Patents Examined by Shaheda A Abdin
  • Patent number: 10401949
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to virtual reality glasses. The virtual reality glasses include a glasses body The glasses body includes a first surface towards a user's face and a second surface configured to have an external electronic device mounted thereon for playing virtual reality contents The virtual reality glasses further include a fastening structure configured to fasten the external electronic device to the second surface. The fastening structure includes a connector fastener having a built-in connector which is connectable to an interface at a first end of the external electronic device, and at least one device fastener configured to fasten a second end of the external electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Jiang, Zheng Zhang, Yujie Jiang, Renlu Peng, Xiping Liu, Wenhui Ding
  • Patent number: 10401939
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a control method are provided that are capable of reducing power consumption. The electronic apparatus having a normal mode in which first electric power is consumed and a power-saving mode in which second electric power lower than the first electric power is consumed includes a first sensor and a second sensor whose power consumption is lower than that of the first sensor. In the power-saving mode, supply of power to the first sensor is restricted, the second sensor is set to the power-saving mode, a trigger for restoring the power-saving mode to the normal mode is detected by using the second sensor set to the power-saving mode, and the power-saving mode is restored to the normal mode based on the detected trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kabasawa, Kenji Hachisu, Kazuyuki Yamamato, Takashi Masuda
  • Patent number: 10395585
    Abstract: A method and system control an OLED display to achieve desired color points and brightness levels in an array of pixels in which each pixel includes at least three sub-pixels having different colors and at least one white sub-pixel. The method and system select a plurality of reference points in the pixel content domain with known color points and brightness levels. For each set of three sub-pixels of different colors, the method and system determine the share of each sub-pixel to produce the color point and brightness level of each selected reference point, and select the maximum share determined for each sub-pixel as peak brightness needed from that sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Allyson Giannikouris, Jaimal Soni, Nino Zahirovic, Ricky Yik Hei Ngan, Gholamreza Chaji
  • Patent number: 10379633
    Abstract: A pen configured for use with a touch sensor includes a pen tip that is configured to make contact with the touch sensor. The pen body includes an electrically conductive receiver portion and an electrically conductive emitter portion that is electrically insulated and electrostatically shielded from the receiver portion. The pen includes circuitry configured to receive a touch sensor drive signal applied to a drive electrode of the touch sensor through the receiver portion of the pen body. In response to the received signal, the pen circuitry generates a pen drive signal that is phase additive with the touch sensor drive signal and emits the pen drive signal through the emitter portion of the pen body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Thomas J. Rebeschi, Craig A. Cordeiro, Bernard O. Geaghan
  • Patent number: 10382037
    Abstract: A modular capacitive sensing switch provides a separate circuit module attachable to a variety of electrode modules, the latter having different configurations. Embodiments providing adhesive mounting and network connections allow simple configuration of a wide variety of capacitive touch panel systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Banfield, Alan Capaldi-Tallon, Christopher Foster
  • Patent number: 10372249
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an in-cell touch screen, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display apparatus. The touch screen comprises a pixel region disposed over a base substrate. The pixel region is surrounded by a first barrier, which is configured to insulate the pixel region. The pixel region includes a first electrode; a light-emitting layer, disposed over the first electrode; and a second electrode, disposed over the light-emitting layer. The second electrode expands over an opening of the first barrier so as to be able to electrically connect with a third electrode outside the pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Liu, Xue Dong, Xiaochuan Chen, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Shengji Yang, Yingming Liu, Weijie Zhao, Hongjuan Liu, Changfeng Li, Pengpeng Wang
  • Patent number: 10359873
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a touch display screen including: a display unit including: an upper substrate; a lower substrate located below the upper substrate and opposed to the upper substrate, the lower substrate is arranged with a plurality of thin film transistors, a driving circuit and a printed circuit board, a plurality of the thin film transistors is electrically connected to the driving circuit, the driving circuit is electrically connected to the printed circuit board; a touch unit including: a first touch electrode is electrically connected to the printed circuit board through a first lead; a second touch electrode electrically insulated from the first touch electrode, the second touch electrode is electrically connected to the printed circuit board through a second lead. The present disclosure has the advantage of reducing the cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Jian Ye
  • Patent number: 10342092
    Abstract: A light source apparatus includes: a light source unit; and a control unit configured to perform lighting control, wherein the light source unit emits first color light at a first timing, and emits second color light at a second timing which delays after the first timing by a predetermined period, in accordance with the lighting control, and the control unit performs a plurality of times of lighting control based on the predetermined period, so that at least a part of a period in which the light source unit emits the second color light in accordance with a first lighting control overlaps with at least a part of a period, in which the light source unit emits the first color light in accordance with a second lighting control, which is performed after the first lighting control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuru Tada
  • Patent number: 10338681
    Abstract: One illustrative system disclosed herein includes a processor configured to determine a haptic effect, wherein the haptic effect includes a static ESF effect or a confirmation ESF effect; and transmit a haptic signal associated with the haptic effect. The illustrative system also includes an ESF controller in communication with the processor, the ESF controller configured to receive the haptic signal, determine an ESF signal based at least in part on the haptic signal, and transmit the ESF signal. The illustrative system further includes an ESF device in communication with the ESF controller, the ESF device including an ESF cell and configured to receive the ESF signal and output the haptic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: Ali Modarres, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Christopher Ullrich, Danny Grant, Neil Olien, Vincent Levesque
  • Patent number: 10338424
    Abstract: There is provided a curved display apparatus. The curved display apparatus with transistors of respective pixels arranged in a matrix form on a bendable display screen comprises a gate drive circuit to sequentially provide a gate signal for simultaneously turning on each of a plurality of transistors aligned in the column direction of the matrix to a plurality of gate lines and a source drive circuit to provide a pixel data signal to each of a plurality of source lines, the each pixel data signal representing a gradation of a pixel for each of a plurality of transistors aligned in the row direction of the matrix. The source drive circuit is provided on a first bendable edge of the display screen, the first bendable edge having a first curvature, and the gate drive circuit is provided on a second bendable edge of the display screen, the second bendable edge having a second curvature larger than the first curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10332652
    Abstract: The conductive film is arranged on the support and contains a binder and a metal portion, in which a position at which the contour line reaches the metal portion included in the thin conductive wire is set as an upper end position, and an average area ratio VA of the metal portion in a region ranging from the upper end position to 100 nm toward the support side is 1% or more and less than 50%, and a position at which the contour line reaches the thin conductive wire does not include the metal portion is set to a lower end position, and an average area ratio VM1 of the metal portion in a region ranging from a middle position between the upper end position and the lower end position to 50 nm toward the support side and to 50 nm toward the surface X side is 50% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kensuke Katagiri, Shin Tajiri, Toshinari Fujii
  • Patent number: 10332463
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving method and a driving device of a liquid crystal display panel, where the driving method includes applying a liquid crystal voltage on each pixel is obtained when a preset grayscale voltage is input. The liquid crystal voltage is a difference between a pixel voltage and a common voltage. A compensated grayscale voltage is obtained according to the liquid crystal voltage, and an initial grayscale voltage is transformed to a target grayscale voltage according to the compensated grayscale voltage, where the target grayscale voltage is input to the liquid crystal display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sikun Hao
  • Patent number: 10324305
    Abstract: A display device for installation in a vehicle can include a first display configured to output first light forming first visual information; and a light synthesizing unit configured to pass the first light through the light synthesizing unit, and reflect second light and third light generated by different light sources, in which the light synthesizing unit includes a first light synthesizing portion disposed with a first surface of the first light synthesizing portion facing a first direction, and the first light synthesizing portion is configured to pass the first light through the first light synthesizing portion and reflect the second light; and a second light synthesizing portion disposed with a second surface of the second light synthesizing portion facing a second direction different from the first direction, and the second light synthesizing portion is configured to pass the first light through the second light synthesizing portion and reflect the third light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangwon Kim, Kyunglack Kim, Inkoo Shim, Byungju Lee, Youshin Han
  • Patent number: 10319306
    Abstract: A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED), a pixel circuit, and first and second transistors. The OLD includes a cathode electrode connected to a second power source. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor having a gate electrode initialized by a third power source. The driving transistor controls the amount of current flowing from a first power source to the second power source via the OLED. The first transistor is connected between a fourth power source and the second power source and an anode electrode of the OLED. The first transistor is turned on based on a scan signal is supplied to a scan line. The second transistor is connected between a data line and the pixel circuit. The second transistor is turned on when the scan signal is supplied to the ith scan line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Tae Jeong, Min Ku Lee, Ji Hyun Ka, Tae Hoon Kwon, Seung Kyu Lee, Seung Ji Cha
  • Patent number: 10297213
    Abstract: An array substrate with a data line sharing structure is described. The array substrate comprises a source driver; a plurality of scan lines for receiving a scan signal wherein the scan lines comprise a plurality of odd scan lines and even scan lines; and a plurality of data lines for correspondingly receiving a data signal of the source driver wherein the data lines comprise a plurality of odd data lines and even data lines which are sequentially arranged; wherein the scan lines and the data lines are insulatedly interlaced in an array, each pixel region comprises a data line and at least two scan lines, each pixel region is composed of a plurality of sub-pixels with different color types correspondingly, and the drive polarities of the sub-pixels with the same color types in different pixel regions comprises a positive polarity and a negative polarity based on the data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Peng Du
  • Patent number: 10283068
    Abstract: The invention provides a GOA circuit, each GOA unit of GOA circuit comprising: a pull up control module, an output module, a pull down module, a first pull down maintenance module, and a second pull down maintenance module; wherein the 32nd TFT of first pull down maintenance module and the 33rd TFT of second pull down maintenance module having gate connected to the second node and third node respectively, source connected to the first low voltage signal, and drain connected to the scan signal; the 42nd TFT of first pull down maintenance module, the 43rd TFT of second pull down maintenance module, and the 41st TFT of pull down module having source connected to the second low voltage signal. The first low voltage signal is higher than the second low voltage signal, and the second low voltage signal is higher than low voltage level of the clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaowen Lv, Renlu Chen
  • Patent number: 10283067
    Abstract: The invention provides a GOA driving circuit, comprising: a plurality of GOA units connected in cascade, each GOA unit comprising a pull-up control module (1), a pull-up module (2), a pull-down module (3), a first pull-down maintenance module (4), and a second pull-down maintenance module (5); on the basis of ensuring the normal function of the GOA unit, the pull-down module (3) uses one less TFT than the prior art, the first pull-down maintenance module (4) uses one less TFT than the prior art, the second pull-down maintenance module (5) uses one less TFT than the prior art, thereby saving the wiring area used by GOA driving circuit and facilitating the narrow border LCD. The invention provides an LCD using the GOA driving circuit. Therefore, the number of the TFTs of the GOA driving circuit is less, the wiring area is smaller, and the LCD border is narrower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sikun Hao
  • Patent number: 10281980
    Abstract: A computerized method, system for, and computer-readable medium operable to: detect an eye condition of a viewer of displayed content; assess the eye condition against predetermined criteria; identify a preferred behavior selected to improve the eye condition; and alter the displayed content in a predetermined manner selected to induce the preferred behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Inventor: Ihab Ayoub
  • Patent number: 10283066
    Abstract: The present invention provides a GOA circuit driving architecture, which comprises a plurality of data lines providing data signals, a plurality of scanning lines providing scanning signals, a plurality of pixel in array arrangement, each pixel is electrically connected to one of the data lines and one of the scanning lines. Odd stage GOA circuits are sequentially arranged on one side of AA area pixel Even stage GOA circuits are sequentially arranged on one other side of AA area pixel. Each stage of the GOA circuits outputs a gate signal to scan the corresponding scanning line, and each stage of the GOA circuits respectively are connected to a first low-frequency clock signal, a second low-frequency clock signal and a DC low voltage, the odd stage GOA circuits are connected to one of a first high-frequency clock signal and a third high-frequency clock signal, and the even stage of GOA circuits are connected to one of a second high-frequency clock signal and a fourth high-frequency clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sikun Hao
  • Patent number: 10274764
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes first and second substrates, first pixel electrodes, second pixel electrodes, common electrodes, first auxiliary electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first and the second substrates. The first pixel electrodes, the second pixel electrodes, and the common electrodes are disposed on the first substrate. The first auxiliary electrodes are disposed on the second substrate. One of the first pixel electrodes is not overlapping one of the first auxiliary electrodes in a vertical projection direction and overlapping one of the common electrodes in the vertical projection direction. A driving method of the liquid crystal display panel includes setting a first voltage difference in a wide viewing mode and a second voltage difference in a narrow viewing mode between the first auxiliary electrodes and the common electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wan-Heng Chang, Chen-Feng Fan, Sung-Yu Su, Hsiao-Wei Cheng