Patents Issued in April 18, 2017
  • Patent number: 9626020
    Abstract: Techniques and architectures for detecting the handedness of a user from touch input and suppressing unintentional touch input are described. The techniques and architectures may analyze short-lived contacts that occur on a touch surface around a same time as input from an input tool to determine a hand that a user is using to hold the input tool. An inactive region may be established for the touch surface based on the hand determination and/or contextual information related to the user, the touch surface and so on. The inactive region may allow unintentional input to be identified and suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Olumuyiwa M Durojaiye, David Abzarian
  • Patent number: 9626021
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a control section which, if it is determined that a first object is selected by an operating body, causes a second object, which is obtained by duplicating a part or all of the first object, to be displayed at a predetermined position on a second display surface, and if it is determined that the second object is selected by the operating body, hides the first object displayed at the position indicated by object coordinate information and also updates the object coordinate information with in-second display surface destination coordinate information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoya Narita
  • Patent number: 9626022
    Abstract: There are provided a display panel with a touch detector that allows the touch detection electrodes to be less visible, a touch panel, and an electronic unit having the display panel with a touch detector. The display panel with a touch detector includes: a display layer including a plurality of display elements arranged side by side; and an electrode layer alternately segmented into first regions and second regions along a first direction, the electrode layer including a plurality of first slits arranged side by side to extend in a second direction, and a plurality of second slits each allowing an adjacent pair of the plurality of first slits in the second regions to be in communication with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Koji Noguchi, Masanobu Ikeda, Yasuyuki Matsui
  • Patent number: 9626023
    Abstract: A system for implementing a display which also serves as one or more of a tactile user interface touchscreen, light field sensor, proximate hand gesture sensor, and lensless imaging camera. In an implementation, an OLED array can be used for light sensing as well as light emission functions. In one implementation a single OLED array is used as the only optoelectronic user interface element in the system. In another implementation two OLED arrays are used, each performing and/or optimized from different functions. In another implementation, an LCD and an OLED array are used in various configurations. The resulting arrangements allow for sharing of both optoelectric devices as well as associated electronics and computational processors, and are accordingly advantageous for use in handheld devices such as cellphone, smartphones, PDAs, tablet computers, and other such devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Inventor: Lester F. Ludwig
  • Patent number: 9626024
    Abstract: Describe herein are electronic devices that includes a display stack having a composite cover component atop a display component. In some instances, the composite cover component includes a top layer and a bottom layer formed from an inorganic material and at least one inner layer formed from an organic material. In other instances, the composite cover component includes a top layer and a bottom layer formed from an organic material and at least one inner layer formed from an inorganic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hung-Bing Tan, David Eric Peters, Shan Cheng, Shankar Ganapathysubramanian
  • Patent number: 9626025
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a display control unit configured to display a first map, and an operation detection unit configured to detect a first operation of selecting a first spot on the first map. The display control unit displays a second map associated with the selected first spot instead of the first map when the first operation is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Toshikazu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9626026
    Abstract: A fabrication method of a grating substrate, a grating substrate and a display device are provided. The fabrication method of the grating substrate, comprises: forming an array of comb-shaped, opaque touch electrodes and a plurality of first conductive bridges (3) on a base substrate, wherein the array of touch electrodes includes a plurality of first touch electrodes (1) and a plurality of second touch electrodes (2) which are disconnected from each other, and the plurality of first touch electrodes (1) in the array are connected together via the first conductive bridges (3); forming an insulating spacing layer (4) on the base substrate on which the array of touch electrodes and the plurality of first touch electrodes (1) are formed, the insulating spacing layer (4) covering the first conductive bridges (3); forming second conductive bridges (5) on the insulating spacing layer (4), the plurality of second touch electrodes (2) in the array being connected together via the second conductive bridges (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongwei Li, Fan Li
  • Patent number: 9626027
    Abstract: Provided is a touch sensor integrated type display device. The device includes: an active area (AA), a bezel area (BA) outside the AA, the BA including: a data driving integrated circuit (IC), a flexible printed circuit (FPC) board, a gate driving IC, and gate line-on-glass (LOG) wires between the FPC board and the gate driving IC, first electrodes in the AA and crossing in first and second directions, second electrodes in the AA, arranged in the second direction and alternately disposed with the first electrodes along the first direction, grouping wires in the BA in parallel between the AA and the data driving IC, having different lengths, such that the grouping wires are non-overlapped with the gate LOG wires, and first sub-routing wires connecting the first electrodes, corresponding to one line in the first direction, to each of the grouping wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manhyeop Han, Juhan Kim
  • Patent number: 9626028
    Abstract: A Gate Driver on Array (GOA) circuit is disclosed. The GOA circuit comprising: a drive line scan control signal generation unit operative to generate a drive line scan clock signal and a drive line scan pulse signal; multiple GOA groups operative to acquire the drive line scan clock signal, to generate GOA group output signals sequentially according to GOA group input signals, wherein the GOA group output signal generated by one of the GOA groups is the GOA group input signal of a next GOA group to realize a shift register function of the multiple GOA groups; multiple drive line scan signal generation modules operative to acquire GOA group output signals and drive line scan pulse signal, and to generate drive line scan signals sequentially; multiple gate line groups operative to be applied with the drive line scan signals, to complete drive line scan for the multiple gate line groups sequentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenbo Li, Yuanbo Zhang
  • Patent number: 9626029
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The device includes a touch sensor configured to sense at least one touch; a pressure sensor configured to sense at least one pressure; and a controller configured to sense a grip pattern on the electronic device using the touch sensor and the pressure sensor, and to control a predetermined function according to the grip pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ju-Wan Park, Myung-Sik Kim, Joon-Oo Kim, Sun-Ah Kim, Yun-Je Oh, Sun-Tae Jung, Hyun-Su Hong
  • Patent number: 9626030
    Abstract: A touch display device is provided which includes a display panel for displaying an image, and a touch screen panel disposed on the display panel and configured to sense at least one touch. The touch screen panel includes a touch substrate at which the touch can be generated; sensing electrodes provided on the touch substrate and spaced apart from one another, each of the sensing electrodes being formed of a piezoresistive material having a resistance value that varies according to an applied force; and a touch processor electrically connected to the sensing electrodes. The touch processor extracts a touch coordinate based on time constants of sensing signals applied to the sensing electrodes, and calculates a touch force of the touch based on resistance values of the sensing electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kangwon Lee, Won-ki Hong, Moonsung Choi, Seungho Nam
  • Patent number: 9626031
    Abstract: A ring device to be worn on a digit of a user is provided. The ring device includes an inner ring suitable to be worn on a digit of a user and a housing rotatably coupled to the inner ring. Along the housing a touch surface is located along with touch sensors configured to detect a touch input. Additionally, the ring includes rotary sensors configured to detect rotation of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Joseph D. Harvey, Douglas E. Rohde
  • Patent number: 9626032
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Westerman, John G. Elias
  • Patent number: 9626033
    Abstract: A screen unit is connected via a first connection to a control unit. The control unit is connected via a second connection to an output unit. The control unit and also the screen unit are jointly supplied with electrical energy via the second connection. Moreover, data for controlling the screen unit are transmitted to the latter via both connections. In this context, the screen unit additionally provides a touch panel, wherein the touch panel is connected only to the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Fuchs, Manuel Krause, Paul Kleist
  • Patent number: 9626034
    Abstract: A process for enabling objects displayed on a multi-input display device to be grouped together is disclosed that includes defining a target element that enables objects displayed on a multi-input display device to be grouped together through interaction with the target element. Operations are invoked that establish a relationship between a particular displayed object and a position on the target element and that causes transformations applied to the target element also to be applied to the particular displayed object while maintaining the relationship between the particular displayed object and the position on the target element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: PERCEPTIVE PIXEL, INC.
    Inventor: Philip L. Davidson
  • Patent number: 9626035
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic light emitting diode pixel circuit, a driving method thereof and a display panel. The OLED pixel circuit comprises a light emitting module comprising an organic light emitting diode for emitting light; a light emitting control module for controlling the light emitting module to emit light; a driving module, so as to control the light emitting module to emit light; a threshold compensation module, and a data signal input module configured for inputting a data signal; the OLED pixel circuit further comprises: a touch sensing module configured for generating a touch sensing signal; and a touch detection module configured for detecting the touch sensing signal, and providing an initial voltage for the threshold compensation module, wherein the driving module amplifies the touch sensing signal generated by the touch sensing module and then outputs it to the touch detection module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen Tan, Xiaojing Qi, Like Hu
  • Patent number: 9626036
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a touch circuit, a method for driving a touch circuit and a touch display apparatus, which may achieve a touch display apparatus with a narrower frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuanbo Zhang, Wenbo Li, Han-Seung Woo, Mi Zhang
  • Patent number: 9626037
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display functional layer that can change display for each pixel in accordance with an application voltage; a plurality of driving electrodes separately disposed in one direction; a plurality of pixel signal lines to which pixel signals used for applying the application voltage to the display functional layer in accordance with an electric potential difference from the display reference electric potential are applied; a plurality of detection electrodes that are separately disposed in a direction other than the one direction, are coupled with the driving electrodes as electrostatic capacitance, generate detection electric potentials in response to the detection driving signal, and change the detection electric potential in accordance with approach of a detection target object; and a pixel signal control unit that controls the pixel signals so as to include pixel signals having different polarities during the display period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Kouji Noguchi, Takayuki Nakanishi, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takeya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9626038
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided that includes an electromagnetic sensing unit to sense an electromagnetic field. The apparatus also includes a shielding layer to shield at least a portion of the electromagnetic field, the shielding layer including a magnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yu-Sheop Lee, Joo-Hoon Lee, Sun-Tae Jung
  • Patent number: 9626039
    Abstract: A touch panel has a first zone, a second zone and a third zone. The first zone includes a first vertical distance, which is less than a first value and greater than a second value, from the surface of the planar display, and includes a center of the planer display. The second zone includes the first vertical distance and is located outside the first zone with respect to the two dimensional coordinates. The third zone includes a second vertical distance, which is greater than the first value, from the surface of the planar display. When the indicator directly enters the second zone from the third zone, the two dimensional coordinates of the indicator are invalid. The two dimensional coordinates of the indicator are valid coordinates, when the indicator directly enters the second zone from the third zone, or when the indicator directly enters the first zone from the third zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomoki Takano, Takeshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9626040
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive apparatus is configured to propagate energy inside a panel (1) so as to define a grid of transmission paths across a touch surface (4) of the panel (1). The apparatus comprises a first subset of components on a first end of the touch surface (4), and a second subset of components on a second end which is opposite to and parallel with the first end. The components include emitters and detectors, each emitter being operable for propagating a diverging energy beam (e.g. radiation) across the touch surface (4) inside the panel (1), and each detector being operable for detecting transmitted energy from at least two emitters. The components in at least one of the first and second subsets are systematically arranged in spatially separate groups along at least one of the first and second ends, so as to achieve a reduced spacing and/or an increased uniformity of the transmission paths along a center line between the first and second ends compared to an equidistant arrangement of all components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: FLATFROG LABORATORIES AB
    Inventors: Mats Petter Wallander, Håkan Bergström
  • Patent number: 9626041
    Abstract: In an optical touch panel including a first group of light emitting and receiving packages and a second group of light emitting and receiving packages provided on a display surface at opposite sides to each other, each of the light emitting and receiving packages is formed by one light emitting element and one light receiving element vertically arranged above the display surface. The light emitting element of each light emitting and receiving package of the first group opposes the light receiving element of one light emitting and receiving package of the second group, and the light emitting element of each light emitting and receiving package of the second group opposes the light receiving element of one light emitting and receiving package of the first group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lingwei Goh, Masatsuna Sawada
  • Patent number: 9626042
    Abstract: Techniques are provided to improve interaction between a user and a projection system. In some embodiments, an image of a user in front of a display screen is captured. An inference can then be made as to whether a user is touching a display screen based on an analysis of shadows and/or variation of brightness (i.e., intensities) across pixels in the image. For example, it may be inferred that the object is: (1) approaching the screen when a region surrounding a top of the object is characterized by a relatively small brightness variation; (2) hovering near the screen when the brightness variation is large and the region includes a dark extremum (caused by a shadow); and (3) touching the screen when the brightness variation is large and the region includes a light extremum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Atid Shamaie
  • Patent number: 9626043
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical touch system, applied to an electronic apparatus having at least a physical plane. It comprises: an optical unit set on the physical plane and configured to produce a first optical effect; an image acquisition unit set on the physical plane, at least a part of the optical unit being within an acquisition range of the image acquisition unit, a touch operation area being formed by the image acquisition unit and the optical unit; the image acquisition unit configured to capture an image having a second optical effect which is formed on the first optical effect after an operation body for operating the electronic apparatus enters the touch operation area; a processing unit being connected with the image acquisition unit and configured to determine the range of the operation body in the touch operation area according to the image having the second optical effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jingping Yang, Ke Shang, James Rutledge
  • Patent number: 9626044
    Abstract: This invention provides a system for scanning control of a capacitive touch panel. The system includes a driving unit driving a partially neighboring strips of a plurality of first axial conductive strips of the capacitive touch panel, wherein the plurality of first axial conductive strips are parallel to each other, and a first detecting unit detecting one of the partially neighboring strips of first axial conductive strips. By doing so, the influence caused by unintended conducting materials can be kept from the touch point detection for the capacitive touch panel, and the electro-magnetic interference of the capacitive touch panel can be also decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Chin-Fu Chang
  • Patent number: 9626045
    Abstract: An exemplary touch position-sensing panel has first and second electrodes that cross over each other to form touch sensing nodes at their intersections. Cut-outs are formed in the first electrodes at touch sensing nodes. The cut-outs extend at least partially across the region where second electrodes cross over the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventor: Esat Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 9626046
    Abstract: Devices and methods for reducing display-to-touch crosstalk are provided. In or more examples, an electronic display panel may include a pixel. The pixel may include a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a first transistor having a first source coupled to a data line, a first gate coupled to a gate line, and a first drain coupled to the pixel electrode. The pixel may also include a second transistor having a second source coupled to the common electrode, a second gate coupled to the gate line, and a second drain coupled to a common voltage source. The second transistor may be configured to cause a parasitic capacitance between the gate line and the second drain of the second transistor and to reduce an effect of a parasitic capacitance between the gate line and the first drain of the first transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Stronks, Ahmad Al-Dahle, Wei H. Yao
  • Patent number: 9626047
    Abstract: The invention discloses a capacitive touch unit, including a sensing electrode, connected to a control unit through a sensing electrode lead; and a plurality of scan electrodes, disposed at two sides of the sensing electrode; the scan electrode being connected to the control unit through a scan electrode lead, and the scan electrodes and the sensing electrode being coplanar; wherein the sensing electrode comprising a plurality of identical sensing electrode units, the plurality of sensing electrode units being arranged regularly along a same direction, the plurality of sensing electrode units being electrically connected; each scan electrode comprising a plurality of identical scan electrode units, the plurality of scan electrode units being arranged regularly along a same direction and the direction the same as sensing electrode units, and the plurality of scan electrode units being electrically connected. The invention also provides a capacitive touch screen with the capacitive touch unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jie Qiu, Yung-lun Lin
  • Patent number: 9626048
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are touch screens that integrate touch sensing systems with display devices. The touch sensing system serves data lines and common electrodes of a driving circuitry of the display device as touch driving lines and touch sensing lines for touch sensing operations. A common electrode layer having the common electrodes of the driving circuitry includes a plurality of openings for reducing a base mutual-capacitance of the touch sensing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Jia-Ming He, Yaw-Guang Chang, Chia-Wei Hu
  • Patent number: 9626049
    Abstract: A capacitive touch panel includes a first sensor pattern and second sensor pattern. The first sensor pattern supports mutual-capacitance detection and the second sensor pattern supports self-capacitance detection. The first sensor pattern includes row conductors and column conductors which intersect each other at mutual-capacitance sensing locations. The second sensor pattern includes island conductors. The island conductors are grouped in clusters of conductors, each cluster providing a self-capacitance sensing location. Control circuitry coupled to the first and second sensor patterns functions to make touch/hover position detections by sensing changes in capacitance at the mutual-capacitance and self-capacitance nodes. The row and column conductors include openings, and the island conductors are positioned in vertical alignment with corresponding openings in the conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Praveesh Chandran, Chee Yu Ng
  • Patent number: 9626050
    Abstract: A touch panel and a touch-sensitive display device are provided. The touch panel includes transversal electrode arrays and longitudinal electrode arrays with mutually perpendicular extending directions. The transversal electrode arrays and the longitudinal electrode arrays are each connected to a controller by a wire. All the wires are each serially connected with a first resistor. A sum of an owned resistance of each wire and a resistance of the first resistor serially connected with the wire constitutes an equivalent resistance, and all the equivalent resistances respectively corresponding to all the wires are equal. By the above solution, the invention can avoid the problem of inaccurate detection caused by error resulting from different wire resistances, and the detection accuracy of the touch panel is effectively improved consequently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yujie Bai, Jinjie Zhou, Xingling Guo
  • Patent number: 9626051
    Abstract: A touch display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a touch display device are disclosed. The touch display panel comprises: an array substrate and an opposing substrate. A common electrode layer is formed on a transparent substrate of the array substrate. Touch sensing electrodes are formed on one surface of a transparent substrate of the opposing substrate facing the array substrate. The common electrode layer is configured as first common electrodes in the display period, and at least one part of the common electrode layer is configured as touch driving electrodes in the touch period. The part of the common electrode layer taken as the touch driving electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes intersect each other. The touch display panel has simple manufacturing processes and can effectively reduce the manufacturing costs of the touch panel and improve the productivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weijie Zhao, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Lei Wang, Hongjuan Liu, Xiaoliang Ding, Shengji Yang, Yingming Liu, Tao Ren
  • Patent number: 9626052
    Abstract: A touch panel including a touch area and a peripheral area adjacent to the touch area is provided. The touch panel includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, a plurality of third electrodes, a plurality of pads and a plurality of wirings. The first electrodes, the second electrodes and the third electrodes are located in the touch area and electrically insulated to each other, wherein the third electrodes expose at least a part of the first electrodes and at least a part of the second electrodes. The pads are located in the peripheral area. The first electrodes, the second electrodes and the third electrodes are electrically connected to the pads through the wirings respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: WINTEK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chun-Cheng Lu, Chia-Ching Lu, Chin-Chang Liu, Ting-Yu Chang, Wen-Chun Wang
  • Patent number: 9626053
    Abstract: A touch control display device includes a display panel, an image compensation element positioned on the display panel, and a touch sensing structure adjacent to the image compensation element. The touch sensing structure is configured to sense touch actions applied to the touch control display device. The display panel includes a main display portion and a periphery display portion. The image compensation element includes a compensation portion, and the compensation portion is configured to distribute the image of the periphery display portion to the outside of the periphery display portion away from the main display portion. The compensation portion includes a light incident surface, a light emitting surface, and a plurality of light guiding channels extending from the light incident surface to the light emitting surface. An area of the light emitting surface is greater than an area of the light incident surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: I-Wei Wu
  • Patent number: 9626054
    Abstract: A capacitive sensing method includes detecting present measured values of plural reference points from plural sensing points; generating a present difference value according to the present measured values of the reference points and current reference measured values; comparing the present difference value with a threshold; detecting present measured values of the sensing points; generating plural position signals of the sensing points according to the present measured values of the sensing points and the current reference measured values; and controlling the output of the position signals according to a reference signal. When the present difference value is greater than the threshold, executing a procedure for refreshing background noise to refresh the current reference measured values. The sensing points are defined by intersected electrodes, configured to form an array, and correspond to the current reference measured values. The reference points are located at the periphery of the array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: SALT INTERNATIONAL CORP., IMAGINATION BROADWAY LTD.
    Inventor: Shang-Li Lee
  • Patent number: 9626055
    Abstract: An in-cell touch screen, a touch detection method thereof and a display device are disclosed, the in-cell touch screen comprising: an array substrate and an opposed substrate arranged opposite to each other; a self-capacitance electrode pattern (100, 200), disposed on a side of the array substrate facing the opposed substrate and/or a side of the opposed substrate facing the array substrate, including: a plurality of first self-capacitance electrodes (100), each of the first self-capacitance electrodes (100) being a strip electrode, a plurality of second self-capacitance electrodes (200), each of the second self-capacitance electrodes including a plurality of block electrodes (210) electrically connected with each other; and a touch detecting chip, configured to judge a touch position according to signal variation of the self-capacitance electrode pattern, wherein orthogonal projections of each of the first self-capacitance electrodes (100) and each of the second self-capacitance electrodes (200) on the array
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Ding, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu, Shengji Yang, Weijie Zhao, Tao Ren
  • Patent number: 9626056
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sensor-equipped display device includes a display panel, a sensor and a controller. The sensor includes a plurality of detection electrodes. Each of the detection electrodes includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode includes a greater area in a rear part than in a front part in the first direction in the detection electrode. The second electrode includes a greater area in the front part than in the rear part in the first direction in the detection electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Yoshitoshi Kida
  • Patent number: 9626057
    Abstract: A touch panel comprises a flexible touch sensor and a cover plate. The cover plate and the flexible touch sensor are attached to each other by an adhesive layer. The flexible touch sensor at least comprises a sensing electrode structure disposed on a flexible substrate. The sensing electrode structure comprises a first insulating layer and a first patterned conductive layer formed on the first insulating layer. The first insulating layer is disposed between the flexible substrate and the first patterned conductive layer and directly contacts the flexible substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions (XIAMEN) Inc.
    Inventors: Ho-Hsun Chi, Yau-Chen Jiang, Bin Lai, Yanjun Xie
  • Patent number: 9626058
    Abstract: Identifying a tool touching a touchscreen device. A touch location of a tool on a touch-sensitive surface is received from a touchscreen controller. Based on the touch location, one of a plurality of electrodes disposed at locations across the touchscreen is selected and an electric circuit is enabled. The electric circuit includes a signal generator attached to the tool that transmits a modulated identification (ID) signal, a parasitic capacitance path between the signal generator and the selected electrode, a demodulator connected to the selected electrode that receives the ID signal, a resistive layer connected to the demodulator, covering the touch-sensitive surface, and a resistive path through the tool to the signal generator. The demodulator demodulates the modulated ID signal to recover a bit sequence. The tool is identified, based on the recovered bit sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marzia E. Castellani, Ana Lucia Medina, Roberto Ragusa, Aniello Alessandro Rea
  • Patent number: 9626059
    Abstract: The user interface system of the preferred embodiment includes: a layer defining a surface, a substrate supporting the layer and at least partially defining a cavity, a displacement device coupled to the cavity and adapted to expand the cavity thereby deforming a particular region of the surface, a touch sensor coupled to the substrate and adapted to sense a user touch proximate the particular region of the surface, and a display coupled to the substrate and adapted to output images to the user. The user interface system of the preferred embodiments has been specifically designed to be incorporated into an electronic device, such as the display of a mobile phone, but may be incorporated in any suitable device that interfaces with a user in both a visual and tactile manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Tactus Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Ciesla, Micah B Yairi
  • Patent number: 9626060
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a substrate; a drive electrode that extends in a first direction; and a plurality of touch detection electrodes that are metal wirings extending in a second direction different from the first direction. The metal wirings are arranged with a predetermined pitch so as to make capacitive coupling with the drive electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa, Kohei Azumi
  • Patent number: 9626061
    Abstract: A space-efficient substantially transparent mutual capacitance touch sensor panel can be created by forming columns made of a substantially transparent conductive material on one side of a first substantially transparent substrate, forming rows made of the substantially transparent conductive material on one side of a second substantially transparent substrate and bringing column connections down to the second substrate. The columns can be routed off-panel at an edge of the second substrate. In some examples, the first and second transparent substrates formed from polyethylene terephthalate (PET). In some examples, the substantially transparent conductive material formed from Indium Tin Oxide (ITO).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Steven P. Hotelling
  • Patent number: 9626062
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a touch sensing apparatus includes repeatedly forming a plurality of electrode patterns on a first sub-substrate unwound from a first roller; repeatedly forming a plurality of interconnection patterns on a second sub-substrate unwound by a second roller; forming an array of touch sensing substrates by adhering the first sub-substrate to the second sub-substrate; forming a plurality of via holes through which the plurality of electrode patterns are electrically connected to the plurality of interconnection patterns; and cutting the array of touch sensing substrates into a plurality of touch sensing substrates, each touch sensing substrate including one of the electrode patterns and one of the interconnection patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Melfas Inc.
    Inventor: Dong Jin Min
  • Patent number: 9626063
    Abstract: A flexible organic light emitting display device is provided. The flexible organic light emitting display device comprises a first flexible substrate and a second flexible substrate spaced apart from the first flexible substrate, a first touch line unit connected with a first pad unit on the first flexible substrate at the peripheral area, a second touch line unit connected with a second pad unit on the second flexible substrate at the peripheral area and a gap balancing conductive element included in a conductive adhesive layer configured to electrically connect the first pad unit and the second pad unit for maintaining a second gap on the basis of a first gap. The first flexible substrate and the second flexible substrate are configured to have the first gap at a display area and the second gap at a peripheral area surrounding the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: BongKi Choi
  • Patent number: 9626064
    Abstract: Multiple schemes and techniques for facilitating presentations with an interactive application are described. For example, an interactive application provides a console view overlay for integrating multiple productivity applications into a graphical user interface (GUI) window. An interactive application can also share a selected display portion of the console view overlay with other interactive applications. As another example, presenters and other audience members can draw on the selected display portion being shared, and the drawn graphics are synchronously displayed by the other interactive applications. Interactive applications, as directed by their users, can join various member groups and specific presentations thereof. Moreover, a user may share content in accordance with membership grouping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ying-Qing Xu, Heung-Yeung Shum, Ya-Qin Zhang, Barn-Wan Li, Bo Liu
  • Patent number: 9626065
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provides for opening a full screen window in a window stack for a multi-screen device. The window stack can change based on the opening of a window. The system can receive a gesture indicating an application with a new window is to be executed or a new window is to be opened in the device. Upon receiving the gesture, the system determines that the new window is to occupy substantially all of a composite display that spans substantially all of the two screens of the device. Then, the system can determine that the full screen window is to be associated with the composite display and create a logic data structure associated with the opened window to describe the position of the opened window in the window stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Martin Gimpl, Ron Cassar, Paul Edward Reeves
  • Patent number: 9626066
    Abstract: In embodiments of video playback analytics collection, an analytics script can be distributed to a client device along with video content that is requested by the client device. The analytics script is implemented to identify a type and/or version of a browser application that supports a video player session to playback the video content for viewing at the client device. The analytics script is also implemented to collect video playback data associated with the video content playback, detect an early end of the video player session before the playback of the video content is completed, and initiate communication of the video playback data to an analytics server. The analytics script can also initiate a timing delay to delay a browser navigation away from the video player session, where the timing delay is effective to allow communication of the video playback data to the analytics server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Viswanathan Swaminathan, Herman S. Sahota
  • Patent number: 9626067
    Abstract: Approaches are disclosed for maintaining spatial relationships (i.e., a layout) between a table object and other objects placed on a virtual canvas of an application work space. In certain implementations, offsets between the other objects and the table object are initially determined and are used to maintain the spatial relationships when the table object is resized. In certain implementations, the movement of the objects in response to a resize of the table object is dynamic from the user's perspective and can be easily undone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Edward P. Hogan, Matthew R. Lehrian, Zachariah N. Paine, Marek R. Telgarsky
  • Patent number: 9626068
    Abstract: A method and system for organizing slides and providing navigational elements within the slides using a presentation application is provided. The presentation application automatically generates an organized set of linkable slides corresponding to subheadings provided by the creator. Prompting a presentation creator to initially consider the presentation structure and provide subheadings that relate to broad concepts within the presentation assists in preventing a potential massive reorganization of the presentation after content has been added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Maloney
  • Patent number: 9626069
    Abstract: A method of locking magnified screen views including the steps of magnifying a portion of a graphic user interface on a first monitor to establish a first magnified view having upper, lower, left and right boundaries, magnifying a portion of the graphic user interface on a second monitor to establish a second magnified view having upper, lower, left and right boundaries, whereby the graphic user interface of the first monitor is extended in the direction of the second monitor, responsive to an end-user selectable setting, restricting pointer indicia movement to an area defined by the boundaries of each view that are not between first and second monitor, and responsive to pointer indicia moving from first monitor towards second monitor displaying pointer indicia within second magnified view responsive to pointer indicia crossing the boundary of first magnified view in the direction of second monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Garald Lee Voorhees, Glen Gordon, Eric Damery, Daniel Simkovitz