Patents Examined by Stephen A Bray
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Patent number: 9640097Abstract: An OLED pixel driving circuit is disclosed. The pixel driving circuit includes a plurality of interlaced scanning and data lines, and a first defect detection unit electrically connected to a first endpoint of at least one of the scanning lines, and the data lines. The first endpoint is located at one end of the at least one scanning line or data line.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Tao Cai
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Patent number: 9619021Abstract: A control method of a head mounted display (HMD) is disclosed. The control method includes detecting a first route of a first moving object and a second route of a second moving object in front of the HMD, detecting a third route along which a user's eye gaze moves, setting the first moving object as a reference object if the detected first route identical with the detected third route, setting the second moving object as the reference object if the detected second route identical with the detected third route, and setting a focus of the camera unit on the set reference object based on a route of the set reference object and the detected third route.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2014Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Eunhyung Cho, Sinae Chun
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Patent number: 9606636Abstract: An optical processing apparatus, a light source luminance adjustment method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium thereof are provided. The optical processing apparatus includes a light source unit, a processing unit, and an image sensing unit, wherein the processing unit is electrically connected to the light source unit and the image sensing unit. The light source unit provides a beam of light. The processing unit defines a frame rate, defines a plurality of time instants within a time interval, and sets the light source unit to a luminance value at each of the time instants. A length of the time interval is shorter than the reciprocal of the frame rate. The luminance values are different and are within a range. The image sensing unit captures an image by an exposure time length at each of the time instants, wherein the exposure time lengths are the same.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.Inventors: Chun-Wei Chen, Ren-Hau Gu, Ching-Lin Chung
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Patent number: 9600118Abstract: A method for preventing a touch misrecognition includes counting a total number of touch detection values of a touch panel which is greater than or equal to a first threshold value; comparing the total number of touch detection values with a second threshold value; and when the total number of the touch detection values is greater than or equal to the second threshold value, determining that bending of the touch panel has occurred.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Kyung-Wan Park, Seok-Myong Kang, Ho-Seong Seo, Dae-Kwang Jung, Ji-Hyun Jung, Shi-Yun Cho, Youn-Ho Choi
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Patent number: 9578253Abstract: The optical processing apparatus includes a light source unit, a processing unit, and an image sensing unit, wherein the processing unit is electrically connected to the light source unit and the image sensing unit. The light source unit provides a beam of light. The processing unit defines a frame rate, defines a plurality of time instants within a time interval, and sets the light source unit to a luminance value at each of the time instants. A length of the time interval is shorter than the reciprocal of the frame rate. The luminance values are different and are within a range. The image sensing unit captures an image by an exposure time length at each of the time instants, wherein the exposure time lengths are the same.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2013Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.Inventors: Chun-Wei Chen, Ren-Hau Gu, Ching-Lin Chung
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Patent number: 9569990Abstract: A system for controlling a smart LED display board capable of compensating for luminance of an LED includes a luminance measurement unit which creates first luminance measurement data obtained by digitizing measured luminance of each LED, an image data input unit which receives first input data about each LED, a comparison unit which selects at least one first LED having a luminance value greater than a preset reference value, and creates a compensation power value compensating for the luminance value of the selected first LED; an image data compensation unit which receives the first input data and the compensation power value and creates second input data in which a power value that is contained in the first input data transmitted to the first LED is changed into the compensation power value; and a drive unit which transmits the second input data to the first LED.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: DONG BANG DATA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Young Jea Ha
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Patent number: 9543040Abstract: Provided are a shift register unit and driving method thereof, a gate driver and a display device, the circuit configuration of the shift register unit can be simplified by disposing, in the shift register unit, the signal input unit for outputting the first level signal or the second level signal to the first terminal of the latch unit under the control of the input signal and the reset signal, the latch unit for latching the signal input from the signal input unit and outputting the latched processed signal to the pull-down unit, the pull-down unit for outputting the first level signal or the second level signal to the signal output unit under the control of the latched processed signal, and the signal output unit for receiving and inverting the signal output from the pull-down signal to generate an output signal and outputting a signal being opposite to the output signal, which is helpful for achieving the narrow bezel of the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2013Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Haigang Qing, Xiaojing Qi
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Patent number: 9529442Abstract: A control method of a head mounted display (HMD) is disclosed. The control method of the HMD includes detecting a first route of a first moving object and a second route of a second moving object in front of the HMD, detecting a third route along which user's eye gaze moves, setting the first moving object as a reference object if the detected first route is substantially identical with the detected third route, setting the second moving object as the reference object if the detected second route is substantially identical with the detected third route, and performing an eye gaze calibration based on a route of the set reference object and the detected third route.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Eunhyung Cho, Jungbin Yim, Jiho Choi
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Patent number: 9477321Abstract: A handheld electronic communication device includes a plurality of text entry keys arranged in a keyfield. A navigation home region includes a navigation home key, and a navigation travel region bounds the navigation home region. The navigation travel region overlies text entry keys within the keyfield. A user navigates by actuating the navigation home key and then moving his finger across keys lying within the navigation travel region and otherwise generally used to effect text entry into the device. The navigation home key is preferably configured for dual levels of actuation, as may be the text entry keys.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Jason T. Griffin, Steven Fyke
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Patent number: 9467119Abstract: A method for pairing and operating a multi-mode pointing device is provided. A pointing device may be automatically paired with an image display device. A pairing request signal may be transmitted on a prescribed frequency channel, and a signal may be received indicating information of a plurality of frequency channels. One of the frequency channels may be selected as a pairing frequency channel for operating in a radio frequency mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Min Sup Lee, Jae Kyung Lee, Kun Sik Lee, Gyu Seung Kim
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Patent number: 9454006Abstract: A head mounted display includes an external world information acquisition unit that acquires external world information, a visual effect unit that generates an effect image for visual effect in response to the acquired external world information, and an image display unit that superimposes and displays an outside view on the generated effect image.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9430076Abstract: A driving circuit capable of enabling a display structure to provide a touch function, including: a first multiplexing interface for coupling with multiple gate driving lines; a second multiplexing interface for coupling with at least one storage capacitor driving line; a third multiplexing interface for coupling with multiple source driving lines; a fourth multiplexing interface for coupling with multiple transparent electrodes; and a control unit for driving the gate driving lines via the first multiplexing interface to form a capacitive network on a TFT display structure, and performing a capacitive touch detection procedure on the capacitive network via an interface selected from a group consisting of the second multiplexing interface, the third multiplexing interface, the fourth multiplexing interface, and any combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: RICH IP TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Han-Chang Chen, Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Chih-Wen Wu
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Patent number: 9417700Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, the a method includes the steps of receiving one or more raw frames from one or more cameras, each of the one or more raw frames representing a time sequence of images, determining one or more regions of the one or more received raw frames that comprise highly textured regions, segmenting the one or more determined highly textured regions in accordance textured features thereof to determine one or more segments thereof, determining one or more regions of the one or more received raw frames that comprise other than highly textured regions, and segmenting the one or more determined other than highly textured regions in accordance with color thereof to determine one or more segments thereof. One or more of the segments are then tracked through the one or more raw frames representing the time sequence of images.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Edge3 TechnologiesInventors: Tarek A. El Dokor, Joshua T. King
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Patent number: 9383870Abstract: There are provided a touch panel and a touch screen apparatus. The touch panel may include: a substrate; a plurality of first electrodes disposed on a lower surface of the substrate and extended in a first direction; and a plurality of second electrodes disposed on an upper surface of the substrate and extended in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, wherein the first and second electrodes include conductor wires formed in a mesh shape, a pitch of the conductor wire of the second electrode is larger than that of the conductor wire of the first electrode, and the conductor wire of the second electrode forms a single line shape with a portion of the conductor wire of the first electrode at an intersection region between the first and second electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun Jun Kim, Sang Hwan Oh, Tah Joon Park
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Patent number: 9377934Abstract: An image display unit includes an image display module changing for display images each having image and header information, a touch panel input module receiving inputs, an image reading module reading the image and header information of the images, a group definition determination module determining, based on the header information of a first image of the images that is displayed next in response to an operation performed on the touch panel input module, whether or not a group definition in the header information of the first image is the same as a first predetermined group definition, and an image changing module changing the images to the first image for display in a number of steps predetermined for the first predetermined group definition.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroki Kanno
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Patent number: 9367150Abstract: An apparatus for a user interface of an electronic device, the apparatus comprising a textured surface having a predetermined roughness, the textured surface configured to produce a first predefined vibration in the skin of a user of the apparatus on physical interaction with the skin of the user, wherein the roughness of the textured surface is configured such that the first predefined vibration produced by the physical interaction has a frequency and/or amplitude which is detectable by a specific mechanical receptor in the skin of the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventor: Asta Maria Karkkainen
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Patent number: 9261979Abstract: Motion of a device is sensed using image data, and a gesture corresponding to the sensed motion of the device is recognized. Functionality of the device corresponding to the recognized gesture is determined and invoked.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2008Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Atid Shamaie, Francis B. MacDougall
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Patent number: 9262073Abstract: Joystick display data is generated for display on a touch screen of an electronic device. The joystick display data creates a visual representation of a virtual joystick when displayed on the touch screen. Touch data from the touch screen is processed to determine when the touch data indicates user interaction with the virtual joystick. When the touch data indicates user interaction with the virtual joystick, the joystick display data is adjusted to reflect the user interaction with the virtual joystick, based on the touch data, and joystick data is generated based on the user interaction with the virtual joystick. The display of at least one other element on the touch screen can be adjusted based on the joystick data.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Inventors: John W. Howard, Brian G. Howard, Jeremy R. Howa
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Patent number: 9213052Abstract: Apparatuses and methods of peak detection are described. One method measures touch data on a sense array, the touch data represented as multiple cells. The method performs multiple different peak-detection schemes on each of the cells to generate a list of one or more possible peaks in the touch data. The method selects one or more actual peaks from the list. The actual peaks are used to determine locations of touches proximate to the sense array.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2012Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Cole Wilson, Jonathan R. Peterson, Dana Olson
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Patent number: 9183778Abstract: An organic light emitting display is driven in a simultaneous (or concurrent) emission scheme. The organic light emitting display includes: a display unit including a plurality of pixels coupled to scan lines, control lines, and data lines; a control line driver for providing control signals to the pixels through the control lines; and a power driver for applying a power at different levels to the pixels of the display unit during a plurality of periods of one frame. The control signals and the power are concurrently provided to the pixels included in the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Baek-Woon Lee