Patents Examined by Ricardo L. Osorio
  • Patent number: 9395838
    Abstract: An input device is equipped with a touch panel for detecting an input, a coordinates acquiring unit for detecting input coordinates which are coordinates of the input detected by the touch panel, and a pull manipulation judging unit which, when an input to an input detection surface which is a surface on which the touch panel is placed, makes effective the Z coordinate in the direction perpendicular to the input detection surface among the input coordinates detected by the coordinates acquiring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Takeshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9389706
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for coordinating computer interface presentation controlled by user interface between a source screen and at least one sink display, where the computer interface is associated with the sink screen. The comprising the steps of: tracking mouse cursor motion on the sink screen, in case mouse cursor moving beyond external monitor desktop area: sending location data to source device, coordinate of mouse cursor to source wireless mobile device by rendering mouse cursor at the source device for displaying on the device screen, in case of identifying mouse cursor moving to the external monitor desktop area from the source and stop rendering mouse cursor at the source and start rendering at the dongle for displaying mouse on the external screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SCREENOVATE TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Joshua Glazer, Leonid Liansky, Gilad Taase
  • Patent number: 9383962
    Abstract: An input device, a display apparatus and a method of controlling the input device are provided. The input device includes: a communicator configured to communicate with a display apparatus; a sensor configured to sense a sound; a volume extractor configured to extract volume sections from the sound sensed by the sensor; and a controller configured to determine whether a peak level of each of the volume sections extracted by the volume extractor exceeds a threshold level, and in response to determining the peak level of a volume section among the volume sections exceeds the threshold level, control the communicator to generate an event signal for cancelling a job for a pattern image displayed on the display apparatus based on a touch input and transmit the event signal to the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-ran Han, Kyoung-oh Choi
  • Patent number: 9383839
    Abstract: A stylus may comprise a configurable profile to control one or more local and remote operational features. One or more computing devices may be in communication with the stylus. The one or more computing devices may be configured to receive information relating to the reconfiguration of the settings of the operational profile, reconfigure the operational profile based at least in part on the received information, store the reconfigured operational profile, and associate the reconfigured operational profile with the stylus, wherein the at least one operational feature of the stylus is modified based on the reconfigured operational profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Duane Rost, Erik Jacob Olsen
  • Patent number: 9384704
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a gate driver thereof are disclosed. The gate driver comprises a first output unit, a second output unit, a first counter, a second counter and a multiplex unit. The first counter counts a clock to control the first output unit to output odd gate driving signals according to a first start signal and a polarity signal. The second counter counts the clock to control the second output unit to output even gate driving signals according to a second start signal and the polarity signal. The multiplex unit selectively outputs the polarity signal to the first counter or the second counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Jen-Chieh Hu
  • Patent number: 9378678
    Abstract: An OLED display device is disclosed which includes: a display panel configured with pixels which each include an organic light emitting diode and a driving transistor applying a driving current to the organic light emitting diode; a gate driver connected to the pixels through gate lines; a data driver configured to apply a sensing voltage to the pixels through data lines in a sensing mode and enable a sensing current to flow through each of the driving transistors; a sensing driver configured to sense threshold voltages opposite the driving currents which flow through the driving transistors; and a brightness compensation circuit configured to derive negatively shifted degrees of threshold voltages of the driving transistors from the sensed threshold voltages, detect a bright-defected pixel on the basis of the negatively shifted degrees, and generate a compensation gray value for the bright-defected pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Jae Lee, Jun Hyeok Yang, Tae Gung Kim, Myung Gi Lim
  • Patent number: 9377673
    Abstract: An electronic display device provides closed-loop verification that specific content has been displayed by the display device. When desired digital image content is rendered as an image or video by the electronic display device, a confirmation signal is generated by one or more components of the display device to verify that the image content has been successfully displayed. The confirmation signal may include performance measurements of the one or more components of the display device and/or a signature output that is associated with a signature code embedded in the image content. The signature output uniquely identifies the digital image content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: PRYSM, INC.
    Inventor: Roger A. Hajjar
  • Patent number: 9373291
    Abstract: A method for mapping an input grayscale into an output luminance includes selecting a reference grayscale and a curvature according to an input grayscale; and generating an output luminance according to the reference grayscale, the curvature, and the input grayscale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Hsing Chuang, Chih-Yuan Yang, Yu-Pin Chang, Feng-Ting Pai
  • Patent number: 9361829
    Abstract: In a display apparatus including a switching transistor, a correction voltage for eliminating an effect of a variation in a characteristic of a driving transistor is stored in a storage capacitor. The switching transistor is disposed between one current terminal of the driving transistor and a light emitting element. The switching transistor turns off during the non-light emission period thereby to electrically disconnect the light emitting element from the one current terminal of the driving transistor thereby preventing a leakage current from flowing through the light emitting element during the period in which the correction unit operates, and thus preventing the correction voltage from having an error due to the leakage current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Masatsugu Tomida, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 9354750
    Abstract: A multi-display system that uses back lights and light guides of an electronically addressable display to provide position-unique signals that both uniquely identify positions on a given display, but also uniquely identify displays within a multi-display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Gordon F. Taylor, Bernard O. Geaghan
  • Patent number: 9342153
    Abstract: A device includes circuitry configured to acquire detection data from at least one sensor device corresponding to movement of the device. The circuitry is also configured to control at least one sensitivity detection mode of the at least one sensor device and determine a sampling rate for the at least one sensor device based on the at least one sensitivity detection mode. The circuitry is also configured to determine gestures performed by a user based on the detection data from the at least one sensor device and control operation of the device based on the gestures performed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Yasushi Okumura, Ikuo Yamano, Hiroyuki Mizunuma
  • Patent number: 9342152
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: detect a second feature value relating to a first feature value recognized to satisfy a recognition condition, from a second time series prior to a first time series of the first feature value in a times series of a feature value corresponding to an input signal, and change the recognition condition so that the second feature value is recognized as a class for recognizing the first feature value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akihiro Minagawa, Yutaka Katsuyama, Hiroaki Takebe, Yoshinobu Hotta
  • Patent number: 9335926
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a plurality of image input devices, a display configured to display a plurality of images provided by the plurality of image input devices on a single screen, a storage configured to store screen scale information of the plurality of image input devices, a sensor configured to sense a touch input on one image of the plurality of images, and a controller configured to convert actual touch coordinate values of an entire screen of the display into relative touch coordinate values corresponding to an image input device which provides a touched image in which the touch input is sensed, according to the screen scale information of the image input device which provides the touched image in response to the touch operation being sensed, and transmit the converted relative touch coordinate values to the image input device which provides the touched image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-mook Choi, Jeong-hyun Park, Ju-yong Kim
  • Patent number: 9317169
    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: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Tokita, Toshiaki Atsuta
  • Patent number: 9318040
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels, scanning lines and data lines. The sub-pixels are disposed on a first substrate and include a plurality of rows and columns, and each sub-pixel of a first row of two adjoining rows is shifted by a predetermined distance along a first direction with respect to each sub-pixel of a second row of two adjoining rows. The scanning lines extend in the first direction and corresponding to the sub-pixels of the rows respectively. Each data line includes a plurality of first data segments and second data segments connected alternately. The first data segment extends along a second direction and partially overlaps the scanning line in a vertical direction. Each second data segment is disposed on one side of the scanning line, and at least a portion of the second data segments extends along a third direction different from the first and second directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ai-Ju Tsai, Ming-Hsien Lee
  • Patent number: 9318061
    Abstract: A method for mapping an input grayscale into an output luminance includes selecting a first reference grayscale, a first reference luminance, a second reference grayscale and a second reference luminance according to an input grayscale, generating a middle reference grayscale and a middle luminance, replacing a value of the first or second reference grayscale by a value of the middle reference grayscale, and replacing a value of the first or second reference luminance by a value of the middle luminance according to the middle reference grayscale and the input grayscale, and generating an output luminance by computing a linear transformation equation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Pin Chang, Kai-I Dai, Jie-Jung Huang, Yu-Hsing Chuang, Shih-Hung Huang
  • Patent number: 9317244
    Abstract: A mobile terminal capable of performing a content sharing function with an external display device includes an output unit configured to include a display module and an audio output module, a radio communication unit configured to perform a wireless communication function with the display device, a sensing unit configured to sense a movement of the mobile terminal, and a controller configured to activate the content sharing function with the display device for a second application when the sensing unit senses a movement of a first type of the mobile terminal in a state in which the content sharing function with the display device for a first application has been activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Keumsung Hwang
  • Patent number: 9310902
    Abstract: A method for pairing a control device with a digital sign is provided. The method includes receiving control device geometric attributes and digital sign geometric attributes, determining a digital sign identification based on the control device geometric attributes and the digital sign geometric attributes, and transmitting the digital sign identification to the control device. The control device geometric attributes may define geometric attributes of the control device. The digital sign geometric attributes may define geometric attributes of the digital sign that the control device is attempting to control. The digital sign identification may define the digital sign that the control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Alex Vendrow
  • Patent number: 9313476
    Abstract: A pixel cell includes a latch having an input terminal and an output terminal. The latch is coupled to provide a latched output signal at the output terminal responsive to the input terminal. A first precharge circuit is coupled to precharge the input terminal of the latch to a first level during a reset of the pixel cell. A single photon avalanche photodiode (SPAD) is coupled to provide a SPAD signal to the input terminal of the latch in response to a detection of a photon incident on the SPAD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tianjia Sun, Rui Wang, Tiejun Dai
  • Patent number: RE45979
    Abstract: A power-saving circuit for a digital video display device includes a TMDS driving unit converting a TMDS data signal and a TMDS clock signal, a display driving unit driving a display unit based on the horizontal/vertical synchronous signals and the digital video signal input from the TMDS driving unit, a clock signal detecting unit outputting a first or a second level of a clock detecting signal depending on the TMDS clock signal, a controller outputting a first-level of a power-saving signal when the first level clock detecting signal is input, and outputting a second level of power-saving signal when the second level clock detecting signal is input, and a power supply unit supplying a voltage to respective components, and cutting off the supply of the voltage to respective components depending on the level of the power-saving signal or the clock detecting signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sun-Il Yoo