Patents Examined by William Lu
  • Patent number: 9195307
    Abstract: An operator control device has an operator control element with haptic feedback. The operator element includes one or more sensors and can be activated by an operator by an inputting element. The operating control device includes first and second ferromagnetic two-dimensional components. The components are arranged in parallel and configured to move relative to each other. The first ferromagnetic two-dimensional component is configured to form the operator control element. The first ferromagnetic two-dimensional component includes at least one flat coil that is arranged on a printed circuit board and is arranged between the ferromagnetic components. The first and second ferromagnetic two-dimensional components are configured to move with respect to each other when said at least one flat coil is energized, and the printed circuit board bearing the flat coil is permanently arranged on a face of said second ferromagnetic two-dimensional component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Lange, Ingo Zoller
  • Patent number: 9185183
    Abstract: A method and system for providing location-based user information using a map is disclosed. The method includes displaying a plurality of local areas on a map. If one of the plurality of local areas is selected, user information corresponding to the selected local area is loaded, where the user information contains a name of a user, a phone number of the user, a subscribed local area where a wireless communication network service to which the user subscribes is provided, and a current local area where the user is currently receiving a wireless communication network service. The selected local area is displayed by distinguishing the selected local area from non-selected other local areas, a local time of the selected local area, and the user name from among the loaded user information. When displaying the user name, the phone number, the subscribed local area and the current local area are selectively displayed in addition to the user name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sridhar Kocharlakota
  • Patent number: 9185624
    Abstract: The present solution relates to a method in a user equipment (310) for setting up an activation time of a cell change of the user equipment (310) from a serving cell (305) to a target cell (308) in a wireless communications network (300). The user equipment (310) receives (501) a timing offset from a network controller (315), calculates (502) a cell change activation time based on the timing offset and transmits (503) the calculated activation time to the network controller (315). Then, the user equipment (310) receives (504) an approval of the cell change from the network controller (315) and moves (505) from the serving cell (306) to the target cell (308) at the activation time if the approval has been received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Stefan Wager
  • Patent number: 9185608
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for handover in a wireless communication system are provided. The handover method includes, when handing over to another Base Station (BS) while being serviced by a serving BS, determining whether there exists data to transmit in an uplink, and, when the data to transmit in the uplink exists, requesting bandwidth from the serving BS before commencing a network re-entry to a target BS for the handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Hyuk Jang, Sung-Jin Lee, Won-Il Roh, Jung-Je Son
  • Patent number: 9173138
    Abstract: Methods for handoff of a multimode mobile station (MS). The MS, in connected mode, moves from a cell of a legacy base station to a cell of an ABS and scans base stations from a list of neighboring base stations, wherein at least the ABS is listed as another legacy base station in the list of neighboring base stations. The MS performs the handoff to connect to a legacy zone of the ABS. Further, the multimode MS switching from the legacy zone of the ABS to a advanced zone of the ABS based on a Zone Switch request or command is triggered by either the multimode MS or the ABS. The Zone Switch request is triggered after detecting capabilities of either the multimode MS or the ABS that they support advanced zone. The capabilities are detected by using MAC versions of the multimode MS and the ABS or an indicator for the advanced zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Arishuman Nigam, Tirumala Sree Hari Vara Prasad Vadlapudi
  • Patent number: 9164620
    Abstract: Error compensation of a touch sensing signal is provided. A touch screen can include a drive region that can be driven by a drive signal, and a sense region that can output a sense signal that includes information of a first amount of touch on or near the touch screen and information of a first amount of error. The first amount of touch can be based on the drive signal. The touch screen can include a compensation sensor that can output a compensation signal that includes information of a second amount of error, and an error compensator that can compensate for the first amount of error in the sense signal based on the second amount of error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Porter Hotelling
  • Patent number: 9158396
    Abstract: An OLED display device has a built-in touch panel and includes an upper substrate and a lower substrate arranged opposite to each other, a thin film transistor array formed on the lower substrate, an organic light emitting array formed on the thin film transistor array, a touch sensor array formed on the upper substrate opposite to the lower substrate for sensing external touch by a capacitive type, an upper contact pad formed on the upper substrate to be connected to the touch sensor array, a lower contact pad formed on the lower substrate opposite to the plurality of upper contact pads, a conductive spacer connected between the upper contact pad and the lower contact pad, and a signal transmission film electrically connected to a main pad formed on the lower substrate and the lower contact pad for supplying signals for controlling the thin film transistor array and the touch sensor array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ho-Won Choi
  • Patent number: 9128527
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and touch recognizing method therein are disclosed, by which a multi-touch can be recognized. The present invention includes receiving a plurality of touches simultaneously using a touchscreen, consecutively receiving a plurality of images including a plurality of the received touches for a predetermined time using a camera provided under the touchscreen, determining patterns and pattern changes of a plurality of the touches included in a plurality of the images, respectively, and recognizing a gesture by a plurality of the touches in accordance with a result of the determining step. Moreover, the touch pattern includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a touch number, a touch point, a touch size and a touch figure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignees: LG ELECTRONICS INC., INDUSTRY FOUNDATION OF CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Minjoo Kim, Chilwoo Lee, Yungho Seo, Chimin Oh, Jaedo Kwak, Jonggu Kim
  • Patent number: 9130713
    Abstract: More than one radio-access technology is supported in an apparatus, and channel-coding functions in the apparatus are shared between at least two of said more than one radio-access technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Technologie Oy
    Inventors: Zhenhong Li, Haifeng Wang, Wu Gang, Zou Wei, Jorma Lilleberg, Kari Rikkinen
  • Patent number: 9110304
    Abstract: An LCD device operably switchable between 2D and 3D display modes includes an active retardation panel having a plurality of retardation pixels arranged in at least M*N retardation pixel matrix with a first liquid crystal (LC) layer, and an LCD panel positioned having a plurality of display pixels arranged in at least M*N display pixel matrix with a second LC layer. Each retardation pixel has a first retardation A(i, j), and each display pixel has a second retardation B(i, j). The active retardation panel and LCD panel are arranged such that the retardation pixel matrix is positioned corresponding to the display pixel matrix, and an image displayed from each display pixel and passed through corresponding retardation pixel is simultaneously viewable by left and right eyes of a viewer and satisfies with: L(i,j)=f[A(i+1,j)+B(i,j)], and R(i,j)=f[A(i,j)+B(i,j)]. L(i, j) and R(i, j) are respectively left-eye and right-eye viewed gray levels of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Po-Jung Wu
  • Patent number: 9111076
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication; a touch screen display unit configured to switch between an inactivated state in which illumination is not applied to the display unit and an activated state in which illumination is applied to the display unit; and a controller configured to: sense a plurality of touch inputs on the display unit when the display unit is in the deactivated state and no illumination is applied to the display unit, and release a locked state of the mobile terminal and switch the display unit to the activated state in which illumination is applied to the display unit, when the plurality of touch inputs match a predetermined pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jongseok Park, Jaeyoung Ji, Younghoon Lee, Byoungzoo Jeong, Nayeoung Kim, Gijae Yi, Jinhae Choi, Youngjoon Kim, Yoonchan Won, Hangshin Cho, Soohyun Lee
  • Patent number: 9093019
    Abstract: A system is provided for using raw grayscale image data, representing images to be displayed in successive frames, to drive a display having pixels that include a drive transistor and an organic light emitting device. The system determines whether the raw grayscale image data for each pixel falls within a high range or a low range. Raw grayscale image data that falls within the low range is converted to higher grayscale values, and the pixels are driven with currents corresponding to the higher grayscale values during time periods that are shorter than complete frame time periods. Raw grayscale image data that falls within the high range is converted to higher grayscale values, and the pixels are driven with currents corresponding to the higher grayscale values during time periods that are shorter than complete frame time periods and different from the time periods of the low range image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Ignis Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: Kongning Li, Vasudha Gupta, Gholamreza Chaji, Arokia Nathan
  • Patent number: 9066314
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods that notify a current wireless communication network about a previous wireless communication network. In a particular embodiment, a wireless device wirelessly registers with a first wireless communication system to obtain first registration data. The wireless device stores the first registration data and wirelessly communicates over the first wireless communication system. The communications are then terminated with the first wireless communication system. After terminating the wireless communications with the first wireless communication system, the wireless device wirelessly registers with a second wireless communication system to obtain second registration data and stores the second registration data. The wireless device transfers the first registration data to the second wireless communication system and receives user information from the second wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Debashis Haldar
  • Patent number: 9026094
    Abstract: A method of selecting the positioning method(s) used to respond to given positioning requests uses historical performance data reflecting the actual performance yielded by one or more of the positioning methods that are generally available for selection. As a non-limiting example, a positioning node maintains or otherwise has access to historical data reflecting the QoS obtained for at least some of the positioning methods supported by the node. Correspondingly, the node compares the QoS requirements associated with an incoming positioning request to the historical performance data, to identify the positioning method(s) that appear to best satisfy the requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Iana Siomina, Torbjörn Wigren
  • Patent number: 9014714
    Abstract: A method of providing location privacy of a mobile station in a wireless access system is disclosed. The method of providing location privacy of a mobile station comprises the steps of transmitting a deregistration request message to a serving base station, the deregistration message requesting entry to an idle mode; and receiving a deregistration command message from the serving base station, the deregistration command message including a temporary identifier allocated to the mobile station. In this case, the temporary identifier is an identifier for uniquely identifying the mobile station from a paging group to which the serving base station belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Gene Beck Hahn, Ki Seon Ryu, Yong Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 8982012
    Abstract: Disclosed is a management apparatus, which makes it possible to use an information viewing apparatus without considering the residual amount of the battery, provided therein. The apparatus includes: a plurality of slots to support a plurality of information viewing apparatuses, each of which is activated by an electric power fed from a battery provided therein and is to be inserted into each of the slots in a detachable manner; and a controlling section to control the plurality of information viewing apparatuses, respectively inserted into the slots. When a predetermined information viewing apparatus is inserted into one of the plurality of slots, the controlling section moves data stored in the predetermined information viewing apparatus to another information viewing apparatus, which is currently inserted into another one of the plurality of slots, depending on a residual amount of the battery provided in the predetermined information viewing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Takamura, Tetsuhiro Shibata, Tatsuya Eguchi, Tsutomu Suka, Keiichiro Hyodo, Masayuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 8976192
    Abstract: A contrast control device is provided. The device of the invention includes a detecting unit, a judging unit, a backlight control unit, a gain generating unit and a contrast gain processing unit. The detecting unit calculates an average value and detects a maximum value of a current image. The judging unit generates a gain index and a brightness index according to the average value. The backlight control unit generates a backlight control signal according to the brightness index. The gain generating unit generates a first contrast gain value and a soft-clamping gain value according to the gain index, the average value and the maximum value and then selects one from the first contrast gain value and the soft-clamping gain value for output as a second contrast gain value according to an input pixel value of the current image. The contrast gain processing unit generates an output pixel value according to the second contrast gain value and the input pixel value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Pei-Chen Huang, Yu-Chung Lee, Shih-Yu Hsu, Po-Yang Wu
  • Patent number: 8963889
    Abstract: A position detection apparatus of the electrostatic coupling type is provided, to detect not only a position of a pointer but also information other than the position information such as, for example, pointer pressure or side switch information. The pointer transmits two codes such that a pressure applied to a pen tip is associated with a time difference between the two codes. A position detector carries out a correlation matching operation between signals generated in reception conductors and correlation calculation codes corresponding to the two codes, to thereby detect a position on a sensor section pointed to by the pointer from a result of the correlation matching operation and based on at least one of the codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Oda, Sadao Yamamoto, Yoshihisa Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 8957884
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes: a driving voltage output unit that outputs a driving voltage supplied to a segment electrode of an electro-optical panel; a display data storage unit that stores display data; and a driving waveform information output unit that outputs driving waveform information when a display state of the segment electrode is changed from a first display state corresponding to first display data to a second display state corresponding to second display data, wherein the driving voltage output unit outputs the driving voltage specified by the first display data and the second display data from the display data storage unit, and the driving waveform information from the driving waveform information output unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hidenori Yato, Shigeaki Kawano, Hiroshi Kiya, Keisuke Hashimoto, Hiroaki Nomizo
  • Patent number: 8896574
    Abstract: The invention provides an optical touch apparatus. The optical touch apparatus includes at least one optical path unit and at least one light sensing unit. The at least one optical path unit is located on a first side of a display unit of the optical touch apparatus and used to receive at least one directional incident light, the at least one directional incident light is focused to form an image in an imaging region through at least one refraction in the at least one optical path unit. The at least one light sensing unit is located at a relative position of the at least one optical path unit, and used to generate a sensing result according to the image in the imaging region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Raydium Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Long Hsu, Meng-Shin Yen, William Wang, Chung-Cheng Chou