Patents Examined by Yaron Cohen
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Patent number: 9436334Abstract: Provided is an in-cell touch panel having improved display quality. An opposite substrate relating to one embodiment of the present invention is provided with a black matrix, first electrodes, which are disposed in the Y direction, and second electrodes, which are disposed in the X direction. The first electrodes and the second electrodes are formed such that the boundaries therebetween are positioned in regions that coincide with the black matrix in a planar view.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazutoshi Kida, Yasuhiro Sugita, Shinji Yamagishi, Yuhji Yashiro, Hiroyuki Ogawa
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Patent number: 9400522Abstract: A portable terminal apparatus is provided, which includes a first cabinet having a first display surface, a second cabinet having a second display surface, a support mechanism which supports the first and second cabinets to be switchable between first and second arrangement states which are different in a relative position between the first and second display surfaces, and a control unit which controls a display mode of the first and second display surfaces according to the switching between the first and second arrangement states.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Akiko Inami, Naoya Watanabe
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Patent number: 9368060Abstract: A power system for an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a power supplier and a power source controller. The power supplier respectively supplies a first power source voltage and a second power source voltage to first and second power source voltage application lines. The power source controller calculates a reference power source voltage corresponding to a maximum average grayscale using a distribution for each grayscale of first to third image data, models each voltage drop of the first and second power source voltages for first to third subpixels, and reflects the voltage drop to the reference power source voltage to change the second power source voltage.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Se-Byung Chae, Wook Lee, Jeong-Hwan Shin
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Patent number: 9213365Abstract: An intuitive technique for inputting user gestures into a handheld computing device is disclosed allowing a user to better manipulate different types of screen display presentations, such as desktops and application windows, when performing tasks thereon, wherein a window stack for application windows and/or desktops can be navigated and sequentially displayed according to the window stack ordering without disturbing or changing this ordering.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Z124Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Brett Faulk, Paul Reeves, Alexander de Paz, Rodney Wayne Schrock, John Steven Visosky, Eric Freedman, Jared Ficklin, Denise Burton, Misty Cripps, Gregg Wygonik
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Patent number: 9182868Abstract: An electrode loop structure of a touch panel mainly extends from I-shaped electrode elements serving as a base, and utilizes the annular conducting chain and gradient chain regularly cascaded together. A discontinuous resistor chain is disposed between the conducting chain and the gradient chain, wherein the conducting chain changes, by adjusting the cascaded length of and the gaps between the electrode elements, the conductor area to generate the trend of voltage drop, so that the conducting chain has the voltage regulating and compensating properties. Meanwhile, the gradient chain may also make the gradient chain have the voltage distributing uniformity by adjusting the lengths of and the gaps between the electrode elements, so that the electrode loop is effectively distributed around the electroconductive substrate to form the homogenized electric field effect, thereby satisfying the narrow-edge design requirement.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: MIRACLETOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventor: Yu-Jie Li
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Patent number: 9153158Abstract: Disclosed is a light emitting display device capable of minimizing a current driving capability deviation among driving switching elements. The light emitting display device includes pixels each including a first TFT for supplying data voltage to a first node in response to a scan signal, a second TFT for forming a current path between first and second nodes in response to an emission control signal, a driving TFT for forming a current path between a first driving voltage supply line and a third node in accordance with a voltage level of the second node, a third TFT for supplying a reference voltage to a fourth node in response to a sensing signal, a fourth TFT for supplying an initialization voltage to the third node in response to an initialization signal, and a fifth TFT for supplying the reference voltage to the second node in response to the initialization signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2012Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ji-Hun Kim, Jong-Sik Shim, Min-Kyu Chang
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Patent number: 9152176Abstract: A multi-screen user device and methods for controlling data displayed are disclosed. The data displayed by the multiple screens of the device is dependent on the physical orientation of the device, whether the content for an application is displayed across a plurality of the multiple screens, and whether the data being displayed for the application originated from a single-screen application or a multi-screen application.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Z124Inventors: Martin Gimpl, Paul Reeves, Sanjiv Sirpal
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Patent number: 9128570Abstract: A capacitance sensing system can filter noise that presents in a subset of electrodes in the proximity of a sense object (i.e., finger). A capacitance sensing system can include a sense network comprising a plurality of electrodes for generating sense values; a noise listening circuit configured to detect noise on a plurality of the electrodes; and a filtering circuit that enables a filtering for localized noise events when detected noise values are above one level, and disables the filtering for localized noise events when detected noise values are below the one level.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor CorporationInventors: Darrin Vallis, Victor Kremin, Andriy Maharyta, Yuriy Boychuk, Anton Konovalov, Oleksandr Karpin, Ihor Musijchuk, Hans Klein, Edward L. Grivna
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Patent number: 9129562Abstract: An emission control line driver is capable of securing the stability of an output and of freely controlling the width of emission control signals. The emission control line driver includes a plurality of stages respectively coupled to emission control lines. Each of the stages includes a plurality of transistors that are configured to output the emission control signal. The width of the emission control signal may be controlled to correspond to the width of a start signal. Furthermore, a circuit structure of the stages is simplified.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hwan-Soo Jang, Chang-Soo Pyon
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Patent number: 9122341Abstract: A method for resolving merged contacts detected by a multi-touch sensor includes resolving a first touch contact to a first centroid(N) for a frame(N) and resolving a second touch contact, distinct from the first touch contact, to a second centroid(N) for the frame(N). Responsive to the first touch contact and the second touch contact merging into a merged touch contact in a frame(N+1), the merged touch contact is resolved to a first centroid(N+1) and a second centroid(N+1).Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2010Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Hrvoje Benko, Andrew Wilson
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Patent number: 9019230Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments of a capacitive touchscreen system that is capable of sensing finger touches made on a capacitive touchscreen according to various scanning modes that reduce power consumption of the capacitive touchscreen system. The disclosed power saving scanning modes are modally focused, and can be used not only to reduce system power consumption, but also to enhance the user experience with the capacitive touchscreen system.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2010Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.Inventors: Sam Sen Li, Zachary Dietz, Jeffrey Doar, Jeffrey Stone
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Patent number: 8957856Abstract: An exemplary system includes a handheld user input device configured to emit a pointing signal and a selection signal from within a physical user space and directed at a display screen. The exemplary system further includes a spatial input subsystem configured to detect the pointing signal, determine a physical position within the physical user space based on the detected pointing signal, map the determined physical position within the physical user space to a cursor position on the display screen, output data representative of the cursor position for use by a display subsystem associated with the display screen, detect the selection signal, and output, in response to the selection signal, data representative of a selection command for use by the display subsystem. Corresponding systems, methods, and apparatuses are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2010Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Willis D. Stinson, III
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Patent number: 8947359Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an apparatus body including a body having a keyboard and a display unit attached to the body so as to be opened and closed; an acceleration sensor mounted on the apparatus body; a gesture motion determination unit mounted on the apparatus body and determining a reference posture of a holding state of the apparatus body taken when a user executes a given gesture function while holding the apparatus body based on acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor as well as determining a gesture motion executed by the user by detecting posture change of the apparatus body from the reference posture based on acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor; and an operation execution unit mounted on the apparatus body and executing a given operation corresponding to the gesture motion executed by the user based on the determination result in the gesture motion determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2011Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Yasutaka Fujii
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Patent number: 8913036Abstract: A touchscreen for an electronic device includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, and photosensors disposed on the first substrate. The second substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. When a first light at a first wavelength enters the second substrate via the second surface, the second substrate emits the first light at the first wavelength from the first surface. The second substrate further totally reflects the first light at a second wavelength. The plurality of photosensors detect the first light at the first wavelength penetrating through the second substrate, and output corresponding detecting signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Qiang You
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Patent number: 8907891Abstract: Methods and systems for playing video games with a controller having a display that shares content with a main display are provided. According to embodiments of the invention, a method is provided for interactive gameplay of a video game. The method initiates with executing a video game, the video game providing a virtual environment. A primary view of the virtual environment is rendered on a primary display. A location and orientation of a handheld device in a vicinity of the primary display are tracked. A secondary view of the virtual environment is rendered on the handheld device based on the tracked location and orientation of the handheld device.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2012Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yunpeng Zhu, Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Steven Osman
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Patent number: 8854334Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of touch display device includes a touch panel and a signal processing circuit. The touch panel includes a plurality of touch sensing units, and each touch sensing unit includes a touch sensing element and a coupling sensing element. The signal processing circuit is electrically connected to the touch sensing element and the coupling sensing element. The touch sensing element provides a touch signal to the signal processing circuit, the coupling sensing element provides a coupling signal to the signal processing circuit, and the signal processing circuit processes the touch signal according to the coupling signal to filter an interference signal of the touch signal. A touch display device using the touch panel is also described.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2010Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Innolux CorporationInventors: Po-Sheng Shih, Shing-Shiang Chang, Jia-Shyong Cheng
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Patent number: 8836666Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments of means and methods for reducing noise interference in a capacitive touchscreen system. Second noise signals related to first noise signals generated by an external noise source are provided to a touchscreen controller, which determines fundamental and harmonic frequencies associated with the first noise signals. In response to determining the fundamental and harmonic frequencies associated with the first noise signals, the touchscreen controller may shift the frequency at which drive signals generated thereby are provided to a capacitive touchscreen. As a result, undesired interference between the first noise signals and the drive signals is minimized or avoided.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2010Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.Inventor: Michael John Brosnan
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Patent number: 8836733Abstract: The present invention relates to a gamma voltage controller, a gradation voltage generator, and a display device including them. The gamma voltage controller corrects luminance in high and low gradations according to a color mode of a display panel, and generates a plurality of gradation voltages through inflection point adjustment, thus minimizing gradation mismatch between color modes.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2011Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seung-Wook Lee, Sang-Min Lim
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Patent number: 8823677Abstract: A touch panel and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed in this invention. The touch panel is with a central induction region and a peripheral region, and at least includes an upper electrode portion having an upper substrate located in the central induction region and the peripheral region, a first signal induction layer located in the central induction region and the peripheral region, and a first circuit layer located in the peripheral region only. The first signal induction layer covers the upper substrate in the central induction region. The first circuit layer is sandwiched between the upper substrate and the first signal induction layer, and electrically connected the first signal induction layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Jen-Shiun Huang, Tsung-Yi Lin, Ming-Hui Chiang, Wan-Tien Chen, Wen-Jen Lee
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Patent number: 8803820Abstract: A touch position calculation unit 113 calculating the touch position based on detected intensities at a touch panel unit 150 compares the detected intensities with a threshold to determine whether the touch is valid. Here, since display noise caused by the display screen of a display unit 132 affects the touch detection, the touch position calculation unit 113 acquires the display state of the display unit 132 from a display control unit 112. The touch position calculation unit 113 makes reference to a condition list stored in a memory 160 and sets up a threshold corresponding to the display state as the touch detection condition. Information indicating the display state includes the screen design typified by coloration patterns and the total gradation value corresponding to the voltage applied to the screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: NEC Casio Mobile Communications, Ltd.Inventor: Maho Suzuki