Patents Examined by Stephen A Bray
  • Patent number: 9640097
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Cai
  • Patent number: 9619021
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunhyung Cho, Sinae Chun
  • Patent number: 9606636
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Chun-Wei Chen, Ren-Hau Gu, Ching-Lin Chung
  • Patent number: 9600118
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kyung-Wan Park, Seok-Myong Kang, Ho-Seong Seo, Dae-Kwang Jung, Ji-Hyun Jung, Shi-Yun Cho, Youn-Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 9578253
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Chun-Wei Chen, Ren-Hau Gu, Ching-Lin Chung
  • Patent number: 9569990
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: DONG BANG DATA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young Jea Ha
  • Patent number: 9543040
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haigang Qing, Xiaojing Qi
  • Patent number: 9529442
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunhyung Cho, Jungbin Yim, Jiho Choi
  • Patent number: 9477321
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jason T. Griffin, Steven Fyke
  • Patent number: 9467119
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Min Sup Lee, Jae Kyung Lee, Kun Sik Lee, Gyu Seung Kim
  • Patent number: 9454006
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9430076
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: RICH IP TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Han-Chang Chen, Yen-Hung Tu, Chung-Lin Chia, Chih-Wen Wu
  • Patent number: 9417700
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Edge3 Technologies
    Inventors: Tarek A. El Dokor, Joshua T. King
  • Patent number: 9383870
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Jun Kim, Sang Hwan Oh, Tah Joon Park
  • Patent number: 9377934
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Kanno
  • Patent number: 9367150
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Asta Maria Karkkainen
  • Patent number: 9261979
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Atid Shamaie, Francis B. MacDougall
  • Patent number: 9262073
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Inventors: John W. Howard, Brian G. Howard, Jeremy R. Howa
  • Patent number: 9213052
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Cole Wilson, Jonathan R. Peterson, Dana Olson
  • Patent number: 9183778
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Baek-Woon Lee