Plural Display Systems Patents (Class 345/1.1)
  • 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
  • Patent number: 9906759
    Abstract: The disclosure describes packaging structures for light field displays and/or light field projectors. An example device package includes a rendering engine configured to receive scene data and generate light field data for a light field, at least one light field projection unit configured to receive the light field data from the rendering engine and output at least a portion of the light field, and at least one internal communication channel operatively coupling the at least one light field projection unit to the rendering engine. The device package may further include a housing containing the rendering engine, the at least one light field projection unit, and the at least one internal communication channel in a single package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Michael Eugene Weiblen
  • Patent number: 9904462
    Abstract: A system and method for content collaboration, the system comprising a first collaboration configuration including at least a first display having a first display surface, a second collaboration configuration including a least a second display having a second display surface, a processor maintaining a session dataset including a plurality of objects arranged in a relative juxtaposition with respect to each other, the processor presenting first and second different views of the session via the at the least first and second display surfaces, respectively, wherein at least some of the first view overlaps with some of the second view and indicating, via the at least a first display surface, content presented in the second view that is not presented in the first view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: STEELCASE INC.
    Inventors: Michael H Dunn, Ian G Hutchinson, Peter W Hildebrandt
  • Patent number: 9898161
    Abstract: A method of controlling multitasking in an electronic device using a double-sided display is provided. The method includes detecting a first gesture which reverses a first direction of a first screen executing a first application to a second direction or reverses the second direction of a second screen to the first direction, displaying a first list of applications on the second screen of the second direction is reversed to the first direction, when the first gesture is detected, detecting a input for selecting a second application from the first list of applications, and executing and displaying the touched second application on the second screen having the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Eun Han, Kwang-Tai Kim, Da-Som Lee
  • Patent number: 9898051
    Abstract: According to the hinge device of the present invention, a hinge part connecting a first body part and a second body part forming a multimedia apparatus for the hinge device is provided, where the hinge part includes a plurally-arranged hinge blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Seneka Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pil Je Cho, Young Woo Huh
  • Patent number: 9898154
    Abstract: An information input unit includes a detection portion and a first protective member, and acquires information input with a writing instrument by detecting a position of the writing instrument. The detection portion can be folded along a first axis. The first protective member includes an insertion portion. An opening is formed in an opposing face of the insertion portion that faces toward the first axis. At least a portion of the detection portion is inserted into the first protective member such that a first length becomes shorter than a second length. The first length is a length between the opening and an edge of the detection portion that is on the opposite side from the opposing face. The edge of the detection portion is contained in the first protective member. The second length is the length between the edge of the detection portion and the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takehiko Inaba, Atsushi Kasugai
  • Patent number: 9891442
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel displaying an image and having a first radius of curvature, a distance measuring unit measuring a user distance, the user distance being a distance between the display panel and a user, and a curvature radius changing unit receiving the measured user distance from the distance measuring unit, to change the first radius of curvature of the display panel to a second radius of curvature different from the first radius of curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bon-Seog Gu, Nam-Gon Choi
  • Patent number: 9883740
    Abstract: A system comprising a switching device linked to a common display screen and including a wireless receiver configured to receive content, the switching device configured to use the received content to drive the common display screen and a plurality of interface devices, each interface device including an interface housing, an interface device processor, a control button mounted within the housing and a plug linked to the housing via a cable, the plug receivable within a connection port of a computing device, a first interface device including a first device processor, a first plug and a first control button, the first processor configured to perform the steps of, with the first plug received in the connection port of the first computing device and first content presented on the first display screen while other content is presented on the common display screen, detecting selection of the first control button and, upon detecting selection of the first control button, causing a wireless transmission to the switc
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Lewis Epstein, Brett Kincaid, Hyun Yoo, Suzanne Stage, Lukas Scherrer, Larry Cheng
  • Patent number: 9888599
    Abstract: A protecting cover for an electronic device is provided, the protecting cover including a front cover portion positioned on a front surface of the electronic device, a back cover portion connected with the front cover portion and positioned on a back surface of the electronic device, an auxiliary display unit provided on the front cover portion, and a module configured to control transmission and reception of data and power supply depending on opening and closing of the front cover portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Jin Park, Seong-Woon Kang, Young-Woong Kim, Kyu-Suk Lee, Jong-In Lee, Kyung-Hoon Cha
  • Patent number: 9875572
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for simulating three dimensional display of data. The method comprises obtaining (S100) width and height for an information container, and obtaining (S110) width and height for a virtual three-dimensional display unit. Additionally, the method comprises determining (S120) a number of faces, width and height for each face of the virtual display unit, and an angle between adjacent faces of the virtual display unit. The method further comprises determining (S130) a rotation point, retrieving (S140) data for a first page, and determining (S150) width and height for the data of the first page. The method also comprises inserting (S160) the data of the first page into the first face, and then repeating steps (e) to (g) for each face of the plurality of faces. The final steps are to display (S170) and rotate (S180) the virtual display unit around its rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: ADSSETS AB
    Inventor: Lars-Erik Sellin
  • Patent number: 9877014
    Abstract: A stereo image display apparatus that causes a display device to display a stereo image having a parallax, wherein a stereo image of a currently displayed frame is advanced frame by frame to a stereo image of the next frame in response to a frame-by-frame advance indication, the apparatus comprising: a frame-by-frame advancing device that, once frame-by-frame advance is indicated, switches the stereo image of the current frame on the display with a parallaxless image of the current frame, thereafter advances the image frame by frame to display a parallaxless image of the next frame, and further thereafter displays a stereo image of the next frame on the display device, wherein the frame-by-frame advancing device performs the frame-by-frame advance with sliding-out/sliding-in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hirofumi Horii
  • Patent number: 9870754
    Abstract: A computer program product includes a non-transitory computer-readable medium containing an information processing program. The program causes a computer to perform: detecting a connection state of an external monitor that is externally connected to the computer and is different from an internal monitor of the computer; switching display monitor between the internal monitor and the external monitor based on the detected connection state; and controlling a display screen according to a screen specification of the internal monitor or the external monitor that is the display monitor thus switched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Ishigami, Yoshinaga Kato
  • Patent number: 9870192
    Abstract: A server is provided for providing adaptive displaying on a plurality of display devices in a virtualization environment. The server includes a communication device configured to receive capabilities data associated with a plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs) of a client device. The plurality of GPUs include at least one GPU that has at least one different capability from the other GPUs. The server also includes a display driver configured to generate a plurality of display adapters based on the capabilities data. Each of the display adapters corresponds to one of the plurality of GPUs. The server further includes a window compositor configured to generate command data using the plurality of display adapters. The communication device is further configured to provide the command data to the client device. The command data are adapted to the capabilities of one or more of the plurality of GPUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Julian Petrov
  • Patent number: 9868062
    Abstract: A system, method, and graphical user interface for playing games and/or executing applications on a tablet-based client. One embodiment of a graphical user interface (GUI) for playing a video game on a tablet-based client device comprises: a virtual controller rendered on a display of the tablet computer, the virtual controller substantially mimicking the control provided by a thumb stick of a physical game controller and providing omnidirectional, free-form movement in a synchronous direction in which a user moves a finger on the display of the tablet-based client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC
    Inventors: Joshuah Vincent, Nico Benitez, Emily Adams, Jan Chong, Ryan Cook, Paul Marshall, Pierpaolo Baccichet, Matt Piotrowski, Collin Carey, Kevin Kolecker
  • Patent number: 9866794
    Abstract: A method and assembly for sharing information in a conference space, the assembly comprising a display configuration including presentation surface area juxtaposed within the conference space for viewing by an audience, the surface area including at least first and second adjacent presentation sub-spaces, a processor programmed to perform the steps of presenting an interface on the surface area useable to generate session images within at least one of the sub-spaces, the interface including a panel section in which a separate panel icon for each of the session images created during a session is presented, the interface further including a separate space on the surface area associated with each of the sub-spaces, the interface facilitating selection and dragging of panel icons to locations associated with the sub-spaces to control the images presented in each of the sub-spaces, wherein, when a panel icon is dragged to a space, an image currently associated with the sub-space is replaced at the sub-space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Michael H Dunn, Ian G Hutchinson, Peter W Hildebrandt
  • Patent number: 9865228
    Abstract: A computer program product includes a non-transitory computer-usable medium having computer-readable program codes embodied in the medium. The program codes when executed cause a computer to execute: detecting a connection status of an externally connected second display different from a built-in first display; writing status information indicating the detected connection status in a storage, changing over a display destination between the first display and the second display based on the detected connection status, and controlling a display screen according to screen specifications of the first display or the second display, which corresponds to the display destination after changeover; and reading the connection status written in the storage and scaling a display image at a magnification based on the read connection status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Shigemasa, Masanori Ishigami, Mikiko Abe, Masahiro Ujiie, Taro Okuyama, Yoshinaga Kato
  • Patent number: 9858033
    Abstract: A collaboration system comprising a first large display screen supported within the conference space and a processor linked to the large display screen and providing an interface thereon that includes a presentation space for presenting session content and a device icon section, the device icon section including a separate attendee icon for each attendee linked to the session via a portable computing device, wherein any one of the portable computing devices is useable to control content presented in the presentation space, the processor programmed to perform the steps of receiving a command to alter the content in the presentation space from any one of the portable computing devices, in response to receiving the command, altering the content in the presentation space and visually distinguishing the attendee icon associated with the portable computing device most recently used to change the content in the presentation space, wherein the portable computing devices are used in an egalitarian fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Michael H Dunn, Ian G Hutchinson, Peter W Hildebrandt
  • Patent number: 9858029
    Abstract: A video wall security system and a video wall security method are provided. The video wall security system includes at least one processor to implement a central controller configured to receive, from a monitoring system, an identifier of a camera and a video stream, and generate layout setting information of a video wall to control a layout of the video wall, based on the identifier, a gateway configured to generate mapping information based on the layout setting information of the central controller, an internet protocol (IP) wall controller configured to transmit the mapping information to each of screens of the video wall, and control the screens to load the video stream based on the identifier, and a decoder configured to decode the loaded video stream, and display the decoded video stream on the screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Hanwha Techwin Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dae Sang Kim
  • Patent number: 9852529
    Abstract: When line graphs are displayed on coordinates having a horizontal axis as a time axis and a vertical axis as an axis representing examination values, the number of pieces of examination data having probabilities of presence in a display period of the time axis is obtained by comparing a standard examination interval, which is a standard interval at which examination of each of the plurality of examination items is performed, and the display period. An ordinary display mode or a low visual recognizability display mode, in which visual recognizability is low, is determined, based on whether the obtained number of pieces of examination data is greater than or equal to a threshold, as a display mode of a line graph for each of the examinations. Plural line graphs overlapping with each other are displayed on the coordinates in each display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shoji Kanada
  • Patent number: 9836202
    Abstract: For certain medical images, it is important and/or required that a user view all of a medical image at full resolution so that minute, but important, indicia in the medical image are not missed. A computing systems monitor the portions of the medical image that are displayed on the display device, notates those portions that have been displayed at full resolution (or other user-defined display parameters), and provides the user with information indicating portions that have not been viewed at full resolution and/or provides information indicating for which images of a multiple image examination full pixel display has been accomplished. The process reduces the possibility of missing an abnormality in a medical image due to the viewer not viewing a portion of the image at full resolution or using other user-defined display parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: D.R. SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Murray A. Reicher, Evan K. Fram
  • Patent number: 9830842
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit that displays a first image on a screen, wherein the first image includes a first area and a second area, wherein the first area is an area in which an image displayed by another display apparatus is superimposed, and wherein the second area is an area in which a second image is displayed, and a control unit that controls a position of the second area so that at least a part of the second area and at least a part of the first area are not superimposed on each other if a request for changing a position of the second area so that at least a part of the second area and at least a part of the first area are superimposed is input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Wada
  • Patent number: 9832509
    Abstract: A method for controlling a mobile device is provided. The method includes displaying list information including a first source device and a second source device, receiving a signal for selecting a specific source device using the list information, generating content to be distributed when the specific source device is the first source device, grouping at least one display device communicable with the specific source device into a group and displaying graphic data corresponding to the group or graphic data corresponding to each display device belonging to the group, receiving a signal for selecting at least one display device using the graphic data, and transmitting the generated content to the at least one selected display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyeongjin Im, Yunjung Kim
  • Patent number: 9824624
    Abstract: Provided herein are display systems and units, including those configured for dynamic communication in a physical location, such as in retail settings. Also included herein are methods for dynamically displaying product information in a physical location, such as a retail setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Inventors: Kevin Howard, Gordon Davidson
  • Patent number: 9818379
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed relating to a method of driving a display panel. In one embodiment, the method includes sending a stream of pixels from a display engine to a first pixel interface and a second pixel interface, transmitting a first subset of the stream of pixels from the first pixel interface to the display panel, and transmitting a second subset of the stream of pixels from the second pixel interface to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Van Nostrand, Sirish Kumar Muthyala, Seshi Prasad Veerapally, Kamala Ramachandruni Venkata
  • Patent number: 9818174
    Abstract: Transitions between monitor configurations may be streamlined by minimizing the tearing down and recreating of render targets and primary frame buffers associated with the monitors. In at least one example, the techniques described herein include identifying at least one render target in a first monitor configuration that is also in a second monitor configuration. In response to identifying the at least one render target in the first monitor configuration that is also in the second monitor configuration, the techniques herein describe maintaining the at least one render target during a transition between the first monitor configuration to second monitor configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Oreste Dorin Ungureanu, Zhigang Xu, Amos Eshel, Shalini Akella, Marcus Andrews, Leonardo Blanco, Lucas Brodzinski
  • Patent number: 9811303
    Abstract: A display apparatus, a multi display system including the same, and a control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a display configured to display a first image corresponding to a first image signal on a main screen, and a second image corresponding to a second image signal on a picture in picture (PIP) screen overlapping an area of the main screen. The display apparatus further includes a communication interface configured to transmit and receive information of a movement of the PIP screen to and from another display apparatus, and a controller configured to control the display to move the PIP screen based on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyun-mook Choi
  • Patent number: 9812047
    Abstract: A system for remotely monitoring and controlling one or more electronic displays containing several hardware components. The components may electronically communicate with a network connection which can be used to establish communication with a local area network and/or the internet. A personal computing device can be used to run a user interface which allows the user to access a wealth of information from the electronic display as well as change controlling software, operating parameters, and check for downtime incidents or failures. Various sensors and measurement devices can be installed within the display to provide the information which may be stored locally or stored remotely for real-time access or on-demand access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: MANUFACTURING RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: John Schuch, Rick De Laet
  • Patent number: 9807402
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a method of color palette coding and an electronic device using the same method. The proposed method would include not limited to encoding, by using a processor, a bit stream to represent a color of a coding unit and storing the bit stream in a storage medium or transmitting the bit stream. The bit stream would include not limited to a binary bit representing a run flag, a N binary bit sequence representing up to 2N major colors in a coding unit with each of the possible values of the N binary bit sequence representing an unique major color index of N major color indices, and a M binary bit sequence representing up to 2M extended colors with each of the possible values of the M binary bit sequence representing an unique extended color index of M extended color indices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Ching-Chieh Lin, Chun-Lung Lin, Yao-Jen Chang, Jih-Sheng Tu
  • Patent number: 9805176
    Abstract: A shared system comprises a terminal device and a server. The terminal device comprises a display unit configured to segment a display area and display different contents in different segmented areas. The server receives, from the terminal device, the resolution information of a first segmented area which is one of the segmented areas of the terminal device, generates, according to the resolution information received, a screen on which data can be viewed or edited, and sends the screen in such a manner that the generates screen can be displayed in the first segmented area of the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Tsuchimoto
  • Patent number: 9794512
    Abstract: A system and method for point to point video enable communication and the provisioning of at least one commodity. The communication between two remote devices may include both video and audio and may be activated by use of at least one touch screen associated with a device for provisioning the at least one commodity, such as, for example, a vending machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: THE SUPERGROUP CREATIVE OMNIMEDIA, INC.
    Inventors: John Bradford Lewis, John Gabriel Aldridge, John Michael Preziotti, Christopher Blaine Wallace
  • Patent number: 9788399
    Abstract: A system and method is described for minimizing the effects of a laser light flash in a cockpit area of an aircraft. At least one sensor is configured to detect a laser light flash of a predetermined color. At least one light source is mounted in the cockpit area and configured to output light of the predetermined color upon activation. Finally, a controller is coupled to the at least one sensor, the at least one light source, and a cockpit ambient light control circuit. The cockpit ambient light control circuit is configured to control an intensity output of cockpit ambient lighting. The controller is configured to activate the at least one light source and to cause the cockpit ambient light control circuit to turn off or dim the intensity output of the cockpit ambient lighting upon detection of a laser light flash of the predetermined color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Robert R. Oxborrow, Alvin L. Sipe
  • Patent number: 9786185
    Abstract: A collaborative aviation information collection and distribution system includes a plurality of aircraft data transmitters and an aircraft data processing system. Each aircraft data transmitter is configured to selectively transmit aircraft data associated with a subscribing aircraft. The aircraft data processing system is in operable communication with each of the aircraft data transmitters and includes a data receiver, a data transmitter, and a data processor. The data receiver receives aircraft data transmitted from each of the aircraft transmitters. The data transmitter selectively transmits actionable aircraft data to one or more of the subscribing aircraft or subscribing ground-based users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Carl Esposito, Kristen J. Law, David B. Goldstein, Kenneth R. Jongsma
  • Patent number: 9782060
    Abstract: A medical system includes: a plurality of monitors each configured to display a video signal of a different type; a touch panel configured to display an operation screen where a selecting operation is performed; a video output discrimination portion configured to discriminate a monitor capable of displaying the video signal of the peripheral device for which the selecting operation is performed by referring to a table in which the peripheral device is associated with the monitor capable of displaying the video signal; a data holding portion configured to hold a monitor identification video for identifying the monitor capable of displaying the video signal and information on the corresponding monitor; and a peripheral device control portion configured to perform control so as to display the monitor identification video held in the data holding portion on the discriminated monitor, depending on a discrimination result of the video output discrimination portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Iori Nemoto, Kiyoshi Sekiguchi, Yorito Maeda, Takayuki Katsuyama
  • Patent number: 9778682
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first base plate, a second base plate coupled to the first base plate to allow the second base plate to be rotated on the basis of a rotation axis between the first base plate and the second base plate, a moving plate coupled to the second base plate and configured to slide along a first direction with respect to the second base plate, a pop-up plate configured to move along a second direction corresponding to a thickness direction of the second base plate on the second base plate in accordance with a movement of the moving plate, and a display panel including a first portion coupled to the first base plate and a second portion coupled to the moving plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sangwol Lee
  • Patent number: 9775684
    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: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Brainlab AG
    Inventors: Gregor Tuma, Markus Bartenstein, Johannes Manus, Michael Gschwandtner, Fritz Vollmer
  • Patent number: 9772733
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a capacitive touch input apparatus of a human finger or a touch input means having conductive characteristics similar thereto, and more particularly, are a touch signal detection apparatus and a touch signal detection method capable of being widely used for a touch detection sensor having different array arrangements. According to the touch signal detection apparatus and the touch signal detection method according to the present invention, one touch signal detection apparatus may be widely used for the touch detection sensor having different arrays by using a re-map technology. According to the touch signal detection apparatus and the touch signal detection method according to the present invention, it is possible to save costs using the same touch signal detection apparatus without producing the separate touch signal detection apparatus for a display device including the touch detection sensor having different arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: G2TOUCH CO., LTD
    Inventor: Sung Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 9775264
    Abstract: A wall mount module includes a first bracket, a second bracket, a first cover, a second cover, a first conducting member, a second conducting member and a power cable. The first bracket has a first hole formed thereon and the second bracket has a second hole formed thereon. The first cover is disposed on the first bracket and the second cover is disposed on the second bracket. The first conducting member is disposed between the first cover and the first bracket and exposed through the first hole. The second conducting member is disposed between the second cover and the second bracket and exposed through the second hole. The power cable is connected to the first conducting member and the second conducting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Wei Chiu, Yu-Hua Chang
  • Patent number: 9766850
    Abstract: A multiple screen arrangement for a mobile device that includes a screen module and a communication module for communicatively linking the screen module with the mobile device. The screen module includes first and second screens movably coupled with each other between a first state and a second state, wherein at the first state, the second screen is overlapped behind the first screen in a single screen size manner, and at the second state, the first and second screens are moved side-by-side to provide two viewing windows. The communication module is adapted for receiving data from the mobile device to be displayed on at least one of the first and second screens, such that the first and second screens are adapted for selectively displaying the data from the mobile device between the first state and said second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Inventor: David Eisenberg
  • Patent number: 9766785
    Abstract: Described embodiments provide a method and user equipment for selectively transferring image data from user equipment to a coupled external device. The method may include determining whether user equipment is coupled to an external device, receiving selection inputs from a user for selecting at least one of applications installed in the user equipment when the user equipment is determined as being coupled to the external device, and selectively transferring image data produced in the user equipment based on the selected application. The method may further include controlling the coupled external device to display the transferred image data on a display unit of the coupled external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jung-Wook Lee, You-Jin Kang, Seung-Woo Lee, Jae-Uk Cha
  • Patent number: 9761182
    Abstract: A foldable display apparatus that may realize one seamless screen by using two display panels is discussed. The foldable display apparatus can include a first display panel having a first display area; a second display panel having a second display area; and a panel supporter supporting the first and second display panels to mutually fold or unfold the first and second display panels, wherein boundary portions of the first display area of the first display panel and the second display area of the second display panel are matched with each other in a state that the first and second display panels are unfolded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dal Jae Lee, Ji Sun Park
  • Patent number: 9760972
    Abstract: A rendering method is provided. The method includes: initializing a surface flinger to establish at least two buffer memories; confirming correspondence between all visible surfaces and the at least two buffer memories, rendering all of the visible surfaces to the corresponding buffer memories according to the correspondence, and combining all of the buffer memories to output a result for display; determining whether a change occurs in the visible surfaces; when the change occurs in the visible surfaces, identifying the buffer memory where the visible surface with the change is located; rendering again the visible surfaces that need to be rendered in the identified buffer memory, and combining the buffer memory that is rendered again with the buffer memory that is not rendered again to output a result for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Jian-Qiang Zou
  • Patent number: 9760269
    Abstract: A method for operating a function in a touch device capable of simultaneously changing an option and executing the function based on an input touch event during execution of a function using a function button provided in a certain mode which is executed in a touch device supporting touch based input and an apparatus thereof is provided. The method includes executing a second function associated with option setting according to a touch event input to a function button; and executing a first function allocated to the function button according to an option value set by the second function when the input touch event is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jinhong Jeong
  • Patent number: 9753569
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to switchable input modes for external display operation. An embodiment of an electronic device includes a touchscreen display; a processor; a connection for an external monitor; and a switch button. The electronic device includes a switchable input state including a first input mode for which the touchscreen display operates as a touchscreen input and a second input mode for which the touchscreen display operates as an input device for the operation of the external monitor, and the processor is to change operation of the electronic device to the first input mode or to the second input mode based upon a selection of input mode received from a user using the switch button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xu Han, Weiwei Zhu
  • Patent number: 9753567
    Abstract: A method is disclosed of successively displaying pages of an electronic book by one or more pages each time on a display screen, and turning the pages on the screen in response to a user's input via finger touch of the screen. This method includes: upon the user's soft touch on the screen with the finger with an intensity below a predetermined value, selecting a page turn direction based on at least one of a position at which the soft touch was performed with the finger, and a direction of the finger's movement after the soft touch; and upon the selection being followed by the user's hard touch on the screen with the finger with an intensity above the predetermined value, authorizing initiation of a page turn event for turning the pages on the screen in the selected page-turn-direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoaki Matsuki
  • Patent number: 9753573
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for processing a split view in a portable device. The method of processing a split view in a portable device, includes: displaying a plurality of applications as a split view corresponding to split display regions of a display unit; displaying an input panel on a display region of an application of the plurality of applications that did not call for the input panel when the input panel is called; and processing data input through the input panel by an application calling the input panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngri Kim, Bonghee Han, Sungjin Yoon, Yujin Lee, Wonkyu Park
  • Patent number: 9747868
    Abstract: A foldable display device and a method of controlling therefor, and more particularly, to a method of configuring illuminance of a display screen according to an illuminance value detected based on a folding angle between a first body and a second body of the foldable display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Doyoung Lee, Youngsin Kim, Hyorim Park
  • Patent number: 9740361
    Abstract: The description relates to a shared digital workspace. One example includes a display device and sensors. The sensors are configured to detect users proximate the display device and to detect that an individual user is performing an individual user command relative to the display device. The system also includes a graphical user interface configured to be presented on the display device that allows multiple detected users to simultaneously interact with the graphical user interface via user commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Desney S. Tan, Kenneth P. Hinckley, Steven N. Bathiche, Ronald O. Pessner, Bongshin Lee, Anoop Gupta, Amir Netz, Brett D. Brewer
  • Patent number: 9740362
    Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for providing users with a simplified view of events shared across multiple calendars. An event associated with multiple calendars is displayed only once in a user's view of the multiple calendars, and is displayed together with a visual indication (an “event chip”) that the event belongs to multiple calendars. The event chip displayed with a given event indicates, based on the patterns/colors/prints/etc. comprising the chip and/or the order of the patterns/colors/prints/etc. comprising the chip, which of the other calendars associated with the event is the lead calendar and which are secondary calendars, where the event chip represents the state of the event (e.g., accepted, declined, tentative, etc.) in the lead calendar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Boris Khvostichenko, Daniel Michael Greenblatt, Jonathon Aroner
  • Patent number: 9733721
    Abstract: Systems and methods for rendering graphics using framebuffer nodes. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (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: provide a graphical user interface (GUI) to a user via a display coupled to the IHS, where a portion of the display is rendered using a first framebuffer, detect a user' action corresponding to an event handler, retrieve, using a red-black tree, a second framebuffer associated with the event handler, and render the portion of the display using the second framebuffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Sumanth Vidyadhara, Ritvik Sharma, Guru Prasad N. Yadav