Patents Examined by Stephen Sherman
  • Head-mounted display apparatus for retaining a portable electronic device with display
    Patent number: 9429759
    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: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Quin C. Hoellwarth
  • Communication using coupled devices
    Patent number: 9430919
    Abstract: A first device presents first information that is associated with a first mode of operation. The first device receives a communication from a second device that is communicably coupled to the first device. The communication instructs the first device to perform an operation corresponding to an event associated with the second device. In response to receiving the communication from the second device, the first device presents second information that is associated with a second mode of operation corresponding to the event associated with the second device. The second information is presented by the first device concurrent with a processing associated with the event that is performed by the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Henry Mahowald
  • Systems and methods for registering key inputs
    Patent number: 9430054
    Abstract: Systems and methods for registering key inputs are provided. A system includes an input module configured to detect a first key input by a user at a point on a layout of primary keys. The system includes a correction module configured to determine whether the first key input is associated with a single one of the primary keys or a plurality of the primary keys. The input module is configured to detect a second key input if the first key input is determined to be associated with the plurality of the primary keys. The second key input includes a swipe gesture by the user from the point at which the first key input is detected on the layout towards a particular one of the plurality of the primary keys. The system includes a selection module configured to register the first or second key input as an actual key input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Friedrich Kuscher, John Nicholas Jitkoff, Bryan Russell Yeung
  • RFID-based input device
    Patent number: 9417714
    Abstract: A method includes steps of: receiving a first energy and a second energy emitted from within close proximity to a computer; powering a portable unit using the first energy; determining a position and status of the portable unit using the second energy; and transmitting a user identifier from the portable unit to the computer for verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Guy M Cohen
  • Methods for driving electro-optic displays
    Patent number: 9412314
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Karl R. Amundson, Robert W. Zehner, Ara N. Knaian, Benjamin Zion
  • Capacitive stylus for a touch screen
    Patent number: 9411462
    Abstract: A stylus having a transmit drive circuit configured to transmit a signal to a capacitance sensor via capacitive coupling between the stylus and a capacitive sense array which is coupled to the capacitance sensor, which is configured to synchronize to the stylus, the stylus being configured to act as a timing master.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: David G. Wright, Darrin Vallis
  • Information processing device, information processing method and computer program
    Patent number: 9405393
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a detection area determination unit configured to determine whether a contact position of an input object is in a contact determination area which is a part of a detection area of a detection unit based on a detection signal from the detection unit that detects contact of the input object with a contact detection surface, a manipulation determination unit configured to determine manipulation content from movement of the input object when the detection area determination unit determines that the input object is in contact with an inside of the contact determination area, and an event issuing unit configured to issue an event according to the manipulation content determined by the manipulation determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuro Noda
  • Method for changing object position and electronic device thereof
    Patent number: 9400599
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for editing an object in an electronic device are provided. In the method, when a first event occurs depending on detected touch information of at least one object among a plurality of objects displayed on a display unit, a movement interval is determined depending on a characteristic of the first event. A position of the at least one object is changed depending on a movement interval corresponding to the characteristic of the first event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Hea Park, Sang-Sup Kim, Se-Jun Song
  • Method of compensating for pixel data and liquid crystal display
    Patent number: 9378684
    Abstract: A method of compensating for pixel data includes extending a side portion and a corner portion of a real screen to set an virtual screen, setting dimming values of the virtual screen using dimming values of the real screen, calculating an amount of light of each of pixels on the real screen using the dimming values of the virtual screen mapped to a predetermined analysis area, and multiplying the amount of light of each pixel by a gain of each pixel to modulate pixel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongwoo Kim, Heejung Hong, Kyungjoon Kwon, Heewon Ahn, Daeho Cho
  • System and method for detecting facial gestures for control of an electronic device
    Patent number: 9367127
    Abstract: A control system enables a user to control an electronic device by moving parts of the face, including the eyes. Optical emitters and optical detectors are used to reflect light from the relevant parts of the user's face. Pattern matching or approximation of a pointing location are used to define the control input to the electronic device based on the user's motions. Visual feedback is optionally provided to the user during the controller's actions. Additional sensor elements are optionally provided to improve performance of the system. Hardware and software elements are combined to provide for the specified control actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Inventor: Philip Raymond Schaefer
  • Eye tracking based selectively backlighting a display
    Patent number: 9361833
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles, and methods are described including operations for eye tracking based selective backlighting of a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gila Kamhi
  • Semiconductor integrated circuit device, display device and information technology device
    Patent number: 9360958
    Abstract: A display device is arranged so as to be able to conduct a touch detection action for sensing a region where a touch operation on a touch panel has been performed, to stop the touch detection action in the touch panel, and to specify a touch-detection-stop region. The display device includes an image-display-direction register. A processor writes parameters designating an image-display direction into the image-display-direction register based on a result of detection by a tilt detector. On condition that parameters stored in the image-display-direction register have been changed, the display device changes the touch-detection-stop region based on the parameters. The above function is mounted on a semiconductor integrated circuit device included in the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Synaptics Display Devices GK
    Inventor: Yasuhito Kurokawa
  • Architecture for seamless integrated display system
    Patent number: 9361059
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods of seamless displays are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a backpanel device comprising display drive circuitry can be removably coupled with a display device via an array of contact members. The display device can include image-producing elements or pixels that can be selectively driven by the backpanel device via corresponding portions of the array of contact members. Multiple display devices can be disposed adjacently on one or more backpanel devices such that an image displayed across the multiple display devices appears seamless.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Johanna Swan, Uygar Avci, Islam A. Salama, Ravi Pallarisetty
  • OLED display with reduced power consumption
    Patent number: 9347647
    Abstract: An OLED display with a plurality of pixels for displaying an image having a target display white point luminance and chromaticity, each pixel including three red, green and blue gamut-defining emitters defining a display gamut and a magenta emitter with two of cyan, yellow or white emitters as three additional emitters which emit light within the display gamut; the display including a means for receiving a three-component input image signal; transforming the three-component input image signal to a six component drive signal; and providing the drive signal to display an image corresponding to the input image signal. One embodiment is where the pixels have red, green, blue, cyan, magenta and yellow colored subpixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: John W. Hamer, Michael E. Miller, John Ludwicki
  • Detachable head mount display device and method for controlling the same
    Patent number: 9348142
    Abstract: A micro-head mounted display device that may be detachably affixed to eye-glasses and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. A method for controlling a detachable HMD device, detecting that the HMD device is affixed to eye-glasses, acquiring identification information of the eye-glasses, acquiring a look up table related to the identification information, receiving an input signal generated when the eye-glasses to which the HMD device is affixed are touched, from the sensor unit, acquiring a control input related to the input signal from the look up table, and performing a function corresponding to the control input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Eunhyung Cho, Jongho Kim, Doyoung Lee, Jihwan Kim, Sinae Chun
  • Display device for controlling auto-rotation of content and method for controlling auto-rotation of content displayed on display device
    Patent number: 9348431
    Abstract: There is provided a display device for controlling rotation of content displayed on a display panel, including: a display panel on which the content is displayed; a sensor configured to measure a pitch ? and a roll ? of the display device, wherein the pitch ? is a degree to which the display device is tilted with respect to a horizontal plane by an up-down rotation, and the roll ? is a degree to which the display device is tilted with respect to the horizontal plane by a left-right rotation; and a control processor configured to determine whether or not to rotate the content or to control a rotation speed of the content displayed on the display panel, according to at least one of the pitch ? and the roll ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Sungjae Hwang
  • Terminal device
    Patent number: 9342169
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that detects, by a touch panel disposed on or formed integrally with a display, a contact input and a contactless input of an object; determines a position corresponding to an input based on an output from the touch panel; detects a change in distance between a top surface of the touch panel and the object based on the output from the touch panel; and controls the display to display a candidate word list on the display based on the determined position and the detected change in distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventor: Ichitaro Kohara
  • Method for determining a position of a contact on a capacitive sensor field
    Patent number: 9342197
    Abstract: In a method of determining a position of a touch on a capacitive sensor field having a grid of a plurality of discrete electrodes (12), contacted electrodes are determined by measuring a capacitance value for each of the electrodes and by checking for each of the electrodes for the measured capacitance value whether this value is above a predefined threshold value. A rough touch position (Bg) is calculated by weighting the electrode position with the measured capacitance value. A touch diameter (14) is calculated from the measured capacitance values, and a final touch position (Be) is calculated from the rough touch position (Bg) and the calculated touch diameter (14) using a value table in which correction values that were determined empirically or by means of simulation are stored for possible rough touch positions (Bg) and given touch diameters (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: TRW Automotive Electronics & Components GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Backes, Wulf Reise
  • Circuits for controlling display apparatus
    Patent number: 9336732
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods and apparatus for forming images on a display utilizing a control matrix to control the movement of MEMs-based light modulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Pixtronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Nesbitt W. Hagood, IV, Stephen R. Lewis, Abraham McAllister, Roger W. Barton, Richard S. Payne, Jasper Lodewyk Steyn
  • Combined touchpad and keypad using force input
    Patent number: 9335844
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices are described for determining positional information and force information for input objects using an input device. The various embodiments provide improved user interface functionality by detecting positional information and force information at a sensing surface having a configurable sub-region, and operating the input device in either a touchpad mode or a keypad mode based on whether the force information exceeds a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Kevin Arthur, Jerry Shao