Patents Examined by Shaheda A Abdin
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Patent number: 10192480Abstract: A method for controlling brightness of an OLED panel when booting. The method includes steps of: obtaining a brightness to be displayed corresponding to each pixel in a booting process; comparing the brightness to be displayed of each pixel with a preset brightness threshold; if the brightness to be displayed is greater than the brightness threshold, adjusting the brightness to be displayed to be less than or equal to the brightness threshold; using the brightness to be displayed after adjusting to adjust a grayscale value to be displayed of the pixel; using the grayscale value to be displayed to control a corresponding pixel to perform a display; gradually increasing the brightness threshold with time, and returning to the step of obtaining a brightness to be displayed corresponding to each pixel in a booting process. The present invention can reduce the probability of the image sticking and the speed of ageing.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., LtdInventors: Zhenling Wang, Tai-jiun Hwang
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Patent number: 10185543Abstract: In an example embodiment, a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method includes determining one or more operating conditions of a device. A selection of a mode of operation of the device from at least a first mode and a second mode is facilitated based on the one or more operating conditions of the device. In the first mode, the device is configured to detect an operation input received from an audio source based on two or more audio sensors of the device. In the second mode, the device is configured to detect the operation input based on at least one of the two or more audio sensors and at least one non-audio sensor of the device.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Miikka Vilermo, Koray Ozcan
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Patent number: 10175779Abstract: In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method may include detecting, by a computing system, a touch input on the computing system by analyzing a change in a data stream from a sensor of the computing system by applying a first signal de-noising algorithm to the data stream. The method may further include determining, by the computing system, the nature of the detected touch input. Additionally, the method may include generating, by the computing system, a discrete cursor movement from a set of discrete cursor movements based on the determined nature of the detected touch input.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Oleg Vassilievich Nikolsky, Kas Kasravi
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Patent number: 10166122Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for controlling an artificial hand, including: a head-up display interface portion; and a controller which controls the artificial hand in accordance with an input of the head-up display interface portion, the head-up display interface portion receiving the input based on movement of a user's eyes or pupil.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2013Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Sung Kee Park, Dong Hwan Kim, Hui Je Che
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Patent number: 10170075Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a rotation support member; a support member configured to support the rotation support member; a rotation member movably coupled to the rotation support member; a display movably coupled to a surface of the rotation member; a driving device configured to drive the display; a memory; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to control, if input information is received, driving of the rotation member to make the display corresponding to the received input information face a first direction, control, if the display moves to face the first direction, driving the rotation member to face a second direction for identify an external object, identifying, if the display is located to face the external object in the second direction, the external object, and display information on at least one function executed in connection with the identified external object on the display.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Mi-Hyun Jeong, Eun-Seok Kim, Do-Hyeong Park, Pyo-Je Cho, Jin-A Choe, Jin-Soo Ha, Dong-Il Son
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Patent number: 10162432Abstract: A method of operating a display device includes displaying a first image of first content, wherein the first image includes a target object, receiving information on a second coordinate of the target object included in a second image of the first content from a second display device, wherein the second image is temporally later than the first image, acquiring an image tracking the target object from the second image based on the information on the second coordinate of the target object, and displaying the acquired image.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Seongwoon Seol, Sangjin Ahn
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Patent number: 10146350Abstract: A touch display apparatus with a display region and a frame region is provided. The touch display apparatus includes a base substrate, a display function layer and a thin film encapsulation layer which are sequentially stacked. The display function layer is located in the display region. A touch electrode layer is arranged at a side, facing away from the base substrate, of the display function layer. The frame region includes a slope region adjacent to the display region. The thickness of the touch display apparatus in the slope region is gradually decreased outward from the display region. The touch electrode layer includes touch electrodes which form a grid of metallic wires. The grid density of the touch electrodes in the slope region is higher than that in the display region.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Xingyao Zhou, Lihua Wang, Qijun Yao, Yang Zeng
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Patent number: 10146369Abstract: An electronic apparatus with a touch panel including a host controller, an interface unit, and a touch panel control unit is provided. The host controller is used to control an electronic apparatus implemented with the host controller. The touch panel control unit is coupled to the host controller through the interface unit. The host controller transmits an updating information to the touch panel control unit with a format of the interface unit, in which the updating data is used to update the touch panel control unit. The touch panel control unit decodes the updating data to accordingly update.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Hui-Hung Chang, Meng-Hsiu Wu
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Patent number: 10147366Abstract: The present invention provides driving methods for a color display device in which each pixel can display four high-quality color states. More specifically, an electrophoretic fluid is provided which comprises four types of particles, dispersed in a solvent or solvent mixture.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: E INK CALIFORNIA, LLCInventors: Craig Lin, Ming-Jen Chang
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Patent number: 10147357Abstract: A pixel compensation circuit and a display device are provided. The pixel compensation circuit and the display device include a restoring module, a data voltage writing module, a supply voltage writing module, a reference voltage writing module, a switch module, a storage capacitor, and a light-emitting device.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Li, Di Zhang, Guang Li
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Patent number: 10139942Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixel electrodes each of which is provided in each of a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a display region; a driving electrode provided so as to overlap the plurality of pixel electrodes when seen in a plan view; a plurality of detecting electrodes provided so as to overlap the driving electrode when seen in a plan view; and a dummy electrode provided apart from the detecting electrodes. The detecting electrodes and the dummy electrode include a metal layer or an alloy layer. A ratio of total sum of areas of portions of the plurality sub-pixels which overlap any of the detecting electrodes and the dummy electrode when seen in a plan view to total sum of areas of the plurality of sub-pixels is 1 to 22%.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Koji Ishizaki, Takeo Koito
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Patent number: 10139962Abstract: A system (1) detects an object (100) approaching and touching a capacitive touch device (10). The system includes the capacitive touch device (10), a processor, an optical system connected to the processor and arranged to collect information on the object (100). The processor is arranged so as to classify the object (100) as a triggering object or as a non-triggering object based on this information. If the object is classified as a non-triggering object, the processor disables the execution of touch functions of the capacitive touch device (10) at the latest when at least a part of the object (100) touches the capacitive touch device (10). If the object is classified as a triggering object, at the latest when at least a part of the object touches the capacitive touch device (10), the processor executes a predetermined function on the capacitive touch device (10).Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Advanced Silicon SAInventors: Hussein Ballan, Kevin Fine, Marc Pastre, Julien Schnider, François Vuadens
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Patent number: 10140932Abstract: A luminaire includes a light waveguide grid including an array of waveguides coupling respective illumination light source emitters of a general illumination device with respective gaps between respective pixel light emitters of an image display device. Each waveguide has a housing that includes an input interface optically coupled to the respective illumination light source emitter to steer illumination lighting from the illumination light source emitter. The housing also includes an output interface opposing the input interface and optically coupled to one or more gaps between pixel light emitters. The housing further includes at least one reflective wall having an internal reflective surface encompassing and extending from the input interface and the output interface. The structure of the waveguide may be optimized and/or additional technologies added to reduce optical losses and improve overall illumination efficiency of the luminaire.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLCInventors: Ravi Kumar Komanduri, David P. Ramer, Guan-Bo Lin
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Patent number: 10133360Abstract: A portable information handling system keyboard extends and retracts keys of a keyboard based upon one or more predetermined conditions, such as a power on command, a power off command and a rotational position of a housing lid and main portion. A nickel titanium alloy wire actuates retraction and/or extension of keyboard keys with application of a current to the wire.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventor: Jason S. Morrison
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Patent number: 10133478Abstract: Techniques for providing multi-user multi-touch projected capacitive touch sensors are disclosed herein. Some embodiments may include a method that includes receiving a first sense signal indicating a first touch attributed to a first touch entity and receiving a second sense signal indicating a second touch attributed to a second touch entity. Based on the first sense signal and second sense signal, the method may further include determining that the first touch entity and the second touch entity are a common touch entity. Furthermore, the method may include initiating an event in response to determining that the first touch entity and the second touch entity form a common touch entity.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Damien Berget, Kenneth Andrew Feehan, Paul Leonard Futter, David Samuel Hecht, Joel Christopher Kent, Robert William Kitchin, Kenneth John North, James Roney, Kyu-Tak Son, Jung Verheiden, Forrest Kim Wunderlich
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Patent number: 10121446Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a rotation support member; a support member configured to support the rotation support member; a rotation member movably coupled to the rotation support member; a display movably coupled to a surface of the rotation member; a driving device configured to drive the display; a memory; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to control, if input information is received, driving of the rotation member to make the display corresponding to the received input information face a first direction, control, if the display moves to face the first direction, driving the rotation member to face a second direction for identify an external object, identifying, if the display is located to face the external object in the second direction, the external object, and display information on at least one function executed in connection with the identified external object on the display.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Mi-Hyun Jeong, Eun-Seok Kim, Do-Hyeong Park, Pyo-Je Cho, Jin-A Choe, Jin-Soo Ha, Dong-Il Son
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Patent number: 10115349Abstract: Disclosed is a display device that has a data transmission device for providing a differential signal to a source driver, in which the data transmission device, for example, includes a differential signaling driver including a current controller, the current controller determining a toggling of an image data and setting an output current value based on a determination of the toggling of the image data; and first and second signal lines electrically connected between the differential signaling driver and a receiver, the receiver outputting the differential signal to the source driver.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyunchul Kim, Jeongho Kang
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Patent number: 10115346Abstract: A display device according to the disclosure includes: a display section having a plurality of unit pixels; and a driving section that, in a first drive mode, performs write driving and thereafter performs light emission driving in a plurality of light-emitting periods on each of the unit pixels. One of predetermined number of light-emitting periods out of the plurality of light-emitting periods other than a first light-emitting period is longer than the first light-emitting period, and another one of the predetermined number of light-emitting periods is shorter than the first light-emitting period.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventors: Koichi Maeyama, Teppei Isobe
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Patent number: 10109778Abstract: A display device includes an upper structure, a lower structure, and a connecting element. The upper structure includes a display element having a first electrode, a light emitting layer, and a second electrode. The light emitting layer is disposed on the first electrode to generate light. The second electrode is disposed on the light emitting layer to transmit the light. The lower structure includes a display driving circuit. The display driving circuit receives an image signal to apply an electric power to the first electrode. The lower structure is physically separated from the upper structure to be spaced apart from the upper structure by a predetermined distance with respect to a vertical direction. The connecting element is disposed between the upper structure and the lower structure to connect the first electrode to the display driving circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: OPTOLANE TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: DoYoung Lee, JaeWon Eom, JunHo Won, Chang Hoon Han
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Patent number: 10108267Abstract: One illustrative system disclosed herein includes a processor configured to determine an electrostatic force (ESF)-based haptic effect and transmit a haptic signal associated with the ESF-based 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 a surface configured to contact a user, and an ESF device coupled to the surface and in communication with the ESF controller, the ESF device configured to receive the ESF signal and output the ESF-based haptic effect on the surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: IMMERSION CORPORATIONInventors: Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Ali Modarres, Christopher Ullrich