Patents Issued in November 21, 2017
  • Patent number: 9824578
    Abstract: Various arrangements for presenting contextual menus are presented. A mobile device may be configured to provide contextual menus for control or monitoring of components. Different menus and interfaces are presented based the position of the mobile device or objects being pointed at using the mobile device. Specific objects may be designated as control markers. The objects may be recognized using a camera of the mobile device. When a control marker is recognized a specific menu or interface that is associated with the control marker may be presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: EchoStar Technologies International Corporation
    Inventors: David Burton, Martyn Ward
  • Patent number: 9824579
    Abstract: A method and an electronic device for selecting a home network device (HND) using a controller in a home network is disclosed. The method and the electronic device relate to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The method and the electronic device may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The method and the electronic device for selecting and controlling a home network device (HND) in a home network using a controller and a light source are provided. The method includes selecting the HND based on a light signal from a light source, and obtaining identification information of the HND.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Deepraj Prabhakar Patkar
  • Patent number: 9824580
    Abstract: Provided is a mechanism for producing an uncertainty-based traffic congestion index, wherein the mechanism may comprise: obtaining a plurality of GPS data points; dividing the plurality of GPS data points into a plurality of variable sliding windows, wherein the dividing maximizes an amount of shape information in each of the plurality of variable sliding windows, performing a map matching process on the plurality of GPS data points as the GPS data points had been divided by the dividing; calculating a confidence value indicative of the map matching process; and producing the traffic congestion index, wherein the traffic congestion index is produced by taking into account the calculated confidence value indicative of the map matching process. In various embodiments, such a mechanism may be implemented via systems, methods and/or computer program products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Shan Dong, Ning Duan, Peng Gao, Guo Qiang Hu, Chang Sheng Li, Xin Zhang
  • Patent number: 9824581
    Abstract: Systems and methods for alerting a driver to a status of a traffic signal are disclosed. A computer-implemented method includes: detecting, by a computing device, that a vehicle is stopped at an intersection with a traffic signal; determining, by the computing device, an attention focus area of a driver of the vehicle; determining, by the computing device, a target display device based on the determined attention focus area; and causing, by the computing device, the determined target display device to display information to alert the driver of a status of the traffic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gautam K. Bhat, Gregory J. Boss, Kevin C. McConnell, Minh Q. Pham
  • Patent number: 9824582
    Abstract: Methods and system for alerting a vehicle driver via wireless communications. One or more conditions with respect to a vehicle are monitored. A change in the condition can be detected and a signal automatically and wirelessly transmitted to a computing device, wherein the signal is indicative of the change in condition(s). The driver is then alerted to the change in condition(s) in response to transmitting the signal to the computing device (e.g., a tablet computing device, smartphone, smartwatch, other wearable device, in-vehicle system, etc.) associated with the driver and/or a vehicle passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brennan T. Lopez-Hinojosa, Kermit D. Lopez
  • Patent number: 9824583
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a traffic control system, comprising: a) at least one traffic control unit; b) a plurality of traffic signals, wherein each traffic signal comprises a wireless transceiver capable of transmitting and receiving at least one message to/from at least one vehicle; and c) a plurality of vehicles, each comprising a vehicle communication unit comprising i. at least one vehicle wireless transceiver capable of transmitting and receiving at least one message to/from a plurality of vehicles and/or traffic signals; ii. a vehicle display unit; and iii. a vehicle-to-vehicle pairing system comprising one or more wireless messages, visual indicators or a combination thereof, wherein messaging information is transmitted and received between the traffic control unit and the plurality of wireless roadside transceivers and/or the plurality of traffic signals via a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Inventor: Steven Cameron Popple
  • Patent number: 9824584
    Abstract: A driving support apparatus for a vehicle comprises a first determination part which determines whether a likelihood of a collision between an own vehicle and another vehicle exists based on information acquired by an autonomous sensor and outputs a first notification request when a notification for the likelihood of the collision is required, a second determination part which determinates whether the likelihood of the collision based on information acquired by an inter-vehicle communication device and GPS sensor and outputs a second notification request when the notification for the likelihood of the collision is required, a warning determination part which inhibits the output of the second notification request by the second determination part when a time at which starts outputting the second notification request for a notification device by the second determination part has come until the time period from a time treq1 at which starts outputting the first notification request for the notification by the firs
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mitsuharu Kato
  • Patent number: 9824585
    Abstract: A collision avoidance apparatus includes an obstacle detection unit to detect an obstacle ahead of a vehicle; an approaching object detection unit to detect an approaching object approaching the vehicle from behind the vehicle; and an electronic control unit to calculate a collision time until the vehicle collides with the obstacle, based on the distance and relative speed of the obstacle, and starts a drive support to avoid a collision with the obstacle when the vehicle speed is a lower limit speed or greater, and the collision time is a threshold or less. When there is a likelihood for the object to collide with the vehicle from behind the vehicle, the electronic control unit lowers the lower limit speed, and/or starts drive support when the collision time is the threshold or less, even when the vehicle speed is less than the lower limit speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koji Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9824586
    Abstract: The moving object recognition system includes: a camera that is installed in a vehicle and captures continuous single-view images; a moving object detecting unit that detects a moving object from the images captured by the camera; a relative approach angle estimating unit that estimates the relative approach angle of the moving object detected by the moving object detecting unit with respect to the camera; a collision risk calculating unit that calculates the risk of the moving object colliding with the vehicle, based on the relationship between the relative approach angle and the moving object direction from the camera toward the moving object; and a reporting unit that reports a danger to the driver of the vehicle in accordance with the risk calculated by the collision risk calculating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: DENSO IT LABORATORY, INC., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuro Sato, Yukimasa Tamatsu, Kunihiro Goto
  • Patent number: 9824587
    Abstract: A method for determining potential collision includes capturing image data of an exterior environment ahead of a subject vehicle via a camera disposed at the subject vehicle. The presence of a leading vehicle ahead of the equipped vehicle is determined via image processing of captured image data. A time to collision to the leading vehicle is determined via image processing of captured image data. A determination, via image processing of captured image data, is made if a brake light of the leading vehicle is illuminated. Based at least in part on the determined time to collision and determination that the brake light of the leading vehicle is illuminated, at least one of (i) a degree of warning to a driver of the subject vehicle is determined and (ii) a braking level of the subject vehicle to mitigate collision with the leading vehicle is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: William J. Chundrlik, Jr., Dominik Raudszus
  • Patent number: 9824588
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a monitor unit configured to monitor a speed and a position of a host car and a preceding car; a reception unit configured to receive traffic signal information including at least a current display state of a traffic light in an intersection and timing information of a change of the display state of the traffic light; a prediction unit configured to generate a first prediction result and a second prediction result; and a warning unit configured to give a first-stage warning when the first prediction result indicates that the preceding car will go into the intersection after the traffic light changes to the red signal display state, and give a second-stage warning when the second prediction result indicates that the preceding car cannot stop without braking suddenly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigetoshi Tokita
  • Patent number: 9824589
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes a communication interface programmed to receive, at a host vehicle, signals transmitted from a target vehicle. The vehicle system further includes a processor programmed to calculate a Doppler shift associated with the signals transmitted from the target vehicle and determine whether the target vehicle is moving toward the host vehicle based on the Doppler shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Omar Antonio Ramirez
  • Patent number: 9824590
    Abstract: A lane departure warning system includes a front camera generating front image information of a vehicle. A speaker outputs a departure warning message, and a screen displays an image including user interface objects. A touch detector generates touch information by detecting a user's touch on the screen. A controller recognizes lanes at both sides of a current driving road by using the front image information, sets first and second warning lines based on the lanes, and controls the speaker to output the departure warning message if the vehicle reaches one of the first and second warning lines. The controller calculates a touch operation time by using the touch information and changes the first and second warning lines to third and fourth warning liens if the touch operation time is greater than a first reference time. A distance between the third and fourth warning lines is less than a distance between the first and second warning lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Jong Bok Lee
  • Patent number: 9824591
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for monitoring, collecting and aggregating position information from multiple independent data sources to localize a position of an aircraft operating worldwide. The localized position information is provided to one or more end-users or stakeholders in a format for direct integration into one or more mapping and/or situational awareness display applications. Information is collected from a plurality of monitored data sources. Weighted values are applied to certain of the information collected from the plurality of data sources according to known or predictable/determinable static and/or dynamic accuracy errors and latencies of the information provided. A detailed analytic algorithm is applied to provide a probabilistic analysis that results in a resolution of a real-time, or near real-time, aircraft location, as well as an ability to accurately predict an aircraft location along a track at some future time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy K. Ryan, William George Doyen
  • Patent number: 9824592
    Abstract: A method for ensuring the operation and integrity of a three-dimensional integrated logistical system that includes a plurality of drones and a plurality of service stations; each of the plurality of drones having a plurality of environmental sensors and a plurality of internal sensors. The plurality of drones is routed to a destination location through a fleet management software that monitors the plurality of drones and the plurality of service stations. The fleet management software is able to detect operational issues amongst the plurality of drones and if necessary reroute the plurality of drones to the plurality of service stations in order to resolve said operational issues. A robotic service unit in each of the plurality of service stations is able to autonomously service the plurality of drones in addition to equipping the plurality of drones with a designated payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: VINVELI UNMANNED SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Gokul R. Anandayuvaraj, Yuan Qu, Eshan Halekote
  • Patent number: 9824593
    Abstract: A distributed system for flight and route management (FARM) of one or more aircraft of the system may include onboard processing devices for combining sensor data local to an aircraft with cloud-based data received through the system from other aircraft or from ground-based processing devices, thereby generating situation models of each aircraft relative to its flight path and in the context of current and predictive conditions (weather, traffic, terrain, threats, etc.). The FARM system may evaluate situation models against prioritized constraint sets of business rules or policies associated with each aircraft's flight plan to determine, crosscheck, and implement possible modifications to the flight plan. Localized aircraft data and flight plan modifications may be propagated through the system via a variety of communications networks to provide synchronized, holistic airspace data portraits to aircraft and ground control alike.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin M. Kronfeld, Kevin Delaney, Scott J. Zogg, James P. Mitchell, Jennifer A. Davis, Geoffrey A. Shapiro
  • Patent number: 9824594
    Abstract: A method for predicting a short-term flight path of an aircraft, a computer program product, an associated prediction device, a guidance method, and a guidance system of an aircraft are disclosed. In one aspect, the flight path of the aircraft is associated at each time moment with a vector including at least one component from among a position of the aircraft, attitudes of the aircraft and order 1 and 2 time derivatives of the position and attitudes. The short-term flight path is the flight path of the aircraft for a time period of up to 30 seconds from a computation time of the flight path. The method includes acquiring a control signal representative of a displacement of a primary control member of the aircraft and predicting, at a subsequent prediction time, at least one component of the short-term flight path of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Sylvain Lissajoux, Alexandre Badatcheff, Matthieu Claybrough
  • Patent number: 9824595
    Abstract: A multi-layered edge computing method for aircraft monitoring and analysis includes providing an aircraft having a plurality of sensors connected to a flight data acquisition unit (FDAU), and providing a processing device having a processor, a non-transitory computer-readable memory, and a transmitter, wherein the processing device is in communication with the FDAU, wherein sensor data stored within the FDAU is communicated to the processing device, wherein, during flight of the aircraft, the processor analyzes the sensor data from the FDAU to detect an occurrence of at least one emergency event. The processing device ranks the at least one emergency event for transmission priority according to sensor type and severity and provides a signal transmitted to a flight control authority upon ranking of the at least one emergency event, wherein the signal has an alert sequence according to the ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Inventor: Jeremiah T. Pate
  • Patent number: 9824596
    Abstract: A method of planning a flight path for a search can include receiving, by a control system, an indication of a search area boundary; receiving, by the control system, an indication of a selected search pattern; determining, by the control system, a flight path based on the search area boundary and the selected search pattern; and transmitting one or more indications of the flight path to an unmanned aerial vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: INSITU, INC., UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON THROUGH ITS CENTER FOR COMMERCIALIZATION
    Inventors: Amy Claire Arbeit, Christopher W. Lum
  • Patent number: 9824597
    Abstract: Methods and configurations are disclosed for exploiting characteristic magnetic signature of electrical power transmission and distribution lines for navigation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen M. Sekelsky
  • Patent number: 9824598
    Abstract: A flight hindrance display apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry is configured to acquire surrounding information of an aircraft. The surrounding information is related to a hindrance factor which is a possible flight hindrance to the aircraft. The circuitry is configured to determine a spatial range of the flight hindrance factor on a basis of the acquired surrounding information. The circuitry is configured to determine a flight hindrance cross-section that intersects a plane including a vector of a flight direction of the aircraft and is included in the determined spatial range of the flight hindrance factor. The circuitry is configured to cause a display unit to stereoscopically display an own position of the aircraft, the spatial range of the flight hindrance factor, and the flight hindrance cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi Onomura, Shinei Takahashi, Yu Itabashi
  • Patent number: 9824599
    Abstract: A system and method of generating plan information for vehicles in a vehicle traffic or vehicle parking zone, including projecting into space, from a set of grid generators at the vehicle traffic or vehicle parking zone, a set of lines defining a relative navigation grid and encoded with grid data configured to identify predetermined points on the relative navigation grid, and detecting, with a detector module on a vehicle, a location of the vehicle within the grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventor: Mark Lawrence Turner
  • Patent number: 9824600
    Abstract: The device object of the present invention consists in two sets of photoelectric cells installed at front and rear of trucks and automobiles and in general moving vehicles. The photoelectric cells are attached to a Magnetic breaking system. In a separate preferred embodiment of the present invention the Photoelectric cells further controls the regular breaking system of the vehicle. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Inventor: Mario Placido Portela
  • Patent number: 9824601
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer-based method includes detecting a state of a user and detecting a stimulus in an environment of the user. The computer-based method then provides a variable level of assistance to the user based on the detected state of the user and the detected stimulus in the environment. In another embodiment, detecting the stimulus in the environment of the user may include detecting a visual stimulus, an auditory stimulus, a physical stimulus, a vibratory stimulus, an electro-magnetic stimulus, an olfactory stimulus, a temperature stimulus, or a movement stimulus. Detecting the state of the user may include detecting natural language spoken by the user. The resulting variable level of assistance utilizes a range of immersive virtual reality, augmented reality and sparsely augmented reality. 3D models of the user's situation (the environment) may be employed in the variable levels of assistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes
    Inventors: Jean-Jacques Grimaud, Garth Edward Coleman
  • Patent number: 9824602
    Abstract: A training program is configured to systematically drive neurological changes to treat an addiction, wherein a plurality of addiction-related stimuli stimulate craving for the object of the addiction. The training program comprises at least one computerized reverse conditioning game configured to present a plurality of target and distractor stimuli, wherein the distractor stimuli are addiction-related stimuli, and prompts a game participant to respond to the target stimuli and ignore the distractor stimuli.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: POSIT SCIENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael M. Merzenich, Chung-Hay Luk, Mor Nahum, Jyoti Mishra Ramanathan, Thomas Matthew Van Vleet
  • Patent number: 9824603
    Abstract: A system for educational assessment without testing is provided that includes one or more client systems that are connected to a network allowing students or school officials to communicate with an education framework that performs and manages educational assessment. The one or more client systems issue a message to the education framework requesting a task to be performed. The educational assessment is administered independent of one or more educators so as to avoid interruption of instruction time. A server system receives the message and the education framework proceeds to process the contents of the message. The education framework includes a plurality of programming modules being executed on the server system that provides to educators specific information used for the educational assessment based on the contents of the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Lexia Learning Systems LLC
    Inventors: Elizabeth Crawford Brooke, Yaacov Petscher, Christopher Schatschneider
  • Patent number: 9824604
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a computer program product for creating an assessment model are disclosed. Marked regions in an electronic document are identified. Thereafter, mark-ups within the marked regions are identified. Based on the identified marked regions and mark-ups the assessment model is created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Conduent Business Services, LLC
    Inventor: Dennis L Venable
  • Patent number: 9824605
    Abstract: Some implementations include a method for operating a centrifuge-based-flight simulator in at least one of several different modes: a heightened G-force mode, a normal G-force mode; and transition modes (i.e., ramp-up or ramp-down modes) between the heightened G-force and normal G-force modes. During the normal-G-force mode the simulator ceases planetary motion altogether or substantially decreases rotations to replicate a plurality of flight conditions that physically imparts, on the trainee during operation of the simulator, a G-force that is not greater than approximately one (1) G. The reduction of planetary motion while maintaining realistic motion and force sensations that are appropriate for the virtual-flight conditions being experienced allows realistic flight simulation experience for the trainee and reduces the negative effects of constant planetary motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: ENVIRONMENTAL TECTONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Paul Comtois
  • Patent number: 9824606
    Abstract: A method, information processing system, and computer readable article of manufacture reinforce behavior in an individual. A behavior associated with an individual is monitored. A determination is made, based on the monitoring, that the behavior substantially matches a behavior in a set of behaviors. A set of interactive actions associated with the behavior are identified. At least one of the interactive actions in the set of interactive actions is selected. The at least one of the interactive actions that has been selected is performed. A response from the individual is monitored in response to the least one of the interactive actions being performed. An indicator is associated with the at least one of the interactive actions based on the reaction from the individual. The indicator indicates a relative degree of success in obtaining a desired response from the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sara H. Basson, Genady Grabarnik, Dimitri Kanevsky, Irina Rish
  • Patent number: 9824607
    Abstract: A brain-machine interface for extracting user action intentions within a continuous asynchronous interactive environment is presented. A subliminal stimulus module generates contextually appropriate decision-related stimuli that are unobtrusive to a user. An altered perceptual experience module modifies a user's sensation of the interactive environment based on decision-related stimuli generated from the subliminal stimulus module. A brain monitoring module assesses the user's brain activity in response to the decision-related stimuli and to determine whether an action within the asynchronous interactive environment is intended by the user. Finally, an action is taken based on explicit user input, the user's brain activity in response to the decision-related stimuli, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Rajan Bhattacharyya, Ryan M. Uhlenbrock, David W. Payton
  • Patent number: 9824608
    Abstract: A method for visually guided storage array installation is disclosed. The method includes receiving an installation plan for a storage array and determining a component of the storage array that is specified in the installation plan. One or more visual indicators that are associated with the component of the storage array are displayed to indicate a status corresponding to executing a portion of the installation plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventor: Howard Lin
  • Patent number: 9824609
    Abstract: A system assesses the susceptibility of an electronic device user to a cybersecurity threat by identifying information relating to the user of an electronic device, selecting a mock attack, and causing the mock attack to be deployed to the user so that the user receives the mock attack in the user's regular context of use of the electronic device. When a sensor detects a user action that the user has interacted with the electronic device in response to the mock attack, the system will record the sensed user action and use the sensed user action to determine the susceptibility of the user to a cybersecurity threat. In some embodiments, the lack of user action in response to a mock attack also may be used to determine the user's susceptibility to a cybersecurity threat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: WOMBAT SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol, Kurt Wescoe, Jason Brubaker, Jason Hong
  • Patent number: 9824610
    Abstract: A vehicle identification number (VIN) label is provided. The label includes an adhesive layer; a self-destruct layer positioned on the adhesive layer; a first facestock layer positioned on the self-destruct layer; a second facestock layer positioned on the first facestock layer and defining a first window relative to the first facestock layer; and an indicia layer with a first vehicle identification number (VIN) within the first window of the second facestock layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Denis L. Mazini, Zachary A. Romme, D. Lucia Klose, William A. Biondo, Frankie K. Thomas, Kevin W. Snider
  • Patent number: 9824611
    Abstract: An advertising apparatus including a body portion adapted to be one or both of connected to or disposed on a support structure accessible for advertising purposes and, an interchangeable and/or replaceable advertising device, the advertising device being adapted to be one or both of connected to or disposed on the body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: BRANDED SEATS, LLC.
    Inventor: Shad E. Bruce
  • Patent number: 9824612
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a display panel, a method for driving the display panel and a 3D display device including the display panel, and relates to the technical field of display. The display panel comprises a display unit and at least one timing control units, wherein the display unit comprises a plurality of display regions and the plurality of display regions are simultaneously scanned. With the present invention, wire impedance in the display panel is reduced, charging time for a single row of pixels can be reduced and charging rate of the pixels can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weihao Hu, Yoon Dae Keun, Yanping Liao, Yufan Du, Zongze He, Yangbing Yu
  • Patent number: 9824613
    Abstract: A liquid display panel is disclosed, which comprises: a first substrate; a second substrate; a first electrode and a second electrode disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode have different electric potentials; a first alignment film disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein when a working frequency of the liquid crystal display panel is N Hz, ionic electric potentials of the liquid crystal layer and the first alignment film satisfy the following Equation (I): 0 ? ? V ion_LC ? ( 1 2 ? N ) - V ion_PI ? ( 1 2 ? N ) V ion_LC ? ( 1 2 ? N ) + V ion_PI ? ( 1 2 ? N ) ? ? 0.5 ( I ) wherein 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei-Hsiung Yang, Hsu-Kuan Hsu
  • Patent number: 9824614
    Abstract: Disclosure are a display device that provides effective partitive driving using an optimal signal line structure, and provides partial driving that effectively drive a partial area under the signal line structure and partial driving, and a gate driving method thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Woo Lee, SungGae Lee
  • Patent number: 9824615
    Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods, and apparatus for optimizing the operations of a power converter of a display panel based on image data to be output by the display panel. The power converter can include one or more switches that can be activated or deactivated based on the image data in order to shift a power efficiency of the power converter. Power efficiency is shifted as a result of balancing an amount of charge necessary for a load with an amount of resistance created when activating switches of the power converter. Therefore, by dynamically altering a configuration of a power converter based on image data, power efficiency of the power converter can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Chaohao Wang, Wonjae Choi, Sandro H. Pintz, Paolo Sacchetto
  • Patent number: 9824616
    Abstract: The present invention provides a drive method and a drive device of a liquid crystal display, and the drive method comprises: receiving an image to display; implementing high frequency detection to the image pixels of the image to display to determine color differences of the respective image pixels and the adjacent image pixels; implementing the color washout compensation to the image to display according to the high frequency weight; driving the liquid crystal panel to show the image to display after the color washout compensation. With the aforesaid arrangement, the present invention can reduce the color washout under large view angle to promote the display effect of the large view angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yu-yeh Chen, Dongsheng Guo, Jiang Zhu, Lei Sun, Li-wei Chu, Jhen-wei He
  • Patent number: 9824617
    Abstract: A data driver electrically connected to data lines includes a digital-to-analog converter configured to sequentially receive data signals respectively corresponding to the data lines and outputting an analog image signal, and a switching output unit configured to sequentially output the analog image signal outputted from the digital-to-analog converter as analog driving signals respectively corresponding to the data lines in synchronization with a clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weonjun Choe, Jeongil Yoo
  • Patent number: 9824618
    Abstract: When a clock signal pulse number and a compensation-target-line address indicating a compensation-target row match, the following control is carried out with a time point being a starting point of a current measurement period, the time point being one horizontal scanning period after a time point of the match. At a current measurement period starting point and ending point, only the potential of the one of the clock signals applied to a unit circuit corresponding to the compensation-target row is changed. Throughout the current measurement period, the clock operation of the clock signals is stopped. A monitor enable signal, that is applied to a control terminal of an output control transistor for controlling active signal output to a monitor control line, is only set to a high level during the current measurement period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanori Ohara, Noboru Noguchi, Noritaka Kishi
  • Patent number: 9824619
    Abstract: A display device and modulation scheme for applying image data to an imager is disclosed. The display may use a modulation scheme wherein spacing of row write actions on the rows creates gray scale modulation, wherein one row spacing between sequential row write actions is at a first distance while another row spacing between sequential row write actions is at a distance greater than said first distance. The modulation scheme may create a series of write pointers that create a corresponding series of write planes. In some embodiments, modulation efficiency is increased allowing the use of lower frequency imaging circuits to achieve the same display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: JASPER DISPLAY CORP.
    Inventors: Edwin Lyle Hudson, David Charles McDonald
  • Patent number: 9824620
    Abstract: The present invention provides a driving method for pixel array, comprising steps of: dividing a to-be-displayed image into multiple theoretical pixel units; calculating an actual brightness value of each actual sub-pixel; and enabling brightness of each actual sub-pixel to reach the actual brightness value. The step of calculating an actual brightness value of each actual sub-pixel comprises: finding a first theoretical sub-pixel; inserting multiple virtual sub-pixels having the same color as the first theoretical sub-pixel between the first theoretical sub-pixel and at least one adjacent theoretical sub-pixel; and adding a portion of the theoretical brightness value of the first theoretical sub-pixel and a portion of virtual brightness value(s) of virtual sub-pixel(s) whose position(s) corresponds to that of the to-be-calculated actual sub-pixel to obtain the actual brightness value of the to-be-calculated actual sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Renwei Guo, Xue Dong
  • Patent number: 9824621
    Abstract: A gate drive circuit and a display device are provided. The present disclosure pertains to the technical field of display technology and solves the technical problem of wide frame of the existing display device. The shifting register is configured to output primary drive signal into a first follower and a second follower in consecutive first scanning period t1 and second scanning period t2. The first follower is configured to output gate drive signal to a first gate line in t1 under the driving of the primary drive signal; and the second follower is configured to output the gate drive signal to a second gate line in t2 under the driving of the primary drive signal. The present disclosure can be applied to display devices, such as liquid crystal display devices and OLED display devices, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juncheng Xiao, Mang Zhao
  • Patent number: 9824622
    Abstract: In a method for determining a position of at least one display screen within an array of coupled display screens an emitted signal from an adjacent display screen is detected. The detecting is performed by a sensor coupled with a side of a plurality of sides of a display screen. A positional code number is determined based on the detecting. The positional code number includes a bit number corresponding to a detection of the signal emitted from the adjacent display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Amir Said, Majid Fozunbal
  • Patent number: 9824623
    Abstract: A method for driving an organic electroluminescent element including a first light-emitting layer and a second light-emitting layer comprises: applying a second current peak value to the second light-emitting layer exhibits a lower luminous efficiency than the first light-emitting layer at a current density of the second current peak value; and applying a first current peak value to the first light-emitting layer, wherein the first current peak value has a higher current density than the second current peak value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Shida
  • Patent number: 9824624
    Abstract: Provided herein are display systems and units, including those configured for dynamic communication in a physical location, such as in retail settings. Also included herein are methods for dynamically displaying product information in a physical location, such as a retail setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Inventors: Kevin Howard, Gordon Davidson
  • Patent number: 9824625
    Abstract: Disclosed is a driving method of a display device that includes, for example, setting a luminance increase gain based on a chroma of an RGB data of an input image; modulating the RGB data of the input image based on the luminance increase gain to generate an RGB data of a first image; substituting a W data for common components of the RGB data of the first image and converting the RGB data of the first image to an RGBW data of a second image; and encoding the RGBW data of the second image into an RGBW data of a third image such that a number of bits of the RGBW data of the third image is less than a number of bits of the RGBW data of the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaehyeong Jeong, Seonggyun Kim
  • Patent number: 9824626
    Abstract: The semiconductor device includes a transistor and a capacitor element which is electrically connected to a gate of the transistor. Charge held in the capacitor element according to total voltage of voltage corresponding to the threshold voltage of the transistor and image signal voltage is once discharged through the transistor, so that variation in current flowing in the transistor or mobility of the transistor can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 9824627
    Abstract: A display circuit includes a plurality of pixel circuits and a shared compensation transistor. Each pixel circuit includes a driving transistor to control light emission of a light emitter. The compensation transistor is to compensate the threshold voltages of the driving transistors of the pixel circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Kanda, Masayuki Kumeta, Ryo Ishii