Patents Examined by Sardis Azongha
-
Patent number: 9483146Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for input classification for multi-touch systems. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data describing a first region of contact with a touch sensitive display and a second region of contact with the touch sensitive display. The method includes determining at least one characteristic of the first region of contact. The method includes based on the at least one characteristic of the first region of contact, determining that the first region of contact corresponds to intended touch input provided by a user's body part or stylus. The method includes determining at least one characteristic of the second region of contact. The method includes based on the at least one characteristic of the second region of contact, determining that the second region of contact corresponds to incidental touch input provided by a user's resting body part.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: PERCEPTIVE PIXEL, INC.Inventors: Philip L. Davidson, Jefferson Y. Han
-
Patent number: 9437149Abstract: An array substrate and a display are provided, and the array substrate includes: a substrate; a pixel region, provided on the substrate; a plurality of data lines, formed on the substrate; a plurality of gate signal lines, formed on the substrate and configured to apply a gate signal; a plurality of pixel units, located in the pixel region and defined by crossing of the plurality of data lines and the plurality of gate signal lines; and at least one leading wire, provided at the periphery of the pixel region and configured to transmit the gate signal, wherein two ends of each of the plurality of gate signal lines near the periphery of the pixel region are connected with one leading wire through a first thin film transistor and a second thin film transistor respectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2013Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jiaxiang Zhang
-
Patent number: 9430066Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for input classification for multi-touch systems. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data describing a first region of contact with a touch sensitive display, a second region of contact with the touch sensitive display, and a third region of contact with the touch sensitive display, the second region of contact being separate from the first region of contact and the third region of contact being separate from the first region of contact and the second region of contact. The method includes classifying the first region of contact as a touch point provided by a user's body part. The method includes classifying the second region of contact as incidental touch input provided by a user's resting body part. The method includes classifying the third region of contact as a stylus input.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2012Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: PERCEPTIVE PIXEL, INC.Inventors: Philip L. Davidson, Jefferson Y. Han
-
Patent number: 9406260Abstract: A display device including: a plurality of first electrodes each corresponding to a plurality of light emitting groups on a plurality of pixels including organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and a plurality of second electrodes formed on the plurality of first electrodes, having an insulating layer therebetween, wherein a plurality of touch sensing signals are applied to each of the plurality of first electrodes during a non-light emitting period of each of the plurality of light emitting groups and a touched position is determined in response to a magnitude in voltage between the first and second electrodes by a touch from the outside.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin-Tae Jeong, Hwan-Soo Jang, Jae-Du Noh
-
Patent number: 9377915Abstract: Provided is a capacitive touch sensor which includes a flat panel display for displaying an image and a touch sensor panel positioned on the flat panel display or embedded in the flat panel display. The capacitive touch sensor may include: a driving clock generator configured to generate a plurality of time-periodic output signals by using a gate driver signal of the flat panel display, and apply the generated time-periodic output signals to the touch sensor panel and a receiver circuit unit; a driver configured to generate a driving signal of the touch sensor panel using a part of the output signals of the driving clock generator; and the receiver circuit unit configured to process noise contained in a signal received from the touch sensor panel, using the output signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2012Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATIONInventors: Hong June Park, Jae Seung Lee, Dong Hee Yeo, Sang Su Lee, Joon Ho Cho, Hye Jung Kwon
-
Touch panel providing tactile feedback in response to variable pressure and operation method thereof
Patent number: 9323328Abstract: A touch panel according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a pressure detection unit including a light-source unit configured to generate an optical signal, an optical waveguide configured to transfer the optical signal, a sensing unit contacting with the optical waveguide to receive the optical signal according to an intensity of pressure applied externally, and a light-receiving unit configured to receive the optical signal transferred through the optical waveguide from the sensing unit; and an actuator contacting with the pressure detection unit to cause a deformation of a material according to the pressure intensity, wherein the actuator provides a tactile feedback through a vibration according to the pressure intensity.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Young Sung Kim, Ki-Uk Kyung, Suntak Park, Bong Je Park, Sung Ryul Yun, Han Saem Lee, Mi Joeng Choi -
Patent number: 9268364Abstract: A data entry device includes a housing comprising a front and rear surface and laterally separated grip portions each configured to engage with a hand of a user. The user may thereby support the housing by engaging the grip portions of the housing. The rear surface includes first and second generally concave portions disposed proximate the first and second grip portions, which curve generally towards the hand of the user when the housing is supported by the user. The device further includes input keys positioned on each of the first and second generally concave portions of the rear surface such that the user may actuate the input keys with fingers of each hand while engaging the grip portions, and such that the generally concave portions facilitate ergonomic access to the input keys.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2012Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: TREWGrip, LLCInventor: Mark Andrew Parker
-
Patent number: 9262957Abstract: A pixel arrangement of color display panel includes a plurality of first sub-pixels for providing a first color light, a plurality of second sub-pixels for providing a second color light, a plurality of third sub-pixels for providing a third color light and a plurality of white sub-pixels for providing a white light. The first sub-pixels extend along a first direction, and form a plurality of first sub-pixel columns disposed in parallel. The second and third sub-pixels are disposed between two adjacent first sub-pixel columns. The white sub-pixels are disposed between two adjacent first sub-pixel columns, and the white sub-pixels extend along the first direction, and form a plurality of white sub-pixel columns disposed in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.Inventors: Hsueh-Yen Yang, Hong-Shen Lin
-
Patent number: 9223357Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a touch panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a touch display device, the touch panel is provided with a buffer trench region disposed in a peripheral region of a transparent substrate, the buffer trench region, and comprising: a first laminated structure, disposed on the transparent substrate, comprising: a metallic wire, disposed on the transparent substrate; a first insulating wire, disposed on the metallic wire; a transparent electrode wire, disposed on the first insulating wire; a first passivation wire, disposed on the transparent electrode wire; a second laminated structure, disposed on the same layer as the first laminated structure, comprising: a second insulating wire, disposed on the transparent substrate; and a second passivation wire, disposed on the second insulating wire, wherein the second laminated structure and the first laminated structure are spaced apart from each other to form a trench.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shengji Yang, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu, Weijie Zhao, Wei Li
-
Patent number: 9217872Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal display element in which a plurality of display units including at least a pixel that displays an image for a first eyepoint and a pixel that displays an image for a second eyepoint are arranged in a matrix shape; an optical unit which distributes light emitted from the pixel that displays the image for the first eyepoint and light emitted from the pixel that displays the image for the second eyepoint in mutually different directions; a first control electrode and a second control electrode disposed on each pixel in the display units; and a plurality of domain regions of which the orientation is controlled by a diagonal electric field or a lateral electric field formed by the first control electrode and the second control electrode and which have different liquid crystal molecule orientation states.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Shinya Niioka, Koji Shigemura
-
Patent number: 9176326Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal display element in which a plurality of display units including at least a pixel that displays an image for a first eyepoint and a pixel that displays an image for a second eyepoint are arranged in a matrix shape; an optical unit which distributes light emitted from the pixel that displays the image for the first eyepoint and light emitted from the pixel that displays the image for the second eyepoint in mutually different directions; a first control electrode and a second control electrode disposed on each pixel in the display units; and a plurality of domain regions of which the orientation is controlled by a diagonal electric field or a lateral electric field formed by the first control electrode and the second control electrode and which have different liquid crystal molecule orientation states.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Shinya Niioka, Koji Shigemura
-
Patent number: 9164637Abstract: A touch sensing device includes a display panel including a touch screen on which a plurality of touch sensors are formed, a touch sensing circuit including at least one sensing unit which receives self capacitance signals of a first touch sensor and a second touch sensor adjacent to the first touch sensor at differential input method and detects changes in capacitances of the first and second touch sensors, and a touch controller which analyzes touch raw data received from the touch sensing circuit and calculates coordinates of a touch input position. The sensing unit generates delays corresponding to a difference between the capacitances of the first and second touch sensors, accumulates the number of delays, converts an accumulated value of the delays into digital data, and generates the touch raw data.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Youngwoo Jo
-
Patent number: 9111478Abstract: A method of compensating the color gamut of a display includes establishing a plurality of color gamut boundaries of four color hues, generating m sets of original luminance, chrominance and hue values according to m sets of tricolor grey level values, adjusting the chrominance of n sets of luminance, chrominance and hue values of the m sets of luminance, chrominance and hue values exceeding the plurality of color gamut boundaries with four color hues to generate n sets of corrected luminance, chrominance and hue values, generating m sets of four color grey levels according to the n sets of corrected luminance, chrominance and hue values and (m?n) sets of uncorrected luminance, chrominance and hue values, and displaying images on the display according to the m sets of four color grey levels.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2013Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.Inventors: Hui Chu Ke, Sheng-Wen Cheng
-
Patent number: 9098147Abstract: A ranging apparatus including an image sensor, an imaging lens, and a processor is provided. The imaging lens is configured to image an object on the image sensor to produce an image signal having at least one image parameter, wherein the at least one image parameter changes with a change of an object distance of the object. The processor is configured to determine the change of the object distance according to a change of the at least one image parameter. A ranging method and an interactive display system are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Chuan-Chung Chang, Chy-Lin Wang, Yung-Lin Chen, Chir-Weei Chang, Kuo-Tung Tiao, Hsien-Chang Lin, Chia-Chen Chen, Wei-Jia Huang
-
Patent number: 9099030Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of gate lines extending in a first direction, a plurality of data lines extending in a second direction, a plurality of sub-gate lines corresponding to the plurality of gate lines and extending in a first direction to be adjacent to a corresponding gate line of the plurality of gate lines, a gate driver configured to drive the plurality of gate lines, a data driver configured to drive the plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels arranged in a display area, where an end of each of the plurality of gate lines extends in the first direction from the gate driver is electrically connected to a center portion of a corresponding sub-gate line in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ilgon Kim, Kyung-Hoon Kim, Seon Young Choi, Jangmi Kang
-
Patent number: 9082364Abstract: A source driving system includes first and second source driving integrated circuits. The first driving integrated circuit includes a first source driver for receiving first display data and driving pixels in a first block of a display panel according to the first display data. The second source driving integrated circuit includes a second source driver electrically connected to the first source driver for receiving second display data and driving pixels in a second block of the display panel according to the second display data. The first and the second source drivers generate first and second display parameters according to the first and the second display data respectively. The second display parameter is transmitted from the second source driver to the first source driver. The first source driver generates a third display parameter according to the first and second parameters and transmits the third display parameter to the second source driver.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2012Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.Inventors: Yung-Hsu Lin, Ming-Hung Tu, Chun-Fan Chung, Chih-Che Hsu
-
Patent number: 9041665Abstract: Devices are disclosed for inputting data to a touch sensitive user interface, which devices comprise a base operative to affix to the user interface, a button having an outer touch surface and an inner surface operative to engage the user interface to convey a data input signal thereto in response to presence of a user's finger at the outer touch surface of the button, and an arm connecting the button to the base; processes for data input are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Ten One Design, LLCInventor: Peter James Skinner
-
Patent number: 9024868Abstract: According to an aspect, a mobile electronic includes a first display unit, a second display unit, an input unit, and a control unit. The first display unit displays a first image. The second display unit displays a second image. To the input unit, an instruction is input. The control unit causes the second display unit to display the first image, as the second image, when a first period of time has passed since the first image is displayed by the first display unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2010Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventor: Takafumi Oka
-
Patent number: 8976097Abstract: A driving apparatus and a display driving system. The driving apparatus includes a first amplification unit receiving a first signal and outputting a driving signal of a positive polarity voltage with respect to a reference voltage, a second amplification unit receiving a second signal and outputting a driving signal of a negative polarity voltage with respect to the reference voltage, and a controller for determining a chopping signal applied to a chopping terminal of the second amplification unit such that an offset polarity of an output voltage of the first amplification unit and an offset polarity of an output voltage of the second amplification unit are the same.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Woo-nyoung Lee, Hyun-sang Park, Seong-young Ryu
-
Patent number: 8947414Abstract: The present invention provides an active matrix substrate and an organic EL display device in which reduction in the response rate of a current-driven light-emitting element is suppressed. The active matrix substrate of the present invention is an analog gradation-driving active matrix substrate, including multiple pixels each including a current-driven light-emitting element and a drive transistor. The current-driven light-emitting element includes a pixel electrode electrically coupled with the drive transistor. The drive transistor supplies a current to the current-driven light-emitting element through the pixel electrode. The multiple pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel disposed adjacent to each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2010Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Noboru Noguchi