Patents Issued in April 7, 2016
  • Publication number: 20160098924
    Abstract: Traffic signal information is estimated based on positioning system data obtained from a plurality of vehicles. Each data set includes the position and the velocity of a vehicle as functions of time. For an intersection having a traffic signal, an average acceleration of the vehicles when leaving the intersection is estimated, and an average deceleration of the vehicles when approaching the intersection is estimated. For each of a subset of the vehicles, a stop duration at the intersection is estimated based on the average acceleration, the average deceleration, and the positioning system data for the respective vehicle. A duration of a red phase of the traffic signal is estimated based on the stop duration of each of the subset of the vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Ardalan VAHIDI, S. Alireza FAYAZI, Grant MAHLER, Andreas WINCKLER
  • Publication number: 20160098925
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product of using cameras in a plurality of vehicles within a geographic area to aid in identifying a location of a vehicle of interest for authorities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Kulvir S. Bhogal, Gregory J. Boss, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Brian M. O'Connell
  • Publication number: 20160098926
    Abstract: A method of monitoring emergency vehicles includes generating host vehicle information with a navigation unit, the host vehicle information including a host vehicle location and a host vehicle heading, receiving emergency vehicle information with a receiver, the emergency vehicle information including an emergency vehicle emergency status, an emergency vehicle location and an emergency vehicle heading, determining with a controller a distance between the host vehicle location and the emergency vehicle location, determining with the controller whether the distance between host vehicle and the emergency vehicle is decreasing, and performing a mitigation operation, when the distance between host vehicle and the emergency vehicle is decreasing, and the distance between host vehicle and the emergency vehicle is a threshold distance or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Neal PROBERT, Roy GOUDY, Jeremy CHAMBERS, Andy CHRISTENSEN
  • Publication number: 20160098927
    Abstract: An electronic vehicle identification system comprises a processing unit (1) having identification information of a vehicle that receives and processes signals from a two-way communication module (2) that simultaneously sends information of said vehicle, detects, and receives identification information of other vehicles that are within the range of the detection module, wherein said processing unit (1) is also associated with a GPS module (3) and a memory (4) that contains a map database that is updated via the internet or other conventional means, wherein said processing unit (1) is also connected to a non-volatile memory (5) whereon it stores date, time, and location of the vehicle itself and equivalent information of the rest of the vehicles situated within the range of the detection module (2), and also a user interface (6) whereon it displays information and receives commands from said user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventor: Ferrari ANAEL
  • Publication number: 20160098928
    Abstract: A method for notifying a user of the status of a parking space. The method comprises transmitting a pulse from a transceiver assigned to a parking space and for each pulse receiving by transceiver a corresponding echo created by said pulse being reflecting back from a object occupying said parking space. The method further comprises measuring corresponding echo time by a processing unit. The method further comprises comparing said corresponding echo time to a predefined range of echo times by a processing unit to determine occupancy of said parking space. The method further comprises using said occupancy of parking space to determine the parking space status by a processing unit, together with information on time of day and parking space permission. The method further comprises notifying a user of said parking space status by visual indication from at least one light emitting diode array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventor: Moises Jaime RODRICH
  • Publication number: 20160098929
    Abstract: A driver uses a mobile phone application to transmit a request to a central processor for information on available parking spaces, accommodating a specific size car, close to her present location or a future location. An image processor processes real time images from linked cameras overlooking parking spaces, comparing them with reference images of unoccupied parking spaces, vehicles including automobiles, bicycles and motorcycles, a no parking sign sandwich board and a traffic cone. The image processor sends the information on available parking spaces to the central processor. The central processor saves image processor information and information on available parking spaces, parking fee and advertising promotions from parking facilities on a database and transmits a response to the driver's request. The mobile phone application displays and audio broadcasts the response. The driver pays a fee and reserves an available parking space to exclude it from responses to other requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventor: OMID B. NAKHJAVANI
  • Publication number: 20160098930
    Abstract: A user of a mobile device receives, through the mobile device, a request to dispatch a transport vehicle to a destination. In response to the request, the mobile device provides the user with a graphical user interface, which may be used to review information regarding the request and, if required, modify the information based on the fulfillment of the request. If the graphical user interface detects that the request has been fulfilled, the graphical user interface causes the mobile device to display a form specifying information associated with fulfillment of the request and modifiable by the user. Once the user has approved the provided information or has updated this information for accuracy, the graphical user interface causes the mobile device to transmit the completed forms to an aviation management service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Justin J. Dillingham, Michael P. Griffiths, Ryan W. Swakon, Charles N. Hagele, Rene J. Bonnett, Justin L. Ahrenkiel
  • Publication number: 20160098931
    Abstract: A system comprises a plurality of card units. The card units have a first side, a second side, a hole being positioned proximate a top of the card unit, and dimensions for resting on a palm of a user. The card units have indicia on the first sides and the second sides. The indicia is configured to convey behavioral messages to the user. The card units have a texture applied to at least a one of the sides. The texture is configured to convey a tactile stimulation to the user. A ring device retains the card units in an order. The ring device passes through the holes the card units, wherein the ring device enables the user to flip through the card units and receive the behavioral messages for assisting the user in establishing a routine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventor: Penni L. Sears
  • Publication number: 20160098932
    Abstract: The object of solution, accordingly to the invention, is a method and system which use mobile devices for stimulating the brain, characterized with having three logic types of components/sections: information section, wherein the system information part consists of a functional components in the form of administrative panel containing information management, knowledge panel that enables looking through the system's published content and its presentation, newsletter. This newsletter is responsible for handling the subscription process, advertising module, the department of exercise, realizing automatic and interactive exercises, training and lessons divided into 4 subgroups: mnemonic exercises, logical, computational, visual, and independent internal learning module, a database—data collection department and the effects of exercise, containing components: a knowledge base module, the module pseudownioskowania based on user profiles, and manages user accounts and statistics department and assessments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: SPW S.C. HANNA I TOMIASZ WACHOWIAK
    Inventor: Tomiasz WACHOWIAK
  • Publication number: 20160098933
    Abstract: A system and method for quantifying clinical skill of a user, comprising: collecting data relating to a surgical task done by a user using a surgical device; comparing the data for the surgical task to other data for another similar surgical task; quantifying the clinical skill of the user based on the comparing of the data for the surgical task to the other data for the other similar surgical task; outputting the clinical skill of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Carol E. REILEY, Gregory D. HAGER, Balakrishnan VARADARAJANN, Sanjeev Pralhad KHUDANPUR, Rajesh KUMAR, Henry C. LIN
  • Publication number: 20160098934
    Abstract: A cognitive/multisensory stimulation system simulates real sports action/job task scenarios for assessing, profiling, practicing, improving or rehabilitating cognitive function performance of athletes or individuals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventor: David TINJUST
  • Publication number: 20160098935
    Abstract: An embodiment in accordance with the present invention is directed to an electronic training tool having one or more sensor components. The sensor components include a single depth camera and accelerometer or force sensor. The training tool also includes a software component for signal processing of sensor data and analysis of user performance. The user is given feedback based on quality of chest compressions, which is determined using data related to depth of compressions, rate of compressions, and recoil of compressions. Feedback is presented to the user and/or the trainer of the user via a user interface governed by a software program that can be run on a computing device such as a pc, laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc. The user interface imitates the user interface of a clinical monitor/defibrillator, specifically a defibrillator with a built-in QCPR feedback functionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Jordan Duval-Arnould, Julie Campbell, Elizabeth Hunt
  • Publication number: 20160098936
    Abstract: A two-part educational system uses a virtual reality environment created on an internet connected computer or mobile device, populated with historical characters who are Expert Avatars, and which can be entered by students as avatars; and e-books or print books in which a fictional virtual reality environment is a central feature. Readers can visit a computer-based virtual reality environment, which reproduces the visits made by the book characters, to expand their knowledge through interactions with the activities and the Expert Avatars found there. Readers can also play a game in the computer-based virtual reality environment in which the Expert Avatar can provide information to make strategic game choices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventor: Peter R. SOLOMON
  • Publication number: 20160098937
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for determining whether the social learning playlist is effective in educating participants. The text of the collection of online materials of a social learning playlist is scanned to identify key concepts (i.e., the most important points) using natural language processing. The user selects a concept from a list of key concepts, which includes these identified key concepts, and a type of question (e.g., true/false) to be used in assessing the understanding of the selected key concept. The selected type of question and answer to the question are generated using analytic analysis and artificial intelligence on the online materials of the playlist. In this manner, by generating appropriate question and answer pairs, where the questions are inserted at selected locations within the playlist, the creator of the playlist is able to assess whether the participants are understanding the key concepts in the playlist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: John M. Boyer, Ethan L. Perry, Marion R. Summerville
  • Publication number: 20160098938
    Abstract: A method, a server, and a system for providing a learning service are provided. A learning service method may include the steps, which are executed by a server, of: receiving a first question from a first terminal; transmitting the first question to a second terminal; and receiving a first solution from the second terminal. The learning service method can provide a way to solve the problem through a direct mutual cooperation between users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicants: NXC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Won Kyu CHOI
  • Publication number: 20160098939
    Abstract: An online test platform facilitates representing a test taker with an interactive test taker icon. The platform may include administrator interfaces, test proctor interfaces, and test taker interfaces to allow each participant to view, navigate, and interact with aspects of the online test platform that are intended to meet their needs. The test platform allows representation of test takers via an interactive test taker icon. An icon represents the test taker on a display available to a teacher or proctor to monitor the status of the test taker while an online test is being administered. The display and the test taker icon may be used to represent a status of the test taker and may also be used to update the test taker status. In one example, the status of the test taker may be updated by remote polling of the test taker's station via a remote server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Timothy A. Rogers, John Bosko, Corey S. O'Brien, Raghubir S. Mutum
  • Publication number: 20160098940
    Abstract: A computerized system and method for music practice and training to assist a musician to improve their skills in maintaining a tempo and to improve ear-hand coordination, eye-hand coordination and other motor skills while learning to play an instrument. The system receives user defined beats per minute (BPM), rhythms or short segments of a music piece and generates audio reference outputs and visual display of music notes as stimuli. The user responses to these stimuli are measured in time and in the force and intensity of the responses and provided as feedback to the user to improve their response time and intensity to stimuli and assists the user in modifying the responses to the output stimuli to reduce the time between the output stimuli and the user response and thus improve the user's timing accuracy while playing music.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: Dextar, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald Rogers, Agustin J. Membreno
  • Publication number: 20160098941
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for capture, processing, storage, retrieval and display of goaltending sports performance metrics, analytics, and video, comprising a portable computing device (20), with touch-input display (100), specially adapted to receive and process telemetry metrics from movement and position sensors and multiple-angle video devices (40). Inertial measurement sensors (10) attached to or embedded in goaltender equipment (2) and three-dimensional space sensors (30) arranged In the vicinity of a goal or net (3) create a digital environment for processing, analyzing, and translating goaltender performance metrics to Improved performance by goaltender testing, evaluation and comparison, and review of video and performance metrics during and after games and practices. Gesture-based user Interfaces and sensor-based automated video tagging expedite tagging video with contextualized metadata characterizing identified goaltending events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventor: Dani Michael KERLUKE
  • Publication number: 20160098942
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for generating a meal plan including receiving a plurality of user profiles, receiving a cuisine selection, receiving a budget selection, displaying a meal plan in accordance with the cuisine selection and the budget selection, the meal plan including a plurality of meals wherein at least one of the plurality of meals is scaled in accordance with the plurality of user profiles, displaying a first cost associated with the meal plan, displaying a shopping list in accordance with the meal plan, the shopping list including a plurality of ingredients associated with the plurality of meals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventor: Richard Thomas Messier
  • Publication number: 20160098943
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hybrid medical laparoscopic simulator including an ECM, laparoscopic instrument imitators coupled to the ECM, trocar imitators coupled to the ECM, a visualization system coupled to the ECM attained by the presence of a robot-patient, laparoscopic unit imitators coupled to the ECM, and operating room equipment. Each of the laparoscopic instrument imitators is executed in a form of a real instrument, contains a sensor unit, and is separated from at least four trocar imitators installed in an abdominal cavity of the robot-patient, each of the trocar imitators is coupled to a corresponding displacement node of the trocar imitator, and a position of the trocar imitator on an anterior wall of the abdominal cavity of the robot-patient is traced and defined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Lenar Nailevich VALEEV, Ramil' Khatyamovich ZAYNULLIN, Vladimir Aleksandrovich ANDRYASHIN, Aleksandr Alekseevich LITVINOV, Ramil' Talgatovich GAYNUTDINOV, Ivan Aleksandrovich ANDRYASHIN, Nikolay Alekseevich LITVINOV, Adel' Ravil'evich VALEEV, Igor Valer'evich KLYUCHAROV, Mikhail Evgen'evich TIMOFEEV, Igor Vladimirovich TSVETOV, Aleksandr Viktorovich LUSHANIN, Daniyar Dzhuraboevich KHAYITOV
  • Publication number: 20160098944
    Abstract: The present invention provides an eye surgery training simulator that can reduce learning cost and simulate the eyes in a more real way to allow surgery performers in practice to increase the success rate of surgery. The surgery training simulator compromise: a base with the accommodating tank, a hollow sphere inside said accommodating tank with a punched hole at the center of its top to simulate the eyeball rotation; a thin film covering the punched hole of said hollow sphere to simulate anterior capsule; a positioning sheet attached to the top surface of the hollow sphere with a hole corresponding to the punched hole; a positioning plug-in at the side of said punched hole that can limit the displacement of the capsulorhexis forceps; and at least an elastic component that can simulate eyeball muscle by pulling the hollow sphere and restore it after the rotation of the hollow sphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: Universal Vision Biotechnology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hung-Yuan Lin
  • Publication number: 20160098945
    Abstract: Disclosed here are methods, systems, paradigms and apparatus for displaying artworks using magnetic prints and magnetic frames. A magnetic print is an artwork printed on a flexible sheet that can be magnetically attached to a magnetic frame, which has magnetic properties. The flexible sheet is made using one or materials, including a metal that is attracted to a magnet. The flexible sheet can also contain a magnet, which is attracted to the magnetic frame. The flexible sheet has an artwork on one surface and can be removably attached, e.g., magnetically, to the magnetic frame on a second surface. The magnetic frame and print facilitates easy switching of the artwork. For example, when a user wishes to switch an existing artwork to a new artwork, the user can peel off the old magnetic print from the magnetic frame and lay out the new magnetic print on the magnetic frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventor: Gary Takemoto
  • Publication number: 20160098946
    Abstract: A Polygonal Unibody Pole Sign is a single piece of cardboard, or other flexible, semi-rigid material, designed to enclose a pole, post, or column, that can remain elevated without adhesives, or external support while providing surfaces for advertising, display, or decoration. Installation does not require the Polygonal Unibody Pole Sign to be placed over the top of the pole, column or beam. Instead, the invention is wrapped around the support and kept enclosed by inserting tabs at one vertical end into slots in the other. Flaps with circular or other shaped aperture the same diameter of the support in place along the horizontal ends of each display panel are then folded inward to enclose the support and hold the invention at height. The final installed Polygonal Unibody Pole Sign then presents display surfaces visible from multiple directions, providing 360 degree visibility in the preferred enclosed embodiment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Andrew Wilfred LeMay, Edouard Charles LeMay
  • Publication number: 20160098947
    Abstract: The disclosed invention generally pertains to a collapsible sign having an open arm span that is substantially larger than that of the closed arm span, thus allowing the open frame to hold a much larger sign face than the closed frame. The face of the sign can be made to collapse as well thus further reducing the over-all size of the stored sign. Among other uses, the Ninja Sign is great for residential and commercial real estate agents, and it is not limited to outdoor applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Russell Richard Smith, Kenneth Dale Coleman
  • Publication number: 20160098948
    Abstract: The present invention relates to detectable warning panels, and in particular to detectable warning panels that display text and/or other graphic information such as commercial messages, trademarks, logos, directions, slogans, pictures, names, product illustrations, emblems, promotional information related to a product or service, Quick Response Codes, matrix code, two-dimensional bar code, optical machine-readable labels, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Christopher Gary Henshue, Gary LaVerne Henshue, Kent Sherman Barta, Edward James Robb, Alexander Frederick Robb, David Matthew Riggs
  • Publication number: 20160098949
    Abstract: A liquid crystal alignment test method includes: connecting a liquid crystal array substrate to be tested with a liquid crystal alignment test apparatus; applying corresponding voltages to signal input ports of the liquid crystal array substrate via a voltage providing device and then to execute an image check for the liquid crystal array substrate; and detecting resistance values of each two signal input ports of the liquid crystal array substrate via s resistance detection device to judge whether each two of the signal input ports are short-circuited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengpeng MO, Wen-Pin CHIANG, Zhengxing XU
  • Publication number: 20160098950
    Abstract: De-saturated colour injected sequences in a colour sequential image system are provided. The system comprises: at least one spatial light modulator; a light system configured to produce a series of colours illuminating the modulator, the series comprising: saturated colours; and, de-saturated colours which respectively replace one or more of the saturated colours on either side of a centre of the series of colours; and, an image processor configured to control the modulator to inject one or more of the de-saturated colours both prior to and following an active sequence of the saturated colours in at least a portion of pixels within a video frame, respective locations of the de-saturated colours selected to minimize respective times between at least one first de-saturated colour prior to a first saturated colour in the active sequence and between at least one second de-saturated colour following a last saturated colour in the active sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventor: Stuart NICHOLSON
  • Publication number: 20160098951
    Abstract: Disclosed are a source driver and a display device including the same. The source driver may include: an output buffer unit including a pair of output buffers controlled by a first power down signal and another pair of output buffers controlled by a second power down signal; and a charge sharing unit configured to control output buffers to share charge when the first or second power down signal is enabled, the output buffers being driven in the same driving range among the pair of output buffers and the other pair of output buffers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Young Bok KIM, Young Tae Kim, Joon Ho Na
  • Publication number: 20160098952
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention disclose a display device, and a method of driving the same. The display device includes a display unit including pixels included in one or more deterioration region groups and pixels included in one or more reference groups corresponding to the deterioration region groups, a sensing unit configured to sense a current flowing through an organic light emitting diode of each of the deterioration region groups and each of the reference groups and provide current information about the deterioration region group and current information about the reference group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Sang-Myeon HAN, Baek-Woon Lee
  • Publication number: 20160098953
    Abstract: A display panel with an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection function, includes a organic light emitting diode (OLED) light area, a scan driving circuit, and a data driving circuit. Therein, the OLED light area includes a number of pixel regions which are arranged in array mode. The scan driving circuit and the OLED light area are connected to each other via a number of scan lines which are fanned out. The data driving circuit and the OLED light area are connected to each other via a number of data lines which are fanned out. Therein, each data line is connected to one voltage point via a first OLED, each scan line is connected to one voltage point via a second OLED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai-Yuan KO, Xiaoxiang HE
  • Publication number: 20160098954
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display can include a display panel including pixels, a degradation sensing circuit to sense a threshold voltage of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) in the pixels and calculate an average degradation value based on the sensed threshold voltage of the OLEDs, a compensation target adjustor to adjust a compensation target based on the average degradation value, when the average degradation value is reduced by a previously determined reference value, and a data modulator to add and subtract a luminance compensation value determined depending on the adjusted compensation target to and from input digital video data and modulate the input digital video data. Also, each time the average degradation value is reduced by the previously determined reference value, the compensation target adjustor reduces stepwise the compensation target in conformity with changes in the average degradation value, and a stepwise adjustment width of the compensation target is non-uniform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hanjin BAE
  • Publication number: 20160098955
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit includes first to seventh switches, a capacitor and a light emitting unit. The first and sixth switches are connected and receive data voltage and second reference voltage according to second and third control signals, respectively. One capacitor end connects to the serial-connected first and sixth switches and the other capacitor end connects to a control end of the second switch. The serial-connected third and fourth switches are connected between the control and first end of the second switch. The third and fourth switches are ON by the second control signal. The fifth switch is ON by a first control signal. An end of the fifth switch connects to the serial-connected third and fourth switches and another end receives a first reference voltage. The seventh switch is connected between the second switch and the light emitting unit. The seventh switch is ON by the third control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: GUAN-RU HUANG, CHIA-YUAN YEH, CHUN-YEN LIU
  • Publication number: 20160098956
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a display area and a non-display area. The display area includes display pixels at crossing areas of data lines, scan lines, and emission control lines. The non-display area includes auxiliary pixels at crossing positions of auxiliary data lines, scan lines, and emission control lines. The display device also includes a scan driver to supply scan signals to the scan lines, a first data driver to supply data voltages to the data lines, a second data driver to supply an auxiliary data voltage to the auxiliary data line, and a demultiplexer between the data lines and the first data driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Kyong-Tae PARK, Dong-Yoon SO, Sung-Ho CHO, Yu-Hyun CHO
  • Publication number: 20160098957
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels and a plurality of sensing regions. The OLED display further includes a temperature sensor array comprising a plurality of temperature sensors respectively arranged on the sensing regions. The OLED display also includes a controller configured to output a plurality of control signals so as to sequentially select the temperature sensors, receive a plurality of output signals output from the temperature sensors selected by the control signals, and generate first temperature data corresponding to the locations of the selected temperature sensors based on the output signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventor: Cheolhwan EOM
  • Publication number: 20160098958
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels including a first pixel electrically connected to a first data line and a second pixel electrically connected to a second data line. The display device also includes a current path switch configured to electrically connect the first pixel to the second pixel during a voltage drop test operation and electrically disconnect the first pixel from the second pixel during an image display operation. The display device further includes a voltage drop detector electrically connected to an end of the first data line and an end of the second data line, the voltage drop detector being configured to apply a test voltage to the end of the first data line and measure a dropped test voltage at the end of the second data line. The display device additionally includes a line resistance calculator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventor: Hyun-Suk Kang
  • Publication number: 20160098959
    Abstract: A display driver includes a gamma voltage generation unit, a decoder, and a plurality of source amplifiers. The gamma voltage generation unit generates gamma reference voltages. The decoder transforms pixel data corresponding to received image information into data voltages using the gamma reference voltages. The plurality of source amplifiers outputs the data voltages to a display panel. The gamma voltage generation unit includes a first amplifier receiving a reference voltage and a voltage divider including a plurality of resistors and at least one first switch. The at least one first switch turns on or turns off a first connection between an output node of the first amplifier and the plurality of resistors depending on an operation mode. The voltage divider generates at least one first gamma reference voltage among the gamma reference voltages based on an output voltage of the first amplifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: YOUNG-BAE MOON, Jihyun Lee
  • Publication number: 20160098960
    Abstract: Disclosed are a transistor structure for a display and an organic light emitting display device. The transistor structure includes: a voltage line positioned in one direction and configured to supply voltage to pixels; and two or more transistors which share one of drains and sources which are formed integrally with the voltage line and respectively include the other of the drains and sources which are individually formed and connected with different nodes directly or through a connection pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventor: Joon-Min PARK
  • Publication number: 20160098961
    Abstract: A display device is discussed, which includes: a light emitting diode to emit light; and a pixel circuit connected to the light emitting diode, the pixel circuit including; a data line; a driving power line; a sense signal line; a gate line; and a switch connected with the data line by a first terminal, a digital-to-analog converter by a second terminal, and an analog-to-digital converter by a third terminal, wherein the switch connects the data line to the digital-to-analog converter or the analog-to-digital converter on a basis of a switch control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Man HAN, Jong Sik SHIM
  • Publication number: 20160098962
    Abstract: A driving method is applied to a display device including a display panel, a backlight module, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is coupled to the display panel and the backlight module. The driving method includes the following steps of when the image is a still image, enabling the processing circuit to control the display panel to display the image during a first frame time, and to control the backlight module to blink in accordance with a first driving frequency during the first frame time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventor: Minoru SHIBAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20160098963
    Abstract: An image display apparatus is disclosed. The image display apparatus includes a display panel, a backlight unit including a plurality of light sources to output light to the display panel, an image receiver to receive multiple images from a plurality of image sources, and a controller to perform control to display the multiple images received from the image receiver and to independently perform local dimming on each of the multiple images according to multiple image display input, and thus performs local dimming for each multiple image during display of the multiple images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Sungoh KIM, Seongwoon Seol, Hyeseung LEE
  • Publication number: 20160098964
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes first and second substrates. The first substrate includes a gate line, data lines, a first reference voltage line, a second reference voltage line, a pixel electrode having a first subpixel electrode and a second subpixel electrode in a pixel area, and switch circuits connected to these lines and electrodes. The first and second reference voltage lines respectively apply a first and second reference voltages having different polarities. The second substrate includes a common electrode with a cutout. The first and second reference voltage lines include a first connector and a second connector parallel to the data line, and the first connector and the second connector overlap the cutout of the common electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Jae Won KIM, Hyung Jun PARK, Seong Young LEE
  • Publication number: 20160098965
    Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Each pixel may have a transistor for controlling the amount of output light associated with that pixel. The transistors may be thin-film transistors having active areas, first and second source-drain terminals, and gates. Gate lines may be used to distribute gate control signals to the gates of the transistors in each row. Data lines that run perpendicular to the gate lines may be used to distribute image data along columns of pixels. The gate lines may be connected to gate line extensions that run parallel to the data lines. The data lines may each overlap a respective one of the gate line extensions. Vias may be used to connect the gate line extensions to the gate lines. The gate line extensions may all have the same length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Hao-Lin Chiu, Byung Duk Yang, Chun-Yao Huang, Kyung Wook Kim, Shih Chang Chang, Szu-Hsien Lee
  • Publication number: 20160098966
    Abstract: Provided are a source driver and a display device. The source driver may include: a gamma voltage generation unit configured to select and provide one or more of the gamma voltages in response to a first power down signal; an output buffer unit configured to provide a data voltage to a output terminal in response to a second power down signal; and a selection unit configured to provide the gamma voltage to the output terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Young Bok KIM, Young Tae KIM, Joon Ho NA
  • Publication number: 20160098967
    Abstract: Provided are a source driver configured to drive a data line of a display panel and a liquid crystal display (LCD) device including the same. The source drive configured to compare whether data of consecutive gate lines in the display panel and data of adjacent data lines in the display panel are identical or not, and selectively disable output amplifiers connected to the data line having identical data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaewook KWON, Jihoon KIM, Jun-Jae LEE
  • Publication number: 20160098968
    Abstract: DAC includes a decoder that receives N number of reference voltages and an n-bit digital signal (n 4) to select first to third voltages, and an operational amplifier to output (first voltage+second voltage+2 third voltage)/4 voltage. The operational amplifier is able to output, for respective 2?n combinations of the n-bit digital signal, voltage levels from an Ath level, as a base level, to an (A?1+2?n)th level. The N number of reference voltages include Ath level, (A+4)th level, (A?4+2?n) and (A+2?n), and an at most {?4+2?(n?2)} reference voltages obtained by decimating a pre-set at least one reference voltage from {?3+2?(n?2)} reference voltages that are other than the four number of reference voltages from the {1+2?(n?2)} reference voltages corresponding to the voltage levels spaced each other at an interval of 4 levels from the Ath level. N is not less than 4 and not more than 2?(n?2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi TSUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160098969
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for gesture interaction with an image displayed on a painted wall is described. The method may include capturing image data of the image displayed on the painted wall and a user motion performed relative to the image. The method may also include analyzing the captured image data to determine a sequence of one or more physical movements of the user relative to the image displayed on the painted wall. The method may also include determining, based on the analysis, that the user motion is indicative of a gesture associated with the image displayed on the painted wall, and controlling a connected system in response to the gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Johnny Lee, Eric Teller, William Graham Patrick, Eric Peeters
  • Publication number: 20160098970
    Abstract: Methods and systems of generating an image gradient are presented. In one example, image data for generating a two-dimensional digital image is provided to a hardware graphics processor. The image data may include a single pixel along a first direction of the digital image and multiple pixels along a second direction of the digital image. The pixels along the second direction of the digital image may include an image gradient. A one-dimensional stretching operation of the hardware graphics processor is initiated based on the image data to generate the digital image. In response to the stretching operation, the digital image may include multiple pixels along the first direction for each of the single pixels, wherein each of the multiple pixels along the first direction for a corresponding pixel of the single pixels comprises the corresponding pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Patrick Newcombe, Douglas Brunel Gore
  • Publication number: 20160098971
    Abstract: A computer includes an image processing apparatus, the image processing apparatus includes a transformation unit that transforms color information on an input image signal on the basis of a transformation rule; a correction range calculation unit that calculates a correction range in a predetermined color space on the basis of a positional relationship between source coordinates and destination coordinates in the color space; and a point-based transfer distance calculation unit that calculates transformation destination coordinates at respective points within the correction range on the basis of the positional relationship between the source coordinates and the destination coordinates, and a positional relationship between coordinates at the respective points within the correction range and the source coordinates to reflect the calculated transformation destination coordinates on the transformation rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventor: Hirofumi KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160098972
    Abstract: Embodiments of techniques or systems for color management are provided herein. A graphic input may be received which includes pixels associated with color codes. Respective pixels or portions of the graphic input may be binned or indexed into color code bins. Each color code bin may be indicative or be associated with a color or color code. Sample color gradients may be assigned color codes based on counts for respective color code bins. A background or layers may be generated based on the sample color gradients. Additionally, patterns or aspects may be generated for the background or layers. In this manner, color management may be provided in the form of a dynamic, changing, or moving background which may be unique to the graphic input due to the patterns (e.g., movement patterns, shape patterns, movement speed, etc.) and sample color gradients determined based on the graphic input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Steven Feit, Ross Miller, Ric Ewing, iLan Epstein, Churu Yun
  • Publication number: 20160098973
    Abstract: A method for image display of a mobile device includes: determining a backlight intensity parameter according to a user-defined backlight brightness and an ambient light intensity value when the ambient light intensity value is greater than a predetermined threshold value; and providing backlight to a display module of the mobile device according to the backlight intensity parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Shao-Sheng YANG, Tzu-Chin LIU, Ming-Yu TSAI