Patents Issued in January 6, 2015
  • Patent number: 8928554
    Abstract: A mobile image display system includes multiple movable panels, each including a video display. Using a position sensor, the system knows when a particular panel reaches a position in which the displayed image is distorted due to overlapping or misalignment of the panels. Then, a central processing unit provides the panels in the region where distortion is present with a modified image to correct for this distortion. Additionally, the panels may include light and/or weight sensors. In response to these sensors, an image in any location the carousel can be revised in response to the presence of an article such as a suitcase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: IC Media Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Laurence John Hine
  • Patent number: 8928555
    Abstract: A display device can include a housing, a processor, and a display assembly. The processor can be arranged within the housing. The display assembly can be operably coupled to the processor and arranged within the housing. The display assembly can include a first display, a privacy filter, and a second display. The first display can output a first portion of the display. The second display can output a second portion of the display. The privacy filter and the first and second displays can be arranged such that the first portion of the display assembly is filtered by the privacy filter to be viewable in a first viewable arc. The second portion of the display assembly can be viewable in a second viewable arc that is different than the first viewable arc. The first and second displays can be LCD's.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Want, Richard Carl Gossweiler, III, Colin Albright McDonough
  • Patent number: 8928556
    Abstract: An imaging unit images a predetermined range including at least a range where an image is displayed out of a field-of-view range of a user. An image forming unit forms a background canceling image which cancels a background image which is visually recognized by a user via an external light based on an imaged image imaged by the imaging unit. The image forming unit combines the background canceling image with the original image corresponding to original image information by aligning them in terms of display position and size. An image formed by combining the background canceling image with the original image is displayed on the display unit by a display control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norimi Yasue, Hideaki Yamada
  • Patent number: 8928557
    Abstract: A head-mounted device for mounting on the head of a user includes a first pressing member for pressing a first portion of the head from a first direction; a second pressing member for pressing a second portion of the head from a second direction that is different from the first direction; a string member that concatenates the first pressing member and the second pressing member; a structure that guides the string member so that the first and the second pressing members move in the first and the second directions, respectively, according to changes in the length of the string member; and an adjusting unit that adjusts the length of the string member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takaaki Nakabayashi, Toshiyuki Yasuda, Toshiki Ishino, Yoshihiro Saito, Toshiyuki Okuma, Kazuhide Miyata, Hiroshi Komatsu
  • Patent number: 8928558
    Abstract: The technology provides various embodiments for gaze determination within a see-through, near-eye, mixed reality display device. In some embodiments, the boundaries of a gaze detection coordinate system can be determined from a spatial relationship between a user eye and gaze detection elements such as illuminators and at least one light sensor positioned on a support structure such as an eyeglasses frame. The gaze detection coordinate system allows for determination of a gaze vector from each eye based on data representing glints on the user eye, or a combination of image and glint data. A point of gaze may be determined in a three-dimensional user field of view including real and virtual objects. The spatial relationship between the gaze detection elements and the eye may be checked and may trigger a re-calibration of training data sets if the boundaries of the gaze detection coordinate system have changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: John R. Lewis, Yichen Wei, Robert L. Crocco, Benjamin I. Vaught, Alex Aben-Athar Kipman, Kathryn Stone Perez
  • Patent number: 8928559
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention, improved capabilities are described for displaying and managing dynamic, multi-media, video content presentation on an architectural scale. Methods and systems described include associating a video display with an advertising marketplace and leasing rights to a video display. A plurality of physical panel, rod, curtain, blade, and fin video display arrays are described, as are methods and systems for managing and editing video for display and powering a video display that is associated with an architectural feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Standardvision, LLC
    Inventor: Adrian Velicescu
  • Patent number: 8928560
    Abstract: A display matrix may have a resistance switch and a display element formed on a common display substrate. The resistance switch may have a metal insulator transition (MIT) material that has a negative differential resistance (NDR) characteristic that exhibits a discontinuous resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Matthew D. Pickett, R. Stanley Williams
  • Patent number: 8928561
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for reducing shutter 3D liquid crystal dynamic crosstalk, which includes: receiving digital information of left-eye and right-eye images of a current frame; comparing to determine if a combination of the left-eye and right-eye gray levels of each pixel point of each scanning line of the current frame is equal to that of the previous frame; adjusting the gray level of the image of one of the eye images that is associated with each pixel point having left-eye image and right-eye image gray levels that are both different between the current frame and the previous frame resulting from the comparison result according to a gray level reference table; and displaying one eye image of all the scanning lines of the current frame that have been subjected to gray level adjustment and another one image of the current frame that has not been subjected to adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yu-Yeh Chen
  • Patent number: 8928562
    Abstract: An electro-optic display includes an electro-optic medium, a pixel electrode for applying an electric field to the medium and a column electrode associated with the pixel electrode. To reduce power consumption, when it is necessary to change the voltage on the column electrode from a first value to a second value to change the optical state of the electro-optic medium, the column electrode voltage is first changed to a third value intermediate the first and second values to permit charge to flow to or from the column electrode, and thereafter the column electrode voltage is changed from the third voltage to the second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Holly G. Gates, Robert W. Zehner, Jonathan D. Albert
  • Patent number: 8928563
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel array unit with pixel circuits disposed in matrix form, the pixel circuit including a driving transistor, an electro-optic element, a storage-capacitor, and a sampling transistor, with the electro-optic element emitting light by generating a driving current based on information stored in the storage-capacitor at the driving transistor to be applied to the electro-optic element; and a control unit, of which the output stage includes a buffer transistor, to output a pulse signal for driving the pixel array unit from the buffer transistor; wherein the pixel array unit and the control unit are formed with long laser beam irradiation to be scanned in the vertical direction; and with the control unit, buffer transistors for outputting a pulse signal for sampling to an input video signal to each signal line are arrayed in a column in the longitudinal direction of the laser beam irradiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 8928564
    Abstract: A pixel circuit of a flat panel display device and a method for driving thereof are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Wook Park, Ki-Ju Im, Ki-Wook Kim, Yeon-Gon Mo, Hui-Won Yang
  • Patent number: 8928565
    Abstract: A method for driving an OLED panel includes the following steps. An image signal is inputted to a power control unit, wherein the power control unit includes a calculator and a power control look-up table. A display loading ratio is calculated by the calculator according to the image signal, wherein the power control unit can find an emitting time ratio by the power control look-up table corresponding to the display loading ratio, the emitting time ratio can be transformed to an emitting time signal, and the emitting time signal can be inputted to the OLED panel so as to control the power consumption of the OLED panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Chieh Chiu, Shih-Meng Chang, Chien-Hung Chen
  • Patent number: 8928566
    Abstract: In the present invention, there is provided a display panel driving method of the type wherein the total light emitting period length within a one-field period is controlled to variably control the peak luminance level of a display panel, the driving method including a step of variably controlling, where the one-field period has N light emitting periods disposed therein, N being equal to or greater than 2, the light emitting period length of a particular one of the light emitting periods and the other light emitting period or periods to provide a difference in luminance between the particular light emitting period and the other light emitting period or periods so that the particular light emitting period is visually observed as the center of light emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuru Asano
  • Patent number: 8928567
    Abstract: A switchable viewing angle display method is provided, using arrayed microlenses and a waveguide pipe with selectable light extraction positions. The method provides a front panel array of display pixels. Also provided is an array of microlenses underlying the array of display pixels. Each microlens has a focal point and each microlens is associated with a corresponding block of display pixels. A backlight panel has an edge-coupled waveguide pipe with an optical input connected to a column of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The backlight panel includes an array extraction pixels, each extraction pixel underlying a corresponding microlens, and the backlight panel also includes a planar mirror underlying the waveguide pipe. In response to a display viewing angle change command, a waveguide pipe's light extraction position is selected, which is the distance between the extraction pixels and their corresponding microlenses, and the display viewing angle is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiandong Huang, Apostolos T. Voutsas
  • Patent number: 8928568
    Abstract: A pixel includes sub-pixels each of which includes a first display region, a second display region, a third display region, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. The first capacitor connects the second display region with the third display region. The second capacitor connects the first display region to the third display region via a switch. When the switch is activated, the potential of the third display region is decreased via the second capacitor, the potential of the first display region is increased via the second capacitor, and the potential of the second display region is decreased via the first capacitor. A display panel and driving method in a display panel are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Lun Chiang, Yu-Sheng Huang, Yan-Ciao Chen, Meng-Ju Tsai
  • Patent number: 8928569
    Abstract: Disclosed is related with a LCD technology, and particularly to a driver of promoting pixel charging ability of a thin film transistor and a method thereof. The driver of promoting pixel charging ability of a thin film transistor comprises a thin film transistor, a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The source of the thin film transistor is coupled to the first capacitor and the second capacitor respectively. As the drain voltage switches from positive polarity to negative polarity or from negative polarity to positive polarity, a voltage different between a source voltage stored by the thin film transistor and the first capacitor voltage is higher than a predetermined value. The present invention is capable of promoting the charge current and the pixel charging ability. Meanwhile, the requirement of the metal line width can be diminished to improve aperture ratio and raise transmittance of product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chihtsung Kang
  • Patent number: 8928570
    Abstract: A method of driving a display device by using a pixel voltage corresponding to a difference between a common voltage and a data voltage comprises: operations of charging the pixel voltage by the common voltage and the data voltage having opposite polarities; and discharging the pixel voltage in a period where the polarity of the common voltage is reversed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Il-Nam Kim, Jae-Ik Lim, Won-Sang Park
  • Patent number: 8928571
    Abstract: A driving method for a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) device is used for reducing power consumption of the LCD device. The driving method includes determining a driving approach of the LCD device, and performing corresponding charge sharing on a plurality of data channels according to the driving approach. The driving approach of the LCD device is determined according to a latch data (LD) signal and a polarity signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ji-Ting Chen, Kuang-Feng Sung
  • Patent number: 8928572
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel, a gate driver configured to supply gate signals to gate lines on the liquid crystal panel, a data driver configured to supply data voltages to data lines on the liquid crystal panel, and a partial controller configured to control the gate driver to intercept a part of the gate signals to be supplied to the gate lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Su Hwan Moon, Do Heon Kim, Ji Eun Chae
  • Patent number: 8928573
    Abstract: The embodiment of the present invention discloses a shift register for reducing the power consumption during driving. The shift register includes a protection circuit, a retaining circuit, an output circuit, a first driving circuit, a second driving circuit, a resetting circuit, a timing control terminal, a first power supply terminal, a second power supply terminal, a third power supply terminal and a fourth power supply terminal. The embodiment of the present invention further discloses a Gate driver On Array (GOA) panel and a method for gate driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kun Cao
  • Patent number: 8928574
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device wherein it is possible to specifically prevent the pseudo contouring of an area in which an image having a large motion vector is displayed, such as a telop area. A telop area (R1) (an example of a component image area) in which the motion vector is set in advance and which has a magnitude greater than or equal to a predetermined magnitude is detected. The intermittent lighting timing of an illumination portion is controlled in a manner such that the turn-off period having a predetermined length is set between the point in which the detected telop area (R1) writes a video signal to a liquid crystal element and the point in which the liquid crystal element responds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mamoru Takaya, Eiichi Takakura
  • Patent number: 8928575
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display device includes a common electrode, pixel electrodes, and a disperse system of electrophoretic particles. A transistor supplies one of the pixel electrodes with a first potential or a second potential higher than the first potential. During a first period, a control portion supplies a third potential to the gate electrode to turn on the transistor, supplies the first potential to a signal line or the common electrode, and supplies the second potential to the other line. During a second period, the control portion supplies a fourth potential higher than the third potential to the gate electrode to turn off the transistor, and supplies the first potential to both the signal line and the common electrode so that the pixel electrode potential substantially reaches the common electrode potential. The third potential is lower than the second potential and the fourth potential is higher than the first potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Soichi Moriya, Tsutomu Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 8928576
    Abstract: The electrophoretic display device in which an electrophoretic element is interposed between a pair of substrates includes a first electrode and a second electrode that are formed in each pixel on one substrate, and an opposing electrode that is formed on another substrate, and faces the first electrode and the second electrode through the electrophoretic element. Here, a gradation is displayed due to a difference in potential between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8928577
    Abstract: A method and system for generating an electronic note on a handheld electronic device. Specifically, the present invention allows a user to push one button on the handheld device to gain access to a cleared screen where ideas, telephone numbers, etc. can be written down directly on the screen in the user's own handwriting in the form of a note. Additionally, the note is automatically time and date stamped. Furthermore, a title associated with the note is displayed concurrently with the note and can be modified using digitized alphanumeric characters. Moreover, the note is automatically stored in the handheld electronic device. Also, an alarm, associated with a particular time and date relative to the electronic device, can be electronically assigned to the note. At the particular time and date associated with the alarm, the alarm is automatically triggered, and the note is automatically displayed on the handheld electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: David Christopher, Carl Stone
  • Patent number: 8928578
    Abstract: A method of assisting discovering a cursor on an electronic display is disclosed. In general, if a cursor moves from one display region to another and there is a difference in ambient light, a cursor adjustment may need to be executed. In another embodiment, the method may look to see if a user is moving the cursor in a fashion to locate the cursor in which case a cursor adjustment should be executed. If three cursor inputs are in successively opposite directions or have opposite acceleration and are received within a brief period of time, the cursor adjustment may be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Manuel Alexander Schroder, Michael H. LaManna
  • Patent number: 8928579
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are described herein for interacting with an omni-directionally projected display. The omni-directionally projected display includes, in some embodiments, visual information projected on a display surface by way of an omni-directional projector. A user is able to interact with the projected visual information using gestures in free space, voice commands, and/or other tools, structures, and commands. The visual information can be projected omni-directionally, to provide a user with an immersive interactive experience with the projected display. The concepts and technologies disclosed herein can support more than one interacting user. Thus, the concepts and technologies disclosed herein may be employed to provide a number of users with immersive interactions with projected visual information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Inventors: Andrew David Wilson, Hrvoje Benko
  • Patent number: 8928580
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a body including a flexible portion, a display unit provided to the body, a sensing unit provided to the body and generating an electric signal in response to bending of the body, and a controller recognizing the electric signal and controlling the display unit according to the electric signal generated by the bending of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Jin Hwang, Chang Bai Won, Bo Ra Choi, Kun Woo Lee, Luke Miles, Yun Sung Lee, Gi Hoon Tho, Min Soo Kim, Yu Ri Lee
  • Patent number: 8928581
    Abstract: A force feedback system provides components for use in a force feedback system including a host computer and a force feedback interface device. An architecture for a host computer allows multi-tasking application programs to interface with the force feedback device without conflicts. One embodiment of a force feedback device provides both relative position reporting and absolute position reporting to allow great flexibility. A different device embodiment provides relative position reporting device allowing maximum compatibility with existing software. Information such as ballistic parameters and screen size sent from the host to the force feedback device allow accurate mouse positions and graphical object positions to be determined in the force feedback environment. Force feedback effects and structures are further described, such as events and enclosures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: Adam C. Braun, Jonathan L. Beamer, Dean C. Chang
  • Patent number: 8928582
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed to support adaptive interaction with legacy software applications, without a need for rewriting those applications. The methods are for use with an interactive electronic system including a processor, a display, and an input device with user-manipulated controls. When the legacy application is executed, a supplemental software program, such as a plugin, is also executed and is utilized in order to identify currently relevant interactive features of the legacy application during execution. Functionality is dynamically assigned to the various user-manipulated controls based on the identified features. In one embodiment, detection of objects (particularly the user's hands) proximate to the input controls is also employed in determining the assignment of functionality and/or in displaying a visual representation to the user of the available interactive choices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Rukman Senanayake, Grit Denker, Patrick D. Lincoln, John Murray, Steven S. Weiner
  • Patent number: 8928583
    Abstract: An image display control apparatus includes a CPU performing face recognition within an image shot by a camera and detecting a gaze direction from a recognized face. The CPU then changes the image to a processed image at a predetermined rate in the case where at least one of the gazes of detected faces is directed to the displayed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takayuki Kogane
  • Patent number: 8928584
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes an image pickup section, a display section, an instruction section, a position specification section, a direction specification section, a specification section, and a reporting section. The image pickup section sequentially picks up an image. The display section displays the picked up image. The instruction section generates an instruction signal for marking an object included in the image. The position specification section specifies a position where the display apparatus exists. The direction specification section specifies a pickup direction by the image pickup section. The specification section specifies a position of the object relative to the position of the display apparatus based on the position of the display apparatus and the pickup direction in response to the instruction signal. The reporting section reports the position of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Nara, Hayato Ikezu, Daisuke Sugiura, Yutaro Ichimura
  • Patent number: 8928585
    Abstract: An in-flight entertainment system includes a video display unit facing a user seat. The video display unit includes a display surface that displays images to a user who is seated on the user seat. A light emitter illuminates eyes of the user. A camera outputs a video signal containing reflections from the illuminated eyes. A processor processes the video signal to determine a viewing location on the display surface at which the eyes are directed, and controls at least one function for how images are displayed on the display surface responsive to the determined viewing location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Thales Avionics, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher K. Mondragon, Brett Bleacher
  • Patent number: 8928586
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel stereoscopic display device that allows the viewer to properly view a stereoscopic image. The device includes: a display configured to display an image for stereoscopic viewing; an imaging unit configured to image a face of a viewer; a position information acquisition unit configured to acquire position information regarding the face imaged by the imaging unit; an operation unit configured to be operated by the viewer when the viewer is in an optimal position from where the image for stereoscopic viewing displayed on the display can be properly viewed as a stereoscopic image; an optimal position information storage unit configured to store position information provided when the operation unit is operated as position information on the optimal position; and a positional relationship notification unit configured to notify the viewer of the positional relationship between the current position of the viewer and the optimal position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Hamachi, Yukio Mizuno
  • Patent number: 8928587
    Abstract: A user may have a device that contains the user's identity. Rather than log into a second device that user may make use of the fact that the user is already logged into a device as disclosed herein. The user may perform a gesture that may be observed or sensed by one or more sensors on a first device and a second device that contains the user's identity. A correlation between the sensor data may be performed and, if the correlation value exceeds a threshold value, a portion of the user's identity may be shared with the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Boris Smus
  • Patent number: 8928588
    Abstract: A touch press key inputting device includes: a plurality of character keys 21˜32 with at least 2 characters displayed on the surface of each key; an input judging means 72 for sensing the character keys touched and the first touched points in the area of the character keys, performing a movement longer than a specified length originally touched, and judging a moving direction in touch press inputting; a character selecting and outputting means 73 for selecting and outputting the characters displayed in the moving direction, corresponding to the moving direction judged by the input judging means, relative to the reference positions of the character keys. Since the characters on the positions are selected and output corresponding to the touch press inputting operations of the characters displayed on the key surfaces of respective character keys 21˜32, the inputting operations can be directly sensed and easily assured, and the inputting operability is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Blackberry Limited
    Inventor: Syunji Kato
  • Patent number: 8928589
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing virtual keyboards. In one aspect, a system includes a camera, a display, a video feature extraction module and a gesture pattern matching module. The camera captures a sequence of images containing a finger of a user, and the display displays each image combined with a virtual keyboard having a plurality of virtual keys. The video feature extraction module detects motion of the finger in the sequence of images relative to virtual sensors of the virtual keys, and determines sensor actuation data based on the detected motion relative to the virtual sensors. The gesture pattern matching module uses the sensor actuation data to recognize a gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Ning Bi
  • Patent number: 8928590
    Abstract: A gesture-enabled keyboard and method are defined. The gesture-enabled keyboard includes a keyboard housing including one or more keyboard keys for typing and a pair of stereo camera sensors mounted within the keyboard housing, a field of view of the pair of stereo camera sensors projecting substantially perpendicularly to the plane of the keyboard housing. A background of the field of view is updated when one or more alternative input devices are in use. A gesture region including a plurality of interaction zones and a virtual membrane defining a region of transition from one of the plurality of interaction zones to another of the plurality of interaction zones is defined within the field of view of the pair of stereo camera sensors. Gesture interaction is enabled when one or more gesture objects are positioned within the gesture region, and when one or more alternative input devices are not in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Edge 3 Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Tarek El Dokor
  • Patent number: 8928591
    Abstract: A computer-implemented technique includes determining, at a computing device including one or more processors, one or more scripts in which a user is capable of inputting text. The technique includes determining, at the computing device, whether at least one of the one or more scripts is a script having a right-to-left (RTL) writing directionality. The technique also includes automatically outputting, at the computing device: (i) a first user interface when at least one of the one or more scripts is a script having an RTL writing directionality, wherein the first user interface is configured to allow the user to adjust the writing directionality at the computing device, or (ii) a second user interface when none of the one or more scripts is a script having an RTL writing directionality, wherein the second user interface is not configured to allow the user to adjust the writing directionality at the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Luke Hiro Swartz, Kirill Buryak, Vladimir Lanin, Gadi Guy
  • Patent number: 8928592
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for inputting letters by combining basic elements obtained by separating and symbolizing strokes of letters, so as to provide excellent letter intuitiveness and recognition. According to the present invention, a letter may be input by pressing one of or sequentially pressing two of keys to which basic elements , , , , , , , , , , and obtained by separating and symbolizing strokes of letters are assigned, and letters may be rapidly and conveniently input by minimizing key pressing paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Shelko Electronics Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Min Oh, Jong Hyok Oh
  • Patent number: 8928593
    Abstract: A method of controlling the location of a virtual keyboard in a graphical user interface (GUI) displayed on a display screen of a handheld electronic device is disclosed, the method comprising: monitoring for change in device orientation, wherein the device orientation comprising a left hand device orientation and a right hand device orientation; and updating location of the virtual keyboard in the GUI in response to detection of device orientation change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Beijing Hefengxin Keji Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Jing Jian
  • Patent number: 8928594
    Abstract: A method of controlling the operation of a mobile terminal is provided. By dynamically selecting or setting a specific function of a mobile terminal according to a change in pressure or contact areas sensed by a plurality of touch sensors which cover the mobile terminal, a user can easily select or set a specific function of the mobile terminal according to his or her intention, and easily recognize information displayed on a screen of the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wook Chang, Joon-ah Park, Hyun-jeong Lee
  • Patent number: 8928595
    Abstract: A touchscreen may be calibrated using a second sensor that may be placed around the periphery of the touchscreen in a known position with respect to the touchscreen. The second sensor may be incorporated into a bezel and may have one or more sensor elements. The second sensor may be used to sense the position of a user's finger or stylus when the user touches an object on the touchscreen display, and the second sensor output may be used to update a calibration factor based on the position of the displayed object. The second sensor may be used to periodically recalibrate the touchscreen any time an object is selected in proximity to the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Avi Geiger
  • Patent number: 8928596
    Abstract: A display panel includes: a first substrate section formed on the front side of the display panel; a second substrate section which is opposed to the first substrate section; a plurality of pixel sections formed in a matrix form between the first and second substrate sections; and a plurality of sensor sections, each of the sensor sections having two electrodes, one electrode disposed with a electrode-to-electrode gap from the other between the first and second substrate sections, the electrode-to-electrode gap being removed as a result of the deformation of the first substrate section under pressure so that the one electrode is brought into contact with the other electrode, the sensor sections being provided between the first and second substrate sections with one of a plurality of electrode-to-electrode gap lengths respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventors: Shuji Hayashi, Tsutomu Tanaka, Takeo Koito, Hiroshi Muzuhashi, Yuko Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 8928597
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device capable of having an electrostatic capacitive type touch panel function without substantially increasing the thickness of the display device and/or including a touch panel with an improved interface between a touch panel module of the touch panel and a touch panel drive integrated circuit (IC) of the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Brent Jang
  • Patent number: 8928598
    Abstract: A touch-sensing liquid crystal display (LCD) panel including an active device array substrate, an opposite substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween is provided. The active device array substrate includes a first substrate, a pixel array, a plurality of touch-sensing pads, and an electric field shielding layer. The pixel array is disposed on the first substrate and includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array, a plurality of scan lines, and a plurality of data lines. The touch-sensing pads are disposed on the first substrate. The electric field shielding layer is disposed on the pixel array and arranged between sub-pixels adjacent to each other, and the electric field shielding layer includes a pattern. The opposite substrate includes a common electrode and a plurality of touch-sensing protrusions disposed above the touch-sensing pads. Therefore, when the touch-sensing LCD panel is pressed, press mura is substantially eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tsung-Chin Cheng, Hong-Ji Huang, Yue-Hung Wu, Zeng-De Chen, Seok-Lyul Lee
  • Patent number: 8928599
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a touch sensor and the touch sensor includes a plurality of x-axis read-out lines, a plurality of y-axis read-out lines crossing the x-axis read-out lines, a plurality of sensor units provided in a plurality of regions defined by the x-axis read-out lines and the y-axis read-out lines. Each sensor unit comprises a reset unit that outputs a sampling voltage based on a reset voltage, a capacitance detector that generates a modified sampling voltage from the sampling voltage based on a variation of a cell gap of the display panel caused by a touch of the display panel, a first output unit that changes an electric potential of a corresponding x-axis read-out line in response to the modified sampling voltage and a second output unit that changes an electric potential of a corresponding y-axis read-out line in response to the modified sampling voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Byoung-Jun Lee, Min-Koo Han, Hyun-Sang Park, Bong-Hyun You
  • Patent number: 8928600
    Abstract: A transaction terminal which includes a projector instead of a liquid crystal display. The transaction terminal includes a projector for projecting images of transaction screens on a surface during a transaction, an input device for recording operator selections in the transaction screens during the transaction, and a computer for generating the images of the transaction screens, for displaying the screens via the projector, and for processing the operator selections during the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Steven Birnie
  • Patent number: 8928601
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display apparatus having a capacitive touch panel function, and a method of manufacturing the same is disclosed. The organic light emitting display apparatus includes a touch unit including a pixel region and a pad region, and an insulating layer formed only on a surface of the pixel region by using an open mask. The organic light emitting display apparatus is manufactured without performing a photolithography process on an insulating layer, thereby improving productivity of the manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yul-Kyu Lee, Chun-Gi You
  • Patent number: 8928602
    Abstract: A handheld device includes a housing, a display, a MEMS magnetic field sensor disposed within the housing, wherein the MEMS magnetic field sensor is configured to sense a plurality of perturbations in magnetic fields in response to a perturbation source when the user displaces the perturbation source proximate to the handheld device, and a processor disposed within the housing and coupled to the MEMS magnetic field sensor and to the display, wherein the processor is programmed to receive the plurality of perturbations in magnetic fields, wherein the processor is programmed to determine a plurality of spatial locations in at least two-dimensions in response to the plurality of perturbations, and wherein the processor is programmed output an indication of the plurality of spatial locations on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: mCube Inc.
    Inventor: Hong Wan
  • Patent number: 8928603
    Abstract: A touch panel is provided including at least one first electrode pattern including a plurality of electrode lines arranged in a first direction; and at least one second electrode pattern including a plurality of second electrode lines arranged in a second direction to intersect the first electrode lines; wherein the first electrode lines are spaced apart at different intervals from one another in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Dong-Kyoon Han, Sung-Soo Park, Myeong-Sil Park