Patents Examined by Towfiq Elahi
  • Patent number: 10838504
    Abstract: Systems for providing an interactive window display are provided, wherein the system includes a source of light having a unique signature and a sensing mechanism having an ambient light filter, the sensing mechanism configured to detect at least one movement of at least one human appendage. The system further includes a means for interpreting the at least one movement operatively connected to a processor configured to execute a set of computer-readable instructions, the means including instructions for controlling images on an external screen, instructions for controlling at least one integrated object, and at least one instruction, wherein the at least one instruction indicates to a user how to operate the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Inventor: Stephen H. Lewis
  • Patent number: 10838548
    Abstract: A touch panel display device includes an active matrix substrate and a control unit. The active matrix substrate is provided with gate lines, pixel electrodes connected to the gate lines, counter electrodes disposed to form a matrix, and touch sensor wires connected to the counter electrodes. The control unit alternately switches, during one frame period, between a gate scan period of scanning the gate lines and a sensor scan period of scanning the counter electrodes by a segment SEG and detecting electrostatic capacitance by. The one frame period includes a plurality of gate scan periods and a plurality of sensor scan periods. The control unit scans each of the segments in a first scan mode of completing touch detection of scanning all the segments in the one frame period a number of times other than an integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiji Kitagawa, Jin Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 10832633
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sink device and a power control method therefor. The sink device comprises: an HDMI reception unit connected to a source device and receiving a signal transmitted by the source device; and a processor for turning on the power of the sink device when a TMDS clock is received from the source device. Therefore, the power of the sink device is automatically turned on, thereby enabling user convenience to improve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong-jin Park, Je-hwan Seo, Seung-il Yoon
  • Patent number: 10810922
    Abstract: A display driver comprises a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) configured to output a grayscale voltage corresponding to an image data. The display driver further comprises a source amplifier configured to drive a source line of a display panel, and a buffer connected between the DAC and the source amplifier. The buffer comprises a first NMOS transistor having a gate supplied with the grayscale voltage and a drain connected to a power supply. The buffer is configured to supply a current depending on a first current flowing through the first NMOS transistor to an input terminal of the source amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Yutaka Saeki
  • Patent number: 10810953
    Abstract: With a field sequential method, image display having sufficiently high color reproduction is performed, and an occurrence of color breakup is more reliably suppressed. In a field sequential liquid crystal display apparatus in which a plurality of subframes including a red subframe, a green subframe, a blue subframe, and a white (common color) subframe constitutes each frame, an image data conversion unit (30) converts input image data (D1) corresponding to red, green, and blue into driving image data (D2) corresponding to the plurality of subframes, based on an adjustment coefficient (Ks) and a distribution ratio (WRs) for the white subframe, for each pixel. Two distribution ratios are selectively used as the distribution ratio (WRs). A function of obtaining a second distribution ratio (WRsv2) of the two distribution ratios is set such that the distribution ratio (WRsv2) increases as the adjusted brightness (brightness after amplification and compression processing) (V) for an input image becomes smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masamitsu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10795476
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes: a substrate having a flat area and a bent area bent from the flat area; a plurality of first sensing electrodes on the substrate and extending in a first direction; and a plurality of second sensing electrodes on the substrate and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction. The first sensing electrodes include a plurality of first sensing patterns arranged in the first direction and a plurality of first connecting patterns respectively connecting adjacent ones of first sensing patterns to each other, and the second sensing electrodes include a plurality of second sensing patterns arranged in the second direction. A first angle between a first one of the first connecting patterns in the flat area and the first direction is different from a second angle between a second one of the first connecting patterns in the bent area and the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Choon Hyop Lee, Ga Yeon Yun, Jeong Heon Lee
  • Patent number: 10783849
    Abstract: A display driver includes a first data voltage output terminal, a first amplifier circuit configured to output a gray scale voltage during a drive time, and to output a first amplifier precharge voltage during a first precharge period, a first precharge line configured to supply a first precharge line voltage, a first amplifier switching element disposed between the first amplifier circuit and the first data voltage output terminal, and a first precharge line switching element disposed between the first precharge line and the first data voltage output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Ishida, Takeshi Nomura, Akihiko Okuda
  • Patent number: 10775906
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods facilitate enrollment of authenticating biometric data for authenticating an authorized user via a biometric sensor. In one aspect, power is transmitted to a smart card from a power source removably coupled to the smart card, the power source including a power element that provides power to the fingerprint sensor and a finger guide comprising two or more finger guide channels positioned adjacent to the fingerprint sensor of the smart card when the power source is coupled to the smart card. Each finger guide channel is configured to position a finger placed thereon to contact the fingerprint sensor at a different orientation. During the transmission of power to the smart card, the user is instructed with respect to the placement and removal of the user's finger with respect to each finger guide channel with a status indicator associated with the finger guide channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: IDEX Biometrics ASA
    Inventors: Fred G. Benkley, III, Peter Joseph Commerford, Jeffrey Joseph Buxton, Anne L. McAleer, David Joseph Geoffroy
  • Patent number: 10775629
    Abstract: A system for generating a frame for display on a see-through display, while correcting, at least partially, a rolling display effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD
    Inventors: Johai Amati, Vadim Neimark, Sharon Kedem
  • Patent number: 10769779
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method for increasing the reading efficiency of a medical image is provided. The method of increasing the reading efficiency of a medical image comprises of: receiving the gaze information of a user, acquiring a gaze tracking device, during a medical image reading process; determining a region of interest of the user with respect to the medical image by using the gaze information; determining a type of service corresponding to the region of interest; and providing the determined service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Vuno, Inc.
    Inventors: Sangki Kim, Hyun-Jun Kim, Kyuhwan Jung, Yeha Lee
  • Patent number: 10768665
    Abstract: A training apparatus has an input device and a wearable computing device with a bio-signal sensor and a display to provide an interactive virtual reality (“VR”) environment for a user. The bio-signal sensor receives bio-signal data from the user. The user interacts with content that is presented in the VR environment. The user interactions and bio-signal data are scored with a user state score and a performance scored. Feedback is given to the user based on the scores in furtherance of training. The feedback may update the VR environment and may trigger additional VR events to continue training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: INTERAXON INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Allen Aimone, Trevor C E Coleman, Ariel Stephanie Garten, Kapil Jay Mishra Vidyarthi, Locillo (Lou) Giuseppe Pino, Michael Apollo Chabior, Paul Harrison Baranowski, Raul Rajiv Rupsingh, Madeline Ashby, Paul V Tadich
  • Patent number: 10755649
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for driving an electrophoretic display panel, and a display device. The electrophoretic display panel includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and charged particles distributed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. In the method for driving an electrophoretic display panel, a direct current voltage signal is applied to the first electrode layer to cause the charged particles to move to a predetermined position. An alternating current voltage signal is applied to the first electrode layer to cause the charged particles to oscillate. A data voltage signal is applied to the first electrode layer for display. After the charged particles oscillate, the motion activity can be improved, so that the charged particles may more accurately move according to the data voltage signal, thereby improving display accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haobo Fang, Yanna Xue, Zhiying Bao, Yong Zhang, Lei Mi, Lu Bai, Gang Hua, Jingpeng Wang, Lingxiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 10732408
    Abstract: A projection type display device includes: a first light source that emits visible light; a projection receiving member which is disposed on a windshield of a vehicle, to which an image based on the visible light is projected; a second light source that emits ultraviolet light which decreases a light transmittance of the projection receiving member by irradiation of the projection receiving member; a projection unit that projects the visible light emitted from the first light source and the ultraviolet light emitted from the second light source to the projection receiving member; an imaging unit that performs imaging of a scene at front of the windshield of the vehicle; and a detection unit that detects an object image having brightness greater than or equal to a first threshold as defined herein, and the projection unit projects the ultraviolet light as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuya Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 10725578
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an electronic device and method. The electronic device includes a touch screen, at least one fingerprint sensor disposed on the touch screen, and a processor implementing the method, including controlling the touch screen to display one or more graphic objects, detecting attribute information of at least one graphic object associated with a fingerprint sensor disposed on at least a part of the touch screen from among the one or more graphic objects, activating an area of the fingerprint sensor based on the attribute information, the activated area of the fingerprint sensor corresponding to the at least one graphic object, and acquiring fingerprint information through the activated area of the fingerprint sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Siwoo Lee, Kwonseung Shin, Jeongseob Kim, Yonggil Han, Hyeonho Kim
  • Patent number: 10725584
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining a reference value of a touch screen, and an electronic terminal thereof are provided. The method includes: determining a candidate reference value of a touch screen according to an original reference value and a reference fitting relationship of the touch screen, wherein the reference fitting relationship is determined according to the original reference value of the touch screen and a capacitance value of a capacitor node on the touch screen in a first frame; correcting the candidate reference value; and determining a stable reference value of the touch screen according to the corrected candidate reference value. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the candidate reference value is closer to the actual capacitance reference, such that accuracy of the determined stable reference value is ensured as much as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Songsong Liu, Wingho Pang, Haikuan Jiang, Wei Yang
  • Patent number: 10694066
    Abstract: An electronic whiteboard includes a power button, a display device, and circuitry that implements processes of detecting an operation of the power button being turned off, storing at least a part of visible information displayed on the display device from a time the power button was turned on until a time the power button was turned off in a first storage device upon detecting that the power button has been turned off, determining whether to display the visible information stored in the first storage device on the display device based on a first time corresponding to a power-on time recorded when the power button was turned on and a second time corresponding to the power-off time recorded immediately before the first time when the power button was turned off, and controlling the display device to display the stored visible information upon determining to display the stored visible information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayako Watanabe, Yoshiko Aono, Yasuhiro Kuba, Eiji Kemmochi
  • Patent number: 10692452
    Abstract: A display device with favorable display quality is provided. A display portion where a plurality of pixels is arranged in a matrix is divided into Region A and Region B, i.e., regions on the upstream side and the downstream side of a scanning direction. A signal line for supplying an image signal is provided in each of Region A and Region B. Region A and Region B adjoin each other such that a boundary line showing the boundary between the regions is bent. Bending the boundary line suppresses formation of a stripe in a boundary portion. For example, in a given column, the total number of pixels electrically connected to a signal line in Region A is made different from the total number of pixels electrically connected to a signal line in Region B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetomo Kobayashi, Kei Takahashi, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10685616
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a shift register circuit, a method for driving the same, a gate drive circuit, and a display panel, and the shift register circuit includes: an input circuit, a first control circuit, a second control circuit, a third control circuit, a first output circuit, and a second output circuit, where the input circuit, the first control circuit, the second control circuit, the third control circuit, the first output circuit, and the second output circuit can cooperate with each other, thus shortening a period of time for pulling down the drive signal output terminal, improving a drive capability of the shift register circuit, and lowering power consumption of the shift register circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Weiyun Huang
  • Patent number: 10678304
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including: a bottom member; a display panel on the bottom member, the display panel configured to emit light; a top member on the display panel; a touch screen panel on the top member; and a groove region formed by removing at least a portion of at least one of the top member and the bottom member at a bent portion of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Namkung, Soon-Ryong Park, Seok-Gi Baek, Chul-Woo Jeong
  • Patent number: 10672326
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit includes a first transistor receiving a data signalsame. A first end of a second transistor is connected to the first end of the first transistor, and a gate of the same is connected to a second end of the second transistor. A second end of a third transistor is connected to the second end of the second transistor. A first end of a fourth transistor is connected to the gate of the first transistor. A second end of a fifth transistor is connected to the first end of the first transistor. A first end of the sixth transistor is connected to a second end of the first transistor. An anode of a light emitting diode is connected to a second end of the sixth transistor. A capacitor is connected between the first end and the gate of the first transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mao-Hsun Cheng