Patents Issued in September 24, 2019
  • Patent number: 10423262
    Abstract: In a touch display device, a controller generates a touch sync signal for controlling timing of a touch sensing period and a display period in each of a plurality of frames. A touch panel has a plurality of touch electrodes in a display area to generate touch sensing signals indicating whether or not a touch occurs during the touch sensing period. A touch sensing circuit supplies a touch drive signal to the plurality of touch electrodes during the touch sensing period and detects if the touch occurred based on the touch sensing signals received from the plurality of touch electrodes. A touch assistance line surrounds the display area and is disposed in the non-display area of the touch panel. A touch assistance signal supply circuit generates a touch assistance signal on the touch assistance line. The touch assistance signal mimics the touch drive signal during the touch sensing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Kyu Kang, Hoon Bae Kim, Sung Yub Lee
  • Patent number: 10423263
    Abstract: A portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a display unit, an input unit and a hinge member. The hinge member is detachably connected to the display unit and pivotally connected to the input unit, and the hinge member and the display unit are rotatable relative to the input unit around a rotary axis. The display unit has at least a slot and the hinge member has at least a guide pin corresponding to the slot. The guide pin has a first slope structure and a vertical surface structure. The first slope structure and the vertical surface structure are arranged in a direction parallel to the rotary axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Kun-Ho Lee, Chih-Min Chan
  • Patent number: 10423264
    Abstract: A screen enabling method and apparatus, and an electronic device, where the method includes: detecting a first pressure value of a pressure operation performed on a touchscreen of the electronic device when a display screen of an electronic device is in a disabled state. The display screen includes first and second portions for displaying, in the first portion, first screen display data according to a first display attribute when the first pressure value is greater than or equal to a preset pressure operation threshold. The second portion is kept in a disabled state or is displayed in black. The first display attribute includes at least a display luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun Duan, Yong Chen, Jie Xu
  • Patent number: 10423265
    Abstract: An optical force sensor, which may be used as input to an electronic device. The optical force sensor may be configured to compensate for variations in temperature using two or more force-sensitive components that are formed from materials having different temperature- and strain-dependent responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sinan Filiz, James E. Pedder, Charley T. Ogata, John Stephen Smith, Dhaval Chandrakant Patel, Shin John Choi, Brian Q. Huppi, Christopher J. Butler, Martin P. Grunthaner
  • Patent number: 10423266
    Abstract: A self-luminescence display apparatus includes a display panel having a plurality of conductive layers and a supporting frame. One of the conductive layers cooperates with the supporting frame to form a plurality of force sensing capacitors. When a touch action is applied, the display panel deforms according to pressure applied, which cause the capacitances of the force sensing capacitors to alter, which corresponds to a place where the touch operation applied on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Wen Lin, Yu-Fu Weng, Chia-Lin Liu
  • Patent number: 10423267
    Abstract: A conductive thin film, a touch panel and a manufacturing method for the same, and a display device are provided. Material for forming the conductive thin film comprise topological insulator, the conductive thin film has a two-dimensional nanostructure, which solves the technical problem that the resistance of electrodes of the touch panel is relatively harge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongchun Lu, Yong Qiao, Hongfei Cheng, Jianbo Xian
  • Patent number: 10423268
    Abstract: A method includes sampling output from sensor having electrode junctions integrated on a device including a display, detecting capacitance between the device ground and a user (CBD) based on the output sampled and a pre-defined model, and defining one of two grounding states of the device based on the capacitance detected. Output is processed based on the grounding state defined and touch coordinates are determined based on the output processed. The touch coordinates are reported to a controller of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Orlovsky, Amil Winebrand, On Haran
  • Patent number: 10423269
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided with a touch panel of a capacitive type and a controller. The controller, based on a detection value of the touch panel, detects capacitance generated between the touch panel and a contact object and detects, as a contact region, a first region having the capacitance smaller than a capacitance of the other region of the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Sakuma, Yudai Nagata, Masanori Morobishi, Taro Iio, Takayuki Fujiki, Yuya Yamaguchi, Makoto Honjo
  • Patent number: 10423270
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes: a terminal body having a case formed of a metallic material at least partially; a metal key unit formed on one region of the case, and configured to sense a pressure of a touch input; and a controller configured to execute a specific function based on a pressure applied to the metal key unit, wherein the metal key unit includes: a flexible printed circuit board attached to a lower part of the case; and a pressure sensor configured to sense a pressure applied to the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONIC INC.
    Inventors: Hongjo Shim, Hyunok Lee, Sungho Woo
  • Patent number: 10423271
    Abstract: A touch control armrest sleeve includes an body and a connecting portion. The body includes a flexible pad, a flexible touch panel and a protective cover. The connecting portion is connected to a first end and a second end of the body. The flexible touch panel includes a flexible substrate and a carbon nanotube touch function layer. The carbon nanotube touch function layer includes a carbon nanotube film, a plurality of first electrodes, and a plurality of second electrodes. The carbon nanotube film is located on the flexible substrate. The plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes are electrically connected to the carbon nanotube film. A touch control seat incorporating such touch control armrest sleeve is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shou-Shan Fan, Liang Liu, Li Qian, Yu-Quan Wang
  • Patent number: 10423272
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprises: a detection unit configured to detect a touch operation on a display unit; a control unit configured to control the electronic apparatus, in a touch operation restriction state in which a touch operation on a position different from a specific area on the display unit is invalidated, to release the restriction state and make a transition to a state in which a touch operation on a position different from the specific area is accepted upon detecting a predetermined touch operation on the specific area; and a display control unit configured to control the display unit to perform display to indicate the specific area upon detecting a touch operation on a position different from the specific area on the display unit in the restriction state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daiyu Ueno
  • Patent number: 10423273
    Abstract: Differential transmission is provided in a capacitive sensor for reducing cross-talk between rows and columns. A capacitive touch sensitive device as disclosed herein includes row conductors and column conductors, a first row signal generator for transmitting a first row signal on a first row conductor, a second row signal generator for transmitting a second row signal on a second row conductor, and a touch processor for identifying a touch event on the touch interface by processing signals present on at least one of the column conductors. The first and second row signals together form a differential row group of signals that cancel each other out or at least substantially mitigate each other so as to reduce cross-talk interference in the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.
    Inventors: Darren Leigh, Clifton Forlines
  • Patent number: 10423274
    Abstract: Methods, device, and computer program product for mitigating pathogen transmission via a touch surface of a touch input device. Mitigation is accomplished through selective touch surface sterilization and through touchscreen user interface reorganization. The touch surface includes a pixel array for illuminating selected portions of the touch surface with ultraviolet light of a sterilization wavelength based upon the received touch inputs. The selective illumination may occur while receiving a touch input or after an accumulation of touch inputs have been received. The user interface may also be reorganized based on received touch inputs in order to locate user interface icons to lesser touched locations of the touch surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Guy Cohen, James R. Kozloski, Clifford A. Pickover
  • Patent number: 10423275
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, and a plurality of wirings. Each of the plurality of first electrodes has a first portion formed on a layer different from that on which the second electrodes are formed and intersecting the second electrodes and a second portion formed on the sane layer as that on which the second electrodes are formed, but separated from the second electrode. The second electrode and the second portion of the first electrode are formed on a layer different than the layer where the wiring is formed. The first portion of the first electrode is connected to the second portion through a contact portion formed in an insulating film made of a negative resist between the first portion and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Teramoto
  • Patent number: 10423276
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising logic is configured to, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising measuring samples from a touch sensor. Each sample is measured by determining, based on a first pattern of polarities, a polarity of a charging signal to be applied to an electrode of the touch sensor, the first pattern of polarities based on a signal associated with a noise source; applying the charging signal to the electrode, the charging signal, as applied, having the polarity determined based on the first pattern of polarities; and measuring a received signal from the touch sensor, the received signal resulting, at least in part, from the charging signal applied to the electrode. The operations comprise determining whether a touch event has occurred at the electrode by analyzing the received signals from the samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventor: David K. Bye
  • Patent number: 10423277
    Abstract: A circuit includes a receiver that includes an input stage to receive a touch signal from a touch system. A noise reduction circuit that samples the touch signal to detect a noise signal in the touch signal. The noise reduction circuit generates a reduction signal based on the noise signal that is fed back to the input stage of the receiver to mitigate noise interference of the noise signal with respect to the touch signal at the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Srinath Hosur, Ashish Khandelwal, Charles M. Branch
  • Patent number: 10423278
    Abstract: A portable device including drift-compensated capacitive proximity sensor that exploits a special method of drift compensation based on the variation of the measured proximity signal. The drift is tracked when the variation is within a stated interval, and frozen when the variation is outside. The sensor is capable of following a drift not only when the phone is inactive, but also when it is close to the body of the user, by freezing the tracking when the capacity varies steeply, as when the user moves the device, and resuming it when the variation is within acceptable limits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Semtech Corporation
    Inventors: Chaouki Rouaissia, Sébastien Grisot
  • Patent number: 10423279
    Abstract: A touch sensitive processing apparatus is provided for detecting whether a touch panel is mostly covered by a conductive liquid or object. The apparatus includes a driving circuit for providing a driving signal to one of multiple parallel electrodes of the touch panel; a sensing circuit for sensing multiple values by the electrodes with respect to the driving signal; and a processor. The processor is configured for commanding the driving circuit to provide the driving signal and receiving the multiple sensing values from the sensing circuit; calculating a maximum difference between the largest and the smallest values of the sensing values; and if the maximum difference is less than a threshold, then determining that the touch panel is mostly covered by a conductive liquid or object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Chin-Fu Chang
  • Patent number: 10423280
    Abstract: An optical touch-sensitive device includes a top surface that includes tactile surface features. This produces a tactile effect experienced by the user using a finger or object (e.g., pen, stylus, or other instrument) on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Rapt IP Limited
    Inventor: Owen Drumm
  • Patent number: 10423281
    Abstract: Examples are directed to detect screen contact using total internal reflection. One example involves detecting contact on a screen, the screen comprising total internal reflection of light; and determining, via at least one processor, a location of the contact on the screen based on a disturbance of the total internal reflection, the disturbance caused by the detected contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Wei-Shan Yang, Irwan Halim
  • Patent number: 10423282
    Abstract: A projector includes a determining unit configured to determine whether the distance between an operation device and a distance measuring unit configured to measure a distance to the operation device is a first threshold or less, a switching unit configured to switch, when a mode of the projector is a first mode, the mode from the first mode to a second mode when it is determined that the distance between the operation device and the distance measuring unit is the first threshold or less, a detecting unit configured to detect the position indicated by the operation device, and a processing unit configured to, when indication of a first position on the screen is detected, perform first processing corresponding to the first position when the mode is the first mode and perform second processing different from the first processing corresponding to the first position when the mode is the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiki Fujimori
  • Patent number: 10423283
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including circuitry configured to control output of a first content according to first content information, determine information related to a real object which is different from a manipulation body used for content selection or object manipulation by a user, and control output of a second content, which is different from the first content, according to second content information, wherein the second content information is based on the first content information and the determined information related to the real object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Hiroshi Saito, Maya Kamachi, Yu Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10423284
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a housing, a display unit installed in the housing and having a display area to display an image or a menu icon, a sensing unit installed in the housing adjacent to the display unit, having a virtual area to sense an object which is disposed over the display area of the display unit, and having a first camera to photograph and display the virtual area in a photographing mode and a second camera to extract the object from the virtual area and display a sensed image of the extracted object in a sensing mode, and a controller to analyze status of the object according to the sensed image of the object, and to determine the analyzed status of the object as a user input in the sensing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Inventor: Seungman Kim
  • Patent number: 10423285
    Abstract: In a capacitive touch sensor device, to avoid floating touches causing signal inversion in mutual capacitance measurements, an electrode pattern is used of the type in which the mutual capacitance arises primarily from co-extending electrode portions of the drive and sense electrodes separated by a gap G. The pattern is dimensioned such that the sum of the gap G between co-extending drive and sense electrode portions and the widths Wy of the sense electrodes is made sufficiently small to avoid signal inversion. Namely, the width, Wy, plus the gap, G, is made less than or equal to one of: 4, 3 or 2 times the distance from the touch sensor electrodes to the touch surface, this distance being the touch panel thickness, h.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Solomon Systech Limited
    Inventors: Justin Anthony Church, David Brent Guard
  • Patent number: 10423286
    Abstract: A circuit for fingerprint detection is disclosed. The circuit includes a transistor and a capacitor. The transistor includes a gate configured to, in response to a touch event of an object, sense a capacitance associated with the object. The capacitor, coupled between a first node and a second node, is configured to establish a voltage across the first node and the second node in response to a first control signal, and establish a compensation voltage at the first node in response to a second control signal. The transistor is configured to flow a current therethrough in response to a third control signal. The current has a magnitude independent of the threshold voltage of the transistor due to the compensation voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: INT TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shih-Song Cheng
  • Patent number: 10423287
    Abstract: A touch sensor device includes a first touch sensing region and a second touch sensing region, wherein each of the first touch sensing region and the second touch sensing region includes a plurality of first touch electrodes and a plurality of second touch electrodes, first connection portions each connecting two adjacent first touch electrodes among the plurality of first touch electrodes, and second connection portions each connecting two adjacent second touch electrodes among the plurality of second touch electrodes, wherein the second touch sensing region includes a plurality of third touch electrodes; and a plurality of touch wires respectively connected to the plurality of third touch electrodes, the plurality of third touch electrodes are separated from each other, and the third touch electrode forms a self-capacitive type sensor, the plurality of third touch electrodes border an outside edge of where the plurality of first and second touch electrodes are disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee Woong Park, Hyung Chul Kim, Jeong Heon Lee, Byeong Kyu Jeon
  • Patent number: 10423288
    Abstract: Discussed are a display device with an integrated touch screen and a method of operating the same. The display device according to an embodiment includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel electrodes; a touch screen including m number of electrodes which are formed to overlap with the plurality of pixel electrodes, wherein m is a multiple of n, and n is an integer equal to or greater than two, and wherein the m electrodes are divided into n number of electrode groups; a touch driver configured to generate a touch scan signal and to supply the generated touch scan signal to a display driver; and the display driver configured to apply a common voltage or the touch scan signal to one or more of the m electrodes depending on a driving mode of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JungHan Lee, HongChul Kim, SungChul Kim, JeongSeop Lee, SeungEun Pyo
  • Patent number: 10423289
    Abstract: A user interface including one or more references to content is customized. Several user profiles are provided from which a user may be associated. Each user profile includes user profile information. The user profile associated with a user to whom a user interface will be provided is accessed. A user interface is configured for the user, based at least in part upon the user profile accessed as being associated with the user. Access to content is enabled based on user manipulation of the configured user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey David Kimball, Christina Ann Rank Dolan, John Thurston Wassom, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10423290
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus including a display screen, a display controller that displays a first display window with a second display window on the display screen in a superposed manner, and an input obtaining unit for obtaining a user's input for moving the first display window on the display screen. The display controller changes, when a user's input for moving the first display window toward an outside of the display screen is obtained during a first display state in which the first display window is displayed in the display screen and the movement satisfies a predetermined criterion, the state of the first display window to a second display state in which the first display window is displayed in a region at an end of the display screen in accordance with a direction of the movement of the first display window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidenari Koshimae, Pál Szász, Samuel Sjöblom, Sara Berg
  • Patent number: 10423291
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products manage events in an electronic calendar. A calendar event may be associated with a rule, with the rule comprising a reminder and a date and a time of expiration. After the date and time of the expiration, the electronic calendar ceases to present the reminder. That is, no reminders of expired events are visually/audibly presented by the electronic calendar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: James C. Bedingfield, Sr.
  • Patent number: 10423292
    Abstract: In some implementations, vehicle data indicating a state of a vehicle is received. A current vehicle context is determined based on the vehicle data. Message data indicating one or more candidate messages is received, with each message having a corresponding display context. It is determined whether a particular message of the candidate messages has a display context that matches the current vehicle context. In response to determining that a particular message of the candidate messages has a display context that matches the current vehicle contexts, the particular message is provided for output on a display of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Victor Chan, Joseph Pieter Stefanus van Grieken, Anthony Jesse Chen
  • Patent number: 10423293
    Abstract: The present invention relates to controlling at least a motion of a cursor relative to at least two graphically-displayed windows on at least a computer monitor, each window comprising at least a respective interaction area and each respective interaction area comprising at least an interaction point, wherein at least a distance between at least two interaction points is measured, each interaction point being in a respective interaction area of one of the windows. At least an active dynamic margin is provided to each of the respective interaction areas in response to any value up to a predetermined, interaction threshold value being measured between their interaction points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James K. Hook, Hamish C. Hunt, Nicholas K. Lincoln
  • Patent number: 10423294
    Abstract: A method includes receiving reports of the pointing device events occurring on a remote computer at a host computer and performing computations in the host computer based upon the mouse reports. The method includes generating screen images in the host computer based upon the computations, the screen images not containing images of a cursor representing locations pointed to by a pointing device of the host computer. The generated screen images are transmitted to the remote computer. In some embodiments, the reports may be received by a remote console controller. An information handling system includes boot firmware to set a mouse to operate in absolute mode under control of the boot firmware. An information handling system separately transmits to a remote console controller of the information handling system screen images without a cursor and cursor images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Wei Liu, William A. Moyes
  • Patent number: 10423295
    Abstract: A mobile computer network for the navigation among and transfer of context information from remote participants with an enabling Network architecture and related business model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Inventor: Arjuna Indraeswaran Rajasingham
  • Patent number: 10423296
    Abstract: In the method, a processor generates a three dimensional interface with at least one virtual object, defines a stimulus of the interface, and defines a response to the stimulus. The stimulus is an approach to the virtual object with a finger or other end-effector to within a threshold of the virtual object. When the stimulus is sensed, the response is executed. Stimuli may include touch, click, double click, peg, scale, and swipe gestures. The apparatus includes a processor that generates a three dimensional interface with at least one virtual object, and defines a stimulus for the virtual object and a response to the stimulus. A display outputs the interface and object. A camera or other sensor detects the stimulus, e.g. a gesture with a finger or other end-effector, whereupon the processor executes the response. The apparatus may be part of a head mounted display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Atheer, Inc.
    Inventors: Allen Yang Yang, Sleiman Itani
  • Patent number: 10423297
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a selection and/or execution of an application can be designated using a list of applications currently executed in a multitasking environment. The present invention includes a display unit, a user input unit configured to receive an input of a command from a user, and a controller, when a plurality of applications are being executed, if there is a first input via the user input unit, controlling a list of a plurality of the currently executed applications to be displayed on a first region, the controller, if one of at least one or more applications running in the background in the list is selected by a second input via the user input unit, controlling the selected application to be displayed on a second region of the display unit by having a prescribed visual effect applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jong Cheol Jung, Hong Joo Kim, Jae Woong Yun
  • Patent number: 10423298
    Abstract: Techniques and arrangements for dynamically modifying a user interface on a computing device of a point-of-sale (POS) system based on a location of the computing device. The location can be associated with a functionality of the user interface. The user interface can include one or more icons corresponding to selectable items that correspond to the functionality. A modification to the user interface can include an adjustment to a visual appearance of an icon and/or a replacement of an icon with another icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Bell, Brian Partridge, James Lintern, Matthew T. Kursmark, Logan Johnson, Ghassan Abu-Ghaida
  • Patent number: 10423299
    Abstract: Methods of providing a menu display for a GUI together with a computer program, a computer-readable storage medium and apparatus for the same. Methods include displaying a first menu in a rotatable window; and, in the event of a second menu being selected by a user, displaying the second menu in place of the first menu by rotating the window to reveal the second menu on the flipside of the window, wherein in a first mode the user is enabled to select the menu being displayed and not enabled to select an option in the selected menu, the user is enabled to switch to a second mode and in the second mode, the user is enabled to select an option in the selected menu and not enabled to select the menu being displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Zeenat Jetha, Johannes A. Jansen
  • Patent number: 10423300
    Abstract: Content that is significant to a user may be determined. An indication that a user finds content within a document significant may be received. In response to the received indication, the document may be analyzed to identify a set of topics associated with the content of the document. From the set of topics, a subset of topics responsible for the user finding the document significant may be identified. A user profile associated with the user may be updated based on the subset of topics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Harmannus Vandermolen, Charles Fish, Karen Howe, Paul Vidich, Scott J. Levine
  • Patent number: 10423301
    Abstract: In general, this disclosure describes techniques that employ user-defined values of properties of sections of an electronic presentation. As described herein, a user may configure a presentation to include a plurality of sections. Each of the sections includes zero or more slides of the electronic slide presentation. In addition to the slides associated with each section, each of the sections is associated with one or more properties having values that can be defined by an author of the presentation. Because the values of the properties of the sections are user-definable, these properties may, in some implementations of these techniques, enable the author of the presentation to use the sections in ways not possible in presentation applications that merely use sections as a means of grouping thumbnail images of slides for navigation among slides in an authoring interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Penner, Shawn Villaron, Dachuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10423302
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein that are capable of generating a graphic flow having an unlimited number of connections between shapes. The shapes are provided in a visual representation of a workspace defined by pixels. For instance, a first shape may have an outer perimeter defined by a first subset of the pixels; a second shape may have an outer boundary defined by a second subset of the pixels, and so on. Any pixel in each subset may serve as a connection point. For example, a first pixel of the first subset may serve as a first connection point based on any of a variety of first criteria, and a second pixel of the second subset may serve as a second connection point based on any of a variety of second criteria. In accordance with this example, a connection may be provided between the first and second connection points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ping Song, Chao Tian
  • Patent number: 10423303
    Abstract: Approaches are described for an interface element that displays progressively more information about a search result in a listing of search results. In an embodiment, a user interacts with a search result, for example by utilizing a gesture on a touch-sensitive display, and a supplemental content item is generated and displayed using, in one example, a subset of available supplemental information associated with the search result. The display of the supplemental content item is accompanied by an animation is some embodiments whereby the supplemental content item visually “slides” over to replace the search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: A9.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Jackson Roach, Sean Michael Bell, Whitney Gale Spathelf
  • Patent number: 10423304
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a method, system and computer program product for a dynamic Web actions palette. In an embodiment of the invention, a method of dynamically configuring a Web actions palette includes loading text from a message received in a communications program executing in memory of a computer and identifying in the text, a suggestion to perform an action in connection with a Web site remote from the computer. The method also includes generating a network request to perform the action in the Web site and configuring a button to transmit the generated network request and updating a palette of one or more buttons with the configured button for display in the computer. Finally, the method includes displaying the palette in the computer and repeating the loading, identifying, generating, configuring and displaying for additional messages received in the communications program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy A. Greenberger, Trudy L. Hewitt
  • Patent number: 10423305
    Abstract: A method for controlling display device operation including a personal dashboard, the method including: detecting, by a display device, a command to present a personal dashboard based on one or more selections of a displayed control interface of the display device; presenting, by the display device, the personal dashboard corresponding to an active profile in response to the command, wherein the personal dashboard includes: a user image of the active profile, a background image of the active profile, and a content pane including a plurality of graphical elements associated with content titles, the content titles are selected based on the active profile; detecting, by the display device, an input command within the personal dashboard; and updating, by the display device, a presentation output of the display device based on the input command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Hisense Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Mohammed Selim, Alexander DePaz, Salvador Soto, Dean Britto
  • Patent number: 10423306
    Abstract: The present specification discloses a mobile terminal and a control method thereof. According to an embodiment of the present specification, the mobile terminal comprises: a display unit configured to output a first region which displays messages and a second region which displays information on a contact corresponding to the messages; and a control unit for outputting, to the display unit, a controller user interface (UI) for processing the messages to be displayed in the first region in association with the information on the contact displayed in the second region when a preset touch input is received in the second region. Here, the controller UI comprises: a menu region which displays scrap information associated with the information on the contact displayed in the second region among the messages displayed in the first region; and an input region which displays a message corresponding to the scrap information selected in the menu region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Junho Park, Bokheun Lee, Jiseok Jung, Seungjun Lee
  • Patent number: 10423307
    Abstract: An electronic device for indicating selection of a data transfer method is disclosed. A processor is coupled to an input interface module and an output interface module. A memory is coupled to the processor and stores an application comprising instructions to cause the device to display indications corresponding to a plurality of data transfer methods via the output interface module, receive a selection of one of the methods for use in making a subsequent data transfer, retrieve a graphical element corresponding to the selected method, configure the device for making data transfers using the selected method, and indicate the device is operable to perform data transfers using the selected method by presenting the graphical element in the interface of the application whenever the interface is displayed via the output interface module or by modifying an icon for launching the application to correspond to the graphical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Adrian Bloy, Sébastien Forget, Ryan Edmund Vekeman, Connie Maun-Fong Chan, Daniel Lam Tin Cheung, Arun Victor Jagga, John Jong-Suk Lee
  • Patent number: 10423308
    Abstract: Gestures allow selection and alteration of media files. A video file is graphically illustrated on a touch sensitive display. A gesture input is received at a point of contact on the touch sensitive display and ends with disengagement of the touch sensitive display. A vector is determined from the point of contact to the disengagement of the touch sensitive display. The video file is then modified in response to the vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Steven N. Tischer
  • Patent number: 10423309
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for managing a security system are described. A method may comprise receiving a request to join a security system by a user device. A whitelist may indicate devices, device types, device makes, device models, and/or device firmware versions authorized to join the security system. The method may further comprise enabling, based on a determination that the whitelist comprises an indication that the user device is authorized to join the security system, the user device to exchange data with the security system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: iControl Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Jim Kitchen, Clay Dearman, Thomas Lea, Mark Bryan, Adrian Helen, David Proft, Michael Speer
  • Patent number: 10423310
    Abstract: An object configuration module for configuring an object retrieves a view object associated with a user from a database. The view object may comprise a plurality of attributes. The object configuration module may further retrieve configuration information for the view object from the database. The configuration information may comprise properties of the attributes, and the properties may be customized by the user for the view object. The object configuration module may then set the properties for each of the attributes based on the retrieved configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Gregory Mark Sandford
  • Patent number: 10423311
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed that provides for character or text selection and editing. The text and character selection is made by user contact with a touch sensitive screen. In order to allow for refinement of the selection, a second expanded view is implemented as compared to the original display configuration of the screen. Furthermore, the selection is described in relation to two endpoints of the block of text. Additionally, a point is specified as the point desired for insertion of the selected text. The expanded view is implemented along with the original view as required when making character selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Steven Henry Fyke, Alexander Kornilovsky