Patents Examined by Stefan M Oehrlein
  • Patent number: 9343033
    Abstract: A method of controlling polarity of a data voltage and a liquid crystal display using the same, the method including calculating a direct current DC value of the data from each group which data to be output through I-channels adjacent to each other in a source drive IC belong; accumulating the DC value; comparing an absolute value of the accumulation DC value of the n-th group obtained by adding the accumulation DC value of the n?1-th group accumulated up to the n?1-th group to the DC value of the n-th group (n is positive integer) with a predetermined threshold value; and changing a group polarity data when the absolute value of the accumulation DC value of the n-th group exceeds the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Changhun Cho
  • Patent number: 9311882
    Abstract: A display device includes a data driver having i data output terminals (i being a natural number greater than 1) and outputting data voltages to the i data output terminals in accordance with a source output enable signal provided from a timing controller, an output controller connected between the i data output terminals and i data lines, and i garbage switches respectively connected to the i data lines and connecting the i data lines to a ground terminal at a power input timing when a power supply voltage is applied to the display device, and interrupting the connection between the i data lines and the ground terminal at a timing later than an output timing of a first source output enable signal provided from the timing controller after the power input timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong-Chae Jung
  • Patent number: 9292137
    Abstract: A semiconductor device for use in a touch panel is capable of uniquely identifying the touched coordinates over the touch panel. When a multi-touch state is detected over the touch panel by a self-capacitance method, the semiconductor device isolates the multiple touch electrodes found to be in the touch state and has these electrodes identified by a mutual capacitance method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Teruyuki Kogo
  • Patent number: 9286819
    Abstract: A display device includes: a light source which emits light; a position detection unit which detects an eye position of a user; a light deflection unit which deflects the emitted light toward the eye position detected by the position detection unit; a user identification unit which identifies which one of persons is the user; a deflection control unit which controls a deflecting direction in which the light deflection unit deflects the light, depending on the person identified as the user; and a liquid crystal display panel which receives the light from the light deflection unit and display an image formed by the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Sugiyama, Shinichi Shikii, Katsuhiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9235293
    Abstract: An optical touch device includes an indication plane, two image sensing units and a processing unit. The two image sensing units are disposed at two corners of the indication plane diagonal to each other, respectively, and the two corners define a diagonal line connected therebetween. The processing unit is electrically connected to the two image sensing units. When two touch points are performed on the indication plane, the processing unit determines whether the two touch points are located at opposite sides of the diagonal line, respectively, according to images sensed by the two image sensing units. Once the two touch points are located at opposite sides of the diagonal line, respectively, the processing unit calculates and outputs coordinates of the two touch points immediately according to the images sensed by the two image sensing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Hsun-Hao Chang, Yu-Yen Chen, Sheng-Hsien Hsieh, Shou-Te Wei
  • Patent number: 9224347
    Abstract: A TFT-LCD driving circuit is disclosed. The TFT-LCT driving circuit comprises input terminals, output terminals, and a processing circuit connected between the input terminals and the output terminals, for processing a CPV signal, an OE1 signal, an OE2 signal, and a STV signal, so that a set time interval exists between a falling edge of the output CLK signal and a rising edge of the CLKB signal in one cycle of the CLK signal, or that the set time interval exists between a rising edge of the output CLK signal and a falling edge of the CLKB signal in one cycle of the CLKB signal. Confusion of data input to pixel electrodes due to delays of gate driving signals may be avoided by the TFT-LCD driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung Woo Han
  • Patent number: 9196217
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a timing controller including a driving signal generation module, a time-locking module, and a first logic circuit. The driving signal generation module generates a first isolation signal. The time-locking module detects whether or not all of a plurality of source driving units of a source driver lock a timing signal. The first logic circuit generates a second isolation signal, and adjusts the second isolation signal according to the output status of the first isolation signal. The gate driver selectively outputs a plurality of gate driving signals to a plurality of gate driving units of the gate driver according to the output status of the second isolation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Raydium Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Ying-Lieh Chen
  • Patent number: 9190001
    Abstract: A control capacitor (CDown) is connected between a pixel electrode of a liquid crystal capacitor (CLC_Bn) in at least one sub-pixel and a common signal line (COM) through a TFT (3) whose gate electrode is connected to a gate signal line (Gn+1), and a control circuit selectively switches output modes in accordance with whether the pulse periods of a gate pulse to be output to the gate signal line (Gn) and a gate pulse to be output to the gate signal line (Gn+1) partially overlap or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Kamada
  • Patent number: 9182834
    Abstract: There is provided a mouse device including a control chip and at least one control component. The control chip includes a voltage detection circuit coupled to the at least one control component through at least one multiplexing pin and detects at least one voltage value on the at least one multiplexing pin using the voltage detection circuit thereby identifying an operating state of the at least one control component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC
    Inventors: Chia Cheun Liang, Hsiang Sheng Liu, Yu Han Chen, Chien Jung Huang, Chih Chung Tsai, Chih Yen Wu, Ming Tsan Kao
  • Patent number: 9135508
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer media for estimating user eye gaze are provided. A plurality of images of a user's eye are acquired. At least one image of at least part of the user's field of view is acquired. At least one gaze target area in the user's field of view is determined based on the plurality of images of the user's eye. An enhanced user eye gaze is then estimated by narrowing a database of eye information and corresponding known gaze lines to a subset of the eye information having gaze lines corresponding to a gaze target area. User eye information derived from the images of the user's eye is then compared with the narrowed subset of the eye information, and an enhanced estimated user eye gaze is identified as the known gaze line of a matching eye image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Isaac Vaught, Robert L. Crocco, Jr., John Lewis, Jian Sun, Yichen Wei
  • Patent number: 9122308
    Abstract: A tactile feedback apparatus, system, and a method of operating the tactile feedback apparatus may detect a finger of a user touching a disk unit, determine a height at which the disk unit is supported, based on a signal generated by a sensor, and support a lower portion of the disk unit by controlling N driving units to be set at the determined height, thereby providing power sensed by the sensor to the finger of the user touching the disk unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung Kew Lee, Joon Ah Park, Soo Chul Lim, Seung Ju Han, Bho Ram Lee
  • Patent number: 9122327
    Abstract: A method for syncing different touching systems uses a computer, which is electrically connected with a first input device and a second input device respectively and in which an input of the first input device is controlled by the second input device, to make the first input device and the second device synchronous. The method includes defining at least one correction point on the first input device; receiving time tags of signal inputs at the correction points of the first input device and the second input device respectively; calculating time differences for each time tag at each correction point with respect to other correction points; averaging all time differences for all correction points to determine a deviation value; and delaying a signal transmission of the second input device according to the deviation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Kuo-Hsing Wang, Pei-Chen Chin, Pin-Hsien Su, Wen-Chin Wu, Yi-Sheng Kao
  • Patent number: 9110545
    Abstract: An apparatus including a plurality of adjacent repeated base units, each base unit formed from an active electrode of first, second and third touch sensor arrays, the first, second and third touch sensor arrays each including a plurality of active electrodes connected to a respective common terminal of the touch sensor array, wherein each base unit includes an active electrode of the second touch sensor array interlaced between an active electrode of the first touch sensor array and an active electrode of the third touch sensor array such that a swipe touch gesture applied to two or more adjacent active electrodes of the apparatus generates signalling at the respective common terminals of the corresponding touch sensor arrays which allows the direction of the swipe touch gesture to be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Zoran Radivojevic, Paul Beecher, Chris Bower, Piers Andrew, Darryl Cotton, Samiul Haque, Michael Astley, Markus Ahonen
  • Patent number: 9098154
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display having an array of pixels formed in rows and columns, the pixels in a row separated by column inter-pixel gaps and the pixels in a column separated by row inter-pixel gaps. A touch screen includes a dielectric layer located over the display with row electrodes and column electrodes formed on opposite sides of the dielectric layer. The row electrodes include a plurality of electrically connected row micro-wires formed in a row micro-pattern over the array of pixels, the row micro-wires located between the pixels in the row inter-pixel gaps and substantially extending continuously along the row electrode length. The column electrodes include a plurality of electrically connected column micro-wires formed in a column micro-pattern over the array of pixels, the column micro-wires located between the pixels in the column inter-pixel gaps and substantially extending continuously along the column electrode length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
    Inventor: Ronald Steven Cok
  • Patent number: 9075461
    Abstract: A processing method for touch signal includes the steps of loading a palm rejection program staying resident on a computing device, and receiving a touch input signal from a touch device by the computing device. The palm rejection program performs a palm rejection process to the touch input signal in real time or instructs the touch device to output the touch input signal after performing the palm rejection process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignees: Wistron Corporation, eTurboTouch Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Kuei-Ching Wang, Ta-Hu Lin
  • Patent number: 9058102
    Abstract: A symbol input device includes a plurality of symbol keys, a correction key, a time keeping portion for measuring a time for which the symbol key is pressed and held, a storage portion for storing data, and an input receiving portion which accepts input with the symbol key or the correction key, recognizes a time for which the symbol key is pressed and held based on the measurement by the time keeping portion, automatically accepts re-input of the symbol corresponding to the symbol key when the time for which the same symbol key is pressed and held exceeds a predetermined long press time, and increases the long press time every time when the number of correction times that is the number of times of which the correction key has been pressed reaches a predetermined first number of times after the automatic re-input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 9035854
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a fabrication method thereof are provided. In the OLED display device, when an existing power wiring using a metal used for a data wiring is divided based on a common electrode marginal region as a boundary so as to be used as a wiring as well as as the power wiring, the reduced width of the wiring is compensated for by increasing the thickness of the wiring by using a metal for an anode or a cathode, thus reducing the left and right bezel widths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Ho Lee, Jae-Ho Sim
  • Patent number: 9030438
    Abstract: A display device includes a display having an array of pixels, the pixels separated by inter-pixel gaps in at least one dimension and an electrode having a length and width located over the display and extending across at least a portion of the array of pixels, the electrode including a plurality of electrically connected micro-wires formed in a micro-pattern. The micro-pattern includes gap micro-wires located between the pixels in the inter-pixel gaps and substantially extending continuously along the electrode length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Ronald Steven Cok
  • Patent number: 9024875
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for displaying images to a user. The apparatus may include a display configured to display a three-dimensional (3D) image and a pointer in correspondence with movement of a remote controller. The apparatus may further include an interface and a controller. The interface may be configured to provide a shift input for moving the pointer in correspondence with movement of the remote controller, and receive a depth change input for changing a depth value of an object displayed within a reference distance from an area to which the pointer has moved. The controller may be configured to extract a depth value of the object and change the depth value according to the depth change input to control display of a 3D image based on the changed depth value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seongwoon Seol, Miyeon Kwon
  • Patent number: 8988388
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for scanning a touch panel of the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a touch panel and a control circuitry. The touch panel includes a plurality of touch sensors. The control circuitry is coupled to the touch panel. The control circuitry charges each of the touch sensors according to a preset charge period of the touch sensor and detects the maximum difference in charge characteristics of the touch sensors. The control circuitry adjusts the preset charge periods of the touch sensors according to the charge characteristics of the touch sensors and a preset limit of the preset charge periods of the touch sensors when the maximum difference is higher than a preset threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Fan Hsueh, Te-Mu Chen, Pi-Lin Lo, Kuang-Hua Lee, Cheng-Hsi Liu