Patents Examined by Wing H Chow
  • Patent number: 10770022
    Abstract: A source driver including: a first source line; a second source line; a charge sharing switch which controls a connection between the first source line and the second source line; a first cross charge sharing switch which controls a connection between a first capacitor and the first source line, and a connection between a second capacitor and the second source line; and a second cross charge sharing switch which controls a connection between the first capacitor and the second source line, and a connection between the second capacitor and the first source line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joway Chen, Chul Ho Choi, Dip Wu, Hyeong Tae Kim, Yuwen Chiou, Jin Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 10768707
    Abstract: A slim electronic apparatus that can give a user a sufficient sense of clicking in response to a user's touch input operation is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a touch-operation unit for receiving a user's touch-input operation; a main body chassis having a support plate with a mounting face to movably mount the touch-operation unit; a vibrator for generating vibrations to the touch-operation unit; and a connector having a fixing part fixed to one of the touch-operation unit and the support plate, and a retained part retained to be movable relative to the other of the touch-operation unit and the support plate at least along one direction parallel to the mounting face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD
    Inventor: Fumio Tamura
  • Patent number: 10770021
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display device and a driving method of a display device. The display device includes a display panel including a first display area and a second display area; a data correcting unit which is applied with n-bit input image data to generate (n-a)-bit corrected image data; a timing control unit which is applied with the (n-a)-bit corrected image data to generate (n-a)-bit output image data; and a data driving unit which is applied with the (n-a)-bit output image data to output a first data voltage to a first pixel disposed in the first display area and output a second data voltage to a second pixel which is disposed in the second display area and corresponds to the first pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: YooJin Kang, SungJin Kim
  • Patent number: 10770004
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, includes: an organic light-emitting diode; a first transistor coupled between a second node and a third node, wherein a gate electrode of the first transistor is coupled to a first node; a second transistor coupled between a data line and the second node, wherein a gate electrode of the second transistor is coupled to a first scan line; a fourth transistor coupled between the first node and an initialization power source, wherein a gate electrode of the fourth transistor is coupled to a second scan line; a fifth transistor coupled between a first power source and the second node, wherein a gate electrode of the fifth transistor is coupled to a first emission line; and a sixth transistor and an eighth transistor coupled in series between the third node and the organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Hwan Kim, Chul Kyu Kang, Soo Hee Oh, Dong Sun Lee
  • Patent number: 10755665
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, an array substrate, a display panel and an electronic apparatus are provided. The pixel circuit includes: a data writing sub-circuit, a first data storage sub-circuit, a second data storage sub-circuit and a light-emitting control sub-circuit. The data writing sub-circuit writes, under the control of a signal input from a first control signal input end, to the first data storage sub-circuit a data signal input from a data signal input end, and writes, under the control of a signal input from a second control signal input end, to the second data storage sub-circuit the data signal input from the data signal input end. The light-emitting control sub-circuit controls on/off states of corresponding thin film transistors in accordance with data signals output from the first data storage sub-circuit and the second data storage sub-circuit, so that different gray-scales may be rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungwoo Han, Guangliang Shang
  • Patent number: 10755027
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed. An apparatus may include a processor configured to determine whether a user-input gesture is an ambiguous gesture, present a set of candidate gestures corresponding to the user-input gesture, in response to the user-input gesture being an ambiguous gesture, and resolve the ambiguous gesture based on user-input. The processor may magnify an area around the ambiguous gesture, wherein presenting the set of candidate gestures includes displaying the candidate gestures within the magnified area. The apparatus may include a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The apparatus may also include an input device that receives a user-input gesture and a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTD
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Jianbang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10725567
    Abstract: A touchpad module includes a bracket member, a touch member, a supporting element and two elastic elements. The touch member is arranged between a first strip part and a second strip part of the bracket member. The supporting element is arranged between the elastic elements and the touch member. Each elastic element includes a swinging part, a fixing part and a shaft part. The fixing parts are installed on the first strip part and the second strip part, respectively. The swinging part and the fixing part are wider than the shaft portion. In response to an external force, the touch member is swung relative to the bracket member by using the shaft parts as fulcrums. While the touch member is swung, the shaft parts are subjected to deformation and the supporting element and the swinging parts are swung relative to the fixing parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Tai-Sou Huang, Shao-Ju Yen
  • Patent number: 10720104
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device. The pixel circuit includes a pixel unit and a bias-voltage regulating circuit. The pixel unit includes: a driving circuit configured to generate a driving current according to a control voltage at a light-emitting stage; a light-emitting control circuit configured to output the driving current to drive the light-emitting device to emit light at the light-emitting stage; a data writing circuit configured to write a data voltage into the driving circuit; a reset circuit configured to reset the driving circuit under control of a reset voltage, and to reset the light-emitting device under control of a gate line; and a bias-voltage regulating circuit configured to, before the data writing circuit writes the data voltage into the driving circuit, perform bias voltage regulation on the driving circuit to control the pixel unit to be in a bias voltage state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xueling Gao, Cheng Chung Yang, Kuanjun Peng, Xiangxiang Zou, Yang Yang
  • Patent number: 10719159
    Abstract: A processing system includes a sensor module and a determination module. The sensor module is configured to perform a capacitive scan using electrodes disposed in a display device in a first area. The determination module is configured to determine, using the capacitive scan, a bending response of an input surface covering the first area and a second area. The bending response results from an input force being applied to the input surface in the second area. The determination module is further configured to determine, using the bending response, a force estimate of the input force, and determine, based on the force estimate, whether to perform an interface action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Petr Shepelev, Kurth Reynolds
  • Patent number: 10698213
    Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) device including a display configured to display an image; a communication processor configured to communicate with a massage chair; a sensor configured to acquire data about a facial expression of a user receiving a massage in the massage chair; and a controller configured to transmit a command to the massage chair for adjusting a massage strength of the massage based on the facial expression of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jaeduck Jung
  • Patent number: 10691218
    Abstract: A gesture recognition apparatus includes a sensor unit configured to be worn by a user on a user's body part. The sensor unit includes one or more sensors, a processor unit, the processor unit and the sensor unit are arranged in communication with each other, the processor unit receiving acoustic data from the one or more sensors, wherein the acoustic data corresponds to a gesture performed by a user, and the processor unit is configured to process the acoustic data received from the one or more sensors to determine a gesture performed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
    Inventors: Ho Man Chan, Nabeel Siddiqui
  • Patent number: 10684596
    Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) device including a display configured to display an image; a communication processor configured to communicate with a massage chair; a sensor configured to acquire data about a gaze direction of a user wearing the HMD device; and a controller configured to select a massage part of the massage chair among a plurality of massage parts based on the gaze direction of the user, and transmit a control command to the massage chair for controlling the massage chair to massage the selected massage part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaeduck Jung, Hyeokdeok Kim
  • Patent number: 10672944
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting element includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and an active layer provided between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The first conductive layer has a current constriction structure, a current injection region being constricted in the current constriction structure. The active layer includes a plurality of quantum well layers, a first light emission wavelength being in a wavelength range of an intensity peak of an entire light emission spectrum, the first light emission wavelength corresponding to a light emission recombination level energy gap of a first quantum well layer of the plurality of quantum well layers, the first quantum well layer being provided at a position closest to the current constriction structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Watanabe, Takayuki Kawasumi
  • Patent number: 10671226
    Abstract: A touch-sensor-equipped display device has: a panel unit including a screen area in which units of detection constituting a touch-sensor function and pixels constituting a display function are formed in a matrix pattern; a plurality of shared electrodes which are formed in the screen area, parallel to an X-direction, and for both display drive and touch drive; a plurality of common electrodes for display drive which are parallel to the X-direction and respectively alternately disposed with the plurality of respective shared electrodes in a Y-direction; a plurality of detection electrodes which are parallel to the Y-direction and intersecting with the plurality of shared electrodes and the plurality of common electrodes; and the units of detection corresponding to respective capacitors formed by intersections of the plurality of shared electrodes and the plurality of detection electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display inc.
    Inventor: Makoto Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10663730
    Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) device including a display configured to display an image; a communication processor configured to communicate with a massage chair for performing a massage; and a controller configured to receive massage information from the massage chair about the massage, and display an image on the display corresponding to the massage based on the received massage information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jaeduck Jung
  • Patent number: 10664046
    Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) device including a display; a communication processor configured to communicate with a massage chair performing a massage; a sensor configured to acquire data about movement of the HMD device during the massage; and a controller configured to display an image on the display corresponding to a specific region of an entire image, and maintain displaying the image corresponding to the specific region when the acquired data indicates the HMD device is moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jaeduck Jung
  • Patent number: 10656771
    Abstract: A method of tuning an electromagnetic radiation field based on positional configurations of an information handling system may comprise generating an electromagnetic radiation field tuned to detect input from an EMR pen via an EMR digitizer, where the tuning minimizes effects from at least one operational magnet of the information handling system, receiving an indication from a sensor hub of a change in a positional configuration to a first positional configuration, wherein the first positional configuration is one of a plurality of positional configurations defining a degree of rotation of a display housing chassis with respect to a base housing chassis, associating the first positional configuration with a first EMR sheet tuning configuration tuned for the first positional configuration, and instructing a tuning network operably connected to the EMR digitizer to tune an EMR digitizer electromagnetic radiation field to the first EMR sheet tuning configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Sacha B. Holland, Aida I. Suarez
  • Patent number: 10657920
    Abstract: A display panel, a display device and a signal transmission device are provided. The display panel includes: an array substrate; an opposed substrate arranged opposite to the array substrate; a circuit board, disposed on a side of the array substrate away from the opposed substrate; a driving circuit, disposed on a side of the array substrate close to the opposed substrate; a light emitter, disposed on a side of the circuit board close to the array substrate and electrically connected with the circuit board, in which the light emitter includes a light emitting surface which faces the array substrate; and a light receiver, disposed on a side of the array substrate close to the opposed substrate and electrically connected with the driving circuit, in which the light receiver includes a light receiving surface which faces the light emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seo Yoon Kim
  • Patent number: 10649488
    Abstract: An electrode arrangement has a transmitting electrode which during a measurement cycle is configured to receive an alternating transmission signal and a plurality of receiving electrodes configured to detect disturbances in an electric field formed by the transmitting electrode. The transmitting electrode and the receiving electrode are arranged in a single layer such that a single transmitting electrode is formed by an electrode structure that substantially surrounds each receiving electrode of the plurality of receiving electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Aubauer, Andreas Dorfner
  • Patent number: 10644258
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel includes an OLED module layer, and a first adhesive layer formed on a surface of the OLED module layer. A neutral plane is formed at an interface between the first adhesive layer and the OLED module layer. A bending deformation and a stress of the OLED module layer may be avoided, and damages of the OLED module layer may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: In Kyu Song, Jun Hee Sung