Patents Examined by Shaheda A Abdin
  • Patent number: 10088770
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an imaging display system includes an imaging device and a display device, which operate synchronously with each other. The imaging display system includes a control device. The control device is configured to measure light exposure when the imaging device captures an image and determine whether the measured light exposure is insufficient, and control the display device to decrease a refresh rate and the imaging device to prolong an exposure time, when determined that the light exposure is insufficient. The first scanning time for the imaging device to scan the image and the second scanning time required for the display device to scan the display panel are constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazunori Yamaguchi, Fumitaka Gotoh, Takayuki Nakanishi, Tsutomu Harada
  • Patent number: 10083656
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an OLED display panel further including a switching transistor for controlling application of supply voltage in the initializing interval of a pixel, an OLED display device including the same, and a method for driving the same. The OLED display panel avoids a short-circuit between supply voltage VDD_EL and reference voltage Vref to thereby reduce initialization voltage applied to the gate terminal of the driving transistor T_dr. The OLED display device can achieve various effects such as improved response characteristics of pixels by reducing deviation in the initial voltage used in sampling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se-Hwan Na, Jae-Young Lee, Mi-Jung Kim
  • Patent number: 10082899
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hui-Hung Chang, Meng-Hsiu Wu
  • Patent number: 10080955
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus that controls a screen displayed by a body-mounted data display device, includes a judging unit that judges whether to control an amount of change of an image displayed in the screen by comparing data obtained from the data display device and a previously set display control pattern; a display control unit that controls the amount of change of the image displayed in the screen in accordance with a judged result obtained by the judging unit; and a content generation unit that generates a content to be displayed in the screen based on a content set by the display control unit, and outputs the generated content to the data display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Asami
  • Patent number: 10074326
    Abstract: To provide an electronic circuit and the like capable of extending the life greatly even when the transistors constituting the electronic circuit have property fluctuation. The electronic circuit includes switching-target circuits and a switching circuit for switching the switching-target circuits to an operating state from a stop state. The switching-target circuits include the switching-target circuit in an operating state and the switching-target circuit in an initial-to-stop state. Property fluctuation is generated in the transistors forming the switching-target circuits and the switching target due to an electric stress applied to the transistors. The switching circuit switches the switching-target circuit in the initial-to-stop state to an operating state by the transistor of the switching circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiko Otose
  • Patent number: 10073560
    Abstract: An input device is configured to detect force being applied to an input region of the device by an input object, in addition to the position of the input object using touch sensing methods. Aspects include driving a force sensing electrode of the input device using an anti-guarding voltage alternating with a ground or guard voltage, while driving the touch sensing electrodes with a reference voltage, to obtain touch measurements, force measurements, interference measurements, double the force signal, and/o double the touch signal for differential touch and force detection. Aspects also include driving sensor electrodes using orthogonal signals and performing in-phase and quadrature demodulation of the received signal for simultaneous and independent touch and force measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Kasra Khazeni
  • Patent number: 10068545
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a driver chip. The first substrate includes a plurality of gate lines disposed in the display area and extended in a first direction, a plurality of data lines disposed on a gate insulating layer insulating the gate lines and extended in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and a gate driving circuit section disposed in the first peripheral area adjacent to first ends of the gate lines. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate. A liquid crystal is interposed between the first and second substrates. The driver chip is disposed in the second peripheral area adjacent to second ends of the gate lines opposite to the first ends so that the width of the upper and lower portions of the display area may be decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Koo Her, Jin Jeon, Kee-Han Uh, Yong-Je Jeon, Yong-Han Park
  • Patent number: 10068528
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for sensing a display panel are provided. The apparatus includes a gate driving circuit and a sensing circuit. The gate driving circuit may scan the scan-lines during a plurality of scan-line periods within a frame period. The sensing circuit is coupled to a plurality of pixel circuits. A corresponding scan-line period of the scan-line periods is divided into a test data period and a display data period. In the test data period, the sensing circuit controls a corresponding pixel circuit to receive the test data, and the sensing circuit senses the electrical characteristic of the corresponding pixel circuit. In the display data period, the sensing circuit controls the corresponding pixel circuit to receive the display data from a corresponding data line, and the sensing circuit does not sense the corresponding pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Chieh Lin, Shang-I Liu, Hua-Gang Chang
  • Patent number: 10067590
    Abstract: An input device is configured to detect force being applied to an input region of the device by an input object, in addition to the position of the input object using touch sensing methods. Aspects include driving a force sensing electrode of the input device using an anti-guarding voltage alternating with a ground or guard voltage, while driving the touch sensing electrodes with a reference voltage, to obtain touch measurements, force measurements, interference measurements, double the force signal, and/o double the touch signal for differential touch and force detection. Aspects also include driving sensor electrodes using orthogonal signals and performing in-phase and quadrature demodulation of the received signal for simultaneous and independent touch and force measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Joseph Kurth Reynolds
  • Patent number: 10055070
    Abstract: A flat display apparatus includes a first substrate, a display unit on the first substrate, a second substrate opposite the first substrate, a touch screen layer on a bottom surface of the second substrate that faces the display unit, a protection layer on the bottom surface of the second substrate, covering the touch screen layer, and including an inorganic layer, and a sealing member between the first substrate and the protection layer, surrounding the display unit, and binding the first and second substrates together by binding to the inorganic layer of the protection layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minwoo Lee, Minsang Kim, Seungyong Song
  • Patent number: 10032411
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel includes a first transistor to control current to a first light emitter and a second transistor to connect the first light emitter to first reset power. The second pixel includes a third transistor to control current to a second light emitter and a fourth transistor to connect the second light emitter to the first reset power. The second and fourth transistors are controlled by a same control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jin Jeon
  • Patent number: 10025553
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Miikka Vilermo, Koray Ozcan
  • Patent number: 10015863
    Abstract: Examples relate to changing screen brightness of a computing device. One example enables determination of whether the computing device is being used for one of a set of predetermined application types. The screen brightness of the computing device may be changed based on a set of first brightness values associated with the first predetermined application type responsive to the computing device being used for a first predetermined application type and based on a set of second brightness values associated with the second predetermined application type responsive to the computing device being used for a second predetermined application type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Chun-Chieh Chen
  • Patent number: 9977469
    Abstract: Techniques related to a modular computing node are disclosed. The modular computing node includes at least a first unit. The first unit includes a memory and one or more processors that execute instructions stored in the memory. The one or more processors are powered by electricity that is converted from solar energy captured by a tubular solar panel. A first interface of the first unit includes one or more first electrical contacts. The first interface forms a watertight seal with a second interface of a second unit based on a twisting motion. Furthermore, a signal bus is formed based on the twisting motion based on aligning the one or more first electrical contacts with one or more second electrical contacts of the second interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: RANCH SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventor: Jacob Christen Christfort
  • Patent number: 9977152
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a display panel with integrated micro lens array. The display panel typically includes an array of pixel light sources (e.g., LEDs) electrically coupled to corresponding pixel driver circuits (e.g., FETs). The array of micro lenses are aligned to the pixel light sources and positioned to reduce the divergence of light produced by the pixel light sources. The display panel may also include an integrated optical spacer to maintain the positioning between the micro lenses and pixel driver circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Hong Kong Beida Jade Bird Display Limited
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Fang Ou, Qiming Li
  • Patent number: 9971176
    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. 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 and, respectively. The first voltage difference is less than the second voltage difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wan-Heng Chang, Chen-Feng Fan, Sung-Yu Su, Hsiao-Wei Cheng
  • Patent number: 9965118
    Abstract: An example integrated display device and capacitive sensing device having an input surface includes a plurality of sensor electrodes, wherein each of the plurality of sensor electrodes comprises at least one common electrode configured for display updating and capacitive sensing. The device further includes at least one force receiver electrode, wherein the plurality of sensor electrodes are disposed between the input surface and the at least one force receiver electrode and wherein at least a portion of the plurality of sensor electrodes are configured to deflect toward the at least one force receiver electrode. The device further includes a processing system, coupled to the plurality of sensor electrodes, configured to drive at least a portion of the plurality of sensor electrodes with force sensing signals while receiving resulting signals from the at least one force receiver electrode, and determine force information for an input object based on the resulting signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Petr Shepelev
  • Patent number: 9965056
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for receiving an input signal from a touch-sensitive interface via a first electrode associated with a tip of an active stylus. An input signal may be amplified via a control circuit that adjusts the gain of one or more amplifiers to compensate for changes in tip capacitance between the tip of the active stylus and the touch-sensitive interface. Changes in tip capacitance may be indirectly detected and compensated for by comparing the tip capacitance with that of a reference capacitor via a differential amplification circuit that includes one or more differential amplifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: FIFTYTHREE, INC.
    Inventors: Gary Gordon, Ronald Randall
  • Patent number: 9965174
    Abstract: A Method for a measurement system, wherein the measurement system includes a touch-screen, a control-unit for the touch-screen, a measurement hardware, a measurement application and a gesture detection unit, wherein the measurement application interacts with the measurement hardware. In a first step the control-unit detects a position and/or a movement of one or more physical objects on and/or near the touch-screen. In a second step the gesture detection unit assigns the position and/or the movement of one or more physical objects to one gesture within a set of gestures. In a third step the gesture detection unit communicated the detected gesture to the measurement application. Furthermore, the measurement application performs a different function for the same detected gesture depending on a user interface of the measurement application which is displayed on the touch-screen when the gesture is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wlfgang Herbordt, Friedrich Reich, Barry Rowland, Rene Muessig
  • Patent number: 9959004
    Abstract: A deformation sensor comprises at least two electrodes on the surface of a substrate. The electrodes are separated by a gap, and the electrodes are arranged so that the gap comprises at least a part of a closed geometric shape. The gap contains a material loaded with conductive or semiconductive nanoparticles, whereby deformation of the substrate causes the resistance between the at least two electrodes to change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jouko Juho Kalevi Lång, Vicente Calvo Alonso