Patents Issued in May 2, 2017
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Patent number: 9639201Abstract: A touch panel according to the disclosure includes a touch screen including a plurality of X electrode lines and Y electrode lines, which are alternately disposed with each other, and generating signals that vary depending on a touch position; and a plurality of comparators connected between first and second Y electrode lines adjacent to each other, wherein the touch position on the touch screen is detected based on output codes prepared by using output values of the comparators.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2012Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Masashi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 9639202Abstract: A touch display device is provided to depress the chance that the touch display device generates bubble, mura or similar bad phenomena. The touch display device includes a touch screen (1) and a display panel (2) arranged opposite to each other, and at least two insert-fitting structures (3) located between the touch screen (1) and the display panel (2), and the touch screen (1) and the display panel (2) are connected with each other in an insert-fitting way through the insert-fitting structures (3).Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wenjia Sun, Hongli Zhu, Qing Ma, Daekeun Yoon
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Patent number: 9639203Abstract: A touch control detection system, a delta-sigma modulator and a modulating method thereof are provided. The delta-sigma modulator includes a quantizer and N integrating units. The quantizer generates a modulating result signal. The integrating units are coupled in series. Each of the integrating receives an input signal, and each of the integrating units receives a plurality of gain parameters, N is a positive integer. The quantizer quantizes a signal on an output end of the Nth stage integrating unit according to an error signal for generating the modulating result signal. A center frequency of a noise transfer function (NTF) of the delta-sigma modulator is adjusted according to the gain parameters, and the gain parameters are determined according to a frequency of the input signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventor: Chih-Yuan Chang
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Patent number: 9639204Abstract: A method for distinguishing a touch type in a touch input device including a touch screen may be provided that includes: determining whether a touch on the touch screen includes a time interval during which the touch has a pressure greater than a first pressure within a first time period; and distinguishing the touch type in accordance with whether or not the touch includes a time interval during which the touch has a pressure greater than the first pressure within the first time period.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: HiDeep Inc.Inventors: Seyeob Kim, Yunjoung Kim
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Patent number: 9639205Abstract: A touch sensor integrated display device is provided comprising gate lines and data lines formed on a substrate to be intersected with each other, a plurality of pixel electrodes formed at intersections between the gate lines and the data lines, and a common electrode formed to overlap the plurality of pixel electrodes through an insulating film disposed between the common electrode and the plurality of pixel electrodes, wherein the common electrode includes at least two touch electrodes, each of which is connected to at least one of signal lines arranged in one of a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Cheolse Kim, Buyeol Lee, Sunjung Lee, Sangsoo Hwang, Yoonhwan Woo, Manhyeop Han
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Patent number: 9639207Abstract: A tablet computer is provided, which includes a sensor section operable to detect positional input by a human operator and output a positional input signal; a display, laid over the sensor section, operable to receive and display a video signal; and a processor, coupled to a memory storing programs for running an operating system (OS) and executing software loaded to the memory, the processor being operable to receive and process the positional input signal from the sensor section and to output a video signal of the OS and the software to the display. The tablet computer further includes a sensor signal filter capable of selectively communicating the positional input signal from the sensor section to the processor, to a separate external processor, or to neither the processor nor the separate external processor; and a display switch capable of coupling the display to the processor or to the separate external processor.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Konrad Pollmann, Michael Thompson
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Patent number: 9639208Abstract: A touch panel system (1) includes a touch panel (3) and a touch position detecting section (5) for detecting a touch position on the touch panel (3). The touch position detecting section (5) includes a touch start determining section (56) for (i) setting a determining region based on a touch start position candidate which is a touch position that has been detected relatively earliest and (ii) determining that touches have been started from the touch start position candidate in a case where the touches whose starting point is at the touch start position candidate have been successively detected within the determining region a predetermined number of times or more.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Manabu Yumoto, Shunsuke Nagasawa, Masayuki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 9639209Abstract: An optical touch system includes two optical sensing modules and a processing module. The optical sensing module includes a mounting base and a light sensing device. The mounting base has an alignment structure and is disposed at a corner of a touch area by aligning the alignment structure with the profile of the corner. The light sensing device is disposed on the mounting base toward the touch area. The processing module receives signals from the two optical sensing modules to generate coordinates relative to a touch performed on the touch area. A touch display system using the optical touch system further includes a displaying device. The processing module of the touch display system also controls the displaying device to display an image on a screen according to the coordinates; therein, the screen thereon defines the touch area.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Wistron CorporationInventors: Kou-Hsien Lu, Yu-Yen Chen, Po-Liang Huang, Chia-Jui Liu
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Patent number: 9639210Abstract: A device implements a data processing method for an optical FTIR-based touch system. The touch system defines detection lines across a surface portion of a panel by propagating light inside the panel from a plurality of incoupling points to a plurality of outcoupling points, such that each location on the surface portion is illuminated by incident light rays. At least one light detector is coupled to the outcoupling points to generate an output signal. The device obtains signal values for the detection lines from the output signal and processes the signal values to at least partly compensate for variations in the apparent interaction among the subset of detection lines that interact with an object on the surface portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: FLATFROG LABORATORIES ABInventors: Mats Petter Wallander, Peter Juhlin, Mattias Krus
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Patent number: 9639211Abstract: The display device has a display panel where a photosensor and a transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer are arranged. The display device detects a shadow of the object, which is projected on the display panel when the object approaches the display panel and blocks ambient light, with a photosensor, whereby a position or motion of the object is detected. Even when the object is not in contact with the display panel, the object can be detected.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kurokawa, Takayuki Ikeda, Hikaru Tamura, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Patent number: 9639212Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processor includes: a detector; a vector calculator; a determiner. The detector detects an object existing over a plurality of detection ranges set at distances different from one another from a reference surface and acquires representative points of the object based on detected position in the detection ranges. The vector calculator acquires a three-dimensional vector based on the representative points. The determiner determines an input operation by the object based on the three-dimensional vector.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Wataru Watanabe, Ryosuke Nonaka, Masahiro Baba
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Patent number: 9639213Abstract: Detecting a location of a touch input is disclosed. Each of a plurality of transmitters coupled to a propagating medium emits a signal that is distinguishable from other signals emitted from other transmitters. The signals from the transmitters are received from at least one receiver coupled to the propagating medium to detect the location of the touch input on a surface of the propagating medium as indicated by an effect of the touch input on each of the distinguishable signals.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Sentons Inc.Inventors: Samuel W. Sheng, Shih-Ming Shih, Yenyu Hsieh, Shirish A. Altekar
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Patent number: 9639214Abstract: A chip-on-glass device comprises a chip-on-glass substrate, a metal layer, and a plurality of chip-on-glass connection bumps. The metal layer comprises a plurality of passive jumper routing traces. The plurality of chip-on-glass connection humps is coupled with passive jumper routing traces of the plurality of passive jumper routing traces.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Jim Dunphy, Joseph Kurth Reynolds
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Patent number: 9639215Abstract: A touch screen, includes a position sensing assembly and a display assembly. The position sensing assembly includes: a substrate, a first polymer layer and a second polymer layer, the first polymer layer is formed on a surface of the substrate, a conductive material is embedded in the first polymer layer to form a first conductive area and a first lead on a surface of the first polymer layer, the second polymer layer is formed on a surface of the first polymer layer; a conductive material is embedded in the second polymer layer to form a second conductive material and a second lead on a surface of the second polymer layer. The touch screen omits a transparent conductive film, and achieves an effect of conducting through embedding a conductive material in the first and second polymer layer, thus material cost is relatively low and the producing process is relatively simple.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Shenzhen O-Film Tech Co., Ltd.Inventors: Genchu Tang, Shengcai Dong, Wei Liu, Bin Tang
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Patent number: 9639216Abstract: A touch-control display device is disclosed. The display device includes first, second, and third touch-control structures, a first plate, and a second plate opposing the first plate. The first and second touch-control structures form a capacitive touch-control structure, the third touch-control structure is an electromagnetic touch-control structure, and the first, second and third touch-control structures are respectively disposed on an inner side of the first plate, on an external side of the first plate, and on an inner or external side of the second plate. In addition, the first, second, and third touch-control structures are separated by one or more insulating layers.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Feng Lu, Jun Ma
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Patent number: 9639217Abstract: A digitiser includes a grid of conductors having excitation conductors and detection conductors. Excitation circuitry applies excitation signals to selected excitation conductors; measurement circuitry obtains measurements from selected detection conductors; and processing circuitry processes measurements obtained by the measurement circuitry to detect one or more objects positioned adjacent the grid of conductors. The excitation circuitry may be arranged to operate in a cyclic manner to select each of the excitation conductors during an excitation cycle, wherein an excitation cycle includes a sequence of excitation intervals during each of which a different pair of neighboring excitation conductors is selected by the excitation circuitry and to which complementary excitation signals are applied.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Alterix LimitedInventor: Victor Zhitomirskiy
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Patent number: 9639218Abstract: A liquid crystal panel, a display device and a scanning method thereof is disclosed. The liquid crystal panel includes a CF substrate, a TFT substrate and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the CF substrate and the TFT substrate; the CF substrate includes a transparent substrate and an integrated capacitive-electromagnetic composite touch layer located at the inner side of the transparent substrate to identify touch signals; wherein, the integrated capacitive-electromagnetic composite touch layer includes a capacitive touch structure and an electromagnetic touch structure electrically insulated from each other. According to the embodiments of the present invention, the integrated capacitive-electromagnetic composite touch layer is integrated to the inner of the CF substrate, so that the liquid crystal display including the liquid crystal panel of the embodiments of the present invention has capacitive and electromagnetic touch functions and is relatively thin.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Feng Lu, Jun Ma, Qijun Yao
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Patent number: 9639219Abstract: A touch panel sensor includes a substrate and an electrode having a detection electrode and an extraction electrode connected to a detection electrode. The electrode, in any cross-section thereof in the thickness direction, includes a metal layer which occupies at least part of the cross-section. The metal layer of the detection electrode and the metal layer of the extraction electrode are formed integrally at a joint between the detection electrode and the extraction electrode. The detection electrode includes a conductive mesh having conductive wire arranged in a mesh pattern, the conductive wire having a height of not less than 0.2 ?m and not more than 2 ?m and a width of not less than 1 ?m and not more than 5 ?m. The conductive wire of the conductive mesh each have a base surface on the substrate side, and a flat top surface located opposite to the base surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiko Ishii, Yuichi Miyazaki, Youichirou Oohashi
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Patent number: 9639220Abstract: Disclosed are a touch screen and a display device. In the touch screen, the first electromagnetic touch electrodes (210) and the capacitive touch sensing electrodes (110) are disposed in the same layer, the second electromagnetic touch electrodes (220) and the capacitive touch driving electrodes (120) are disposed in the same layer, such that it is possible to simplify layer structures of the touch screen to a great extent, thereby reducing the thickness of the entire touch screen, while guaranteeing electromagnetic touch effect and capacitive touch effect, and simplify the manufacturing process and in turn save the production costs of the entire touch screen.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventor: Xinxing Wang
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Patent number: 9639221Abstract: A method of designing a conductive pattern with reduced channel break visibility includes generating a representation of the conductive pattern in a software application and placing a plurality of non-linear channel break voids that partition the conductive pattern into a plurality of channels. Each non-linear channel break isolates adjacent channels.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANYInventor: Yieu Chyan
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Patent number: 9639222Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a mobile terminal comprising: a touch screen configured to display a plurality of objects, and to generate a proximity signal or a direct touch signal by using an input medium; and a controller configured to display changed sizes of a plurality of selected objects located within a range from the input medium among the plurality of objects according to the proximity signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Ja Hoon Ku, Seon Hwi Cho, Ki Soo Bang, Kwi Suk Kwon
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Patent number: 9639223Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes a display area; a pixel electrode; a plurality of scan lines; a plurality of data lines; an auxiliary wiring that is a wiring of a metal material having an electrical resistance lower than that of a material of the drive electrodes, is arranged so as to extend in the row direction for each row of the pixels, and is electrically coupled to the drive electrode; a control device that performs image display control and touch detection control; a touch detection electrode that faces the drive electrodes and forms a capacitance with the drive electrodes; and a touch detection unit that detects a position of a proximity object based on a detection signal sent from the touch detection electrode.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hideki Kaneko, Yoshihide Oue
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Patent number: 9639224Abstract: A touch panel with fingerprint identification includes a fingerprint identification module disposed in a through hole of a first substrate. The fingerprint identification module and the first substrate are attached to a second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc.Inventors: Yuh-Wen Lee, Jiangping Chen, Hao Chen, Yu Zhang, Hsiang-Lung Hsia, Quanfen Dai, Dongmei Ye
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Patent number: 9639225Abstract: A method and circuitry for detecting a touch on a device is provided herein. Touch-sensing circuitry comprises two antennas coupled to two voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs). A phase locked loop (PLL) is provided coupled to the VCOs. The PLL compares a VCO output with a frequency source (temperature controlled crystal oscillator (TCXO)), and outputs a tuning voltage (steering voltage) for the VCO that is based on the difference between the VCO frequency and the TCXO frequency. The steering voltages for each VCO are compared, and a decision is made as to whether or not a touch has been made to the antennas. If the antennas have been touched, a location of the touch is determined based on a difference in the steering voltages of the two VCOs.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Bing Qin Lim, Murali Kuyimbil, Wai Mun Lee, Lee Sun Ooi, Wooi Ping Teoh
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Patent number: 9639226Abstract: A capacitance sensing device can include a reference circuit configured to connect to a reference capacitance, and to generate an electrical reference signal that varies over time according to the reference capacitance and a compare signal; a sense circuit configured to connect to a sense capacitance, and to generate an electrical sense signal that varies over time according to a sense capacitance; a compare circuit having compare inputs coupled to receive the sense signal and the reference signal, and a compare output that provides the compare signal; and a value generation circuit configured to generate an output value corresponding to the compare signal over a predetermined time period.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Iulian C. Gradinariu
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Patent number: 9639227Abstract: The electroconductive laminate according to the present invention is obtained by laminating a hard coat layer and an electrically conducting layer on at least one surface of a polycarbonate base. This electroconductive laminate is characterized in that the hard coat layer is formed from a hard coating composition which contains (A) a phenolic novolac acrylate having two or more acrylate groups, (B) an orthophenyl phenol acrylate containing 1-2 mol of an ethylene oxide structure in each molecule and (C) a bisphenol skeleton-containing diacrylate containing 2-4 mol of an alkylene oxide structure having two or three carbon atoms in each molecule.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignees: NIPPON AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD., TEIJIN LIMITEDInventors: Kazuhito Kobayashi, Yusuke Nakata, Koichi Imamura, Atsushi Sasaki
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Patent number: 9639228Abstract: An electrode for a touch sensitive device includes micro-wire conductors arranged to define an electrically continuous area and to include interior regions that are electrically discontinuous. The electrically continuous area may be patterned according to a one pattern, and the interior pattern may be patterned according to another pattern.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2016Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Roger W. Barton, Billy L Weaver, Bernard O. Geaghan, Brock A. Hable
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Patent number: 9639229Abstract: A display device with a touch panel includes the touch panel having a first substrate having a detection area to detect a coordinate and an outside area in which at least one external terminal is formed, a plurality of first lines to detect the coordinate in the detection area, a plurality of second lines to detect the coordinate in the detection area, wherein each of the plurality of first lines traverse each of the plurality of second lines. An organic emitting display panel is arranged under the touch panel, and a circular polarizing plate arranged at a side of the touch panel opposite to the organic emitting display panel. The organic emitting display panel, the touch panel, and the circular polarizing plate are arranged in this order.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Ookawara, Noriharu Matsudate
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Patent number: 9639230Abstract: When using graphical diagrams, cutting and pasting operations may take advantage of predefined relationships to intelligently insert and remove items from the diagram. A text data model may be interpreted sequentially or hierarchically to construct various diagrams. Pasting operations will bring new data into the diagram and data model while conforming the new data to the diagram definition. Cutting operations may cause the data model and diagram to be healed to conform to the diagram definition.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2011Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Karen K. Wong, Andrew J. Howe, Brent Gilbert, Crystal L. Hoyer, Matthew J. Kotler, Mikko T. Mannisto
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Patent number: 9639231Abstract: A computing device is described that includes one or more processors and at least one module operable by the processors to output, for display, first information for an event, and, responsive to determining that a user of the computing device has viewed a display device of the computing device for at least a threshold amount of time, output, for display, second information for the event, the second information including information associated with the event and not included in the first information. The module is further operable to, responsive to determining that the user of the computing device has viewed the display device for at least another threshold amount of time greater than the first threshold amount of time, output, for display, third information for the event, the third information including additional information associated with the event and not included in the first information or the second information.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Morten Just Petersen, Emmet Connolly, Matias Gonzalo Duarte, Alexander Faaborg
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Patent number: 9639233Abstract: The disclosed subject matter provides a digital sign with a video camera. The digital sign and video camera are connected via a communications medium to a central computer. The central computer provides a way of changing the images displayed on the digital sign and of disseminating the video from the video camera either through real time forwarding/viewing or recording the real time video stream and playing back the recorded video to a user. The central computer also provides a user interface where an authorized user, which would normally include an authorized governmental entity, can view the video stream and unilaterally interrupt the normally displayed image (or series of images) with an emergency notification message that would display on the digital sign.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Texas Emergency Network, LLCInventors: Curtis E. Ford, Drew Cartwright
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Patent number: 9639234Abstract: Methods, devices, and non-transitory process-readable storage media automatically configure or reconfigure input mechanisms to provide user inputs to simultaneously-active applications with input mechanisms that conflict. An embodiment method performed by a processor of a computing device may include recognizing that an overlapping control condition exists between simultaneously-active applications when a first control element of a first application and a second control element of a second application are configured to receive respective user inputs via a common input mechanism. When the processor determines that an overlapping control condition exists, available input mechanisms of the computing device may be identified, and one of the identified available input mechanisms may be reconfigured to provide the user inputs for one of the first control element or the second control element while the overlapping control condition exists.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Theodore John Borromeo
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Patent number: 9639235Abstract: A visualization system for providing a preview of data obtained in a borehole and available for selection and a helmet for visualization and monitoring are described. The visualization system includes a processor configured to process the data based on user input and instructions and provide output for display on a display device; a computer-readable medium configured to store the instructions, the instructions including commands to output values of two or more types of parameters at two or more depth values for display; and a helmet including a visor configured to display the values of the two or more types of parameters at the two or more depth values.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Olufemi A. Adegbola, Emad Al-Ajmi, Peter J. Guijt, Sebastian Enrico Ramirez, William W. Scott, Joel W. Tarver, Doron Hetz, Steven Pierce
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Patent number: 9639236Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for object based browsing suitable for use in various applications is provided. The method includes receiving one or more working lists. Thereafter, one or more rules corresponding to the one or more working lists are checked. One or more context menus for the one or more working lists are then dynamically generated based on the checking.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2007Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventor: V. N. Ravikiran Vedula
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Patent number: 9639237Abstract: Context menus are described. In one or more implementations, an option is displayed in a user interface by a computing device, the option selectable to cause a representation of an object to be added to a context menu. In response to selection of the option, the context menu is configured by the computing device to include the representation of the object such that the representation of the object is selectable to launch the object by the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2010Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David Earl Washington, Lyon Wong, Aryeh N. Polsky, Tira L. Cohene, David Burg, Brendan M. Dohm, Jason A. Christensen, Adam C. Lusch
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Patent number: 9639238Abstract: Multiple operations can be determined based on different gestures received at a single control. An operation can be a selection or a de-selection (or activation and deactivation) of a feature (or tool) while another operation can be a configuration of a characteristic associated with the feature. The other operation can set a configuration of the characteristic associated with the feature such that upon re-activation of the feature, the configured characteristic may be persisted. Embodiments provide a UI control that can receive multiple types of gestures and determine an operation to perform based on the type of gesture. For instance, in response to receiving a gesture input at a single control, an application may cause a display panel on a GUI to be displayed. The panel configuration (e.g., size of the panel, size of objects in the panel) can be modified in response to receiving another gesture input at the control.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Peter K. Wagner
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Patent number: 9639239Abstract: The present disclosure describes a dockbar implementation method, device and system, which belong to the field of communications. The method includes: acquiring an interface operation instruction for an application program inside a dockbar; generating a dockbar interface refresh data according to the interface operation instruction; and refreshing an interface of the dockbar according to the dockbar interface refresh data. The device includes an application layer and a logic layer. The present disclosure can realize the dynamicity of the dockbar and improve the flexibility of the dockbar.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Yanqing Cai, Zhuomeng Li, Yong Peng, Jinqiu Li, Hongjie Liu, Yangfeng Ou, Yanbing Zhang
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Patent number: 9639240Abstract: A computer-implemented method for launching an installed application comprising the steps of: providing a web browser; displaying in the web browser a first list of at least one three-dimensional object; selecting at least one three-dimensional object among said first list; determining a second list of at least one installed application(s) able to use the selected object(s) of the first list; displaying in the web browser said second list; selecting an application in said second list; and launching said selected application of said second list together with the opening of the selected object(s) of the first list.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Dassault SystemesInventors: Bernard Charles, Dominique Florack, Monica Menghini, Hubert Masson
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Patent number: 9639241Abstract: An electronic device with one or more processors and memory is in communication with a display. The device, while in a first playback navigation mode, provides, to the display, video information for display; and receives an input that corresponds to a request by a user to switch to a second playback navigation mode. The video information includes information that corresponds to one or more frames of a video, a scrubber bar that represents a timeline of the video, a first playhead that indicates a current play position in the scrubber bar, and playback position markers, distinct from the first playhead, that indicate predetermined playback positions in the video. The device, in response to receiving the input, transitions from the first playback navigation mode to the second playback navigation mode; and, while in the second playback navigation mode, ceases to provide information that corresponds to the playback position markers.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Henrique D. Penha, Jonathan Ive, Imran A. Chaudhri, Grace H. Hwang, Graham R. Clarke, Gary I. Butcher, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Jeffrey L. Robbin, William M. Bachman, Benjamin W. Keighran, Jennifer L. C. Folse, Jonathan Lochhead, Joe R. Howard, Joshua K. McGlinn, Elbert D. Chen
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Patent number: 9639242Abstract: When a registration request of an application button is received, an information processing apparatus generates an image for transition if an activation-completed notification is received. If the activation-completed notification is not received, the information processing apparatus generates the image for transition after the activation-completed notification is received.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomoya Sato
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Patent number: 9639243Abstract: Exemplary systems and methods for calendaring are provided. Exemplary systems include a natural language receiving component configured to receive a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, a calendar generation engine configured to create a calendar entry based on the natural language entry, a social network database configured for accessing and querying by the calendar generation engine, a privacy component configured to receive a privacy setting indicating a person who is approved to view the calendar entry, and a display module configured to display the calendar entry on a calendar. Exemplary methods include receiving a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, creating a calendar entry, and displaying the calendar entry.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2011Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Peter Deng, Scott Marlette, Marcel Laverdet, Mark Zuckerberg
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Patent number: 9639244Abstract: Systems and methods for navigating stackable workspaces on an electronic device are provided. A system includes a navigation module configured to display a first workspace of a plurality of workspaces stacked along a stacking axis. The plurality of workspaces includes a second workspace stacked on the first workspace. At least one application is open in the first workspace or in the second workspace. The system also includes a detection module configured to detect at least one of a first inter-workspace swipe gesture and an intra-workspace swipe gesture. The navigation module is configured to display the second workspace in response to the first inter-workspace swipe gesture. The navigation module is configured to switch between features or applications of the at least one application in response to the intra-workspace swipe gesture.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2012Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: John Nicholas Jitkoff, Alexander Friedrich Kuscher, Scott Ronald Violet, Glen Murphy
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Patent number: 9639245Abstract: A networked interactive expert system is disclosed for selectively providing relevant expertise when a user requires such assistance. System provides a set of networked facilities for determining an expertise needed by a customer based on a location. Such location can be either physical or logical. A physical “location” corresponds, for example, to a department within a retail outlet. Examples of logical “locations” are ones corresponding to a web-page, a product identification code of interest, a customer identification code, and/or explicit knowledge category selected by the customer. An expert studio, from a list of expert studios providing expertise corresponding to the identified location associated with the customer's request, is matched up with the request. Thereafter, a primary connection, supporting an interactive videoconference session, is established between a first networked node associated with the customer and a second networked node associated with the designated expert studio.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: CLAIRVISTA LLCInventors: Christopher Sang, Donald Christopher Woods
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Patent number: 9639246Abstract: A streaming composition system is described herein that provides easy workflow and playback capabilities for content producers to create composite media assets from existing and on-going media content and for streaming clients to seamlessly playback composite multimedia streams provided from different sources. These assets provide broadcasters an option to quickly turn around highlights for an on-going event. The streaming composition system allows a producer to identify clips within existing media assets and compose the clips into a new unified streaming presentation. For producers that already have smooth streaming media assets, the system leverages these assets to provide seamless playback across clip boundaries including advanced playback support for advertisement insertion, fast forward, rewind, and so on.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.Inventors: Vishal Sood, Jack E. Freelander, Jason R. Suess, Lin Liu
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Patent number: 9639247Abstract: An information processing device includes a first output unit and a second output unit. The first output unit displays a start screen including a first image for giving an instruction for switching to a screen corresponding to a user, and a second image for giving an instruction for switching to an edit screen. If the second image is selected, the second output unit outputs an edit screen including, in the same arrangement as the first image, a third image for switching to a screen for editing the screen corresponding to a user.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Sugimoto, Nozomi Noguchi, Shinichi Nakamura
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Patent number: 9639248Abstract: Methods are described for maximizing the size of a video displayed in a display area of a video player. The maximum height of the video is determined using its aspect ratio and the dimensions of the display area in the video player. The control panel is removed from the display in the video player if this allows the video to be shown at its maximum height while preserving the video's resolution. The control panel is displayed in the video player if the video can be shown at its maximum height without removing the control panel from the display.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Philip T. Harnish, Brian Glick
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Patent number: 9639249Abstract: To provide an engineering tool including a basic processing unit that performs a process of program editing according to an input operation by an input device, and a display processing unit that displays an operation screen for the program editing on a display device. The basic processing unit can accept the input operation by a plurality of input devices, as a plurality of human interfaces, and when a human interface corresponding to a level of operation skill in the input operation is selected from the human interfaces, the basic processing unit performs a process in accordance with the input operation by an input device corresponding to the selected human interface, and the display processing unit displays the operation screen corresponding to the selected human interface on the display device.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kunio Ooba, Hiroko Nagamatsu
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Patent number: 9639250Abstract: The present disclosure includes displaying a matrix. In one embodiment, a computing device is configured to display an N×M matrix comprising N rows and M columns of matrix cells. A selection is received by the computing device of a first matrix cell of the N×M matrix. The first matrix cell has a particular display area. The computing device is reconfigured to display the N×M matrix, wherein a first display area of the first matrix cell is increased, and wherein display areas of a plurality of other matrix cells are decreased.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: SUCCESSFACTORS, INC.Inventors: Kai Xu, Michelangelo Capraro, Dmitri Krakovsksy, Scott McGhee
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Patent number: 9639251Abstract: Provided is a mobile terminal including a display unit on which a moving image is output; a user input unit through which a moving image segment of the moving image is selected; and a controller that outputs video information corresponding to audio information that is output from the selected moving image segment, on the display unit. The controller converts voice information that is output from the selected moving image segment into text information and outputs the text information on the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jungbin Lee, Miran Han, Seulah Lee, Jeongyoon Rhee
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Patent number: 9639252Abstract: Provided are a device and method for displaying an execution result of an application. A method of displaying an execution result of an application includes: in response to a user input, displaying execution results of a plurality of applications, which are being executed in the device, in a plurality of windows that are displayed in at least two display modes; arranging the plurality of windows, which show execution results of the plurality of windows, to be adjacent to each other and displaying the plurality of windows on a display; receiving a user input when the plurality of windows are displayed on the display; and scrolling the plurality of windows in response to the user input.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Young-kyu Jin, Nam-wook Kang, Yoon-su Kim, Yong-gook Park, Joo-yoon Bae, Jung-joo Sohn