Patents by Inventor Taif Ahmed Syed

Taif Ahmed Syed 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: 9535544
    Abstract: A touch screen to reduce touch pixel coupling. In some examples, the touch screen can include a first display pixel and a second display pixel in a row of display pixels, where the first display pixel can be configurable to be decoupled from the second display pixel during at least a touch sensing phase of the touch screen. In some examples, the touch screen can include a display pixel having a first and a second transistor, where the second transistor can be electrically connected to a gate terminal of the first transistor, and can be diode-connected. In some examples, the touch screen can include two display pixels, each display pixel having two transistors, where two of the transistors can be electrically connected to a first gate line, and the remaining two transistors can be individually electrically connected to a second and third gate line, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marduke Yousefpor, Taif Ahmed Syed, Ahmad Al-Dahle, Kevin J. White, Abbas Jamshidi-Roudbari, Stephen S. Poon
  • Patent number: 8907935
    Abstract: A system and method for characterizing the power and luminance values for a display. This may include testing a device to determine a luminance value for a display of a given device at a given current and determining whether the first current is to be adjusted during future uses based on a comparison of the luminance with at least one threshold value. This may also include storing an adjusted current value if it is determined that the first current is to be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taif Ahmed Syed, Daniel A. Villamizar, David Andrew Doyle, Ulrich T. Barnhoefer, Venu Madhav Duggineni
  • Publication number: 20130328944
    Abstract: A system and method calibrating operational characteristics of a device. Commands for operation of the device may be derived from a set of operational characteristics common to a set of devices similar to the device. This set of operational characteristics may further be adjusted by operational characteristics related to the device itself. This may allow for more adaptive control signals to be generated for control of portions of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ulrich T. Barnhoefer, Daniel A. Villamizar, Taif Ahmed Syed, David Andrew Doyle, Venu Madhav Duggineni
  • Publication number: 20130328841
    Abstract: A system and method for characterizing the power and luminance values for a display. This may include testing a device to determine a luminance value for a display of a given device at a given current and determining whether the first current is to be adjusted during future uses based on a comparison of the luminance with at least one threshold value. This may also include storing an adjusted current value if it is determined that the first current is to be adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Taif Ahmed Syed, Daniel A. Villamizar, David Andrew Doyle, Ulrich T. Barnhoefer, Venu Madhav Duggineni
  • Publication number: 20120154423
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to enable the creation and the display of dithered images. Embodiments include techniques that use the relationship between the luminance and the color of a source image as a dithering heuristic. In one embodiment, the luminance and the color of a source image is determined. Each color of the source image is approximated to the nearest hardware color level. The hardware color level is then varied to more closely approximate the luminance of the source image. Any color errors introduced by approximating the luminance of the source image are then diffused to adjacent pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ulrich T. Barnhoefer, Taif Ahmed Syed