Patents Issued in June 25, 2019
  • Patent number: 10331247
    Abstract: A novel functional panel, a novel device, or a novel data processor is provided. A structure in which a first plane, a second plane that is opposite the first plane, and a neutral plane between the first plane and the second plane are provided and a portion of a functional layer having a thickness greater than or equal to half of the thickness of the functional layer is in a region between the first plane and the neutral plane was conceived.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Jinbo, Akio Endo
  • Patent number: 10331248
    Abstract: A disclosed display device includes a plurality of touch electrodes, a plurality of sensing lines, and a plurality of transistors. Each of the touch electrodes includes a group of common voltage electrodes among a plurality of common voltage elongated along a first direction. The plurality of sensing lines are elongated along a second direction and intersects the plurality of common voltage electrodes. Each of the plurality of sensing lines is coupled to a corresponding group of the common voltage electrodes. The plurality of pixels include a plurality of transistors. Each of the plurality of transistors controls an amount of light output from a corresponding pixel of the plurality of pixels according to a voltage at a gate electrode of said each of the plurality of transistors. The gate electrode is formed in a corresponding separation area between two adjacent common voltage electrodes of the plurality of common voltage electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunho Kim, MinBo Kim, Dongmin Seo, Inseop Kim
  • Patent number: 10331249
    Abstract: A touch sensor substrate including a base material having a first surface, and electrodes each having a bottom surface positioned on the first surface, a top surface opposite to the bottom surface, and side surfaces connecting the bottom and top surfaces, each of the electrodes having a blackened layer formed on the side surfaces and at least one of the bottom and top surfaces. The blackened layer has a surface resistivity of less than 1 ?/square.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: VTS-TOUCHSENSOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Goto, Maki Tanaka, Gen Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10331250
    Abstract: A touch panel is provided. The touch panel includes a substrate having a touch area and a peripheral area adjacent to the touch area. A transparent conductive layer is disposed on the substrate, the transparent conductive layer includes a touch-sensing portion and a wiring portion, wherein the touch-sensing portion is electrically connected to the wiring portion, and wherein the touch-sensing portion is disposed corresponding to the touch area and the wiring portion is disposed corresponding to the peripheral area. A metal layer is disposed on the wiring portion of the transparent conductive layer and corresponding to the peripheral area. An insulating layer is disposed on the metal layer and corresponding to the peripheral area. A touch display device including the touch panel is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei-Chih Chen, Tung-Chang Tsai, Hung-Sheng Cho
  • Patent number: 10331251
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide a metal bridge of a touch control structure, a touch screen and an electronic equipment. The metal bridge includes a bridge body. An orthographic projection of the bridge body on a plane of the touch control structure has a shape of a zigzag line. The metal bridge of the touch control structure provided by the embodiment of the invention applies a bridge body with a zigzag line shape. It is difficult for the human eye to observe the bridge body, and a desired shadow elimination effect is thus provided, thereby improving the display quality of the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Xie, Ming Hu, Jing Wang, Ming Zhang, Dong Li
  • Patent number: 10331252
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch screen, a display device, and a method of driving a touch screen. The touch screen comprises: an array substrate having a common electrode layer; a display driving unit configured to provide a common electrode driving signal to the common electrode layer; a touch driving unit configured to provide a touch electrode driving signal to the common electrode layer, wherein the array substrate further comprises a first switching unit configured to switch so as to output the common electrode driving signal to the common electrode layer. The touch screen further comprises a second switching unit configured to output the touch electrode driving signal generated by the touch driving unit to the common electrode layer. The common electrode driving signal and the touch electrode driving signal are time-division output to the common electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiyun Huang, Zhonglin Cao, Ting Li
  • Patent number: 10331253
    Abstract: An in-cell touch screen is provided and has an array substrate, where a metal is added into and disposed in a gap between common electrode plates of the array substrate. The metal is connected with the common electrode plates, and the metal together with pixel electrodes form an electric field, such that liquid crystal molecules in an area corresponding to the gap between the common electrode plates are driven to tilt normally. Therefore, the area and other display areas have an identical display effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yao-Li Huang, Xinglong He
  • Patent number: 10331254
    Abstract: A touch organic light-emitting diode display device including an organic light-emitting diode display, a touch panel, and a linear polarizing layer is provided. The touch panel is disposed on the organic light-emitting diode display, and the touch panel includes a substrate, a driving electrode, a sensing electrode, and a dielectric layer. The driving electrode is adapted to transmit a driving signal, and the sensing electrode is adapted to receive a sensing signal. The driving electrode and the sensing electrode are disposed to be insulated from each other, and the dielectric layer is connected to at least one of the driving electrode and the sensing electrode. The dielectric layer has a one-quarter wavelength phase delay amount, and the dielectric layer is formed by coating. The linear polarizing layer is disposed at one side of the touch panel away from the organic light-emitting diode display. Besides, a touch device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Chun Wang, Chia-Chia Lin, Li-Chun Tai
  • Patent number: 10331255
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a display component, a touch sensor component, and a touch-screen controller. The display component includes pixel-drive electrodes configured to display an image and the touch sensor component is configured to detect a touch input. The touch-screen controller, which is coupled to the touch sensor component, the display component, and the pixel-drive electrodes, is configured to generate a drive signal for the touch sensor component using the pixel-drive electrodes. The touch-screen controller is further configured to generate a pixel-drive signal for the display component using the pixel-drive electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventor: Esat Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 10331256
    Abstract: A sensitivity compensation method of a touch input device sensing a touch pressure may be provided. The sensitivity compensation method includes: defining a plurality of reference points spaced apart from each other on a touch sensor panel; generating a reference data corresponding to a capacitance change amount sensed by applying a predetermined pressure to the plurality of reference points; generating, on the basis of the reference data, an interpolated data corresponding to a capacitance change amount for a random point present between the plurality of reference points; calculating, on the basis of the generated reference data and interpolated data, with respect to the reference point and random point respectively, a compensation factor for compensating a sensitivity of the touch input device to a target value; and compensating uniformly for the sensitivity of the touch input device by applying the calculated compensation factor to each corresponding points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: HiDeep Inc.
    Inventors: Ho Jun Moon, Bon Kee Kim, Se Yeob Kim, Bong Jin Seo, Tae Hoon Kim, Myung Jun Jin
  • Patent number: 10331257
    Abstract: A touch panel and a method for arranging electrodes of the touch panel are provided. The touch panel includes a plurality of touch sections. Each of the touch sections includes a first transmitter electrode, a first receiver electrode, a second transmitter electrode, a second receiver electrode, and a third receiver electrode. The first transmitter electrode has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. The first receiver electrode adjoins the first side. The second transmitter electrode has a third side and a fourth side opposite to the third side. The second receiver electrode adjoins the second side and the third side. The third receiver electrode adjoins the fourth side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Chang Lai, Ching-Yang Pai
  • Patent number: 10331258
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a first body having a front surface, on which a display is positioned, one end of the first body being opened, and a second body coupled with the first body by a plurality of couplers provided at different positions. At least one of the plurality of couplers is a magnet coupler coupling the first and second bodies through a magnetic force. At least another of the plurality of couplers is a hook coupler provided corresponding to the first and second bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jonghwan Lee, Seongwoo Choi, Taewha Choi, Juhun Lee, Sanghyun Yoon
  • Patent number: 10331259
    Abstract: A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time and at distinct locations in the plane of the touch panel and to produce distinct signals representative of the location of the touches on the plane of the touch panel for each of the multiple touches is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Hotelling, Joshua A. Strickon, Brian Q. Huppi
  • Patent number: 10331260
    Abstract: Various embodiments concern sensors and other components that can be disposed beneath a variable transparency layer of a mobile device. By modifying how much voltage is applied to the variable transparency layer, a component, such as a camera, can be readily hidden when not in use. More specifically, the variable transparency layer may be substantially opaque when the camera is not in use and at least partially transparent when the camera is in use and ready to capture an image. The opacity level of the variable transparency layer can be modified by a voltage source that is electrically coupled to the variable transparency layer. The various levels of opacity could also enable the variable transparency layer to act as an electronic aperture for the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: ESSENTIAL PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: David John Evans, V, Xinrui Jiang, Andrew E. Rubin, Matthew Hershenson, Xiaoyu Miao
  • Patent number: 10331261
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, a light-shielding element, a touch sensing layer, a discharge element, and a main bridge element. The substrate has a center area and an edge area surrounding the center area. The light-shielding element is disposed on the edge area of the substrate. The touch sensing layer is disposed on the substrate and a portion of the touch sensing layer is disposed on the light-shielding element. The discharge element is disposed on the light-shielding element and is separated from the touch sensing layer. The main bridge element is connected to the portion of the touch sensing layer disposed on the light-shielding element and the discharging element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc.
    Inventors: Kwan-Sin Ho, Xiao-Xia You, Jun-Ping Yang, Hua Yun
  • Patent number: 10331262
    Abstract: A driving unit, a driving method, a driving circuit, and a display panel are disclosed. The driving unit is for providing a signal to a touch electrode of an array substrate, comprising: a first control signal input terminal, a second control signal input terminal, a gating signal input terminal, a touch control driving module, a display driving module, and a signal output terminal. The touch control driving module is configured to output a touch control signal to the signal output terminal, and is controlled by a signal inputted through the first control signal input terminal, a signal inputted through the second control signal input terminal, and a signal inputted through the gating signal input terminal. The display driving module is configured to output a common voltage signal to the signal output terminal, and is controlled by the signal inputted through the gating signal input terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignees: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd, Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qingjun Lai, Zhaokeng Cao, Poping Shen, Xiufeng Zhou, Yihua Zhu, Zhaodong Zhang
  • Patent number: 10331263
    Abstract: An OLED display panel includes a common electrode layer, a display pixel electrode and touch sensing electrode layer, an OLED layer, a lower substrate, a thin film transistor layer, and an encapsulation layer. The common electrode layer has plural through holes defined therein. The display pixel electrode and touch sensing electrode layer includes plural display pixel electrodes and plural touch sensing electrodes, wherein each touch sensing electrode has a mesh type pattern. The OLED layer is configured between the common electrode layer and the display pixel electrode and touch sensing electrode layer. The thin film transistor layer is disposed at one side of the lower substrate facing the OLED layer. The encapsulation layer is disposed at the other side of the common electrode layer facing the OLED layer. A first power circuit for the touch sensing electrodes is independent to a second power circuit for the OLED display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Ping-Tsun Lin
  • Patent number: 10331264
    Abstract: A touch display apparatus including a base substrate, a sensing electrode, a first connection wiring, a second connection wiring, a first touch detector and a second touch detector. The sensing electrode is disposed on the base substrate. The first connection wiring is electrically connected to the sensing electrode. The second connection wiring is electrically connected to the sensing electrode. The first touch detector is electrically connected to the first connection wiring and configured to detect a touch event for the sensing electrode. The second touch detector is electrically connected to the second connection wiring and configured to detect the touch event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Youngmin Shin
  • Patent number: 10331265
    Abstract: One variation of a method for interfacing a computer to a human includes: detecting application of a first input onto a touch sensor surface and a first force magnitude of the first input; in response to the first force magnitude exceeding a first threshold magnitude, actuating a vibrator coupled to the touch sensor surface during a first click cycle and triggering an audio driver proximal the touch sensor surface to output a click sound during the first click cycle; detecting retraction of the first input from the touch sensor surface and a second force magnitude of the first input; and, in response to the second force magnitude falling below a second threshold magnitude less than the first threshold magnitude, actuating the vibrator during a second click cycle distinct from the first click cycle and triggering the audio driver to output the click sound during the second click cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Sensel, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, John Aaron Zarraga, Brogan Miller, Charles Watson, Tomer Moscovich, Alexander Grau
  • Patent number: 10331266
    Abstract: A display device can include a display panel touch block groups, each including touch sensors, each touch sensor corresponds to one or more pixels defined by data lines and gate lines; a data driver that generates and supplies a modulated source signal for display data to a data line; a gate driver that generates a modulated scan-on signal for writing the modulated source signal to a pixel and supplies the modulated scan-on signal to the gate lines; and a touch sensor driver that supplies a touch driving signal to touch wires connected to corresponding touch sensors in each of the touch block groups, and selectively senses for touch on a touch block group, except for a restricted touch block group overlapping a gate line that is supplied with the modulated scan-on signal, in which the modulated source signal or the modulated scan-on signal is synchronized with the touch driving signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungrok Shin, Deuksu Lee, Sangkyu Kim, Jaegyun Lee, Taeyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10331267
    Abstract: Disclosed is a touch detector which detects a touch on a touch sensor panel including a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes and a plurality of third electrodes. The touch detector includes: a driving signal supplier which applies a driving signal to the plurality of first electrodes; and a sensing unit which receives a first signal including information on a capacitance changing depending on the touch on a touch surface of the touch sensor panel from the plurality of second electrodes. The sensing unit detects a touch pressure and a touch position on the touch surface of the touch sensor panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: HiDeep Inc.
    Inventors: Sangsic Yoon, Seyeob Kim, Bonkee Kim
  • Patent number: 10331268
    Abstract: A sensitivity compensation method of a touch input device sensing a touch pressure may be provided. The sensitivity compensation method includes: detecting a capacitance change amount by applying a pressure to a plurality of points defined on a touch sensor panel; generating a raw data for the capacitance change amount of the defined point; generating a decimal value data for each of the sets by dividing a data value within the set by a maximum value within the set; calculating an average value of each defined point; generating a representative value data by calculating a value corresponding to all the points of the touch sensor panel; calculating a balance factor on the basis of the representative value data; and compensating for a touch pressure sensitivity of the touch input device by using the balance factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: HiDeep Inc.
    Inventors: Tae Hoon Kim, Sang Sic Yoon, Se Yeob Kim, Bon Kee Kim, Ho Jun Moon, Seon Dong Kwak
  • Patent number: 10331269
    Abstract: A device with touch surface with projected capacitive detection comprising a matrix touchscreen comprises a plurality of conductive rows and of conductive columns, the screen linked to electronic control means generating, for each conductive row and for each conductive column, transmission signals and electronic means for receiving and analyzing the reception signals from each conductive row and from each conductive column. Each row of the device comprises, at one of its ends, first means for generating a first transmission signal and first means for receiving a first reception signal and, at its opposite end, second means for generating a second transmission signal and second means for receiving a second reception signal, the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal being synchronous, having the same frequency, the same amplitude and the same phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Yves Sontag, Philippe Coni, Jean-Christophe Abadie, Frédéric Renaud
  • Patent number: 10331270
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display and a controller. The display is configured to display an image and comprises a touch sensor for touch input within an assigned sensing section. The controller is configured to perform an operation corresponding to the touch input sensed within the sensing section, and to control the touch sensor to adjust the sensing section based on conditions for adjusting the sensing section. With this, the display apparatus and a control method thereof which can efficiently sense, without lowering the speed of sensing, a touch input based on a plurality of pens or fingers is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gwan-Hyung Kim, Sang-ho Kim, Hui-jun Shim, Ji-hye Ha
  • Patent number: 10331271
    Abstract: A displaying and operating device having a display unit and at least one proximity sensor, wherein a penetration of an object into at least one monitoring space can be detected by the proximity sensor, wherein at least one representation on the display unit is changed as a function of a penetrating object, wherein the displaying and operating device has a unit wherein a chronological sequence of receive signals from the proximity sensor is evaluated by the unit, wherein a constant receive signal is detected and stored within a predetermined time interval and, for subsequent operating, is ignored as a static receive signal of the display unit, wherein a change in the representation is carried out only if a subsequent receive signal exceeds the static receive signal by a predetermined value. Also disclosed is a method for operating a displaying and operating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventor: Christoph Wojzischke
  • Patent number: 10331272
    Abstract: A device comprising a light sensor, a touchscreen and a processing unit is disclosed. The processing unit is configured to receive a first input signal from the touchscreen and a second input signal from the light sensor, generate an output signal based on the first and second input signals, wherein the processing unit is further configured to process the second input signal only after it has received the first input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Guoqiang Zhang, Lars Andersson, José Araújo
  • Patent number: 10331273
    Abstract: A touch display system, a touch device and a touch display method are provided. A first touch tool and a second touch tool are communicated with to determine whether the first touch tool and the second touch tool are enabled within an enable area. When at least one of the first touch tool and the second touch tool is enabled within the enable area, a touch light curtain generating unit is controlled to stop generating a light curtain. When the first touch tool and the second touch tool are all enabled, the first touch tool and the second touch tool are controlled to sequentially emit invisible lights, so as to determine touch positions of the first touch tool and the second touch tool, by which misjudgment of the touch positions is effectively avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventor: Chung-Lung Yang
  • Patent number: 10331274
    Abstract: A light source includes an invisible light emitter that emits an invisible light beam and a visible light emitter that emits a visible light beam. A light source controller causes the light source to emit at least one light beam from among the invisible light beam and the visible light beam. A propagation controller causes an emission light beam emitted from the light source to propagate along a predetermined plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryoji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10331275
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a mat characteristic to process images. Examples include to acquire an image of a mat from a camera in a computing device; to process the image according to the mat characteristic in the computing device; and to display the processed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Kar-Han Tan
  • Patent number: 10331276
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods may provide for an interactive display projection with surface interactivity analysis. An interactive display projector is provided along with one or more of a camera or an electromagnetic radiation source to scan plural surfaces within a projection range of the interactive display projector. Logic, implemented at least partly in configurable or fixed functionality hardware may process reflected electromagnetic radiation to determine one or more of size, distance, texture, reflectivity, or angle with respect to the interactive display projector of the scanned plural surfaces and determine, based on the processing, interactivity of one or more of the plural surfaces for an interactive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Carl S. Marshall, Selvakumar Panneer, Glen J. Anderson, Meng Shi, Giuseppe Raffa
  • Patent number: 10331277
    Abstract: A touch projection screen includes a substrate, a first touch layer, a second touch layer, a reflective projection film and a circuit board. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface. The first touch layer is disposed on the first surface and extends around an edge of the substrate to cover a part of the second surface of the substrate. The second touch layer is disposed on the first touch layer and extends around an edge of the substrate to cover a part of the second surface of the substrate. The reflective projection film is disposed on the second touch layer. The circuit board is disposed on the second surface of the substrate and electrically connects the first and second touch layers. A touch projection system includes the touch projection screen and a projection device. The projection device projects an image beam onto the touch projection screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Kun-Rong Chang, Nan-Jiun Yin, Pen-Ning Kuo
  • Patent number: 10331278
    Abstract: A touch sensor panel having co-planar single-layer touch sensors fabricated on a single side of a substrate is disclosed. The drive and sense lines can be fabricated as column-like patterns in a first orientation and patches in a second orientation, where each column-like pattern in the first orientation is connected to a separate metal trace in the border area of the touch sensor panel, and all patches in each of multiple rows in the second orientation are connected together using a separate metal trace in the border area of the touch sensor panel. The metal traces in the border areas can be formed on the same side of the substrate as the patches and columns, but separated from the patches and column-like patterns by a dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Porter Hotelling, John Z. Zhong
  • Patent number: 10331279
    Abstract: A transducer converts an actuation, applied to the transducer, into a raw actuation signal. The sensor device comprises an acceleration intermediary for converting an acceleration of the transducer into an actuation which is applied to the transducer, an underlying surface state detector for generating an underlying surface state signal by evaluating the raw actuation signal and an actuation signal generator for generating the actuation signal, processed in dependence on an underlying surface state, by evaluating the raw actuation signal taking into account the underlying surface state signal. Furthermore, the invention relates to a corresponding vehicle and to a corresponding method for generating an actuation signal which is processed in dependence on an underlying surface state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Michael Wachinger
  • Patent number: 10331280
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. In the touch substrate of the present invention, first leads of a first-layer structure are connected with first patterns in a second-layer structure via first via holes, second leads of the first-layer structure are connected with second patterns in the second-layer structure via second via holes, and the first patterns and the second patterns produce mutual capacitance. Each first pattern comprises a plurality of branches radiating from the center to the circumference, each second pattern surrounds one first pattern in a mutually separated manner, and when the touch substrate is used for flexible display, the second patterns can cover the whole bent surface, so that when a user touches any place of the touch substrate, the touch substrate can quickly respond and blind spots cannot be formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Xie, Ming Hu, Ting Zeng, Qingpu Wang, Jing Wang
  • Patent number: 10331281
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for filtering touch noise and a touch device. The method includes: when normal signals for at least one row of the touch electrodes are input to the touch panel, obtaining a standard capacitance value of each of the touch electrodes, and obtaining a connection capacitance value of each of the touch electrodes; for each of the touch electrodes: subtracting a connection capacitance value of another touch electrode, which is in the same row with and adjacent to the touch electrode in a first direction, from the connection capacitance value of the touch electrode to obtain a capacitance difference value; from the last touch electrode, calculating the capacitance value of the restoration signal for each touch electrode along a second direction opposite to the first direction. Coordinates are calculated according to the capacitance values of the restoration signals for individual touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: EverDisplay Optronics (Shanghai) Limited
    Inventor: Feng-Shuen Huang
  • Patent number: 10331282
    Abstract: In some aspects of the present disclosure, a touch-panel interface includes a plurality of receivers, wherein each of the receivers is coupled to one or more receive lines of a touch panel, and each of the receivers includes a switch capacitor network and an amplifier. The touch-panel interface also includes controller configured to control switches in the switch capacitor network of each of one or more of the receivers to operate each of the one or more of the receivers in one of a plurality of different receiver modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ankit Srivastava, Mohamed Imtiaz Ahmed, Dustin Tarl Dunwell, William Martin Snelgrove, Ayaz Hasan, Matthew David James
  • Patent number: 10331283
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a capacitive touch panel, comprises a substantially transparent substrate and a transparent sensing pattern. The transparent sensing pattern, which detects touch signals, is formed on the substantially transparent substrate. The transparent sensing pattern comprises a plurality of conductor cells and at least one metal conductor disposed on the substantially transparent substrate. The at least one metal conductor connects two adjacent conductor cells. At least one low-reflection layer is formed on the at least one metal conductor. The low-reflection layer can reduce the reflected light therefore reducing the visibility of the metal conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc.
    Inventors: Yuh-Wen Lee, Ching-Shan Lin
  • Patent number: 10331284
    Abstract: A touch-control communication system and a touch control communication method are provided in the present invention. The system includes a mobile device and a data transmission device. The mobile device has a capacitive touch panel, and the capacitive touch panel emits a touch sensing signal when the capacitive touch panel senses touch. The data transmission device is configured with a transceiver antenna and a signal inverting circuit. According to the transmission data, the data transmission device determines whether or not the signal inverting circuit outputs an inversion signal to the transceiver antenna, so that the capacitive touch panel obtains a logic state of the transmission data by detecting whether or not a touch point exists. Thus, the transmission data can be transmitted to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: GENERALPLUS TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Li Sheng Lo
  • Patent number: 10331285
    Abstract: A method of creating a haptic effect on a touch surface, the method including the steps of detecting a location of a first appendage and a second appendage on a touch surface, applying a mechanical force to the first and second appendages at the detected locations on the touch surface, modulating the amplitude of the mechanical force to adjust a friction force applied to the first appendage and second appendage to simulate a texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: James Edward Colgate, Michael A. Peshkin, John Glassmire, Laura Winfield Alexander
  • Patent number: 10331286
    Abstract: A portable communication device (1) is capable of setting a sleep mode as an operation mode. An operation receiver (101) receives operations given by a user. A setter (102) sets the operation mode to the sleep mode when the operation receiver (101) receives no operation for a first time period. A displayer (103) displays an indicator on a display when the operation receiver (101) receives a first operation in the sleep mode. A launcher (104) launches, when the operation receiver (101) receives operations for specifying the indicator, an application program associated with the specified indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: NEC Corporatian
    Inventor: Sho Ryo
  • Patent number: 10331287
    Abstract: A user interface can have one or more spaces presented therein. A space is a grouping of one or more program windows in relation to windows of other application programs, such that the program(s) of only a single space is visible when the space is active. A view can be generated of all spaces and their contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Assana Fard, John O. Louch, Ralph Brunner, Haroon Sheikh, Eric Steven Peyton, Christopher Hynes
  • Patent number: 10331288
    Abstract: A method. The method may include obtaining, from a graphical user interface (GUI), a selection of a first oilfield object. The first oilfield object may define a portion of a first wellbore design. The method may further include determining a target context of a second wellbore design. The method may further include obtaining, from the first oilfield object, source oilfield data describing the portion of the first wellbore design. The method may further include adjusting the source oilfield data, according to the target context of the second wellbore design, to obtain target oilfield data for the second wellbore design. The method may further include generating, using the target oilfield data, a second oilfield object within the target context. The method may further include presenting, within the GUI, the second oilfield object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Lucian Johnston, Mark S. Passolt
  • Patent number: 10331289
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method for optimizing a developer's ability to find and navigate relevant documents, relationships, and other information related to an identifier in the code they are developing. An inline viewport is presented to the user in response to the user selecting an identifier in the code whereby the user is able to see relevant information related to the identifier in a spatially consistent location with the code they are investigating. Further, the developer has the ability to make changes to the code in the viewport without leaving the current editor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Monty Hammontree, Murali Krishna Hosabettu Kamalesha, Brandon Adams, Steven John Clarke, Oleg Tkachenko, Zachary S Zaiss, John Tilford, David Pugh, Daniel Dole
  • Patent number: 10331290
    Abstract: Change tracking and collaborative communication are provided in authoring content in a collaborative environment. Monitored changes, comments, and similar input by the collaborating authors may be presented on demand or automatically to each author based on changes and/or comments that affect a particular author, that author's portion of collaborated content, type of changes/comments, or similar criteria. Change and/or comments notification may be provided in a complementary user interface of the collaborative authoring application or through a separate communication application such as email or text messaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Eran Megiddo, David Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 10331291
    Abstract: In general, one innovative aspect of the subject matter described in this specification may be embodied in methods that include verifying a digital identification using visual indicators displayed to an authorized user. For instance, the visual indicators may be a set of graphical representations that are variably selected to be displayed on the digital identification. The visual indicator information may be provided to the authorized user to enable verification of the digital identification without any additional detector devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Morpho Trust USA, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Poder, Richard Austin Huber
  • Patent number: 10331292
    Abstract: A display control method performed by a first terminal of a first user is disclosed. The display control method includes receiving an instruction to display first talk information and second talk information on a screen of the first terminal; displaying, in a first display area of the screen, transmission data of a second user included in the first talk information; displaying, in a second display area of the screen, transmission data of a third user included in the second talk information; and displaying, in a third display area of the screen, transmission data of the first user included in the first talk information and in the second talk information. Pieces of the transmission data of the first to third users included in the first talk information and the second talk information are displayed and spatially arranged in the first to third display areas in a single time sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Line Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Arisada, Tasuku Okuda
  • Patent number: 10331293
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system dynamically resizes one or more application windows displayed on one or more screens based on an interactive state associated with the one or more application windows. Initially, a processor displays a plurality of different windows associated with one or more corresponding applications and determines an interactive state associated with each of the plurality of different windows. The processor then analyzes the interactive states of each of the plurality of different windows and, in response, adjusts a size of one or more of the plurality of different windows in accordance with the determined interactive states. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for dynamically resizing one or more application windows based on the interactive states associated with the one or more application windows in substantially the same manner described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Coporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Jana H. Jenkins, Robert E. Loredo, Fang Lu
  • Patent number: 10331294
    Abstract: A system for providing a second user of a computer system with an additional auxiliary display for displaying the information on the primary display and additional augmented information to help the user more easily understand the information displayed on the primary display is disclosed. For example, the second display may show the information on the primary display and also additional information summarizing the information for the benefit of the second display. The additional information may be generated by the computer system, retrieved from the Internet, or generated by another computer connected to the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: HRB Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Maksim Kunakhovich, C. Taylor Brown, Kabaleeswaran Sabapathi, Kenneth Meade, Jr., Umapathy Selvamoni
  • Patent number: 10331295
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for visualizing data about an object. A hierarchy of image blocks is generated using an action scheme and a part. Instructions identifying a hierarchy of image blocks and the action scheme are generated. The hierarchy of image blocks is communicated to a graphical user interface. An image area is identified in an image block in the hierarchy of image blocks in the graphical user interface. A query is generated to identify a location of the part within the object. The query is based on a type of search, a spatial region, and the action scheme. An indicator representing the location of the part identified by the query is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Nikoli E. Prazak, John Carney Gass
  • Patent number: 10331296
    Abstract: A dual-screen user device and methods for launching applications from a revealed desktop onto a logically chosen screen are disclosed. Specifically, a user reveals the desktop and then launches a selected application from one of two desktops displayed on a primary and secondary screen of a device. When the application is launched, it is displayed onto a specific screen depending on the input received and the logical rules determining the display output. As the application is displayed onto the specific screen, the desktop is removed from display and the opposite screen can display other data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Martin Gimpl