Patents Issued in January 15, 2019
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Patent number: 10180739Abstract: An input device having sufficient countermeasure against static electricity is disclosed. The input device includes a touch pad as an operation-input part that is movably supported above a metal base plate. The operation-input part includes a pad plate to receive an input operation, a board plate stacked below the pad plate to detect an input operation to the pad plate, and a resin housing plate stacked below the board plate. The base plate has an upper face, on which a protruding piece is disposed so as to be inserted between the board plate and the housing plate and come into contact with a ground line as a conductive part provided at the board plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTDInventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Mitsuo Horiuchi
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Patent number: 10180740Abstract: A fingerprint sensor includes a first substrate, a second substrate on the first substrate, a first electrode and a first chip on the first substrate and a second electrode and a second chip on the second substrate. The first substrate includes a first area and a second area, the second substrate includes a third area and a fourth area, the first electrode is provided on the first area, the first chip is provided on the second area, the second electrode is provided on the third area, and the second chip is provided on the fourth area.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Seung Jin Kim, Dong Mug Sung, Kyoung Jong Yoo
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Patent number: 10180741Abstract: An electronic apparatus, including an emissive display configured to provide a first image having a first image quality; a transparent display disposed on the emissive display and configured to provide a second image having a second image quality; and a controller configured to control the emissive display to provide the first image in according to first mode and control the transparent display to provide the second image according to a second mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yong-ho Kim, Joo-ho Kim, Jin Ra, Jong-hyun Ryu, Moon-il Jung, Hyun-min Song, Hong-suk Kim, Dong-hyun Sohn
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Patent number: 10180742Abstract: The present invention provides a display panel, a method for fabricating the same and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a first substrate; a pixel driving circuit and an organic light-emitting diode device sequentially provided on the first substrate; a protection layer provided at a light-outgoing side of the display panel; and a touch sensing line provided at a side of the protection layer away from the organic light-emitting diode device, the touch sensing line being able to achieve touch-control of the display panel. By providing the protection layer at the light-outgoing side of the display panel and providing the touch sensing line at the side of the protection layer away from the organic light-emitting diode device, the display panel can achieve both touch-control and display without being provided with a touch panel at the light-outgoing side thereof, thereby significantly reducing the overall thickness of the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., LTD.Inventors: Chuni Lin, Minghsi Wang
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Patent number: 10180743Abstract: The present application discloses a liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of pixels for image display, each of which includes a subpixel region and an inter-subpixel region.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yuanhui Guo
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Patent number: 10180744Abstract: The present invention provides a flexible embedded touch control structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The flexible embedded touch control structure of the present invention includes a TFT substrate, a planarization layer, an OLED touch layer, and an encapsulation layer. The OLED touch layer includes an anode layer, a pixel definition layer, emissive layers, and a cathode layer. The anode layer includes a plurality of anode units and a plurality of touch connection line. The plurality of touch connection lines are located under and correspond to the pixel definition layer. The cathode layer includes a plurality of touch electrodes, and the plurality of touch electrodes are respectively connected through a plurality of vias formed in the pixel definition layer to the touch connection lines to form a touch sensing structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Weisheng Su
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Patent number: 10180745Abstract: Provided is a display panel. The display panel includes touch lines each extending in a first direction; data signal lines each extending in the first direction; touch connection lines, display connection lines; and a driver chip having touch signal terminals and display signal terminals. The touch signal terminals and the plurality of display signal terminals are arranged in one or more rows with one of the one or more rows having n touch signal terminals and m display signal terminals, the one or more rows extend in a second direction. Two adjacent ones of the n touch signal terminals in the one row are spaced apart by one or more of the m display signal terminals, and where n and m are positive integers.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignees: Shanghai AVIC Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wantong Shao, Huijun Jin
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Patent number: 10180746Abstract: A hardware enabled interpolating sensor allows for anti-aliased acquisition of data. Electrodes coupled with resistive material are disposed on either side of a transducer material, such that an impinging signal varies the electrical characteristics of the transducer material. A controller scans the electrodes and analyzes the variation in the electrical characteristics to generate data. Based upon the known characteristics of the resistive material, an interpolated image is generated from the data which is inherently anti-aliased. Additionally, an interpolating display comprising electrodes disposed on either side of an emission material is described, which allows for emission regions of varying intensity, area, and so forth.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2010Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ilya D. Rosenberg, Julien G. Beguin, Kenneth H. Perlin
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Patent number: 10180747Abstract: A touch display panel and a touch display device are provided. They include a first substrate; and a first metal layer formed on one side of the first substrate. The first metal layer includes a plurality of touch electrode lines and a plurality of pressure sensing elements. The pressure sensing elements include segments of pressure sensing lines. At each crossing region where a touch electrode line comes across a pressure sensing element, two adjacent segments of pressure sensing lines are connected through a bridge. A second metal layer is formed between the first substrate and the first metal layer. The second metal layer includes a plurality of data lines extending along a first direction. A third metal layer is formed between the second metal layer and the first substrate. The third metal layer includes a plurality of scan lines extending along a second direction which is orthogonal to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Liang Liu, Feng Lu, Shaolong Ma, Qijun Yao
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Patent number: 10180748Abstract: A touch sensor assembly may include a sensor mounting portion formed at a insulating substrate, and a soldering spot provided at the sensor mounting portion, wherein a touch sensor is stably fixed to the sensor mounting portion by the soldering spot. In addition, the touch sensor assembly according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a copper coating film coated on a insulating substrate, and a top layer printed on the copper coating film, wherein the copper coating film is protected by the top layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hyunki Kim, Seungje Park
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Patent number: 10180749Abstract: A touch screen panel includes: a substrate; electrode patterns disposed on the substrate; insulation patterns disposed partially covering the electrode patterns, the insulation patterns defining openings, wherein at least a part of top surfaces of the electrode patterns are exposed through the openings; connecting conductive patterns disposed on the insulation patterns, the connecting conductive patterns filling at least a part of the openings and being electrically connected to the electrode patterns; and wirings disposed on at least a portion of the connecting conductive patterns.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: In-Nam Lee, Sung-Ku Kang, Joo-Han Bae, Dong-Eun Lee, Byeong-Jin Lee, Choon-Hyop Lee
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Patent number: 10180750Abstract: A touch sensor integrated display device is provided comprising gate lines and data lines formed on a substrate to be intersected with each other, a plurality of pixel electrodes formed at intersections between the gate lines and the data lines, and a common electrode formed to overlap the plurality of pixel electrodes through an insulating film disposed between the common electrode and the plurality of pixel electrodes, wherein the common electrode includes at least two touch electrodes, each of which is connected to at least one of signal lines arranged in one of a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Cheolse Kim, Buyeol Lee, Sunjung Lee, Sangsoo Hwang, Yoonhwan Woo, Manhyeop Han
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Patent number: 10180751Abstract: A sensing device for force and tactile-proximity sensing includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a first electrode layer having a plurality of first sensing electrodes, a second electrode layer having at least one second sensing electrode, a dielectric layer arranged between the upper substrate and the lower substrates, and a capacitance sensing circuit. In tactile-proximity sensing operation, the capacitance sensing circuit sends a touch control capacitance-exciting signal to a selected first sensing electrode and obtains a tactile-proximity sensing signal therefrom, wherein an tactile-proximity auxiliary signal with same phase as the touch control capacitance-exciting signal is sent to the at least one corresponding second sensing electrode.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATIONInventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin
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Patent number: 10180752Abstract: A display device and a gate driver circuit of the display device are disclosed. The display device includes a shift register that shifts a gate pulse in accordance with a shift clock and sequentially supplies the gate pulse to gate lines. At least one stage of the shift register includes a discharge blocking node connected to a source terminal of the second transistor, and a discharge blocking circuit configured to charge the discharge blocking node when the Q node is charged, and discharge the discharge blocking node when the Q node is discharged.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jiah Kim, Byeongseong So
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Patent number: 10180753Abstract: A touchscreen panel includes a base film having a bezel area and a free form active area; first touch electrodes and second touch electrodes crossing each other in the active area; first touch pads and second touch pads in the bezel area, and a guard pad between adjacent first and second touch pads; first routing lines in the bezel area, connecting the first touch electrodes and the second touch pads; second routing lines in the bezel area, connecting the second touch electrodes and the second touch pads; a guard line extending from the guard pads and disposed between adjacent first and second routing lines; and a bridge pattern over an insulating film that covers the first routing lines, second routing lines, and guard line, wherein one or more of the first routing lines and one or more of the first touch electrodes that correspond to each other are attached to the bridge pattern via contact holes penetrating the insulating film and electrically connected together.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Minseob Song, Seunghyun Kim
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Patent number: 10180754Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, and an electrostatic capacitive type touch panel which is formed in an overlapping manner with the display panel. A plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes intersecting with the X electrodes. A first signal line supplies signals to the X electrodes, a second signal line supplies signals to the Y electrodes, and the first signal line and the second signal line are formed on a flexible printed circuit board. A dummy electrode is formed adjacent to an electrode portion of each X electrode and electrode portion of each Y electrode, the dummy electrode does not overlap the X electrode and the Y electrode, and the dummy electrode does not electrically connect with the first and second signal lines.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shinya Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10180755Abstract: The systems and techniques described herein generally relate to an electronic device having a touch-sensitive surface or region that is configured to receive force-based user input and dynamically adjust a force threshold used to recognize the force-based user input. In particular, the device may include one or more force sensors that are configured to detect a touch that exceeds a dynamically adjustable threshold. In some embodiments, the threshold is dynamically adjusted in response to a detected or estimated stability condition. By dynamically adjusting the threshold, the device may be better adapted or optimized for use with a particular support accessory or support configuration. In some cases, multiple sub-regions may be defined over the touch-sensitive surface, each sub-region having a different force threshold.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Matthew D. Hill, Rasamy Phouthavong, Scott A. Myers
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Patent number: 10180756Abstract: An input apparatus includes: a touchpad that detects an input position; a display unit; and a calculation device configured to: move a display position of a cursor in steps in an identical direction to a variation direction of the input position detected by the touchpad every time the input position varies in an identical direction by a predetermined unit amount; calculate the number of movement steps and the adjustment amount by dividing a value by the predetermined unit amount when the variation direction of the input position calculated during a first predetermined period is equal to a variation direction of the input position calculated during a second predetermined period, the value obtained by adding the adjustment amount calculated during the second predetermined period to the displacement amount calculated during the first predetermined period, the second predetermined period being a predetermined period immediately preceding the first predetermined period.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shoji Kakinuma, Hiroshi Shikata, Ryota Hamabe
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Patent number: 10180757Abstract: An in-cell touch type display device includes a touch electrode that is in a touch panel and arranged at each touch block; a sensing line that is connected to the touch electrode, and transfers a touch driving signal from a source driving circuit during a touch sensing period; a gate-in panel (GIP) circuit that is in an array substrate, and outputs a gate signal to a gate line crossing and overlapping the sensing line, during a display period; and a load reduction circuit that outputs the touch driving signal to the gate line during the touch sensing period.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ji-Won Kang, Ki-Taeg Shin, Dong-Geun Lim, Chel-Hee Jo
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Patent number: 10180758Abstract: A touch panel driving device that can easily perform a force sensing drive with a touch drive unit and a force drive unit that can be integrally formed in one-chip, a touch panel device can include the one-chip touch panel drive device, and a driving method thereof are provided. The touch panel device can include a bypass path that supplies a second touch sensing signal to a drive unit without passing through a sensing unit. Accordingly, the touch panel device can perform both touch sensing based on a first touch sensing signal and force sensing based on a second touch sensing signal using a single drive unit and prevent an erroneous second touch sensing signal from being transmitted to the drive unit due via the sensing unit, thereby easily and more accurately performing the force sensing.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: JunSeok Oh, JongHee Hwang
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Patent number: 10180759Abstract: A coordinate detecting apparatus includes: a plurality of light-emitting and -receiving units arranged along an outer edge of the coordinate input area, the plurality of light-emitting and -receiving units each including a light-emitting part and a light-receiving part; at least one retroreflective member arranged along the outer edge of the coordinate input area; and a control unit to control the plurality of light-emitting and -receiving units to detect coordinates of a position of input made with a designation input unit in a first detection state or a second detection state.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Seiko Yamamoto, Katsuyuki Omura, Noritada Ohi, Yoshiaki Oshima, Masafumi Nagao, Naoyuki Ishikawa, Masanobu Yamagata
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Patent number: 10180760Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device for driving a touch display panel, and a touch display device. The touch display panel includes L gate lines and M touch scanning lines, where L and M are each a positive integer greater than 1. The method includes steps of: dividing a time period for displaying each image frame of the touch display panel into N control time periods, each of the N control time periods including a display time period and a touch time period, N being an even number equal to or greater than 2; and driving the L gate lines within the N display time periods and driving the M touch scanning lines in each touch time period in the time period for displaying each image frame of the touch display panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Bo Liu, Xianjie Shao, Qinghua Jiang, Honggang Gu, Xiaojie Zhang
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Patent number: 10180761Abstract: Provided is a touch-panel-equipped display device that is capable of detecting a touch on a side surface of a case (1) at a high accuracy by a simple controlling operation, without any hardware such as expensive sensors being provided additionally. In the touch-panel-equipped display device, a side surface electrode part can be electrically connected by capacitive coupling with a Y-direction electrode part. A change in capacitive coupling when the side surface electrode part is touched by a finger or the like, therefore, is reflected in a sense signal acquired by the Y-direction electrode part. In other words, in the touch-panel-equipped display device, a touch on the side surface electrode part can be detected using the sense signal. The touch-panel-equipped display device, therefore, is capable of detecting a touch on the side surface electrode part by using hardware and signal processing for touch detection in a conventional touch panel.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisashi Watanabe, Tomohiro Kimura, Jean Mugiraneza, Yasuhiro Sugita
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Patent number: 10180762Abstract: Provided are a surface protection film which would stably display an image, and would stably attain a mirror state, and which would be stably operated without inhibiting display operability. Disclosed is a surface protection film including a resin film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, in which the relative permittivity of the resin film is of 1.0 to 5.0, the reflectance is set to a value within the range of 20% to 80%, and the transmittance for light is of 20% to 80%.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: LINTEC CorporationInventors: Masaya Todaka, Baku Katagiri, Kenta Tomioka, Tomoo Orui
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Patent number: 10180763Abstract: A method includes driving, by a first driver circuit, a current through an electrode and detecting, by a sensing system, a touch based on a change in capacitance at the electrode. The first driver circuit includes a first operational transconductance amplifier and a first current mirror. A second current mirror is coupled to the sensing system. A first switch is coupled to the first current mirror. A second switch is coupled to the first current mirror and the first operational transconductance amplifier. A third switch is coupled to the first operational transconductance amplifier and the second current mirror. A fourth switch is coupled to the second current mirror. A fifth switch is coupled to the first operational transconductance amplifier. A sixth switch is coupled to the first operational transconductance amplifier. A seventh switch is coupled to the first operational transconductance amplifier, the first current mirror, and the second current mirror.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Terje Saether, Carl Olof Fredrik Jonsson
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Patent number: 10180764Abstract: Systems and methods for modifying a social timeline are described. A method for modifying a social timeline includes generating data to display a timeline graphic. The time graphic includes a chronology bar that is associated with at least two dates. The method further includes associating image data with the at least two dates to display images along the timeline graphic. The images describe a life story of an account holder. The method includes generating data to allow the account holder to post a comment to the life story along the timeline graphic.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Andrew Halliday, Christopher Lunt
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Patent number: 10180765Abstract: A method for supporting multi-party collaboration over a computer network involves receiving messages at a server from a plurality of client computers in communication via the network and having common content displayed on an associated display area. The messages include cursor movement information and client content input by a user of at least one of the client computers and the method involves producing output messages corresponding to the cursor movement information and client content, causing the server to transmit the output messages that include client content to each of the plurality of client computers, including the client computer that generated the client content. The method further involves causing the server to transmit output messages that include cursor movement information to at least client computers other than the client computer that generated the cursor movement to facilitate display of a pointer on the respective client computers.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Uranus International LimitedInventor: Alexander Kropivny
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Patent number: 10180766Abstract: A three-dimensional display device and a user interfacing method therefor are disclosed. The three-dimensional display device according to one embodiment comprises: a display unit for displaying a three-dimensional virtual object; a user input signal generation unit for generating a user input signal by detecting a handling object for handling an operation of the three-dimensional virtual object in a three-dimensional space matched with the three-dimensional virtual object; and a control unit for controlling the operation of the three-dimensional virtual object according to the user input signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2013Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyun Jeong Lee, Jae Joon Han, Joonah Park, Yu Jin Lee
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Patent number: 10180767Abstract: A portable device which simultaneously executes a plurality of applications by using a multi-screen and a method of operating a multi-application thereof. The method involves receiving an input according to a user selection of a multi-application icon for executing a plurality of applications in respective windows simultaneously. Based on the selected multi-application icon, the applications and respective windows are identified. Execution images respectively associated with the applications are then displayed on the windows simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jaekyung Lee, Youngkyoo Kim, Dongho Jang
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Patent number: 10180768Abstract: Techniques for presenting information on a graphical user interface are disclosed. In one embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for presenting information on a graphical user interface including displaying a deployment map via the graphical user interface on a display unit, determining whether an input has been detected with respect to the deployment map, determining a type of input when the input has been detected, generating an updated deployment map based on the determined type of input, and displaying the updated deployment map on the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2014Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SYMANTEC CORPORATIONInventor: Gregory S. Capano
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Patent number: 10180769Abstract: A method of in-eye icon projection using an electronic device includes emitting light with a light source in response to detecting an image condition. The light is then projected onto a diffraction grating, and the diffraction grating, when illuminated with the light, produces image light of a fixed icon. An image of the fixed icon is formed in an eye of a user, and the image of the fixed icon occupies only part of the user's field of view. The image light has a limited divergence such that the image of the fixed icon is only viewable in a single user's field of view.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Alex Olwal, Bernard C. Kress, Greg E. Priest-Dorman
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Patent number: 10180770Abstract: An information processing device includes a display and a controller. The display displays a setting screen containing a display element representing a setting item. The controller exerts control in such a manner that, in the case where a service is not introduced in the information processing device, the display element is displayed in a first manner, and exerts control in such a manner that, in the case where a service is introduced in the information processing device and where the setting item is not a setting item to be set for use of the service, the display element is displayed in a second manner. The second manner is different from the first manner.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Masahiro Iwata
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Patent number: 10180771Abstract: A manipulation panel that is a user interface includes a display unit that displays a screen, a touch panel that detects a tap performed to the display unit, and an abnormality detector that detects a situation, in which a message is displayed on the display unit, until the touch panel detects a second tap constituting a double tap since detecting a first tap. Manipulation panel displays a warning message about the situation detected by the abnormality detector on the display unit after the touch panel detects the second tap.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Masao Hosono, Yoichi Kurumasa, Kenichi Komaba, Takuya Okada, Tetsuya Tokumoto, Kazuhiro Tomiyasu
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Patent number: 10180772Abstract: An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface, a display, and one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts: displays a first user interface that includes objects of a first type and objects of a second type; detects a first portion of a first input that includes an increase in characteristic intensity of a first contact above an intensity threshold while a focus selector is over a respective user interface object; in response, displays supplemental information associated with the respective user interface object; while displaying the supplemental information, detects an end of the first input; and, in response: if the respective user interface object is the first type of object, ceases to display the supplemental information; and, if the respective user interface object is the second type of object, maintains display of the supplemental information after detecting the end of the first input.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Christopher P. Foss, Freddy A. Anzures, Sebastian J. Bauer, Imran A. Chaudhri, Jonathan R. Dascola, Olivier D. R. Gutknecht, Peter L. Hajas, Michael T. Jurewitz, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Stephen O. Lemay, Wan Si Wan, Giancarlo Yerkes, Kenneth L. Kocienda
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Patent number: 10180773Abstract: A method, device, interface and systems thereof is hereby presented to facilitate interactions between sets of attributes and axes of computer-readable elements with corresponding graphical arrangements of associated documents. Interactions are generally facilitated through an interaction tool having input and output capabilities. Documents can be classified by associating documents with an interaction element from the interaction tool. Conversely, selecting an interaction element is used as a basis to display documents corresponding to the attributes associated with the selected interaction element.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Inventors: Mathieu Audet, Francois Cassistat
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Patent number: 10180774Abstract: Systems and methods include a server configured to provide a web site application to a remote computing device over the Internet. The remote computing device receives user input to control a cursor. The web site application is configured to enable the remote computing device to display a plurality of color sheen chips on a display of the remote computing device, each color sheen chip representing a different color sheen. The web site application is configured to enlarge a particular color sheen chip of the plurality of color sheen chips on the display when the cursor hovers over the particular color sheen chip and to toggle the color sheen chip left and right when the cursor is moved back and forth over the particular color sheen chip.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Behr Process CorporationInventors: John Buzyn, Bernadette Irizarry, Doug Milsom, Damien Reynolds, Donna Une, Marc Webb
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Patent number: 10180775Abstract: A computing system device with processor(s) and memory displays a video monitoring user interface on the display. The video monitoring user interface includes a first region for displaying a live video feed and/or a recorded video feed from the video camera and a second region for displaying an event timeline. The event timeline includes a plurality of time indicators each indicating a specific time and a current video feed indicator indicating the temporal position of the video feed displayed in the first region. The temporal position includes a past time and a current time. The current video feed indicator is movable relative to the time indicators to facilitate a change in the temporal position of the video feed displayed in the first region.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Jason N. Laska, Greg R. Nelson, Greg Duffy
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Patent number: 10180776Abstract: A system and method are presented to allow audio communication between users concerning a group of images. A first mobile device has an app that selects a plurality of images and then records audio commentary for the plurality of images. The images and audio commentary are grouped into an image grouping, and the image grouping is transmitted to a second mobile device. Reply commentaries to the image grouping can also be associated with a particular image in the grouping. Image groupings can be presented by reviewing all commentaries on a single image first before moving to a second image, or by reviewing all commentaries made in a user-session before moving to a second user session.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Ambient Consulting, LLCInventors: Andrew Grossman, Kenneth F. Krutsch
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Patent number: 10180777Abstract: In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for a healthcare similarity engine that uses healthcare data to identify a set of similar patients. One aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving a similarity request including a patient X data vector representing attributes of a particular patient X and a set of similarity parameters; calculating a set of similarity metrics using the patient X data vector and the set of similarity parameters; ranking the population of patients based on their respective similarity metrics; and generating a neighborhood subset of the population of patients most similar to patient X by selecting the top-ranked patients. Another aspect of the subject matter can be embodied in methods that include the actions of providing a display of a graphical representation of a healthcare similarity request input dashboard.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2014Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Optum, Inc.Inventor: Joseph Blue
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Patent number: 10180778Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) may be displayed on a display unit in an apparatus which may include a tactile sensor unit. When a contact by a user is detected at the tactile sensor unit, a control unit may receive a contact detection signal therefrom. Based on the contact detection signal, the control unit may determine a contact pattern and may then display the GUI corresponding to the contact pattern. The GUI may be displayed and modified depending on the location and pressure of contacts by a user's manipulating fingers. Therefore, a user can manipulate the apparatus without any inconvenience or accidental touches.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yong Gook Park, Min Kyu Park, Hee Jeong Choo, Hyun Ki Kim, Hyun Jin Kim, Ji Yeon Kwak, Eun Young Lim
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Patent number: 10180779Abstract: In a computer-implemented method for dynamically presenting status information of a monitored system within a graphical user interface, a first view is displayed within the graphical user interface, the first view including a textual representation indicative of a status of a monitored system, the textual representation including at least one interactive portion that is user-selectable for presenting underlying information associated with the interactive portion. Responsive to a user selection, a second view is displayed within the graphical user interface, the second view including a plurality of status boxes representative of monitored attributes of the monitored system. A particular status box of the plurality of status boxes is selectively promoted to the first view in response to the detection of a particular condition based on the monitored attributes. A particular interactive portion associated with the particular status box is integrated into the textual representation.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: VMware, Inc.Inventors: George Daloukov, Nikki Roda, Ramona Sharples, Danny Walcoff
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Patent number: 10180780Abstract: A method of selecting information on a touch-sensitive display includes displaying the information on the touch-sensitive display, detecting a first touch at a first location on the touch-sensitive display, and identifying delimiters in the information displayed on the touch-sensitive display and displaying a graphical selection element including control delimiters that correspond to the delimiters identified in the information displayed. The method also includes, in response to detecting a second touch that begins at a second location associated with the graphical selection element and moves generally along the graphical selection element, identifying a nearest one of the control delimiters displayed in the graphical selection element to the second touch, and selecting information from the first location to one of the delimiters identified in the information displayed that corresponds to the identified nearest one of the control delimiters displayed in the graphical selection element.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Mikael Ainalem
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Patent number: 10180781Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein accept a position along a length of a value-selection display screen widget. The value-selection widget is depicted in a graphical user interface that is displayed on a screen of a mobile device. A selection of the position along a length of the value-selection widget is received. A value corresponding to the position is determined. The determining is performed by relating a first ratio to a second ratio. The determined value corresponding to the position is displayed on the screen.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Kuntalkumar Bharatkumar Shah, Frederique E. Goris, Ayon Sinha, Hilary Holmquest, Karenina Susilo
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Patent number: 10180782Abstract: A specified object in still images or video may be detected using a sliding search window technique, applied to the original image and its downscaled versions, in order to detect objects of different sizes. At each scale and each position of the sliding window, the technique may use a boosted tree classifier to determine whether the window contains the object. It may exit earlier if some intermediate sum falls below the certain threshold. To accelerate object detection, hybrid features are used in different boosted chains. For first boosted chains, the fastest features may be applied and then, after more complex (but slower) features and for the last few chains, the most powerful feature (but most computationally expensive) is used. This strategy may improve the speed of detection because for a majority of checking windows, only first boosted chains are used and so only the fastest features are calculated in some embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Alexander Bovyrin, Vadim Pisarevsky, Irina Kostina
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Patent number: 10180783Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a processor that receives an output from a user interface indicating that a first icon is selected; acquires sensor information corresponding to movement of the information processing apparatus; and controls a display to move at least a second icon on the display based on the acquired sensor information corresponding to the movement of the information processing apparatus upon receiving the output from the user interface that the first icon is selected.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Reiko Miyazaki
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Patent number: 10180784Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to display a closed frame line for specifying a particular range for image processing, the frame line having positioning points placed thereon, display object images in respective positions associated with the positioning points, when a selected one of the object images is of a second type, in response to a touch intensity for bringing an indicator in touch with or in proximity to the selected object image on a touch panel being more than a threshold, change the type of the selected object image to a first type, whereas when the selected object image is of the first type, in response to a particular condition being satisfied in detection of the indicator in touch with or in proximity to the selected object image, change the type of the selected object image to the second type.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hirokazu Sato
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Patent number: 10180785Abstract: A system may include global controls, each associated with a different one of a plurality of user interface screens of a vehicle; contextual controls, each associated with a command function available from a selected one of the plurality of user interface screens; and a vehicle processor configured to display a current one of the plurality of user interface screens, and update command functions associated with the contextual controls responsive to user input to the global controls. A method may include, responsive to receiving an indication of a user input press of a global control, updating command functions associated with contextual controls in accordance with command function available from a user interface screen associated with the global control; and upon receiving a user input release of the global control within a predetermined threshold period of time, navigating to the user interface screen associated with the global control.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2014Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Livio, Inc.Inventors: Justin Dickow, Joel J. Fischer
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Patent number: 10180786Abstract: A control circuit programming levels of pins is provided. A first slot is configured to adjust a first count value according to a clock signal. A timer controller is configured to determine whether the first count value is equal to a first predetermined value. When the first count value is equal to the first predetermined value, the timer controller generates a first trigger signal. A buffer controller is configured to access the input/output buffer. A pin controller is coupled to a first pin, the timer controller and the buffer controller. In an input mode, the pin controller detects the voltage level of the first pin according to the first trigger signal to generate a plurality of detection results. In an output mode, the pin controller generates an output signal according to the first trigger signal and output data stored in the input/output buffer.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2018Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Nuvoton Technology CorporationInventors: Yu-Che Hsieh, Tzu-Lan Shen
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Patent number: 10180787Abstract: A method begins by one or more processing modules of one or more computing devices of a dispersed storage network (DSN) determining that dispersed error encoded data slices stored in a plurality of distributed storage units of the DSN are to be updated and then sending a plurality of lock requests respectively to the plurality of distributed storage units. The method continues with the processing modules receiving a response from a write threshold number of distributed storage units of the plurality of distributed storage units that a lock request has been granted by each of the write threshold number of distributed storage units and then sending a persist message to each of the write threshold number of distributed storage units from which the lock request has been granted.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew D. Baptist, Ravi V. Khadiwala, Mingyu Li, Manish Motwani
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Patent number: 10180788Abstract: A data storage device includes a memory and a controller. The memory includes a first partition and a second partition. The controller includes a pattern detector that is configured to detect one or more tags in data from an access device to be stored in the first partition. The controller is configured to generate, in the second partition, one or more links to the data that is stored in the first partition, the one or more links organized according to metadata associated with the one or more tags.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Orit Dor, Judah Gamliel Hahn