Plural Display Systems Patents (Class 345/1.1)
  • Patent number: 10095459
    Abstract: A display driving circuit includes a command sync controller, a command pre-buffer and a command register. The command sync controller generates a first sync signal based on an external signal. The command pre-buffer stores a first command. The command register stores the first command provided from the command pre-buffer. The first sync signal is provided both to the command pre-buffer and to an external device of the display driving circuit. The command pre-buffer provides, in response to the first sync signal, the first command stored in the command pre-buffer to the command register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang-Hyo Kim, Do-Kyung Kim
  • Patent number: 10095668
    Abstract: There is provided a method for providing a text automatic response service (ARS) using a text ARS development tool. The method includes allowing a manager device to generate a menu tree by using a web-based text ARS development tool; generating a pre-defined XML document set based on the menu tree; transmitting the XML document set to a text ARS server; and allowing the text ARS server to combine texts included in one of the XML document set to transmit the texts to a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ji-in Lim, Kyu-ho Lee, Min-chul Kim, Sang-hoon Yeo
  • Patent number: 10089058
    Abstract: A view display processing method and device and projection equipment are described. The method includes that: a target display area on a first display interface for displaying on a second display interface is determined; and a target display view corresponding to the target display area is determined, wherein the target display view is different from a view displayed on the first display interface; and the target display view is displayed on the second display interface. The method, device and apparatus solve the problem that a terminal with multiple sets of display systems cannot perform a differentiated display according to different display requirements in the related technology, and effects are further achieved that the terminal with the multiple sets of display systems can perform the differentiated display according to different display requirements and user experiences are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Dongxiao Zhao
  • Patent number: 10082833
    Abstract: The invention discloses a flexible display device including a fixed plate, a slidable plate, and a flexible display panel, wherein the slidable plate slides relative to the fixed plate with a bottom surface overlying the fixed plate; the flexible display panel disposed on the top surface of the slidable plate, wherein the flexible display panel includes a primary display section, and a secondary display section attached to the primary display section, wherein the secondary display section is foldable and retractable, wherein the primary display section is fastened to the top surface of the slidable plate; and wherein while the slidable plate slides relative to the fixed plate, the primary display section brings the retractable secondary display section between a folded position and an expanded position, and the fixed plate supports the primary display section and the secondary display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Donghua Chen
  • Patent number: 10082997
    Abstract: A display system includes a plurality of display apparatuses. Each of the plurality of display apparatuses includes a display panel that displays an image and a sending and receiving unit that at least receives setting information of one of the plurality of display apparatuses. A first display apparatus that is one of the plurality of display apparatuses further includes a coordinate acquiring unit that acquires a coordinate. A first sending and receiving unit of the first display apparatus receives setting information of a second display apparatus specified by the coordinate from the second display apparatus. A first display panel of the first display apparatus displays a setting image that indicates the setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Mihara
  • Patent number: 10079954
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a hardware processor configured to: recognize a plurality of functions of the image forming apparatus, and determine a priority function to be preferentially introduced to a user among the plurality of functions recognized; and a first transmitting unit configured to transmit function introducing information indicating the functions of the image forming apparatus, which are recognized by the hardware processor, and the priority function, to a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsutaka Morita, Katsutoshi Sawada
  • Patent number: 10079963
    Abstract: A display method and a display system for a video wall are proposed. The method is applicable to a display system having a server and multiple player devices. Each of the player devices is connected to the server and a video wall having multiple displays, and each of the player devices corresponds to a different one of the displays and a different one of regions in a video stream. The method includes to receive the video stream from the server by each of the player devices, to send a broadcast command by a master player device among the player devices to other player devices, and to start displaying the corresponding region in a first frame of the video stream on the corresponding display of the video wall by each of the player devices after a preset delay time interval according to the broadcast command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: VIA Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Shu Liu, Chong Liu
  • Patent number: 10075693
    Abstract: A computerized system for displaying stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) video recorded on a stereoscopic camera device includes a computer store containing data. The data includes a stereoscopic video feed of two or more stereoscopic images from a stereoscopic video capture device, wherein the stereoscopic video feed comprises a plurality of contemporaneous metadata feeds, wherein a metadata feed comprises a time sequenced set of metadata obtained from a sensor of the stereoscopic video capture device. The computerized system includes a computer processor in the stereoscopic video capture device, which computer processor is coupled to the computer store and programmed to obtain the stereoscopic video feed from the computer store, parse the plurality of contemporaneous metadata feeds from the stereoscopic video feed, and calibrate the stereoscopic video feed for display in a display of a user's computing device using the plurality of contemporaneous metadata feeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Inventors: Han Jin, Adam Rowell
  • Patent number: 10073667
    Abstract: A monitor device is one of a plurality of monitors connected in series. The monitor device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires the number of the monitors; a calculation unit that calculates a region to be displayed by the monitor device, of an image corresponding to an image signal, and a display size of an image corresponding to the region, based on the acquired number of the monitors and arrangement of the monitor device in the serial connection; a display unit that displays the image corresponding to the region according to the display size; and a communication unit that outputs the acquired number of the monitors to one of the monitors when the one of the monitors is arranged at a subsequent stage of the monitor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiromi Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 10073542
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus 10aa capable of communicating with another apparatus via a network 2 is provided. The information processing apparatus 10aa includes a display unit 14b configured to display an image on a display apparatus included in or connected to the information processing apparatus; a transmission unit 11 configured to transmit image data of the image displayed on the display apparatus to the other apparatus; and a reducing unit 18 configured to reduce a process load involved in displaying the image on the display apparatus in the case where the transmission unit transmits the image data to the other apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinaga Kato
  • Patent number: 10069882
    Abstract: A request from a plurality of mobile devices to join a group may be received. A number of the mobile devices that have joined the group may be identified. Furthermore, a preliminary image may be selected based on the number of the mobile devices that have joined the group and portions of the preliminary image may be transmitted to the mobile devices. An indication of an arrangement of the mobile devices based on the transmitted portions of the preliminary image may be received. In response to receiving the indication of the arrangement of the mobile devices, a different video item of the video items representing the main video may be transmitted to each of the mobile devices according to the arrangement of the mobile devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Peter Karacas, James Sowden, Matthieu Lorrain, Bryan Rodman
  • Patent number: 10067535
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display mounted in a housing. The display may have an array of display pixels that provide image light to a user. The array of display pixels may form an active display structure with a rectangular shape. The rectangular active display structure may be surrounded by an inactive border region. Optical structures such as upper structures formed from a sheet of glass and lower optical structures that lie beneath the sheet of glass may be configured to bend light from the display pixels along the periphery of the active display structure. The upper optical structures may have an area that is larger than the area of the active display structure, so that the presence of the optical structures may serve to enlarge the apparent size of the display. The lower and upper optical structures may have curved surfaces for bending the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Prest, Tseng-Mau Yang, Dale N. Memering
  • Patent number: 10060732
    Abstract: A flexible apparatus is provided. The flexible apparatus includes a plurality of motion sensors mounted on different locations of the flexible apparatus, a storage configured to store operation information of the flexible apparatus corresponding to a bending shape, and a controller configured to determine a bending shape of the flexible apparatus based on a sensing value of each of the plurality of motion sensors, and to perform an operation corresponding to the determined bending shape based on the operation information stored in the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han-sung Lee, Geun-ho Lee
  • Patent number: 10051188
    Abstract: [Object] To display a captured image on a display unit in accordance with the intention of a user. [Solution] An information processing device according to the present technology includes a reception unit configured to receive operation information on a user, and a control unit configured to decide, on the basis of a state of a flexible display unit pulled out from a body of an image shooting device, a corresponding range corresponding to a displayable area of the pulled-out display unit from an entire image range acquired by an image shooting unit, the state being received by the reception unit, the flexible display unit being capable of being pulled out from the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Nagano, Daisuke Sato
  • Patent number: 10049625
    Abstract: Various approaches discussed herein provide for changing the behavior and/or display properties of various interface elements associated with an application executing on a computing device, such as a device having an electrophoretic ink (e-ink) display screen. According to various embodiments, one or more libraries having E-ink specific parameters are provided that are used to modify the various interface elements based upon such information as a type and/or style of interface element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Satishkumar Kothandapani Shanmugasundaram, Donghao Ma
  • Patent number: 10048846
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: a user interface unit to provide one or more shortcuts; a storage unit to store shortcut information about functions corresponding to the one or more shortcuts and options related to the functions; a job executing unit; and a control unit to control the job executing unit to perform the function corresponding to the selected shortcut, wherein when the shortcut is selected, the control unit controls the job executing unit to perform the function corresponding to the selected shortcut or controls the user interface unit to display an option setting page to set an option necessary to perform the function corresponding to the selected shortcut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: S-PRINTING SOLUTION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tae-gyun Cho
  • Patent number: 10044915
    Abstract: A first cavity in an exterior wall of a hollow container body has first contours and a second cavity in the exterior wall of the hollow container body has second contours. A camera is disposed within the first cavity, the camera having a shape that conforms to the first contours of the first cavity. An electronic device comprising a display is disposed within the second cavity, the electronic device having a shape that conforms to the second contours of the second cavity. The camera is to generate pictures of objects external to the hollow container body, store the pictures in a memory, and provide the pictures to the electronic device. The electronic device has a connection to the camera and is to receive the pictures from the camera via the connection and to display the pictures that are received from the camera on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Medea Inc.
    Inventor: Tim Goldburt
  • Patent number: 10031636
    Abstract: A desktop display over a remote connection is updated by detecting, at their origin, changes in the desktop that reflect movement of an image, such as window scrolls, window moves and other movements of regions. For every frame of the desktop that is composed, moves can be detected. The offsets and regions of these moves are transformed into desktop space. A list of moves and other information about changed regions in the desktop display provide both an indication of moved image regions and move parameters, and image data that has otherwise changed. The moved image regions are moved at the destination by applying the move parameters, without transferring image data for the moved region to the remote device, while the remaining changed portion of the desktop is copied over the connection to the remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dorin Ungureanu, Mohamed Sadek, Robert W. Schmieder, Harneet Sidhana
  • Patent number: 10027657
    Abstract: A method for authenticating a user on the electronic computing device includes receiving a request to authenticate the user. First data is received from the electronic computing device. The first data comprises selections of the user of a plurality of locations from a picture displayed on the electronic computing device. The first data also comprises force data representing forces applied by the user when making the selections. The first data is compared with second data. A determination is made as to whether aspects of the first data correspond to aspects of the second data. When the aspects of the first data correspond to the aspects of the second data, the user is authenticated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Madhu V. Vempati, Rameshchandra B. Ketharaju
  • Patent number: 10026360
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels, each sub-pixel having an organic light emitting diode and a driving transistor to drive the organic light emitting diode; a sensing circuit configured to output sensing data for feature values of the organic light emitting diode or the driving transistor of each sub-pixel; a humidity sensor configured to sense humidity at an edge of the display panel; and a controller configured to compare sense humidity sensed by the humidity sensor with a predetermined critical humidity, and control compensation for variance of the feature values using the sensing data or previously stored reference data, depending on a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jaehoon Jung
  • Patent number: 10026883
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to wafer bond interconnect structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a plurality of sub-pixels each comprising a contact plate; and redundant connections at opposite corners of each sub-pixel on a backside of the contact plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
    Inventors: Luke England, Rahul Agarwal
  • Patent number: 10019931
    Abstract: An electronic paper display apparatus including an electronic paper display panel to display an image page, a display driver coupled to the electronic paper display panel, and a data processor coupled to the display driver. The display driver drives the electronic paper display panel to display a plurality of image frames according to image data, so as to display the image page. The data processor converts a first look-up table into a second look-up table and merges a current frame and a previous frame into a combined frame. The data processor generates the image data according to the combined frame and the second look-up table and outputs the image data. The image frames include the current frame and the previous frame. A driving method of the electronic paper display apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Kuo-Han Hsu, Mon-Wei Wu, Yi-Te Lee, Wei-Cheng Lin, Chi-Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 10013737
    Abstract: A method comprising entering a passive viewing state of an apparatus, receiving information indicative of a first input, determining a first operation based, at least in part, on a passive viewing state and the first input, performing the first operation, receiving environmental sensor information, determining that the environmental sensor information indicates that the apparatus is actively viewed by a user, entering of an active viewing state of the apparatus based, at least in part, on the determination that the environmental sensor information indicates that the apparatus is actively viewed by the user, receiving information indicative of a second input, the second input being substantially the same as the first input, determining a second operation based, at least in part, on the active viewing state and the second input, the second operation being different from the first operation, and performing the second operation is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: David Nguyen, Audrey Desjardins
  • Patent number: 10001681
    Abstract: Pixels of a liquid crystal display device exhibit, in a switched manner, a black display state where black display is provided in a state where a vertical electric field is generated in a liquid crystal layer, a white display state where white display is provided in a state where a lateral electric field is generated in the liquid crystal layer, and a transparent display state where a rear side of a liquid crystal display panel is seen through where no voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer. A gray scale level group including gray scale levels from a lowest level to a highest level includes a white level, a transparent level having a luminance higher than that of the white level, and a plurality of sub-transparent levels each having a luminance higher than that of the white level and lower than that of the transparent level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Kita, Iori Aoyama, Takahiro Sasaki, Kazutaka Hanaoka
  • Patent number: 10002572
    Abstract: A parent device which is a liquid crystal monitor device serving as a reference for adjusting the backlight distributes, through communication, a backlight-setting value indicating luminance of a backlight to an child device which is a liquid crystal monitor device receiving adjustment of the backlight. A processing unit in the child device obtains a correction value from the backlight-setting value of the parent device received by a reception unit and a backlight-setting value input to an adjustment switch by the user. When the reception unit has received a new backlight-setting value of the parent device, the processing unit obtains the backlight-setting value of the child device from the new backlight-setting value and the correction value and instructs a backlight control circuit to light a backlight based on a lighting period corresponding to the obtained backlight-setting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Isamu Kenmochi
  • Patent number: 10001887
    Abstract: A multi-touch touch screen and its junction area touch sensing method are disclosed. The multi-touch touch screen consists of multiple touch screens each including a touch-sensing device having a touch-sensing layer for sensing the present of one or multiple points and generating a respective sensing information and a controller for computing the center or centroid of each sensing information and the distance between the centers or centroids of each two sensing information and then comparing each computed distance with a predetermined reference distance and then determining the contact to be a multi-point of contact if the computed distance is larger than the predetermined reference value, or a single-point of contact if the computed distance is smaller than the predetermined reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Chin-Fu Chang
  • Patent number: 9996979
    Abstract: An augmented reality technology-based handheld viewing device and a method thereof. The device includes a video collecting unit, which is used for capturing a real scene; an intelligent computing terminal, which is used for identifying a two-dimensional code to obtain code value information and space position information, then placing a preset virtual scene according to the space position information, and generating a viewing frame; a voice output unit, which is used for outputting voice information corresponding to the virtual scene; and a liquid crystal display screen. Compared with the prior art, the handheld viewing device can generate a virtual environment that highly matches the real scene and has vivid visual sense, hearing sense, touching sense, force sense, dynamic sense and can realize direct interaction between a user and virtual three-dimensional environment. For a child, more sensory stimulation is available, learning efficiency is improved, and the teaching with pleasure is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: YOUNGZONE CULTURE (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianming Xiong
  • Patent number: 9997583
    Abstract: A double-faced display panel and a double-faced display device comprising the double-faced display panel are provided. The double-faced display panel comprises: a first display sub-unit, provided with a first display surface and a first non-display surface opposite to each other; a second display sub-unit, provided with a second display surface and a second non-display surface opposite to each other, and arranged back to back with the first display sub-unit, the second non-display surface facing the first non-display surface; and a reflection unit, arranged between the first display sub-unit and the second display sub-unit. The reflection unit is configured to reflect display light emitted from the first display sub-unit back to the first display sub-unit and reflect display light emitted from the second display sub-unit back to the second display sub-unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunbing Zhang, Bin Zhang, Shuai Hou, Yichiang Lai, Liang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9990749
    Abstract: Systems and methods for perceptually synchronizing at least one secondary display that is in a same visual environment as a primary display. The image appearance parameters may be derived from the image/video shown on the primary display can be used to map the appearance of any arbitrary content on a secondary device. To produce a visually pleasing environment for a viewer in the visual environment, systems and methods are herein disclosed for synchronizing the display settings or parameters. The synchronization may be affected by dynamically adjusting the image data rendered upon one of the primary and/or secondary displays. Such dynamic adjustments may be made in accordance with the characteristics of the primary display and/or secondary display. Such adjustments may be made to the dynamic range, color mapping, etc. of the rendering on either display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventor: Timo Kunkel
  • Patent number: 9983842
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an adjusting method and an electronic device. The method comprises: acquiring a first shape parameter of a first foldable screen; and transmitting the first shape parameter to a second electronic device coupled to the first electronic device, so as to allow the second electronic device to adjust a shape of a second foldable screen of the second electronic device based on the first shape parameter, or generating first synchronization information based on the first shape parameter and transmitting the first synchronization information to the second electronic device coupled to the first electronic device, so as to allow the second electronic device to adjust the shape of the second foldable screen based on the first synchronization information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventor: Jianfeng Chen
  • Patent number: 9979680
    Abstract: A method of smart notification scheduling and modality selection includes identifying a notification. The method includes extracting context pertaining to the notification or a user of the client device in response to receiving the notification. The method further includes determining a priority for the notification based on the context. The method also includes determining a delivery schedule for the notification based on the priority. The method includes determining a notification delivery plan based on at least one of the context, priority or delivery schedule. The method further includes transmitting the notification to a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Cong Chen, Ajay Chander, Kanji Uchino
  • Patent number: 9979837
    Abstract: A communication structure for both personal communication services and broadly disseminated communication services is described. The communication structure includes a communication unit having telecommunication capability enabling a user of the communication structure to communicate to a remote individual. The communication structure also including multiple displays capable of displaying text, image, video data and further including non-digital advertising surfaces for displaying static images and a speaker system for broadcasting messages. The multiple displays and non-digital advertising surfaces allowing for communication with individuals within visual range of the communication structure. The multiple displays having synchronization capability, allowing for coordination of the text, image and video data displayed. The communication structure being connectable to other communication structures and the multiple displays of the multiple communication structures also having synchronization capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Inventors: Francois Badeau, Andrew Mack
  • Patent number: 9977981
    Abstract: Provided are methods and apparatuses for calibrating a three-dimensional (3D) image in a tiled display including a display panel and a plurality of lens arrays. The method includes capturing a plurality of structured light images displayed on the display panel, calibrating a geometric model of the tiled display based on the plurality of structured light images, generating a ray model based on the calibrated geometric model of the tiled display, and rendering an image based on the ray model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiming Li, Mingcai Zhou, Shandong Wang, Shaohui Jiao, Tao Hong, Haitao Wang, Ji Yeun Kim
  • Patent number: 9961213
    Abstract: An electronic device and an image capturing apparatus are provided. The electronic device includes: a fixing apparatus, adapted to, in a case that a user wears the electronic device, maintain a position relationship between the electronic device and at least part of body of the user; an image capturing apparatus having an image capturing area, adapted to capture an image in the image capturing area; a data transmission apparatus, adapted to, in a case that a data connection is established between the electronic device and a second electronic device, perform data transmission with the second electronic device; an audio output apparatus having an audio output area, adapted to output sound to the audio output area; and a processing apparatus, adapted to control at least one of the image capturing apparatus, the data transmission apparatus and the audio output apparatus, wherein the electronic device comprises no image displaying apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang He, Yingjia Yao, Junfeng Liu
  • Patent number: 9952823
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods of seamless displays are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a backpanel device comprising display drive circuitry can be removably coupled with a display device via an array of contact members. The display device can include image-producing elements or pixels that can be selectively driven by the backpanel device via corresponding portions of the array of contact members. Multiple display devices can be disposed adjacently on one or more backpanel devices such that an image displayed across the multiple display devices appears seamless.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Johanna M. Swan, Uygar Avci, Islam A. Salama, Ravi Pillarisetty
  • Patent number: 9946078
    Abstract: A head-up display device including a screen; a projector that projects a visual image to the screen using a projection lens; and an image generator that generates a virtual image of the visual image to be visually recognized by a user from the visual image projected to the screen, wherein the visual image is composed of a first visual image and a second visual image; and the image generator generates a first virtual image, which is a virtual image of the first visual image, from the first visual image, and generates a second virtual image, which is a virtual image of the second visual image, from the second visual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Watanabe, Hiroyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 9947883
    Abstract: A foldable display apparatus includes: a first flexible panel and a second flexible panel, the first and second flexible panels being separate from each other; a first case supporting the first flexible panel and a second case supporting the second flexible panel; and a link member foldably connecting the first and second cases, and adjacent boundary regions of the first and second flexible panels are curved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinhwan Choi, Taean Seo, Taewoong Kim, Boik Park, Juchan Park, Younggug Seol
  • Patent number: 9946304
    Abstract: A flexible display device may include a display module unit configured to project an image, a frame, and a connecting unit. The frame supports the display module unit. The connecting unit is coupled to the display module unit and the frame, and is adjustable so as to allow an amount of curvature of the display module unit to be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byeong Hwa Choi, Seung Bae Lee
  • Patent number: 9939842
    Abstract: A combination of a first device and a second device is provided. The first device may include a tablet dock and the second device may include a mobile communication device such as a phone. The tablet dock may include a docking slot with an inner rim and an input. The phone may be sized to fit within the docking slot and may include an outer rim that slidably engages and releasably attaches to the inner rim. The outer rim may include an output that connects with the input. Therefore, when the phone is docked within the docking slot, a full sized tablet may be activated using data from the phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Inventor: Carroll Boston Correll, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9940909
    Abstract: A system for generating a virtual display that is displayed on an existing monitor using a memory (e.g., graphics processing unit (GPU) memory, random access memory (RAM), etc.) of a connected device (e.g., a computer) as a frame buffer for the virtual display. For example, the virtual display may use the RAM or the memory of the GPU of the connected device as a second frame buffer to generate the frames displayed in the virtual display. The virtual display is not a physical display and, thus, does not require any additional hardware or physical space. Rather, the virtual display is displayed on a pre-existing display. The pre-existing display is also used to display the frames generated in a first frame buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Barco N.V.
    Inventors: Becky Gail Kiichle-Gross, Matthew R. McLin, David Christian Qualman, Ryan Charles Dougherty Tindall, Benjamin Loren English, Andy Eagle Howe, Albert Frederick George Xthona
  • Patent number: 9934755
    Abstract: A display device which may operate as a reflective display device which uses external light without separate power supply at an illumination level equal to or greater than a certain illumination level, and which may operate as a transmissive display device which uses internal light at an illumination level less than the certain illumination level to provide a clear image in an outdoor environment and a dark indoor environment. Power consumption may be minimized by automatically switching the display mode depending on the illumination level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee Yuel Roh, Joo Ho Kim, Sang Cheol Moon, Eung Yeoul Yoon, Jun Sung Chung, Jin Seung Choi, In Hak Na
  • Patent number: 9933986
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for switching display mode and an electronic device. The method includes: detecting whether a first instruction for switching a display mode of the electronic device from the first display mode to the second display mode is received, in the case that the electronic device is in the first display mode; stopping synthesizing current data to be displayed in the first display mode and determining a second display unit corresponding to the second display mode, if the first detection result shows that the first instruction is received; determining a display channel corresponding to the second display unit, based on the corresponding relation between the display channel and the display unit; and synthesizing current data to be displayed in the second display mode, and transmitting the current data to be displayed in the second display mode to the second display unit to display it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiliang Liang, Xingming Yu, Jing Zhang, Chenye Zhou, Yunkai Chen
  • Patent number: 9934735
    Abstract: A display control method and an electronic device are described. The electronic device includes a first body and a second body. Two sides of the first body include a first display area and a second display area respectively. The method includes: acquiring space position information of the first body and the second body, determining whether the space position information satisfies a first space predetermined condition, and obtaining a first determining result; detecting a first included angle between the first body and the second body if the first determining result indicates that the space position information satisfies the first space predetermined condition; determining whether the first included angle satisfies a first included angle predetermined condition, and switching an operating state of the electronic device to the triangle supporting state if the first included angle satisfies the first included angle predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Binbin Wei, Xueyuan Zhang, Haifang Tan, Shi Chen
  • Patent number: 9933987
    Abstract: Display apparatuses which constitute a multi-display system each display a partial picture corresponding to a picture position set in the display apparatus. When each display apparatus is instructed to change the picture position and is notified about a picture position to be changed via operation input means, the display apparatus exchanges pieces of picture position information with a display apparatus displaying a partial picture corresponding to the picture position to be changed and swaps the picture positions of the display apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yasunobu Kaneko
  • Patent number: 9916119
    Abstract: A multiple display method to be performed by two or more communication terminals to expand visibility is provided. A first communication terminal establishes a wireless connection with a second communication terminal, receives device information of the second communication terminal, generates first screen data based on the device information for configuring a first screen of the first communication terminal and second screen data for configuring a second screen of the second communication terminal in association with the first screen. The second screen data is transmitted to the second communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Hong Jeung, Sung-Jin Yoon
  • Patent number: 9916691
    Abstract: A head mounted display which allows a user to visually recognize a virtual image and external scenery, and includes an image display unit that forms the virtual image which is visually recognized by the user, and a superimposition processing unit that causes the image display unit to form the virtual image based on superimposition information for superimposing invisible information which is not shown in an appearance of an object on the object included in the external scenery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masahide Takano, Atsunari Tsuda
  • Patent number: 9907623
    Abstract: A system, in particular for image-guided surgery, comprising: at least two display devices; a position determinator for determining the relative position of the display devices; and an image generator for generating images, which are to be displayed by the display devices, in accordance with the determined relative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Brainlab AG
    Inventors: Gregor Tuma, Markus Bartenstein, Johannes Manus, Michael Gschwandtner, Fritz Vollmer
  • Patent number: 9907622
    Abstract: A system, in particular for image-guided surgery, comprising: at least two display devices; a position determinator for determining the relative position of the display devices; and an image generator for generating images, which are to be displayed by the display devices, in accordance with the determined relative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Brainlab AG
    Inventors: Gregor Tuma, Markus Bartenstein, Johannes Manus, Michael Gschwandtner, Fritz Vollmer
  • Patent number: 9904936
    Abstract: A method for identifying elements of a webpage is provided. The method includes accessing, by an electronic device, a document object model (DOM) of the webpage. Changes applied to properties of a plurality of elements of the webpage across different media queries for different viewports are then analyzed using the DOM. The different viewports are of different sizes. Based on analyzing, ranking score is determined for each element. Elements having ranking score greater than a predefined threshold are identified as representative elements of the webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Vineeth Neelakant
  • Patent number: 9905199
    Abstract: A processor for use in an electronic device is provided. The electronic device is capable of displaying and the processor has capability of switching a refresh rate for refreshing a display panel of the display device. The processor comprises: a refresh rate selection controller and a display controller. The refresh rate selection controller is configured to dynamically select one from a plurality refresh rates. The display controller is configured to control a driving device to refresh the display panel with the selected refresh rate and determine whether to adjust a data transmission rate over an interface between the processor and the driving device according to the selected refresh rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Chang-Chu Liu, Shu-Wen Teng, Ta-Lun Huang, Chun-Wei Ku, Chien-Chou Ko, Hao-Ting Huang