Patents Examined by William Boddie
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Patent number: 10976842Abstract: Touchscreen control panel (3) configured to be implemented with a kitchen appliance (1), preferably with a home kitchen appliance or a commercial kitchen appliance, and operable from a front or top side of the appliance (1), wherein the touchscreen control panel (3) comprises a cover plate (4) with a transparent section (4a), a transparent touchsensitive layer (5) arranged and attached within the transparent section (4a) to the back side of the cover plate (4), a bracket frame (6) implemented at the back side of the cover plate (4) and surrounding at least partially the transparent section (4a), and a display unit (7) comprising an active display (9). The bracket frame (6) is adapted to retain the display unit (7) at the back side of the cover plate (4) preferably in such a way that the display unit (7) is in alignment, especially in proper alignment with the touchsensitive layer (5).Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Electrolux Appliances AktiebolagInventors: Klaus Winkelmann, Roberto Ferrozzi, Adriano Scotto D'Apollonia
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Patent number: 10978005Abstract: A display device includes a display unit which includes pixels and displays an image, a data driver which supplies a data signal to the pixels, and a timing controller which controls the data driver using a timing control signal. Here, the timing control signal may include a vertical synchronization signal for defining a frame period and a data enable signal for defining a display period during which an image is displayed and a blank period during which an image is not displayed. Here, lengths of blank periods may be equal to each other in a first driving mode in which the vertical synchronization signal is supplied to the timing controller in a constant cycle and in a second driving mode in which the vertical synchronization signal is supplied in different cycles.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Seung Woo Lee
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Patent number: 10976860Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device comprising: a touch screen including a display region for outputting an image; a window arranged on the touch screen; and a control unit, wherein the touch screen includes a touch sensing layer which receives a touch input applied on the display region and receives a touch input with a first sensing resolution, and a fingerprint sensing unit, which overlaps a specific portion of the display region, is arranged between the window and the touch sensing layer, and senses a fingerprint with a second sensing resolution higher than the first sensing resolution when a finger touches the specific portion, and in order to receive a touch input on the basis of the touching of the finger with the specific portion, the control unit controls the fingerprint sensing unit on the basis of a specific control command such that the second sensing resolution of the specific portion is changed to the first sensing resolution.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Sangkuk Jeon, Mansoo Sin
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Patent number: 10969902Abstract: Various configurations and arrangements for touchscreens are disclosed to accommodate for one or more optical discontinuities that can be present within these touchscreens. When the one or more optical discontinuities are present, these configurations and arrangements of the touchscreens present a single layer of transparent conductive material that can be difficult to perceive by a human eye when viewing the touchscreens. Additionally, various edge correction techniques are disclosed to adjust mutual capacitances along a perimeter of the touchscreens. These edge correction techniques adjust mutual capacitances such that the values of the mutual capacitances are substantially uniform throughout.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Joel Kent, Gazi Ali, Khalid Azim
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Patent number: 10963011Abstract: A touch input method and a mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal includes a touch screen having a transparent display panel, a front touch panel configured to detect a touch input corresponding to the front of the transparent display panel, and a rear touch panel configured to detect a touch input corresponding to a rear of the transparent touch panel. The touch input method includes detecting a touch input from one of the front touch panel and the rear touch panel, determining whether a user's intent is a data input via the rear touch panel in response to the touch input, and displaying a keypad on a top of the touch screen if the user's intent is determined as data input via the rear touch panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yohan Lee, Jaehyeon Kang, Dasom Lee
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Patent number: 10957261Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels, a light source device that emits light that illuminates the display unit, and a controller that controls operation of the light source device. The controller does not lower luminance of the light for a second predetermined time or longer after the controller has raised the luminance of the light by a predetermined amount of luminance change or more within a first predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kazuhiko Sako, Tsutomu Harada, Naoyuki Takasaki, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma
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Patent number: 10953191Abstract: A display panel including a plurality of pixels including a first pixel including a first blue sub-pixel, and a second pixel including a second blue sub-pixel, the second blue sub-pixel being configured to emit light having a wavelength different from that of the first blue sub-pixel and being adjacent to the first pixel.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rangkyun Mok, Jongin Baek, Ilnam Kim, Wonsang Park
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Patent number: 10949002Abstract: A conductive film for use in a touch panel is provided. The conductive film includes a base member including a sensor area and a wire area, a sensor electrode located on the base member in the sensor area and a wire electrode located on the base member in the wire area, the wire electrode being connected to the sensor electrode. At least one of the sensor electrode and the wire electrode includes a nano material conductor having a network shape.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jihyun Lee, Yeontae Choi, Jonggoo Park
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Patent number: 10936118Abstract: A touch detection device and a method of detecting a touch employ: a current-to-voltage converter configured to convert a reception signal received from a touch panel into a sensing signal, and further configured to be periodically reset for a first time period in response to a reset signal; a digital-to-analog converter configured to convert an analog signal based on the sensing signal into a first digital output signal, and a controller configured to generate a second digital output signal based on the first digital output signal by performing data interpolation on a first portion of the first digital output signal corresponding to the first time period.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang-Pil Nam, Kyung-Hoon Lee, Michael Choi
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Patent number: 10936067Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for generating a response that depicts haptic characteristics are presented. Haptic data is received from a client device and the haptic data indicates an interaction with a sensor included in the client device. Haptic characteristics are determined based on the haptic data. At least one image that depicts the determined haptic characteristics is generated. And the at least one image is caused to be displayed on the client device.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Snap, Inc.Inventors: Jesse Chand, Krish Jayaram
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Patent number: 10937364Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels including an organic light emitting diode and a plurality of transistors configured to control a current applied to the organic light emitting diode, wherein an aging frame includes an aging period in which at least one of the plurality of transistors is aged, wherein at least one of the plurality of transistors is in a turn-off state in the aging period, and wherein a potential difference between one electrode and an other electrode of a transistor of the plurality of transistors is equal to or greater than a reference potential difference, the reference potential difference being a difference value between a high level and a low level of a first power source voltage.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Young Wan Seo, Min Kyu Woo, Cheol Gon Lee, Mee Hye Jung
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Patent number: 10930226Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is manufactured at a low cost. In the liquid crystal display device, three sub-pixel electrodes are connected by inter-electrode connection portions to form one pixel electrode. One TFT is connected to the pixel electrode. A screen of a liquid crystal display panel is divided into n (n?2) of areas. Gate signal lines G of each divided area are scanned simultaneously one line at a time in each divided area. A backlight device emits light after completion of the scanning of each divided area.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidefumi Yoshida, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Takahiro Sasaki, Kimiaki Nakamura
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Patent number: 10928881Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device can sense touch on its touch screen while in a sleep state in a manner that allows the electronic device to respond to certain touch inputs, while consuming less power due to touch sensing than while in an awake state. For example, sensing touch during the sleep state can allow the electronic device to wake (e.g., transition from the sleep state to the awake state) in response to detecting a certain touch input (e.g., a tap or other touch input) on its touch screen while in the sleep state. Various ways for the electronic device to sense touch during the sleep state are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Taif A. Syed, Bingrui Yang, Christopher Tenzin Mullens, Sumant Ranganathan
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Patent number: 10928893Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program code are provided. The method comprises: monitoring a viewer's gaze direction towards a first display while the first display is displaying primary visual content and secondary visual content; determining that the viewer's gaze is directed towards the secondary visual content displayed by the first display; and causing the secondary visual content to be expanded by a second display, different from the first display.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Jussi Leppänen, Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi
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Patent number: 10921936Abstract: To block noise and achieve slimness and integration, a liquid crystal display device includes according to an embodiment a liquid crystal panel including first and second substrates and a liquid crystal layer formed therebetween, a shielding electrode formed throughout the entire rear surface of the second substrate of the liquid crystal panel, a first polarizing plate formed on the shielding electrode, a third substrate formed above the first polarizing plate and including intersecting first and second electrodes, a touch FPC including a touch drive IC to control driving and sensing of the first and second electrodes, and a printed circuit board formed at one side of the liquid crystal panel and generating a main panel control signal to control driving of the liquid crystal panel, a touch control signal to control the touch drive IC, and a voltage signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2010Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tae-Hwan Kim, Min-Woo Hwang
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Patent number: 10922951Abstract: Various embodiments associated with a heads-up display capable of functioning while underwater are described. An underwater mask can have a segment that a diver sees through and this segmented can be augmented with various portions that disclose information to the diver. These portions can relate to the diver herself or relate to other information such as the location of a source transmitting a signal. With these portions the diver can quickly learn about important information and act on that information.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: The Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: Mark Govoni, John Suarez
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Patent number: 10915210Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch display device.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: HwiDeuk Lee, Yangsik Lee, Jaeseung Kim
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Patent number: 10916203Abstract: A display apparatus has an image display unit having a plurality of arrayed pixel circuits, and an image signal compensation circuit compensating an image signal and outputs the compensated signal to the image display unit. Each of the pixel circuits has a compensating capacitor which compensates the threshold voltage of the driving transistor. The image signal compensation circuit has a compensation memory storing a compensation data for compensating the current variation of the driving transistors, a first comparison circuit which compares the image signal and first threshold value, and an arithmetic circuit compensating the image signal. When the image signal has a luminance larger than the threshold value, the compensation is performed.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: JOLED INCInventor: Hitoshi Tsuge
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Patent number: 10915162Abstract: A varifocal head mounted display (HMD) includes an electronic display, an optical system, and the guidance system. The electronic display presents content. The optical system includes one or more optical elements and provides the content to an eyebox of the HMD. The guidance system is a flexure based guidance system that includes an actuator and a first and second flexure elements (e.g., parallel beam, dual Roberts, etc.) guiding movement of the electronic display along an optical axis of the optical system in order to adjust a location of one or moveable elements in the optical system and, thereby, control a location of an image plane. The first and second flexure elements are able to flex or bend with movement of the actuator to adjust the location of the one or moveable elements that includes the electronic display and/or one or more optical elements of the optical system.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Ryan Michael Ebert, David C. Lindberg, Seth Robert Moczydlowski, Clinton Smith
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Patent number: 10916187Abstract: A display apparatus in which data signal distortion is reduced and thus is capable of accurately displaying an image includes a substrate including a display area that includes a first display area and a second display area, and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, first and second data lines respectively across the first and second display areas, main scan lines across the display area and disposed in parallel to the first and second data lines, sub scan lines across the display area and respectively connected to the main scan lines, the sub scan lines being disposed to cross the main scan lines, first data line pads connected to the first data lines, second data line pads connected to the second data lines, and scan line pads connected to the main scan lines, the first data line pads, the scan line pads, and the second data line pads being adjacent.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Taehoon Kim, Jisu Na, Seungkyu Lee