Patents Issued in December 17, 2019
  • Patent number: 10509485
    Abstract: A physical keyboard includes a plurality of light-sensing electrodes, where individual ones of the light-sensing electrodes of the plurality of light-sensing electrodes correspond to an individual key of the keyboard. The physical keyboard also includes a microprocessor electrically coupled to individual ones of the light-sensing electrodes. The microprocessor is configured to perform operations including determining that light is obstructed to a first particular light-sensing electrode of the plurality of light-sensing electrodes and sending a signal indicating a selection of a first key corresponding to the first particular light-sensing electrode. The microprocessor is configured to perform operations further comprising determining that the light is obstructed to a second particular light-sensing electrode, and sending a second signal indicating a second selection of a second key corresponding to the second particular light-sensing electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventor: Sathish Kumar Bikumala
  • Patent number: 10509486
    Abstract: An input mechanism for an electronic watch includes a rotational manipulation mechanism, such as a cap or shaft. The input mechanism also includes a sensor having first capacitive elements coupled to the manipulation mechanism, second capacitive elements, and a dielectric positioned between the first and second capacitive elements. Movement of the manipulation mechanism alters the positions of the first and second capacitive elements with respect to each other and is determinable based on capacitance changes resulting therefrom. In some implementations, the second capacitive elements may be part of an inner ring or partial ring nested at least partially within an outer ring or partial ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Tyler S. Bushnell, Collin R. Petty, Adam T. Clavelle
  • Patent number: 10509487
    Abstract: A system for combining a gyromouse input with a touch surface input in an augmented reality (AR) environment and/or a virtual reality (VR) environment, a virtual display of virtual items and/or features may be adjusted in response to movement of the gyromouse combined with touch inputs, or touch and drag inputs, received on a touch surface of the gyromouse. Use of the gyromouse in the AR/VR environment may allow touch screen capabilities to be accurately projected into a three dimensional virtual space, providing a controller having improved functionality and utility in the AR/VR environment, and enhancing the user's experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: David Dearman, Chun Yat Frank Li
  • Patent number: 10509488
    Abstract: A simulation system includes a display section configured to display an image of an article, an operation terminal device which is moved by a user to operate a position of a pointer displayed on the display section, a first detecting section configured to detect a position and an orientation of the operation terminal device, a second detecting section configured to calculate first coordinates of the pointer based on the position and the orientation of the operation terminal device detected by the first detecting section, an offset section configured to obtain second coordinates derived by offsetting the first coordinates, and a first determining section configured to make a determination whether the article displayed on the display section has come in contact with a line connecting the first coordinates and the second coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yu Nakayama, Sachihiro Youoku, Tatsuya Suzuki, Yasuhiro Endo
  • Patent number: 10509489
    Abstract: A system and a related method for facilitating pen input in a virtual reality environment are provided. The system includes an external camera, a pad, a stylus pen, and a VR HMD. The pad includes a transparent touch part, a pad tracking part, a touch part frame, and a plurality of light sources disposed on an outside surface of the pad tracking part. The touch part frame is coupled with an outer border area of the transparent touch part and coupled to a portion of the pad tracking part. The stylus pen includes a stylus grip, a stylus tip detachably mounted to the stylus grip, a stylus tracking part coupled to the stylus grip, and a plurality of light sources disposed on an outside surface of the stylus tracking part. The plurality of light sources is configured to emit light that can be detected by the external camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Inventor: Yong Bum Kim
  • Patent number: 10509490
    Abstract: A touch module includes an upper plate, a lower plate, a hinge structure, an elastomer and a touchpad assembly. The touchpad assembly is located over the upper plate. A first end of the upper plate and a first end of the lower plate are pivotally coupled to each other through the hinge structure. While the touchpad assembly is pressed down, a second end of the upper plate is swung downwardly relative to a second end of the lower plate and a switch element of the touchpad assembly is triggered. When the touchpad assembly is no longer pressed, the elastomer provides an elastic force to the upper plate. In response to the elastic force, the second end of the upper plate is swung upwardly relative to the second end of the lower plate and the touchpad assembly is returned to an original position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventor: Tai-Sou Huang
  • Patent number: 10509491
    Abstract: A position indicator that can be used with a plurality of types of position detection systems. The position indicator includes a first transmitter, a second transmitter, an input circuit which, in operation, accepts an input from outside of the position indicator, a signal generation circuit which, in operation, generates a position detecting signal, a plurality of additional information generation circuits which, in operation, generate a plurality of types of additional information, and a controller. The controller controls, based on the input accepted by the input circuit, transmission of the position detecting signal through the first transmitter and controls, based on the input accepted by the input circuit, transmission of additional information generated by the plurality of additional information generation circuits from the first transmitter or the second transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: WACOM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sadao Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10509492
    Abstract: Disclosed are a mobile device and a method of operating the mobile device. A mobile device according to an embodiment includes a sensing unit configured to determine whether a stylus pen is separated from the mobile device, a communication unit configured to receive a control signal from the stylus pen separated from the mobile device, and a controller configured to operate in a first control mode for performing at least one operation of an application being executed on the mobile device, in response to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guoliang Zhang, Rui Zhang, Juexiao Bian
  • Patent number: 10509493
    Abstract: A navigation device including an image sensor, a processor and a memory is provided. The memory stores a lookup table of a plurality of frame rates each corresponding to one frame period extender. The image sensor captures a pair of image frames. The processor calculate a current displacement according to the pair of image frames, read a next frame period and a corresponding frame period extended value from the memory according to the calculated current displacement, and insert an inactive period after the pair of image frames when the frame period extended value is larger than 1 and the current displacement is larger than a displacement threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Zi-Hao Tan, Kevin Len-Li Lim
  • Patent number: 10509494
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch control electrode and a manufacture method thereof. Only the second electrode (12) is covered with an insulation layer (13) in the touch control electrode, and the first electrode (11) is not covered with the insulation layer to ensure that a lateral capacitance variable and a fringing field capacitance variable are generated as being touched while the bridging line (112) and the second electrode (12) are insulated, and thus to increase the total capacitance variable as being touched, to promote the signal to noise ratio, and the touch result is better.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Caiqin Chen
  • Patent number: 10509495
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a polarizer and touch display device having the same. The polarizer includes a first adhesive film adhering to a liquid crystal display module, a first base material film arranged on the first adhesive film, a polarizing film arranged on the first base material film, a second base material film arranged on the polarizing film, and a second adhesive film adhering to a touch panel arranged on the second base material film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jun Xu
  • Patent number: 10509496
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch driving circuit, a touch panel and a display device. A touch driving circuit, comprising: an input subcircuit, configured to receive an input signal which scans forward or backward; a shift register subcircuit, configured to shift register the input signal to generate an output control signal; an enable signal input subcircuit, configured to control an output of the output enable signal of the integrated circuit according to the output control signal; and an output subcircuit, configured to output a corresponding output signal according to the output enable signal. An embodiment of the present disclosure realizes the touch driving circuit with reduced usage of the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fei Huang
  • Patent number: 10509497
    Abstract: To acquire touch position data with a good SN ratio without affecting a display action of a display element, a touch panel includes a non-drive region and a drive region. The non-drive region moves so as to correspond to one of a plurality of scanning signal lines selected and driven in order in a display period included in each frame of a display element. The drive region represents a region except for the non-drive region. A touch panel controller drives a signal line corresponding to the drive region and stops driving a signal line corresponding to the non-drive region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mutsumi Hamaguchi, Masayuki Miyamoto, Shinji Shinjo
  • Patent number: 10509498
    Abstract: A foldable display device may prevent defects in touch sensing, caused by stress concentrated at a folding part. A foldable display device may include a lower base material and an upper base material, each base material including at least one folding part and non-folding parts in a display area; a thin film transistor array on the lower base material; an organic light emitting array on the thin film transistor array; a touch electrode array disposed on the upper base material, and oppositely bonded to the organic light emitting array disposed opposite to the touch electrode array by an adhesive layer; and a plurality of wirings having a zigzag shape and uneven depth level in the folding part on the upper base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Gyu Moon, Jong-Hyun Han
  • Patent number: 10509499
    Abstract: A TFT substrate defines a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The TFT substrate includes a substrate and a conductive layer on the substrate. The conductive layer includes a plurality of touch driving electrodes, a plurality of touch sensing electrodes, and a plurality of common electrodes. The touch sensing electrodes are arranged in rows along a first direction and in columns along a second direction. Each touch driving electrode and each common electrode extend as strips along the first direction, the touch driving electrodes and the common electrodes are arranged in one column along the second direction. One common electrode and one row of the touch sensing electrodes are arranged at each side of each touch driving electrode along the second direction. The TFT substrate further includes a plurality of sensing lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chia-Lin Liu, Yu-Fu Weng, Chien-Wen Lin, Tzu-Yu Cheng
  • Patent number: 10509500
    Abstract: A touch display apparatus including a first substrate, a first sub-pixel, a spacer, a second substrate, and a touch-sensing electrode is provided. The first sub-pixel is disposed on the first substrate. The spacer is disposed on the first substrate. The touch-sensing electrode is disposed on the second substrate and has a first opening. The spacer is located inside the first opening in an orthogonal projection direction. A distance D is defined between an outline of an orthogonal projection of the spacer on the first substrate and an outline of an orthogonal projection of the first opening on the first substrate, and D?5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chun-Chi Lai, Chia-Hsien Chu, Chia-Yuan Yeh, Kuan-Ting Chen, Chee-Wai Lau, An-Hsiung Hsieh, Feng-Sheng Lin, Tsang-Hong Wang
  • Patent number: 10509501
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a pressure-sensitive display device are provided. The pressure-sensitive display panel includes: a display panel and a predetermined electrode on an outer side of the display panel, an array substrate in the display panel including a base substrate and a predetermined functional layer formed on the base substrate and formed of a conductive material; and a pressure-sensitive control unit. An overlapping region is between an orthographic projection region of the predetermined functional layer on the base substrate and an orthographic projection region of the predetermined electrode on the base substrate, and both the predetermined functional layer and the predetermined electrode are connected to the pressure-sensitive control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingming Liu, Xue Dong, Hailin Xue, Xiaochuan Chen, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Shengji Yang, Weijie Zhao, Changfeng Li, Wei Liu, Pengpeng Wang
  • Patent number: 10509502
    Abstract: An operating device includes a planar operating element that includes at least one large surface and that is operable by an operator with the aid of an input element, and the operating device includes a mounting that enables a stroke movement of the operating element perpendicular to the large surface and that sets the operating element into a rotation in parallel to its large surface during the stroke movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch Gmbh
    Inventors: Daniel Meemann, Ingo Hermanns, Thomas Freitag
  • Patent number: 10509503
    Abstract: A method of driving a display device includes: sensing a touch signal from a plurality of touch electrodes in a touch panel, sensing a force signal from a force sensor, based on the sensed touch signal, determining whether or not the touch panel is in a submerged state, when the touch panel is determined to be in the submerged state, increasing sensing periods of the touch signal and the force signal, detecting a baseline variation of the force sensor, based on the detected baseline variation, changing a sensing reference value of the force sensor, based on the increasing the sensing periods, sensing the force signal equal to or greater to the changed sensing reference value through the force sensor, and when the force signal equal to or greater to the changed sensing reference value is sensed through the force sensor, decreasing the sensing periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jonghee Hwang, Buyeol Lee, Junseok Oh
  • Patent number: 10509504
    Abstract: A display substrate is disclosed. The display substrate includes a plurality of pressure sensitive units each including an input electrode electrically connected to one of a plurality of signal input lines, an output electrode electrically connected to one of a plurality of signal output lines, and a pressure sensitive element operable to, responsive to a voltage difference applied across the input electrode and the output electrode and a pressure caused by pressing, generate a current signal indicative of a magnitude of the pressure. Also disclosed are a touch panel and a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Ding, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Xiaochuan Chen, Yingming Liu, Shengji Yang, Wei Liu, Pengpeng Wang, Changfeng Li
  • Patent number: 10509505
    Abstract: An in-cell touch panel and a display apparatus are provided. The in-cell touch panel includes a lower substrate (1) and an upper substrate (2) disposed oppositely, a number of self-capacitive electrodes (03) independently of each other and located between the lower substrate (1) and the upper substrate (2), a drive chip (3), and wires (04) being configured to connect the self-capacitive electrodes (03) to the drive chip (3). A number of sub-pixels (01) arranged regularly and data lines (02) located between adjacent twos of columns of sub-pixels (01) exist between the upper substrate (2) and the lower substrate (1), each of the sub-pixels (1) is connected to the drive chip (3) through a data line (05) located on one side of it; two sub-pixels (01) adjacent to each other constitute one pixel, or three sub-pixels (01) adjacent to each other constitute two pixels, so that at least one sub-pixel (01) is shared by adjacent pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui Xu, Ming Yang, Shuai Han, Haisheng Wang, Xi Chen, Hailin Xue, Xue Dong, Shengji Yang, Weijie Zhao
  • Patent number: 10509506
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix; a plurality of scanning signal lines; a drive electrode that faces the pixel electrodes; and a plurality of touch detection electrodes including a detection electrode pattern of a transparent conductive body that faces the drive electrode. The detection electrode pattern includes one or more slits each of which is a region where the transparent conductive body is not present. The slits of the detection electrode pattern of the touch detection electrodes extend in a direction different from an extending direction of the scanning signal lines with a slit pitch having a predetermined interval therebetween in the extending direction of the scanning signal lines. The slit pitch is multiples of a natural number of a predetermined pixel pitch in which the pixel electrodes are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Koichiro Adachi
  • Patent number: 10509507
    Abstract: If a user operates a touch panel, a display device notifies the user of a factor of change into a state in which a touch operation has been accepted to restore a state in which a normal touch operation is accepted. The display device monitors coordinate information output from the touch panel, and if it is determined that an operation disabled area located in a first touch panel area excluding the position of an assigned key has entered a state of being designated and a second touch panel area has entered a state of being designated, displays, on a display screen, that the operation disabled area has been designated. The display device thereby notifies the user that operations are not accepted because of a touch operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shozo Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 10509508
    Abstract: Provided is a touch sensing circuit configured to sense an approach of a conductive object toward a sensor capacitor through measuring a sensor response signal generated by the sensor capacitor in response to a sensing wave signal applied to the sensor capacitor. The touch sensing circuit is connectable to a conversion circuit and a touch detection circuit. The conversion circuit calculates a response signal vector for a frequency component of the sensing wave signal by converting the response signal into a frequency domain representation. The touch sensing circuit includes a baseline vector manager circuit holding a baseline vector and a vector subtraction circuit, and calculates a delta vector which is the vector difference between the baseline vector and the response signal vector received from the conversion circuit. The touch detection circuit detects an approach of a conductive object towards the sensor capacitor on the basis of the calculated delta vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Nobukazu Tanaka, Takayuki Noto, Tetsuo Tanemura
  • Patent number: 10509509
    Abstract: A substrate and a display device are disclosed. The substrate includes at least one main signal line. Each of the at least one main signal line includes a plurality of sub signal lines connected in parallel with one another. By arranging a plurality of sub signal lines connected in parallel with one another in the main signal line, the resistance of the main signal line can be reduced effectively, which is favorable to improving uniformity for the channel resistances of the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFIE XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Xie, Ming Zhang, Ming Hu, Jing Wang, Yu Zhu, Yuan Li
  • Patent number: 10509510
    Abstract: A touch display panel having a pressure detecting function, a display device and a driving method are provided. The touch display panel includes: an array substrate and a counter substrate that are arranged opposite to each other; a plurality of touch electrodes disposed on the counter substrate and a touch electrode wiring electrically connected to each of the touch electrodes; a plurality of pressure detecting electrodes disposed on the counter substrate or the array substrate and a pressure detecting electrode wiring electrically connected to each of the pressure detecting electrodes, wherein any one of the pressure detecting electrodes overlaps with at least one of the touch electrodes in a direction perpendicular to the counter substrate, and with respect to the pressure detecting electrode, the touch electrode is closer to a light exit side of the touch display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Ding, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Xiaochuan Chen, Yingming Liu, Weijie Zhao, Shengji Yang, Wei Liu, Tao Ren
  • Patent number: 10509511
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a display; a touch sensor overlapped with the display and configured to detect a touch input; and a controller configured to detect a first tap input applied on the touch sensor in state of a deactivated display and the touch sensor being periodically driven with a second period; determine a region of the display that corresponds to the first tap input; detect a second tap input applied on the touch sensor in state of the deactivated display within a predefined time period from the first tap input; determine if the second tap input is applied within the region; if the second tap input is applied within the region and within the predefined time period from the first tap input, activate the display and periodically drive the touch sensor with a first period shorter than the second period; and if the second tap input is applied to a spot outside the region, maintain the deactivation of the display and periodically drive the touch sensor with the second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunmo Yang, Hangshin Cho, Joonwon Byun, Jeunguk Ha, Mansoo Sin
  • Patent number: 10509512
    Abstract: An input device includes: an operation input panel having a front surface and a back surface, wherein the operation input panel, in operation, receives external forces on the front surface and the back surface as operation inputs and is elastically displaced by the external forces; a sensor which, in operation, detects displacements of the operation surface caused by the external forces; and a signal transmission circuit which, in operation, transmits signals corresponding to the displacements detected by the sensor. The operation inputs received by the input device may cause visual, three-dimensional deformations to object images displayed on a display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryoichi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 10509513
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking using a tracking camera. For each frame of image data generated by the tracking camera, each blob of the frame is determined. For each determined blob, a 2D image coordinate of a centroid of the blob is determined in a coordinate space of the frame. A tracking system processor generates a first tag identifier from the determined 2D image coordinates. The tracking system processor uses the first tag identifier to access stored first tag information that is stored in association with the first tag identifier. The tracking system processor determines an absolute 3-space position and orientation of the tracking camera by performing a motion tracking process using the determined 2D image coordinates and the accessed first tag information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Oblong Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Ayon Sen, John Underkoffler, Barbara Brand, Michael Chin
  • Patent number: 10509514
    Abstract: A touch device includes a cover plate, a first piezoelectric element, and a second piezoelectric element. The cover plate has a first surface and a second surface. The first piezoelectric element is disposed on the second surface of the cover plate. The second piezoelectric element is adjacent to the first piezoelectric element. The method for operating the touch device includes outputting a first detection voltage signal to the first piezoelectric element to cause the first piezoelectric element to vibrate, receiving a second detection voltage signal from the second piezoelectric element, and determining that a touch event on the first surface of the cover plate has occurred when an energy level of the second detection voltage signal is lower than a predetermined value. The first detection voltage signal has a specific frequency which can cause the greatest vibration of the first piezoelectric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: ITE Tech. Inc.
    Inventor: Shu-Jen Kao
  • Patent number: 10509515
    Abstract: A touch input to a propagating medium is identified based on one or more of the following: (1) a determination that a third propagating signal (from a second transmitter to a first receiver) was interfered with while a first propagating signal (from a first transmitter to the first receiver) was not interfered with or (2) a determination that the second propagating signal (from a first transmitter to a second receiver) was interfered with while the fourth propagating signal (from the second transmitter to the second receiver) was not interfered with. In response to the touch input to the propagating medium being identified, a system which includes the first transmitter, the second transmitter, the first receiver, and the second receiver updates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Sentons Inc.
    Inventors: Lapoe E. Lynn, Stanislav Maximov
  • Patent number: 10509516
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a touch panel, the touch panel, a touch screen and a display device. The method includes steps of: forming, on a transparent substrate, a non-opaque film layer with a micro-pattern; and forming a touch panel electrode on the non-opaque film layer. The non-opaque film layer is configured to vanish a shadow of the touch panel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min He, Ming Hu, Zhizhong Tu
  • Patent number: 10509517
    Abstract: A switching device according to an embodiment includes a circuit board, a laminated body, and an air layer. The circuit board is provided with an electrode which detects change in electrostatic capacitance that is caused by a touch operation of a user. The laminated body is laminated on the circuit board, and includes a touch panel member that receives the touch operation. The air layer is arranged at a position that corresponds to the electrode between the circuit board and the laminated body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoaki Ishikawa, Chiyohiko Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10509518
    Abstract: A touch substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device. The touch substrate, comprising a plurality of self-capacitive electrodes; a planar shape of each self-capacitive electrode on a surface provided with the plurality of self-capacitive electrodes includes a body section and a plurality of projections extending from a first side of the body section; the plurality of projections extend along a first direction and sequentially arranged along a second direction. On the surface provided with the plurality of self-capacitive electrodes, a recessed portion is encircled by every two projections and the body portion of each self-capacitive electrode; and in the recessed portion is provided with one of a plurality of projections of another self-capacitive electrode. The touch substrate can reduce the number of leads while ensuring the touch accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xun Pu, Hongmin Li
  • Patent number: 10509519
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a display panel comprising a circuit board, a driving chip and a touch panel. The display panel further comprises an electrostatic discharge circuit disposed between the circuit board and the touch panel. The electrostatic discharge circuit defines an electrostatic discharge path electrically connecting the circuit board with the touch panel, and a second path through the driving chip is provided between the circuit board and the touch panel, wherein the overall impedance of the electrostatic discharge path is smaller than the overall impedance of the second path. Also a display device including the display panel is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Wu, Na An, Xinfeng Gong, Gang Ci, Baolei Guo
  • Patent number: 10509520
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a first gate drive circuit, a first touch circuit, a second gate drive circuit, and a second touch circuit. The first touch circuit is connected to the first gate drive circuit and includes a first capacitor. The second touch circuit is connected to the second gate drive circuit and includes a second capacitor. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ping-Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 10509521
    Abstract: An input device includes a first substrate, a light-emitting element, and a third electrode unit. The first substrate has first and second surfaces. The light-emitting element unit includes: a first conductive electrode unit including first conductive layers; a second conductive electrode unit including second conductive layers each having a size overlapping with the first conductive layer in planar view; and luminescent layers conducted with at least a part of the first electrode unit, each provided between the first and second electrode units and conducted with the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer overlapping with the first conductive layer in planar view. The third electrode unit is insulated from the first conductive layers and detects a change in an electric field between the first conductive layers and the third electrode unit depending on coordinates of a proximity object at a position overlapping with the first surface in planar view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masaya Tamaki, Takayuki Nakanishi, Tatsuya Yata
  • Patent number: 10509522
    Abstract: To provide a capacitive touch switch capable of improving ununiformity of design and improving appearance relating to design or decorativeness. A capacitive touch switch 1 includes a glass substrate 2, a sensor portion formed at a side of an opposite surface opposite to a touch surface of the glass substrate. The sensor portion includes a center portion A of a wire attached portion 4 to a flexible printed circuit, and a connection portion C connected to the wire network B. In the connection portion C, an opening rate in a capacitive touch switch panel is increased by setting an electrode pattern width to be thinner from the wire attached portion A toward the wire network B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: NORITAKE CO., LIMITED, NORITAKE ITRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Tsuji, Isamu Kanda, Tadami Maeda, Kouichi Okuyama, Misa Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 10509523
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology may provide methods and apparatus for a capacitive pressure sensor configured to detect firm pressure to a sensing surface. The capacitive pressure sensor may include a first substrate and a second substrate, wherein at least one of the first and second substrate is configured to deform when firm pressure is applied. The deformation of the sensor may either create a gap between the substrates or eliminate a gap between the substrates. The deformation may be interpreted as firm pressure to the sensing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Takayasu Otagaki, Kensuke Goto
  • Patent number: 10509524
    Abstract: A touch sensor film preventing moire occurring in accordance with deformation of a support is manufactured by performing roll transportation of an elongated transparent support 1 having a thickness smaller than 80 ?m using a plurality of pass rollers 4, 5, and 6; performing annealing treatment with respect to the support 1 at a temperature which is equal to or lower than a temperature obtained by adding 35° C. to a dynamic glass transition temperature of the support 1; and forming a mesh pattern formed of thin metal wires 8a on a surface of the support 1 subjected to the annealing treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Nukui
  • Patent number: 10509525
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a first sheet and a second sheet that are disposed opposing each other. A first conductive path and a second conductive path are formed facing each other on main surfaces of the first sheet and the second sheet, respectively. The second conductive path is spaced apart from the first conductive path when viewed in the normal direction of the first sheet. On the main surface of the second sheet, pressure-detecting conductive paths electrically connected to the second conductive path are arranged. The pressure-detecting conductive paths intersect the first conductive path as viewed in the normal direction. Structures are disposed on a second sheet main surface not opposing the first sheet, and cause flexing of the corresponding pressure-detecting conductive path to contact the first conductive path when pressed down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Nakajima, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Soichiro Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 10509526
    Abstract: Disclosed are a three-dimensional (3D) touch control structure and a display device. The three-dimensional (3D) touch control structure includes: a plurality of magnetic field generating components arranged into an array, and a plurality of electromagnetic inducting components in one-to-one correspondence and arranged in different layers to the magnetic field generating components; wherein a distance exists between the magnetic field generating components and the corresponding electromagnetic inducting components, and the magnetic field generating components are configured for generating magnetic fields and the electromagnetic inducting components are configured for changing in induced potential during touch control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruizhi Yang, Yanqing Chen, Yanfeng Li
  • Patent number: 10509527
    Abstract: Scalable architectures, systems, and services are provided herein for generating jobs by applying user-specified rules to events in an action log framework (ALF) stream is disclosed. More specifically, collaboration environments can include features or mechanisms that allow end-users or collaborators to perform a variety of actions such as, for example, file uploads and previews, or collaboration operations such as, for example, task assignment and comments. These actions can be captured or logged by an action log framework and, as described herein, automatically translated into one or more jobs by applying customizable user-specified rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Annie Pearl, Matthew Taro Duvall, Joy Ebertz, Victor Valdez, Steven Cipolla
  • Patent number: 10509528
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system using techniques to partially refresh a display page. A navigation URL generated by an application in response to a user interaction is received, the navigation URL indicating a place within a page hierarchy at which a partial refresh of a page with which the navigation URL is associated is to be performed and the navigation URL including one or more URL portions usable to retrieve page content data to be used to partially refresh the page. The navigation URL is processed to determine the place within the page hierarchy at which the partial refresh is to be performed. The navigation URL is used to retrieve the page content data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sachin G. Totale, Rajakumar Thiruvasagam, Linda J. Wong, Julian M. Hjortshoj, Frederick F. Hewett
  • Patent number: 10509529
    Abstract: A method of operating a UI for controlling a virtual musical instrument implemented on a display can include receiving an input corresponding to a selection of one of a plurality of dynamic navigation objects configured on the display, the display including a cell matrix including one or more arrays of cells configured as a step-sequencer. The method can further include displaying a first portion of the cell matrix in response to a first dynamic object being selected, such that the first portion of the cell matrix is visible and the second portion of the cell matrix is not visible in the predefined area, and displaying a second portion of the cell matrix in response to a second dynamic object being selected, such that the second portion of the cell matrix is visible and the first portion of the cell matrix is not visible in the predefined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua W. Decker, Robert W. Baker
  • Patent number: 10509530
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display having a first area and a second area functionally divided, a determination module configured to determine a location of a touch input, and a processing module configured to process the touch input based on a state of the electronic device, if the location of the touch input is in the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Min Chung, Hye Soon Jeong, Dae Sik Hwang
  • Patent number: 10509531
    Abstract: A computer-executed technique for grouping and summarizing messages in a graphical user interface (GUI) of a communication application includes received messages and determining a plurality of communication topics therein. The messages are clustered into groups based on the communication topics such that messages in each group relate to the same topic. The messages are displayed in the GUI in the determined groups. A user can select a group to ungroup and view the messages. The communication topics upon which the clustering is based may be specific to each user in the communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
  • Patent number: 10509532
    Abstract: The disclosure provides method, apparatus and terminal for page refreshing. The method includes: outputting a preset animation interface within a displayed page when a page refreshing operation is performed, which is a longitudinal bar with a length substantially equal to a width of the displayed page and comprises a preset logo, moving cursors having a plurality of cursor seeds emitted from the preset logo and that move toward the refresh progress bar starting from the preset logo along the length of the longitudinal bar and a refresh progress bar, wherein the refresh progress bar and the preset logo are positioned apart from each other, and a length of the refresh progress bar increases towards the preset logo as the moving cursors arrive at the refresh progress bar; and reducing transparency of the moving cursor to a predetermined value when the length of the refresh progress bar no longer increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jing Zhang, Meina Li, Yang Li, Danzhi Chen, Nian Liu, Qunli Ma, Chen Zhang, Yufei Liu, Jun Ye
  • Patent number: 10509533
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for generating an Augmented Reality (AR) object are presented. The method may include capturing an image of one or more target objects, wherein the one or more target objects are positioned on a pre-defined background. The method may also include segmenting the image into one or more areas corresponding to the one or more target objects and one or more areas corresponding to the pre-defined background. The method may additionally include converting the one or more areas corresponding to the one or more target objects to a digital image. The method may further include generating one or more AR objects corresponding to the one or more target objects, based at least in part on the digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Raphael Grasset, Hartmut Seichter
  • Patent number: 10509534
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, comprising: a display; a sensor for detecting three dimensional objects; a processing system including a processor coupled to the display and sensor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising: identifying a three dimensional object proximal to a user of the device; tracking and storing a position of the three dimensional object; creating an augmented reality (AR) presentation for the user, wherein the AR presentation includes an image of the three dimensional object and an enhancement of the three dimensional object; and displaying the AR presentation to the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Nigel Bradley, Bhumit Patel, Eric Zavesky, James Pratt, Timothy Innes