Patents Examined by Stephen Sherman
  • Patent number: 9749451
    Abstract: Head-mounted display systems and methods of operation that allow users to couple and decouple a portable electronic device such as a handheld portable electronic device with a separate head-mounted device (e.g., temporarily integrates the separate devices into a single unit) are disclosed. The portable electronic may be physically coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device can be worn on the user's head. The portable electronic device may be operatively coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device and head mounted device can communicate and operate with one another. Each device may be allowed to extend its features and/or services to the other device for the purpose of enhancing, increasing and/or eliminating redundant functions between the head-mounted device and the portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Quin C. Hoellwarth
  • Patent number: 9733667
    Abstract: An image information memory (132) stores, for each operational object image, a display area, an imaged layer (information indicating which layer the operational object image is disposed in a display hierarchy), and the like in association with one another. When either a first inputter (110A) or a second inputter (110B) detects a contact, a controller (120) specifies the operational object images including the contact position in the display area, and determines, in accordance with which one of the first inputter (110A) and the second inputter (110B) detects the contact, whether to operate the image disposed on an upper imaged layer among the specified operational object images or to operate the image disposed on the lower imaged layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsuhiko Kamijima
  • Patent number: 9733671
    Abstract: A flexible display apparatus is disclosed. The flexible display apparatus includes a display panel, a cover substrate, a first receiving portion and a first fluid. The display panel includes a first region and a second region surrounding at least one sides of the first region. The cover substrate is disposed over the display panel. The first receiving portion is disposed between the display panel and the cover substrate. The first receiving portion overlaps the first region of the display panel and has an empty space. The first fluid is disposed in the first receiving portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kang-Won Lee, Man-Sik Myeong, Kyu-Young Kim, Tae-Hyeog Jung
  • Patent number: 9733735
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for providing advertisement in an electronic device having a touch pen. The method for providing advertisement includes sensing a touch of a banner using a touch pen, confirming whether the banner is a touch pen based banner, and operating the touch pen based banner through the touch pen if the banner is the touch pen based banner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Youngje Jang
  • Patent number: 9721490
    Abstract: A dual-screen display and a display method. The dual-screen display comprises: a display unit, a control unit and controllable light-transmitting bodies. Each display unit comprises at least three sub-pixel units. The controllable light-transmitting bodies are distributed on an upper surface and a lower surface of the sub-pixel units. The control unit is used for controlling, according to an instruction of a user, a control signal applied to the controllable light-transmitting bodies, so as to control the transparency of the controllable light-transmitting bodies. The controllable light-transmitting bodies are distributed on the two surfaces of the sub-pixel unit, and a control signal is applied according to an instruction of the user, so that the controllable light-transmitting bodies present corresponding transparency, thereby respectively controlling light of the sub-pixel unit irradiated to the two surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guang Yang, Ke Shang, Quan Niu
  • Patent number: 9715247
    Abstract: The invention relates to layered graphene-ferroelectric structures for use as transparent electrodes in touch panels and display screen applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: National University of Singapore
    Inventor: Barbaros Ozyilmaz
  • Patent number: 9710114
    Abstract: Provided is a touch detection device, touch detection method, and touch screen panel, which detects a touch signal by detecting a driving back phenomenon occurring in a touch pad by a driving voltage applied to a driving capacitor, and a display device with a built-in touch screen panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: G2TOUCH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 9710119
    Abstract: Provided is a touch detection device, touch detection method, and touch screen panel, which detects a touch signal by detecting a driving back phenomenon occurring in a touch pad by a driving voltage applied to a driving capacitor, and a display device with a built-in touch screen panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: G2TOUCH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 9703438
    Abstract: Provided is a touch detection device, touch detection method, and touch screen panel, which detects a touch signal by detecting a driving back phenomenon occurring in a touch pad by a driving voltage applied to a driving capacitor, and a display device with a built-in touch screen panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: G2TOUCH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 9696835
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes an organic light emitting display panel and touch electrodes directly disposed on the organic light emitting display panel. The organic light emitting display panel includes an organic light emitting device disposed in a light emitting area and a first light blocking layer disposed in a non-light emitting area. The touch electrodes are disposed on a sealing layer that covers the organic light emitting device. The touch electrodes are disposed to overlap with the non-light emitting area. At least one of the touch electrodes includes a conductive light blocking material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong-Koo Her
  • Patent number: 9696827
    Abstract: A triggering method and a wireless handheld device provided in embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of electronic technologies. The touchscreen triggering method includes: detecting an input combination that is of a click frequency and/or click intensity and is received when a touchscreen is in a locked state; and when it is detected that the input combination that is of the click frequency and/or the click intensity and is received when the touchscreen is in the locked state matches a pre-stored input combination of a click frequency and/or click intensity, wherein the pre-stored input combination of the click frequency and/or the click intensity is corresponding to an operation, executing the operation corresponding to the matched pre-stored input combination of the click frequency and/or the click intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing Tian
  • Patent number: 9690446
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, for use in conjunction with a portable electronic device with a touch screen display, comprises displaying at least a portion of a structured electronic document on the touch screen display, wherein the structured electronic document comprises a plurality of boxes of content, and detecting a first gesture at a location on the displayed portion of the structured electronic document. A first box in the plurality of boxes at the location of the first gesture is determined. The first box on the touch screen display is enlarged and substantially centered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Scott Forstall, Gregory N. Christie, Stephen O. Lemay, Imran Chaudhri, Richard Williamson, Chris Blumenberg, Marcel Van Os, Andre M. J. Boule
  • Patent number: 9678703
    Abstract: An information processing method and apparatus are provided in which a first switching operation instructs an electronic device to switch from a first mode to a second mode while the electronic device is in the first mode, in response to the first switching operation controlling the electronic device to switch from the first mode to the second mode, wherein a display unit set in a face of the electronic device acts as an auxiliary input unit and a projection unit, for projecting content, is set as an output unit while the electronic device is in the first mode; and wherein the display unit acts as an output unit and the projection unit is set as an auxiliary input unit while the electronic device is in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Weiwei Zhang, Jie Xia
  • Patent number: 9673225
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an array substrate, a fabrication method thereof and a display device. The array substrate comprises a driver IC and pixel units, wherein each port of the driver IC is connected to a plurality of pixel units through a connecting structure, each connecting structure comprises a connecting line connected between a port of the driver IC and a plurality of pixel units, at least some of the connecting structures also comprise resistance regulating units for changing the total resistance values of the connecting structures, and the resistance regulating units are connected in series with the respective connecting lines; and/or the resistance regulating units are connected in parallel with parts of the respective connecting lines, so that the differences among resistance values of connecting structures can be reduced, and in turn the display effect of a display panel is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu Ma
  • Patent number: 9666130
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, display device, and method of driving a pixel circuit enabling source-follower output with no deterioration of luminance even with a change of the current-voltage characteristic of the light emitting element along with elapse, enabling a source-follower circuit of n-channel transistors, and able to use an n-channel transistor as an EL drive transistor while using current anode-cathode electrodes, wherein a source of a TFT 111 as a drive transistor is connected to an anode of a light emitting element 114, a drain is connected to a power source potential VCC, a capacitor C111 is connected between a gate and source of the TFT 111, and a source potential of the TFT 111 is connected to a fixed potential through a TFT 113 as a switching transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9666123
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display capable of improving display quality. The organic light emitting display includes effective pixels positioned in an effective display unit, at least one dummy pixels positioned in a dummy display unit in order to generate light with predetermined luminance, at least one photodiodes arranged on the dummy display unit to be adjacent to the dummy pixels, and a sensing unit for extracting first resistance information from organic light emitting diodes (OLED) included in the effective pixels, extracting second resistance information from OLEDs included in the dummy pixels, and extracting luminance information corresponding to the second resistance information from the photodiodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Jin Pak
  • Patent number: 9661287
    Abstract: A device for projecting images from a video generating device such as a computer, television receiver, or similar device onto a screen or other surface is described in this invention. The device uses a rotating disk containing numerous lenses to direct a light beam from a laser or other light source towards the screen. In one embodiment, a pulsed laser light from red, green, and blue lasers are combined into a single light pulse that is transmitted through the rotating disk that transmit each light pulse to a specific location on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Inventors: David James Baker, Richard A Baker, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9652058
    Abstract: A method may be executed by one or more active capacitive styluses and a sensor controller connected to sensor electrodes. The method includes: a discovery step, executed by the sensor controller, of repeatedly sending out a discovery packet for detecting any of the active capacitive styluses; a discovery response step, executed by a first active capacitive stylus among the one or more active capacitive styluses, by which the discovery packet is detected, of returning a response packet to the discovery packet; a configuration step, executed by the sensor controller, of transmitting a configuration packet including time slot designation information that designates a first time slot to the first active capacitive stylus; and a data transmission step, executed by the first active capacitive stylus, of transmitting operation state data indicative of an operation state of the first active capacitive stylus using the designated first time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9646573
    Abstract: Head-mounted display systems and methods of operation that allow users to couple and decouple a portable electronic device such as a handheld portable electronic device with a separate head-mounted device (e.g., temporarily integrates the separate devices into a single unit) are disclosed. The portable electronic may be physically coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device can be worn on the user's head. The portable electronic device may be operatively coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device and head mounted device can communicate and operate with one another. Each device may be allowed to extend its features and/or services to the other device for the purpose of enhancing, increasing and/or eliminating redundant functions between the head-mounted device and the portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Quin C. Hoellwarth
  • Patent number: 9645605
    Abstract: Display apparatuses and methods are provided. A display apparatus includes a display module, a driving device that is configured to deform the display module from a flat surface state to a curved surface state and deform the display module from the flat surface state to the curved surface state, and a base member that is disposed at a rear of the display module and supports the driving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Hoo Park, Gyu Sung Do, Dong Yup Lee, Woo Sung In