Patents Examined by Ricardo L. Osorio
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Patent number: 10248224Abstract: Techniques for input based on interactions with a physical hinge are described. Generally, a new class of interactions involves user manipulation of a physical hinge in order to provide input to a computing device. These hinge-based interactions provide input to a computing system that can be leveraged to initiate one or more system-level commands or operations, initiate transitions between discrete views of content, interact with content displayed via one or more display devices, and so on. In an example, a sequence of two or more consecutive hinge angle changes is recognized as a hinge gesture to perform a particular operation, such as a transition between a single-tasking state and a multitasking state.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Christian Klein, Raymond Quan, Ricardo A. Espinoza Reyes, Gregg Robert Wygonik
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Patent number: 10241580Abstract: A system provides overlaid haptic effects. The system determines a primary content and a primary haptic effect associated with the primary content. The system also determines a secondary content and a secondary haptic effect associated with the secondary content. Subsequently, the system outputs the secondary content concurrently with the primary content, and also outputs the secondary haptic effect concurrently with the primary haptic effect on at least one haptic output device.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: IMMERSION CORPORATIONInventors: David Birnbaum, Abraham Alexander Dauhajre, Paige Raynes, Satvir Singh Bhatia
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Patent number: 10204540Abstract: A pixel pattern of material light emissive areas for an emissive display system having pixels, each pixel having subpixels, each subpixel having a light emitting device defining the material light emissive area of the subpixel, the pixel pattern comprising: for each pixel, a shared elongated subpixel of a first primary color shared with an adjacent pixel and an elongated subpixel of a second or third primary color located in an area on an opposite side of the shared elongated subpixel from the adjacent pixel.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2016Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Ignis Innovation inc.Inventor: Gholamreza Chaji
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Patent number: 10198117Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a touch panel control unit, a plurality of scanning electrodes formed on the display panel, a plurality of detection electrodes formed on the display panel so as to intersect with the plurality of scanning electrodes, a drive signal supply unit for inputting a drive signal to each of the scanning electrodes, and a detection unit for detecting a detection signal from each of the detection electrodes. The touch panel control unit supplies the driving signal to each of the scanning electrodes from the drive signal supply unit to enable detection of a touch position of a detection object based on the detection signal detected, and supplies the driving signal to all of the scanning electrodes collectively from the drive signal supply unit to enable detection of approach of the detection object to the touch panel based on the detection signal detected.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Koji Nagata, Koji Doi
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Patent number: 10192515Abstract: A data driver for a display device comprises a first boost circuit, a first gate clock generation circuit, a first level shift circuit, and a data drive circuit. The first boost circuit is used to receive a supply voltage value and generate at least one preset voltage value. The first gate clock generation circuit is electrically coupled to the first boost circuit, and is used to receive a plurality of timing signals and at least one preset voltage value, and generate at least one first timing signal. The first level shift circuit is used to receive the at least one first timing signal and generate at least one gate timing signal. The data drive circuit is used to receive the timing signals, and generate a plurality of display data signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Shih-Yuan Su, Kai-Yuan Siao, Jian-Feng Li, Chun-Kuei Wen
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Patent number: 10192512Abstract: A gate voltage generation circuit generates a gate voltage including a first voltage, a second voltage and a third voltage and supplies the gate voltage to a pixel transistor of a display device. The first voltage is a voltage for opening the pixel transistor. The second voltage is lower than the first voltage and is a voltage for closing the pixel transistor. The third voltage is an intermediate voltage between the first voltage and the second voltage. The voltage rises byway of the intermediate voltage at the time of rising from the second voltage to the first voltage.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Gen Koide
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Patent number: 10168838Abstract: Examples disclosed herein describe, among other things, a computing system. The computing system may in some examples include a touch-sensitive surface, a display, and at least one camera to capture an image representing an object disposed between the camera and the touch-sensitive surface. The computing system may also include a detection engine to determine, based at least on the image, display coordinates, where the display coordinates may correspond to the object's projection onto the touch-sensitive surface, and the display is not parallel to the touch-sensitive surface. In some examples, the detection engine is also to display an object indicator at the determined display coordinates on the display.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Jinman Kang, Jordi Morillo Peres, David Bradley Short
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Patent number: 10162413Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining an eye gaze direction of a user through one or more non-contact capacitive sensors. For at least some embodiments, a differential capacitance associated with a users' eye may be determined through at least one of the non-contact capacitive sensors. The differential capacitance may be based on capacitance measurements associated with the users' eye performed at different times. The eye gaze direction may be based, at least in part, on the determined differential capacitance. For some embodiments, two or more non-contact capacitive sensors may be positioned along an axis. Differential capacitance measurements from the two or more non-contact capacitive sensors may determine the eye gaze direction with respect to the axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATEDInventor: Tetsuo Tanemura
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Patent number: 10147361Abstract: Display devices and methods for making and driving the display devices are provided. In one example, a device for driving a display panel including an array of pixels includes a timing controller. Each of the pixels includes a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element. The timing controller is configured to provide a first set of timing control signals for coordinating timing of gate scanning and timing of writing display data into the array of pixels. The timing controller is further configured to provide a second set of timing control signals for controlling timing of emitting light by the first and second light emitting elements of the array of pixels such that the first light emitting elements emit light in a first light emitting period and the second light emitting elements emit light in a second light emitting period, alternatively.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: KUNSHAN YUNYINGGU ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jing Gu, Xixi Luo, Keigo Hirakawa
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Patent number: 10146389Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes a plurality of drive electrodes that face a plurality of pixel electrodes in an orthogonal direction to the surface of the substrate, and extend in a direction parallel to the direction in which a plurality of signal lines extend. The display device with a touch detection function also includes a scan driving unit that applies a touch drive signal to a signal line that faces, in an overlapping manner in the orthogonal direction, a drive electrode to which the touch drive signal is applied.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yoshitoshi Kida, Koji Noguchi, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kohei Azumi
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Patent number: 10134340Abstract: A timing controller includes an input signal processor that receives a data enable signal and a frame frequency information signal, generates one of a first internal data enable signal having a first frame frequency and a second internal data enable signal having a second frame frequency, the first and second frame frequencies being selected based on the frame frequency information signal. A gate control signal output unit generates and outputs a first gate control signal based on the first internal data enable signal or a second gate control signal based on the second internal data enable signal. A data control signal output unit generates and outputs a first data control signal based on the first internal data enable signal or a second data control signal based on the second internal data enable signal. The pulse widths of the first and second internal data enable signals are the same.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Won Cho, Jin Hyoung Kim
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Patent number: 10134351Abstract: A display device includes pixel electrodes formed in an image display area of a substrate, a common electrode formed in the image display area, inside signal lines formed inside the image display area, and electrically connected to the pixel electrodes, outside signal lines formed outside the image display area, and electrically connected to the inside signal lines, and a common line formed inside and outside the image display area, and electrically connected to the common electrode. An image is displayed under a control of a light using an electric field developed between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode. A coupling capacitance is formed between the inside signal lines and the common electrode. The outside signal lines each include a first portion, and a second portion higher in electric resistance than the first portion and the inside signal lines.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2018Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Takayuki Suzuki, Hiroyuki Abe, Masahiro Maki, Mitsuru Goto
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Patent number: 10120514Abstract: An electronic device includes a flexible substrate. The flexible substrate includes a first portion having a plurality of first conductive lines formed thereon, a second portion having a plurality of second conductive lines formed thereon, and an intermediate portion mechanically coupling the first portion to the second portion. The intermediate portion is configured to permit folding so that the first and second portions can be arranged back-to-back or face-to-face such that plurality of the second conductive lines and plurality of first conductive lines are oriented so as to cross one another to thereby form a capacitive sensing panel. A single connector is mechanically coupled to the first portion or the second portion, and electrically coupled to the first portion and the second portion but not electrically coupling the first portion to the second portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte LtdInventors: Kusuma Adi Ningrat, Giuseppe Noviello, John Serge Georges Nankoo
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Patent number: 10123002Abstract: A projection display system includes a spatial modulator that is controlled to compensate for flare in a lens of the projector. The spatial modulator increases achievable intra-frame contrast and facilitates increased peak luminance without unacceptable black levels. Some embodiments provide 3D projection systems in which the spatial modulator is combined with a polarization control panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Gregory John Ward, Robin Atkins
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Patent number: 10110135Abstract: An electromagnetic induction device, and a power supply apparatus and a display apparatus having the same are disclosed, the electromagnetic induction device comprising: a substrate layer comprising at least one substrate configured to be laid one upon another and a thin-film coil pattern, which is formed on at least one of both surfaces of the substrate and through which an electric current of a signal flows, the at least one substrate having an opening provided at an inner area of the thin-film coil pattern; a core configured to have a shape corresponding to a circulation path of magnetic flux generated by change in an electric current flowing in the thin-film coil pattern, and arranged to penetrate the inner area of the thin-film coil pattern through the opening of the substrate layer; and a heat dissipation layer disposed on one surface of the substrate, the heat dissipation layer configured to dissipate heat from at least one of the substrate layer and the core.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sung-yong Joo, Jin-hyung Lee
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Patent number: 10055049Abstract: A touch sensor system includes a touch panel having a plurality of touch sensing areas, at least one multiplexer and a touch controller. The touch controller, for controlling touch driving and sensing on the touch panel, includes a plurality of pins connected to the multiplexer via a plurality of touch control wires and touch sensing wires, wherein each of the pins is connected to one of the touch control wires or touch sensing wires. Each of the touch sensing wires transmits driving signals from the touch controller to a corresponding multiplexer to perform driving on one of the touch sensing areas, and transmits sensing signals from the touch sensing area to the touch controller. The touch controller controls the multiplexer to perform touch driving and sensing on the touch sensing areas in a specific order by triggering the touch control wires in an order.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Chih-Chang Lai, Chih-Yuan Chang
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Patent number: 10035067Abstract: There is provided an interactive board for use with a plurality of game pieces and a user device having a touch screen. The interactive board has a space for placing one of the plurality of game pieces thereon. The space includes a rotation code sense pad array connected to a first plurality of conductive traces connectable to the touch screen of the user device for identifying one of a plurality of rotation positions of the one of the plurality of game pieces placed in the space, by the user device, a ground for grounding the one of the plurality of game pieces placed in the space, and an identification code sense pad array connected to a second plurality of conductive traces connectable to the touch screen of the user device for identifying the one of the plurality of game pieces placed in the space, by the user device.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2015Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Christen, Quinn Smithwick, Harout Jarchafjian, Jeffrey Voris, Jorge Alted
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Patent number: 10032414Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display device is disclosed which includes a data driver configured to transfer a sensing data packet and a timing controller configured to receive the sensing data packet in a bus low voltage differential signaling mode. The timing controller includes an internal clock generator configured to generate at least one internal clock signal and a buffer configured to latch the sensing data packet in synchronization with the internal clock signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae Gung Kim, Hyuck Jun Kim, Sang Hoon Lee
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Patent number: 10026233Abstract: A system that efficiently estimates an object's orientation using magnetic, angular rate, and gravity sensors. The object may be for example a virtual reality headset or a user in a virtual reality environment. Magnetic and gravity data are used to correct errors that accumulate from integrating angular velocity. Unlike systems that use Kalman filter approaches, embodiments of the system apply a simple, highly efficient technique to generate magnetic and gravity error vectors; these error vectors are added directly to the angular velocity prior to integration. Error calculations are performed in the sensor reference frame rather than in the Earth reference frame. Magnetic error correction uses only the horizontal component of the magnetic field, which is efficiently calculated by subtracting off the projection of the magnetic field onto the measured gravity vector. Sensors and processors for calculating orientation may be integrated into a low-latency virtual reality display system.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Ariadne's Thread (USA), Inc.Inventor: Adam Li
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Patent number: 10026362Abstract: The present application discloses an organic light-emitting display panel, and a driving method for the display. The organic light-emitting display panel comprises a plurality of pixel driving circuits, each of the pixel driving circuits comprises a first voltage terminal, a second voltage terminal, a scanning signal terminal, a data signal terminal, a first control signal terminal, a second control signal terminal, a potential collecting terminal, a driving module, an organic light-emitting device, a luminance control module, a data write module, and a potential collecting module. The driving module is configured to drive the organic light-emitting device to emit light under control of the control terminal based on voltage provided by the first voltage terminal. The method therefore mitigates a threshold voltage drift in advanced organic light-emitting display panel technology.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2017Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD.Inventors: Yue Li, Gang Liu