Patents Issued in June 12, 2018
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Patent number: 9996166Abstract: A method to identify positions of fingers of a hand is described. The method includes capturing images of a first hand using a plurality of cameras that are part of a wearable device. The wearable device is attached to a wrist of a second hand and the plurality of cameras of the wearable device is disposed around the wearable device. The method includes repeating capturing of additional images of the first hand, the images and the additional images captured to produce a stream of captured image data during a session of presenting the virtual environment in a head mounted display (HMD). The method includes sending the stream of captured image data to a computing device that is interfaced with the HMD. The computing device is configured to process the captured image data to identify changes in positions of the fingers of the first hand.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Todd Tokubo
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Patent number: 9996167Abstract: A dynamic RFID-based input device may include an input surface and an input station. The input surface may include a plurality of RFID transmitting devices provided on at least one flexible layer, and the input station may include one or more RFID receiving devices, e.g., antennas and/or readers, provided in communication with a computing system or network. A worker may contact one or more portions of the input surface, and thereby cause one or more of the RFID transmitting devices to transmit one or more RFID signals including information, data, commands or instructions to be provided to the RFID receiving devices. Audible, visible or haptic feedback may be provided to the worker in response to the transmission of the one or more RFID signals.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Scott Russell, Wesley Scott Lauka, Fransisca Vina Zerlina
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Patent number: 9996168Abstract: A wearable device and a system to provide an input for a computing device are disclosed. The device comprises a sensing unit to deliver infrared signals to the facial region of a user and to receive transmitted or reflected signals therefrom, and a processing unit to determine the position or movement of the tongue of the user based on the received infrared signals. The processing unit is configured to provide an input to a computing device based on the determined position or movement of the tongue. The system further comprises a transmitter for wirelessly transmitting the input from the processing unit to the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Amerita Vishwa VidyapeethamInventors: K. A. Unnikrishnan Menon, Revathy Jayaram, Divya Pullarkatt, Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh
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Patent number: 9996169Abstract: There is provided a capacitive joystick device including a substrate, a fixed plate, a movable member, a plurality of elastic elements, a cone and an operation stick. The substrate includes a ground region and a capacitance sensing region. The fixed plate includes a first opening. The movable member includes a second opening. The elastic elements are symmetrically disposed between the fixed plate and the movable member. The cone is disposed between the movable member and the substrate, and includes a base, a vertex and a lateral surface. The base presses against the movable member. The vertex is disposed on the ground region of the substrate. The lateral surface is aligned with the capacitance sensing region of the substrate. The operation stick extends from the base of the cone and passes through the first opening and the second opening.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.Inventors: Masatoshi Yamai, Chi-Chieh Liao, Hung-Yu Lai
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Patent number: 9996170Abstract: A processor connected to one or more displays shaped to affix to a finger nail for displaying an image.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Inventor: Gregory A. Piccionelli
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Patent number: 9996171Abstract: A method manipulates a 3D image in three dimensions using two-dimensional gestures on a touchpad. The method moves the 3D image within an x-y plane in the direction of a multiple-finger linear gesture. A number of fingers used for the multiple-finger linear gesture is programmed in an instinct library associated with the touchpad. The method detects a multiple-finger linear gesture on a mutual capacitance touchpad and rotates the 3D image in the direction of the multiple-finger linear gesture about an axis in the x-y plane perpendicular to the multiple-finger linear gesture. The method also rotates the 3D image about the x-y plane in the direction of the multiple-finger linear gesture at a speed proportional to the speed of the multiple-finger linear gesture.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Grayhill, Inc.Inventors: Torsten F. Chase, Kevin M. Dooley, Robert F. Kerner
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Patent number: 9996172Abstract: A target setting apparatus sets a target correcting a sight line detection portion to detect a sight line of a subject person. A deviation between a position of the target and a position detected as a center of the sight line detected by the sight line detection portion when the subject person is estimated to be gazing at the target is regarded as a detection error and applied to a correction. The target setting apparatus includes: a sight line range estimation portion that estimates a sight line range; a candidate point extraction portion that extracts a candidate point for the target from the sight line range; a candidate point evaluation portion that evaluates appropriateness of the candidate point as the target by using a plurality of indices; and a target setting portion that determines whether or not to set the candidate point as the target.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshiyuki Tsuda
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Patent number: 9996173Abstract: A front panel overlay having a plurality of layers and one or more logic circuits incorporated therein is disclosed. One of the plurality of layers may have a first electrical contact and another one of the plurality of layers may have a second electrical contact. The one or more logic circuits may be incorporated at least indirectly within the plurality of layers and may be activated when the first electrical contact completes an electrical circuit with the second electrical contact.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2013Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS, INC.Inventors: John H. Schneider, William A. Herring, Daniel W. Johnston
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Patent number: 9996174Abstract: A camera according to the present invention includes a touch display section in addition to an imaging section. During review display where a captured image is displayed on a display panel (a monitor screen) of the touch display section for a predetermined amount of time after imaging every time the imaging section performs imaging, when a touch operation is performed on a touch panel of the touch display section, a control section controls a method of performing the review display (for example, a review display time) according to the state of the touch operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2013Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuko Tokairin
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Patent number: 9996175Abstract: A circuit for switching an LCD between display and touch modes is disclosed. The circuit can include one or more switches configured to switch one or more drive, sense, and data lines in LCD pixels according to the mode. During touch mode, the circuit switches can be configured to switch one or more drive lines to receive stimulation signals, one or more sense lines to transmit touch signals, and one or more data lines to transmit residual data signals. During display mode, the circuit switches can be configured to switch one or more drive lines and sense lines to receive common voltage signals and one or more data lines to receive data signals. The circuit can be formed around the border of the LCD chip or partially or fully on a separate chip.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Steven P. Hotelling, Marduke Yousefpor, Shih Chang Chang
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Patent number: 9996176Abstract: A tablet PC having an interactive display, which is touchscreen enabled, may be enhanced to provide a user with superior usability and efficiency. A touchscreen device may be configured to receive multiple concurrent touchscreen contacts. The attributes of the multiple concurrent touchscreen contracts may be mapped to operations performed on the computing device. As a result, a user can trigger the execution of the toggle accessibility aid operation and the screen rotation operation with greater convenience. Moreover, the tablet PC may be configured to map an operation to a hand gesture or input.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Alexander J. Zotov, Bryan D. Scott, Reed L. Townsend, Steven P. Dodge
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Patent number: 9996177Abstract: First and second wiring patterns which are formed on both surfaces of a base have first and second patterns which are different from each other, respectively, and are superimposed as a composite wiring pattern on a pixel array pattern. A plurality of spectrums in a two-dimensional Fourier space of transmittance image data of the pixel array pattern and the composite wiring pattern are excluded from a plurality of spectrums in a two-dimensional Fourier space of transmittance image data of a composite pattern of the pixel array pattern and the composite wiring pattern to extract a plurality of spectrums of only noise and moire generated by interference between the pixel array pattern and the composite wiring pattern. The sum of all of the extracted plurality of spectrums is calculated and an extraction quantitative value of the moire and the noise calculated from the sum is in a predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kazuchika Iwami
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Patent number: 9996178Abstract: A touch display panel includes a display structure and a touch structure. The display structure includes pixels having a first pitch P1. The touch structure includes a touch layer having slits and dummy clefts. The slits and the dummy clefts have a second pitch P2 and a third pitch P3, respectively. Two adjacent vertices of each slit define a line segment having a length Ly. A first moire ratio (MR1) defined as P ? ? 2 P ? ? 1 satisfies: 20.7%×A1+8.5%×B1?3%?MR1?12.7%×A1+16.5%×B1+3%, wherein A1 is an integer from 0 to 3, B1 is an integer from 1 to 3, and 0?B1?A1?1. A second moire ratio (MR2) defined as P ? ? 3 P ? ? 1 satisfies: 20.7%×A2+8.5%×B2?3%?MR2?12.7%×A2+16.5%×B2+3%, wherein A2 is an integer from 0 to 3, B2 is an integer from 1 to 3, and 0?B2?A2?1. An arrangement ratio (LR) defined as Ly P ? ? 1 satisfies: (2C+1)×25%?20%?LR?(2C+1)×25%+20%, wherein C is an integer from 0 to 11.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Hong-Sheng Hsieh, Hao-Yu Liou, Yu-Sheng Chen, Jian-Cheng Chen
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Patent number: 9996179Abstract: A display apparatus capable of image scanning is provided including a contact sensor arranged in each unit pixel. The contact sensor includes a pixel electrode forming a contact capacitance by contact with a contact means; a reset transistor where a drain electrode is connected to a node where the contact capacitance is formed, and each of a gate electrode and a source electrode is connected to a first scan line to which a selective signal is applied; an amplifying transistor where a gate electrode is connected to the drain electrode of the reset transistor; and a detecting transistor where a drain electrode is connected to the drain electrode of the amplifying transistor, a gate electrode is connected to a second scan line to which a selective signal is applied, and a source electrode is connected to a readout line detecting a current corresponding to the contact capacitance.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Crucialtec Co., Ltd.Inventors: Byung Seong Bae, Ho Sik Jeon, Woo Young Choi, Jong Uk Kim, Jun Suk Lee, So Hyun Jeong, Ju An Yoon, Sang A Oh
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Patent number: 9996180Abstract: An information processing apparatus (2000) includes a plurality of surfaces. A vibration detection unit (2020) detects a vibration applied to the information processing apparatus (2000). An operation surface detection unit (2040) detects an operation surface, which is a surface to which a vibration is applied, based on the vibration detected by the vibration detection unit (2020). An apparatus state detection unit (2060) detects a state of the information processing apparatus (2000). An application state detection unit (2080) detects a state of an application. A process determination unit (2100) determines a predetermined process to be executed, based on the operation surface detected by the operation surface detection unit (2040), the state of the information processing apparatus (2000) detected by the apparatus state detection unit (2060), and the state of the application detected by the application state detection unit (2080).Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Masayuki Uno
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Patent number: 9996181Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a sensor electrode, a detection unit, and a determination unit. The sensor electrode has a capacitance changed in accordance with an operation to an operation surface. The detection unit is configured to detect, based on a change of the capacitance, a displacement of an operation point of the operation surface. The determination unit is configured to determine a press to the operation surface based on a displacement of a capacitance value of the sensor electrode and the displacement of the operation point.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2012Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Mizunuma, Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Ikuo Yamano
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Patent number: 9996182Abstract: The present invention relates to touch technology and provides a method and a system for recognizing a confirmation type touch gesture by a touch terminal. The method includes step A of further determining whether a vibration signal indicative of an occurrence of the confirmation type touch gesture is detected when the touch terminal detects a valid touch event on a touch screen, and step B of recognizing the valid touch event as a true confirmation type touch gesture if the determination result of step A is yes. The present invention has the following advantages: when detecting a valid touch event, the present invention further determines whether there is a suggestive vibration signal associated with the touch gesture operation. Only when both the touch event and vibration signal are detected, the valid touch event is considered as the true confirmation type touch gesture operation. Therefore, the recognition result is more reliable.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2013Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Xinghuo Zhu
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Patent number: 9996183Abstract: A touch-sensitive device comprises: a touch-sensing carrier panel; a driving signal line and a inductive signal line; a touch-sensitive circuit connected with the driving signal line and the inductive signal line; an array of first electrodes and an array of second electrodes located on the touch-sensing carrier panel; a first switch having an end connected to the array of the first electrodes and the other end connected to the corresponding driving signal line and the corresponding inductive signal line; and a second switch having an end connected to the array of the second electrodes and the other end connected to the corresponding driving signal line and the corresponding inductive signal line, wherein each of the first switch and the second switch is adapted to switch between a respective driving signal line and a respective inductive signal line such that the array of first electrodes is connected with one of the driving signal line and the inductive signal line and the array of second electrodes is connType: GrantFiled: May 27, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Hongfei Cheng, Yuxin Zhang
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Patent number: 9996184Abstract: An accessory helps motion-disabled users operate a touchscreen device via an extra-software-layer running on the CPU of the device. The accessory may take the shape of a glove, stylus or thimble. The accessory has a circuit that selectively engages and disengages the electrical connection between the user and the touchscreen based on mode and/or user/transducer interaction to send extra information from the user to the extra-software layer. A controller in the accessory generates unique timing patterns of connection and disconnection which the extra-software layer reconstructs by computing statistics from motion-event timestamps. The extra-software layer uses one or more (x,y) coordinates to compute an (x?,y?) coordinate, which is shown on the pixel display.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Inventor: Mark Gordon Arnold
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Patent number: 9996185Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, using a processor, an input method editor application is running on a device; detecting, using a processor, a data entry field is active; and responsive to detecting the input method editor application is running and the data entry field is active, suppressing, using a processor, an on screen keyboard from being displayed on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Joshua Neil Novak, Jianbang Zhang, Jason Peter Sallinger
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Patent number: 9996186Abstract: A portable phone device includes a display, a touch panel superimposed on the display and configured to detect a touch operation, an area defining module configured to define within the touch panel a restricted area in which acceptance of the touch operation is restricted, and a determination module configured to determine whether or not a screen being displayed on the display is a target screen for defining the restricted area. The area defining module defines the restricted area based on that the screen being displayed on the display is determined to be a target screen by the determination module.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Keisuke Nagata
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Patent number: 9996187Abstract: A touch control module for sensing one or more touch signals from a touch device having a plurality of sensing areas, wherein each of the sensing areas having a plurality of touch units, includes a plurality of first switches; a plurality of second switches; a plurality of first sensing units, each of the first sensing unit being coupled to one of the touch units through one of the first switches; and a plurality of second sensing units, each of the second sensing units being coupled to the plurality of touch units located in the same sensing area through the plurality of second switches.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Chih-Chang Lai, Kuan-Yi Yang, Jer-Hao Hsu
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Patent number: 9996188Abstract: A touch substrate is provided, comprising a touch region.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Li, Ming Hu, Lei Zhang, Xiaodong Xie
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Patent number: 9996189Abstract: Detecting a tool used on a touch screen. In accordance with a method embodiment of the present invention, a cell value is accessed for each cell of a touch sensing device. The cell value indicates a force applied to the cell. A touch area sample count is determined as a count of how many of the cells have a cell value above a noise floor. A touch area weight is determined as a sum of all cell values for the cells having a cell value above the noise floor. An object touching the touch sensing device is identified based on the touch area sample count and the touch area weight. The object's touch indication may be rejected if the object is not identified. The identity of the object may be reported to a software application.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Nvidia CorporationInventors: Ilkka Varje, Kirill Artamonov, Aaron Bartholomew
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Patent number: 9996190Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to a pressure-based input method for user devices. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a user device can receive an output from a pressure sensor. The output can include parameters associated with a pressure applied to the pressure sensor by a user. The user device can analyze the output to determine a command to be executed by the user device. The user device can execute the command.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: James W. Fan, Venson Shaw, Jeffrey A. Aaron
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Patent number: 9996191Abstract: A panel includes a plurality of first sensing electrodes and a plurality of second sensing electrodes. At least one of the first sensing electrodes includes multiple openings. The second sensing electrodes are located in the openings, respectively. The first sensing electrodes and the second sensing electrodes form a sensing layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Chi-Cheng Chen, Gui-Wen Liu
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Patent number: 9996192Abstract: An array substrate, a touch line repairing method as well as a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a plurality of touch electrodes, a plurality of touch lines, a first repairing line, a second repairing line and at least one third repairing line. The touch lines and the touch electrodes are in one-to-one correspondence and are electrically connected. The first repairing line and the second repairing line are arranged in the same layer, and are not arranged in the same layer with the touch lines. The first repairing line and the second repairing line intersect each touch line. The at least one third repairing line is arranged in the same layer with the touch lines, and intersects the first repairing line and the second repairing line. The repairing lines can be used for repairing the disconnected touch lines, so that the production yield is enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Feng Lu, Songlin Jin
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Patent number: 9996193Abstract: Methods and systems for a display device having a touch panel are provided. In one aspect, the display device may comprise a sensor glass for sensing a touch and providing a touch input signal; a touch panel controller that includes a touch panel integrated circuit (IC) coupled to the sensor glass and a first low voltage source; and a display assembly that includes an isolator that couples the touch panel IC to the display assembly, with the isolator electrically isolating the touch panel IC from the display assembly. In another aspect, the display device includes a touch panel controller that receives a touch input signal from a sensor glass and provides touch information.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Panasonic Avionics CorporationInventors: Thong Pham, Kaly Hong
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Patent number: 9996194Abstract: A method for touch screen self-capacitance foreign matter detection for a capacitive touch screen is disclosed. By iteratively performing methods of self-capacitance scanning and foreign matter scanning foreign matter may be detected.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte LtdInventors: Ade Putra, Kusuma Adi Ningrat
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Patent number: 9996195Abstract: A touch screen electro-optic display is arranged such that upon a touch being detected on the display surface, the display surface surrounding the touch “blinks” by being driven to a different optical state, then back to its original state. A second method uses a display having a pen or stylus which can draw lines upon the display. A first line segment is detected and its area updated using a first drive scheme having short waveforms. The area of a second line segment is updated using the first drive scheme. Thereafter, the areas of both line segments are updated using a second drive scheme different from the first drive scheme.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Theodore A. Sjodin, Yuval Ben-Dov, Kenneth R. Crounse, Jason Lin, Karl Raymond Amundson, Michael Patrick Almon, Hugh M. Enxing, Timothy J. O'Malley
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Patent number: 9996196Abstract: A touch-sensitive apparatus comprises a panel configured to conduct signals from a plurality of peripheral incoupling points to a plurality of peripheral outcoupling points. Actual detection lines are defined between pairs of incoupling and outcoupling points to extend across a surface portion of the panel. The signals may be in the form of light, and objects touching the surface portion may affect the light via frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR). A signal generator is coupled to the incoupling points to generate the signals, and a signal detector is coupled to the outcoupling points to generate an output signal. A data processor operates on the output signal to enable identification of touching objects. The output signal is processed (40) to generate a set of data samples, which are indicative of detected energy for at least a subset of the actual detection lines.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: FlatFrog Laboratories ABInventors: Tomas Christiansson, Peter Juhlin
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Patent number: 9996197Abstract: A method, system and apparatus is provided for controlling and interacting within an interaction volume and/or surface of a computer. The method, apparatus and system is optionally employed together with, or even be integrated into, data projectors of all types and its fixtures/stands, and used together with flat screens (LCD, plasma, OLED, rear-projection screen and so forth) to render such display systems interactive. The apparatus incorporates a camera covering the interaction area from either a very short distance or from a larger distance to determine the lateral positions (X, Y) and even capturing the pose of the finger(s), hand(s) or other interacting object(s), which optionally include the determination of “touch” and “hovering”.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2011Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Oystein Damhaug, Hallvard Naess, Tormod Njolstad
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Patent number: 9996198Abstract: The present invention discloses a contact image acquisition device (11), a touch screen, a fingerprint acquisition device and an electronic device (101), wherein the contact image acquisition device includes: a light guide plate (1); a plurality of light emitters (2) configured for emitting at least a part of light beams into the light guide plate (1), wherein the plurality of light emitters (2) are disposed on at least one side of the light guide plate (1) or under the light guide plate (1); and a plurality of light receivers (3) configured for receiving the light beams emitted into the light guide plate (1) by the light emitters (2), wherein the plurality of light receivers (3) are arranged in a matrix. The touch screen, the fingerprint acquisition device and the electronic device (101) all include one or more of the contact image acquisition devices (11).Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Vkansee Technology Company Ltd.Inventor: Mingfang Zhang
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Patent number: 9996199Abstract: Provided is a thin film type actuator having multi-operation points, capable of various feels of touch or sounds. The film type actuator includes an upper plate and a lower plate, formed of a single plate. Between the upper plate and the lower plate, pairs of electrode parts capable of attracting one another via an electrostatic force. Since each of the pairs of electrode parts functions as an operation point and the upper plate and the lower plate are formed of the single plate, movements of the respective operation points in such a way that a new physical movement different from an original individual movement is generated to generate a haptic feel or a sound. It is possible to generate various haptic feels or sounds by modulating and combining amplitudes and frequencies of the respective operation points.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Suntak Park, Ki-Uk Kyung, Sung Ryul Yun, Young Sung Kim, Jong-uk Lee, Bong Je Park
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Patent number: 9996200Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a touch screen, a display device and manufacturing method thereof being usable for realizing 3D display. The touch screen comprises: an upper substrate and a lower substrate cell-assembled; and liquid crystal, filled between the upper substrate and the lower substrate, wherein the upper substrate comprises: an upper transparent substrate and a transparent conductive layer disposed on the upper transparent substrate, i.e. on a side of the upper transparent substrate facing the lower substrate; the lower substrate comprises: a lower transparent substrate and a first sensing electrode layer, an insulating layer and a second sensing electrode layer sequentially disposed on the lower transparent substrate, i.e.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Long, Junguo Liu, Hao Wu, Rui Li
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Patent number: 9996201Abstract: A touch panel having improved visibility is provided. The touch panel includes a window part, at least one ultraviolet (UV) resin layer attached to a bottom surface of the window part, and a display part including a touch sensor film module attached to a bottom surface of the at least one UV resin layer such that the UV resin layer prevents refractions and reflections of light.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Myung-Gon Kim, Jong-Woo Kim, Hyon-Myong Song, Duck-Yong Lee
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Patent number: 9996202Abstract: An electronic device having an electrode pattern for a touch sensor is provided. The electronic device include a touch sensor; and a touch key that is formed at a position corresponding to the electrode pattern for the touch sensor and corresponds to a touch region. The electrode pattern is an Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) pattern.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventor: Ohhyuck Kwon
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Patent number: 9996203Abstract: Disclosed are a conductive sheet, a usage method of the conductive sheet and a capacitive type touch panel. For a first conductive sheet, two or more conductive first large grids are formed atop a first transparent base, wherein each first large grid is constituted by combining two or more small grids, and the shapes of facing sides of each first large grid are formed to alternate. For example, rectangular wave shapes of a first side portion of the first large grid and of a fourth side portion facing the first side portion are made to alternate, and rectangular wave shapes of a second side portion of the first large grid and of a third side portion facing the second side portion are made to alternate.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Tadashi Kuriki
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Patent number: 9996204Abstract: An apparatus, system, method, and program product are disclosed for balancing usage across a foldable display. A method includes tracking one or more characteristics of an active portion of a foldable display. The active portion of the foldable display includes a portion of the foldable display that is enabled when the display is folded. The method includes determining an inactive portion of the foldable display that is disabled while the active portion of the foldable display is enabled when the display is folded. The method includes activating the inactive portion of the foldable display based on the one or more characteristics of the active portion of the foldable display such that usage of the active and inactive portions of the foldable display is substantially uniform.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Kevin Dao, Daniel Hong, Alex Klement, Xiaodong Xun
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Patent number: 9996205Abstract: In a flexible touch screen panel, sensing patterns as a touch sensor are formed on the first surface of a flexible thin film substrate and a coated polarizer layer is formed on the second surface of the thin film substrate to secure the flexible characteristic, to reduce the thickness of the touch screen panel, and to improve the visibility of an image. Particularly, the flexible touch screen panel includes a flexible substrate comprising an active region and a non-active region positioned outside the active region, sensing patterns formed over the active region of a first surface of the substrate, conductive lines formed over the non-active region of the first surface of the substrate and connected to the sensing patterns, and a coated polarizer layer formed over a second surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sung-Ku Kang, Tae-Hyeog Jung, Hak-Sun Kim, Akira Hirai
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Patent number: 9996206Abstract: In a touch panel, a plurality of first transparent electrodes are formed on a first substrate film, and extend in one direction. A plurality of first wires are formed on the first substrate film, and are connected to the plurality of first transparent electrodes. A plurality of second transparent electrodes are formed to intersect the plurality of first transparent electrodes. A plurality of second lead wires are connected to the plurality of second transparent electrodes. First and second shield layers are formed on the first base-material film, and overlap the plurality of second lead wires in a planar view. The first and second shield layers each have a length range set to not include lengths of ? of each of a plurality of frequencies within a specific range/n (n=2, 4, 6, . . . ), to not induce resonance phenomena with respect to the plurality of frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Nissha Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Okumura, Yoshiro Fujii, Seiko Hirai
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Patent number: 9996207Abstract: An apparatus and method for processing a touch screen input are provided. The method includes determining if an input from an electronic pen on a touch screen is a contact input or a hovering input, calculating a coordinate of the electronic pen on an input sensing panel of the touch screen by applying a first preset movement determination reference filter in the contact input and applying a second preset movement determination reference filter in the hovering input, the second preset movement determination reference filter having a wider range than that of the first movement determination reference filter in the hovering input, and outputting a coordinate signal according to the calculated coordinate.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joo-Hoon Lee, Sang-Hyeok Oh
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Patent number: 9996208Abstract: The disclosure provides a touch screen which comprises a transparent substrate having a surface which includes a central region and a peripheral region, an electrode array arranged in the central region and formed by a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes, which are arranged on the surface of the transparent substrate, and multiple wires formed on the surface of the transparent substrate for electrically connecting each electrode in the electrode array to an external touch driving circuit, wherein all the electrodes in the electrode array and the multiple wires are formed by a single-layer metal which is formed on the surface of the transparent substrate. The disclosure further provides a manufacturing method of the touch screen.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Taofeng Xie, Lei Zhang, Yang Liu, Lingyan Wu
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Patent number: 9996209Abstract: An approach is provided for sending pre-defined workflows to a display device of a user device. In one example, the approach includes receiving a request for steps to complete a task associated with a software application. In response to receiving the request for steps, the system obtains at least a first workflow and a second workflow, each workflow including one or more steps that the user device can execute to complete the task. The system receives a request to format the first workflow and the second workflow into one or more view formats. The system generates a summary of the first workflow and a summary of the second workflow. Each summary includes one or more salient attributes of the each workflow. The system sends to the display device at least the first workflow and the second workflow in the one or more view formats.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2013Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.Inventors: Tovi Grossman, Maneesh Agrawala, Nicholas Chi-yuen Kong, George Fitzmaurice
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Patent number: 9996210Abstract: Enabling active host content related actions on a client device can begin with a client device receiving guest screen data and optionally host screen metadata from a server. The content of the guest screen data can be presented on the client device. A passive element corresponding to each active element of the server host screen can be identified. The active element of the server host screen can be selectable by the presenter and, upon selection (active event), can launch an active action on the server. The passive element of the client guest screen can have a defined selectable overlay hot spot. A hot spot can be can be associated with a hot spot action at the client. The hot spot action taken by the client, upon a hot spot event, can correspond to the active action taken by the server.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Jerry Alan Dancy, Marshall Allen Lamb
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Patent number: 9996211Abstract: Techniques for transacting via an animated assistant are provided. A kiosk processes an animated assistant that entices users to approach. Once a user approaches the animated assistant attempts to recognize the user and engages the user via an unspoken universal language using symbol imagery when the user is not recognized. When the user is recognized, the user is engaged via a preferred spoken language. The animated assistant guides the user through one or more automated transactions via the kiosk.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Lyle Howard Sandler, William Lidwell, Jill Butler, Mariel Pina, Jared Thorn
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Patent number: 9996212Abstract: A user terminal apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a display which displays a screen, a storage which stores at least one template for defining a layout according to which a plurality of application windows is arranged on the screen, a user interface which receives a user command, and a controller which controls the display to arrange and display the plurality of application windows based on a template selected by the user command from among the at least one template on the screen.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kwang-won Sun, Kang-tae Kim, Duck-hyun Kim, Eun-young Kim, Chul-joo Kim, Jae-yeol Lee
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Patent number: 9996213Abstract: Method and apparatus to enable selection of a user interface element based on the spatial interaction between a footprint assigned to a user input and the footprint assigned to a user interface element. The respective areas assigned to one or more of the respective footprints is based on at least one of the time period between the entered user input and the previous user input, and the distance between the entered user input and the previous user input.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2012Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Nokia Technology OyInventor: Liang Zhang
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Patent number: 9996214Abstract: A device and a method of unlocking a device are provided. The method of unlocking a device includes: determining whether an input tool of the device is separated from the device, when a disabled screen of the device is enabled; selecting one user interface from among a plurality of user interfaces for unlocking the device on the enabled screen of the device, based on the determination result; displaying the selected user interface on the screen of the device; and receiving a touch input with respect to the displayed user interface. The plurality of user interface include a user interface for receiving a touch input by the input tool and a user interface for receiving a touch input by a body part of a user.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seong-taek Hwang, Chang-yeong Kim, Jeong-hoon Park, Dong-wook Kwon
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Patent number: 9996215Abstract: An input device including a display screen and a touch panel disposed on the display screen and a plurality of elements to be selected in the display screen by the touch panel, the input device includes a memory, a processor coupled to the memory, configured to recognize a contact body shape on the touch panel, put into non-display an element hidden by the contact body shape from among the plurality of elements to be selected in the display screen when the contact body shape is recognized as a specific shape, zoom-display an element to be selected different from the element put into non-display from among the plurality of elements to be selected, using an original region of the element to be selected put into non-display.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Toshiro Ohbitsu