Patents Examined by Stephen Sherman
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Patent number: 9904418Abstract: A touch display screen and a touch display device comprising the touch display screen are provided. The touch display screen comprises: an array substrate (10) and a color filter substrate (11) opposite to each other; a group of first electrode lines (12) and a group of second electrode lines (13) provided on the color filter substrate (11), wherein the first electrode lines (12) are insulated from and intersect with the second electrode lines (13); and a group of first ground lines (14) and/or a group of second ground lines (15) provided on the color filter substrate (11), wherein the first ground lines (14) are insulated from and intersect with the second ground lines (15).Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2013Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignees: Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Suzhen Mu, Ming Hu
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Patent number: 9905191Abstract: A display device and a driving method therefor includes a plurality of unit pixels arranged in a matrix form, a plurality of gate lines extending in a row direction and connected to the unit pixels, respectively, pluralities of first and second data lines extending in a column direction and connected to the unit pixels, respectively, a plurality of charge control lines extending in the row direction and connected to the unit pixels, respectively, a plurality of gate connection lines connected to at least two adjacent gate lines, respectively, and a plurality of charge connection lines connected to at least two adjacent charge control lines, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong Gyu Kim, Seong Young Lee, Sahng Ik Jun, Sung Jae Moon
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Patent number: 9904459Abstract: System and method of controlling an object via control device having integrated touch and displacement control. An embodiment includes an input device having a control stick with an integrated touch sensor, where the control stick may be displaced to provide control of a first functionality of an object, and a user touch sensed by the integrated touch sensor provides control of a second functionality of the object. Additionally, a method is described for controlling an object using a control device integrating displacement and touch control modes. A motion of the object may be controlled, such that inputs from the control device control a relative movement, an absolute movement, and/or a combination of relative and absolute movement for the object. An embodiment includes a game controller having a control device according to the present disclosure.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Nvidia CorporationInventors: Qi Lin, Brian Loiler
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Patent number: 9904316Abstract: In one of the exemplary embodiments of the disclosure, a method of controlling through a cover of a mobile electronic device would include not limited to detecting, by the mobile electronic device, for a first event and a device triggering event; displaying, through openings of the cover on the touch screen, a first image; replacing the first image with a second image that corresponds to the first event in response to the first event being detected; displaying, through the openings of the cover on the touch screen, a third image corresponding to the device triggering event while the first image or the second image is still being displayed; and performing a function corresponding to the device triggering event in response to a touch input on third image being detected by the touch screen through the cover.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Tai-Hsin Ku, Chia-Mo Chien, Sheng-Hsin Huang, Fang-Ju Lin, Wei-Chia Yen, Jen-Hou Huang, Chun-Ta Chen
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Patent number: 9898957Abstract: A display device with switchable viewing angle includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel has a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. The second pixel has a third sub-pixel, a fourth sub-pixel and a fifth sub-pixel. The fifth sub-pixel is configured to be enabled when operating in a narrow viewing angle mode and to be disabled when operating in a wide viewing angle mode. When the fifth sub-pixel is enabled, each viewing angle of the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, the third sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel is narrower than that when the fifth sub-pixel is disabled.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2016Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventor: Hui-Feng Lin
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Patent number: 9892673Abstract: A display substrate, display device and driving method thereof. While providing an increased resolution, the display device also has an increased aperture ratio. The display substrate comprises a plurality of pixel units (10) arranged in a matrix. The R sub-pixel, G sub-pixel, and B sub-pixel in each of the plurality of pixel units (10) are connected to a first data line (31), wherein the first data line (31) is configured to provide an R signal to the R sub-pixel in a first time duration (t1), and a B signal to the B sub-pixel in a second time duration (t2). In each of the plurality of pixel units (10), the G sub-pixel is connected to a second data line (32) configured to provide a G signal to the G sub-pixel in the first time duration (t1) and second time duration (t2).Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Minghung Hsu
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Patent number: 9889697Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first correction amount acquiring unit and a first correction unit. The first correction amount acquiring unit acquires a first luminance correction amount of each block based on the luminance of each pixel in the block obtained by dividing a first image among multiple processing target images obtained by imaging a target object with multiple sheets bound together while opening the target object. The first correction unit corrects the luminance of each pixel in the multiple processing target images based on the first luminance correction amount of each block acquired by the first correction amount acquiring unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirokazu Hasegawa
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Patent number: 9886128Abstract: The present technology relates to a display control device, a display control method, and a program which allow operability of a touch panel display to be improved. A display data generation unit obtains first display data representing a touch input position by a user on a touch panel display, from a first processing unit through a first path, obtains second display data using the first display data from a second processing unit through a second path, the second processing unit performing display image generation processing involving a processing amount larger than a processing amount of the first processing unit, and performs control to allow first display information based on the first display data and second display information based on the second display data to be displayed on the touch panel display. The present technology is applicable to an LCD module and the like, for example.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2013Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tsubasa Tsukahara, Tomoya Narita, Takuro Noda, Hiroyuki Mizunuma, Ikuo Yamano, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9886886Abstract: An electro-optic display, having at least one pixel capable of achieving any one of at least four different gray levels including two extreme optical states, is driven by displaying a first image on the display, and rewriting the display to display a second image thereon, wherein, during the rewriting of the display, any pixel which has undergone a number of transitions exceeding a predetermined value without touching an extreme optical state, is driven to at least one extreme optical state before driving that pixel to its final optical state in the second image.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2016Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Karl R. Amundson, Robert W. Zehner, Ara N. Knaian, Benjamin Zion
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Patent number: 9880627Abstract: A system and method of generating a set of preferred haptic settings for a user based on haptic settings chosen by other similar users is presented. The method includes maintaining a database of haptic software applications with associated haptic configuration settings. When a user loads a haptic software application such as a computer game or video, a server receives a communication identifying the particular computer game or video and the identity of the user. The server searches the database for other users of the computer game or video where the other users have similar setting preferences as the user. The server calculates a preferred set of configuration settings and sends those settings to the user where a haptic output device produces haptic effects based on the preferred set of configuration settings. A system that generates haptic setting based on similar users is also presented.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Immersion CorporationInventor: Vincent Levesque
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Patent number: 9874963Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes one or more display layers within a display stack, the one or more display layers include a plurality of crystals configured to adjust a polarization of light passing through the one or more display layers. The apparatus includes a reference voltage layer that provides the one or more display layers with a reference voltage. The apparatus includes a plurality of pixel-drive electrodes that adjust the polarization of the light passing through the one or more display layers by adjusting an electrical potential between the plurality of pixel-drive electrodes and the reference voltage layer. The pixel-drive electrodes provide drive signals for a touch sensor and the reference voltage layer provides sense signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventor: Esat Yilmaz
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Patent number: 9870068Abstract: A tracking system generates a structured light pattern in a local area. The system includes an array of lasers that generate light. The array of lasers includes a plurality of lasers and an optical element. The plurality of lasers are grouped into at least two subsets of lasers, and each of the at least two subsets of lasers is independently switchable. The optical element includes a plurality of cells that are each aligned with a respective subset of the array of lasers. Each cell receives light from a corresponding laser of the array of lasers, and each cell individually applies a modulation to the received light passing through the cell to form a corresponding portion of the structured light pattern that is projected onto a local area.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Nitay Romano, Nadav Grossinger, Yair Alpern, Emil Alon, Guy Raz
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Patent number: 9864409Abstract: A flexible display device includes a flexible display panel, an outer member disposed on a surface of the flexible display panel and including an electrode layer, and a stress control member disposed between the flexible display panel and the outer member, where the stress control member allows neutral planes to be defined in the flexible display panel and the outer member, respectively, when the flexible display device is bent, the outer member includes a touch panel including the electrode layer, a flexible member disposed on the touch panel, and an adhesive layer disposed between the touch panel and the flexible member and which couples the touch panel to the flexible member, and a neutral plane of the outer member is defined in the touch panel.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kangwon Lee, Jeongheon Lee, Mansik Myeong, Sungku Kang, Hoonsik Kim, Taehyeog Jung, Suk Choi
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Patent number: 9852706Abstract: A TFT array substrate which includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, has each pixel including sub-pixels in a 2×2 matrix. Two data lines are between neighboring columns of the sub-pixels and scan line is arranged between neighboring rows of the sub-pixels. The sub-pixels in same row can be electrically coupled to one scan line. The sub-pixels for the same color in one same column can be electrically coupled to the neighboring data line. The sub-pixels configured to display another same color in the same column can be electrically coupled to another neighboring same data line. Each two adjacent sub-pixels displaying a same color have opposite polarities.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Century Technology (Shenzhen) Corporation LimitedInventors: Ming-Tsung Wang, Chih-Chung Liu, Yang Zhao, Zhi-Hong Chang
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Patent number: 9852679Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel arrangement areas, a data driving unit including a plurality of source drivers, and a timing controller configured to process data that is input from an external device and configured to generate output data. Each of the plurality of pixel arrangement areas includes a plurality of pixels arranged in areas in which a plurality of gate lines intersect a plurality of data lines. Each of the plurality of source drivers outputs display data to data lines of its corresponding pixels. The timing controller classifies the plurality of pixel arrangement areas based on a distance between the timing controller and each of the plurality of pixel arrangement areas, and transmits the output data to the data driving unit at at least two transmission speeds based on the classification.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Min-seok Oh, Chi-ho Cha, Myeong-jun Chae, Suk-gyun Lim
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Patent number: 9847055Abstract: An organic light emitting display apparatus includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel includes a first data line, a first driving thin film transistor (TFT), and a first contact metal connected to the first driving TFT and in a layer at a same level as a layer of the first data line. The second pixel includes a second data line, a second driving TFT, and a second contact metal connected to the second driving TFT and in a layer at a same level as a layer of the second data line. The first gap between the first driving TFT and the first contact metal is different from a second gap between the second driving TFT and the second contact metal.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yeonhong Kim, Moosoon Ko, Kwangsuk Kim, Choongyoul Im
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Patent number: 9846483Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) device includes a plurality of activity detection sensors coupled to a liner formed around a periphery of a HMD or a band attached to the HMD. The sensors attached to the liner are adopted for direct or indirect contact to an upper portion of a user's face, and the sensors coupled to the band are adopted for direct or indirect contact with a back side of the user's head. The activity detection sensors detect electrical field signals caused by muscle contractions in an upper portion of a user's face or brain activity signals when the user is wearing the HMD. The HMD includes a module that reconstructs and projects a facial animation model of the user and a cognitive state of the user based on signals from the activity detection sensors while the HMD is in use by the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Oculus VR, LLCInventor: Yury Anatolievich Petrov
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Patent number: 9836153Abstract: A sensor device is provided which includes a pressure-sensitive sensor which changes shape in response to pressing of an operation tool and which detects change in capacitance due to the change in shape, and a barrier which covers at least a part of the pressure-sensitive sensor and which prevents change in capacitance of the pressure-sensitive sensor due to capacitive coupling that occurs with approach between the pressure-sensitive sensor and the operation tool.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Ikuo Yamano
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Patent number: 9836127Abstract: Disclosure is a method of inputting commands into displays such as TVs or image processing devices. User's hands have been photographed through a camera to recognize the motion of the user's hands, so that commands are input according to the motion of user's hands instead of conventional input devices such as a mouse and a keyboard.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2011Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Woo Kil Jung
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Patent number: 9836138Abstract: A touch pen includes a main body, a connector, a first conductive pen tip, a second conductive pen tip and a switching module. The connector is disposed within the main body, and located at a first end of the main body. The first conductive pen tip and the second conductive pen tip are detachably coupled with the connector. According to a result of judging whether the connector is coupled with the first conductive pen tip or the second conductive pen tip, the switching module controls the operation mode of the touch pen. When the first conductive pen tip is coupled with the connector, the touch pen is in an active operation mode under control of the switching module. When the second conductive pen tip is coupled with the connector, the touch pen is in a passive operation mode under control of the switching module.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Primax Electronics Ltd.Inventors: Tung-Heng Wu, Ying-Che Tseng, A-Ming Chang