Patents Examined by Tom Sheng
  • Patent number: 9898967
    Abstract: A driving voltage control method and apparatus, an array substrate, and a display device, wherein a plurality of predetermined areas (11a) are preset within a display area (11), and corresponding to any of the predetermined areas, the apparatus comprises an acquisition module (21) configured to acquire a luminance value of a pixel cell with the maximum luminance within the predetermined area (11a) in any frame, a search module (22) configured to search a preset table for a corresponding driving voltage value according to the luminance value acquired by the acquisition module and a control module (23) configured to control a driving voltage outputted to all the pixel cells within the predetermined area (11a) in a next frame according to the driving voltage value obtained by the search module. The driving voltage for the display device in any image can be reduced without affecting the display effect of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Liu, Lintao Zhang
  • Patent number: 9886229
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for cube graphical user interfaces are disclosed. A cube may be a two dimensional representation of a three dimensional object. The cube may contain a file or application on each face of the cube. The cube may be rotated such that a user may view the desired cube face. Each cube face may contain a single-angle video. The single-angle videos may be synchronized. A user may rotate the cube to view videos of an object or event from different angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Inventors: Coy Christmas, Luke Malpass, Lionel Zafar
  • Patent number: 9886798
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device including a display controller configured to place a virtual object within an augmented reality space corresponding to a real space in accordance with a recognition result of a real object shown in an image captured by an imaging part, and an operation acquisition part configured to acquire a user operation. When the user operation is a first operation, the display controller causes the virtual object to move within the augmented reality space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo Tsurumi
  • Patent number: 9881539
    Abstract: A display substrate and a driving method thereof as well as a display apparatus. The display substrate comprises pixel groups which are arranged repeatedly, each pixel group comprising a first sub-pixel group and a second sub-pixel group, each comprising four pixel columns. The present invention reduces the number of sub-pixels in the whole display apparatus. Therefore, on a premise of ensuring that the display apparatus achieves a relatively high resolution, the fabrication difficulty of the display apparatus is reduced, and the cost is lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodan Jin, Lintao Zhang
  • Patent number: 9880731
    Abstract: A modular flexible-screen apparatus allowing a user to transport personal preferences or settings between participating vehicles of transportation. The user can carry the preference-holding screen apparatus to and from the same vehicle, and between other vehicles the user owns, and/or to shared, taxi, or rental vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Peggy Wang, Jianfeng Wang, Jimmy Qi
  • Patent number: 9877362
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) driver circuit is provided. The light emitting diode (LED) driver circuit includes an LED array; an LED driving circuit configured to provide a constant current to the LED array by a switching operation of a switch element; and a driving controller configured to control the switch element using a clock signal of a preset frequency so that the constant current corresponding to a dimming signal is provided to the LED array. The driving controller varies a frequency of the clock signal in response to a signal value indicating that the dimming signal is being transitioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jeong-il Kang
  • Patent number: 9870195
    Abstract: A system and method for establishing a conference session between a plurality of presentation devices including at least first and second presentation devices, the method comprising the steps of creating a conference session involving the first presentation device and at least one other presentation device, the first presentation device comprising at least one first display device on which content to be shared is displayed, for at least the second presentation device that includes at least one second display device, upon successful joining to the conference session, automatically sharing content displayed on the first display device with the second presentation device for display on the second display device and displaying a representation on the first display device identifying the other presentation devices that are successfully joined to the conference session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Michael H Dunn, Ian G Hutchinson, Peter W Hildebrandt
  • Patent number: 9864454
    Abstract: A system for classifying touch events includes a touch screen configured to display an interactive element, one or more vibro-acoustic sensors coupled to the touch screen, a touch event detector configured to monitor the one or more vibro-acoustic sensors and to save vibro-acoustic signals sensed by the one or more vibro acoustic sensors, wherein the touch event detector is further configured to detect touch events in which the interactive element is touched by a first or a second finger part of a user, and wherein the touch events result in generating the vibro-acoustic signals, and a vibro-acoustic classifier configured to classify the vibro-acoustic signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: QEEXO, CO.
    Inventors: Christopher Harrison, Julia Schwarz, Robert Xiao
  • Patent number: 9864511
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a housing, a display unit installed in the housing and having a display area to display an image or a menu icon, a sensing unit installed in the housing adjacent to the display unit, having a virtual area to sense an object which is disposed over the display area of the display unit, and having a first camera to photograph and display the virtual area in a photographing mode and a second camera to extract the object from the virtual area and display a sensed image of the extracted object in a sensing mode, and a controller to analyze status of the object according to the sensed image of the object, and to determine the analyzed status of the object as a user input in the sensing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Inventor: Seungman Kim
  • Patent number: 9866794
    Abstract: A method and assembly for sharing information in a conference space, the assembly comprising a display configuration including presentation surface area juxtaposed within the conference space for viewing by an audience, the surface area including at least first and second adjacent presentation sub-spaces, a processor programmed to perform the steps of presenting an interface on the surface area useable to generate session images within at least one of the sub-spaces, the interface including a panel section in which a separate panel icon for each of the session images created during a session is presented, the interface further including a separate space on the surface area associated with each of the sub-spaces, the interface facilitating selection and dragging of panel icons to locations associated with the sub-spaces to control the images presented in each of the sub-spaces, wherein, when a panel icon is dragged to a space, an image currently associated with the sub-space is replaced at the sub-space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Michael H Dunn, Ian G Hutchinson, Peter W Hildebrandt
  • Patent number: 9865193
    Abstract: Provided herein is an image display apparatus including a receiver configured to receive first image data; a signal processor configured to process the received first image data; an outputter configured to output the processed first image data; a storage configured to store second image data; and a controller configured to cut off power supplied to at least one component from among components of the image display apparatus and to control the outputter to output the stored second image data to an area of a screen, in response to the image display apparatus entering a power saving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-jin Lim, Sung-soo Kim
  • Patent number: 9858033
    Abstract: A collaboration system comprising a first large display screen supported within the conference space and a processor linked to the large display screen and providing an interface thereon that includes a presentation space for presenting session content and a device icon section, the device icon section including a separate attendee icon for each attendee linked to the session via a portable computing device, wherein any one of the portable computing devices is useable to control content presented in the presentation space, the processor programmed to perform the steps of receiving a command to alter the content in the presentation space from any one of the portable computing devices, in response to receiving the command, altering the content in the presentation space and visually distinguishing the attendee icon associated with the portable computing device most recently used to change the content in the presentation space, wherein the portable computing devices are used in an egalitarian fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Michael H Dunn, Ian G Hutchinson, Peter W Hildebrandt
  • Patent number: 9857910
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for controlling multiple touch panels and an electronic device. The method includes: acquiring a first touch event by using a first touch panel, where the first touch event is input information that is triggered by a touch gesture on the first touch panel and is incompatible with an interface of third-party application software; when the electronic device detects that currently displayed application software is third-party application software, acquiring a first instruction corresponding to the first touch event, where the third-party application software is application software that is installed in the electronic device and is developed by a third party and not by a manufacturer of the electronic device; and running the third-party application software according to the first instruction. Embodiments of the present invention improve operation control efficiency of the touch panels of an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Device (Dongguan) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lei Chen
  • Patent number: 9851846
    Abstract: An input device includes a measurement unit configured to measure a physical quantity according to an operation including at least one of touch of an operating object and proximity of the operating object, a determination unit configured to determine an operation state including an operation existence state and an operation nonexistence state, on the basis of at least a base value and the physical quantity, and a base value updating unit configured to update the base value using the physical quantity when a magnitude of a change in the physical quantity per predetermined time falls within a predetermined range, during an operation existence period in which the operation state is the operation existence state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakajima, Satoshi Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 9847061
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to, in an organic EL display device in which an initialization voltage is applied, extend the time period usable to write a video voltage as compared with the conventional art. In order to achieve this object, the organic EL display device includes a plurality of pixels each including an organic EL element; a plurality of video lines that supply a video voltage to each of the plurality of pixels; a plurality of scanning lines that supply a scanning voltage to each of the plurality of pixels; a unit that supplies a selection scanning voltage concurrently to an N number of scanning lines among the plurality of scanning lines, and supplies an initialization voltage to each of the plurality of video lines, in a k'th scanning period; and a unit that supplies a selection scanning voltage sequentially to the N number of scanning lines, and supplies video voltages to each of the plurality of video lines, in (k+1)th through (k+N)th scanning periods respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Takeda
  • Patent number: 9823751
    Abstract: Disclosed is wearable device including a sensor that detects a movement of a peripheral object, a display unit that displays a plurality of items and displaying a focus on at least one of the plurality of items, and a processor that controls the display unit to move the focus onto an item at a position corresponding to a moving direction of the peripheral object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Ho-chul Shin
  • Patent number: 9817532
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch panel and a display device. The touch panel includes a conductive layer which includes first electrode layers parallel arranged in columns in a Y-axis direction and second electrode layers parallel arranged in rows in an X-axis direction. Each first electrode layer includes first pattern electrodes sequentially connected, and each second electrode layer includes second pattern electrodes sequentially connected. Each first pattern electrode is of a hexagonal shape. The second pattern electrodes are arranged at a region between two adjacent columns of the first electrode layers. A projection of a connection end between two adjacent second pattern electrodes in an identical row onto a plane parallel to the conductive layer partially overlaps a projection of a connection end between two adjacent first pattern electrodes in an identical column which are arranged adjacent to the two adjacent second pattern electrodes in an identical row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Ming Hu, Taofeng Xie, Lingyan Wu, Yang Liu, Ming Zhang, Guodong Liu
  • Patent number: 9818334
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display substrate and a method for driving the same, and a display apparatus. The display substrate comprises pixel groups repeatedly arranged, each of the pixel groups comprises two first sub-pixels, eight second sub-pixels and two third sub-pixels, and each of the pixel groups comprises four pixel columns, two first sub-pixels are sequentially arranged in a first pixel column of each of the pixel groups and two third sub-pixels are sequentially arranged in a third pixel column of each of the pixel groups, wherein, each of the first sub-pixels is disposed so as to correspond to two second sub-pixels in a pixel column adjacent thereto, and each of the third sub-pixels is disposed so as to correspond to two second sub-pixels in a pixel column adjacent thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodan Jin, Lintao Zhang
  • Patent number: 9818364
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a timing controller, a data driver and a display panel. The timing controller receives input image data at a first frequency substantially equal to a frame rate of an input image. The timing controller generates a data signal having the first frequency based on the input image data having the first frequency. The data driver converts the data signal into a data voltage. The display panel displays an image based on the data voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoung-Won Lee, Su-Hyeong Park, Mun-San Park, Joon-Chul Goh, Woo-Mi Bae
  • Patent number: 9811154
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are described herein related to displaying and cropping viewable objects. A viewable object can be displayed on a display of a head-mountable device (HMD) configured with a hand-movement input device. The HMD can receive both head-movement data corresponding to head movements and hand-movement data from the hand-movement input device. The viewable object can be panned on the display based on the head-movement data. The viewable object can be zoomed on the display based on the hand-movement data. The HMD can receive an indication that navigation of the viewable object is complete. The HMD can determine whether a cropping mode is activated. After determining that the cropping mode is activated, the HMD can generate a cropped image of the viewable object on the display when navigation is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Hayes Solos Raffle, Nirmal Patel, Max Benjamin Braun