Patents Examined by Yaron Cohen
  • Patent number: 8803839
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments of circuits and methods for capacitively coupling touchscreen electrode terminals to terminals of a flex circuit, printed circuit or printed circuit board, without physically attaching the touchscreen electrode terminals to the flex circuit, printed circuit or printed circuit board terminals by means of conventional electrical connection bonding materials or agents such as anisotropic conductive film or solder. The flex circuit, printed circuit or printed circuit board terminals are spaced apart from, or placed in physical contact with, corresponding ones of the touchscreen electrode terminals, but are not soldered or otherwise physically attached to the touchscreen electrode terminals by conventional electrical connection bonding materials or agents such as anisotropic conductive film or solder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John Brosnan, Robert Ritter
  • Patent number: 8791919
    Abstract: An autostereoscopic display device having touch sensing mechanism includes a display panel for illustrating images, a touch sensing panel for detecting touch events, a 2D/3D switching panel disposed between the display panel and the touch sensing panel, and a control unit. The 2D/3D switching panel has a substrate, a first electrode disposed on the substrate, a counter substrate, and a second electrode disposed on the counter substrate. The control unit is employed to provide a first control signal and a second control signal furnished to the first electrode and the second electrode respectively. The first control signal is switched between a first high voltage and a first low voltage in a gradual-shift manner. The second control signal is switched between a second high voltage and a second low voltage in a gradual-shift or rapid-shift manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hsiao-Chung Cheng, Jen-Chieh Chen, Tzu-Hsien Chuang, Ming-Sheng Lai, Shih-Hsiung Huang
  • Patent number: 8766899
    Abstract: An active liquid crystal display panel includes a pixel array, a gate driving circuit, a data driving circuit, and an analog buffer. The gate driving circuit is used for driving M first scan lines where M is a natural number. The analog buffer is coupled to the gate driving circuit and includes M buffer circuits and a regulator. Each buffer circuit drives a corresponding second scan line according to an output signal of a corresponding first scan line of the M first scan lines, and the regulator is used for maintaining at least one reference voltage supplied to the M buffer circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Wei-Chun Hsu, Yu-Hsin Ting, Chung-Lin Fu, Tsao-Wen Lu, Nan-Ying Lin, Pei-Hua Chen
  • Patent number: 8723835
    Abstract: The present application provides a touch-sensing display panel comprising a display panel and a touch-sensing device disposed above the display panel. The touch-sensing device comprises a plurality of select lines, a plurality of readout lines and a plurality of capacitive touch-sensing units arranged in array. Each of the capacitive touch-sensing units comprises a transistor and a touch-sensing pad, each of the transistors comprises a gate electrode electrically connected to one of the select lines, a source electrode electrically connected to a reference voltage, a drain electrode electrically connected to one of the readout lines, and a channel layer electrically coupled to the touch-sensing pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hao-Lin Chiu, Chun-Yao Huang, Yih-Chyun Kao, Ya-Hsiang Tai, Lu-Sheng Chou, Kuan-Da Lin
  • Patent number: 8665230
    Abstract: A sensing display device including a display panel and a sensing element is provided. The display panel includes at least a plurality of pixel units, and the pixel units are arranged along a primary direction. The sensing element is disposed on the pixel units and includes at least a plurality of sensor units. Each of the sensor units includes a mesh-pattern electrode, and the mesh-pattern electrode includes a plurality of first traces having conductivity. At least one of the first traces is substantially extended along a first direction, wherein a first angle is formed between the first direction and the primary direction, and the first angle is an acute angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Yuan Liu, Yi-Long Wang, Chun-Ku Kuo, Ming-Lun Hsieh, Hung-Wen Chou
  • Patent number: 8648824
    Abstract: A flat panel display integrated with a touch screen panel according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: an upper substrate and a lower substrate each divided into a display region and first and second non-display regions around the display region; a plurality of sensing patterns in the display region of the upper substrate; a plurality of sensing lines in the first non-display region of the upper substrate; an FPC bonding pad unit including a plurality of bonding pads coupled with the sensing lines, in the second non-display region of the upper substrate; a sealant between the second non-display regions of the first substrate and the second substrate; and transparent conductive patterns arranged at a same distance from the sealant in the second non-display region of the upper substrate, the transparent conductive patterns overlapping the sealant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung-Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 8553024
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit of an organic light emitting diode includes a first switch, a capacitor, a transistor, a second switch, a third switch and an organic light emitting diode. The operation of the pixel driving circuit includes three stages of resetting, data writing, and emitting. The pixel driving circuit is able to reset the transistor for de-trapping holes at stages of resetting and data writing. The image retention caused by the transistor hysteresis may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hsuan-Ming Tsai, Chun-Yen Liu
  • Patent number: 8519981
    Abstract: An object is to reduce noise caused by variations in characteristics of photosensors provided for each pixel in a display panel having an image capturing function by the photosensors and to provide an image with high precision. A display device includes a display panel including photosensors arranged in matrix and an image processing circuit, in which the photosensors captures a black image and an image of an object; and the image processing circuit produces an image having image data (Y?X) using image data X of the black image and image data Y of the image of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kurokawa, Takayuki Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8508502
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments of circuits and methods in a capacitive touchscreen system that eliminate the need to digitize an entire array of pixel signals obtained from a touchscreen. Instead, regions of interest, or projections of object or touch signal clusters, from touchscreen 90 are employed to encode the coordinates or positions of objects or touches in an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Encoding of object positions occurs during digitization of the analog signal clusters, which eliminates the need to separately digitize individual touchscreen signals. The disclosed circuits and methods reduce the number of signal processor channels that might otherwise be required, and lead to power consumption reduction in the capacitive touchscreen system, as well as in reducing the area required to implement the circuit architecture in an integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventor: Vitali Souchkov
  • Patent number: 8339365
    Abstract: A computer mouse includes a housing, a first container secured in the housing, and a second container secured in the first container, a timing unit, and a processor. The first container defines through holes. The first container and the second container are spaced by a distance to define a receiving space being partly filling in liquid. Suspending members extends through the through holes. One end of the suspending member is received in the receiving space. The density of the suspending members is less than that of the liquid Sensitive switches are attached to the first container. A method for the mouse includes determining whether any one of the second contacts is charged; generating a position signal, controlling the timing unit to time; determining the movement direction of the a cursor; determining the movement distance of the cursor; and generating cursor control signal for controlling movement of the cursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Hung Chou