Patents Issued in March 31, 2015
  • Patent number: 8994637
    Abstract: An image display system includes a gate driving circuit and a data driving circuit. The gate driving circuit generates gate driving signals to drive pixels in a pixel array. The data driving circuit generates data driving signals to provide data to the pixels. At least one of the gate and data driving circuits includes a shift register. The shift register includes flip-flops coupled in serial. Each flip-flop generates output signals in response to an input signal, and is reset in response to a reset signal. One of the flip-flops receives a first output signal of a last stage flip-flop as the reset signal thereof, and at least one flip-flop following the flip-flop receiving the first output signal of the last stage flip-flop receives a second output signal of the flip-flop receiving the first output signal of the last stage flip-flop as the reset signal thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Innocom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng-Feng Huang, Shih-Chien Feng, Ting-Yao Chu
  • Patent number: 8994638
    Abstract: The disclosed technology discloses a backlight scanning method for controlling a backlight of a liquid crystal display panel, the backlight comprising light groups on left and right sides. The method comprises steps of: determining a time period for turning on and off the light groups on the left and right sides in accordance with a control signal for pixels in the liquid crystal display panel; and in scanning, turning on and off the light groups on the left and right sides alternately in sets, and during the course of scanning one frame, turning on or off the light groups on the left and right sides at least two times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lilei Zhang
  • Patent number: 8994639
    Abstract: The invention provides an LED backlight driving circuit, a backlight module, and an LCD device. The LED backlight driving circuit includes an LED light string; an input end of the LED light string is directly connected with an input end of a power source, and an output end of the LED light string is coupled with a buck module. In the invention, because the output end of the LED light string is in series connected with the buck module, the LED light string is connected in series between an input voltage and an output voltage, and a part of LEDs are directly supplied by the input voltage without the first stage conversion. Thus, the energy supplied by the buck module is reduced, the conversion efficiency is improved, the energy efficiency is increased, the requirement of the buck module to withstand voltage is reduced, and the device standard is decreased, thereby favoring cost reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xinming Gao, Xiang Yang, Fei Li
  • Patent number: 8994640
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for reducing motion blur in a liquid crystal display (LCD) by pulsing each frame with a relatively short pulse of backlight illumination while driving pixels within the LCD with compensated intensity values to account for LCD settling time and vertical position. An LCD drive compensation unit implements the disclosed technique to generate an intensity value for each pixel that is scanned into the LCD. The technique advantageously reduces motion blur while preserving uniform vertical display accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Gerrit Ary Slavenburg, Tom J. Verbeure, Robert Jan Schutten
  • Patent number: 8994641
    Abstract: Devices, methods and products are described that provide information handling devices with touch-based reflective display. One aspect provides a method comprising: providing a touchable control having one or more areas, said one or more areas providing both reflective display and accepting touch-based input; displaying data on a display device of an information handling device which does not overlap the reflective display of said one or more areas; ascertaining touch-based input to said one or more areas of said touchable control area; and executing one or more functions responsive to said touch-based input. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Aaron M. Stewart, Adam M. Smith, Thomas J. Sluchak, Jeffrey E. Skinner
  • Patent number: 8994642
    Abstract: A display element (10) includes an upper substrate (first substrate) (2), a lower substrate (second substrate) (3), and a polar liquid (16) that is sealed in a display space (S) formed between the upper substrate (2) and the lower substrate (3) so as to be moved toward an effective display region (P1) or a non-effective display region (P2). A display control (DC) supplies predetermined reset signals to signal electrodes (4), reference electrodes (5), and scanning electrodes (6) so that the polar liquid (16) in each of all pixel regions (P) is moved to an initial position that is set on the effective display region (P1) side or the non-effective display region (P2) side opposite the scanning direction before the scanning operation is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiki Matsuoka, Kohzoh Nakamura, Shun Ueki, Takuma Tomotoshi
  • Patent number: 8994643
    Abstract: A multi-function force reflecting haptic interface including various sub-assemblies is disclosed. The sub-assemblies include multiple function user interfaces, a user interface docking station for setting the interface to a home position, temperature monitoring and control systems, and various kinematic cable drive systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: 3D Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas H. Massie, William A. Goodwin, Elaine Chen, Deepak Kapoor, Abbe J. Cohen, Brandon Itkowitz
  • Patent number: 8994644
    Abstract: A user interface suitable for use in cellular phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), PC Tablets, as well as laptops, PCs, office equipment, medical equipment, or any other hand-held electronic device, that allows control of the image on the device display by tilting the device to either change the view in perspective, change the magnification, or both, concurrently, by moving the device. Thus, the tilt of the device controls the angle of view of the image, and moving the device perpendicular to the screen controls the magnification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph Cook, Anders L. Mölne, Joseph A. Carsanaro
  • Patent number: 8994645
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for providing a virtual object based on physical location and tagging are provided. A set of virtual objects are maintained in a database on a mobile computing device. Each virtual object includes an action associated with an identifier and coordinates for one or more physical locations. A physical location of the mobile computing device is tracked and an identification tag within range of the mobile computing device is identified. The mobile computing device's physical location and the identification tag are respectively evaluated against the coordinates and the identifiers for the virtual objects in the database. For each of the coordinates and identifiers matched to the physical location and the identification tag, the action associated with the correspondingly matched virtual object is performed using the mobile computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Groundspeak, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Carson Meehan
  • Patent number: 8994646
    Abstract: A computing device is described herein which accommodates gestures that involve intentional movement of the computing device, either by establishing an orientation of the computing device and/or by dynamically moving the computing device, or both. The gestures may also be accompanied by contact with a display surface (or other part) of the computing device. For example, the user may establish contact with the display surface via a touch input mechanism and/or a pen input mechanism and then move the computing device in a prescribed manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth P. Hinckley, Michel Pahud, Wenqi Shen
  • Patent number: 8994647
    Abstract: A low-cost input device suitable for a wearable computer is provided. An input method suitable for operating a wearable computer is provided. A wearable computer including the input device is provided. An input device 100 for outputting a control command ? to an external output device 40 includes a sensor 10 configured to be worn in or on a natural orifice of the body and sense a change in a shape of the natural orifice, and a controller 20 configured to control the external output device 40 based on a sensor signal ? from the sensor 10. Here, the change in the shape of the natural orifice is caused by a predetermined action which is performed by a user wearing the sensor 10 with the intention of operating the external output device 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: ERCC Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Taniguchi, Atsushi Nishikawa, Fumio Miyazaki, Asako Kokubo
  • Patent number: 8994648
    Abstract: An interface is for inputting data into a processor. The interface has a three-dimensionally shaped input surface and comprises an array of sensors responsive to forces applied to the input surface and providing an input to the processor capable of registering the magnitude of the forces applied to the array of sensors and interpreting the location of pressure on the input surface, and a three-dimensionally shaped layer of soft resilient material arranged between the three-dimensionally shaped input surface and the array of sensors and capable of transmitting forces exerted on the three-dimensionally shaped input surface to the sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Roli Ltd
    Inventor: Roland Oliver Lamb
  • Patent number: 8994649
    Abstract: A data manipulation transmission apparatus including: an object acquisition section for acquiring a display object, generated on display screen 1 of an information input device based on input to the device, from the device manipulated by an individual; a distance information acquisition section for acquiring distance information from display screen 2 of a common display apparatus to a person viewing display screen 2 when viewed by plural people; a display ratio determining section for determining a ratio of a display size of an arbitrary display object on display screen 2, to a display size of the arbitrary display object on display screen 1, according to the distance information; and a display data transmission section for generating data to display a display object, acquired by the object acquisition section, on display screen 2, at a ratio determined via the display ratio determining section, and transmitting the data to the common display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Takamura, Moeko Hagiwara, Toshihiro Motoi, Yoichi Kawabuchi, Yasuhiko Yamaguchi, Kenta Hosaka
  • Patent number: 8994650
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for operating a mobile device. The method is performed by one or more processors of the mobile device. The one or more processors process image input on the mobile device in order to detect one or more graphic objects displayed on a remote display device and to detect one or more fingers of a user in relation to the one or more graphic objects. From processing the image input, a command for the remote display device is determined based on a position or movement of the one or more fingers in relation to the one or more graphic objects. The command is communicated to the remote display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Stefan J. Marti
  • Patent number: 8994651
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a flexible display unit configured to be bent in response to an applied physical force and to display information; a detection unit configured to detect a bending of the flexible display unit and a time for which the bending is maintained; and a control unit configured to execute different functions of the mobile terminal according to the time for which the bending is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jiyoung Park, Sujin Kim, Jumin Chi, Jacho Choi, Sunghye Yoon
  • Patent number: 8994652
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a target tracker that evaluates frames of data of one or more targets, such as a body part, body, and/or object, acquired by a depth camera. Positions of the joints of the target(s) in the previous frame and the data from a current frame are used to determine the positions of the joints of the target(s) in the current frame. To perform this task, the tracker proposes several hypotheses and then evaluates the data to validate the respective hypotheses. The hypothesis that best fits the data generated by the depth camera is selected, and the joints of the target(s) are mapped accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shahar Fleischmann, Yotam Livny, Gideon Kleimer, Gershom Kutliroff
  • Patent number: 8994653
    Abstract: Displaying information related to a message on a display screen of a handheld electronic device. In response to a movement of the handheld electronic device from an initial position to a first orientation, displaying on the display screen a first notice related to the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Dan Zacharias Gärdenfors, Leif Fredrik Ademar, Jason Tyler Griffin, Alistair Robert Hamilton, Karl-Anders Reinhold Johansson, Mihal Lazaridis
  • Patent number: 8994654
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method that controls gaze tracking. The apparatus includes an imaging device that has an image sensor divided into a plurality of zones and a gaze tracking controller. The gaze tracking controller is configured to determine a lens PSF and an image sensor PSF of the camera, respectively, using images for each zone acquired from image elements disposed in each zone of the image sensor. In addition, the gaze tracking controller is configured to estimate illumination reflection points using an imaging device PSF determined from the determined lens and image sensor PSFs at the time of detecting a user gaze using the imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Seok Beom Lee, Hee Jin Ro, Dong Hee Seok, Sung Min Park
  • Patent number: 8994655
    Abstract: The prompt responsiveness and operability of pointer display and pointer control is ensured. A display control device has: a first information processing terminal drawing a pointer corresponding to each of input operation devices on a pointer screen on the basis of an operation quantity input from each of the input operation devices; a second information processing terminal drawing a working state of an application on an application screen in accordance with the input instruction information input from each of the input operation devices; and an image synthesis unit that creates a synthesized image by superimposing each of the two screens on the other and that outputs the image to a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Munehiro Komeda, Takahiro Katoji, Toshiaki Otaka, Motofumi Naruto
  • Patent number: 8994656
    Abstract: The invention describes a method of controlling a position (x?, y?) of a control point (c) on a command area (ACM). This method comprises the steps of: aiming a pointing device (1) comprising a camera (2) in the direction of the command area (ACM); generating an image (I) of a target area (AI) aimed at by the pointing device; processing the target area image (I) to determine a target point (T) at which the pointing device (1) is aimed; determining position (x?, y?) of the control point (C) according to the position (x, y) of the target point (T) within a currently defined control area (ACT), which control area (Acr) includes at least partially the command area (ACM). Moreover the invention describes an adequate system and a pointing device (1) for controlling a control point position (P) on a command area (ACM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Jan Kneissler, Eric Thelen
  • Patent number: 8994657
    Abstract: Systems and methods according to the present invention address these needs and others by providing a handheld device, e.g., a 3D pointing device, which uses hand tremor as an input. One or more sensors within the handheld device detect a user's hand tremor and identify the user based on the detected tremor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew G. Liberty, Christopher D. Roller, Daniel S. Simpkins, Charles W. K. Gritton
  • Patent number: 8994658
    Abstract: To provide an input apparatus, a control apparatus, a control system, and a control method that are capable of improving an operational feeling when a user uses the input apparatus to input an operation signal via an operation section. An MPU (19) of an input apparatus (1) stops generating or transmitting a movement command corresponding to a displacement amount of a pointer on a screen, during a predetermined timer-operating time period since a cancel of an input of an operation signal (Step 309) made by a user using an operation button. Alternatively, it is also possible for the MPU (19) to continue outputting the movement command with the displacement amount of the pointer on the screen set to 0 during the predetermined time period (Step 311). By such processing, a movement of the pointer on the screen is regulated even when a casing of the input apparatus is moved when the user presses and releases the operation button and the movement is detected by a sensor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Toshio Mamiya, Hidetoshi Kabasawa, Katsuhiko Yamada, Takashi Yamada, Hideaki Kumagai
  • Patent number: 8994659
    Abstract: A shape object, methods, and systems for using the shaped object in interactive computer gaming is disclosed. The shape object includes a line segment having a length that extends between a first end and a second end, and the line segment is flexible into a plurality of positions, where each of the plurality of positions define a shape of the line segment. The shape object further includes an optical fiber integrated along the line segment and an interface connectable to the line optical fiber of the line segment. The interface is at the first end of the line segment. The interface includes a circuit for communicating optical signals to the optical fiber, where the circuit is configured to identify the shape and changes in the shape of the line segment over time. Further included is a circuit for wirelessly transmitting the shape of the line segment to a computer that is remote from the line segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Dominic S. Mallinson
  • Patent number: 8994660
    Abstract: Text correction processing is disclosed. An initial score is assigned to each of a plurality of candidate sequences of one or more characters, based at least in part on a keyboard geometry-based value associated with the received user input with respect to the candidate key. Further processing is performed with respect to a subset of the candidate sequences having the highest initial score(s) to determine for each candidate sequence in the subset a refined score. A candidate sequence is selected for inclusion in a result set based at least in part on a determination that a refined score of the selected candidate is higher than an initial score of one or more candidate sequences that are not included in the subset and with respect to which the further processing has not been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alice E. Neels, Nicholas K. Jong
  • Patent number: 8994661
    Abstract: A user interface device (100) includes a capacitive trackball assembly (108) having a conductive trackball (110) and one or more conductive plates (210, 310, 410, 510, 610) proximate to a surface of the conductive trackball (110), thereby enabling the conductive trackball assembly (108) to operate as a capacitive touch sensor. Each user contact point with the conductive trackball (110) modifies the effective capacitance of the conductive trackball assembly (108). The user interface device (100) senses the effective capacitance of the conductive trackball assembly (108) to discern the number of user contact points on the conductive trackball (110) and uses this information, along with other parameters, such as a concurrent sensed rotation vector of the conductive trackball (110), to identify a user command intended by the user. The identified user command may be transmitted to a controlled system (740) to effectuate or modify an operation at the controlled system (740).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Apoorv Srivastava
  • Patent number: 8994662
    Abstract: A computer system, a display system, a method of graphic illumination is provided to give a user an improved appearance, functionality, and aesthetics. A display system may comprise a housing, a light source, and a plurality of micro perforations. The housing may have an interior surface and an exterior surface. The light source may be located within the housing. The plurality of micro perforations may be disposed to extend from the interior surface to the exterior surface of the housing. The plurality of micro perforations may pass through the housing at different angles with respect to a plane of the exterior surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Fusanobu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8994663
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for authenticating a customer at a self-service terminal are described. The method comprises: receiving a stroke delineated by the customer; matching the delineated stroke to a defined shape; and providing feedback to the customer to indicate that the delineated stroke has been matched to a defined shape. These steps are repeated until a complete sequence of defined shapes has been entered. The method further comprises converting the defined shape sequence to a sequence of characters; encrypting the sequence of characters; and transmitting the encrypted sequence of characters to a host for authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Harrow, Jonathan S. Black, Grant C. Paton
  • Patent number: 8994664
    Abstract: A touch screen panel includes a transparent substrate divided into a display area and a non-display area, the non-display area being outside the display area, first sensing cells disposed in one row with a same X-coordinate in the display area, the first sensing cells having a double-layered structure including first and second sensing cell parts overlapping each other, a connection portion between adjacent first sensing cells, second sensing cells disposed in one column with a same Y-coordinate in the display area, the second sensing cells having a double-layered structure including third and fourth sensing cell parts overlapping each other, a connection pattern between adjacent second sensing cells, the connection pattern intersecting and overlapping the connection portion, and an island-shaped insulating layer between the connection portion and the connection pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Yun Sim, Dong-Min Kim, Deuk-Soo Shin, Sang-Joon Choi, Soung-Chang Ku
  • Patent number: 8994665
    Abstract: A system capable of providing directional cues to a user of the vehicle comprises a vehicle component, configured to be installed within a vehicle that is adapted to be controlled by a user. A tactile display system is operably coupled to the vehicle component. The tactile display system includes: a contact pad, operable to engage a target area of a user's skin; a restraining system, operable to restrain a portion of the user's skin distal from the target area of the skin; and an actuation system, operably coupled to one of: i) the contact pad and the ii) restraining system. The actuation system is capable of moving the contact pad and the restraining system relative to one another to apply a tangential displacement or shear force across the target area of the user's skin to thereby provide tactile information to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventor: William R. Provancher
  • Patent number: 8994666
    Abstract: A user-configurable, tactile interface system that includes mechanical buttons with several mounting options, and several methods to interface with touch-sensing devices. A user can activate a touch on a touch sensing device by pressing a physical pad, which may be textured, or raised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Inventor: Colin J. Karpfinger
  • Patent number: 8994667
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an L-shaped printed circuit board is connected to the periphery of a film sensor at a plurality of connection portions. Long holes are each formed in the periphery of a film sensor at the center of a portion of the film sensor located between a corresponding pair of adjacent connection portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Shigeki Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 8994668
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electrooptic device having an input function including: an electrooptic panel; a touch panel having an input position detecting electrode in an input area aligned to an image display area of the electrooptic panel; and a wiring board connected to any one of the electrooptic panel and the touch panel, the wiring board having a touch sensor located outside the input area of the touch panel as viewed from an input surface of the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventor: Atsushi Yoshiyama
  • Patent number: 8994669
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a display with in-cell touch sensors comprising a first substrate, a second substrate, and a touch sensor disposed on the second substrate. A thin-film transistor (TFT) array is disposed on a surface of the first substrate, and a color pixel array is disposed on a surface of the second substrate. The TFT array faces and is aligned with the color pixel array. The touch sensor comprises a plurality of electrodes, a plurality of first leads, and a plurality of first pads. Each of the first leads is connected to one of the electrodes and one of the first pads. There are a plurality of second pads, a plurality of second leads, a plurality of connecting wires, and a plurality of terminal pads. Each of the second leads connects one of the second pads and one of the connecting wires. At least one of the connecting wires simultaneously and electrically connects several of the second leads. Each of the connecting wires electrically connects at least one of the terminal pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Arolltech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yih Chang
  • Patent number: 8994670
    Abstract: A method includes detecting a first touch at a first touch location on a touch-sensitive display, detecting a second touch at a second touch location on the touch-sensitive display, and when a first distance from the first touch location to the second touch location meets a distance threshold and a second distance from the previous touch location to the first touch location does not meet the distance threshold, identifying the second touch as a new touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Blackberry Limited
    Inventors: Kuo-Feng Tong, Jeffrey John Paul Dippel, Kevin Paul Timmerman
  • Patent number: 8994671
    Abstract: Embodiments are described for displaying indications of notifications received by a multi-screen device. The notifications may relate to a number of different categories including, without limitation, phone calls, SMS messages, email, notifications from applications, battery level, and signal strength. The multi-screen device includes a unified desktop that displays indications of the notifications regardless of the state of the multi-screen device, which in embodiments includes an undocked state and a docked state, in which a peripheral screen is used to display the indications. The indications may be displayed differently depending on the state of the multi-screen device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Paul E. Reeves, Sanjiv Sirpal, Martin Gimpl
  • Patent number: 8994672
    Abstract: The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for transferring content between electronic devices via skin input. An exemplary method includes detecting, by an interface device, an input received on a user's skin, wherein the interface device is in electronic communication with at least one of the first device or the second device; in response to detecting the input, determining the type of input; and at least one of: in response to determining the type of input is a first type of input, initiating transmission of content from the first device to the second device; or in response to determining the type of input is a second type of input, initiating reception of content at the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications AB
    Inventors: Ola Thörn, Henrik Bengtsson, Håkan Jonsson, Linus Mårtensson, Pär-Anders Aronsson
  • Patent number: 8994673
    Abstract: A display device with an integrated touch screen according to an embodiment, includes a display panel including a touch screen provided in an active area of the display panel, and a display driver circuit provided in an inactive area of the display panel, the touch screen including a plurality of driving electrodes, each of the driving electrodes including a plurality of sub driving electrodes positioned in the active area of the display panel but electrically connected to each other in the inactive area of the display panel, the touch screen further including a plurality of sensing electrodes disposed between the sub driving electrodes and formed in the active area of the panel, and the display driver circuit configured to apply a common voltage to the driving electrodes and the sensing electrodes or a touch driving voltage to the driving electrodes according to a driving mode of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SangSoo Hwang, BuYeol Lee, TaeHwan Kim, YoungJoon Lee, SeongMo Seo
  • Patent number: 8994674
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information viewing apparatus, which makes it possible for the user to conduct operations for inputting information and establishing various kinds of functions only by conducting consecutive simplified operations from a multi-touchable touch panel. The apparatus includes a display section provided with a multi-touchable touch panel having first and second touch panels, and a control section that controls the display section. In a state that the display section is displaying a document, when detecting a predetermined dragging action, the control section makes the display section displays an inputting screen, which allows the user to conduct an inputting operation from the second touch panel, during a time when a touching status is maintained in such a manner that the inputting screen overlaps the document. When the touching status is released, the control section controls the display section so as to make the inputting screen evacuate from the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Eguchi, Tetsuhiro Shibata, Tsutomu Suka, Keiichiro Hyodo, Masayuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 8994675
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and an information processing method for displaying a plurality of virtual key buttons on a touchscreen including one or more touch input nodes generating a touch signal corresponding to touch; receiving a touch signal corresponding to virtual key buttons displayed on the touchscreen; and outputting a key value of at least one of the plurality of virtual key buttons as a key value corresponding to the received touch signal according to touch data calculated based on the received touch signal, wherein the touch data is calculated by expanding the touch signal to a virtual touch input node in proximity to touch input nodes generating the touch signal from among the one or more one touch input nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yongwon Cho, Dongsoo Shin, Manho Lee, Younghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 8994676
    Abstract: A method for operating a control device, in particular in a vehicle, the control device having a display surface and a control element. A detection region formed in the vicinity of the control element is monitored by a proximity sensing device such that an actuating element is detected in the detection region, and first and second display contents are displayed on the display surface. The first display content is no longer displayed if an actuating element has been detected in the detection region by the proximity sensing device. Also disclosed is a control device for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Mathias Kuhn, Frank Hauschild, Rainer Dehmann
  • Patent number: 8994677
    Abstract: A touch sensing structure including a central area and a border area, including: a display panel, including: first substrate; and a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, wherein the second substrate comprises in the border area a recess that partially exposes the first substrate; a main flexible printed circuit (FPC) and a touch flexible printed circuit (FPC) laterally juxtaposed in the border area, wherein the main FPC is bonded to an exposed portion of the first substrate and electrically connected to a first driving element, wherein the touch FPC is bonded to the second substrate and electrically connected to a second driving element; and a touch sensing unit disposed on the second substrate and electrically connected to the touch FPC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Innocom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Adjo Poorter, Jan Mathijs Meijers
  • Patent number: 8994678
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Parvinder Sawhney, Peter King, Hyoung Wook Ham
  • Patent number: 8994679
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a touch panel is provided. The method includes the following steps. A conductive layer is formed on a substrate, and a dielectric layer is formed to cover the conductive layer. The conductive layer and the dielectric layer are then patterned to respectively form several sensing wires and several dielectric blocks by using a first mask, which is a half-tone mask. Next, a transparent conductive layer is first formed to cover the conductive layer and the dielectric layer, and is then patterned to form a touch sensing structure by using a second mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Innocom Technology(Shenzhen)Co., Ltd., Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Chien-Hsin Liu
  • Patent number: 8994680
    Abstract: A system for displaying images is provided. The system includes a touch sensor device including a transparent substrate having a sensing region and a non-sensing region adjacent to the sensing region. A sensing electrode pattern layer is on the transparent substrate in the sensing region. An inorganic dielectric material layer is on the transparent substrate. The inorganic dielectric material layer has a first portion in the non-sensing region and a second portion in the sensing region and partially covering the sensing electrode pattern layer. A method of forming a touch sensor device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Innocom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Szu-Wei Lai, Yu-Ching Liu, Wan-Yu Ho
  • Patent number: 8994681
    Abstract: In one example, a method includes outputting, by a computing device and for display, a graphical keyboard comprising a plurality of keys. The method may also include receiving, by the computing device, an indication of a gesture detected at a presence-sensitive input device. The method may also include determining, by the computing device and based on a plurality of features associated with the gesture, a degree of precision of the gesture. The method may also include modifying, by the computing device and based at least in part on the degree of precision, a probability that the gesture indicates at least one key of the plurality of keys. The method may also include outputting, by the computing device and for display, a candidate word that is based at least in part on the probability that the gesture indicates at least one key of the plurality of keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kataoka, Keisuke Kuroyanagi
  • Patent number: 8994682
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, and an electrostatic capacitive type touch panel which is formed in an overlapping manner with the display panel. A plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes intersecting with the X electrodes. A first signal line supplies signals to the X electrodes, a second signal line supplies signals to the Y electrodes, and the first signal line and the second signal line are formed on a flexible printed circuit board. A dummy electrode is formed adjacent to an electrode portion of each X electrode and electrode portion of each Y electrode, the dummy electrode does not overlap the X electrode and the Y electrode, and the dummy electrode does not electrically connect with the first and second signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8994683
    Abstract: A digital display device having two or more displays that are coupled at angles to each other for displaying content associated with multiple sets of sources of content is described herein. Each display has one or more display regions in which content is displayed. A first display region on one display may be merged with a second display region on the same or a different display to form a merged display region in which content is displayed. The displays may be touch-sensitive. Display regions may be merged by, for example, receiving a first touch from a user of a first touch-sensitive display region and a second touch of a second touch-sensitive display region. In some embodiments, the digital display device has the form of a cube with six displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Small, Valerie Goulart, Joseph Ungari
  • Patent number: 8994684
    Abstract: A method of detecting a touch image includes; driving a light source to detect a first touch information corresponding to a first light amount sensed by a first sensing section connected to odd-numbered gate lines, during an odd-numbered frame, and driving the light source to detect a second touch information corresponding to a second light amount sensed by a second sensing section connected to even-numbered gate lines, during an even-numbered frame, and detecting a touch image using the first touch information and the second touch information, so that influences from external light is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hui-Sung Lee
  • Patent number: 8994685
    Abstract: An input sensing device for sensing an input on a touch panel, and touch panel are provided. The input sensing device has a capacitance node and includes a charge pump to which an output signal from a first electrode of the capacitance node is input as a charge source in response to a sensing signal applied through a second electrode of the capacitance node. The input sensing device determines whether there is an input on the touch panel, based on an output voltage of the charge pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seong-Taek Lim
  • Patent number: 8994686
    Abstract: A system for receiving, storing, and displaying biometric input has a case, a touchpad, and a digitizer. The case has an open position and a closed position, wherein the case protects the touchpad in the closed position, the case including a digitizer comprising a substantially transparent touch activatable overlay placed over the touchscreen, and a plurality of sensors supported by the overlay to detect input to the overlay. The digitizer includes a data outlet for transferring the detected input as overlay data so the touchpad can visually display the detected input on its touchscreen. The digitizer has sufficient sensors that the overlay data contains more information than the touchpad data would if the touchscreen were contacted directly without the digitizer present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Topaz Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony E. Zank