Patents by Inventor Nick CLARK

Nick CLARK has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11003287
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nick Clark, Tim Michael Smeeton
  • Patent number: 10845902
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels, a touch sensor electrode made of a conductive and opaque material that is located directly on the display panel and overlaps a portion of the display panel in between a portion of the plurality of sub-pixels, a feedline that is made of the conductive and opaque material and connected to the touch sensor electrode, overlaps a portion of the display panel in between a portion of the plurality of sub-pixels that is not overlapped by the touch sensor electrode, and routes the touch sensor electrode to a touch sensor controller, and a feedline extension that is made of the conductive and opaque material, extends from the feedline and overlaps a portion of the display panel in between a portion of the plurality of sub-pixels that is not overlapped by the touch sensor electrode and the feedline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nick Clark, Tim Michael Smeeton
  • Publication number: 20200271508
    Abstract: A weighing apparatus for weighing batches of food product is provided. The weighing apparatus comprises a product supply unit arranged to supply food product to be weighed, a weighing unit arranged to receive and weigh a batch of food product, and a product delivery unit arranged to receive the food product from the product supply unit and to deliver a batch of food product to the weighing unit. The product delivery unit comprises a trough extending between a product supply position, at which food product is received from the product supply unit, and a product delivery position, at which the food product is delivered for receipt in the weighing unit, and a transport screw arranged in the trough and configured to rotate in the trough for conveying food product from the product supply position to the product delivery position. The transport screw comprises at least two helical members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Nick CLARK
  • Publication number: 20200127874
    Abstract: Integration of a land mobile radio (LMR) communications system and other wireless IP based systems such as LTE by way of a virtual router and virtual base stations. The LMR system may be either trunked or conventional. The virtual router maintains LMR IDs and also IP addresses for both physical and virtual base stations, multi bearer terminals and other components of the integrated system. Physical LMR base stations form a physical network. Virtual LMR base stations form a virtual network. These physical and virtual LMR networks communicate using ISSI, AIS or DFSI for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Niall McAndrew, Nick Clark, Clive Douglas Horn, Steve Penny
  • Patent number: 10592028
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels, a touch sensor electrode that is made of a first conductive and opaque material layer that is located directly on the display panel and overlaps a portion of the display panel in between a portion of the plurality of sub-pixels, and a feedline that is made of a second conductive and opaque material layer that is connected to the touch sensor electrode, overlaps a portion of the display panel in between some of the plurality of sub-pixels that is not overlapped by the touch sensor electrode, defines a pair of conductors around a sub-pixel in one or more columns of sub-pixels of the plurality of sub-pixels such that the pair of conductors are electrically connected above and below each sub-pixel in the one or more columns, and routes the touch sensor electrode to a touch sensor controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nick Clark, Tim Michael Smeeton
  • Patent number: 10516553
    Abstract: Integration of a land mobile radio (LMR) communications system and other wireless IP based systems such as LTE by way of a virtual router and virtual base stations. The LMR system may be either trunked or conventional. The virtual router maintains LMR IDs and also IP addresses for both physical and virtual base stations, multi bearer terminals and other components of the integrated system. Physical LMR base stations form a physical network. Virtual LMR base stations form a virtual network. These physical and virtual LMR networks communicate using ISSI, AIS or DFSI for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: TAIT INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Niall McAndrew, Nick Clark, Clive Douglas Horn, Steve Penny
  • Patent number: 10452201
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels; a shield electrode that is made of a first conductive and opaque material, is located directly on the display panel, overlaps a portion of the display panel in between a portion of the plurality of sub-pixels, and is connected to a touch sensor controller; an insulating layer that covers the shield electrode; a touch sensor electrode that is made of a second conductive and opaque material, is located on the insulating layer, overlaps a portion of the display panel in between some of the plurality of sub-pixels, and overlaps the shield electrode; and a feedline is connected to the touch sensor electrode, overlaps a portion of the display panel in between a portion of the plurality of sub-pixels that is not overlapped by the touch sensor electrode, and routes the touch sensor electrode to the touch sensor controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nick Clark, Tim Michael Smeeton
  • Publication number: 20190302919
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Nick CLARK, Tim Michael SMEETON
  • Publication number: 20190302935
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels, a touch sensor electrode that is made of a first conductive and opaque material layer that is located directly on the display panel and overlaps a portion of the display panel in between a portion of the plurality of sub-pixels, and a feedline that is made of a second conductive and opaque material layer that is connected to the touch sensor electrode, overlaps a portion of the display panel in between some of the plurality of sub-pixels that is not overlapped by the touch sensor electrode, defines a pair of conductors around a sub-pixel in one or more columns of sub-pixels of the plurality of sub-pixels such that the pair of conductors are electrically connected above and below each sub-pixel in the one or more columns, and routes the touch sensor electrode to a touch sensor controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Nick CLARK, Tim Michael SMEETON
  • Publication number: 20190302959
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels; a shield electrode that is made of a first conductive and opaque material, is located directly on the display panel, overlaps a portion of the display panel in between a portion of the plurality of sub-pixels, and is connected to a touch sensor controller; an insulating layer that covers the shield electrode; a touch sensor electrode that is made of a second conductive and opaque material, is located on the insulating layer, overlaps a portion of the display panel in between some of the plurality of sub-pixels, and overlaps the shield electrode; and a feedline is connected to the touch sensor electrode, overlaps a portion of the display panel in between a portion of the plurality of sub-pixels that is not overlapped by the touch sensor electrode, and routes the touch sensor electrode to the touch sensor controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Nick CLARK, Tim Michael SMEETON
  • Publication number: 20190302936
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels, a touch sensor electrode made of a conductive and opaque material that is located directly on the display panel and overlaps a portion of the display panel in between a portion of the plurality of sub-pixels, a feedline that is made of the conductive and opaque material and connected to the touch sensor electrode, overlaps a portion of the display panel in between a portion of the plurality of sub-pixels that is not overlapped by the touch sensor electrode, and routes the touch sensor electrode to a touch sensor controller, and a feedline extension that is made of the conductive and opaque material, extends from the feedline and overlaps a portion of the display panel in between a portion of the plurality of sub-pixels that is not overlapped by the touch sensor electrode and the feedline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Nick CLARK, Tim Michael SMEETON
  • Publication number: 20180006844
    Abstract: Integration of a land mobile radio (LMR) communications system and other wireless IP based systems such as LTE by way of a virtual router and virtual base stations. The LMR system may be either trunked or conventional. The virtual router maintains LMR IDs and also IP addresses for both physical and virtual base stations, multi bearer terminals and other components of the integrated system. Physical LMR base stations form a physical network. Virtual LMR base stations form a virtual network. These physical and virtual LMR networks communicate using ISSI, AIS or DFSI for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Niall McAndrew, Nick Clark, Clive Douglas Horn, Steve Penny
  • Publication number: 20170142646
    Abstract: Integration of a Land Mobile Radio (LMR) communications system and other wireless IP based systems such as LTE by way of a multi bearer router. The LMR system may be either trunked or conventional. Undertaking hunting for trunked control channels such that the best site is connected. Undertaking scanning for traffic channels such that the best site is connected. Flexibility is provided by enabling a multi bearer terminal in the communication system to communicate by RF and/or IP based signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Niall McAndrew, Emma Patricia Caunter, Clive Douglas Horn, Nick Clark
  • Publication number: 20130275180
    Abstract: There is a system for social media content for a transit agency, the system comprising a social media manager configured to detect a social media event (SME) relevant to the transit agency, add the SME to a queue of SMEs, characterize the SME, and store the characterized SME.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Trapeze Software ULC
    Inventors: Matthew Carl GODDARD, Bruce PAYNE, David GAVIN, Damian BOWN, Nick CLARK
  • Publication number: 20020046185
    Abstract: A system and an apparatus that uses a wireless communications device to process payments through a server arrangement that is communicatively coupled with a data processing system located at a financial institution. In one embodiment, a server arrangement includes a processor and a memory arrangement, the memory arrangement including at least one of payment processing application that interfaces with the financial institution DPS. The server arrangement controls a plurality of data transmissions between the server arrangement and at least one EFTPOS terminal and includes at least one non-payment processing application that controls a set of functions of the EFTPOS terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Villart, Kevin Frank Ritschel, Nick Clark Epperson, William Stuart Taylor
  • Patent number: D592393
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Inventor: Nick Clarke