Patents Examined by Stephen T Reed
  • Patent number: 10788919
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical sensing device, including: a storage circuitry being coupled to a charging circuitry, a photosensitive circuitry, and a voltage-readout circuitry, the storage circuitry storing a voltage value; the charging circuitry being coupled to the storage circuitry for charging the storage circuitry; the photosensitive circuitry being connected to a first terminal for discharging the storage circuitry to the first terminal; and the voltage-readout circuitry being connected to the storage circuitry, for reading the voltage value of the storage circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chunwei Wu
  • Patent number: 10775899
    Abstract: Disclosed are keyboards and keyboard switches sensitive to touch, including, hover and pressure. The keyboard switches have transmit and receive antennae that are spaced apart such that no portion of the transmit antenna touches any portion of the receive antenna. The keyboard switches are arranged in logical rows and logical columns such that each of the keyboard switches is associated with one row and one column. Signal emitters are conductively coupled to the transmit antennae for each of the keyboard switches associated with each of the rows, and each of the signal emitters are adapted to cause each of the transmit antennae to transmit one or more source signals. Receivers are coupled to the receive antennae for each of the keyboard switches associated with each of the columns, and each of the receivers are adapted to capture a frame of signals present on the coupled receive antennae.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.
    Inventors: Braon Moseley, Steven Leonard Sanders, David Clark Wilkinson, Bruno Rodrigues De Araujo, Ricardo Jorge Jota Costa
  • Patent number: 10769992
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel comprises a plurality of data signal lines; a plurality of scan signal lines intersecting with the plurality of data signal lines, to define a plurality of sub-pixels in an array, and each of the sub-pixels comprising a pixel driving circuit, and an external compensation circuit, comprising a power supply unit, a sampling unit and a data signal generation unit, being connected to the data signal lines, and transmitting a compensated data signal via the data signal lines to the pixel driving circuits. In the present implementation, voltage compensation is performed by the external compensation circuit on the driving transistor and the organic light emitting diode in the pixel driving circuit, to improve the driving capability of the pixel driving circuit and increases the display precision of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Li, Dongxu Xiang, Gang Liu
  • Patent number: 10770028
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting a change in light level; receiving, from at least one other source, data associated with an ambient light level; determining, using a processor, whether the change in light level corresponds to a change in the ambient light level; and adjusting, responsive to determining that the change in light level corresponds to the change in the ambient light level, a brightness level of a display operatively coupled to an information handling device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John Carl Mese, Russell Speight VanBlon, Arnold S. Weksler, Nathan J. Peterson
  • Patent number: 10732919
    Abstract: An information handling system includes first and second displays, and a display controller. The display controller provides a visual output to the first and second display based on a display mode. A processor selects a mask display mode as a default display mode, determines a content type of the visual output, selects a split display mode when the content type is a first content type, determines a physical flatness of the information handling system when the content type is a second content type, and selects the split display mode when the physical flatness is greater than a flatness threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Deeder M. Aurongzeb, Keith M. Alfano
  • Patent number: 10732706
    Abstract: A method is disclosed including providing a plurality of sets of virtual reality video content, the sets representing respective three-dimensional virtual spaces within which a user can be immersed and being associated with respective three-dimensional portions of a real-world space such that, when rendered to a user device, there is a partial overlap between at least two virtual spaces defining one or more overlapping zones. The method may also include determining the position of a user device within the real-world space and rendering one or more of the virtual spaces, or representation(s) thereof, for display to the user device dependent on the determined position or movement within the real-world space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Antti Johannes Eronen, Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi, Jussi Artturi Leppanen, Juha Henrik Arrasvuori
  • Patent number: 10725538
    Abstract: A method of operating an electronic gaming machine includes displaying a moving object to a viewer on a display screen of the electronic gaming machine, detecting and tracking eye movement of the viewer in relation to the moving object over a predetermined time period, comparing the eye movement of the viewer in relation to the object over the predetermined time period to a displayed position of the object over the predetermined time period, and determining based on the comparison that the eye of the viewer in relation to the moving object is tracking the object. Related systems and devices are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Fayez Idris, David Small
  • Patent number: 10725657
    Abstract: A method for displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) is disclosed, which relate to the data processing field. The method specifically includes: determining whether a display of a device is shielded; when it is determined that the display is shielded, determining a shielded area and a display area of the display; determining parameter information of the display area, where the parameter information includes an area size of the display area and a position of the display area; and obtaining, according to the parameter information, a GUI that matches the display area, and displaying the GUI in the display area. Whether a display of the device is shielded is determined. When the display is shielded, the GUI is displayed in the display area, so that the GUI can be displayed only in the display area of the display and does not need to be displayed in full screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bin Xie, Zhenghao Guo, Jin Sun, Liang Ma, Brian McDermott, Yan Li
  • Patent number: 10720474
    Abstract: An electronic device can include: a pixel array layer disposed on a substrate and including a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels including a thin film transistor and an organic light emitting device; an encapsulation layer covering the pixel array layer; a shielding layer disposed on the encapsulation layer; and a touch sensing layer disposed on the shielding layer to sense coordinates of a touch input, in which the touch sensing layer includes a pressure response member for sensing a touch force of the touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JongHee Hwang, BuYeol Lee
  • Patent number: 10698501
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein relate to systems, methods, and devices for capturing arm motion. The arm motion can be transformed into a rendered object that can interact with a three dimensional scene that allows a user to intuitively grab, move, manipulate and hit objects within the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignees: SolitonReach, Inc., Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventors: Furrukh Khan, Xiaoxi Zhao, Anil Ozyalcin
  • Patent number: 10679558
    Abstract: The present application discloses to provide a display device capable of displaying an image with a luminance depending on a data signal by controlling pulling of a gate voltage of a driving transistor occurring when a writing period starts and ends and a driving method of the display device. A pixel circuit including a compensation circuit compensating variation of a threshold value of a driving transistor is provided with a boost capacitor including a MOS capacitor between a node connected to a gate terminal of the driving transistor and a scanning line. A current value of a drive current is controlled by the driving transistor by using the pulling of the potential of the node being different between a case that a low level voltage is applied the scanning line connected to the boost capacitor and a case that a high level voltage is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Ueda
  • Patent number: 10678333
    Abstract: An exemplary virtual object presentation system accesses depth data for surfaces of a three-dimensional (“3D”) virtual object. The system determines, based on the depth data, a set of element configuration operations that, when performed by field formation elements included within an array of reconfigurable field formation elements, form a field in accordance with the depth data. Specifically, the field formed is to be haptically perceptible to a user using a field perception apparatus. The system may direct the field formation elements included within the array of reconfigurable field formation elements to perform the set of element configuration operations to thereby form the haptically perceptible field. In this way, the array of reconfigurable field formation elements generates a haptically perceptible virtual object representative of the 3D virtual object for perception by the user using the field perception apparatus. Corresponding methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Raheel Khalid, Syed Meeran Kamal, Lama Hewage Ravi Prathapa Chandrasiri
  • Patent number: 10664090
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to projecting onto a touch-sensitive surface a projection image having projected regions corresponding to target and non-target touch regions. Examples include a computing system having a touch-sensitive surface, and a camera to capture an image representing an object disposed between the camera and the touch-sensitive surface. The computing system may also include a detection engine to identify, based at least on the object represented in the image, at least one touch region of the touch-sensitive surface, and to generate a projection image including a projected region corresponding to the touch region, and a projector to project the projection image onto the touch-sensitive surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jinman Kang, Jordi Morillo Peres, David Bradley Short
  • Patent number: 10665660
    Abstract: A single-side light-emitting source, a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device are provided. The single-side light-emitting source includes a base substrate; a plurality of light-shielding patterns on the base substrate; a signal transmission pattern covering the plurality of light-shielding patterns; a plurality of first electrodes; an electroluminescent layer on the first electrodes; and a transparent second electrode layer on the electroluminescent layer. In the above single-side light-emitting source, the first electrodes are on the signal transmission pattern, and an orthographic projection of each first electrode onto the base substrate is within an orthographic projection of a corresponding light-shielding pattern onto the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Zhu, Xue Dong, Jikai Yao, Guangkui Qin, Xinxing Wang, Jing Lv
  • Patent number: 10664100
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to detecting misalignment of a touch sensitive mat. Examples include detecting corners of the touch sensitive mat, determining a set of reference corners, performing a comparison of the detected corners of the mat with the set of reference corners, and determining a level of misalignment based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Yun Tang, Jinman Kang, David Bradley Short, Daniel R Tretter, Kar Han Tan, Amit A Marathe
  • Patent number: 10649588
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to piezoelectric film structures and sensors, and display assemblies using same. The piezoelectric film structure is transparent and includes: a substrate; a bottom optical layer disposed on or above the substrate; a bottom conducting layer disposed on or above the bottom optical layer; at least one piezoelectric layer disposed on or above the bottom conducting layer; a top conducting layer disposed on or above the at least one piezoelectric layer; and a top optical layer disposed on or above the top conducting layer. The sensor includes the piezoelectric film structure electrically connected to a signal processing system. The display assembly includes the sensor operably arranged relative to a display device. The piezoelectric film structures and sensors can be configured to determine one or more touch-sensing features associated with a touch event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Jaymin Amin, Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Charles Andrew Paulson, William James Miller, Rostislav Vatchev Roussev
  • Patent number: 10636349
    Abstract: Disclosed is a micro light emitting diode (LED) display device which is capable of implementing a full color of high resolution, the micro LED display device including: a micro LED driving substrate (backplane) in which a plurality of CMOS cells is arranged in rows and columns; and a micro LED panel which is flip-chip bonded onto the micro LED driving substrate, and includes a plurality of micro LED pixels electrically connected with the plurality of CMOS cells, in which the micro LED panel includes the plurality of micro LED pixels formed by etching a first surface of an emission structure along a unit pixel region, and a plurality of separators formed on a second surface of the emission structure corresponding to positions of portions formed by etching the emission structure in a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: LUMENS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun Sung Shin, Dong Hee Cho, Yong Pil Kim, Myung Ji Moon, Han Beet Chang, Jae Soon Park
  • Patent number: 10636335
    Abstract: Portable display systems, devices, and methods are disclosed. A portable display device can be attached to a moving object such as a vehicle and can include one or more digital displays for displaying images. A portable display device can communicate with external devices and display images based on the geographic location of the portable display device. The portable display device may also have several moving components for moving the digital displays between an upright position and a retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Inventors: Ildikó Kis-Benedek Pinero, Gyula Kis-Benedek
  • Patent number: 10627903
    Abstract: A tactile sensation providing apparatus and a method for the same utilize an existing application configuring a user interface, and provide tactile sensation in response to an input so as to improve an operation feeling. The tactile sensation providing apparatus includes a touch sensor, a tactile sensation providing unit which vibrates a touch face, a display unit, a memory unit which stores a definition file of a user interface including information about a tactile sensation to be provided corresponding to an object included in the user interface, and a control unit which sets the user interface defined in the definition file by analyzing the definition file and, when an input to the object for executing a predetermined operation detected, controls the tactile sensation providing unit to provide the tactile sensation corresponding to the object to a pressing object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Kenta Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 10620741
    Abstract: The present application discloses an integrated touch control display panel and an integrated touch control display device comprising the same. A specific embodiment of the integrated touch control display panel comprises a plurality of touch control sensing electrodes extending along a first direction and disposed along a second direction. The touch control sensing electrode has a grid structure, and comprises a plurality of electrically connected metal electrodes. The metal electrode comprises a plurality of electrically connected sub-metal electrodes, and the sub-metal electrode has a width of a, wherein a is less than or equal to 3 micrometer (3 ?m) and is greater than or equal to 2.5 micrometer (2.5 ?m). In this embodiment, the blocking effect of the grid touch control sensing electrodes on the light in a display region is attenuated, and thereby display effect is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Inventors: Chao Zheng, Mingchao Hou, Zhiwei Zheng, Kangpeng Yang, Yumin Xu