Patents Examined by Seokyun Moon
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Patent number: 9857869Abstract: A service such as an object tracking optimization service of a computing device is configured to optimize the use of object tracking information by, e.g., smoothing, averaging, or otherwise processing the information. Approaches enable the object tracking optimization service to acquire object tracking information (e.g., position information) at a variable input rate and provide the information to applications, services, and the like which require such information at variable rates. The information can be used to display image content (e.g., still or video content) in such a way that the image content will appear, to a viewer, to include portions with different locations in physical space, with the relative positioning of those portions being determined at least in part upon a current relative position and/or orientation of the viewer with respect to the device, as well as changes in that relative position and/or orientation.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Jason Allen Doucette
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Patent number: 9857616Abstract: An optical system includes: a first panel including a plurality of first electrodes extending in a first direction; a second panel facing the first panel and including a plurality of second electrodes extending in a second direction crossing the first direction; an optical conversion layer between the first panel and the second panel; and a first insulating layer between the first electrodes and the second electrodes, the first insulating layer including an organic material, wherein, in a touch mode, one or more of the first electrodes and one or more of the second electrodes crossing each other form a touch sensing capacitor, and wherein, in a multi-view mode, the first electrodes and the second electrodes apply an electric field to the optical conversion layer, the electric field depending on a voltage difference between the first electrode and the second electrode, to generate different phase differences.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kang-Min Kim, Seon Ki Kim, Tae Hyung Kim, Jeong Min Sung, Hyung Woo Yim, Jin Oh Song, Hae Young Yun
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Patent number: 9846514Abstract: A capacitance detecting circuit includes induction units; a transferring capacitor configured to transfer charges to a capacitor of a scanned induction unit; a charging module that charges the transferring capacitor, wherein a first terminal of the charging module connects to the first terminal of the transferring capacitor, and a second terminal of the charging module connects to a first power supply; a discharging module that discharges the transferring capacitor and including a first resistor and a second switch; and a controller connected to the charging module, the transferring capacitor and the discharging module, and configured to control the second switch to switch on when a voltage of the transferring capacitor is larger than a preset threshold voltage, and to update a count value and detect a touch on the induction units according to the count value.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Shengsheng Chen, Jie Zhang, Yun Yang
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Patent number: 9829707Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for measuring and managing the brightness of digital content in a field of view of a head-worn computer.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2014Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventor: John N. Border
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Patent number: 9823707Abstract: An apparatus including: a body configured for resilient contortion from a neutral equilibrium shape by a user, the body having an exterior surface that resiliently contorts in response to user provision of a force, wherein the body defines, proximal to a perimeter of a face of the body, at least a first portion of an exterior surface of the apparatus and a second portion of an exterior surface of the apparatus that opposes the first portion across the face, wherein user provision of a force in a first direction results in a first contortion of the exterior surface and user provision of a force in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, results in a second contortion of the exterior surface; and electronic circuitry configured to provide consistent meaning across a plurality of different software applications for user provision of a force to the exterior surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2012Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Pii Susanna Paasovaara, Johan Kildal, Erika Reponen
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Patent number: 9823117Abstract: A method, apparatus, and a computer program is provided. The method comprises: determining an ambient light value from ambient light data provided by at least one ambient light sensor, in dependence upon the spectral distribution of the ambient light data provided by the at least one ambient light sensor and a manufacturer of the at least one ambient light sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2012Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Ralf Wieser, Somakanthan Somalingam, Max Lindfors, Samu Matias Kallio
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Patent number: 9817496Abstract: A touch panel comprises a protection substrate, a first transparent substrate, a first patterned electrode layer and a first transparent adhesive layer. The first transparent substrate is disposed opposite the protection substrate. The first patterned electrode layer is disposed on the first transparent substrate and between the protection substrate and the first transparent substrate, and includes a patterned portion and a non-patterned portion. The first transparent adhesive layer is disposed between the protection substrate and the first patterned electrode layer. The refractive index of the first transparent adhesive layer is greater than or equal to 1.65 and less than or equal to 1.72, wherein reflectivity of the patterned portion is substantially the same as the reflectivity of the non-patterned portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc.Inventors: I-Chung Hsu, Kuo-Shu Hsu, Fenghua Lu, Chenghong Xu
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Patent number: 9811209Abstract: Touch sensitivity is enabled using a touch system that comprises a panel configured to conduct signals, e.g. by TIR, along detection lines across a touch surface. A signal processor operates to obtain observed values for the detection lines, and identify an interaction pattern on the touch surface as a solution to an optimization function that comprises an aggregation of differences, for each detection line, between the observed value and a projected value, which is given by a projection function that defines a functional relation between the interaction pattern and the projected value for each detection line. The signal processor implements a normalization to ensure that the interaction pattern indicates weak touches even in the presence of strong touches.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: FLATFROG LABORATORIES ABInventors: Tomas Christiansson, Nicklas Ohlsson
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Patent number: 9811180Abstract: In one aspect, an input device includes a housing, an element on at least a portion of the housing for providing input to a touch-enabled display, a battery compartment in the housing in which a battery may be positioned, and a vent through the housing which permits gas from the battery to pass to exterior to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Bouziane Yebka, Joseph Anthony Holung, Tin-Lup Wong, Philip John Jakes
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Patent number: 9804720Abstract: The present disclosure provides an OLED touch display panel, including a TFT array substrate, an OLED element and a touch array. The touch array includes: a first touch line extending along a first direction and disposed in the same layer with a gate line; a second touch line extending along a second direction, intersecting with the first touch line and disposed in the same layer with a data line; and a touch sensing electrode disposed in the same layer with a lower electrode of the OLED element, spaced from the lower electrode and electrically connected with the second touch line via a contact hole in a planarizing layer. The OLED touch display panel has better display effect and/or accuracy of touch detection.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2015Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: EVERDISPLAY OPTRONICS (SHANGHAI) LIMITEDInventor: Chih-hung Liu
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Patent number: 9804715Abstract: A touch panel includes: a wire substrate and a cover substrate joined to each other, wherein the wire substrate includes a sensor electrode; a plurality of signal wires that are electrically connected to the sensor electrode and extend along a circumference of the sensor electrode; and a first light blocking layer that covers at least a signal wire disposed closest to the sensor electrode of the plurality of signal wires, and wherein the cover substrate includes a second light blocking layer that faces a continuous region including an outer edge region of the first light blocking layer and a signal wire disposed so as to be the most distant from the sensor electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Takeshi Kurashima
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Patent number: 9804692Abstract: In a stylus for a display device, the stylus includes: a bearing housing; a roller in the bearing housing; and a first actuator coupled to the bearing housing and configured to apply a pressure against the roller to modulate a friction between the stylus and the roller.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: David M. Hoffman, Wei Xiong
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Patent number: 9799299Abstract: The present invention provides a Gamma voltage generation circuit and method and a data driver. The circuit includes multiple resistors connected in series, configured to generate multiple candidate voltages corresponding to non-linear regions of a voltage-light transmissivity curve, the number of the multiple candidate voltages being more than the number of Gamma voltages corresponding to the non-linear regions of the voltage-light transmissivity curve; and voltage selectors connected to common ends of every two adjacent resistors of the multiple resistors, configured to select at least one candidate voltage from the multiple candidate voltages as the Gamma voltage(s) corresponding to the non-linear regions of the voltage-light transmissivity curve so that an actual Gamma curve coincides with an ideal Gamma curve, each common end corresponding to a candidate voltage.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd., Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yiqiang Lai
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Patent number: 9799250Abstract: A data driver includes first through n-th shift register units, first through n-th latch units, and first through n-th output buffer units. The first through n-th shift register units shift and store a plurality of image output from a timing controller. The first shift register unit includes first through m-th shift registers. The first through m-th shift registers shift and store first through m-th image data among the plurality of image data. The first through n-th latch units are connected to the first through n-th shift register units, respectively. The first latch unit includes first through m-th latches. The first through n-th output buffer units are connected to the first through n-th latch units, respectively. The first output buffer unit includes first through m-th output buffers. The first through n-th latch units sequentially latch the plurality of image data stored in the first through n-th shift register units.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Dong-Beom Cho
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Patent number: 9791942Abstract: In dynamically adjusting a keyboard mapping, a collaborative session in which a participant device is involved is detected. A conversation between participants during the collaborative session is captured, and topics being discussed during the conversation are identified using textual analysis. The topics are compared with a plurality of rules, each of which associates a topic with a keyboard mapping. From the rule that has a topic matching the identified topics, the keyboard mapping associated with the topic is obtained. The keyboard is then displayed using the keyboard mapping on the participant device. In determining the rule with the matching topic, a history of rules applied in prior collaborative session where the same or similar topics were discussed, or a profile of a participant, is considered. In this manner, keyboard mappings are dynamically adjusted, allowing for easier access to relevant keys.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Corville O. Allen, Richard G. Bowers, Lisa M. Bradley, Henri F. Meli, Gerald G. Tomkins
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Patent number: 9792843Abstract: A load driving apparatus for driving a plurality of loads is provided. The load driving apparatus includes an output stage module, a load driving module, and an output stage selection module. The output stage module includes a plurality of output stages. Each of the output stages is coupled to a corresponding one of the loads. The load driving module is coupled to the output stage module and outputs a driving signal to drive one of the loads through the output stage module. The output stage selection module is coupled between the output stage module and the load driving module and selects one of the output stages in the output stage module, so that the load driving module drives the load which is coupled to the selected output stage through the selected output stage. Furthermore, a grayscale voltage generating circuit including the foregoing load driving apparatus is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Ji-Ting Chen, Wei-Hsiang Hung
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Patent number: 9792853Abstract: A pixel includes a driving transistor connected to an organic light emitting diode. The circuit places the driving transistor in an on-biased state based on first and second scan signals which at least partially overlap during a time when an organic light emitting diode does not emit light. The first and scan signals are received from different scan lines. The scan lines may be adjacent scan lines.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2014Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jin Jeon
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Patent number: 9792874Abstract: An array substrate, an electrochromic display and a method for driving the array substrate are disclosed. A display region of the array substrate (30) comprises a plurality of sets of data lines (33) and a plurality of scan lines (36), the plurality of sets of data lines (33) and the plurality of scan lines (36) intersecting each other to divide the display region into a plurality of pixel regions, a pixel electrode (32) is disposed in each of the pixel regions and electrically connected to the data lines (33); the pixel electrode (32) comprises a central pixel electrode (32a) and a peripheral pixel electrode (32b) adjacent to and electrically isolated from the central pixel electrode (32a).Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Xin Gu
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Patent number: 9786384Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including a light emission driver configured to sequentially generate a plurality of light emission signals having a disable level during a first period; and a scan driver configured to generate a plurality of shift outputs each having two enable pulses, and each outputting two scan signals, in response to two light emission signals among the plurality of light emission signals, by dividing the two enable pulses of a first shift output among the plurality of shift outputs, which correspond to the two light emission signals among the plurality of light emission signals, from each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: In Soo Lee, Dong Hwan Lee, Seung Kyun Hong, So Young Park
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Patent number: 9779700Abstract: To provide a head-mounted display and an information display apparatus that match the intuition of the user and are excellent in operability. A head-mounted display according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a reception unit, an image display element, and a display processing unit. The reception unit receives an operation signal including information on a relative position of a detection target in contact with an input operation surface, which is output from the input device. The image display element forms an image V1 presented to a user. The display processing unit causes, based on the operation signal, the image display element to display an operation image V10 with an auxiliary image P indicating a position of the detection target being overlapped on the image V1.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2012Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tsubasa Tsukahara, Masatoshi Ueno, Kenichi Kabasawa, Shinobu Kuriya, Tetsuro Goto, Hisako Sugano, Daisuke Kawakami, Toshiyuki Nakagawa