Patents Examined by Ram A Mistry
  • Patent number: 9952715
    Abstract: A touch input sensing apparatus includes a driver configured to output a signal to sensing electrodes, a sensor configured to sense a touch input from the sensing electrodes, and a reference signal generator configured to output a first clock signal to the driver and output a second clock signal to the sensor. The second clock signal frequency is k times greater than a frequency of the first clock signal. The reference signal generator is configured to synchronize the first clock signal with the second clock signal to delay a phase of the second clock signal is delayed from the first clock signal between 0 degrees and 180/k degrees, wherein k is a constant greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung EIectro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Moon Suk Jeong, Yong Il Kwon
  • Patent number: 9953604
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device, including: a display surface; a display functional layer adapted to control the display of a screen viewed from outside the display surface; a drive control section operable to perform display scanning and driving adapted to scan and drive, in the one direction, the plurality of drive electrodes, and also operable to perform, a plurality of times and for M display screens, detection scanning and driving adapted to continuously scan and drive all or part of the plurality of drive electrodes within the period of time; and a plurality of sensor lines arranged in a direction other than the one direction to be separate from each other, which produce an electrical change if an object to be detected comes in contact with or proximity to the display surface while the drive control section performs the detection scanning and driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kouji Noguchi, Takayuki Nakanishi, Koji Ishizaki, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takeya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9939933
    Abstract: A data-input device comprises a designator able to point to a position on a screen of a computer system to which the device is intended to be connected and a body intended to be fixed to a workstation, the body comprising a support zone intended to support the hand of an operator as he manipulates the designator. The device further comprises a knob arranged in such a way that it can be manipulated by the fingers of the operator, his hand remaining supported on the support zone. The knob is configured to allow at least two distinct data selections of which one is a choice of values in a series and one is a binary acquisition in relation to the chosen value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bigand, Michael Manceau, Sylvain Hourlier
  • Patent number: 9940881
    Abstract: Techniques for driving a dual modulation display include generating backlight drive signals to drive individually-controllable illumination sources. The illumination sources emit first light onto a light conversion layer. The light conversion layer converts the first light into second light. The light conversion layer can include quantum dots or phosphor materials. Modulation drive signals are generated to determine transmission of the second light through individual subpixels of the display. These modulation drive signals can be adjusted based on one or more light field simulations. The light field simulations can include: (i) a color shift for a pixel based on a point spread function of the illumination sources; (ii) binning difference of individual illumination sources; (iii) temperature dependence of display components on performance; or (iv) combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Ajit Ninan, Chun Chi Wan
  • Patent number: 9916011
    Abstract: A force measurement system includes a force measurement assembly with a top surface configured to receive at least one portion of the body of a subject and at least one force transducer configured to sense forces and/or moments being applied to the top surface; at least one visual display device having an output screen, the output screen comprising an overhanging top portion so that a top edge of the output screen is not readily visible to the subject; and one or more data processing devices operatively coupled to the force measurement assembly and the at least one visual display device. In one or more embodiments, the force measurement assembly may be in the form of an instrumented treadmill. In one or more further embodiments, the force measurement system may additionally comprise a motion capture system configured to detect the motion of one or more body gestures of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Bertec Corporation
    Inventors: Necip Berme, Scott Zerkle Barnes, Benjamin Robert Hoffman, Sasan Ghassab, Jaswandi Tushar Pitale
  • Patent number: 9916050
    Abstract: [PROBLEM] To reduce a time constant of an electric circuit including driving electrodes and detecting electrodes in a display provided with an input device, and reduce a temperature variation ratio of the time constant. [SOLVING MEANS] The display 1 includes driving electrodes COML provided along an X axis direction when seen in a plan view, buffer TFT elements Trb serially connected to the driving electrodes COML, and a plurality of detecting electrodes TDL respectively provided to intersect with the driving electrodes COML when seen in a plan view and aligned in the X axis direction. A temperature coefficient of resistance of a sum of an ON resistance of the buffer TFT elements Trb and a resistance of the driving electrodes COML is negative, each of the specific resistances of the plurality of detecting electrodes TDL is not more than 40 ??cm, and each of the temperature coefficients of resistance of the plurality of detecting electrodes TDL is 1×10?3 to 5×10?3K?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masanobu Ikeda, Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa
  • Patent number: 9910535
    Abstract: A touch input device includes a touch panel, a press detection signal generating unit and a touch detection signal generating unit. The touch panel is formed by laminating a piezoelectric sensor and a capacitive sensor. The piezoelectric sensor is connected to the press detection signal generating unit, and the capacitive sensor is connected to the touch detection signal generating unit. The piezoelectric sensor includes a piezoelectric film, and first and second press detecting conductors disposed with the piezoelectric film sandwiched therebetween. The piezoelectric film is disposed such that a polarity of electric charges produced by a press in the piezoelectric film, and a polarity of excited electric charges produced in the piezoelectric film when the capacitive sensor detects a touch become reverse polarities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kitada, Masamichi Ando
  • Patent number: 9904408
    Abstract: An electronic device capable of presenting appropriate tactile feeling in various use situations is provided. The electronic device according to one exemplary embodiment includes: a touch panel on which a user touches; touch detector that detects the touch of the user on the touch panel; vibrator that vibrates the touch panel; driver that drives the vibrator with a first drive signal within a first frequency band and a second drive signal within a second frequency band higher than the first frequency band; vibration detector that detects a vibration of the touch panel that vibrates due to a drive with the second drive signal and outputs a detection signal; and drive frequency determinator that determines a frequency of the first drive signal based on the detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoichi Araki, Yoshifumi Hirose
  • Patent number: 9886205
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a programmable Gamma voltage output device having a non-volatile memory (NVM), a controller, a digital signal generation module, a digital to analog converter (DAC), and output verification module. The NVM is configured for duplicating a copy of a corresponding voltage data code when programming the voltage data code. The controller is configured for sending control signals to the digital signal generation module in accordance with the voltage data code. The digital signal generation module is configured for outputting digital signals to the DAC in accordance with the control signals. The DAC is configured for converting the digital signals to a Gamma voltage. The output verification module is configured for verifying whether the Gamma voltage is within a predetermined voltage range. In addition, a display device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Xianming Zhang
  • Patent number: 9881585
    Abstract: In a display device, a timing controller is configured to transfer first display data and part of second display data to a first source driver via a first data transfer line at a high transfer frequency, and to transfer the remaining part of the second display data to a second source driver via the first data transfer line at a low transfer frequency, and the first source driver is configured to transfer the received part of the second display data to the second source driver via a second data transfer line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kouji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9880680
    Abstract: Provided are (i) a touch panel substrate improved in uniformity of in-plane light transmittance and (ii) an electronic device employing the touch panel substrate. A plurality of first sensor electrodes (11) are formed by dividing first conductor lines (13). At least one of a pair of ends of the first conductor lines (13), which pair of ends face each other via a dividing line along which the first conductor lines (13) are divided, has a wide width part (40) which is wider than the other part of the first conductor lines (13), when viewed from above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuhji Yashiro, Kazutoshi Kida
  • Patent number: 9864444
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive display device is provided. The touch-sensitive display device includes a display panel and a touch panel. The display panel includes first and second substrates facing each other. The display panel is configured to display images through the second substrate. The touch panel is disposed on the second substrate and is configured to detect a touch event. The touch panel includes sensing electrodes spaced apart from each other, a conductive layer, and a touch processor. The conductive layer is electrically separated from the sensing electrodes. The touch processor is configured to provide sensing signals to the sensing electrodes and to obtain touch coordinates to which the touch event is input based on delay values of the sensing signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kangwon Lee, Won-Ki Hong, Seungho Nam, Taehyeog Jung
  • Patent number: 9865209
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided comprising an LCD panel including data lines formed along a column direction, gate lines formed along a row direction perpendicular to the column direction, and a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix pattern at intersections of the data lines and the gate lines, a data driver that supplies data voltages to the data lines, and a gate driver that sequentially supplies gate pulses to the gate lines. Subpixels of each of the pixels share one data line through which a data voltage is sequentially charged to the subpixels in a time-division manner. A column-directional length of each of the subpixels is longer than a row-directional length of each of the subpixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daeseok Oh, Saichang Yun, Minhwa Kim, Byeongseong So, Seunghwan Shin, Youngsung Cho
  • Patent number: 9857907
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of processing an input of a touch screen in an electronic device. The method includes detecting a pointing region indicated by a pointing means on the touch screen. The method also includes changing a selection number of input coordinates to be selected when the pointing region is changed. The method also includes calculating a corrected coordinate by using input coordinates stored in a memory as many as the changed selection number. The method also includes performing a function corresponding to the corrected coordinate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sanghyeok Oh
  • Patent number: 9846493
    Abstract: Example systems and methods for writing on electronic paper (“e-paper”) are described. In one example, a system for writing information on electronic paper includes a writing module comprising an array of electrodes. The writing module is configured to selectively operate one or more electrodes in the array of electrodes to write information on the electronic paper. The system also includes a compliant mechanism coupled to the writing module to establish contact between the writing module and the electronic paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Omer Gila, Napoleon J Leoni, Henryk Birecki
  • Patent number: 9824661
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a plurality of pixel blocks, each pixel block of the plurality of pixel blocks including a first pixel electrode connected to a first switching element and a second pixel electrode connected to a second switching element; gate lines which extend along a first direction and include a first gate line connected to the first switching element and a second gate line connected to the second switching element; and data lines which extend along a second direction intersecting the first direction. A gate voltage is applied to the first gate line before the second gate line, and the first pixel electrode of each of the pixel blocks displays a same color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Man Kim, Hong-Woo Lee, Jong-Hwan Lee, Hyeon-Hwan Kim, Jong-Hyuk Lee
  • Patent number: 9805648
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of data lines respectively connected to the pixels, and a compensation unit connected to at least one the data lines. The compensation unit includes a first capacitor storing a leakage current of a pixel connected to the data line, a second capacitor storing a difference current, where the difference current is the difference between a reference current and a pixel current measured when a data signal of a reference gray signal is applied to the pixel. The compensation unit also includes a comparator outputting a difference value between the voltages stored in the first and second capacitors. According to embodiments, is possible to measure an accurate pixel current regardless of a leakage current and accurately detect deterioration of a pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Yeon Kim, Oh Jo Kwon, Choong Sun Shin
  • Patent number: 9792861
    Abstract: An electro-phoretic display and a method for driving the same are provided, where the electro-phoretic display has a plurality of pixel units. The method includes: setting a plurality of particle tightening time periods and a plurality of gray level displaying time periods for the pixel units respectively, where each of the gray level displaying time periods is arranged after each corresponding particle tightening time period; providing a plurality of particle tightening voltages to the pixel units for tightening the particles of the pixel units respectively during the particle tightening time periods, and providing a plurality of display driving voltages to the pixel units during the gray level displaying time periods. The particle tightening time periods and/or the gray level displaying time periods are determined by a plurality of display gray level data corresponding to the pixel units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Ming-Jen Chang, Jo-Cheng Huang, Shao-Wei Su, Chun-An Wei, Yao-Jen Hsieh
  • Patent number: 9778797
    Abstract: A touch screen driving apparatus includes: a touch screen configured to include Tx (transmitting) lines, Rx (receiving) lines crossing the Tx lines, and sensor nodes formed intersections of the Tx lines and the Rx lines; a Tx driver configured to apply driving pulses to the Tx lines in such a manner of that mutually phase-inverted driving pulses are applied to the Tx lines adjacent to each other; first and second Rx drivers each configured to sample sensor node voltage received through the Rx lines, which are coupled with the Tx lines, and convert the sampled voltages into digital data; and a touch controller configured to control the Tx driver and the first and second Rx drivers. The first and second Rx drivers divide the Rx lines and each sample the sensor node voltages through the divided Rx lines, and the Rx line positioned at a boundary between the first and second drivers is commonly connected to the first and second Rx drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Duk Hyo Lee
  • Patent number: 9773468
    Abstract: A display driving device includes a first source amplifier that receives first display data and supplies a first pixel voltage to a first pixel based on the received first display data, and a second source amplifier that receives second display data and first control data and supplies a second pixel voltage to a second pixel based on the received second display data and first control data. The second source amplifier has a first stage in which a first process is performed on an input signal based on the second display data, and a second stage in which a second process is performed on the first processed input signal to output the second pixel voltage. The first source amplifier may be configured to conditionally supply the first pixel voltage to the second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Hyuck Woo, Won-Sik Kang, Yang-Hyo Kim, In-Suk Kim, Jong-Kon Bae