Patents Examined by Regina Liang
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Patent number: 8842067Abstract: The present invention provides a backlight module and a display apparatus. The display apparatus comprises a backlight module and a display panel. The backlight module comprises a light guide plate and a plurality of light sources. The light guide plate has a bottom surface. The bottom surface is formed with a middle trench. The middle trench comprises dimming cants. The light sources are positioned at two opposite sides of the light guide plate in accordance with the dimming cants. The present invention can adjust a light intensity distribution and promote the central brightness of the screen.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qian Cao, Yicheng Kuo, Kuojun Fang
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Patent number: 8830181Abstract: An apparatus and method for identifying gestures performed on a touch-sensing surface. In one embodiment, a gesture recognition unit processes an input signal to determine input metrics associated with contacts at the touch-sensing surface. The gesture recognition unit identifies a gesture based on comparing at least one of the input metrics with a threshold value associated with the gesture.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2009Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor CorporationInventors: Paul Clark, Edward Grivna, Tony Park, Patrick Prendergast, Gabe Rowe, Ryan Seguine
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Patent number: 8823618Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel for displaying picture images, and a color correction unit. Upon receipt of raw RGB picture data corresponding to raw RGB gamma curves, the color correction unit generates corrected RGB picture data based on values over a predetermined imaginative gamma curve established in accordance with the characteristic of the liquid crystal display panel. The color correction unit stores values over corrected RGB gamma curves corresponding to the corrected picture data, and gamma-corrects the raw RGB picture data based on values over the stored corrected RGB gamma curves, thereby displaying the picture images.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2010Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seung-Woo Lee, Jong-Seon Kim, Su-Hyun Kwon
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Patent number: 8823634Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a first illumination unit configured to illuminate the liquid crystal display panel with light which is emitted in a first emission direction, a second illumination unit configured to illuminate the liquid crystal display panel with light which is emitted in a second emission direction different from the first emission direction, and a controller configured to control the liquid crystal display panel, the first illumination unit and the second illumination unit in a first display mode in which 3D display with power saving is effected, and in a second display mode in which 3D display with a wider viewing angle than in the first display mode is effected.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Daiichi Suzuki, Kenji Nakao, Kazuhiro Nishiyama, Emi Higano
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Patent number: 8816976Abstract: Described systems and mechanisms relate to techniques for improving usability, speed, and accuracy of text input to touch-typable devices. A touch-typable device can include a movable keymask comprising of a plurality of cells mapped with one or more keys of text input keypad of the touch-typable device, wherein each of the plurality of cells of the movable keymask superimposes over textual input choices enabling the user to select the desired textual input from the plurality of cells of the movable keymask using the text input keypad of the touch-typable device. The textual input choices can be chosen after every user input from a set of likely input choices, wherein the likely input choices can be selected based on previous textual input sequence, phoneme and syllabary patterns, statistical correlation between the previous textual input sequence and set of textual input choices, dictionary lookups, and usage patterns of said user.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2009Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Luna Ergonomics Pvt. Ltd.Inventor: Abijit Bhattacharjee
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Patent number: 8816963Abstract: An optical navigation module includes a light source, a light transmission window having a navigation surface, a first light shield configured for blocking the ambient light and absorbing the scattered light, a sensor configured for detecting light from the light transmission window and a second light shield located between the light source and the sensor and configured for blocking the direct light from the light source to the sensor. The light transmission window includes at least one refraction surface. The refraction surface is in the light path from the light source to the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2010Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd.Inventors: Tak Kit Dennis Tong, Wai Vincent Hung, Xiaoming Yvonne Yu
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Patent number: 8803835Abstract: It is provided a touch screen device applied in an electronic information technology area. In the touch screen device supporting an active capacitance stylus, a demodulation unit demodulates a signal received by a reception unit by two orthogonal signals, and then an amplitude recovery unit recovers an amplitude of the signal received by the reception unit, the amplitude of the signal received by the reception unit can be recovered relatively exactly without the need that the demodulation signal must be synchronous with the signal received by the reception unit (or the signal transmitted from the active capacitance stylus), and there is no need to add additional hardware resources for synchronization in the touch screen device of the embodiment of the present invention compared with the existing detection method which needs to perform synchronization of the demodulation signal and the signal transmitted from the active capacitance stylus in the prior art.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: FocalTech Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Chen Li, Lianghua Mo, Jingkai Zhang, Xinxi Jiang, Huaiyi Xu
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Patent number: 8803795Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for providing customized “haptic messaging” to users of handheld communication devices in a variety of applications. In one embodiment, a method of using haptic effects to relate location information includes: receiving an input signal associated with a position of a handheld communication device (100); determining the position of the handheld communication device (100) relative to a predetermined location; and providing a haptic effect associated with a distance between the position of the handheld communication device (100) and the predetermined location. In another embodiment, a handheld communication device (100) can be used as a two-way haptic remote control.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2003Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Immersion CorporationInventors: Danny A. Grant, Jeffrey Eld, Shoichi Endo, Erik J. Shahoian, Dean C. Chang
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Patent number: 8803843Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, a plurality of first traces, an insulation layer, a plurality of second traces, and a microcontroller. The first traces are disposed over the substrate, the insulation layer is disposed over the first traces, and the second traces are disposed over the insulation layer. The microcontroller is electrically connected to the first traces and the second traces, and is operable to control the first traces and/or the second traces so that the first traces and/or the second traces form open loops or closed loops. Furthermore, a touch sensing method is also disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.Inventors: Ming-Chi Weng, Yun-Chih Chen, Hung-Hsiang Chen
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Patent number: 8797270Abstract: A terminal device with a display function enables only an operation of a desired operation key valid, and easily perform the invalidation operation. In response to switching to a predetermined function mode by manipulating a jog dial, an image in the switched function mode is displayed in a display surface, based on an image signal from a display control section. A bar is located on a borderline between a contents area and an operation area in an initial state of displaying an image. When the jog dial is manipulated by the user to thereby move the bar from the borderline to a predetermined position within the operation area, a CPU determines that the position of the bar has been moved. Then, the CPU detects a new position of the bar, and makes an operation with respect to the operation key located between the bar and the borderline invalid.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Eita Katsu, Michiaki Koizumi
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Patent number: 8791890Abstract: A method is applicable to a pixel of a graphical display that is formed by LEDs or LED strings, with the colors that can be displayed by the pixel (i.e., the color gamut) defined by an LED drive specification matrix A. The method displays a desired color at a chromaticity coordinates (xn, yn) and a luminous intensity Y by carrying out: (a) finding a maximum luminous intensity ? and the associated LED drive vector {circumflex over (b)} for each of a collection of sample colors in the color gamut using a mathematical programming technique; and (b) calculating the LED drive vector for the desired color; and (c) displaying the color on the pixel using the calculated drive vector. In one implementation, the calculated LED drive vector is scaled using the expression b ^ ? min ( Y Y ^ , 1 ) . (b) based on we sample colors.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Landmark Screens, LLCInventor: Paul O. Scheibe
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Patent number: 8791880Abstract: When an image is projected on an arbitrary projection screen, correspondence between pixels in the image to be projected and pixels in projection means is specified. Reference pattern image group generating means 73 generates a reference pattern image group formed from images for each of which a luminance value defined as a function value of a continuous function which continuously changes with changes in phase is determined by varying the phase for each image, the image group being an image group having an initial phase value continuously varied on a coordinate-by-coordinate basis along one coordinate axis. Phase calculation means 75 calculates, from changes in luminance of pixels in a plurality of photographic images obtained by photographing each image of the reference pattern image group, the initial phase values that correspond to the changes in the luminance of the respective pixels in the photographic images.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Rui Ishiyama
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Patent number: 8786518Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a first display unit, a second display unit, a first detecting unit, a second detecting unit, and a control unit. The first display unit three-dimensionally displays a first display object in a first space. The second display unit three-dimensionally displays a second display object associated with the first display object in a second space. The first detecting unit detects a move of a first object in the first space. The second detecting unit detects a move of a second object in the second space. The control unit changes the first display object and the second display object according to a first move of the first object in the first space.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2012Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro Ueno, Shigeki Tanabe
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Patent number: 8773347Abstract: An electro-optical device includes an element substrate having a temperature detection conductive film formed by doping with an impurity in the same semiconductor layer as a semiconductor layer of transistor; and a driving portion for supplying a driving signal, wherein the driving portion includes a data conversion portion for converting image data and generating, as the driving signal, a digital driving signal made of an ON-voltage in which the brightness of the pixel is saturated and an OFF-voltage in which the pixel becomes a light-off state in each of a plurality of subfields in which a field period is divided on a time axis, and the data conversion portion performs a correction corresponding to a change in resistance in the temperature detection conductive film when generating the digital driving signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2010Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yasushi Hiroshima
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Patent number: 8766936Abstract: A system and method are provided for a touch screen whose input is less influenced by turbulence, G forces, and/or equipment vibrations. A method of selecting one of a plurality of buttons displayed on a touch screen includes preventing buttons within a first portion of the touch screen from registering a touch; placing a portion of a hand on the first portion; and touching one of the plurality of buttons on a second portion of the touch screen.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventor: Amit Nishikant Kawalkar
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Patent number: 8766885Abstract: A full color flat panel display module is formed of a matrix of pixels in rows and columns. Each pixel is formed of respective red, green and blue solid state light emitting diodes that can form any color on that portion of a CIE curve that falls within a triangle whose sides are formed by a line on the CIE curve between 430 nm and 660 nm, a line between 660 nm and a point between 500 and 530 nm, and a line between the 500-530 nm point and 430 nm.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2008Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: Antony P. Van de Ven, Charles M. Swoboda
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Patent number: 8766912Abstract: Technologies are generally described for environment-dependent dynamic range control for gesture recognition. In some examples, user environment including, but not limited to, location, device size, virtual or physical display size, is detected and gesture control range adjusted according to the detected environment. In other examples, a controller user interface or dynamic range status indicator may be adjusted based on the modified gesture recognition range control.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2010Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLCInventor: Seungil Kim
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Patent number: 8760420Abstract: A mobile phone handset includes a mode switching unit and a configuration detection sensor, so that the operating mode of the mobile phone handset can be switched. The mode switching unit has a switching program installed, and is a computer for executing a prescribed process in accordance with the switching program when a signal is input from the configuration detection sensor. The configuration detection sensor is a sensor for detecting the configuration of the mobile phone handset, and for example may use an angular sensor for detecting the relative angle about a rotation axis between a first casing and a second casing.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2011Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Nec Casio Mobile Communications, Ltd.Inventors: Tomoyasu Nozawa, Masaki Uesugi, Seitaro Majima, Shigeru Katayama
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Patent number: 8760437Abstract: A sensing system includes a complex reflector and an image sensor, in which the complex reflector is disposed on one side of a flat panel. The complex reflector includes a first section and a second section which are stacked, in which the first section provides a mirror image and a real image, and the second section provides a real image. The image sensor is used to capture an image generated by an object when touching a surface of the flat panel, and in the image captured by the image sensor, the object simultaneously generates a first object image in an image region corresponding to the second section and an image region corresponding to the first section, and generates a second object image in the image region corresponding to the first section.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2011Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Pixart Imaging Inc.Inventors: Yu-Hao Huang, Hsin-Chia Chen, Tzung-Min Su, Chih-Hsin Lin, Ren-Hau Gu, Chih-Hung Lu
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Patent number: 8749507Abstract: Systems and methods for adaptively interpreting a user's intent based on parameters supplied by a touch-sensitive input device are described. In one of the methods described, a processor is programmed for receiving contact data from an input device; determining whether to output a haptic effect based on the contact data; and outputting the haptic effect based on the contact data.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Immersion CorporationInventors: Henry DaCosta, Christophe Ramstein, Danny Grant