Patents Examined by Stephen Sherman
  • Patent number: 9563279
    Abstract: A flexible apparatus is provided. The flexible apparatus includes: a sensor configured to sense bending of the flexible apparatus; and when it is determined that a rubbing gesture of rubbing a plurality of different areas of the flexible apparatus is performed based on a result of the sensing, a controller configured to perform an operation corresponding to the rubbing gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon-kyu Seo, Kyung-a Kang, Il-kook Yun, Sang-keun Jung, Geun-ho Lee
  • Patent number: 9557872
    Abstract: A human machine interface includes a capacitive touch screen having a capacitive sensor. The capacitive touch screen displays text characters and/or graphical information. A control device is rotatably coupled to a structure such that the control device is superimposed over the screen. The control device includes at least one electrically conductive element. The control device rotates about an axis substantially perpendicular to the screen such that the at least one electrically conductive element follows the rotation of the control device. The capacitive sensor senses a rotational position of the at least one electrically conductive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventors: Larry V. Craig, Sachiko Kurokawa Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9559405
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to a display assembly. A display assembly may comprise a display unit and at least one antenna at least partially surrounding at least a portion of the display unit. The at least one antenna may be configured for at least one of receiving wireless power, transmitting data, and receiving data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: David J. Sorrell, John Hillan, Stephen Frankland
  • Patent number: 9552757
    Abstract: The invention provides an image device with improved chrominance quality. The image device includes a plurality of RGBW pixels, a plurality of RGBY pixels, and a plurality of RBGB pixels. Each RGBW pixel includes a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel and a white sub-pixel. Each RGBY pixel includes a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel and a yellow sub-pixel. Each RBGB pixel includes a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, and two blue sub-pixels. The RGBW pixels, RGBY pixels, and RBGB pixels are mixed in the image device. The image device of the present invention can solve the problem of dark yellow in the conventional RGBW display while achieving a white balance status. As a result the chrominance quality is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: VP ASSETS LIMITED
    Inventors: Gia Chuong Phan, Maggie Phan, Anthony Phan
  • Patent number: 9547405
    Abstract: A touch panel may have a pen touch and electrode touch function. More specifically, a touch panel may be capable of improving visibility of a view area and also simplifying a panel fabrication process by improving the wires of sensing patterns for a pen touch and disposing an overlap structure occurring between intersecting sensing patterns in a separate region other than a view area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Su Oem, Young Sun You, Sun Hwa Lee, Kwang Yong Jin, Yongjae Choi
  • Patent number: 9542887
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display device including: a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a scan driving unit configured to supply a scan signal to the pixels via a plurality of scan lines, a data driving unit configured to supply a data signal to the pixels via a plurality of data lines, an emission driving unit configured to supply an emission control signal to the pixels via a plurality of emission control lines, and a timing control unit configured to control the scan driving unit, the data driving unit, and the emission driving unit, and to control the emission driving unit to gradually change an off-period of the emission control signal each time a number of image frames are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Si-Baek Pyo
  • Patent number: 9535498
    Abstract: A method and system for determining a field of view region on a transparent display is provided. The method includes receiving from a user facing device, a user image. User image key features of the user image are identified and user image attributes of said image key features are analyzed. An object image of objects is received and a first object is identified. Object key features of the first object are identified and object attributes of object key features are analyzed. A specified position on a transparent display for displaying a first image associated with the first object is determined. The first image is displayed at the specified position on the transparent display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: William H. Plaehn
  • Patent number: 9535531
    Abstract: The present invention provides an Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) pixel unit circuit, a display panel and an electronic product for integrating a touch screen circuit into the AMOLED pixel unit circuit and producing an AMOLED display panel having the functionality of a touch screen. The AMOLED pixel unit circuit comprises a driving module, configured to amplify a sensing signal generated by a touch sensing module, output the sensing signal through a sensing signal output module, and drive a light emitting module; the light emitting control module, configured to control the light emitting module to emit light; a threshold compensation module, configured to compensate a threshold voltage of the driving module; the touch sensing module, configured to generate the sensing signal and output the sensing signal to the driving module; and the sensing signal output module, configured to output the sensing signal amplified by the driving module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen Tan, Xiaojing Qi, Quanguo Zhou
  • Patent number: 9529237
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Gyu Kim, Seong Young Lee, Sahng Ik Jun, Sung Jae Moon
  • Patent number: 9530376
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a driving device and a driving method of a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device comprises a display panel. The driving method comprising following steps of: displaying a current image by driving the display panel in a current reverse driving mode; detecting a variation value of a common voltage of the display panel during a prescribed period of time, and determining whether the variation value of the common voltage is greater than a prescribed threshold voltage variation; and in case that the variation value of the common voltage is greater than the prescribed threshold voltage variation, determining an occurrence of an image flickering and changing the current reverse driving mode. According to the present disclosure, the flickering of the liquid crystal display device can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunbing Zhang, Bin Zhang, Shuai Hou, Yiqiang Lai, Liang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9529480
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques related to near field coupling and more particularly using near field coupling related taps to indicate user selections on input/output devices. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Bradley W. Corrion
  • Patent number: 9530363
    Abstract: The performance of an electro-optic display, for example, a bistable electro-optic display, can be improved by modifying the frame rate of a base waveform used to drive a transition between gray states. Such modifications permit fine control of gray levels with reduced artifacts. The described methods additionally require less memory to store all of the waveforms needed to achieve good performance of an electro-optic display over a range of temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Yuval Ben-Dov, Karl Raymond Amundson
  • Patent number: 9529429
    Abstract: A system for controlling the position of a movable object on a viewing device in an aircraft cockpit, which can be actuated by an operator includes means for determining, at least at one given moment, a position of a target zone on said viewing device toward which the operator's gaze is directed, and positioning means adapted for placing the object on the target zone of the viewing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Cyril Saint-Requier, Audren Kervella
  • Patent number: 9524681
    Abstract: In general, in one aspect, an apparatus receives pixels associated with an image destined for an external display and determines a reduced backlight brightness for the external display and corresponding changes to the pixels to approximate overall quality of the image with current backlight brightness. Backlight commands are generated for the reduced backlight brightness and the pixels are enhanced to correspond to the reduced backlight brightness. The enhanced pixels and the backlight commands are transmitted to the external display via a display interface that supports backlight control. The display interface may be a wireless interface or a wired (cabled) interface (e.g., display port (DP), high definition multimedia interface (HDMI), video graphics array (VGA)). The functionality of the apparatus is included in a computing device so that backlight brightness reductions and corresponding pixel changes can be made taking into account policies of the computing device and user preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Maximino Vasquez, Paul Winer, Akihiro Takagi
  • Patent number: 9524099
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains time-series coordinate data on pointing input; a calculating unit that calculates a distance value from a coordinate position of any one of top, bottom, left, and right ends of an input handwriting to any point of handwriting portions, based on the obtained coordinate data; a display processing unit that performs a displaying process on the input handwriting based on a change in the distance value; and an erasing unit that calculates a stroke distance value between a coordinate position of a stroke of the input handwriting that is input on a time-series basis and a coordinate position of any one of the ends of the input handwriting, and when the stroke distance value is equal to or more than a predetermined value, erases a display of a handwriting that is input before the stroke of the input handwriting on a time-series basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Katsuhiko Akiyama
  • Patent number: 9520094
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: an image display panel; and a planar light source including a light guide plate and an edge-lit light source, the light guide plate illuminating the image display panel from a back side, the edge-lit light source including a plurality of light sources arranged facing a plane of incidence; and a controller that controls luminance of each of the light sources independently. The controller stores therein, as lookup tables for the respective light sources, information on light intensity distributions of light that is incident on the light guide plate from the respective light sources and is emitted to a plane of the image display panel from the light guide plate, and controls a light quantity of each of the light sources based on information on an input signal of an image, and on the lookup tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Harada, Naoyuki Takasaki, Susumu Kimura, Yasuhisa Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 9519373
    Abstract: A coordinate processing unit (23) defines, from a coordinate value of a touched position acquired by a sensor unit (21) and a display mode, a video corresponding to the touched position, and converts the coordinate value into a coordinate value in the defined video, and the coordinate value converted by the coordinate processing unit (23) is transmitted to PC(0) to (2) serving as a supply source of the defined video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsunori Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9519371
    Abstract: In a display device which has a transparent display with touch operations being carried out from opposite sides thereof, i.e., a front face and aback face, operability of the touch operations can be improved. In display control of graphics data which is constructed to include a first component which assumes a touch operation from either one of the front face and the back face, and a second component which assumes a touch operation from a side opposite to the side from which the touch operation is assumed by the first component, only the first component is first displayed, and after a touch operation with respect to the first component is carried out, a content of the second component is decided according to an instruction inputted by the touch operation, so that the second component is then displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryuji Nishida
  • Patent number: 9520359
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, which may be included in a display driver integrated circuit (IC) and a display device, includes a first interconnection and a second interconnection extending on a substrate and separate from each other, a third interconnection extending at a first level that is higher than a level at which the first interconnection and the second interconnection are disposed, and a fourth interconnection extending at a second level that is higher than the first level. A first contact plug is configured to connect the first interconnection and the third interconnection to each other. A stacked contact plug includes a second contact plug and a third contact plug, wherein the second contact plug is connected to the second interconnection, and the third contact plug is connected to the second contact plug and the fourth interconnection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Myoung-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 9513726
    Abstract: A device, for example a mouse pad, configured to illuminate, fluoresce, or glow depending upon user input or user motion. The pattern, format, shape, and/or direction of illumination by the mouse pad depend upon user-directed motion of an input source relative to the mouse pad. For example, the illumination pattern or profile of the mouse pad can depend on user-directed motion of an illumination source, for example a LED source carried by an optical mouse, relative to the mouse pad. The mouse pad includes a first layer that includes a first luminescent composition and a second layer that includes a second luminescent composition. The first luminescent composition and the second luminescent composition can have different luminescent properties or characteristics. The first luminescent composition and the second luminescent composition can be selected for establishing or providing the mouse pad with a desired, intended, or target set of illumination characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: RAZER (ASIA-PACIFIC) PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Terence Tang