Patents Examined by Ricardo L. Osorio
  • Patent number: 9886134
    Abstract: A terminal device such as a smartphone displays a first image on a display unit, and outputs a second image including the first image as a part to a display device such as a navigation device. Also, the terminal device obtains relative position information indicating a relative positional relation of the first image with respect to the second image from an external server. When a user makes a touch input to the second image displayed on the display device, the input position is transmitted from the display device to the terminal device. The terminal device obtains the conversion necessity information indicating whether or not the input position on the second image needs to be converted based on the relative position information, and converts the input position on the second image to the input position on the first image based on the relative position information when the conversion is necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunichiro Nagao
  • Patent number: 9880687
    Abstract: A touch screen panel integrated display device includes a first substrate divided into a display area and a non-display area disposed outside the display area, a gate driving circuit positioned in the non-display area of the first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, detection electrodes formed on the second substrate, and electrode wires formed on the second substrate and electrically connected with the detection electrodes. The detection electrodes and the electrode wires are formed without overlapping the gate driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Il Ho Lee, Jin Woo Park, Ki Seok Cha, Seong Mo Hwang
  • Patent number: 9880666
    Abstract: A flexible display apparatus is provided. The flexible display apparatus includes: a display configured to display an object on a screen; an actuator configured to provide shape deformation to the display; and a controller configured to determine deformation information for reconfiguring and displaying the object, control the actuator to provide the shape deformation according to the determined deformation information, and control the display to reconfigure the displayed object and display the reconfigured object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-yeon Kwak, Sang-Keun Jung, Hyun-jin Kim, Jung-joo Sohn, Geun-ho Lee
  • Patent number: 9880664
    Abstract: Noise in sensor panel measurements can be reduced using a common pixel correction algorithm. Noise can be introduced into touch or force sensor panel measurements, for example, by circuitry of a transmit (Tx) section or a receive (Rx) section coupled to one or more sensing nodes of a sensor panel. For example, a digital-to-analog converter in the transmit section or an analog-to-digital converter in the receive section can introduce low-frequency correlated noise. Additionally, transmit and receive sections can introduce uncorrelated noise into the system. Reference nodes, coupled between Tx and Rx sections, can sense correlated and uncorrelated noise from the Tx and Rx sections. The noise measured at reference nodes can be subtract from signals measured at other sensing nodes coupled to the same Rx channel. The measurement at the reference node can be scaled using a scaling parameter to account for differences between reference nodes and sensing nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Manu Agarwal, Jason C. Hu, Dhaval Patel, Shahrooz Shahparnia, Sumant Ranganathan
  • Patent number: 9874971
    Abstract: A display device is configured in a display state to allow the common electrode to function as an electrode for display and a scanning electrode for a touch panel, to which a common voltage and a first scanning pulse voltage are supplied, and to allow a detection circuit to detect a touched position based on the voltage detected by the first and the second detection electrodes. In a display stop state, the first detection electrode is configured to function as a temporary scanning electrode, and the detection circuit is configured to supply a second scanning pulse voltage to the first detection electrode so as to detect existence of a swipe based on the voltage detected by the second detection electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Tokita, Toshiaki Atsuta
  • Patent number: 9870746
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus is provided which includes a pixel including a storage capacitor, wherein the storage capacitor is connected to be between a pixel electrode and a storage voltage line, a light sensing unit connected to be between the storage voltage line and a first node, and a transfer unit connected to transfer a voltage from the first node to a sensing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seokha Hong, Se Hyoung Cho
  • Patent number: 9870060
    Abstract: Systems are presented herein, which may be implemented in a wearable device. The system is designed to allow a user to edit media images captured with the wearable device. The system employs eye tracking data to control various editing functions, whether prior to the time of capture, during the time of capture, or after the time of capture. Also presented are methods for determining which sections or regions of media images may be of greater interest to a user or viewer. The method employs eye tracking data to assign saliency to captured media. In both the system and the method, eye tracking data may be combined with data from additional sensors in order to enhance operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Lewis James Marggraff, Eliot Francis Drake
  • Patent number: 9857598
    Abstract: A display control device includes: an acquirer that receives inclination information on an occupant's head in a mobile body from a detector; and a controller that controls a displayer to generate a predetermined image representing a presentation image superimposed on an object as viewed from the occupant, based on recognition results of the object and the inclination information. When the object is recognized, with the head not inclined, the controller causes the displayer to generate a first predetermined image representing a first presentation image including one or more first lines in which a line segment connecting both ends is horizontal, or with the head inclined, the controller causes the displayer to generate a second predetermined image representing a second presentation image including a second line which is obtained by inclining at least one of the first lines by an angle according to the inclination of the occupant's head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wataru Nakai
  • Patent number: 9846361
    Abstract: A photosensitive conductive paste contains conductive particles (A), a photosensitive organic compound (B), an epoxy resin (C) and an ion adsorbent (D) that is selected from the group consisting of hydrotalcite, magnesium oxide, aluminum oxide, aluminum hydroxide, magnesium hydroxide, magnesium carbonate, zirconium oxide, magnesium silicate, silicon dioxide, zeolite and a carbon-based powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Miharu Tanabe, Kazutaka Kusano
  • Patent number: 9842533
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device, a device and a method for gamma compensation. The device for gamma compensation includes: a flexure recording module, provided in a flexible display panel, and configured to acquire a flexure count of the flexible display panel; a parameter inquiring module, connected to the flexure recording module, and configured to inquire a corresponding gamma correction value from a comparison table involving a correspondence between flexure counts of the flexible display panel and gamma correction values according to the flexure count of the flexible display panel; and a voltage output module, connected to the parameter inquiring module, and configured to provide a gamma compensation voltage to the flexible display panel according to the gamma correction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: EverDisplay Optronics (Shanghai) Limited
    Inventors: Jiahao Lu, Pengtao Kang, Sisi Zhou
  • Patent number: 9842535
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a display area and a non-display area, a driving chip disposed in the non-display area, and a heat radiate sheet. The heat radiate sheet includes a first portion disposed on a rear surface of the display panel, a second portion disposed on the driving chip, and a connection portion connecting the first portion and the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minki Kim, HwanJin Kim
  • Patent number: 9830010
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is disclosed. A mobile terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a sensing unit including at least one of a touch sensor and a pressure sensor, a display unit and a controller, the controller configured to display an execution screen of a first application on the display unit, the controller configured to control a predetermined function of the first application according to a change of a value of a first input signal received via the display unit in a state that the execution screen of the first application is displayed. In this case, the value of the first input signal is based on at least one of the area of a region of the display unit corresponding to the first input signal and pressure putting on the region of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youjin Jeon, Byoungzoo Jeong, Suyoung Lee, Juhyun Lee, Jeyeol Lee
  • Patent number: 9817538
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including pixels, an active area on which an image is configured to be displayed, and a black matrix area on which an image is not configured to be displayed, touch sensor electrodes configured to detect a touch of an external object, the touch sensor electrodes disposed in the active area, and detection input electrodes configured to generate mutual capacitance with the touch sensor electrodes, the detection input electrodes disposed in an edge area of the display panel that overlaps the black matrix area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Il Ho Lee, Seung-Hee Lee, Seoung Bum Pyoun, Young-Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 9818329
    Abstract: Provided is a data driving circuit of a display device, the data driving circuit including a first receiving circuit which receives an external first image control signal at the start of power being supplied, a second receiving circuit which receives a second image control signal in response to an activated data packet detection signal, and a data packet detection circuit which activates the data packet detection signal when a line start field included in the first image control signal is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongjoo Park, Sangmoon Moh, Young-Soo Hwang
  • Patent number: 9811197
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display unit; a sensor configured to sense a touch input into the display unit; an eye direction sensor configured to sense an eye direction of a user; and a controller configured to divide a screen of the display unit into a plurality of areas, in response to an eye of the user being sensed toward a first area of the plurality of areas and a first touch input being sensed into the first area, perform a first control operation corresponding to the first touch input, and in response to a second touch input being sensed into the other areas except the first area, not perform a second control operation corresponding to the second touch input. Therefore, whether a function will be executed is determined according to an area in which an eye of a user is sensed and an area in which the eye of the user is not sensed. As a result, a malfunction of a display apparatus is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang-han Kim, In-Ho Choi, Tae-hwa Hong
  • Patent number: 9811226
    Abstract: There is provided a sensor device that includes a flexible first conductor layer and an electrode substrate. The electrode substrate includes a plurality of first electrode wires, a plurality of second electrode wires, capacity sensors being formed at capacitively coupled portions of the first and second electrode wires, and a flexible substrate that supports the first and second electrode wires. The sensor device also includes a first supporting body including a plurality of first structures that connect the first conductor layer and the electrode substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Itaya, Shogo Shinkai, Hiroto Kawaguchi, Fumihiko Iida, Hayato Hasegawa, Kei Tsukamoto, Takayuki Tanaka, Tomoko Katsuhara, Tomoaki Suzuki, Taizo Nishimura, Hiroshi Mizuno, Yasuyuki Abe
  • Patent number: 9811198
    Abstract: A refreshing method of background signal for a device includes: obtaining one or more touched coordinate pair; obtaining a refreshing area according to the touched coordinate pair, an extension parameter, and a measuring breadth; and refreshing a background signal of the refreshing area. The refreshing area is determined by extending a distance of measuring breadth from a center point corresponding to the touched coordinate pair along the orthogonal directions. Accordingly, the refreshing area is sufficient to address the situation where the user draws a line continuously from the touched coordinate pair if the measuring breadth is determined properly. Therefore, the method may satisfy the needs of the user and reduce the refreshing time of an active area of the device. In addition, a device for applying the method is provided as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignees: SALT INTERNATIONAL CORP., IMAGINATION BROADWAY LTD.
    Inventor: Shang-Li Lee
  • Patent number: 9804702
    Abstract: A refreshing method of background signal for a device includes the steps of: obtaining one or more touched coordinate pairs; obtaining a refreshing area according to the touched coordinate pair and a measuring breadth; and refreshing a background signal of the refreshing area. The refreshing area is determined by extending a distance of measuring breadth from a center point corresponding to the touched coordinate pair along the orthogonal directions. Accordingly, the refreshing area is sufficient to address the situation where the user draws a line continuously from the touched coordinate pair if the measuring breadth is determined properly. Therefore, the method may satisfy the needs of the user and reduce the refreshing time of an active area of the device. In addition, a device for applying the method is provided as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: SALT INTERNATIONAL CORP., IMAGINATION BROADWAY LTD.
    Inventor: Shang-Li Lee
  • Patent number: 9785232
    Abstract: A method in an electronic device comprises when a display unit is deformed, determining a display area visible to a user, and displaying content on the confirmed display area. An apparatus for displaying content on an electronic device comprises a processing circuit configured to detect that a flexible display unit is bended, recognize at least a part of a user's body, determine which display area is visible to the user based on the user position; and move at least part of content on the visible display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soon-Hyun Cha, Myung-Su Kang, Jung-Woo Lee, Jae-Wan Cho, Sun-Min Hwang
  • Patent number: 9784975
    Abstract: A display device includes an image display section that transmits an outside scene and displays an image to be visually recognizable together with the outside scene. A control section acquires depth data concerning a direction visually recognizable through the image display section and controls the image display section on the basis of the acquired depth data. According to the control, the control section changes visibility of the outside scene visually recognized through the image display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoto Aruga