Patents Examined by William Lu
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Patent number: 11068087Abstract: An electronic device including a base member having a touch area defined inside a first closed-shape, the first closed-shape being a first imaginary line, and a peripheral area disposed adjacent to the touch area and defined outside the first closed-shape, and a touch sensor including a plurality of patterns disposed in the touch area to sense a touch from outside and a driving line disposed in the peripheral area and connected to a pattern disposed adjacent to the first closed-shape. The touch area includes a first area defined inside a second closed-shape being a second imaginary line defined in the touch area, and a second area defined outside the second closed-shape and surrounded by the first closed-shape, and an edge pattern disposed in the second area having an area substantially equal to or greater than approximately one-half of an area of a center pattern disposed in the first area.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Byeongkyu Jeon, Hyungchul Kim, Jungmok Park, Heewoong Park
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Patent number: 11068054Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle that includes a display and a rotation member that rotates the display. A vision sensing unit acquires eye position information of a user and a controller determines a first area included in a field of view of the user based on the eye position information and a rotation angle of the display. The controller then divides a display area of the display into a plurality of areas based on the first area and operates the display to display content corresponding to each of the plurality of areas.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: MuKyung Jung, Jongkyo An
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Patent number: 11042219Abstract: A smart wearable apparatus, smart wearable equipment, and a control method of the smart wearable equipment are provided. The smart wearable apparatus includes a rigid body, at least one hinge mechanism, a brake and a controller. The hinge mechanism is arranged on the rigid body, and the hinge mechanism includes a first pivot portion, a second pivot portion, and a pivot arranged between the first pivot portion and the second pivot portion. By means of the hinge mechanism, two portions of the rigid body, which are connected, respectively, to the first pivot portion and the second pivot portion of the hinge mechanism, can pivot relative to each other in a first direction. The brake is connected to the hinge mechanism, and the brake can receive a first control signal from the controller to stop the hinge mechanism, thereby stopping the two portions of the rigid body from relatively pivoting.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Inventor: Zhaosheng Chen
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Patent number: 11011093Abstract: A shift register unit, a driving method, a gate driving circuit and a display device are provided. The shift register unit includes: a starting circuit configured to control, under control of a first clock signal input terminal, turning on or off coupling between a first node and a starting voltage input terminal; a first capacitor circuit, having a first terminal being coupled to a second clock signal input terminal, and a second terminal being coupled to the first node; a first node control circuit configured to control, under control of a third node, turning on or off coupling between the first node and a first level input terminal; a potential control circuit configured to control, under control of the first node, turning on or off coupling between the second node and a second level input terminal; a second capacitor circuit; a second node control circuit; an output circuit; and a third node control circuit.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Can Zheng
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Patent number: 11011096Abstract: A display device is for displaying an image generated by an image processing device. The display device includes: a video decoding and input unit that receives an encoded image of a reference signal generated by the image processing device, and decodes the encoded image; a video display unit that performs image quality correction of the decoded image and displays, on a display panel, the image to which the image quality correction has been performed; and an image cut-out unit that cuts out an image at a position corresponding to the reference signal from an image to which the image quality correction has not been performed and transmits the cut out image to which the image quality correction has been performed, to the image processing device.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2016Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.Inventors: Katsuyuki Matsui, Kiyomichi Fukushima
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Patent number: 11009991Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a touch detecting unit 102 configured to detect a touch operation on a display screen, and a control unit 104 configured to, in response to a touch operation on an unspecified region of the display screen, display a predetermined item at a position corresponding to the touch operation on the first region, and in response to a touch operation on a specified region of the display screen which overlays the first region, display a plurality of options selectable by a touch operation in the specified region. In a case where a touch operation on the specified region is detected while the plurality of options are not displayed in the specified region, the control unit 104 controls to display the plurality of options in the second region.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hitoshi Watanabe
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Patent number: 11003287Abstract: A display device including a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels; and an opaque material layer of a touch sensor that is located directly on the display panel and overlaps a portion of the display panel in between some of the plurality of sub-pixels; wherein the opaque material surrounds at least one of the some of the plurality of sub-pixels and includes at least five edges around the at least one of the some of the plurality of sub-pixels.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nick Clark, Tim Michael Smeeton
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Patent number: 10990221Abstract: The disclosure relates to a touch and/or proximity detection system having some components operating in the guard domain and other components operating in the earth or chassis ground domain. A guard chip in the earth or chassis ground domain can include a voltage driver configured to produce a guard signal, for example. In some examples, the guard signal can be coupled to one or more shielding electrodes of a touch screen and to the ground pin of one or more touch sensing chips of the touch and/or proximity detection system. In this way, for example, the touch sensing chips, which can include sense amplifiers coupled to one or more sensing electrodes of the touch screen, can operate in the guard domain. In some examples, the guard chip can further include differential amplifiers and/or ADCs, allowing these components to operate in the earth or chassis ground domain.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Christoph H. Krah
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Patent number: 10978489Abstract: To provide a novel semiconductor device that is highly convenient or reliable, a novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable, or a method for manufacturing a novel semiconductor device that is highly convenient or reliable. The semiconductor device includes an insulating film having an opening, a first connection portion penetrating the opening, a terminal that is in contact with one surface of the insulating film and is electrically connected to the first connection portion, and a circuit that is electrically connected to the first connection portion on the opposite surface of the insulating film. The terminal has a region embedded in the insulating film and a region not covered with the insulating film. The circuit includes a semiconductor element.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshiharu Hirakata
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Patent number: 10976982Abstract: A method and apparatus for coordinating a master/follower device arrangement in a virtual reality (VR) environment is disclosed. A head mounted display (HMD) includes a transceiver, a display, and a processor coupled to the transceiver and display. The processor is configured to control the transceiver to receive, from at least one other HMD, data related to a field of view (FOV) of the at least one other HMD in a virtual reality (VR) environment. The processor is further configured to generate, using the data related to the FOV of the at least one other HMD, an FOV of the HMD in the VR environment.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ciaran Rochford, Philippe Harscoet, Xiaoguang Li
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Patent number: 10977472Abstract: According to an aspect, a detection device includes: an insulating substrate including a plurality of detection electrodes; a transmission conductor disposed adjacent to the detection electrodes; a drive signal generator coupled to the transmission conductor; and a detector coupled to the detection electrodes. The drive signal generator generates a detection drive signal and supplies the detection drive signal to the transmission conductor. The detector detects a detection signal corresponding to a change in capacitance in the detection electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yuji Suzuki, Toshinori Uehara, Hayato Kurasawa
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Patent number: 10957240Abstract: A system to compensate for sub-standard subpixels in a display device may include an optical system that laterally shifts light emitted by subpixels of an emissive array towards a viewing region using a light deviator that is movable between a plurality of predetermined positions corresponding to one or more lateral-light-shifting degrees of freedom. The system may also include a controller that converts input data into a sequence of instructions for illuminating at least a portion of the subpixels during a plurality of subframes, the sequence of instructions causing each subpixel of at least the portion of the subpixels to be illuminated for a predetermined illumination time while the light deviator is positioned at one or more predetermined light deviator positions such that sub-standard subpixels are each compensated for with light laterally shifted from at least one standard subpixel. Various other apparatus, systems, and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventor: Jasmine Soria Sears
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Patent number: 10949021Abstract: An electric field (e-field) touchscreen is described. A continuous stream of digital signal data that represents e-field signal deviations is received from multiple receive electrodes. The stream of digital signal data is processed using a machine learning model to determine a touch event and a location on a display screen of the touchscreen. The touch event is processed. The e-field touchscreen may determine whether a non-normal event may be occurring causing noise in the digital signal data. If so, the received stream of digital signal data is processed through a low-pass filter and processed through an absolute value average baseline filter. A difference between the filtered data is determined to generate a filtered stream of digital signal data and is processed using the machine learning model determine a touch event and a location on a display screen of the touch event. The touch event is processed.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: CHARGEPOINT, INC.Inventors: Matthew Thomas Hungerford, Robert M. Khamashta
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Patent number: 10928946Abstract: A touchscreen stylus, including a tip, including: a force sensing module to identify an analog force signal of the touchscreen stylus with respect to a touchscreen; a tilt sensing module to identify an analog tilt signal of the touchscreen stylus with respect to the touchscreen; a body, including: a mixer computing module to combine the analog force signal and the analog tilt signal to generate a combined analog signal; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to convert the combined analog signal to a combined digital signal; and a communications module to transmit the combined digital signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Aik Keong Ong, Hsu Feng Lee, Wei Wei Wilson Chua
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Patent number: 10928897Abstract: According to the invention, a method for changing a display based on a gaze point of a user on the display is disclosed. The method may include determining a gaze point of a user on a display. The method may also include causing a first area of the display to be displayed in a first manner, the first area including the gaze point and a surrounding area. The method may further include causing a second area of the display to be displayed in a second manner, the second area being different than the first area, and the second manner being different than the first manner.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Tobii ABInventor: Andreas Klingström
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Patent number: 10909912Abstract: A display system includes a source device that outputs image-data and a sink device that performs a displaying operation based on the image-data. The sink device changes a frame-rate of a panel driving frame as the source device changes a frame-rate of an image frame. The sink device sets a first clock cycle starting point at which a first clock cycle of an emission on-off clock starts as a scan starting point of the panel driving frame when the first clock cycle starting point is consistent with an input starting point of image frame data. The sink device moves the input starting point to a second clock cycle starting point, at which a second clock cycle following the first clock cycle starts, and sets the second clock cycle starting point as the scan starting point when the first clock cycle starting point is inconsistent with the input starting point.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Woo-Chul Kim
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Patent number: 10839759Abstract: A signal processing method and a display device are disclosed herein. The method includes the following operations: adjusting an initial backlight value to generate a first backlight value according to subarea classification information of a display area; generating a backlight adjustment value according to a white pixel ratio of the display area; adjusting the first backlight value to generate a second backlight value according to the backlight adjustment value; and generating a plurality of ultimate gray values according to the second backlight value. The second backlight value is for controlling a backlight module of a display device, and the ultimate gray value is for controlling a liquid crystal unit of the display device.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventor: Hui-Feng Lin
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Patent number: 10824281Abstract: A sensor device is provided for generating an electrical signal. The device includes an electrically conductive material having, at least in part, a three-dimensionally profiled surface. The surface is configured to create a change in said electrical signal in response to movement of a conductive object (e.g. a person's finger) thereacross. A method of using the sensor device includes connecting the sensor device to an electrical signal output device and moving an object across the three-dimensionally profiled surface to create a change in the electrical signal detectable by the electrical signal output device. A computer program is provided that is configured to, when executed, cause a computing device to perform the method. A system is provided that includes the sensor device and the computer program, the sensor device being electrically connectable to the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2016Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Tangi0 LimitedInventor: Ming Kong
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Patent number: 10825368Abstract: An image display device including a transparent panel and a display adjustment layer is provided. The transparent panel displays a superimposed image corresponding to a surface region at a first region. The display adjustment layer is on the transparent panel for reserving a monocular vision to see the superimposed image. When a first eye and a second eye see the surface region through the image display device, the first eye sees the superimposed image superimposed on the surface region but the second eye only sees the surface region.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Qisda CorporationInventor: Wei-Jou Chen
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Patent number: 10810931Abstract: A discrete LED display control includes a method of scaling the brightness of frames of an image according to corresponding electrical current requirements. The method includes opening an electronic file containing a frame of an image to be shown on the display and measuring a commanded brightness for each pixel of the frame of the image. Brightness values of the commanded brightnesses are summed and converted to corresponding current values. The corresponding current values are adjusted to arrive at a total estimated current for the frame of the image. If the total estimated current exceeds a current limit of the display, the brightness value of each pixel is scaled to a final brightness value. The final brightness value corresponds to an adjusted current that is within the current limit. The adjusted current that corresponds to the final brightness value is sent to the display.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Joshua Alan Miller, William Anthony Hoyt