Patents Issued in December 6, 2018
  • Publication number: 20180348932
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide a sensing unit including: a plurality of first electrodes disposed on a substrate; a plurality of second electrodes disposed on the substrate; a plurality of first connection parts, each of which is disposed between two adjacent first electrodes among the plurality of first electrodes so as to connect the plurality of first electrodes in a first direction; and a plurality of second connection parts that are disposed in a layer that is different from that of the plurality of first connection parts, each of the second connection parts being disposed between two adjacent second electrodes among the plurality of second electrodes so as to connect the plurality of second electrodes in a second direction that is different from the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yangsik LEE, JiHyun JUNG, DeukSu LEE
  • Publication number: 20180348933
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The first electrode includes a first boundary side extending in a direction. The second electrode includes a second boundary side extending in the direction. The third electrode is disposed between and spaced apart from the first electrode and the second electrode. The third electrode includes a first side facing the first boundary side and a second side facing the second boundary. The first side and the second side have shapes that are asymmetric to each other with respect to a center axis extending in the direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Sanghyun JUN, Hwan-hee JEONG, Kicheol KIM, Jaehyun LEE, Hyun-wook CHO
  • Publication number: 20180348934
    Abstract: A circuitry layer includes a display area and a peripheral area outside the display area, the circuitry layer including display elements, the circuitry layer including first interconnects connected to the respective display elements. A touch sensing layer includes touch electrodes overlapped with the display area, the touch sensing layer including second interconnects overlapped with the peripheral area and connected to the respective touch electrodes. A spacer layer is interposed at least between the first interconnects and the second interconnects. Each touch electrode and a corresponding one of the display elements closest thereto are away from each other by a first distance in a thickness direction. Each second interconnect and a corresponding one of the first interconnects closest thereto are away from each other by a second distance in the thickness direction. The second distance is larger than the first distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Yuko MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180348935
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, first electrodes, pixel electrodes, a display functional layer, common electrodes, second electrodes stacked in this order. The display device further includes lines that are provided between the substrate and the display functional layer and intersect with the first electrodes in the plan view. In response to a control signal from a controller, the pixel electrodes are supplied with a pixel signal through the lines, and the common electrodes are supplied with a common signal in the display periods; either of the lines and the first electrodes are supplied with a first drive signal to generate a magnetic field, and the other thereof generate an electromotive force caused by the magnetic field in the first sensing period; the common electrodes are supplied with a second drive signal to generate electrostatic capacitance between the common electrodes and the second electrodes in the second sensing period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Hayato KURASAWA, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Tadayoshi KATSUTA
  • Publication number: 20180348936
    Abstract: An OLED panel, apparatus, fingerprint identification method and device are provided in the field of display technology. The OLED panel includes an OLED pixel array comprising a plurality of OLED sub-pixels, and a photoelectric detection circuitry comprising a plurality of photoelectric detectors. The plurality of photoelectric detectors are respectively disposed between the plurality of OLED sub-pixels. At least one of the plurality of photoelectric detectors is configured to detect light rays whose wavelength ranges are outside of wavelength ranges of light rays emitted from the OLED sub-pixels adjacent to the photoelectric detector. The present disclosure may perform the fingerprint identification only with the display area of the OLED panel, such that the occupancy area of the screen on the OLED panel is increased, thereby increasing the screen ratio and improving the display performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Quanhua HE
  • Publication number: 20180348937
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device with integrated touch screen, which can prevent a first touch electrode or a second touch electrode from being short-circuited with a bridge electrode through an opening. The display device includes first electrodes on a first substrate, a light emitting layer on the first electrodes, a second electrode on the light emitting layer, an encapsulation layer on the second electrode, a bridge electrode and a dummy electrode on the encapsulation layer, an insulation layer covering the bridge electrode and the dummy electrode, and a first touch electrode and a second touch electrode on the insulation layer. The first touch electrode is electrically connected to the bridge electrode, and bridge electrode is spaced apart from the dummy electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: SangHoon Pak, MinJoo Kim, Jeonghoon Lee, Yuna Lee
  • Publication number: 20180348938
    Abstract: A touch control method, including receiving a touch input, driving a first common electrode to output a voltage for generating a display, detecting a first signal, determining a position of the touch input based on the detected first signal and a position of a second common electrode detecting the first signal, and detecting a pressure signal to determine an amount of pressure applied by the touch input. The technical solution also relates to an active stylus for a touch panel, a touch panel, and a touch display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Ding, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu, Wei Liu, Pengpeng Wang, Yanling Han, Rui Xu, Changfeng Li
  • Publication number: 20180348939
    Abstract: Method for making a Standard Flat, Touchscreen Computer Monitor more rugged such that the ruggedized unit can be more effectively and better used in applications where effective use of the touchscreen interface by the user requires the user to gain tactile feedback from striking a 3 dimensional button in a forcible manner to activate the touchscreen with various parts of the hand (finger, front or back of hand, fist, gloved hand, other body part or an object, such as a ball or stick); without damage to the touchscreen device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Richard Bonar Davies, Christopher Allen Davies
  • Publication number: 20180348940
    Abstract: An input device, comprising at least one key position (110) and a control and readout circuit (120). Each key position (110) is provided with a light transmission window (111) and a photosensitive device (112) thereon, the light transmission window (111) being used for the incidence of an external light, and the photosensitive device (112) being provided on the light path behind the light transmission window (111), the status of the photosensitive device corresponding to the light intensity of the incident external light. The control and readout circuit (120) is used for resetting and scanning each photosensitive device (112), and outputting, according to the scanned status of each photosensitive device (112), a key signal indicating whether the corresponding light transmission window (111) is covered or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Bolymedia Holdings Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaoping HU
  • Publication number: 20180348941
    Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device, that includes a display and a bounce reduction mechanism configured to provide an active counterforce to a force on the display. In an example, a proximity sensor can detect when a device is going to create the force on the display. In another example, a screen bounce detection engine to detect oscillations of the display and the bounce reduction mechanism is configured to provide an active counterforce to dampen oscillation of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kenan Huseyin Arik, Mark E. Sprenger, Aleksander Magi, Paul J. Gwin
  • Publication number: 20180348942
    Abstract: According to various examples of the present invention, an electronic device can comprise: a board; a switch unit loaded on at least one surface of the board; a pressure module provided between the board and the switch unit; and a pressure sensing unit formed in at least a partial area of the board, and generating a signal by sensing at least one drive according to the pressing of the switch unit. In addition, the above electronic device can be variously implemented according to examples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Byung-Ku PARK, Do-Kyun LEE, Seung-Chul LEE
  • Publication number: 20180348943
    Abstract: An electrode sheet disposed in a touch input device capable of detecting a pressure of a touch on a touch surface may be provided. The touch input device includes: a display module; a pressure electrode disposed under the display module; and a reference pressure electrode disposed under the display module. A distance between the pressure electrode and a reference potential layer is changed when the pressure is applied to the touch surface. A capacitance detected at the pressure electrode is changed according to the distance change. A magnitude of the pressure applied to the touch surface is calculated on the basis of a difference between a reference capacitance calculated from a capacitance detected at the reference pressure electrode and a detected capacitance calculated from the capacitance detected at the pressure electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Sang Sic Yoon, Young Ho Cho
  • Publication number: 20180348944
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display panel, a control method and a display device, which relate to the field of force touch display technologies, and can improve sensitivity of the force sensing unit. The display panel includes: a plurality of force sensing branches connected in parallel; a plurality of force sensing unit sets corresponding to the plurality of force sensing branches; and a plurality of switch units corresponding to the plurality of force sensing branches; wherein each of the force sensing unit sets includes one or more force sensing unit, each force sensing unit includes two input ends, the input ends of the force sensing units in each of the force sensing unit sets are mutually connected in series or in parallel in a corresponding force sensing branch; and wherein the switch units are arranged in a corresponding one force sensing branches in series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Feng LU, Qijun YAO
  • Publication number: 20180348945
    Abstract: A touch sensor unit includes a pressure-sensitive sensor and a support that supports the pressure-sensitive sensor. The support includes a portion that is folded and overlapped with another portion of the support. The pressure-sensitive sensor is at least partially enclosed by the folded portion of the support and supported by the support. The overlapping portions of the support include a part adjacent to the pressure-sensitive sensor where two surfaces of the support are opposed to each other. One of the two surfaces includes a groove, and the other one of the two surfaces includes a projection that projects toward the groove. The projection is fitted into the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro TAGUCHI, Hironori KOEDA, Michihiko MATSUMOTO, Takashi FUKUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20180348946
    Abstract: An information input method and apparatus for a touch screen are provided. The method includes acquiring a contact parameter and a contact position between an object and a touch screen. The contact parameter at least includes a pressure value exerted on the touch screen by the object and a contact area between the object and the touch screen, generating, according to the contact parameter and the contact position, a corresponding operation instruction, and executing, according to the operation instruction, a corresponding operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Zhijian HAO, Shifeng QUE, Chong ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20180348947
    Abstract: Disclosed is a control method and control device for a working mode of a touch screen. The control method comprises: acquiring current touch operation data generated when a user operates a touch screen; performing logic judgment on whether to switch the working mode according to a current working mode of the touch screen and the touch operation data, and if yes, sending a switching signal to a touch screen control chip to enable the touch screen control chip to control and switch the working mode of the touch screen when receiving the switching signal. The operating intent of the user can be automatically identified according to the touch operation data and the current working mode of the touch screen, and the working mode of the touch screen is controlled to be switched to a corresponding mode, thereby the touch operation of the user is facilitated and the user experience optimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Baoli LI
  • Publication number: 20180348948
    Abstract: An embodiment disclosed herein provides a sensing unit that senses a touch corresponding to a capacitance formed by a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode includes a first driving electrode pattern and a first sensing electrode pattern, the first sensing electrode pattern being disposed in the first driving electrode pattern, the second electrode includes a second driving electrode pattern and a second sensing electrode pattern, the second driving electrode pattern being disposed in the second sensing electrode pattern. A first capacitive coupling is formed corresponding to the first touch electrode and the first sensing electrode, a second capacitive coupling is formed corresponding to the second driving electrode and the second sensing electrode, and a third capacitive coupling is formed corresponding to the first touch electrode and the second sensing electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yangsik LEE, KwangJo HWANG, JiHyun JUNG, DeukSu LEE, SuChang AN, JaeGyun LEE, Ruda RHE
  • Publication number: 20180348949
    Abstract: A touch controller for driving a touch screen including a touch sensing array and a fingerprint sensing array, the touch controller including a processor configured to: generate first touch data from a first input, on a touch sensing area of the touch screen, sensed by the touch sensing array; generate second touch data from a second input, on a fingerprint sensing area of the touch screen, sensed by at least one of the touch sensing array and the fingerprint sensing array; and compensate the second touch data by adjusting touch values included therein to generate compensated second touch data, wherein the first touch data, the second touch data and the compensated second touch data are used to calculate coordinates of the first input and the second input on the touch screen, and the fingerprint sensing array receives a third input on the fingerprint sensing area to generate fingerprint data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sun-kwon KIM, Yoon-Kyung CHOI, Min-gyu KIM, Seong-il PARK
  • Publication number: 20180348950
    Abstract: A detection device and a display device include first electrodes, second electrodes, a detector, and a coupling circuit. The first electrodes are disposed side by side in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction. The second electrodes are disposed on the side facing the first electrodes and extend in the second direction. The detector receives a first detection signal output from the second electrodes based on changes in capacitance between the first electrodes and the second electrodes or a second detection signal output from the first electrodes based on changes in capacitance in the first electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Takayuki NAKANISHI, Naoki TAKADA, Shota HOSAKA
  • Publication number: 20180348951
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting with the gate lines, a plurality of pixel electrodes, and a sensor drive controller which includes a plurality of common electrodes facing the pixel electrodes and detects a touch by controlling the common electrodes. The sensor drive controller selects at least one of the common electrodes, and supplies a sensor signal to the selected common electrode to set the selected common electrode to a sensing state. The sensor drive controller sets at least the common electrode adjacent to the common electrode set to the sensing state to a guard state and sets the other common electrodes to a floating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Hiroshi Mizuhashi
  • Publication number: 20180348952
    Abstract: Disclosed are a touch panel and a method for manufacturing the same. A touch panel can include a substrate, a transparent electrode base on the substrate, a first transparent electrode on the transparent electrode base and extending in a first direction, and a second transparent electrode on the transparent electrode base and extending in a second direction. A method of manufacturing a touch panel can include preparing a substrate and a transparent electrode base, forming a transparent electrode over the transparent electrode base, and forming an electrode material over the transparent electrode base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: BYUNG SOO KIM, KEUN SIK LEE
  • Publication number: 20180348953
    Abstract: A computing device includes a digital input system that provides digital input functionality for the computing device. The digital input system receives both a first input and a second input. The first input is typically an input with the user's dominant hand (e.g., using a pen, stylus, finger, etc.), and the second input is typically an input with the user's non-dominant hand. The digital input system determines whether a second input is received simultaneously with the first input, and selects one of multiple behaviors for the first input based on whether the second input is received simultaneously with the first input. Various different behaviors for the first input can be selected from, such as freehand or freeform input, constraining digital input corresponding to the first input to be along an edge of a stencil, and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Silvano Bonacina, Francis Zhou, Xiao Tu, David W. Duhon, David Abzarian, Moshe R. Lutz
  • Publication number: 20180348954
    Abstract: In a method of capacitive sensing, continuous time demodulation of a resulting signal received from a capacitive sensor is performed. The resulting signal measured is as a result of a modulated signal driven for capacitive sensing. An input object interaction is detected using the resulting signal. Responsive to detection of the input object interaction, a mixing signal is phase-shifted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Eric Bohannon, Nooreldin Amer, Giri Mehta, Marshall Bell
  • Publication number: 20180348955
    Abstract: A presentation system capable of detecting one or more gestures and contacts on a touch sensitive display. The presentation system can displaying indicia of such contacts, such as when a user writes with a fingertip, and can remove or alter such indicia responsive to other gestures and contacts. The system can accurately distinguish between types of gestures detected, such as between a writing gesture and an erasing gesture, on both large and small touch sensitive displays, thereby obviating the need for a user to make additional selective inputs to transition from one type of gesture to another. The presentation system can distinguish between gestures appropriate for one type of marking and another. The system can distinguish between contacts intended by the user as part of an erasure gesture, and those which are incidentally or accidentally made while the user is writing, drawing or annotating on a display surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Shu Gao, Alain Nimri
  • Publication number: 20180348956
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter is a palm rejection technique utilizing temporal features, iterative classification, and probabilistic voting. Touch events are classified based on features periodically extracted from time windows of increasing size, always centered at the birth of the event. The classification process uses a series of decision trees acting on said features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Julia Schwarz, Chris Harrison
  • Publication number: 20180348957
    Abstract: A channel scan architecture for detecting touch events on a touch sensor panel is disclosed. The channel scan architecture can combine drive logic, sense channels and channel scan logic on a single monolithic chip. The channel scan logic can be configured to implement a sequence of scanning processes in a panel subsystem without intervention from a panel processor. The channel scan architecture can provide scan sequence control to enable the panel processor to control the sequence in which individual scans are implemented in the panel subsystem. Type of scans that can be implemented in the panel subsystem can include a spectral analysis scan, touch scan, phantom touch scan, ambient light level scan, proximity scan and temperature scan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas James WILSON, Christoph H. KRAH, Minh-Dieu Thi VU
  • Publication number: 20180348958
    Abstract: A touch display panel and a display device are provided. The touch display panel includes a color filter substrate, an array substrate, a back light source arranged below the array substrate and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the color filter substrate and the array substrate. The color filter substrate includes a black matrix. The touch display panel further includes an optical sensor arranged between the color filter substrate and the liquid crystal layer or between the array substrate and the liquid crystal layer, and is configured to detect light emitted by the back light source, propagating through the liquid crystal layer, and then arriving at a light detection surface of the optical sensor, to acquire detection data for determining a position of a touch operation performed on the touch display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongjoo LEE, Younjoo KIM, Bongkwan JUNG, Haoran GAO
  • Publication number: 20180348959
    Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels. The pixels may contain light-emitting diodes. When it is desired to use the display to operate as a light sensor, some of the light-emitting diodes may be forward biased to emit light while some of the light-emitting diodes are reversed biased to detect the emitted light after the emitted light has reflected from an external object. During light sensing operations, one or more areas of the display may be temporarily deactivated so that the light-sensing pixels may measure the reflected light. Vertical lines may serve both as data loading lines and as current sensing lines. Currents may be sensed during drive transistor current compensation and during light sensing. The vertical lines may load signals into the pixels that forward bias the light-emitting diodes to emit light when it is desired to display images for a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Hung Sheng Lin, Chin-Wei Lin, Tsung-Ting Tsai
  • Publication number: 20180348960
    Abstract: An input device recognizes that a user is placing a finger or another object toward an image formed in a space and notifies the user of the recognition. An input device includes a light guide plate that guides light received from a light source and emit the light through a light emission surface to form an image in a space, a position detection sensor that detects a pointer in a space including an imaging position at which the image is formed, and a notification controller that performs control to sense a user input in response to detection of the pointer by the position detection sensor and change a method of notification to the user in accordance with a distance between the imaging position and the pointer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Shinohara, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Gouo Kurata, Norikazu Kitamura, Yoshihiko Takagi, Mitsuru Okuda, Yuto Mori
  • Publication number: 20180348961
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for using tiled data. An information request for an area may be received. Information for the area may be accessed. The information for the area may be stored in a tree structure such that the information is subdivided into one or more levels of tiles. Individual tiles may correspond to a portion of the area. One or more tiles may include precomputed information for the corresponding portion(s) of the area. A response to the information request may be determined based on the precomputed information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Peter Wilczynski, Daniel Cervelli, Stephen Freiberg
  • Publication number: 20180348962
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a user interface that includes a plurality of affordances including a first affordance. The first affordance is selectable to perform a respective operation. The first affordance is displayed at a first size. The device receives a user input at a location corresponding to the first affordance. In response to receiving the user input and in accordance with a determination that a text display setting has a first value, the device displays an overlay that includes an enlarged representation of the first affordance. The enlarged representation of the first affordance has a second size that is bigger than the first size. In response to receiving the user input and in accordance with a determination that the text display setting has a second value that is different from the first value, the device forgoes display of the enlarged representation of the first affordance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Conor Hughes, Lauren Trottier, Clare Kasemset, Christopher B. Fleizach
  • Publication number: 20180348963
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a wireless communication circuit and one or more processors. The one or more processors are operable to the one or more processors to detect an inability of the wireless communication circuit to transmit an electronic communication that includes one or more temporally dependent content elements. When this occurs, the one or more processors monitor a duration during which the wireless communication circuit is unable to transmit the electronic communication. Later the one or more processors alter the one or more temporally dependent content elements as a function of the duration to obtain a modified electronic communication, which is transmitted from the wireless communication circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Krishnan Raghavan, Amit Kumar Agrawal, Vignesh Karthik Mohan
  • Publication number: 20180348964
    Abstract: A communication terminal and a method of providing a unified natural language interface to the same are disclosed. The method includes: determining, when text information containing many characters is created, whether the text information conforms to one of preset grammatical constraints; extracting, when the text information conforms to one of the grammatical constraints, tokens of one or more of characters from the text information, and extracting, when the text information does not conform to one of the grammatical constraints, one or more characters having an attribute probability higher than a reference probability as a token; and analyzing the extracted tokens to determine a function to handle the extracted tokens, and executing the determined function based on the extracted tokens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Myeong Gi JEONG, Young Hee PARK, Kwang Choon KIM, Jung Yun SEO, Choong Nyoung SEON
  • Publication number: 20180348965
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method for integrating personal content items in existing programming content. The method includes a step for selecting one or more personal content items. The method also includes a step for converting the selected content items to a presentation format. The method also includes a step for providing the converted content items for integration with existing programming content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Zoltan Stekkelpak
  • Publication number: 20180348966
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques for enabling users (such as users of a social networking system) to access media effects associated with events. The users may then use the media effects to create media content. For example, a user-selectable option may be provided to a device of a user such that selection of the user-selectable option causes one or more media effects associated with an event to be output by the device. In certain embodiments, techniques are described for selectively providing media effects associated with events to selected users. The selected users may then use the media effects to create media content. For example, a media effect may be associated with one or more conditions for providing the media effect to a user. Only users that satisfy the one or more conditions may get access to the media effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: David Scoville, Alyssa Jane Levitz, Gabe Templeton
  • Publication number: 20180348967
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device presents information about, and facilitates downloading of, featured applications in an app store application. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates browsing of applications and games by category. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates presentation of information about in-app purchases for a game or application in an app store application. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates the purchase of in-app purchases for the games or applications that are available on the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates the download/purchase of games, applications and/or in-app purchases from outside of an app store application that is for browsing such content available on the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device autoplays media content corresponding to applications (e.g., games, non-game applications, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Robert H. KONDRK, Alan C. DYE, William M. BACHMAN, Monika E. GROMEK, Alexander Constantin Diego FRINGES, Joseph Andrew MAGNANI, Colin BENNETT, Alexander JOHNSTON, Jessica R. CAIMI
  • Publication number: 20180348968
    Abstract: Provided is a user interface easy to customize. An information processing apparatus is an information processing apparatus including a control unit. The control unit included in this information processing apparatus displays an operation screen on a display surface of a display unit in a case where an operation of editing a plurality of operation elements placed on the operation screen is performed to place each operation element on an edit screen. In addition, while displaying the operation screen on the display surface of the display unit, this control unit displays a part of an image indicating a placement location on the edit screen of each operation element on the display surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: MOTOKI SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20180348969
    Abstract: Icons 514a and 514b are disposed so as to cross a circumference 512 that is positioned around a head of a user 516 and in a horizontal plane including a line-of-sight vector prevailing when the user 516 faces forward in a virtual space. In this instance, icons 514a whose center is above the circumference 512 and icons 514b whose center is below the circumference 512 are alternately disposed. A menu screen is drawn by identifying a normal vector 517 of the face of the user as a line of sight in accordance with posture information related to the user's head, setting a screen 518 in a vertical plane around the line of sight, and projecting a virtual space object onto the screen 518.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Daisuke KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180348970
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media to provide voice driven dynamic menus. One aspect disclosed is a method including receiving, by an electronic device, video data and audio data, displaying, by the electronic device, a video window, determining, by the electronic device, whether the audio data includes a voice signal, displaying, by the electronic device, a first menu in the video window in response to the audio data including a voice signal, displaying, by the electronic device, a second menu in the video window in response to a voice signal being absent from the audio data, receiving, by the electronic device, input from the displayed menu, and writing, by the electronic device, to an output device based on the received input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Jesse Chand
  • Publication number: 20180348971
    Abstract: An application display method, an apparatus, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. At least one high-frequency application is determined; an application icon of the at least one high-frequency application is displayed on a lock-screen interface. The apparatus includes a processor and a communication unit coupled with the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Jian Bai
  • Publication number: 20180348972
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for configuring and using a graphical container identified by an embed code (in a web page, e.g.) at least partly presented by a mobile client device, facilitating a consumer's rapid review of several items of video preview content each derived from a movie or other video-containing primary content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Alexandrea L. Day
  • Publication number: 20180348973
    Abstract: An approach is provided for monitoring disk utilization at an object level. At a first time a first size of an object in a System i computing platform is determined by calling an application programming interface (API). At a second time a second size of the object is determined by calling the API. A difference between the first and second sizes is determined. The difference is determined to be greater than a threshold. Based on the difference exceeding the threshold, an alert is sent indicating growth at the object level rather than at an auxiliary storage pool level. The API is called to obtain the sizes of objects in an integrated file system in the System i computing platform. Differences between the sizes of the objects at a user-entered start date and the current time are determined and presented. A report including the differences is generated and sent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Vishal Anand, Sahadev Dey, Rajneesh Kumar, Vijay S. Patil, Amit Patra
  • Publication number: 20180348974
    Abstract: A system for travel management that includes: a smartphone; a software application, where the software application includes instructions for destination and timing management; global positioning associated with the software application; and at least two display tabs wherein each display tab is associated with a destination and the at least two display tabs are visible on the smartphone where each display tab provides a travel time for the destination. The display tabs may include at least one frequent destination tab and in one exemplary embodiment, a first frequent destination tab is associated with a user's home address and a second frequent destination tab is associated with a user's work address. The system preferably aligns the at least two display tabs in a sequence of desired travel and consistently updates the travel time associated with each display tab.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Anatoliy Pisarenko
  • Publication number: 20180348975
    Abstract: A fore edge image display unit (11) displays fore edge image (60) depicting a fore edge when a tilt sensor (22) detects tilt operation of a touch panel display unit (20) when a contact position detection circuit (21) detects an indicator contacting right or left edge part of the touch panel display unit (20). An edge index display unit (12) displays edge indices (61a) to (61s) in vertically shifted and superposed manner on the fore edge image (60). An item name image display unit (13) performs enlarged display of item name image, representing the name of item assigned to an edge index in contact. When tilt operation of the touch panel display unit (20) is detected when the contact position detection circuit (21) detects the indicator contacting one of the edge indices, selected page display unit (14) displays the page of the item assigned to the edge index in contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Koichi TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180348976
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling a lock-screen interface and related products, and the method includes the follows. Current activity attribute information of a user of a terminal equipment is acquired. A lock-screen image that matches the activity attribute information and pre-stored static attribute information is determined based on the static attribute information and the activity attribute information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Jian Bai
  • Publication number: 20180348977
    Abstract: A program is installable in an information processing device. A processor acquires version information for each function provided in a current version of the installed program, the version information indicating that the function is different from a function provided in an older version. A display unit displays a UI element for allowing selection of a function provided in a new version. The display unit displays a UI element corresponding to a function identical to the older version in a first mode and displaying a UI element corresponding to the function different from the older version in a second mode different from the first mode, based on the acquired version information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Naoya UMEMURA, Ichiro SHISHIDO, Kenji KATAMI
  • Publication number: 20180348978
    Abstract: A method of retrieving multiple copies of an information element on a display is presented, the method comprising displaying a plurality of information elements along a first axis including a first axial direction thereof, displaying a second plurality of information elements along a second axis including a second axial direction thereof parallel with the second direction, the first axis displaying a first information element thereon, the second axis including the first information element thereon, the first information element on the second axis being not transversally aligned with the first information element displayed on the first axis and displacing at least one of the first axis of information elements and the second axis of information elements to display the first information element from the first axis of information elements adjacent to the first information element from the second axis of information elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Mathieu Audet, François Cassistat
  • Publication number: 20180348979
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to inter-application sharing. In some implementations, a method includes displaying a first user interface (UI) of a first application in a display screen of a client device, wherein the first UI presents information associated with a target project. The method further includes displaying a second UI of a second application in the display screen of the client device. The method further includes receiving a user indication to transfer the information associated with the target project from the first UI to the second UI. The method further includes accessing underlying data associated with the target project. The method further includes transferring the underlying data from the first application to the second application. The method further includes displaying the information associated with the target project in the second UI after the transferring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Reginald Hansbrough, Sergio Acosta, Victor Medina, Lakshmi Dontamsetti, Abraham Vargas, Victor Cervantes, Eduardo Martinez
  • Publication number: 20180348980
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for switching screen interface and Terminal. The method for switching screen interface includes: detecting a first actual pressing period of pressing any point in a screen operation area by a user's finger; when the first actual pressing period is greater than or equal to a first preset pressing period, starting an interface switching mode at a current interface, that is, generating a set of application icons in the screen operation area where the user's finger can touch for the user to select; and based on the application icon sets, enabling the current interface to skip to a corresponding application interface in one step by clicking an application icon needing to be selected. The method has the beneficial effects of convenient use, large application range and good user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yingjiang MA, Linlin DIAO
  • Publication number: 20180348981
    Abstract: Use of the herein disclosed novel Surface Projected Optical Touch Detection Systems (SPOT) user interface for a Visual Motor and Neuro-Cognitive Evaluation and Reaction Training Device (VMTD) eliminates all costs and potential maintenance issues associated with making the many wire connections between the illuminated electrical switch elements of the user interface portion of the VMTD device and connection of the user interface unit to the associated computer based system controller and other associated devices that comprise the complete VMTD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Richard Bonar Devies, Christopher Allen Davies