Patents Examined by Premal Patel
  • Patent number: 9412295
    Abstract: A pixel circuit including a light emitting element outputting a gray scale based on a current supplied thereto, a first transistor configured to control an amount of current supplied to the light emitting element based on a gray scale data voltage supplied to a gate electrode of the first transistor, a second transistor connected between the gate electrode of the first transistor and an initialization voltage, a third transistor connected between the gate electrode of the first transistor and a first terminal of the first transistor; a fourth transistor connected between the first terminal of the first transistor and the light emitting element, and a fifth transistor connected between a second terminal of the first transistor and a data line. The data line is selectively supplied with the gray scale data voltage and a power supply voltage for light emitting of the light emitting element to the fifth transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Okuno, Masayuki Kumeta, Eiji Kanda, Ryo Ishii, Naoaki Komiya
  • Patent number: 9406257
    Abstract: In a display device, a signal line drive circuit applies an initialization voltage to control terminals of drive transistors from corresponding video signal lines, and applies a reset potential to first terminals of the drive transistors from corresponding reset lines to initialize the drive transistor, and the initialization voltage is set to a lower value as a voltage value of the gradation voltage signal written after offset cancellation for offset-canceling a threshold value of the drive transistor is higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Norio Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9401108
    Abstract: A data driver supplies a data signal to a display panel to control luminance of a plurality of pixels. The data signal comprises a plurality of frames, and each of the frames comprises a plurality of sub-frames. Each of the sub-frames comprises an addressing time, followed by an emission time, followed by an erase time. Subpixels each include a first scan line switch controlled by the first scan line signal to turn on during the addressing time of each sub-frame and to turn off during the emission time and the erase time of each sub-frame. A second scan line switch is controlled by a second scan line signal to provide a discharge path to discharge the storage capacitor during the erase time of each sub-frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongwon Park, Yongchul Kwon
  • Patent number: 9389683
    Abstract: The present specification relates to a wearable display and a method of controlling therefor, and more particularly, to a method of updating information displayed in the wearable display by recognizing opening and closing of eyes of a user wearing the wearable display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongho Kim, Sinae Chun, Eunhyung Cho, Jihwan Kim
  • Patent number: 9389782
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an electronic device and a control method thereof. The electronic device includes a touch device and a processor. The processor is electrically connected to the touch device. When at least one continuous back-and-forth moving touch trace is formed on the touch device during a predetermined period, the processor switches one of a plurality of modes of the electronic device to another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Feng-Yi Yu, Ming-Che Weng, Wei-Han Hu, Jui-Wen Hsu, Shih-Hung Lin
  • Patent number: 9377898
    Abstract: A method of calibrating sensitivity of a pressure based touch input device is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes generating continuous input signals each having a value that is based on the magnitude pressure applied to the touch input device and sampling the continuous input signals at a predetermined rate to generate sampling signals. The method also includes determining whether to perform a sensitivity calibration of the touch input device based on a first threshold range and the sampling signals and selecting a sensitivity calibration parameter to be applied to the sensitivity calibration from among a plurality of pre-stored parameters. The selecting is based on the absolute values of the sampling signals. The method further includes performing the sensitivity calibration based on the sensitivity calibration parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ji-Hye Shin
  • Patent number: 9367139
    Abstract: Systems, articles, and methods perform gesture identification with limited computational resources. A wearable electromyography (“EMG”) device includes multiple EMG sensors, an on-board processor, and a non-transitory processor-readable memory storing data and/or instructions for performing gesture identification. The wearable EMG device detects signals when a user performs a physical gesture and characterizes a signal vector {right arrow over (s)} based on features of the detected signals. A library of gesture template vectors G is stored in the memory of the wearable EMG device and a respective property of each respective angle ?i formed between the signal vector {right arrow over (s)} and respective ones of the gesture template vectors {right arrow over (g)}i is analyzed to match the direction of the signal vector {right arrow over (s)} to the direction of a particular gesture template vector {right arrow over (g)}*.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: THALMIC LABS INC.
    Inventors: Pedram Ataee, Idris S. Aleem, Matthew Bailey
  • Patent number: 9360668
    Abstract: A head-up display system includes a display unit including a projection unit configured to be positioned adjacent to a windshield, a display screen, and a controller. The projection unit is operable to project a current image generated by the controller onto a display screen. A position sensor is electrically coupled to the display unit and is operable to detect a position of an object with respect to the display unit. The controller is configured to dynamically update the current image based upon the position. A method of detecting an object is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Jorge Arturo Rodriguez Moreno
  • Patent number: 9360692
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a pixel that includes a first subpixel and a second subpixel, the first subpixel displaying a first image based on a first gamma curve during a first period of a first frame and the second subpixel displaying a second image based on a second gamma curve during the first period of the first frame, where the first and second gamma curves are different; a gate driver configured to transmit a gate signal to the display panel; and a data driver configured to transmit a first data voltage based on the first gamma curve and a second data voltage based on the second gamma curve to the pixel, in which the pixel includes a voltage changing member which changes luminance of at least one of the first image and the second image during a second period of the first frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Yong No, Jang Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 9355602
    Abstract: To provide a hold-type display device without a problem of motion blur and a driving method thereof. The length of a period for displaying a blanking image in one frame period is controlled in accordance with a control parameter showing the degree of motion blur, and the level of a signal supplied to a display element is changed in accordance with the length of the period for displaying the blanking image. Accordingly, the hold-type display device without a problem of motion blur and the driving method thereof can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Yoshida, Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 9354706
    Abstract: An example of an information processing apparatus calculates a first position using imaging information based on an image captured by an imaging device. The information processing apparatus calculates a second position using a detection result of a sensor. The information processing apparatus repeatedly determines whether or not a predetermined condition is satisfied, the predetermined condition including a condition regarding a relationship between the first position and the second position. A designated position on a predetermined plane is calculated using the first position and/or the second position. In a satisfaction period after the predetermined condition has been satisfied, the information processing apparatus calculates the designated position by making an influence of the second position relatively great as compared to an unsatisfaction period before the predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoya Yamada
  • Patent number: 9354710
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided in the disclosure. The electronic device includes a body, a display unit, and a projecting unit; where the body comprises a first surface and a second surface which intersects the first surface, where the second surface supports the body in a standing position on a support surface at a first angle which is not zero degrees between the second surface and the support surface; the display unit is disposed on the first surface and displays content; and the projecting unit is supported by the body and projects content externally when the body stands on the support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiao Cai
  • Patent number: 9343026
    Abstract: Provided is the pixel circuit for active matrix display apparatus and the driving method thereof, which is controlled by digital signal. The pre-charge pixel voltage is controlled and discharged by controlling the resistor and transistors, so that the desired grey scale is generated. The pixel circuit includes: a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, an energy storage device and resistor. By controlling the third switch, the first end of the energy storage device is charged to the voltage of the second source. The first switch and the second switch are controlled to switch on, so that the first end of the energy storage device discharging to the first source. The second switch switches off when the first end of the energy storage device reaches the desired pixel voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ya-Hsiang Tai, Lu-Sheng Chou, Chun-Yu Lin, Chia-Hung Chang
  • Patent number: 9335838
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for organizing content collected in a pen-based computing system. A plurality of groups of stroke data are obtained. Each group of stroke data is associated with a timestamp based on the timing of strokes made by the smart pen. The groups of stroke data are grouped into one or more snippets based on a temporal proximity of the timestamps and spatial proximity of the stroke data. A request to associate a snippet to a tag is received. An association between the snippet and the tag is stored responsive to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Livescribe Inc.
    Inventors: David Robert Black, Brett Reed Halle
  • Patent number: 9337191
    Abstract: A transistor whose channel region includes an oxide semiconductor is used as a pull down transistor. The band gap of the oxide semiconductor is 2.0 eV or more, preferably 2.5 eV or more, more preferably 3.0 eV or more. Thus, hot carrier degradation in the transistor can be suppressed. Accordingly, the circuit size of the semiconductor device including the pull down transistor can be made small. Further, a gate of a pull up transistor is made to be in a floating state by switching of on/off of the transistor whose channel region includes an oxide semiconductor. Note that when the oxide semiconductor is highly purified, the off-state current of the transistor can be 1 aA/?m (1×10?18 A/?m) or less. Therefore, the drive capability of the semiconductor device can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Umezaki, Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 9329699
    Abstract: The present invention provides a device and method for classifying a user using pattern recognition of an input device. A series of the keystroke objects are received via the user input interface. A typing signature is determined for the series of keystroke objects using the processor by analyzing the key attributes of the series of keystroke objects using a pattern recognition algorithm. The typing signature is compared to one or more user typing signatures stored in the memory using the processor. The user is classified based on whether or not the typing signature is statistically similar to one of the stored typing signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jeffrey David Allen, John Joseph Howard, Mitchell Aaron Thornton
  • Patent number: 9329705
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a first device includes an electrically conductive element that is configured to capacitively couple to an electrode of a second device emitting a first electrical signal. The electrically conductive element is further configured to communicate to a circuit of the first device a second electrical signal induced in the electrically conductive element by the first electrical signal and through the capacitive coupling. The circuit of the first device is coupled to the electrically conductive element and is configured to receive the second electrical signal. The circuit is further configured to produce an electrical response to the second electrical signal, where the electrical response of the circuit is based at least in part on one or more characteristics of the first electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventor: Richard Paul Collins
  • Patent number: 9323411
    Abstract: A display device including a touch screen panel and method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a first substrate including a display region and a peripheral region, a light-emitting structure formed over the first substrate, and a second substrate formed over the light-emitting structure. The display device also includes a touch screen panel formed over the second substrate and a touch screen panel-flexible printed circuit (TSP-FPC) board at least partially overlapping the peripheral region, wherein the TSP-FPC board is electrically connected to the touch screen panel. The display device further includes a protective member substantially covering the display region and the peripheral region. A top structure is interposed between the TSP-FPC board and the protective member in the peripheral region and a bottom structure interposed between the TSP-FPC board and the first substrate in the peripheral region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Youn-Bum Lee
  • Patent number: 9324777
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light emitting display device for preventing short and voltage drop between lines to improve yield. The organic light emitting display device includes: a plurality of sub-pixels located at crossing regions of a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines; first power lines for supplying a voltage for driving the sub-pixels, each of the first power lines being shared by two adjacent sub-pixels from among the plurality of sub-pixels; and initial power lines for supplying an initial power to the sub-pixels, each of the initial power lines being shared by the two adjacent sub-pixels and located between the two adjacent sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki-Nyeng Kang, Dong-Wook Park, Keum-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 9304677
    Abstract: A touch-based user interface system comprising an arrangement for scanning a tactile sensor array to produce a corresponding array of measurement values that are presented to a processor for computation. The computation produces a plurality of running sums created from selected measurement values or functions of selected measurement values. A post-scan computation algorithm derives at least three independently-adjustable interactive control parameters responsive to at least displacements or angles the contact of a single area of threshold contact or threshold proximity. The system provides output control signals responsive to the independently-adjustable interactive control parameters. In one aspect of the invention, n algorithmic element for handling of regions of threshold contact or threshold proximity having non-convex shapes. In another aspect of the invention, an algorithmic element calculates the rate of change of one or more of the independently-adjustable interactive control parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Advanced Touchscreen and Gestures Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Lester F. Ludwig