Patents Issued in April 30, 2020
  • Publication number: 20200133418
    Abstract: A flexible sensor (201) comprises a first conductive layer (202) and a second conductive layer (203). The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer define a sensing region (205) for determining an interaction, such as a mechanical interaction. The first conductive layer comprises a first substrate (206) having a plurality of conductive rows (207) printed thereon and the second conductive layer comprises a second substrate 208 having a plurality of columns (209) printed thereon. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are constrained by a constraining means (505) which holds the two layers together but permits movement of the layers perpendicular to each other in the sensing region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Matthew GOSPEL
  • Publication number: 20200133419
    Abstract: Disclosed are Multipurpose Media Players that enable users to create transcriptions, closed captions, and/or logs of digitized recordings, that enable the presentation of transcripts, closed captions, logs, and digitized recordings in a correlated manner to users, that enable users to compose one or more scenes of a production, and that enable users to compose storyboards for a production. The multipurpose media players can be embodied within Internet browser environments; thereby providing high availability of the multipurpose players across software platforms, networks, and physical locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Keri DEWITT
  • Publication number: 20200133420
    Abstract: A display panel and a display module are provided. The display panel includes a display area, a driving chip on a side of the display area, and a fan-out wiring area connecting the display area and the driving chip. The driving chip includes a first side and two second sides respectively connected perpendicularly to both ends of the first side. The fan-out wiring area includes a plurality of first fan-out traces connected to the first side and a plurality of second fan-out traces respectively connected to the two second sides. A part of signals in the driving chip can be transmitted from the second sides of the driving chip to the display area through the second fan-out traces. This increases a total width of the fan-out wiring area and a trace width in the fan-out wiring area, avoids a risk of wire breakage, and reduces an impedance of the traces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Yantao LU
  • Publication number: 20200133421
    Abstract: A pressure sensor includes a first substrate and a second substrate; a first driving electrode and a second driving electrode disposed on a first surface of the first substrate facing the second substrate and coupled to a first coupling electrode, the second driving electrode being shorter than the first driving electrode; a first sensing electrode and a second sensing electrode disposed on the first surface of the first substrate and coupled to a second coupling electrode, the second sensing electrode being shorter than the first sensing electrode; a first pressure sensing layer disposed on a first surface of the second substrate in a position facing the first substrate and overlapping and spaced from the first driving electrode and the first sensing electrode by a gap; and a second pressure sensing layer contacting with the second driving electrode and the second sensing electrode and electrically coupling the second driving electrode and the second sensing electrode to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Choon Hyop LEE, Kang Won LEE, Sang Chul LEE, Seung Hwan CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20200133422
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a mobile communications device such as a smart phone with an increased display area covering the entire full face of the device includes providing a device case of hand-holdable size, said case comprising a front face and a back face, and embedding in the front face of said case a touch screen display panel entirely occupying said front face, except for rims surrounding said display; and embedding in the back face of said case an inwardly facing back panel containing other components of the mobile communications device, including a camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Ramzi Khalil Maalouf, Jinrong Yang
  • Publication number: 20200133423
    Abstract: A bezel-less touch screen apparatus includes: a display panel for displaying an image; and a touch sheet superposed on the display panel, for generating an input signal by a touch by an operator, wherein the touch sheet includes: a touch area for generating a touch signal, the touch area being located on an image display area of the display panel, in which an image is displayed; and a side surface attachment part on which signal electrodes are gathered from the edge of the touch area and connected to a controller and that is bent and attached to the side surfaces of the display panel so as to not protrude over the edge of the display panel. Therefore, the bezel width can be minimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOVIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Beom KIM, In Su PARK
  • Publication number: 20200133424
    Abstract: The invention provides a touch display apparatus including a display device, a polarizer device, and a touch device. The polarizer device and the touch device are stacked on the display device. The touch device has a substrate with a thickness-direction phase retardation value Rth, and 0 nm?|Rth|?100 nm. The touch display apparatus has high display quality under the irradiation of an ambient beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: HannStar Display Corporation
    Inventors: Yen-Chung Chen, Wei-Chih Hsu
  • Publication number: 20200133425
    Abstract: A drive control device being configured to provide a signal to an electronic device, the electronic device including a top panel having an operation surface, and a position detection circuit configured to detect a position of an operational input performed on the operation surface, and a vibrating element configured to generate vibration in the operation surface, the drive control device comprising: processor circuitry configured to execute a drive control processing that includes driving the vibrating element of the electronic device with a drive signal, the drive signal being configured to cause the vibrating element to generate natural vibration in the operation surface and being obtained by modulating a waveform signal of a first frequency in an ultrasonic band with a modulation signal of a second frequency having a difference from the first frequency, the difference being able to be sensed by a tactile receptor of a human.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kiyoshi TANINAKA, Akinori MIYAMOTO, Sachihiro YOUOKU, Yuichi KAMATA, Yasuhiro ENDO
  • Publication number: 20200133426
    Abstract: Embodiments of a multi-form factor Information Handling System (IHS) with automatically reconfigurable palm rejection are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include: a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: identify a posture of a second display relative to a first display; select a palm rejection setting corresponding to the posture; and apply the palm rejection setting to at least one of: the first display or the second display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Yagiz Can Yildiz, Rex W. Bryan, Philip M. Seibert
  • Publication number: 20200133427
    Abstract: A user interface device comprising a heat pump, a signal generating circuit, and a control circuit is presented. The control circuit is configured to control the signal generating circuit to generate a driving portion of a driving signal. All of the driving portion has a first polarity and causes the heat pump to generate the thermal effect, and causes heat flux to flow in a first direction. The control circuit is further configured to control the signal generating circuit to generate a braking portion of the driving signal, wherein all of the braking portion of the driving signal has a second polarity opposite the first polarity and causes the heat pump to stop the thermal effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Douglas BILLINGTON, David BIRNBAUM, Simon FOREST, Kaniyalal SHAH
  • Publication number: 20200133428
    Abstract: A touch device has multiple charging traces distributed under the touch operation area. When the object hovers over or contacts the touch operation area, the control unit of the touch device obtains the corresponding position of the object through the sensing signal of the electrode units. The control unit in turn connect the charging traces adjacent to the corresponding position of the object to form at least one charging loop. In the process of the touch operation on the touch device, the object can be charged at the same time, and the convenience of use can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: HAN-WEI CHEN, HSUAN-WEN TSENG, YI-HSIN TAO, CHIA-HSING LIN
  • Publication number: 20200133429
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a noise reduction method. The noise reduction method is applied to the touch display apparatus on which several touch detection nodes are disposed, and the noise reduction method includes: obtaining noise data of each touch detection node (101); obtaining characteristic values based on the noise data (102); performing fitting processing on noise data of a target node and the characteristic values, to obtain a fitting function in which the characteristic values are used as an independent variable and the noise data of the target node is used as a dependent variable (103), where a target node is a touch detection node to be noise reduced; substituting the characteristic values into the fitting function, to obtain fitting data corresponding to the characteristic values (104); and using differences between the fitting data and the noise data of the target node as noise reduced data (105).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Xi CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200133430
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting imperfections on a surface of a touchscreen of an electrical device, comprising: swiping a test object, such as a fingertip, a fingernail or a pin, along at least a portion of the touchscreen; producing, by the touchscreen, an electric signal indicative of the test object's contact with the touchscreen; receiving an acoustic signal by an acoustic sensor, during the swipe of the test object along the touchscreen; analyzing, by a processor, at least one of the electric signal and received acoustic signal; and determining existence of imperfections on the touchscreen's surface based on the analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: ESW HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Amit GROSS, Oded ROZENBERG, Moshe LIPSKER
  • Publication number: 20200133431
    Abstract: An electrical control system includes a switch module configured to control power delivery to at least one external load, and a removable user interface module configured to connect to the switch module, receive power from the switch module and display an interface in accordance with a status of the external load, the user interface including a printed circuit board (PCB) having a touch controller that detects signals from a plurality of touch sensors integrated on a first side of the PCB, and a light-emitting diode (LED) controller that controls a plurality of LED's, a light guide, attached to the first side of the PCB, that partially obstructs light emitted from the plurality of LED's, a tactile switch electrically connected to the first side of the PCB between the transparent cover and the PCB, and a cover attached to the tactile switch over the first side of the PCB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Joseph Allore, Michael J. Lombardi, Sajid Dalvi, Mitchell T. Hodges, Krzysztof Szot
  • Publication number: 20200133432
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for converting a display into a touch display. One or more optical sensors are arranged proximate the display. A processor receives a signal from the optical sensor(s) and, based on the signal, executes instructions for: (i) determining a distance between a pointer device and a surface of the display signal; (ii) determining a position of the pointer device on the surface of the display; (iii) when the distance is less than a threshold detection distance and greater than a threshold touch distance, providing an indication on the display that the position of the pointer device has been determined; and (iv) when the distance is less than the threshold touch distance, taking an action indicative of contact between the pointer device and the surface of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Vojta Kresl, Christopher N. Elsbree, Russell L. Agrusa, Paulo G. De Barros, Petr Altman
  • Publication number: 20200133433
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit displaying an image on a display surface; a detection unit detecting a position of a pointing unit on the display surface; and a control unit causing the display unit to display an image based on the position detected by the detection unit. The control unit causes the display unit to display a first image group including a plurality of sample images having different settings of a first attribute from each other and a same setting of a second attribute that is different from the first attribute, the first image group being scrollable in a first direction, and a second image group including a plurality of sample images having a same setting of the first attribute and different settings of the second attribute from each other, the second image group being scrollable in a second direction that is different from the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitaka NAKASHIN
  • Publication number: 20200133434
    Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to include a touchscreen that includes one or more biosensors. The touchscreen can include drive lines, sense lines, a photoconductive material, one or more biosensing areas, a touchscreen engine, and a biosensor engine. In a touchscreen mode, the touchscreen engine can be configured to couple with the sense lines and determine a place on the touchscreen where a user touched. In a biosensing mode, the biosensor engine can be configured to use the drive lines or sense lines and determine biometrics of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Sean Jude William Lawrence
  • Publication number: 20200133435
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch panel structure and a flexible touch display device. The touch panel structure includes a plurality of first touch electrode chains and a plurality of second touch electrode chains insulated from and in cross-connection with the first touch electrode chains; each of the first touch electrode chains includes a plurality of spaced-apart first touch electrodes, and the adjacent two of the first touch electrodes are electrically connected through the first connecting portion, the first connecting portion includes at least two conductive bridges; two adjacent second touch electrodes are electrically connected through a second connecting portion, and the first connecting portion is stacked on the second connecting portion and insulated from the second connecting portion. The touch panel structure can not only increase the contact area between the first connection portion and the corresponding touch electrode but also reduce the contact resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Minlun LIU, Qibing DAI, Dan LIN
  • Publication number: 20200133436
    Abstract: A touch system has a touch device and an input device. The touch system executes a first mode and a second mode at different times. In the first mode, the touch device transmits a modulation signal to drive the touch electrodes and to be used as an uplink signal. The input device receives the modulation signal. In the second mode, the touch device receives the downlink signal from the input device. Thus, the touch device does not have to transmit the driving signal and the uplink signal at different times. Then the time is saved for the rest work periods so that every work periods get longer length of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: HAN-WEI CHEN, HSUAN-WEN TSENG, YI-HSIN TAO, CHIA-HSING LIN, CHEN-YU HOU, CHIEH-WEN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200133437
    Abstract: A touch display apparatus is provided. The touch display apparatus including at least one touch display unit, and the at least one touch display unit includes a first surface, a plurality of light-emitting elements, a first touch electrode layer and a second touch electrode layer. The plurality of light-emitting elements are located on the first surface. The first touch electrode layer is located on the first surface, and has a plurality of first axial electrodes extending along a first direction. The second touch electrode layer has a plurality of second axial electrodes extending along a second direction. Orthographic projections of the first axial electrodes on the first surface and orthographic projections of the second axial electrodes on the first surface commonly surround a plurality of closed regions, and the plurality of light-emitting elements are respectively located in the corresponding closed regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Pen-Ning Kuo, Jui-Chi Chen, Nan-Jiun Yin
  • Publication number: 20200133438
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel and an input sensor disposed on the display panel and including signal line groups arranged in a wiring region, and first and second sensing electrodes disposed in a sensing region, each of the first and second sensing electrodes having one end electrically connected to a corresponding signal line, in which the second sensing electrodes have a greater length than the first sensing electrodes, the signal line groups include first and second signal line groups electrically connected to the first and second sensing electrodes, respectively, each of the first sensing electrodes includes first bridge patterns overlapping the second sensing electrodes and disposed on a different layer from the second sensing electrodes, and one of the first sensing electrodes or the second sensing electrodes are configured to receive a sinusoidal signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Hyunwoong KIM, Kwang-min KIM, Kiwook Kim, Yangwan KIM, Jisu NA
  • Publication number: 20200133439
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide devices that identify a conversation in a chat session between a plurality of computing devices, wherein the conversation is defined by text messages that include a question and a plurality of responses to the question, analyze content of the identified conversation to determine a type of the question, select a template according to the type of question, generate a user interface display according to the selected template and the content of the conversation, wherein the selected template is populated with a summary of the plurality of responses, and distribute the generated user interface display to a user interface of each of the plurality of computing devices according to the selected template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Craig M. Trim, AHMED Nassar, VICTOR POVAR, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Publication number: 20200133440
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit displaying an image on a display surface; a detection unit detecting a position on the display surface pointed by a pointing unit; and a control unit causing the display unit to display an image based on the position detected by the detection unit. The control unit causes the display unit to display a first image and a second image having a different setting of a first attribute and a second attribute from the first image. The control unit decides a setting of the first attribute and the second attribute used for the image based on the position detected by the detection unit, according to an operation on the first image or the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitaka NAKASHIN
  • Publication number: 20200133441
    Abstract: Disclosed systems and methods relate to a knowledge sharing system for aggregating and disseminating knowledge related to programming. The knowledge system for aggregating and disseminating knowledge related to programming may organize or index knowledge according to topics. A topic may be any kind of transferrable piece of knowledge that may be shared. In some embodiments, knowledge organized under a topic may be comprised of a record of interactions with computing systems, and in some embodiments, knowledge organized under a topic may be comprised of text documents, code samples, documentation, web sites, records of discussions, or other kinds of reference materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Adam Smith, Tarak Upadhyaya, Juan Lozano, Daniel Hung
  • Publication number: 20200133442
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for an interface system comprising a communication device and a system administrator, the system administrator is configured to initiate a setup process, receive an identification number, receive user information, and in response to the setup process, associate the identification number with the user information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Tomas Gorny
  • Publication number: 20200133443
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include providing cognitive contact assistance with dynamically generated contact lists for messages. Providing cognitive contact assistance includes performing by a processor, prior to a message created by a user being sent to a user interface of an intended recipient of the message: identifying content of the message; dynamically generating a contact list based at least in part on the content; and augmenting the message with the contact list. The augmented message is sent to the user interface of the intended recipient of the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Jenny S. Li, Xinlin Wang
  • Publication number: 20200133444
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to grouping user interface elements into components. The disclosed techniques may include, for example, determining, based on hierarchical user interface code, a plurality of visible elements of a graphical user interface. In addition, the disclosed techniques include determining coordinates for bounding boxes for ones of the plurality of visible elements and determining depths within the hierarchical user interface code for the plurality of visible elements. The disclosed techniques include generating groupings for the plurality of visible elements using unsupervised clustering and the determined coordinates and depths and storing information specifying the generated groupings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Kevin C. Hou, Brian J. Lonsdorf
  • Publication number: 20200133445
    Abstract: Disclosed systems and methods provide an integrated hypermedia engine (IHE) that monitors and predicts user activity on spawned document windows and spliced network management CLI/GUI sessions. In embodiments, the IHE pro-actively assists a user to efficiently use device-related documentation in an intuitive manner that requires minimal user interaction and, thereby, reduces the likelihood of human error, e.g., when configuring network devices involves multi-tiered, dynamic configuration paths. The IHE may acts as bridge between document windows and spliced network management sessions, for example, to enable seamless transfer of a CLI command from a document window to an inline GUI panel launched by a CLI session when constructing a command line. In embodiments, a context-ware THE may create and take advantage of documentation tags by interpreting relationships between commands to enable auto-navigation of the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Padmanabhan Narayanan, Thulasi Devi Ravinanthanan
  • Publication number: 20200133446
    Abstract: The application provides a method, apparatus, and electronic device for displaying application interfaces. The method may be implementable on a server. By the method, a current phase associated with a trip of a user may be determined, and interface configuration information corresponding to the current phase is determined for configuring a scenario-based interface of an application. Subsequently, the server sends the determined interface configuration information to the a client of the user, for the client to display the scenario-based interface of the application to the user according to the determined interface configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Dong WANG
  • Publication number: 20200133447
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method is performed at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display. The computer-implemented method includes displaying a multiweek calendar on the touch screen display, detecting a contact on an individual day in the multiweek calendar, and in response to detecting the contact on the individual day, displaying at least a portion of a list of events on the contacted individual day while continuing to display the multiweek calendar, wherein the list of events on the contacted individual day includes an invitation to an event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Freddy Allen ANZURES, Stephen O. LEMAY, Michael MATAS, Marcel VAN OS
  • Publication number: 20200133448
    Abstract: A device concurrently graphs a first data visualization and a second data visualization on a display. The first data visualization and the second data visualization share a common axis corresponding to a shared data field from a data source. The first data visualization comprises graphical marks corresponding to data values of a first data field from the data source and the second data visualization comprises graphical marks corresponding to data values of a second data field. A user moves a first graphical mark from a first location corresponding to an actual data value of the first data field to a second location, creating a first hypothetical value of the first data field. The device moves a second graphical mark in the second data visualization to an adjusted location corresponding to a computed hypothetical value for the second data field according to the first hypothetical value of the first data field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Bora Beran
  • Publication number: 20200133449
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a training application generates a trained encoder that automatically generates shape embeddings having a first size and representing three-dimensional (3D) geometry shapes, First, the training application generates a different view activation for each of multiple views associated with a first 3D geometry based on a first convolutional neural network (CNN) block. The training application then aggregates the view activations to generate a tiled activation. Subsequently, the training application generates a first shape embedding having the first size based on the tiled activation and a second CNN block. The training application then generates multiple re-constructed views based on the first shape embedding. The training application performs training operation(s) on at least one of the first CNN block and the second CNN block based on the views and the re-constructed views to generate the trained encoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas DAVIES, Michael HALEY, Ara DANIELYAN, Morgan FABIAN
  • Publication number: 20200133450
    Abstract: Ergonomic and sensor analysis based user experience design improvement is provided in various embodiments by: detecting interactions between a user and an element of a user interface of a software application executing on a computing device; gathering biometric data for the user from interface devices of the computing device; identifying a task performed in the software application that corresponds to the interactions and associates the biometric data with the interactions; adjusting a user interface setting for the element to reduce a strain on the user, wherein the user interface setting comprises at least one of: a location of the element relative to a second element of the user interface involved in the task; a relative size of the element in the user interface; a color balance of the element; and a size and location of a hitbox of the element for registering user selection of the element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Fang LU, Nadiya KOCHURA
  • Publication number: 20200133451
    Abstract: A command map GUI that illustrates command usage patterns of a first entity and/or a comparison between the first entity and a second entity. A server receives and stores command usage data from a plurality of clients, each client executing a software application that enables a set of commands. A client displays the GUI based on command usage data received from the server. The GUI displays a circle chart comprising a plurality of segments representing various command categories, each segment including a wedge that represents the amount of usage of the corresponding command category. The GUI also displays a plurality of data points, each data point representing a command, wherein the distance from the center of the circle chart represents the amount of usage of the corresponding command. The GUI may display a certification and/or an unused command recommended for a user based on command usage patterns of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Tovi GROSSMAN, Alexandra R. BERGIN, Benjamin LAFRENIERE, Michael STURTZ, Jaime A. PERKINS, Adam L. MENTER, Howard R. SWEARER, George FITZMAURICE, Justin Frank MATEJKA, Ji In SHIN, William SABRAM, Michael L. MCMANUS
  • Publication number: 20200133452
    Abstract: A method and system are configured to generate user-specific information, such as wager-related information, for display on one or more display devices of a user. The system is configured to store user preferences, to determine a location of the user and a configuration of the user's display device(s), and to use the location information and at least one of the user preference information and group information to generate the user-specific information, and to configure the user-specific information based upon the configuration of the user display device(s), wherein when there is more than one user display device, the user-information and configuration thereof may vary for each device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Sameer Mohan Gupta, Seth Schorr
  • Publication number: 20200133453
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for implementing near-view notification techniques. In some instances, a viewing distance with respect to a display screen of an electronic device may be determined. In accordance with a determination that the viewing distance is above a distance threshold, content may be presented on the display screen. In accordance with a determination that the viewing distance is under a distance threshold, until the viewing distance returns to being above the distance threshold, a visual notification may be displayed. The visual notification may disrupt the content presented on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Laura L. Walker, Jiaying Wu, Andrew B. Watson, Tim H. W. Cornelissen
  • Publication number: 20200133454
    Abstract: Provided are search methods and apparatuses capable of defining a search result screen in a simple and easy way. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a search method performed by a computing device. The search method comprises receiving a search term and automatically displaying a first graphic user interface (GUI) object configured to receive a search result screen configuration scheme in response to a first user input for the received search term without an additional user input after the first user input. The first unit input is a user input other than a user input editing the search term.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Jin Hee PARK, Dae Kyoung HAN, Ji Yeon JEONG, Bo Ri CHOI
  • Publication number: 20200133455
    Abstract: A force sensing system for determining if a user input has occurred, the system comprising: an input channel, to receive an input from at least one force sensor; an activity detection stage, to monitor an activity level of the input from the at least one force sensor and, responsive to an activity level which may be indicative of a user input being reached, to generate an indication that an activity has occurred at the force sensor; and an event detection stage to receive said indication, and to determine if a user input has occurred based on the received input from the at least one force sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
    Inventors: Hamid SEPEHR, Pablo PESO PARADA, Willem ZWART, Tom BIRCHALL, Michael Allen KOST, Tejasvi DAS, Siddharth MARU, Matthew BEARDSWORTH, Bruce E. DUEWER
  • Publication number: 20200133456
    Abstract: Disclosed by the present invention are a fingerprint recognition module and a mobile phone, the mobile phone comprising a fingerprint recognition module, a display screen, a touch screen chip disposed on the display screen and a touch screen panel disposed on the touch screen chip, a display touch integrated circuit (IC) and a display screen touch circuit board being disposed at one end of the display screen. The present invention reduces the length of a bottom frame of a mobile phone as well as the entire mobile phone by means of silk printing, transfer printing or electroplating a decorative ring on the touch screen panel to take the place of the fingerprint recognition metal decorative ring of an ordinary mobile phone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: HuiZhou TCL Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiguo HU, Hongbin ZHAN, Weihui FAN, Yun YE, Rui SHI, Yun LIN
  • Publication number: 20200133457
    Abstract: A touch system includes a touch device and an input device. The uplink signal transmitted by the touch device includes a timestamp. The input device transmits a downlink signal through the electrode unit and transmits a side information through a wireless communication unit. The inclusion of the corresponding timestamp in the side information ensures that the side information is combined with the corresponding downlink signal to correctly present the user's operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Han-Wei Chen, Hsuan-Wen Tseng, Yi-Hsin Tao, Chia-Hsing Lin
  • Publication number: 20200133458
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a touch control method and an apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: obtaining, by an electronic device, a touch event triggered by a user on a touchscreen, where the touch event includes a touch position of a touch point; if a target area in which the touch position is located is in a first touch area, determining, by the electronic device, whether the touch point is an accidental touch point, where the first touch area is located on the touchscreen of the electronic device; and discarding, by the electronic device, the touch event when the touch point is an accidental touch point, or reporting, by the electronic device, the touch event when the touch point is not an accidental touch point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Xiaoxiao Chen, Hao Chen, Dezhi Huang, Xuan Zhou, Bifeng Tong, Shengfeng Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200133459
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s) of a computing device identifies at least two displays coupled to the processor(s) to render visual objects to a user of the computing device, like a cursor, and processor(s) obtains instructions to render the cursor in various locations on the displays via an input device. The processor(s) obtain a display layout for the displays and resolutions of displays and generates an initial virtual desktop that includes physical real estate of the displays where the processor(s) renders visual objects. The processor(s) determines boundaries of each display and selects outermost two dimensional boundaries of the initial virtual desktops and updates the initial virtual desktop to an area bounded by a virtual rectangle comprising the outermost boundaries, which includes the displays and physical space not useable by the processor(s) to render visual objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Bender, John F. Kelley, Todd P. Seager, Blaine H. Dolph
  • Publication number: 20200133460
    Abstract: Instrumenting or modeling a bio-manufacturing process is disclosed. A data store holds information regarding one or more bio-manufacturing processes. For each process, the data store information includes workflow steps and per step indications of required equipment, services and consumables according to best practice and/or experts. A videographic user interface enables user interactive input regarding a subject bio-manufacturing process from the data store. The user-interface presents a model representation of deployment of the subject bio-manufacturing process. The user interactively navigates and makes selections in the displayed model representation. The user selections include certain bio-manufacturing products, equipment and services from an image database. The images from the image database enable the views of the model representation to appear true to life demonstrating equipment/product layout and physical equipment/computer connections used in the subject bio-manufacturing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Laurelle Sciola, Paul John Ricketts, Susan Colt
  • Publication number: 20200133461
    Abstract: Systems and methods for navigation within a virtual environment using a mobile device is disclosed. In the embodiments of the invention, one or more novel User Interfaces are used to allow a user navigate within a virtual environment simulated on the touch screen of a mobile device, to explore the virtual environment using navigational elements instead of having to physically move about the virtual environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Brittany Rene Brousseau
  • Publication number: 20200133462
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to systems and methods for generating multi-view interactive digital media representations in a virtual reality environment. According to particular embodiments, a plurality of images is fused into a first content model and a first context model, both of which include multi-view interactive digital media representations of objects. Next, a virtual reality environment is generated using the first content model and the first context model. The virtual reality environment includes a first layer and a second layer. The user can navigate through and within the virtual reality environment to switch between multiple viewpoints of the content model via corresponding physical movements. The first layer includes the first content model and the second layer includes a second content model and wherein selection of the first layer provides access to the second layer with the second content model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Fyusion, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Johannes Josef Holzer, Stephen David Miller, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Alexander Jay Bruen Trevor, Krunal Ketan Chande
  • Publication number: 20200133463
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display method and apparatus of an icon of an application, the method including: A) enabling the icon of the application to enter a dynamic mode; B) determining a display mode of the dynamic mode of the icon of the application; C) acquiring information corresponding to the determined display mode; and D) displaying the information on the icon of the application. According to the display method and apparatus of an icon of an application according to the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, after the icon of the application enters the dynamic mode, a display space of the icon of the application may be sufficiently utilized by acquiring the information corresponding to the display mode of the dynamic mode and displaying the acquired information on the icon of the application, and it is convenient for a user to view the information of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Jianbing SUN, Jingmeng GAN, Mingde WANG
  • Publication number: 20200133464
    Abstract: A method and system for providing emojis, or interactive icons, that have embedded functionality and can be used in text messages or other web based communication. The method and system of interactive icons with embedded functionality can convert a word into an exact logo. The converted logo can have embedded functionality, such as hyperlinks, phone number, using GPS to find locations closest to a user, or opening of a company's app. The interactive icons with embedded functionality may be selected from a keyboard, or from a predictive texting function. They can then be shared or viewed, or selected to provide the embedded information without leaving the messaging application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Kathryn L. Harper
  • Publication number: 20200133465
    Abstract: In one embodiment, applications installed on a mobile device may be identified. Historical data pertaining to use of the applications installed on the mobile device may be obtained. A context of the mobile device may be ascertained. Locations in which a plurality of icons representing a plurality of items are to be presented within a homescreen of the mobile device may be determined based, at least in part, on the context of the mobile device and the historical data, where the plurality of items include the applications installed on the mobile device. The homescreen of the mobile device may be updated according to the determined locations, wherein updating the homescreen of the mobile device includes providing at least a portion of the plurality of icons for display within the homescreen of the mobile device such that the homescreen of the mobile device displays the plurality of icons representing the plurality of items at the determined locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Michael Plasmeier
  • Publication number: 20200133466
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method of controlling a mobile terminal may be provided. The mobile terminal may include a display to display one of a plurality of wallpapers including at least one icon; and a controller to display at least two of the plurality of wallpapers and a plurality of preview screens corresponding to the plurality of wallpapers on the display upon reception of an input of moving at least one icon, moving of the at least one icon being displayed on the displayed wallpapers and preview screens. The mobile terminal can display a movement of icon being displayed on the displayed wallpapers and preview screens. Accordingly, a user may intuitively recognize a location of icon and effectively move a location of icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jeongyun HEO, Hyoungjoo KIM, Jungeun SHIN, Sohoon YI, Soohyun LEE, Moonkyung KIM
  • Publication number: 20200133467
    Abstract: A method for selecting a screen on a touch screen using a pressure touch according to the present invention includes a first pressure touch sensing step for sensing a first pressure touch having a pressure of a prescribed magnitude or higher, which is input through a touch screen, a scroll operation sensing step for sensing a scroll operation input through the touch screen, a display step for scrolling and displaying a screen displayed on the touch screen according to the scroll operation, a second pressure touch sensing step for sensing a second pressure touch having a pressure of a prescribed magnitude or higher, which is input on the scrolled screen, and a selection area setting step for setting, as a selection area, an area defined by a position at which the first pressure touch is sensed and a position at which the second pressure touch is sensed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: HiDeep Inc.
    Inventors: Seyeob KIM, Yun Joung KIM