Patents Issued in January 23, 2014
  • Publication number: 20140022147
    Abstract: Disclosed are a pixel structure and a corresponding liquid crystal display device. The pixel structure comprises a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan lines, and a plurality of common electrodes. The common electrodes are disposed in a plurality of first metal trunk areas corresponding to a plurality of pixel electrode vertical trunk areas of trunk electrodes and/or gap areas between two adjacent pixel areas of a first metal layer. The pixel structure and the corresponding liquid crystal display device of the present invention are capable of increasing an aperture ratio of the pixel structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shih-Hsun Lo, Bing Han
  • Publication number: 20140022148
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a data driver. The display panel includes at least one gate line, at least two data lines, a display area including a pixel connected to the at least one gate line and the at least two data lines, and a peripheral area outside the display area, the peripheral area including a pair of fan-out wiring structures. The data driver is configured to apply data voltage to the at least two data lines. Each of the pair of fan-out wiring structures includes a bent structure, the bent structure of one of the pair of fan-out wiring structures includes the same material as the at least one gate line, and the bent structure of the remaining one of the pair of fan-out wiring structures includes the same material as the at least two data lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Duk-Sung KIM, Dong-Gyu SHIN, Yeo Geon Yoon
  • Publication number: 20140022149
    Abstract: There are disclosed a DC-DC converter and an organic light emitting display including the same. The DC-DC converter includes a first voltage generator that has an inductor and a plurality of transistors, and converts an input voltage into a first voltage and outputs the first voltage to a first output terminal. The DC-DC converter also includes a controller that controls driving of the first voltage generator by supplying a first driving pulse to each transistor of the first voltage generator. In the DC-DC converter, the amplitude of the first driving pulse is adjustable. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a DC-DC converter and an organic light emitting display including the same, which can achieve high power conversion efficiency by change a driving pulse used in a DC-DC converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Oh-Jo Kwon, Hak-Sun Kim, Joo-Hyung Lee, Won-Tae Choi, Bo-Yeon Kim
  • Publication number: 20140022150
    Abstract: An OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) display device and a pixel circuit thereof are disclosed. In a pixel circuit, a driving transistor driving an OLED is controlled for a reset operation and a compensation of the pixel circuit, by which a threshold voltage of the driving transistor is memorized on a control terminal of the driving transistor. In the compensation operation, a connection node between the driving transistor and the OLED is specially controlled. A switch circuit is provided in the pixel circuit. Based on a control signal, the switch circuit couples the connection node to a control voltage level. An enable interval of the control signal covers an enable interval of the reset operation and an enable interval of the compensation operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Gong-Chen GUO, Ming-Chun TSENG
  • Publication number: 20140022151
    Abstract: A mobile controller application for wirelessly controlling the non-structural appearance of a configurable organic light-emitting diode (OLED) object. A configurable OLED object is fitted with a flexible OLED, a power source, and one or more receptors. A mobile controller application instructs a mobile controller device to send signals, indicating a particular color or display pattern, to one or more receptors embedded in a configurable OLED object. An OLED object receives signals and updates it's non-structural display accordingly. A mobile controller application operates on a mobile controller device. A mobile controller device is preferably a mobile device conventionally used for cell network communication. A mobile controller application enables a user to preview, select, and transmit a display pattern to a configurable OLED object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Michael Andrew Cuff
  • Publication number: 20140022152
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit is provided, including first, second, third, fourth, and fifth switching devices and first and second capacitors. The first switching device has a first terminal coupled to a first power source voltage, and a control terminal coupled to a first scan signal line. The second switching device has a first terminal coupled to a second terminal of the first switching device, a second terminal coupled to a first node and an emitting device, and a control terminal coupled to a second node. The third switching device has a first terminal coupled between the first terminal of the second switching device and a second terminal of the first switching device, a second terminal coupled to the second node, and a control terminal coupled to a second scan signal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicants: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION, INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong-Ru GUO, Lien-Hsiang CHEN
  • Publication number: 20140022153
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device that can reduce picture quality deterioration due to a kickback voltage and can accurately detect a kickback voltage is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel including a detector configured to generate a kickback voltage detection signal, a detection line for supplying the kickback voltage detection signal, and a ground pattern along and adjacent to one side of the detection line; and a common voltage generator connected to the detection line and configured to generate a common voltage corresponding to the kickback voltage detection signal and to supply the generated common voltage to the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Sang Min Lim, Jeong Geun Yoo, Kwang Sae Lee
  • Publication number: 20140022154
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with low power consumption is provided by using a driver circuit and a pixel that have novel circuit structures. In a liquid crystal display device using n (n is a natural number and satisfies n?2) bit digital video signals to display an image, n×m (m is a natural number) memory circuits and n×k (k is a natural number) non-volatile memory circuits are provided in each pixel, thereby giving the device a function of storing m frames of digital video signals in the memory circuits and a function of storing k frames of digital video signals in the non-volatile memory circuits. Once stored in the memory circuits, the digital video signals are repeatedly read out for every new frame to display a still image, so that driving of a source signal line driver circuit can be stopped during still image display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Jun Koyama, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20140022155
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel portion to which a non-inverted video signal is input in a first period and an inverted video signal is input in a second period, and a signal line driver circuit comprising a switch circuit portion for controlling output of the non-inverted video signal and the inverted video signal to the pixel portion. The switch circuit portion is controlled by a first signal serving as a first high power supply potential and a first low power supply potential in the first period and is controlled by a second signal serving as a second high power supply potential and a second low power supply potential in the second period, so that the switch circuit portion controls output of the non-inverted video signal and the inverted video signal to the pixel portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Miyake
  • Publication number: 20140022156
    Abstract: An LCD device is disclosed which includes: at least one sensor module configured to sense an amount of external light; a liquid crystal display panel configured to display images; at least one light source module disposed under the liquid crystal display panel and configured to emit light; and at least one light guide plate configured to convert light from the at least one light source module into two-dimensional light and apply two-dimensional light to the liquid crystal display panel. The at least one light source module includes infrared LEDs and visible LEDs which are selectively driven according to a sensed light quantity sensed by the at least one sensor module and allow infrared light and visible light to be selectively emitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Jung HAN, Se Min LEE, Joo Young YEON
  • Publication number: 20140022157
    Abstract: A method and display apparatus for providing content are provided. The method for providing content includes displaying a content UI in which a plurality of content is included, detecting an area at which a user gazes in the content UI, determining a preference for gaze content that is present in the area at which the user gazes by measuring user's brainwaves, and providing the content UI based on the determined preference. The user can be provided with the content UI that is configured more intuitively and conveniently according to the user preference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Jun-seok LEE, Sang-won LEIGH, Sung-goo CHO, Kyung-hwa YU, Jin-yong CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20140022158
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling an operation mode of a device using gesture recognition using temporal change of light intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Jun Haeng LEE, Kyoo Bin LEE, Delbruck TOBI, Berner RAPHAEL, Hyun Surk RYU
  • Publication number: 20140022159
    Abstract: A display apparatus control system and a method and apparatus for controlling a plurality of display apparatuses are provided. The method of controlling a plurality of display apparatuses includes capturing a region at which a user is located, generating a user-captured image, determining which display apparatus the user is looking at from among the plurality of display apparatuses, based on the user-captured image, and determining the determined display apparatus to be a control target display apparatus, and transmitting a control signal which corresponds to a user's command to be the control target display apparatus when the user's command is input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Sang-won LEIGH, Jun-seok LEE, Sung-goo CHO, Kyung-hwa YU, Jin-yong CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20140022160
    Abstract: One or more computing devices may detect the presence of a user, determine default communication mode for communicating with the user, use the default communication mode to elicit a communicative gesture from the user, receive a signal identifying at least one communicative gesture from the user, and convert the identified communicative gestures into a command. The default communication mode may be based on the identity of the user. Alternatively, the default communication mode can be determined by using a first mode of communication to prompt the user to make a mode-selection gesture, and if a mode-selection gesture is detected from the user within a threshold period of time, setting the first mode of communication as the default communication mode. Otherwise, if no mode-selection gesture is detected within a threshold period of time, using an alternative mode of communication to prompt the user to make a mode-selection gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Ravi Prasad Venkata Velamuri, Atul Gupta, Jagan Joguparthy
  • Publication number: 20140022161
    Abstract: An image such as a depth image of a scene may be received, observed, or captured by a device. A grid of voxels may then be generated based on the depth image such that the depth image may be downsampled. A background included in the grid of voxels may also be removed to isolate one or more voxels associated with a foreground object such as a human target. A location or position of one or more extremities of the isolated human target may be determined and a model may be adjusted based on the location or position of the one or more extremities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Tommer Leyvand, Johnny Lee, Szymon Stachniak, Craig Peeper, Shao Liu
  • Publication number: 20140022162
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides various systems and methods for inducing cutaneous sensations by delivering electromagnetic radiation to directly or indirectly excite neural tissue. An electromagnetic radiation source, such as one or more infrared lasers, may be used to transcutaneously excite neural tissue. The excited neural tissue may be interpreted by the user's nervous system as cutaneous sensations. Accordingly, a system as described herein may be used to induce sensations to allow actual cutaneous sensations to be simulated. A system for inducing a cutaneous sensation via transcutaneously focused electromagnetic radiation may be incorporated in a display to provide cutaneous sensation feedback or used as a separate accessory component associated with a display. Numerous additional applications and variations are provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Pine Development Corporation
    Inventors: William J. Yu, Alexander A. Brownell
  • Publication number: 20140022163
    Abstract: An electronic device including a frame configured to be worn on the head of a user is disclosed. The frame can include a bridge configured to be supported on the nose of the user and a brow portion coupled to and extending away from the bridge and configured to be positioned over a side of a brow of the user. The frame can further include an arm coupled to the brow portion and extending to a free end. The first arm can be positionable over a temple of the user with the free end disposed near an ear of the user. The device can also include a transparent display affixed to the frame adjacent the brow portion and an input affixed to the frame and configured for receiving from the user an input associated with a function. Information related to the function can be presentable on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Maj Isabelle Olsson, Mitchell Joseph Heinrich, Daniel Kelly, John Lapetina
  • Publication number: 20140022164
    Abstract: A hand gesture from a camera input is detected using an image processing module of a consumer electronics device. The detected hand gesture is identified from a vocabulary of hand gestures. The electronics device is controlled in response to the identified hand gesture. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: SURANJIT ADHIKARI
  • Publication number: 20140022165
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for a user to type text on a computer screen using wireless actuators attached to the user's fingers. The image of a virtual keyboard and the user's virtual fingers appears on the computer screen. As the user moves his fingers the virtual fingers on screen moves accordingly aiding the user to type. The actuators transmit symbol information to the computer indicative of a key virtually struck on the virtual keyboard by the user's fingers. Text appears on screen. Virtual typing emulates typing on a physical keyboard. In other embodiments the actuators are coupled to other parts of the body for virtual typing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Igor Melamed
  • Publication number: 20140022166
    Abstract: An image display apparatus and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The method for operating an image display apparatus includes displaying an image of specific content, receiving a wheel input from an input device, moving a screen or an object within the screen according to the wheel input, and displaying the moved screen or object. A distance for which the screen or the object within the screen moves according to the wheel input is changed based on the displayed content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Yongki AHN, Myungjae Jo, Kubong Min
  • Publication number: 20140022167
    Abstract: A projection apparatus includes: a position detecting unit that detects a position of a pointer indicated by a pointing device on a projection surface; a calculating unit that calculates a characteristic value that represents characteristics of move of the pointer from positions detected by the position detecting unit in a predetermined period; a determining unit that determines whether or not the calculated characteristic value is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value; and an image generating unit that, when the characteristic value is determined to be smaller than the predetermined threshold value, generates an image to be projected by enlarging a region containing and surrounding the pointer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Aritaka HAGIWARA, Hidekuni Annaka, Motoyuki Katsumata
  • Publication number: 20140022168
    Abstract: A remote device includes an image sensor, a readout circuit and a processing unit. The image sensor successively captures a first image and a second image containing at least one reference beacon image. The readout circuit is configured to read first image data of the first image and second image data of the second image from the image sensor. The processing unit is configured to calculate an image feature of the at least one reference beacon image according to the first image data and control the readout circuit to only read the second image data of a range of interest in the second image according to the image feature. There is further provided a power saving method of an interactive system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Ming-Tsan KAO, Chia-Cheun LIANG
  • Publication number: 20140022169
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is implemented as a human interface device which can directly sense where on a domed screen a user is pointing. The human interface device can be an optical pointing device which emits a beam of light, preferably produced using a laser, which can be tracked by a camera appropriately located inside the dome. As an alternative, the human interface device can be a hand held device capable of tracking position and orientation. Data produced by the human interface device is then detected and mapped to the location for a corresponding cursor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Spitz, Inc.
    Inventors: Garland Stern, David Millard, Casey Stack
  • Publication number: 20140022170
    Abstract: A light curtain having a light source which emits a light beam which propagates in an area to be monitored by the light curtain and then strikes an optical detector surface. The area to be monitored is arranged in the vicinity of a translucent disc and is oriented parallel to the latter. The light source and detector surface are arranged on that side of the disc which faces away from the area to be monitored. The path of the light beam from the light source to the detector surface runs twice through the plane of the disc and via two mirrors arranged on the edge of the area to be monitored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: ISIQIRI INTERFACE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventor: Robert Koeppe
  • Publication number: 20140022171
    Abstract: A system and method for implementing a remote controlled user interface using close range object tracking are described. Close range depth images of a user's hands and fingers or other objects are acquired using a depth sensor. Using depth image data obtained from the depth sensor, movements of the user's hands and fingers or other objects are identified and tracked. The tracking data is transmitted to an external control device, thus permitting the user to interact with an object displayed on a screen controlled by the external control device, through movements of the user's hands and fingers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Omek Interactive, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yaron Yanai
  • Publication number: 20140022172
    Abstract: A gesture input system with a two-dimension (2D) image sensor and a processing module is provided. The 2D image sensor obtains a plurality of images of a user. The processing module determines positions of an object and a face of the user in a first image of the plurality of images, and determines an operation area for the user according to the positions of the object and the face. Also, the processing module generates a control command according to the subsequent images to the first image of the user within the operation area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Wistron Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Huang, Hsun-Chih Tsao, Chih-Pin Liao, Pin-Hong Liou
  • Publication number: 20140022173
    Abstract: A computer input device with switchable operation modes includes a body, a printed-circuit-board (PCB), a processor, and two switches. Two function buttons are disposed on the body to be pressed to move back and forth; the PCB is disposed in the body; the processor and the switches are disposed on the PCB and electrically connected with each other. The processor outputs control signals corresponding to a first operation mode or a second operation mode to a computer. While the switches are respectively triggered by the pressing of the function buttons, triggering signals are transmitted to the processor simultaneously, so that the processor switches the first operation mode to the second operation mode; or the processor switches the second operation mode to the first operation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mou Ming Ma, Haw Kae Huang, Tzu Chieh Lin
  • Publication number: 20140022174
    Abstract: An external keyboard of an electronic device having a capacitive touch screen and a connector socket is provided. The external keyboard includes a keyboard body and a plurality of physical buttons. The keyboard body is for being disposed on the capacitive touch screen and includes a connector connected to the connector socket. Each physical button has a trigger portion, and a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to each other, and the trigger portion is disposed between the top surface and the bottom surface. The physical buttons are disposed in the keyboard body at intervals. When a distance between the trigger portion and the capacitive touch screen is less than a trigger interval, capacitance of a region of the capacitive touch screen corresponding to the trigger portion is changed by the trigger portion to generate a touch signal. Furthermore, a sheath of an electronic device is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: YU-DAN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20140022175
    Abstract: An information processing method for a touch screen device includes in response to contact of a user's finger with a touch screen of the touch screen device, identifying the finger contacting the touch screen; determining key(s) corresponding to the identified finger based on set correspondence relationship(s) between the finger(s) and the key(s); and displaying at least one character represented by the key(s) corresponding to the identified finger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Guan Cheng Chen, Haibo Lin, Tao Liu, Xu U. Wang
  • Publication number: 20140022176
    Abstract: An information processing method for a touch screen device includes in response to contact of a user's finger with a touch screen of the touch screen device, identifying the finger contacting the touch screen; determining key(s) corresponding to the identified finger based on set correspondence relationship(s) between the finger(s) and the key(s); and displaying at least one character represented by the key(s) corresponding to the identified finger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Guan Cheng Chen, Haibo Lin, Tao Liu, Xu U. Wang
  • Publication number: 20140022177
    Abstract: Input device configurations are described. In one or more implementations, an input device includes a sensor substrate having one or more conductors and a flexible contact layer spaced apart from the sensor substrate. The flexible contact layer is configured to flex to contact the sensor substrate to initiate an input of a computing device. The flexible contact layer includes a force concentrator pad that is configured to cause pressure to be channeled through the force concentrator pad to cause the flexible contact layer to contact the sensor substrate to initiate the input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Timothy C. Shaw, James Charles Marshall, Brian Cox, Carl E. Picciotto, Aric Fitz-Coy
  • Publication number: 20140022178
    Abstract: A mobile electronic device including a first auxiliary section, a main screen section having a display screen, a second auxiliary section having a user input device, and a back section having a microprocessor and a battery. In a first state, the mobile electronic device includes the first auxiliary section and the main screen section on a first side of the device, and the second auxiliary section and the back section on a second side of the device, the first side and the second side being disposed on opposite sides of the mobile electronic device. In a second state, the mobile electronic device includes the second auxiliary section and the main screen section on the first side, and the first auxiliary section and the back section on the second side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Kwok Ching Leung, Archer Kwong Wun, Jason Tyler Griffin
  • Publication number: 20140022179
    Abstract: A system and method of receiving various types of gestures and displays corresponding keypads on the mobile device are provided. The method includes receiving a keypad calling command, and arranging and displaying one or more keypad blocks on the screen of the mobile device, according to a track of the keypad calling command. The keypad display system includes an input unit for receiving a user's input, and a controller for determining whether the user's input is a keypad calling command, and for arranging and displaying one or more keypad blocks on the screen, according to a track of the keypad calling command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Sungjin YOON
  • Publication number: 20140022180
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for inputting and searching Chinese characters with Easy-Strokes, wherein the complex strokes of Chinese characters are broken down into simple strokes without any angle (or vertex) and a said simple stroke is identified as an Easy-Stroke. The feature information of Easy-Strokes for a Chinese character consists of the total stroke number of Easy-Strokes, the stroke types of Easy-Strokes, the stroke types of Easy-Strokes at the special locations of a character, and the stroke numbers of different types of Easy-Strokes. A correspondence is established between the feature information of Easy-Strokes and the corresponding input components on a device to implement the input of Chinese characters. A Chinese character database is established according to the feature information of Easy-Strokes to implement the search of Chinese characters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Beijing Farfir Intellectual Property Agency
    Inventors: Wei Yan, Haidi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140022181
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program where the apparatus: includes at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program instructions; wherein the at least one memory and the computer program instructions are configured to, with the at least one processor, enable the apparatus to: determine fluctuations in a signal provided by a capacitive sensor of a touch pad; wherein if the fluctuations are below a threshold the processor is configured to determine that an object is touching the touch pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Janne Petteri Bergman, Jussi Severi Uusitalo, Pekka Virtanen
  • Publication number: 20140022182
    Abstract: A terminal and a method for a programmable button on a bezel of the terminal are provided. For a mobile terminal comprising a touch sensor, a first display and at least one second display disposed at the bezel, the bezel at least partially surrounding the first display, the method includes mapping an object displayed on the first display to a button on the at least one second display, displaying the button on the at least one second display, and when the displayed button is actuated, performing an action corresponding to the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Parvinder SAWHNEY, Peter KING, Hyoung Wook HAM
  • Publication number: 20140022183
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for sending information from a first computer to a second computer. The first computer may comprise a gesture module, a device-detection module, and a transmission module. The method may comprise receiving, by the gesture module, an input. The input may specify the information that is to be sent and a direction relative to the first computer. The input may have been generated by a user of the first computer performing a gesture. Using the specified direction, the device-detection module may then identify the second computer. The second computer may be located relative to the first computer substantially in the specified direction. The specified information may then be sent, by the transmission module, to the second computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL INSTRUMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ramy S. Ayoub, Joseph F. Wodka
  • Publication number: 20140022184
    Abstract: The recognition of user input to a computing device is enhanced. The user input is either speech, or handwriting data input by the user making screen-contacting gestures, or a combination of one or more prescribed words that are spoken by the user and one or more prescribed screen-contacting gestures that are made by the user, or a combination of one or more prescribed words that are spoken by the user and one or more prescribed non-screen-contacting gestures that are made by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven Bathiche, Anoop Gupta
  • Publication number: 20140022185
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods of synchronizing a display driver integrated circuit (DDI) and a touch screen controller (TSC) integrated circuit that are coupled to a display integrated touch panel, such as an in-cell panel, and allowing multi-phase transmit (TX) scanning of the in-cell touch panel. One apparatus includes a DDI configured to receive signals on a video interface from a host processor over a video interface and to drive electrodes of a touch panel. The DDI is configured to receive control signals from a TSC over a control interface to drive different transmit (TX) phase sequences of a TX signal in different sensing interval on the electrodes of the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Milton Ribeiro, Bart DeCanne, Jan-Willem Van de Waerdt
  • Publication number: 20140022186
    Abstract: A touch screen panel includes a driving line including a plurality of touch driving units, a sensing line substantially parallel to the driving line and which includes a plurality of touch sensing units, a first driving router disposed adjacent to the driving line and which transmits a first touch pulse to one of an even-numbered touch driving unit and an odd-numbered touch driving unit of the touch driving units, a second driving router disposed adjacent to the driving line and which transmits a second touch pulse to the other of the even-numbered touch driving unit and the odd-numbered touch driving unit of the touch driving units and a plurality of sensing routers connected to each of the touch sensing units and which receives a sensing signal from the touch sensing units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won-Ki HONG, Seung-Ho NAM, Ji-Hong PARK, Moon-Sung CHOI
  • Publication number: 20140022187
    Abstract: A display device including a plurality of pixels at a display region of a first substrate, and an electromagnetic resonance (EMR) sensor unit at one surface of the first substrate, the EMR sensor unit including a first group of coils and a second group of coils, the first group of coils and the second group of coils being laminated, wherein the EMR sensor unit is beneath the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-Heui Jeong, Hyoung-Wook Jang
  • Publication number: 20140022188
    Abstract: A touch screen panel includes a plurality of driving electrodes, a plurality of sensing electrodes crossing the driving electrodes, a driver for supplying a driving signal to the driving electrodes in a touch recognizing mode, and a controller for receiving signals from the sensing electrodes. In a noise measuring mode, the controller is configured to cut off an electrical connection between one of the driving electrodes and the driver or between one of the sensing electrodes and the controller, maintain an electrical connection between another one of the sensing electrodes and the controller, and detect a noise signal from the other one of the sensing electrodes. The touch screen panel and a driving method of the touch screen panel can increase or maximize the reception sensitivity of outside noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: SOON-SUNG AHN
  • Publication number: 20140022189
    Abstract: Processing an audio signal is disclosed. A source audio signal to be rendered by a touch input medium is received. An indication of an event where the touch input medium has been contacted at a location on the touch input medium such that rendering of the source audio signal by the touch input medium is affected by the contact is received. At least a portion of the source audio signal is modified based on an expected effect of the contact on the touch input medium determined using the indication of the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Sentons Inc.
  • Publication number: 20140022190
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device includes a touch panel where a specified input operation is performed with an indicator, an input detection unit, and an operation determination unit. The input detection unit detects the pattern of the input operation based on the position of the indicator on the touch panel, and decreases the frequency of execution of processing arranged to detect the input operation performed on the touch panel when an input operation performed on the touch panel is not detected over a specified time period. When the pattern of the input operation is detected in the case where the execution frequency of the processing arranged to detect the input operation is low, the operation determination unit causes a controlled unit determined to be an operation target in relation to the pattern of the input operation to execute a specified operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Kenji TOKUTAKE
  • Publication number: 20140022191
    Abstract: A touch screen panel, which may be included in a display device, is capable of removing influence due to static electricity applied from the outside by forming a guard ring pattern at an edge of one surface of a window substrate and by implementing a connection part electrically connected to the guard ring pattern so as to directly contact a bezel supporting the touch screen panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Yeo-Jin YUN
  • Publication number: 20140022192
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that detects an input operation to a touch panel based on an output of the touch panel; creates an operation command to change content displayed on a display apparatus based on a detected input operation to the touch panel; and controls a wireless interface to transmit the operation command to the display apparatus controlling the display apparatus to change the content displayed on the display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Yosuke HATANAKA
  • Publication number: 20140022193
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method of executing a function of a terminal and a terminal supporting the method. The method includes identifying a position of a touch pen on the pen recognition panel; and defining a non-effective area and an effective-area for a touch input event of a touch panel aligned with the pen recognition panel based on the position of the touch pen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taeyeon KIM, Hyunmi PARK, Saegee OH, Jaemyoung LEE, Joohoon LEE, Jinyoung JEON
  • Publication number: 20140022194
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus detects a touched point where an operation screen has been touched, and when the number of touched points detected has decreased to one point, recognize an input based on one detected touched point as a single-touch operation by using a condition different from that when the number of touched points has increased to one point from a state in which a touched point is not detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Hikaru Ito
  • Publication number: 20140022195
    Abstract: A touch screen information system provides guests or users of a hotel or business with information. The touch screen information system includes system memory which stores an operating system, programming modules and program data. A touch screen display device is configured to provide a viewable area, capable of receiving a user input in the form of a touch, which includes a guest information display area and an operating system and administrative display area. A bezel covers the operating system and administrative display area of the viewable area of the touch screen display device to prevent access to the operating system and administrative display area by guests or users of the hotel or business, but allows access to the guest information display area by the guests or users of the hotel or business.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Mark W. Lease
  • Publication number: 20140022196
    Abstract: A device to detect a user accessing a region of interest of an image, access pixels of the region of interest to identify alphanumeric characters within the region of interest, and store the alphanumeric characters and a location of the alphanumeric characters within metadata of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Shaun Henry, Greg Creager, Nathan Mcintyre