Patents Examined by Temesgh Ghebretinsae
  • Patent number: 9268136
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described that involve a head-mountable display (HMD) or an associated device determining the orientation of a person's head relative to their body. To do so, example methods and systems may compare sensor data from the HMD to corresponding sensor data from a tracking device that is expected to move in a manner that follows the wearer's body, such a mobile phone that is located in the HMD wearer's pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Thad Eugene Starner, Michael Patrick Johnson
  • Patent number: 9262024
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a liquid crystal display panel includes a pixel array including data lines through which a data voltage is supplied, gate lines through which a gate pulse is supplied, a plurality of sub-pixels arranged at intersections of the data lines and the gate lines, Tx lines provided with a touch driving signal and connected to Tx electrodes, and Rx lines connected to Rx electrodes, wherein an shield area including an shield pattern to which a voltage at a level different from the data voltage and the touch driving signal is supplied is formed between each of the Tx electrodes and each of the Rx electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taehwan Kim, Yongchan Park, Sangsoo Hwang
  • Patent number: 9256363
    Abstract: According to an aspect, an information processing device includes: a touch panel for detecting a contact; and a controller configured to display a virtual keyboard including a plurality of buttons on the touch panel, and receive, when the touch panel detects a contact started at a first position on the surface of the touch panel and terminated at a second position on the surface of the touch panel, a character string including characters corresponding to the buttons displayed on a trajectory obtained by connecting each position at which the contact is detected from when the contact is started at the first position to when the contact is terminated at the second position as input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sudo, Hiroshi Tsuruta, Atsuo Chiba, Nayu Nomachi, Takayuki Sato
  • Patent number: 9256295
    Abstract: A handheld wireless communication device includes features that make it easier to differentiate among various keys and to correctly select a desired key. It also includes features that make the device more comfortable to use. In particular, corner keys have decreasing height profiles to make above-adjacent keys easier to reach and distinguish. Additionally, lowermost, outermost portions of the corner keys may be somewhat truncated. Flanking keys in a navigation row slant toward and are flush with peripheral edges of a navigation tool assembly and have outer edges that are higher than inner edges of adjacent outer keys. The outer edges of the flanking keys may be hump-shaped or crowned. The longitudinally central portion of the device is narrower than the ends of the device, and the corners of the device are contoured to enhance comfort in a user's hand. Soft-touch materials are employed in hand-contacting portions of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Roman P. Rak, Jason T. Griffin
  • Patent number: 9250705
    Abstract: The invention relates to an input device for a user to perform switching, control and other input and selection operations. Input devices of this type are known in particular in the form of switches, sliders and touch screens on electrical equipment and other controls, e.g. in the vehicle field. The object of the invention is to create solutions that make it possible to create with a large degree of freedom of design an input interface that is advantageous for a user, particularly one that is easy to operate intuitively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY GERMANY GMBH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Richter
  • Patent number: 9250710
    Abstract: A device with a user interface includes a display screen, input keys, and a controller that is configured to control the display screen to display a three by three matrix of fields wherein each of the fields may contain a symbol, and wherein the controller is further interfaced with a number of the input keys, for example four selection keys or eight selection keys, in such a way that one of the symbols is selected by operation of at least one of these selection keys and some of the symbols are selected by simultaneous operation of two or more of the selection keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Inventor: John Mølgaard
  • Patent number: 9250717
    Abstract: A computer input device (e.g. a mouse) with a finger-triggered sensor is described. The sensor generates input signals in addition to the conventional mouse signals generated by click buttons, tracking device and scrolling wheel. The sensor may be an optical sensor, a touch-sensitive sensor or other types of sensors. The signals generated by the sensor, either alone or in combination with other signals generated by the buttons, tracking device or scrolling wheel, may be interpreted to generate various messages for the operating system and/or application programs. The interpretation may be performed by a circuit on the input device, by a driver program on the host computer, or both. The sensor may be provided on a mouse, a laptop keyboard that has a pointing device, an external keyboard equipped with a pointing device, or on a stand-alone device that can be electrically connected to a computer through its available ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Inventor: Duc Phu Truong
  • Patent number: 9244878
    Abstract: A handheld electronic device and display method for a handheld electronic device provide for an initialization screen to be displayed by a display unit, in response to user input, to display symbols reflecting an intent of the user. The handheld electronic device includes a user input unit having a first key to which a symbol of a first type is allocated and a symbol of a second type is not allocated, and a second key to which a symbol of the first type and a symbol of the second type are both allocated; a display unit that, upon input via the user input unit, displays a symbol of the first type and/or a symbol of the second type; and a control unit that controls what the display unit displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michiko Takei
  • Patent number: 9244541
    Abstract: An image sensing apparatus comprises at least one sensing pixel and a control circuit. The sensing pixel comprises: a charge storing device; a light sensing device, for respectively generating photoelectrons with a first, second amount in a first, second mode; and a switch device, for determining an amount that the photoelectron can be transmitted to the charge storing device according to a control voltage. The control voltage generates the control voltage to control the amount that the photoelectrons can be transmitted to the charge storing device to be a first charge amount in a first mode and to be a second charge amount in a second mode. The first, second charge amounts are smaller than a maximum charge storing amount for the charge storing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: En-Feng Hsu, Ching-Wei Chen, Chien-Sheng Chen, Shuen-Yin Bai, Chien-Jung Chou
  • Patent number: 9244557
    Abstract: An input device includes a substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface located opposite to the first main surface; a protective member having an opposed surface opposite to the first main surface; a bonding member configured to bond the first main surface and the opposed surface to each other; a first coloring member disposed between the first main surface and the opposed surface, the first coloring member being in contact with the bonding member; and a second coloring member disposed on the second main surface and having a color different from a color of the first coloring member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunari Nagata, Takashi Minami, Takashi Shimizu, Natsuko Yamagata, Akinori Sato, Yoshio Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 9244587
    Abstract: A pointer controlling apparatus, a control method, and a pointer controlling program are provided which can protect a button from erroneous operation without interrupting the operational flow or using excessive display area. The pointer controlling apparatus permits a pointer to move into a predetermined region after a predetermined period of time has elapsed from a point in time when the pointer comes into contact with a boundary line of the predetermined region. Accordingly, the predetermined area can be securely protected from a point in time at which the pointer comes into contact with the boundary line of the predetermined region for the predetermined amount of time. Furthermore, since the pointer is permitted to enter the predetermined region immediately after the predetermined time has elapsed, the predetermined region can be protected without interrupting the operational flow, and without using an excess of a display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: GVBB Holdings S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Koichi Abe, Shogo Tsubouchi
  • Patent number: 9240136
    Abstract: A data driving circuit for a display panel. The data driving circuit includes a driving integrated circuit including a plurality of data driving units configured to supply image data to data lines of the display panel; and a package body including: a mount region in which the driving integrated circuit is mounted, logic power input patterns configured to transmit logic power to the plurality of data driving units, and at least two external auxiliary transmission lines formed in the mount region and connected to at least one logic power input pattern. Further, the at least two external auxiliary transmission lines are configured to transmit power received from the at least one connected logic power input pattern to data driving units located farthest from said at least one logic power input pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuk-Hui Chang, Young-Nam Lee
  • Patent number: 9236021
    Abstract: The present invention provides a driving method for a liquid crystal display panel, comprising a timing-driven process, wherein the timing-driven process includes the steps of: generating an initial pulse signal, which has a first rising edge rising from a low voltage to a high voltage and a first falling edge falling from the high voltage to the low voltage; and generating a timing pulse signal, which has a second rising edge rising from a low voltage to an intermediate voltage, a third rising edge rising from the intermediate voltage to a high voltage, a second falling edge falling from the high voltage to the intermediate voltage, and a third falling edge falling from the intermediate voltage to the low voltage. At the same time, the present invention further provides a driving circuit for a liquid crystal display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Dekang Zeng, Jiehui Qin, Xiaoping Tan
  • Patent number: 9229599
    Abstract: A display device with an integrated touch screen including a display panel including electrodes divided into a plurality of block type groups and a plurality of data lines; a display driver IC configured to apply a common voltage to the electrodes when a driving mode of the panel is a display driving mode, sequentially apply a touch scan signal to each block type group when the driving mode of the panel is a touch driving mode, and apply a data signal to the data lines associated with a corresponding block type group when the touch scan signal is applied to the corresponding block type group; and a touch IC configured to generate the touch scan signal and apply the touch scan signal to the display driver IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junghan Lee, SungChul Kim
  • Patent number: 9218080
    Abstract: A touch sensing type liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate includes an array substrate including a first substrate, a common electrode, a pixel electrode, and a touch sensing unit; a color filter substrate including a second substrate and facing the array substrate; an anti-static layer on an outer side of the second substrate and including an inorganic material and conductive particles; and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and an inner side of the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kum-Mi Oh, Yong-Su An, Kyoung-Jin Nam, Han-Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 9213476
    Abstract: A method and mobile terminal for reproducing contents is provided. A list of a plurality of contents is displayed and a touch input is detected to select at least one of the plurality of contents from list, with the selected at least one of the plurality of contents reproduced either entirely or partially according to a type of the detected touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Min-Taik Lim, Jeong-Hyuk Yoon, Tae-Hun Kim, Hye-Jin Choi
  • Patent number: 9214107
    Abstract: An active matrix LED display has a light-dependent device for detecting the brightness of the display element and threshold voltage measurement circuitry for measuring a threshold voltage of a pixel the drive transistor. Compensation for ageing of the display element is thus provided by an optical feedback path, and compensation for drive transistor threshold variations is provided by measurement of the threshold voltage. This provides a reliable compensation scheme for the threshold voltage variations, while also providing ageing compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: David A. Fish, Jason R. Hector
  • Patent number: 9207850
    Abstract: An application-executing method using fingerprint recognition includes obtaining an image of a first fingerprint through a fingerprint sensor and recognizing the first fingerprint, executing a first application corresponding to the first fingerprint in a first screen when the first fingerprint is recognized, obtaining an image of a second fingerprint through the fingerprint sensor and recognizing the second fingerprint, determining whether the second fingerprint is recognized within a predetermined time after the first application is executed, and, based on a determination result, when it is determined that the second fingerprint is recognized within the predetermined time after the first application is executed, generating a second screen by splitting the first screen, and executing the first application on one of the second screen, and a second application corresponding to the second fingerprint on the other of the second screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignees: CRUCIALTEC CO., LTD., CRUCIALSOFT COMPANY
    Inventors: Jong Chul Seo, Jung Je Park, Hyo Min Joo, Jae Han Kim, Jun Woo Park, Chae Woong Lim
  • Patent number: 9207820
    Abstract: A touch sensor capable of detecting multiple touches thereto is coupled with a digital device having multi-touch decoding capabilities. These multi-touch decoding capabilities comprise touch data acquisition, touch identification, touch tracking and processed touch data output to a device associated with the touch sensor. Touch identification comprises touch location(s) peak detection, touch location(s) nudging and touch location(s) interpolation. Touch data acquisition locates potential touches on the touch sensor. Peak detection identifies where potential touch locations are on the touch sensor. Once a potential touch location(s) has been identified, touch location nudging examines each adjacent location thereto and interpolation examines the adjacent touch location values to generate a higher resolution location of the touch. Touch tracking compares time sequential “frames” of touch identification data and then determines which touches are associated between frames for further processing, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Lance Lamont, Jerry Hanauer
  • Patent number: 9189107
    Abstract: An eraser is usable in a display system having a display surface. The eraser includes one or more optical detection elements for determining the coordinates of the eraser relative to the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Scott E. Wilson, James D. Watson, Peter W. Hildebrandt