Patents Examined by Richard Hong
  • Patent number: 9916793
    Abstract: To reduce the effect of external light and to improve the accuracy of detecting the location of a touch. In an image-capture period, light emission from a self-light-emitting element is controlled, and imaging data at the time of displaying white on a display screen and imaging data at the time of displaying black on the display screen are output from each sensor pixel. The location of a sensor pixel where a difference between the two pieces of imaging data output from the same sensor pixel is the greatest is detected. Thus, the location of a touch of the object on the display screen is detected with high accuracy. By utilizing a difference between imaging data at the time of reverse display, the effect of external light can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Munehiro Kozuma, Takayuki Ikeda, Yoshiyuki Kurokawa, Hikaru Tamura, Takeshi Aoki
  • Patent number: 9916788
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device includes: a display unit in which pixels are arranged in rows and columns, the pixels each including an organic electroluminescent element, a drive transistor, and a capacitor; a power supply unit which generates a supply voltage; a gate drive unit which applies a reference supply voltage to the capacitor; and a control unit which carries the supply voltage from the power supply unit to the gate drive unit, wherein the gate drive unit includes a buffer amplifier circuit which suppresses a variable component of the supply voltage carried via the control unit to stabilize the reference supply voltage, and supplies the stabilized reference supply voltage to the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Tokunaga, Noriyuki Iwakura, Takashi Iwami
  • Patent number: 9916789
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a light emission control line configured to provide a light emission control signal and a power line configured to provide a power voltage. An operation control TFT is electrically connected to the power line and configured to be turned on based on the light emission control signal so as to provide the power voltage. A driving TFT is electrically connected to the operation control TFT, an OLED is electrically connected to the driving TFT, and an initialization TFT is configured to provide the power voltage to the driving TFT. In a frame of the OLED display, the power voltage provided when the initialization TFT is turned on and the power voltage provided when the operation control TFT is turned on are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hwang Sup Shin
  • Patent number: 9916054
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel array having pixels arranged in matrix and having a first side parallel to a row and a second side opposite to the first side; scanning lines arranged in each row of the pixel array to supply a scanning signal to the pixels arranged in a corresponding row; signal lines arranged in each column of the pixel array to supply an image signal to the pixels arranged in a corresponding column; drive electrodes arranged in a column of the pixel array and to which a drive signal to detect an external proximate object is supplied; and a first drive electrode circuit arranged along the first side and connected to control lines and the drive electrodes arranged in the pixel array to supply the drive signal to, among the drive electrodes, the drive electrode specified by a selection signal supplied via the control lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Makoto Hayashi, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Daisuke Ito
  • Patent number: 9910490
    Abstract: Cursor position control based on the vestibulo-ocular reflex. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods including: creating a first video stream, the first video stream depicting an eye of user of a computer system, wherein a pupil of the eye changes position relative to a face of the user during use of the computer system by the user; tracking pupil position relative to the face of the user, the tracking by way of the first video stream; moving a cursor position on the display device, the moving responsive to changes in pupil position relative to the face of the user, and the moving in real time with pupil position changes; and adjusting cursor position based on the vestibulo-ocular reflex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: EYEGUIDE, INC.
    Inventor: Nathan A. Jahnke
  • Patent number: 9911380
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes display pixels, auxiliary pixels, and a plurality of signal lines. The signal lines include data lines, auxiliary data lines, scan lines, and emission control lines. The auxiliary pixels are to be used for repairing defective ones of the display pixels. In operation, scan signals are supplied in a unit of p scan lines, A emission control signals are to be supplied in a unit of p A emission control lines, and B emission control signals are to be supplied in a unit of p B emission control lines, where p?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyong-Tae Park, Tae-Gon Kim, Dong-Yoon So, Sung-Ho Cho
  • Patent number: 9910508
    Abstract: The invention relates to movement detection apparatus (1) for detecting a hand movement like a hand gesture which may be used for controlling a computer or another device. A light emitting device emits light into tissue at the wrist (5) of a person and a light detection device detects light, which has travelled through the tissue, at the wrist and generates a light detection signal based on the detected light, wherein a hand movement determination unit determines the hand movement based on the light detection signal. When the hand moves, i.e., for instance, when it rotates or when a finger moves, the composition of the tissue, through which the light travels, and hence the light detection signal change. This change in the light detection signal can be used to reliably determine the respective movement of the hand in a way which is very convenient for the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips, N.V.
    Inventor: Cristian Nicolae Presura
  • Patent number: 9910551
    Abstract: A touch display panel and a driving method therefor are provided. The touch display panel can include: a substrate, multiple touch display units, a gate driving circuit and/or any other components. The substrate can include a display region and a border region. The multiple touch display units can be disposed in the display region, and each touch display unit can include multiple gate lines each extending in a first direction and multiple electrode blocks arranged in the first direction. The electrode blocks can be located opposite to the gate lines in a direction perpendicular to the substrate. The gate driving circuit can be disposed in the border region and can be electrically connected to each gate line. During a display driving stage, the gate driving circuit can scan the gate lines such that any two sequentially scanned gate lines are located in different touch display units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kang Yang, Conghua Ma
  • Patent number: 9910547
    Abstract: An anti-interference touch sensing structure includes a first substrate, a plurality of touch sensing units and at least a first anti-interference spot. The touch sensing units are coplanarly disposed on the first substrate, and a first interval region is formed between the adjacent touch sensing units. The first anti-interference spot is disposed within the first interval region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignees: HANNSTAR DISPLAY (NANJING) CORPORATION, HANNSTAR DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsing-Ying Lee, Da-Ching Tang
  • Patent number: 9910500
    Abstract: The present patent application is directed to a smart signage system. In one aspect, the smart signage system includes at least a signage device; at least a signage display being connected to the at least one signage device and configured to display contents stored in the signage device; and a plurality of client devices being in wireless communication with the at least one signage device. Each client device is configured to recognize a gesture from a user in correspondence with a target content displayed on the signage display, and thereby to acquire a file of information associated with the target content from the signage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Pei Man James SHE
    Inventor: Pei Man James She
  • Patent number: 9910515
    Abstract: A user interface (102) for a touchscreen (106) is provided. The user interface (102) comprises a physical overlay (108) having a rotatable guide wheel (110) with access through-holes (112, 114) formed therein. The touchscreen (106) of a portable communication device (104) can be accessed though the access through-holes (112, 114) and controlled via the rotatable guide wheel (110) without having to view the screen. Fingertip insertion into the access through-holes (112, 114) activates and selects different predetermined functions, while rotation of the rotatable guide wheel (110) controls variation for each predetermined function. The user interface may (102) be incorporated as part of a carry case, holster (130), harness or formed as an attachable and removable overlay plate (308) to correspond with the touchscreen (106).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Scott H. Richards, Goktug Duman
  • Patent number: 9910533
    Abstract: Various timing schemes can be used to synchronizing display functions with touch and/or stylus sensing functions for devices including a variable refresh rate (VRR) display. In a continuous-touch mode, for example, extended blanking can result in frame judder due to mismatch or latency between reporting of sensing data and the display. To minimize these issues, sensing operations can reset to re-synchronize with the display operation, and unreported data from sensing scans can be discarded or ignored. In some examples, a display frame can be divided into two sub-frames, and a system can be configured to perform a touch sensing scan during the first sub-frame of a display frame. At the conclusion of extended blanking, the sensing operations can reset to re-synchronize with the display. The touch sensing scan can be completed in one intra-frame pause and can begin at the start of the display frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Manu Agarwal, Hopil Bae, Kingsuk Brahma
  • Patent number: 9829991
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an interactive image device and interactive method thereof for a traditional photo frame or a fameless painting, the device comprises a frame body provided with a fastening position, a display surface for display an image, an effect unit for generate effects, a trigger unit and a circuit module to enable or disable the effect unit in responding the operation of the trigger unit by a user. The user is able to get different interactive effect feedbacks by inserting the trigger unit to the fastening position each time, thus the present invention can easily integrate the displayed image with interactive effects and interact with users by novel operating methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Inventor: Chun-Ying Lai
  • Patent number: 9829710
    Abstract: The disclosure relates generally to a display panel, which in at least some situations includes multiple separate stacked layers or components that are combined together, such as to have one emission layer component with numerous pixels that emit light, and to have at least one control logic layer component that includes integrated circuits or other logic to control the emission of light by the pixels in the emission layer. The different layers may be separate silicon chips or wafers that are connected in a stacked structure via a flip chip technique, with the emission layer using AMOLED or other OLED pixels. The display panels may be designed and/or configured for use in head mounted displays (e.g., with a fully immersive virtual reality system). The disclosure also relates generally to techniques for manufacturing, testing and/or otherwise using such a display panel in various manners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventors: Dan Newell, Jeremy Daniel Popp
  • Patent number: 9817494
    Abstract: An exemplary method for determining a control output in a control domain includes: obtaining a control input of an input domain, wherein the control input includes a previous input value and a current input value; and dynamically adjusting a control resolution setting, and converting the control input of the input domain into the control output in the control domain according to the control resolution setting, wherein the control output includes a previous output value and a current output value corresponding to the previous input value and the current input value, respectively, the control resolution setting for the current input value is determined according to at least the previous input value, and the current output value is identical to the previous output value when the current input value and the previous input value are generated in response to a same user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Ping-Han Lee, Chia-Ping Chen, Yu-Ting Chen, Yu-Pao Tsai, Shaw-Min Lei
  • Patent number: 9812063
    Abstract: A display control method of controlling a display operation of a display panel which includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a column direction and a row direction. A plurality of pixels include a plurality of sensing pixels, of which electrical values are sensed, and a non-sensing pixel that is not a sensing pixel. The display control method includes accumulating image data values respectively input to the plurality of pixels to obtain deterioration information for each pixel, obtaining an electrical value of each of the plurality of sensing pixels, determining an electrical value of the non-sensing pixel, based on the deterioration information and an electrical value of each sensing pixel, and controlling the display operation of the display panel, based on electrical values of the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongwon Lee, Heechul Hwang
  • Patent number: 9813569
    Abstract: When a display changing operation is performed after a shift is made to a rotation mode, a display input device performs a rotation display of an object, and increases a rotation angle of the object per unit movement amount of a predetermined touch point according as a distance between two points touched in a mode switching operation is larger. When a display changing operation is performed after a shift to an enlargement/reduction mode, the display input device performs an enlargement/reduction display of the object, and increases an enlargement amount or a reduction amount of the object per unit movement amount of the predetermined touch point according as the distance between the two touch points touched in the mode switching operation is larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Takuya Tsuji
  • Patent number: 9796269
    Abstract: A rotary actuator with an operating knob which is rotatable about a rotational axis is included in an operating device of a motor vehicle. The rotary actuator generates an actuating signal during rotation of the operating knob, and the operating knob is translationally deflectable transversely with respect to the rotational axis to alternately operate two control modules using the same operating device. A coupling device couples the operating device to a first control module and to a second control module. The coupling device is configured to output the actuating signal exclusively to the first control module in a first switching position and to output the actuating signal exclusively to the second control module in a second switching position and to switch from the first switching position to the second switching position during translational deflection of the operating knob in a predetermined deflection direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Tahar Bouaziz
  • Patent number: 9798402
    Abstract: A touch control display screen includes: a touch control electrode layer including a plurality of touch control electrodes; a first electrode layer opposite to the touch control electrode layer and including a plurality of first electrodes; a liquid crystal layer between the touch control electrode layer and the first electrode layer; a switch control circuit connected with at least one touch control electrode; a display control circuit connected with the first electrodes; and a synchronization control circuit connected with the switch control circuit. In the display stage, the display control circuit outputs a first common voltage, and the synchronization control circuit controls the switch control circuit to output a second common voltage equal to the first common voltage. Many advantages are provided, such as a uniform display effect, fewer residual ions, better display quality, higher reliability, simplified circuit, lower cost, and increased light transmittance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xingyao Zhou, Fei Li, Yong Yuan
  • Patent number: 9785280
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch driving circuit for providing driving signals to touch driving electrodes of a touch panel in a touch phase. The touch driving circuit includes a plurality of cascaded touch shift register units. The number of the touch shift register units is same as the number of columns of the touch driving electrodes. The touch driving circuit further includes a plurality of switching units corresponding to the plurality of touch shift register units. The switching unit includes a driving signal input terminal, a control terminal and a driving signal output terminal. When the touch shift register unit outputs a high level signal, the switching unit connects the driving signal input terminal and the driving signal output terminal. Correspondingly, the present disclosure further provides a display device and a driving method thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengchun Pang, Lei Ma