Patents Examined by Roberto Flores
  • Patent number: 10183231
    Abstract: A toy optical viewer apparatus configured for wireless communication with a remote wireless communication device and for selectively displaying an image, the apparatus comprising a body having a first end and an opposite second end and a display system incorporated in the body, the display system comprising a screen in visual communication with the first end and further comprising a microprocessor and an electrically connected RF transceiver configured to receive at least display instructions from the remote wireless communication device for selective display of the image on the screen of the display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Perine Lowe, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrice Lowe
  • Patent number: 10168976
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, system, and program product are disclosed for dynamic display arrangement. One method includes receiving first information including one or more of location information corresponding to a first display of the multiple displays and information from an information handling device worn or held by a user. The method also includes receiving second information including one or more of location information corresponding to a second display of the multiple displays and context information corresponding to the first and second displays. The method includes determining an arrangement of the multiple displays based on the first and second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eric J. Rozner, Inseok Hwang, Su Liu, Chin Ngai Sze
  • Patent number: 10152167
    Abstract: An operation display system with a plurality of operation display devices each having a touch panel includes: a load criteria acquiring unit configured to acquire load criteria serving as criteria of pressing forces for the touch panels to accept an operation; an operation type acquiring unit configured to acquire types of operations to be performed on the touch panels with respect to objects displayed on screens of the operation display devices; and a control unit configured to control display on the screens of first and second operation display devices of the plurality of operation display devices in accordance with a result of comparison between the load criteria and the acquired types, the first and second operation display devices being in a cooperating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10146431
    Abstract: A touch panel device is provided which, even in cases in which a plurality of GUI parts are arranged in a limited space, enables operation of a GUI part in which, unlike a physical button, it is hard to distinguish the boundary by touch, without operational error, using a finger with a very large contact area in comparison to a touch pen. A touch panel device includes a rectangular screen having a detection region which detects contact, and a control section for generating a control signal in response to the contact detected by the detection region. The detection region has a shape that is inclined with respect to a side edge of the rectangular screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Koichi Abe, Shogo Tsubouchi
  • Patent number: 10133388
    Abstract: An input device (101) according to the present invention includes a touch sensor (104) that detects contact, a display unit (103), a pressure detection unit (106) that detects pressure on the touch sensor (104), a memory unit (105) that stores indication information indicating existence of notification information, and a control unit (108) that controls the display unit (103) to display the indication information stored in the memory unit (105) when data based on pressure on the touch sensor (104) becomes equal to or greater than a threshold, thereby displays indication information in accordance with a user's desire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Sudou
  • Patent number: 10134330
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a display panel. In one example, the display panel includes an array of subpixels in a first, a second, and a third colors. Subpixels in the first, second, and third colors are alternatively arranged in every three adjacent rows of the array of subpixels. Every two adjacent rows of the array of subpixels are staggered with each other. A first subpixel in one of the first, second, and third colors and a second subpixel in a same color as the first subpixel are offset by 3 units in the horizontal axis and 4 units in the vertical axis. The first and second subpixels have a minimum distance among subpixels in the same color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Kunshan Yunyinggu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jing Gu
  • Patent number: 10102797
    Abstract: An image sticking controller includes a gamma conversion unit configured to gamma-convert gray scale values respectively corresponding to a plurality of pixels, and to output the gamma-converted gray scale values as gamma conversion values, a data accumulation unit configured to accumulate the gamma conversion values into an accumulation data, the accumulation data including a minimum accumulation value, a maximum difference value indicating a difference between the minimum accumulation value and a maximum accumulation value, and difference values indicating respective differences between the minimum accumulation value and an accumulation value of each of the pixels, an image sticking analysis unit configured to output an image sticking decrease control signal when the maximum difference value is greater than a reference value, and a data conversion unit configured to convert the gray scale values in response to the image sticking decrease control signal, such that image sticking is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong-Woong Park, Won-Woo Jang, Yong-Seok Choi, Joo-Hyung Lee
  • Patent number: 10073545
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of human-computer interaction and in particular, to apparatus, systems, and methods for facilitating interaction with computers and computing systems in an intuitive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Inventors: Guha Jayachandran, Vishal Vaidyanathan
  • Patent number: 10067595
    Abstract: A display driver integrated circuit (IC) and an electronic apparatus including the same are provided. The display driver IC includes a booster configured to boost an external power supply voltage applied to a first node to a same level as that of an internal power supply voltage, and a power supplier including a power level adjustor configured to activate a current path between a second node and ground in response to a control signal indicating entry into a first mode and form a current path between the first node and the second node when the internal power supply voltage at the second node is equal to a reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eui-hyuk Jeong, Si-woo Kim, Jeong-pyo Kim
  • Patent number: 10067623
    Abstract: A flexible touch screen panel includes a thin film substrate divided into an active area and a non active area positioned at the outside of the active area; sensing patterns formed on the active area of a first surface of the thin film substrate, including first sensing cells formed to be connected along a first direction and second sensing cells formed to be connected along a second direction; and sensing lines formed on the non active area of the first surface of the thin film substrate. The sensing lines are connected to the sensing patterns. In the touch screen panel, the area and/or interval of the sensing cells formed on a first region, which is capable of being bent by predetermined curvature about a folding axis is different from the area and/or interval of the sensing cells formed on a second region as a flat region except the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Mok Park, Kwan-Young Han, Chang-Bum Kim, Jae-Hyung Jo, Hyung-Chul Kim
  • Patent number: 10042428
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a non-touch control apparatus, including: a main control integrated circuit, an ultrasonic generating circuit, a first transducer device and a second transducer device, wherein the main control integrated circuit is configured to, in response to a condition that the device is in a non-touch control mode, switch on the ultrasonic generating circuit so as to control the second transducer device to send out a first acoustic wave signal, the first transducer device is configured to be capable of receiving a second acoustic wave signal including the first acoustic wave signal, converting the second acoustic wave signal into a first electric signal, and outputting the first electric signal, wherein, the main control integrated circuit is configured to be capable of receiving a second electric signal derived from the first electric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Cheng, Shuhuan Yu, Jinglu Bai, Junning Su
  • Patent number: 10025411
    Abstract: A touch screen and a pressure touch detection method thereof are disclosed and belong to a technical field of display. The touch screen includes a touch module including a plurality of sense electrodes and a plurality of touch electrodes, wherein the sense electrodes and the touch electrodes are respectively arranged in different layers. The touch screen has a display region and a non-display region, and at least one pressure sensor is arranged in the non-display region and includes a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode and the sense electrodes are arranged on a same layer, the second electrode and the touch electrodes are arranged on a same layer, and the pressure sensor detects a touch pressure according to a distance variation between the first electrode and the second electrode. The touch screen is applicable to a small-sized touch display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuefei Wang, Jiayang Zhao
  • Patent number: 10003334
    Abstract: The invention relates to a capacitive sensor system, in particular for detecting the approach of objects and in particular also for gesture recognition. The problem of the present invention is to provide a capacitively operating sensor system, which can be implemented with low component complexity and thus low costs and space requirements and is also characterized by low power consumption, so as to operate with batteries having a low charge capacity and/or a long operating time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY GERMANY GMBH
    Inventor: Peter Fasshauer
  • Patent number: 10002560
    Abstract: A gate drive on array unit, a gate drive on array circuit and a display device are disclosed. The gate drive on array unit including: a control module configured to output a clock signal under control of a gate driving signal of a previous stage of gate drive on array unit or a start input signal; an output module connected to the control module and configured to output a high voltage signal (VGH) as a gate driving signal of the present stage under control of the clock signal outputted from the control module, and output a low voltage signal under the control of the clock signal outputted from the control module; and a reset module connected to the output module, and configured to reset the gate driving signal of the present stage under the control of a gate driving signal of a next stage of gate drive on array unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Zheng, Zhiyong Wang, Zhengxin Zhang, Yao Yu, Lingyun Shi
  • Patent number: 9990119
    Abstract: A control circuit detects a touch-based user interaction with a touch-responsive portion of a display and responsively alters a display modality of the display. This touch-responsive portion of the display may be visually non-specific as regards any corresponding touch-based functionality. This touch-responsive portion can comprise a touch-responsive periphery of the display. The touch-based user interaction can comprise a gesture that begins and/or concludes in the touch-responsive portion. The resultant alteration of the display modality can comprise rotating the display about a center point. This rotation can comprise, by one approach, switching from a landscape modality to a portrait modality or vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: David Kvasnica
  • Patent number: 9985474
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display apparatus and a power supplying method thereof. The display apparatus includes: a backlight driver configured to drive a backlight to emit light; a main power supply configured to detect connection of the backlight to the backlight driver and supply a voltage to the backlight driver in response to a control voltage; and a standby power supply configured to supply the control voltage to the main power supply, in response to determining the connection of the backlight to the backlight driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Hoon Lee, Jeong-il Kang
  • Patent number: 9965047
    Abstract: A keypad capable of being configured with multiple button configurations with buttons of various heights is configured to recognize the button configuration through actuations of the buttons. The keypad is placed in a configuration mode by inputting an unresolvable condition to the keypad. Once in the configuration mode, the buttons are individually actuated in a predefined order to configure the size and function of each button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip Kirkpatrick, Douglas Jacobson
  • Patent number: 9958680
    Abstract: A near-eye display device, with coaxial eye imaging, for mounting in field of view of an eye of a user, includes a display unit for displaying a display image, a viewing unit for (i) presenting the display image to the eye based upon polarized visible light received from the display unit and (ii) transmitting ambient light from an ambient scene toward the eye, and an eye imaging unit including (a) an illumination module for generating infrared light, (b) a first polarizing beamsplitter interface, disposed between the display unit and the viewing unit, for (i) merging a polarized infrared component of the infrared light with the polarized visible light and (ii) separating from the polarized visible light a portion of the polarized infrared component reflected by the eye, and (c) a camera for forming an image of the eye based upon the polarized infrared component reflected by the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Wei Liu, Jau-Jan Deng, Regis Fan
  • Patent number: 9952737
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide capacitance sensing devices and methods for forming such devices. The capacitance sensing devices include a substrate having a central and an outer portion. A plurality of substantially co-planar electrodes are on the central portion substrate. A first plurality of conductors are on the substrate. Each of the first plurality of conductors has a first end portion electrically connected to one of the plurality of electrodes and a second end portion on the outer portion of the substrate. An insulating material is coupled to the second end portions of the first plurality of conductors. A second plurality of conductors are coupled to the insulating material. Each of the second plurality of conductors is electrically connected to the second end portion of at least some of the first plurality of conductors and is insulated from the second end portion of the others of the first plurality of conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Massoud Badaye, Peter Vavaroutsos, John Carey
  • Patent number: 9946378
    Abstract: Noise reduction method and system for a touch detection device are disclosed. The noise reduction method includes: step A, performing a synchronous sampling on the touch detection nodes in one same group and storing the sampling data; step B, comparing each sampling data against a corresponding reference data to calculate a differential data which, as a detection data, replaces a corresponding original sampling data; step C, calculating statistics of the replacing detection data to screen out valid data to calculate a DC offset component indicative of a noise ingredient; and step D, obtaining noise-filtered detection data by subtracting the DC offset component from each detection data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gengchun Deng, Xiaoxiang Chen