touch on the object is detected and then a movement of the touch is detected and if the first touch panel or the second touch panel is in a movement direction of the touch, displays a screen provided by a function corresponding to the object on the first touch panel or the second touch panel in the movement direction of the touch.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2011Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Saya Miura, Tsuneo Miyashita, Yuka Ishizuka, Tomohiro Sudou, Junichi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 8947363Abstract: A keyboard includes an upper frame, a main body, a lower frame, and an adjustment mechanism. The two frames cooperate with each other to sandwich the main body. The lower frame includes a bottom plate defining a though hole. The adjustment mechanism is configured to adjust an inclined angle of the keyboard, and includes an adjustment member, a supporting member, a driving member and a position stopper. The adjustment member is operated by a user. The supporting member protrudes from the bottom plate via the through hole to support the keyboard on a supporting surface. The driving member drives the supporting member to move along a central axis of the through hole to adjust a protruding distance of the supporting member when the adjustment member is operated. The position stopper resists the supporting member to secure the supporting member when the adjustment member is free.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2013Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ji-Bing Guo
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Patent number: 8947418Abstract: A display device in which low power consumption is realized without lowering an aperture ratio is provided. A liquid crystal capacitive element Clc is sandwiched between a pixel electrode 20 and an opposite electrode 80. The pixel electrode 20, one end of a first switch circuit 22, one end of a second switch circuit 23 and a first terminal of a second transistor T2 form an internal node N1. The other terminals of the first switch circuit 22 and the second switch circuit 23 are connected to a source line SL. The second switch circuit 23 is a series circuit composed of a first transistor T1 and a diode D1. A control terminal of the first transistor T1, a second terminal of the second transistor T2 and one end of a boost capacitive element Cbst form an output node N2. The other end of the boost capacitive element Cbst and the control terminal of the second transistor T2 are connected to a boost line BST and a reference line REF, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2011Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumiki Nakano, Naoki Ueda, Yoshimitsu Yamauchi
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Patent number: 8933875Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing or eliminating tracking errors associated with accelerometer-based input devices. The method and apparatus calculates a velocity of the input device; determines if the calculated velocity indicates a motion tracking error; and ignores the calculated velocity if the motion tracking error is indicated.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2008Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Farshid Moussavi
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Patent number: 8928644Abstract: A display device includes a pixel which includes a first photosensor portion having a first photodiode for detecting visible light, which is provided together with a display element portion; and a pixel which includes a second photosensor portion having a second photodiode for detecting infrared rays, which is provided together with another display element portion. The second photosensor portion detects infrared rays included in external light, and selects an imaging element and adjusts sensitivity in accordance with the amount of infrared rays detected by the second photosensor portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2011Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kurokawa, Takayuki Ikeda, Hikaru Tamura
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Patent number: 8917239Abstract: A removable cover for a handheld electronic device, including a protective cover that at least partially covers rear and side surfaces of a handheld electronic device, a plurality of proximity sensors mounted in the cover for detecting user gestures performed outside of the electronic device, a battery, wireless communication circuitry, and a processor configured to operate the proximity sensors, and to operate the wireless communication circuitry to transmit commands to the electronic device based on gestures detected by the proximity sensors.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2013Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Neonode Inc.Inventors: Thomas Eriksson, Stefan Holmgren, Johnn Karlsson, Remo Behdasht, Erik Rosengren, Lars Sparf
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Patent number: 8917241Abstract: An operating method of a display device includes controlling a shift of a cursor of a user interface reference frame according to a shift of the pointing device with reference to an initial point in a 3D spatial reference frame; and updating a position of the initial point in the 3D spatial reference frame according to an updating signal. An advantage of the present invention is when the operating range is changed, reference coordinates utilized by the pointing device are appropriately adjusted, so as to lower the affect of offset, allowing the pointing device to be applied in different areas/directions without having the cursor displayed on the display device to incorrectly reflect shift of the pointing device.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2013Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Cywee Group LimitedInventors: Ching-Lin Hsieh, Chin-Lung Lee, Shun-Nan Liou, Ying-Ko Lu, Zhou Ye
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Patent number: 8913012Abstract: There is provided an operating method of an optical mouse including a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the optical mouse detects a finger displacement, a contact status and a physiological characteristic according to a plurality of image frames associated with a finger surface. In the second mode, the optical mouse calculates a mouse displacement according to a plurality of image frames associated with a work surface. There is further provided an optical mouse.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Pixart Imaging Inc.Inventors: Ren-Hau Gu, Ming-Tsan Kao, Sen-Huang Huang
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Patent number: 8902158Abstract: A device-mounted infrared (IR) camera and a hybrid visible/IR light projector may be used to project visible animation sequences along with invisible (to the naked eye) tracking signals, (e.g. a near IR fiducial marker). A software (or firmware) platform (either on the handheld device or to which the device communicates) may track multiple, independent projected images in relation to one another using the tracking signals when projected in the near-IR spectrum. The resulting system allows a broad range of new interaction scenarios for multiple handheld projectors being used in any environment with adequate lighting conditions without requiring the environment to be instrumented in any way.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2011Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Karl Darcy Daniel Willis, Ivan Poupyrev
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Patent number: 8902126Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a color correcting method of a display device. A color correcting apparatus includes an input unit configured to receive an input image; an output unit configured to connect the color correcting apparatus with a reference sterosopic display device and a target stereoscopic display device; a user input unit configured to receive feedback data based on the difference in colors of the reference stereoscopic display device and the target stereoscopic display device; and a processor configured to convert colors of the input image using color profiles of the reference stereoscopic display device and the target stereoscopic display device and correct the colors of the target stereoscopic display device based on the feedback data to be consistent with the colors of the reference stereoscopic display device.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventor: Jin Seo Kim
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Patent number: 8902164Abstract: There is provided a mouse control module including two light sources, an image sensor, a processing unit and a communication unit. The two light sources emit light of different wavelengths to illuminate a finger surface. The image sensor receives reflected light from the finger surface to generate a plurality of image frames. The processing unit detects a displacement of the finger surface and a physiological characteristic of a user according to the plurality of image frames. The communication unit encodes and/or sequences the displacement and the physiological characteristic so as to generate finger and physiology information. There is further provided an optical finger mouse.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Pixart Imaging Inc.Inventors: Ren Hau Gu, Ming Tsan Kao, Sen Huang Huang
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Patent number: 8896535Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an extracting unit for extracting a feature point from a captured image; a recognizing unit for recognizing a position of the feature point; a display unit for displaying, based on the position of the feature point, a feature-point pointer indicating the feature point and a mirrored image of the captured image in a translucent manner; and an issuing unit for issuing, based on the position of the feature point, a command corresponding to the position of the feature point or a motion of the feature point.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shingo Tsurumi, Shouichi Doi
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Patent number: 8884878Abstract: A switch device includes a positive power terminal, a negative power terminal, a plurality of battery slots and a change-over switch. Each battery slot has a positive battery terminal and a negative battery terminal. The positive battery terminal of a battery slot electrically connects to the positive power terminal. The negative battery terminal of another battery slot electrically connects to the negative power terminal. The change-over switch electrically connects with the positive power terminal, the negative power terminal, the negative battery terminal of the battery slot which electrically connecting to the positive power terminal, and the positive battery terminal of the battery slot which electrically connecting to the negative power terminal. The change-over switch is toggled to connect the battery slots as a parallel connection or a series connection optionally.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Giga-Byte Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yin Yu Lin, Shu I Chen
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Patent number: 8884997Abstract: A system and method for controlling a user interface display that de-emphasizes a background image of a physical display. The system and method draws a pattern, preferably a checkered pattern, of black and transparent pixels over the background image. The system and method mitigates any jarring effect of the prior art of driving all of the display to black. Although in the preferred embodiment, the checkered pattern alternates pixels between black and transparent, any pattern that drives less than substantially all of the pixels to black is suitable.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2012Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: barnesandnoble.com llcInventor: Matt Pallakoff
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Patent number: 8878810Abstract: Touch screen user interfaces for controlling software applications, computers, devices, machinery, and process environments with “continuous grammar” touch gestures which begin with finger postures contacting the touch screen with one part of the hand and which conclude with finger postures contacting the touch screen with a different part of the hand without breaking contact with the touch screen. The touch screen can be realized sensor array configured with a visual display arranged to detect touch from one or more fingers. In addition to recognizing simple touch gestures, algorithms comprised by the user interface are additionally arranged to be responsive to pluralities of finger postures executed sequentially without breaking contact with the touch screen. Such user interfaces can be easily used and provide a wide range of uses with computer applications, assistance to the disabled, and control of electronic devices, machines, and processes.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2014Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Inventor: Lester F. Ludwig
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Patent number: 8878807Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a free-space gesture-based user interface for a computer workstation and desktop software applications are disclosed. In one implementation, the system includes a video camera to generate real-time video signals responsive to a user gesture as observed by the video camera, and a processor to generate control signals responsive to the real-time video signals responsive to the user gesture observed by the video camera. The control signals are used to control a desktop software application executing on the computer workstation, such that at least one aspect of the desktop software application is responsive to the user gesture observed by the video camera.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Inventor: Lester F. Ludwig