Patents Examined by Sanjiv D Patel
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Patent number: 10929016Abstract: An information handling system touchscreen display detects touches at a touch detection surface as inputs to the information handling system based in part upon periodical calibrations performed by a touch controller. An embedded controller detects placement of a keyboard on the touchscreen display and in response commands the touch controller to cease the periodic calibrations for at least the portion of the touchscreen display on which the keyboard is placed. For instance, the embedded controller interfaces with a Hall sensor disposed under the touchscreen display that detects a magnet integrated in the keyboard. At removal of the keyboard, the embedded controller commands the touch controller to perform a calibration to update touch detection.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Yung Chun Liu, Jace W. Files
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Patent number: 10916201Abstract: A scan circuit, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The scan circuit includes a switch control circuit in addition to a gate driver circuit with forward and backward scan functions, where the switch control circuit is configured to transmit a second scan signal to a corresponding row of pixels, and a first scan signal to its next row of pixel in a scan direction when the gate driver circuit outputs a drive signal at each of the signal output terminals. In this way, no matter whether the gate driver circuit performs forward or backward scanning, the switch control circuit controls the gate driver circuit to transmit firstly the first scan signal and then the second scan signal to the corresponding row of pixels.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Inventors: Mengmeng Zhang, Xingyao Zhou, Yue Li, Shuai Yang
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Patent number: 10915171Abstract: This invention relates to methods and apparatus for improving communications between humans and devices. The invention provides a method of modulating operation of a device, comprising: providing an attentive user interface for obtaining information about an attentive state of a user; and modulating operation of a device on the basis of the obtained information, wherein the operation that is modulated is initiated by the device. Preferably, the information about the user's attentive state is eye contact of the user with the device that is sensed by the attentive user interface.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Inventors: Roel Vertegaal, Jeffrey S. Shell
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Patent number: 10908726Abstract: A force touch device, a force touch feedback method and a touch display device are provided. The force touch device includes a first region and a second region, and further includes: a force detecting electrode in the first region and the second region; a sensing electrode in the first region; an auxiliary electrode in the second region, and the auxillary electrode and the sensing electrode are on a same side of the force detecting electrode. The sensing electrode and the force detecting electrode are disposed oppositely and insulated from each other to form a first force sensor, the auxiliary electrode and the force detecting electrode are disposed oppositely and insulated from each other to form a second force sensor, and a distance of the auxiliary electrode from the force detecting electrode is greater than a distance of the sensing electrode from the force detecting electrode.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenbo Wang, Chien Pang Huang
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Patent number: 10908704Abstract: A mouse including a housing, an image sensing element, a lens, or a laser Doppler cursor positioning sensor; a light-transmitting hole is located where the housing is intersected with a third plane, the third plane is defined by an edge intersecting a first plane and a second plane and a halving line of an angle of the first plane and the second plane; a light source is provided and configured to emit a light beam from the light-transmitting region to the working surface, and the lens is configured to focus a reflected light of the light beam on the working surface to be transmitted to the image sensing element through the light-transmitting hole; or the laser Doppler cursor positioning sensor is configured to project a light from the light-transmitting region to the working surface, and a reflected light is also fed back to the sensor through the light-transmitting hole.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Inventor: Xindong Jiang
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Patent number: 10895906Abstract: Holographic image-guidance can be used to track an interventional device during a non-vascular percutaneous procedure. The holographic image guidance can be provided by a head-mounted device by transforming tracking data and body image data to a common coordinate system and creating a holographic display relative to a patient's body to track the interventional device during the non-vascular percutaneous procedure. The holographic display can also include graphics to provide guidance for the physical interventional device as it travels through the patient's anatomy.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONInventors: Karl West, Jeffrey H. Yanof
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Patent number: 10895967Abstract: A display device is provided, which includes a jog switch which performs a moving operation in a plurality of directions and a push operation, a display unit which displays a first user interface (UI) for adjusting a channel or a volume of the display device or a second UI for adjusting other functions of the display device in accordance with a first operation of the jog switch, and a control unit which adjusts a selected function of the display device in accordance with a second operation of the jog switch in which is performed in a state where the first UI or the second UI is displayed. The jog switch is formed to project for a predetermine height from a surface of the display device, and thus a user can find the jog switch easily and promptly even is the jog switch is obstructed from view.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyun-Ho Kim, Chang-joo Jung
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Patent number: 10890989Abstract: A touch pad driving device and a touch driving method are provided. The touch pad driving device is configured to scan a plurality of sensing channels of a touch pad, cause the selected sensing channel in the plurality of sensing channels receive a touch driving signal, cause the sensing channels adjacent to or around the selected sensing channel receive a shielding signal, and cause the remaining sensing channels receive a reference signal, so as to reduce electromagnetic interference generated by the touch pad.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: ITE Tech. Inc.Inventors: Yi-Chung Chou, Chih-Yuan Kuo, Ta-Wei Liu
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Patent number: 10891901Abstract: Disclosed is an organic light emitting display apparatus. The organic light emitting display apparatus outputs black gate pulses for a black image and sensing gate pulses for sensing in a vertical blank period and differently sets timings, at which the sensing gate pulses are output after the black gate pulses are output, for each gate line.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: GeunWoo Lee, YongKyu Park, MunJun Lee
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Patent number: 10890988Abstract: In an example, a computer device may detect pressure applied to an input location on an input device. The computer device may identify at least one opened application. The computer device may determine an output location based on the input location, where the output location may be a location on a display of the computer device. The computer device may construct an object based on the identified opened applications and the output location. The computer device may output the object on the display at the output location. The computer device may receive a selection of an opened application via the object, where the selected opened application is among the identified opened applications. The computer device may output the selected opened application on the display of the computer device.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gregory J. Boss, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Jeremy R. Fox
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Patent number: 10885864Abstract: This application discloses a pre-charge method for a display panel, a display panel and a display device. The pre-charge method for the display panel includes steps of outputting a gate enabling signal; receiving an Nth gate enabling signal by an Nth scan line; and synchronously outputting the Nth gate enabling signal to a (N+1)th scan line; N being a natural number more than or equal to 1.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Xiaoyu Huang
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Patent number: 10878761Abstract: An image display processing method for a display device, an image display processing device, a display device, and a non-volatile storage medium are provided. The display device includes a display panel and a backlight unit which includes a plurality of backlight blocks and is driven in a local dimming mode. The method includes: determining a first display area and a second display area of the display panel; obtaining backlight values of the backlight blocks, and calculating compensated display data of respective pixels corresponding to the backlight blocks based on the backlight values of the backlight blocks; and adjusting compensated display data of at least one first pixel comprised in the first display area to obtain adjusted display data of the at least one first pixel. A display resolution of the first display area is larger than a display resolution of the second display area.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhihua Ji, Wenyu Li, Tiankuo Shi, Yafei Li, Yue Li, Yifan Hou
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Patent number: 10867559Abstract: A display device including: a scan driver that transmits scan signals to scan lines; a data driver that data signals to data lines; and a display portion that includes pixels, respectively connected to the corresponding scan lines and corresponding data lines, and displays an image by the pixels that simultaneously emit light according to the corresponding data signals, wherein each of pixels includes: an organic light emitting diode; a first transistor that includes a gate connected to a first node, and is connected between first power and an anode of the organic light emitting diode; a second transistor that includes a gate connected to a corresponding scan line and transmits the corresponding data signal to the first node; and a first capacitor that is connected to the first node, and stores a data voltage according to the data signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Hyun Park, Cheol-Gon Lee, Yang-Hwa Choi
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Patent number: 10860272Abstract: A method comprises receiving information associated with a content item, designating a first bead apparatus (716) to be associated with a first content item segment of the content item, the first content item segment being identified by a first content item segment identifier, causing display of a visual representation of the first content item segment identifier by the first bead apparatus (726), designating a second bead apparatus (712) to be associated with a second content item segment of the content item, the second content item segment being identified by a second content item segment identifier, causing display of a visual representation of the second content item segment identifier by the second bead apparatus (722), receiving information indicative of a selection input of the second bead apparatus, and causing rendering of the second content item segment based, at least in part, on the selection input (734).Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2013Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Juha Arrasvuori, Jukka Holm
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Patent number: 10860108Abstract: A tactile sense presentation apparatus includes a movable body, an actuator unit, and a signal generation unit. The actuator unit is connected to the movable body. The signal generation unit is configured to supply a driving signal to the actuator unit, the driving signal generating a vibration on the actuator unit, the vibration having within a period at least one of a plurality of different amplitudes and a plurality of different frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Akira Ono, Hiroshi Yoshida, Mikio Takenaka
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Patent number: 10860128Abstract: A touch display panel and device. A common electrode is provided between a display driving signal line and a touch line. The common electrode functions as a shielding pattern that prevents display noise of a touch sensing signal without increasing the number of masks used to form the touch display device. A touch load reducing layer is disposed in a region between the touch line and the common electrode, except for a region in which the common electrode and pixel electrodes overlap. This reduces the load of the touch line and improves touch sensing performance without having an adverse effect on display driving.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: SeungMok Shin, CheolSe Kim, JuHan Kim, HoonBae Kim, HyunHo Park, Jinseong Kim, YongChan Park
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Patent number: 10852869Abstract: A narrow border touch display apparatus is provided and includes a display layer and a self-capacitive touch-sensing layer. The self-capacitive touch-sensing layer is disposed on a surface of the display layer and includes a touch-sensing area and a wiring area adjacent to the touch-sensing area. The touch-sensing area is provided with a plurality of touch-sensing electrodes arranged in a matrix. Each of the touch-sensing electrodes is connected to a lead. The leads extend to the wiring area. A portion of the self-capacitive touch-sensing layer that is located within the wiring area extends over an edge of the display layer and is mounted on another surface of the display layer by bending.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jian Ye
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Patent number: 10854175Abstract: A computing device monitors support element strain to enable deployment of positionally-related components in conjunction with one another while the real-time positional relationship between these positionally-related components fluctuates during operation. An exemplary computing device includes a first component and a second component that are both mounted to a support element. The computing device may be subjected to mechanical loading during operation which may induce strain into the support element thereby affecting the nominal positioning between the positionally-related components. The computing device includes a displacement sensor to generate displacement data that is indicative of a real-time positional relationship between the components. This real-time positional relationship may be compensated while implementing desired functionality.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: William Steven Zurbrick, Brian J. Toleno, Marianne E. Laford
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Patent number: 10845923Abstract: A touch sensing apparatus is disclosed comprising a panel that defines a touch surface, a plurality of light emitters and detectors arranged along a perimeter of the panel. The light emitters are arranged to emit a respective beam of emitted light that travels above the touch surface, wherein the light detectors are arranged to receive detection light from the emitted light. The plurality of light emitters and detectors are arranged above the touch surface and are connected to a substrate extending in a direction parallel with a normal axis of a plane in which the panel extends. A method of assembling a touch sensing apparatus is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: FlatFrog Laboratories ABInventors: Daniel Skagmo, Robert Ehn, Hakan Bergstrom
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Patent number: 10847108Abstract: A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus according to one Embodiment comprises: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix; a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines; a scanning line drive unit to generate a scanning signal for selecting a group of pixels arranged in the row direction based on a scanning clock signal and successively output the generated scanning signal to the plurality of scanning lines; a data line drive unit to output, to a plurality of data lines, data signals for supplying voltages to the group of pixels arranged in the row direction; and a timing control unit to control the drive timing of the scanning line drive unit and the data line drive unit based on a first clock signal, and to generate the scanning clock signal based on the first clock signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: SAKAI DISPLAY PRODUCTS CORPORATIONInventor: Junichi Sawahata