Patents Examined by Scott D Au
  • Patent number: 10976881
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a first sensing layer, a second sensing layer and an insulative layer therebetween. Each of the first sensing layer and the second sensing layer has capacitive sensing strings and electromagnetic antenna strings. Each capacitive sensing string is composed of capacitive sensing units. The electromagnetic antenna strings are arranged. Each of the capacitive sensing strings and the electromagnetic antenna strings is connected with a tiny wire. The capacitive sensing strings on the first sensing layer are crossed with the second capacitive sensing strings on the second sensing layer to form complementary patterns. The capacitive sensing units on the first sensing layer and the second capacitive sensing units on the second sensing layer form a grid-shaped capacitive sensing unit matrix. The electromagnetic antenna strings on the first sensing layer are crossed with the electromagnetic antenna strings on the second sensing layer to form a grid-shaped electromagnetic antenna matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: YOUNG FAST OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Chiang Pai, Meng-Kuei Lin, Chin-Fong Lin, Chiu-Wen Chen
  • Patent number: 10964284
    Abstract: An electronic component board includes a signal line area in which signal lines extend in parallel to each other and a frame area that surrounds the signal line area. In the frame area, terminals, connection lines that connect the signal lines and the terminals, and circuits that are arranged along a portion of an outline of the signal line area and on respective line paths of the connection lines. The connection lines are routed such that an entire outline thereof is formed in a fan shape so as to be narrowed from the signal lines toward the terminals. The circuits include a first circuit and a second circuit. The second circuit has a small X-dimension in an arrangement direction of the circuits and a large Y-dimension in a perpendicular direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yohsuke Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 10921902
    Abstract: A multi-functional human interface device includes a control unit and a first multi-functional input button. The first multi-functional input button includes a cover unit configured to receive a touch input of a user's finger, an electrode unit including a transmitter and a receiver to form an electric field, an elastic unit configured to move from a first height to a second height when a first pressure is applied from the cover unit and configured to move back to the first height when the first pressure from the cover unit is released, and a switch unit configured to generate an electric signal representing an input of a predetermined letter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: INNOPRESSO, INC.
    Inventor: Eunhyung Cho
  • Patent number: 10923025
    Abstract: A method for compensating the pixel driving circuit may include: in a light emitting phase of the pixel driving circuit, sensing an electric signal of the first electrode of the electroluminescent element, and calculating an electrical compensation signal based on the electric signal; in the light emitting phase of the pixel driving circuit, sensing a brightness signal of the electroluminescent element by a photosensitive sensor and calculating an optical compensation signal according to the brightness signal; and generating a comprehensive compensation signal according to the electrical compensation signal and the optical compensation signal, and controlling a signal on a control terminal of the drive transistor according to the comprehensive compensation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cuili Gai, Yicheng Lin, Ling Wang, Pan Xu
  • Patent number: 10824228
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose a deformation control method, a deformation control apparatus, and a user equipment (UE). The method comprises: generating trigger information according to a focus behavior of a user on at least one associated region in multiple associated regions on a deformation controllable device, where the multiple associated regions are multiple regions on which the user synchronously focuses or will synchronously focus; and controlling, in response to the trigger information, the deformation controllable device to be deformed to a target shape that meets at least one shape restriction condition, where the at least one shape restriction condition comprises: a distance between any two associated regions in the multiple associated regions is less than a distance threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: BEIJING ZHIGU RUI TUO TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuifei Yu, Ran Xu
  • Patent number: 10810952
    Abstract: A display device according to one aspect of the disclosure includes a liquid crystal panel, a backlight including at least one light source to irradiate light to the liquid crystal panel, a timing controller to scan, in each frame period based on a synchronization signal which is input, the liquid crystal panel at a scan rate faster than a frame rate based on the synchronization signal, and a backlight control unit to turn on the backlight till a second time point, which is a scan time point of a next frame, from a first time point when a specified time elapses from a time point in which scan of the liquid crystal panel is finished in each frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung Jin Lim
  • Patent number: 10748501
    Abstract: Provided is a gate driver for use in a display panel. The gate driver includes a chamfering module configured to receive gate turn-on voltage signals and square wave controlling signals and chamfer the gate turn-on voltage signals in accordance with the square wave controlling signals to generate and output chamfered gate turn-on voltage signals, and a level shifting module configured to receive the chamfered gate turn-on voltage signals, input voltage signals and gate cut-off voltage signals, and output the chamfered gate turn-on voltage signals or the gate cut-off voltage signals in accordance with a voltage value of the input voltage signal. By integrating a chamfering module and a digital adjustable resistance module into a gate driver, it is not necessary to provide a chamfering circuit on a CB of display panel, so as the CB can be miniaturized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhao Wang
  • Patent number: 10534450
    Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a stylus with magnetic induction wheel. In the stylus, a pen holder includes a stylus head and a pen cap, and the pen holder is defined with a hollow accommodation space having a hole. A wheel is assembled inside the accommodation space and aligned with the hole, and a central axis is protruded on and extended from two opposite sides of the wheel to abut with the stylus head and the pen cap. A magnetic component is disposed on the central axis, and a magnetic induction device is disposed in the accommodation space to sense a variation of angular momentum or angular velocity of the magnetic field lines of the S and N magnetic poles of the magnetic component. As a result, the user can use the stylus to control an electronic device more easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: HOLY STONE ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chiu-Lin Chiang, Ming-Hung Chien, Chang-Ching Lin
  • Patent number: 10488653
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods corresponding to addressing misalignment in display systems are provided. A method includes using a first microelectromechanical system (MEMS) mirror, directing a first signal from a first light source to an alignment tracking waveguide. The method further includes receiving by a first photosensor a first portion of the first signal via the alignment tracking waveguide and determining a first alignment indicator associated with the first portion of the first signal. The method further includes using a second MEMS mirror, directing a second signal from a second light source to the alignment tracking waveguide. The method further includes receiving by a second photosensor a second portion of the second signal via the alignment tracking waveguide and determining a second alignment indicator associated with the second portion of the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Wall, Dmitry Reshidko, Joseph Lowney, Richard A. James, Steven J. Robbins
  • Patent number: 10262611
    Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a display device. The displaying device comprises a display panel, at least one scan driving unit and a data driving unit. The display panel is divided into display regions respectively having pixel sets. At least one scan driving unit having scanning lines couples to the pixel sets. The at least one scan driving unit outputs scanning signals to corresponding display regions upon receiving a first control signal. The data driving unit outputs data signals to the corresponding display regions upon receiving a second control signal. In response to respectively receiving the first or second control signals, the scan driving unit outputs the scanning signals or the data driving unit outputs the data signals to the corresponding display regions, so as to simultaneously scan the display regions respectively having the pixel sets in sequence with corresponding scanning patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Kuei-Jyun Chen, Tao-Lun Darren Chin
  • Patent number: 10242627
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamically adjusting the backlight of a display during video playback. Given an input video stream and associated minimum, average, or maximum luminance values of the video frames in the video stream, values of a function of the frame min, mid, or max luminance values are filtered using a temporal filter to generate a filtered output value for each frame. The instantaneous dynamic range of a target display is determined based on the filtered output value and the minimum and maximum brightness values of the display. A backlight control level is computed based on the instantaneous dynamic range, and the input signal is tone mapped by a display management process to be displayed on the target display at the selected backlight level. The design of a temporal filter based on an exponential moving average filter and scene-change detection is presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Suzanne Farrell, Scott Daly, Robin Atkins, Timo Kunkel, Gregory John Ward, Samir N. Hulyalkar, Ning Xu
  • Patent number: 10204575
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel comprises a first substrate including scanning lines, data lines, and pixel units including first pixel units and second pixel units; and a second substrate including color units including first color units, second color units, third color units, and fourth color units. The pixel units are arranged into first pixel groups and second pixel groups alternately arranged along an extending direction of the scanning lines. An arrangement of the first pixel units and the second pixel units in the first pixel group is a mirror image of that in the second pixel group. When the data signals with a same polarity are provided to the first pixel units and the second pixel units, the first pixel units generate an electric field having an inverted direction from an electric field generated by the second pixel units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignees: Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Xu, Xianxiang Zhang, Xiangmin Tan
  • Patent number: 6798337
    Abstract: A vehicular electronic key system includes an on-vehicle apparatus which is communicable with an electronic key when the electronic key is in a predetermined area outside of a vehicle. The on-vehicle apparatus generates alarm when a door lock operation is executed from the outside of the vehicle and when the on-vehicle apparatus is not capable of communicating with the electronic key. Further, on-vehicle apparatus generates alarm when a key ID does not corresponds with an apparatus ID. Therefore, the electronic key system can firmly prevent the electronic key from being mislaid in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Onuma, Teppei Nagano