Patents Examined by Richard Hong
  • Patent number: 9740292
    Abstract: An exemplary information processing apparatus selectively switches between: first control where control is performed such that, in a virtual space, a position of producing no parallax on a screen of a stereoscopic display is a first position near a predetermined object; and second control where control is performed such that the position of producing no parallax is closer to a viewpoint position of virtual cameras than the first position is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Miyamoto, Koichi Hayashida, Kiyoshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9721523
    Abstract: A driving device of a display apparatus includes: a gate driver, a gate on voltage modulator, and a signal controller. The gate driver includes a plurality of gate driving circuits, each of the gate driving circuits being configured to: generate a gate signal according to a gate control signal, and apply the gate signal to at least one gate line. The gate on voltage modulator is configured to: modulate a gate on voltage according to a modulation control signal, and generate a first modulated gate on voltage. The signal controller is configured to generate the modulation control signal and the gate control signal. At least one of the plurality of gate driving circuits includes an amplifier configured to: receive the first modulated gate on voltage, and output a second modulated gate on voltage including substantially the same waveform as the first modulated gate on voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ok-Kwon Shin, Won Tae Kim, Sun Kyu Son
  • Patent number: 9703469
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive surface for a computer animator to create or modify a computer-generated image includes processes for differentiating between click and drag operations. The included processes also beneficially reduce input errors. When a touch object (e.g., finger or stylus) touches the drawing table, information regarding the duration of the touch and the movement of the touch are used to determine whether the touch input represents a (graphical user interface) click or a drag operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: DreamWorks Animation LLC
    Inventor: Alexander P. Powell
  • Patent number: 9696857
    Abstract: A signal processing circuit is provided, which is suitable to be connected to a signal receiving conductor of a capacitive position detecting sensor, which has low power consumption and small circuit scale, and which allows setting of a small value as the capacitance value of a capacitor used for I-V conversion. After a receiving conductor is clamped to a predetermined potential by a clamp circuit, this receiving conductor clamped to the predetermined potential is connected to a capacitor circuit via a gate circuit. Thereby, a potential that changes corresponding to a position indicated by an indicator such as a finger is generated in the capacitor circuit, and a voltage signal generated in this capacitor circuit is converted to a digital signal to be output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuo Oda
  • Patent number: 9696849
    Abstract: In response to detecting a predetermined pressure change between two consecutive contacts on a trackpad of a computing device, the two consecutive contacts are ignored. In response to detecting a predetermined pressure change of a single contact on the trackpad, the single contact is ignored. After detecting a new contact on the trackpad after a predetermined period of time without any contact on the trackpad, any movement tied to a predetermined amount of increasing pressure on the trackpad for the new contact is temporarily discarded, for a preset amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew de los Reyes
  • Patent number: 9690386
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing motion recognition using motion sensor fusion and an associated computer program product are provided, where the method is applied to an electronic device. The method includes the steps of: utilizing a plurality of motion sensors of the electronic device to obtain sensor data respectively corresponding to the plurality of motion sensors, the sensor data measured at a device coordinate system of the electronic device, wherein the plurality of motion sensors includes inertial motion sensors; and performing sensor fusion according to the sensor data by converting at least one portion of the sensor data and derivatives of the sensor data into converted data based on a global coordinate system of a user of the electronic device, to perform motion recognition based on the global coordinate system, in order to recognize the user's motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: CM HK LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhou Ye, Shun-Nan Liou, Ying-Ko Lu, Chin-Lung Lee
  • Patent number: 9684382
    Abstract: Input device configurations are described. In one or more implementations, an input device includes a sensor substrate having one or more conductors and a flexible contact layer spaced apart from the sensor substrate. The flexible contact layer is configured to flex to contact the sensor substrate to initiate an input of a computing device. The flexible contact layer includes a force concentrator pad that is configured to cause pressure to be channeled through the force concentrator pad to cause the flexible contact layer to contact the sensor substrate to initiate the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy C. Shaw, James C. Marshall, Brian R. Cox, Carl E. Picciotto, Aric A. Fitz-Coy
  • Patent number: 9672791
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a processor, at least one lens accessible to the processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive synchronization information from another device, and based on the synchronization information, actuate the at least one lens to permit visible light to pass therethrough at times at which first frames of first content are presented and not at times that second frames different from the first frames for second content different from the first content are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert James Kapinos, Russell Speight VanBlon, Axel Ramirez Flores, Joshua Neil Novak, Jason Grimme, Alfredo Zugasti Hays
  • Patent number: 9666119
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally systems and methods for controlling current provided to display devices. A method for controlling the current may include receiving drive current values associated with subpixels in a display and receiving information that corresponds to an application type being rendered on the display and/or an indication of image data being rendered on the display. The method may then include reducing at least some of the drive current values based at least in part on the application type. Alternatively, the method may include reducing the at least a portion of the image data corresponding to the at least some of the drive current values has substantially similar luminance and color values. The method may then include supplying the subpixels with drive currents that correspond to the drive current values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Paul Stephen Drzaic
  • Patent number: 9625722
    Abstract: There is provided a control device including an illumination control unit that controls an illumination device illuminating a non-display region of a light-shielding unit that includes a display region in which an image is displayed and the non-display region in which the image is not displayed and is designed to be disposed in a region covering a visual field of a user. The illumination control unit controls the illumination device according to display content of the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichi Rekimoto
  • Patent number: 9607560
    Abstract: Discussed are an LCD device and a method of driving the same in which, by decreasing the number of lines of a PCB, the manufacturing cost is saved, and the influence of noise is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: SunUng Kim, JungSik Park, JunHo Yoo, JaeHoon Park
  • Patent number: 9569034
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including data lines, gate lines crossing the data lines, and pixels arranged in a matrix form, a touch screen which is embedded in the display panel or is installed on the display panel, a data driving circuit supplying a data voltage to the data lines, a gate driving circuit supplying a gate pulse to the gate lines, and a touch sensing circuit which supplies a driving signal to lines of the touch screen and senses a touch input. The gate driving circuit alternately drives pull-down transistors connected in parallel to one gate line. The gate driving circuit drives one of the pull-down transistors or simultaneously drives the pull-down transistors during a drive period of the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sungchul Kim
  • Patent number: 9569018
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flexible display device adapted to accurately detect bending information when the flexible display device is flexed, bent or folded, and to be capable of variously controlling an image displayed on a screen on the basis of the detected bending information. The flexible display device includes a flexible touch screen part, and a bending detection part provided on the touch screen part, the bending detection part having an electrostatic capacitance or electric resistance that changes depending on a bending of the touch screen part, so as to detect bending information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Seok-Myong Kang, Shi-Yun Cho, Ho-Seong Seo, In-Kuk Yun, Youn-Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 9558376
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display unit configured to display characters, a contact detection unit configured to detect a contact, a tactile sensation providing unit configured to provide a tactile sensation to an object contacting the contact detection unit, and a control unit configured to control such that predetermined characters are displayed as turned characters on the display unit, wherein the control unit, when the contact detection unit detects the contact at a position corresponding to the turned characters displayed on the display unit, controls the tactile sensation providing unit such that a tactile sensation associated with the characters corresponding to the turned characters is provided to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Myoi, Takeshi Katae
  • Patent number: 9541807
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flexible display device capable of preventing contact inferiority with a driving device when the driving device is mounted onto the flexible display device bent in one direction. The flexible display device includes: a substrate having a display region and a dummy region, and forming a curved surface by being bent in one direction; and one or more driving devices mounted onto the dummy region of the substrate, wherein the driving device is mounted such that short sides thereof are disposed along the curved surface of the substrate, and long sides thereof are disposed on a planar surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: NamKil Park, SoonKwang Hong
  • Patent number: 9489885
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes: a substrate; a scan line formed on the substrate and that transfers a scan signal; a data line and a driving voltage line that intersect the scan line and that transfer a data signal and a driving voltage, respectively; a switching thin film transistor (TFT) connected to the scan line and the data line; a driving TFT connected to the switching TFT and the driving voltage line; an OLED connected to the driving TFT; a storage capacitor connected between the driving voltage line and a driving gate electrode of the driving TFT; and a boosting capacitor connected to the storage capacitor, wherein the storage capacitor has at least one capacitor opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mu-Kyung Jeon, Tae-Joon Kim
  • Patent number: 9483981
    Abstract: Devices such as electronic book readers, televisions, and so forth use displays to present information to users. Described herein are devices and methods for dynamically adjusting illumination, waveforms used to generate the image, presentation of the information, or a combination thereof based on one or more of ambient light level, display illumination level, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hervé Jacques Clément Letourneur, David J. Foster, Laurent E. Sellier
  • Patent number: 9459160
    Abstract: Input device configurations are described. In one or more implementations, an input device includes a sensor substrate having one or more conductors and a flexible contact layer spaced apart from the sensor substrate. The flexible contact layer is configured to flex to contact the sensor substrate to initiate an input of a computing device. The flexible contact layer includes a force concentrator pad that is configured to cause pressure to be channeled through the force concentrator pad to cause the flexible contact layer to contact the sensor substrate to initiate the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy C. Shaw, Flavio P. Ribeiro, Glennis E. Covington, Christian C. Gadke, Xuezhong Wu, Bradley R. Martin, Francie Judith Zant, Scott M. Mail, James C. Marshall
  • Patent number: 9442650
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein provide devices and methods that facilitate improved input device performance. Specifically, the devices and methods provide an input device configured to determine positional and force information for input objects interacting with a sensing region. The system is configured to detect a variable force imparted to an input surface of the sensing region by at least one input object. The variable force dynamically modulates, within a modulation range, a user interface parameter. The dynamic modulation of the interface parameter is modified in response to an additional input object contacting the input surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Mohamed Ashraf Sheik-Nainar
  • Patent number: 9411048
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with electronic components such as a touch screen display. The touch screen display may be controlled based on information from a proximity sensor. The proximity sensor may have a light source that emits infrared light and a light detector that detects reflected infrared light. When the electronic device is in the vicinity of a user's head, the proximity sensor may produce data indicative of the presence of the user's head. Variations in proximity sensor output due to user hair color and smudges on the proximity sensor can be accommodated by using a dynamically adjustable proximity sensor data threshold in processing proximity sensor data. Proximity sensor data may be analyzed in real time to detect signal strength fluctuations that are indicative of the presence of low-reflectively dark hair on the user's head. Threshold adjustments may be based on the presence of dark hair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: William Matthew Vieta