Patents Examined by Tom Sheng
  • Patent number: 9997129
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a grayscale voltage generation circuit that generates a plurality of grayscale voltages, a data processing unit that performs data processing of first color component display data to third color component display data, and a drive unit that drives a display panel based on the first color component display data to the third color component display data that are subjected to the data processing and the plurality of grayscale voltages that are used in common for the first color component display data to the third color component display data. The data processing unit performs grayscale correction processing on at least one color component display data of the first color component display data to the third color component display data in a grayscale correction range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoaki Nishimura, Akihiko Ito
  • Patent number: 9997123
    Abstract: A switching power supply circuit has: a switching output generator that generates an output voltage from an input voltage by using an output transistor; a switching controller that turns ON and OFF the output transistor so as to keep the output voltage, or a feedback voltage commensurate therewith, with a predetermined reference voltage; and a maximum duty controller that varies the maximum duty of the output transistor according to the reference voltage, the output voltage, or the feedback voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seiji Takenaka
  • Patent number: 9996165
    Abstract: The description relates to 3D gesture recognition. One example gesture recognition system can include a gesture detection assembly. The gesture detection assembly can include a sensor cell array and a controller that can send signals at different frequencies to individual sensor cells of the sensor cell array. The example gesture recognition system can also include a gesture recognition component that can determine parameters of an object proximate the sensor cell array from responses of the individual sensor cells to the signals at the different frequencies, and can identify a gesture performed by the object using the parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ran Gilad-Bachrach, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Gerald Reuben Dejean, II, Eden Alejandro Alanis Reyes, Trang T. Thai
  • Patent number: 9997128
    Abstract: A display panel driving apparatus includes a data processor configured to receive N-th line data of image data. N is a natural number not less than 2. The data processor is further configured to perform a first line delay on the N-th line data to output (N?1)-th line data, to output (N?1)-th line substitution data which is obtained by N-th line substitution data, which is based on the N-th line data and the (N?1)-th line data, and to compensate the N-th line data based on the N-th line data and the (N?1)-th line substitution data to output compensation image data. The display panel driving apparatus further includes a data driver and a gate driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byungkil Jeon, Yongbum Kim, Eunseon Kim, Yongho Sung
  • Patent number: 9990086
    Abstract: A computing device includes a housing that includes a front side and a back side. The computing device also includes a first presence-sensitive input component at the front side of the housing, a second presence-sensitive input component at the back side of the housing. The computing device includes at least one object detection sensor configured to generate sensor data. The computing device includes at least one processor, and a memory that includes instructions that cause the at least one processor to: determine whether an object is in the proximity of the computing device, responsive to determining that the object is in the proximity of the computing device, determine whether to disable a particular presence-sensitive input component located at a side of the housing opposite the at least one object detection sensor, and disable the particular presence-sensitive input component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Vijay L. Asrani
  • Patent number: 9977509
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for gesture recognition and a wearable device for gesture recognition are described. A method of gesture recognition involves using a processor to detect a motion artifact from an output signal of a biosignal sensor and generating a control signal to control a function of a target device that corresponds to a reference signal pattern in response to a signal pattern of the detected motion artifact corresponding to the reference signal pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Soon Park, Ui Kun Kwon, Sang Joon Kim
  • Patent number: 9979913
    Abstract: A driving method of an imaging device, and a driving method of an imaging system set the number of unit cells based on signals output from a plurality of unit cells in a phase difference detection area within an imaging area to a number larger than the number of unit cells based on signals output from a plurality of unit cells in a range other than the phase difference detection area within the imaging area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuji Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9971454
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for determining the temperature of a light-generating component of a display assembly using a voltage of the light-generating component are provided. In one embodiment, a method for operating an electronic device, which may include an external surface and a light-emitting diode operative to emit light for illuminating the external surface, may include detecting the forward voltage of the light-emitting diode, calculating the temperature of the light-emitting diode using the detected forward voltage of the light-emitting diode, and altering the performance of the electronic device based on the calculated temperature of the light-emitting diode. Additional embodiments are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: David A. Doyle, Joshua G. Wurzel, Tyler R. Kakuda
  • Patent number: 9952734
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, a sensing electrode on the substrate, wires to electrically connect the sensing electrode, a first ground electrode between the sensing electrode and the wire, and an overlap area where the first ground electrode overlaps with the sensing electrode. A touch panel of another embodiment includes a substrate on which an active area and an unactive area are defined, a sensing electrode on the active area, a wire disposed on the unactive area to electrically connect the sensing electrode, and a first ground electrode provided on the active area between the sensing electrode and the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byeong Seob Kim, Sung Mok Lee
  • Patent number: 9946383
    Abstract: Conductive trace routing techniques for display and bezel sensors are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes display sensors, bezel sensors, and a plurality of conductive traces. The display sensors are configured to detect proximity of an object and are arranged in conjunction with a display area of a display device to support interaction with a user interface displayed by the display device. The bezel sensors are configured to detect proximity of an object and are disposed in a bezel that at least partially surrounds the display device and is outside the display area. The plurality of conductive traces are disposed between the display and bezel sensors and communicatively couple the display sensors and the bezel sensors to one or more computing components that are configured to process inputs received from the display sensors and the bezel sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew N. Cady, Christopher A. Whitman, Steven Nabil Bathiche, Thomas Charles Oliver, Rajesh Manohar Dighde
  • Patent number: 9944183
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an HUD integrated cluster system for a vehicle camera. The HUD integrated cluster system displays captured images of the rear view of the vehicle on a cluster and an HUD in front of the driver's seat. Thereby, the gaze shift distance and time may be reduced in watching the environment behind the vehicle and a traffic accident resulting from distraction from the front view may be prevented. The HUD integrated cluster system also displays, on the cluster and the HUD in front of the driver's seat, an image of at least one of the views of the rear center, rear left side and rear right side of the vehicle according to the speed of the vehicle, gear shift, blinking of a turn signal, and a steering direction of the steering wheel. Thereby, the driver may easily observe the rear view according to respective situations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Denso Korea Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yagyu, Won Joong Kang, Oh Su Kwon, Dong Hun Kwak
  • Patent number: 9948296
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a conductive film of a touch panel. The conductive film has a film and a plurality of a plurality of hydrophobic units. The film is used for sensing touch signals, and the hydrophobic units are disposed in the film with intervals. Conductive material of the conductive film of the touch panel is distributed outside the region of the hydrophobic units, and as the hydrophobic units have good light transmittance, the touch panel of the present disclosure has a characteristic of high light transmittance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc.
    Inventors: Yuh-Wen Lee, Xianbin Xu, Keming Ruan, Fengming Lin
  • Patent number: 9939943
    Abstract: A client can return a display state of an object to the past. When a point body moves on a screen, a projector draws an object of a line representing a moving trajectory. The projector generates object data representing the object and transmits the generated object data to tablet terminals. The object data contains order information representing generation order of the object. The tablet terminals display the object represented by the transmitted object data on a touch panel. When performing an operation for returning the display, the tablet terminals return the display by object unit based on the order information contained in the object data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichiro Ota, Kazuyoshi Kitabayashi
  • Patent number: 9939647
    Abstract: An extended field of view (FOV) is provided by an exit pupil expander in a near-eye display system that uses a waveguide with multiple diffractive optical elements (DOEs) for in-coupling light, expanding the pupil in two directions, and out-coupling light to a system user's eye. Left and right in-coupling DOEs in-couple pupils respectively produced by a pair of imagers—one imager provides a left portion of the FOV and the other imager provides the right portion. The left portion and right portion of the FOV respectively propagate in a left and right intermediate DOEs which expand the pupil in a first direction and diffract light to an out-coupling DOE. The out-coupling DOE expands the pupil in a second direction, stitches the extended FOV together by combining the left and right portions of the FOV produced by the imagers, and out-couples the extended FOV to the user's eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tuomas Vallius, Pasi Petteri Pietilae
  • Patent number: 9927921
    Abstract: Provided is an infrared touch screen device including the transmission unit which contains the rectangular bezel which is constituted so that the touch screen panel is to be installed, and the multiple numbers of light transmitting elements which are installed in the lengthwise direction of corresponding bezel to one horizontal bezel and one vertical bezel respectively among the bezels and transmitting the infrared rays forward, and the reception unit which is further configured to have the multiple numbers of light receiving elements which are installed at two bezels among the bezels so that the infrared rays transmitted from the transmission unit is to be received and contain the band pass filter which makes only the infrared rays of specific wavelength band among the infrared rays transmitted from the transmission unit to be received by the multiple numbers of light receiving elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Inventor: Jun Goo Lee
  • Patent number: 9922593
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an emissive display configured to operate in a day mode and a night mode. The emissive display comprises a day pixel configured to operate in the day mode. The emissive display also comprises a night pixel configured to operate in the night mode, wherein the night pixel is not operational in the day mode. The emissive display also comprises a common pixel configured to operate in both the day mode and the night mode. The emissive display also comprises a detector configured to selectively change an operating mode of the display between the day mode and the night mode based on a detected indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: L3 Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Sanjay Tripathi
  • Patent number: 9916791
    Abstract: A novel display device is provided. In a display device with a 2T1C circuit configuration, a switch is provided between a current supply line and a transistor. The switch is turned off in a data voltage writing period to bring one of a source and a drain of the transistor into an electrically floating state. This configuration can prevent a potential rise on the anode side of a light-emitting element, thereby suppressing undesired light emission in the data voltage writing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9905170
    Abstract: A display assembly includes a display unit having a liquid crystal layer and an LED array configured to illuminate the liquid crystal layer. A driver circuit is operatively connected to the LED array and configured to control a luminance of the LED array. A control module is operatively connected to the display unit and includes a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which is recorded instructions for executing a method for controlling the LED array in the display unit. The control module is programmed to obtain a junction temperature (TJ) of the LED array, via the driver circuit. The junction temperature (TJ) is based at least partially on a first voltage (V1), a second voltage (V2) and a predetermined coefficient (Tcoefficient). The control module may be programmed to enter one of a plurality of stages based at least partially on the junction temperature (TJ).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: James A. Carpenter, Thomas A. Seder
  • Patent number: 9904462
    Abstract: A system and method for content collaboration, the system comprising a first collaboration configuration including at least a first display having a first display surface, a second collaboration configuration including a least a second display having a second display surface, a processor maintaining a session dataset including a plurality of objects arranged in a relative juxtaposition with respect to each other, the processor presenting first and second different views of the session via the at the least first and second display surfaces, respectively, wherein at least some of the first view overlaps with some of the second view and indicating, via the at least a first display surface, content presented in the second view that is not presented in the first view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: STEELCASE INC.
    Inventors: Michael H Dunn, Ian G Hutchinson, Peter W Hildebrandt
  • Patent number: 9898082
    Abstract: A gaze tracking system uses visible light to track the pose of an eye. A display screen displays a display image, while a camera captures images of the eye. The images captured by the camera include a reflection of the display screen, reflecting from the cornea of the eye. The position of the reflection depends on the orientation of the eye. The system is trained on a set of training images. Each training image is captured by the camera while the eye looks at a different, known gaze point in the display screen. The system may track gaze of the eye, while the eye is looking at a calibrated image that has been displayed during training. Or the system may track gaze of an eye looking at a new, uncalibrated image, such as an image in a video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Scott Greenwald