Tiling Or Modular Adjacent Displays Patents (Class 345/1.3)
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Patent number: 11036455Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an interface connected to a modular display apparatus, and a processor for transmitting an image signal to the modular display apparatus connected through the interface. The processor divides a plurality of display modules included in the modular display apparatus into a plurality of groups based on a vertical direction, divides the image signal into a plurality of image signals corresponding to the plurality of groups, and transmits the divided plurality of image signals to the plurality of groups.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sangwon Kim, Youngkook Kim, Jeongryeol Seo, Hyewon Lee
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Patent number: 11019192Abstract: An auxiliary user interface for a mobile device is disclosed herein. The auxiliary user interface includes a mobile device encasement configured to enclose the mobile device and an auxiliary capacitive touchscreen fixed to the mobile device encasement and configured to communicably couple with the mobile device when the mobile device encasement is attached to the mobile device. The auxiliary capacitive touchscreen is configured to operate as a user interface of the mobile device. The auxiliary user interface may be useful for providing protection and an auxiliary interface for the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Inventor: Eric Harrell
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Patent number: 11011109Abstract: A portable information handling system organic light emitting diode (OLED) display manages power consumption by dividing the display into plural zones of contiguous pixels and presenting visual images in a first zone at a full pixel density and in a second pixel density. For example, a full pixel density presents visual images with all pixels at a display setting and a partial pixel density presents visual images with at least some pixels at the display setting and at least some pixels at a reduced power setting, such as off or a reduced illumination.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Asim M. Siddiqui, Deeder M. Aurongzeb, Jong Seo Lee
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Patent number: 11010047Abstract: Presenting a plurality of windows on a display of a mobile device can comprise displaying a first window on the display. The first window can be a dual-display window displayed on both a first and second display portion of the display. In response to a touch gesture, a second window can be presented on at least one of the first and second display portions. When the second window is a dual-display window, the second window can be displayed in the first and second display portions. When the second window is not a dual-display window, the second window can be displayed on one of the first and second display portions and a third window can be displayed on another one of the first and second display portions. When the third window is a dual-display window, it can be displayed on the other one of the first and second display portions.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Z124Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Brett B. Faulk, Paul E. Reeves, Alexander de Paz, Rodney W. Schrock, John S. Visosky, Eric Freedman, Jared L. Ficklin, Denise L. Burton, Misty Cripps, Gregg Wygonik
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Patent number: 10997902Abstract: A display device includes M number of first signal lines, a first pixel arranged corresponding to each of the M number of first signal lines, N number of second signal lines, a second pixel arranged corresponding to each of the N number of second signal lines (each of M and N is a natural number of 2 or more), a third signal line provided in a first region capable of transforming in response to an external force, and electrically connected to at least any one of the M number of first signal lines, a first connection control circuit electrically connecting the third signal line to any one of the N number of second signal lines, and a drive circuit supplying a signal to the first signal line for driving the second pixel when the third signal line is electrically connected to any one of the second signal lines.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Hirondo Nakatogawa
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Patent number: 10984755Abstract: A display device whose aspect ratio can be changed is provided. The display device includes a plurality of display units and a plurality of driver circuit units. The plurality of display units each include a light-emitting portion and a connection region. The plurality of driver circuit units each include a driver circuit portion and a connection region. The connection regions of the adjacent units overlap with each other and one shaft passes through the connection regions. The adjacent units are electrically connected to each other with the one shaft. With such a structure, an angle between the adjacent units electrically connected to each other with one shaft can be changed, which enables the aspect ratio of the display device to be changed.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akihiro Chida
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Patent number: 10983749Abstract: A method of an electronic device according to various embodiments of the present disclosure may comprise the operations of: indicating that a first screen related to a first application operating in a background state is being displayed in an external electronic device, connected to the electronic device, on the basis of data transmitted from the electronic device; and displaying an object floating on a second screen being displayed on the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyunkyoung Kim, Woonghee Park, Saetbyeol Lee, Bongkyu Kim, Tae Hyung Kim, Hyung-Jun Ahn, Kwang-Yong Lee, Sang-Hun Lee
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Patent number: 10976775Abstract: A roll-slide mobile terminal including a case including a first frame and a second frame configured to slide and extend in a first direction with respect to the first frame, a flexible display wound over a front surface and a rear surface of the case, wherein an area of the front surface of the flexible display is increased or decreased in size based on a sliding movement of the second frame, a slide assembly provided in one member of the first frame and the second frame and including a shaft having a rotation axis in the first direction and forming a screw line along the rotation axis, wherein the second frame slidably moves with respect to the first frame according to a rotation of the shaft, and a screw hole provided in the other member of the first frame and the second frame, the screw hole configured to engage the screw line of the shaft passing through the screw hole.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Youngdo Cha
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Patent number: 10971568Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device including a first display panel, a second display panel, at least one detection device, and a control module. The first display panel includes a first display area having first sub-pixel regions, the second display panel includes a second display area having second sub-pixel regions, and the second display panel is movable to at least partially overlap the first display panel. The detection device is disposed on at least one of the first and second display panels to detect a position of the other one and generate a relative position detection signal correspondingly. The control module is electrically connected to the detection device to receive the relative position detection signal and an image display signal from an image signal source, so as to generate a first display signal and a second display signal to respectively output to the first and second display panels.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Chung-Chan Liu, Pin-Miao Liu
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Patent number: 10964292Abstract: A display system, a display apparatus, and a method of operating the same are provided. The display system includes: a plurality of display apparatuses connected in series to each other, each display apparatus including: a display, a signal inputter/outputter configured to receive an image signal as a data packet from a preceding display apparatus, and transmit the image signal to a next display apparatus, and a processor configured to: process, for display on the display, an image based on the received image signal, and based on an abnormality in the image displayed on the display, control the signal inputter/outputter to transmit, to the preceding display apparatus, a request for a corrected image signal, of which a signal characteristic in the received image signal is modified.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Kwangmin Kim
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Patent number: 10963204Abstract: A foldable display is disclosed. In one aspect, the foldable display includes a first display unit located on a front surface of the foldable display, a second display unit located on a first side surface of the foldable display, and a third display unit located on a second side surface of the foldable display. The foldable display includes a first configuration in which the first to third display units are exposed and a second configuration in which the first display unit is folded and the second and third display units are exposed. The second and third display units are configured to form a fourth display unit inclined with respect to the folded first display unit in the second configuration of the foldable display.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sung Gon Jung
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Patent number: 10935840Abstract: A display apparatus including a display element, a frame body, and an optical lens is provided. The display element has a central zone and at least one edge zone located around the central zone. The central zone forms a display surface with at least one edge zone. The frame body has a bezel portion and an accommodating space. The display element is disposed in the accommodating space and the bezel portion surrounds the display element. The optical lens is disposed on the display element and includes a body. The body has a flat portion and at least one extending portion around the flat portion, wherein the at least one extending portion has a feature surface, and the feature surface overlaps the at least one edge zone and the bezel portion in the direction perpendicular to the frame body, so that users can experience a bezel-less visual effect.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Acer IncorporatedInventor: Chueh-Pin Ko
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Patent number: 10930224Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of eliminating a black border of a display device, a display device and a detecting device. The display device includes a cover plate and a display panel, which are configured in a stack; the cover plate includes a light transmissive region and a non-light transmissive region located around the light transmissive region. The display panel includes a display area corresponding to the light transmissive region. The display area includes a first sub-display area and a second sub-display area around the first sub-display area. A size of the display area is greater than a size of the light transmissive region of the cover plate and pixels of the second sub-display area on at least one side are configured to display the same color as the color of the non-light transmissive area.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Boning Wang, Hongliang Lv, Ruifeng Yang, Litao Fan, Yufei Liu, Libao Cui, Huaxu Yang, Qingnan Ai, Fang Zhang
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Patent number: 10916717Abstract: A flexible organic light emitting diode display assembly is provided and includes an OLED panel, a first substrate, and a second substrate, wherein a first support extends outwardly from one end of the first substrate, a second support extends outwardly from one end of the second substrate, the first support and the second support are arranged to abut against each other, the OLED panel is disposed on the first substrate, the first support, the second support, and the second substrate. A flexible connecting member is positioned under the first support and the second support. When the OLED panel is bent such that the second substrate covers the first substrate, the flexible connecting member being stretchable from an original normal state to an extended state.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Yun Li
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Patent number: 10915139Abstract: A foldable display is disclosed. The foldable display includes a lower plate having a folding region abutted by unfolding regions. The foldable display includes a display panel on the lower plate which includes LED arrays so as to display images on all of the folding region and the unfolding regions. The lower plate includes first connection holes and second connection holes through which the display panel is connected to a printed circuit board on the lower plate. A hinge is coupled to the lower plate and includes hinge bodies and hinge links coupled together and configured to rotate such that the foldable display is manipulatable between a folded state and an unfolded state through a predetermined rotation path.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin-Seo Park, Jun-Hyung Kim
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Patent number: 10909756Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, and systems for three-dimensional (3D) displaying objects are provided. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining data including respective primitive data for primitives corresponding to an object, determining an electromagnetic (EM) field contribution to each element of a display for each of the primitives by calculating an EM field propagation from the primitive to the element, generating a sum of the EM field contributions from the primitives for each of the elements, transmitting to each of the elements a respective control signal for modulating at least one property of the element based on the sum of the EM field contributions, and transmitting a timing control signal to an illuminator to activate the illuminator to illuminate light on the display, such that the light is caused by the modulated elements of the display to form a volumetric light field corresponding to the object.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Pacific Light & Hologram, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Seamus Blackley, Tina Qin, Asher Zelig Sefami, Kamran Qaderi, Mark Anthony Sararu, Joshua D. Wiensch, Rajay Kumar, Sylvain Marcel Colin
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Patent number: 10903299Abstract: A display device includes a substrate. The substrate includes a front surface display portion. A first side surface display portion is bent from a first side of the front surface display portion. A second side surface display portion is bent from a second side of the front surface display portion. A corner display portion extends from the first side surface display portion and the second side surface display portion. The substrate has a through hole defined by the front surface display portion and the corner display portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO, , LTD.Inventors: Donghwan Shim, Taehyun Kim, Sangho Park, Seungmin Lee, Seunghwan Cho, Jonghyun Choi
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Patent number: 10896943Abstract: A display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a flexible substrate including a first region, a second region separated from the first region, and a bending region positioned between the first and second regions. The bending region is configured to be bent so as to have a plurality of different curvatures depending on degrees of bending of the flexible substrate. The display device also includes a first display unit positioned in the first region, a second display unit separated from the first display unit and positioned in the second region and an encapsulation layer positioned over the flexible substrate with the first and second display units interposed therebetween. The encapsulation layer directly contacts the bending region of the flexible substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Min-Sung Kim, Thanh Tien Nguyen, Jae Seob Lee, Ki Ju Im
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Patent number: 10897598Abstract: A digital content sharing system includes a common emissive surface, a first connector device for establishing a communication link with a portable computing device, an interface for controlling shared content on the emissive surface, and a first processor linked to the emissive surface and connector device and programmed to perform the steps of: upon linking a portable computing device that presents a desktop on a display screen via the connector device, presenting a sharing control via the interface; and upon selection of the sharing control, replicating an instantaneous portable computing device desktop via the emissive surface and presenting a persistent sharing control via the interface. Upon selection of the persistent sharing control, the processor is programmed to generate and present via the emissive surface a representation of the desktop corresponding to the instant when the persistent sharing control is selected irrespective of a current desktop representation on the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventor: Darrin Sculley
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Patent number: 10893346Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display panel configured to display an image, one or more sound generation devices configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound, a supporting member configured to support the display panel, a partition between the display panel and the supporting member, the partition including: a first side in a horizontal direction, and a second side in a vertical direction, and one or more first pad parts on the first side.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Taecheol Kang, Moonyoung Shin, YeongRak Choi, Sungsu Ham
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Patent number: 10893130Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mobile terminal including a first frame, a second frame slideably movable from the first frame in a first direction or a second direction opposite to the first direction, a slide frame movable in the first or second direction with respect to the second frame, a magnetic roller rotatably coupled to one side of the second frame, a flexible display including a first region coupled to the first frame, a second region coupled to the slide frame, and a third region disposed between the first and second regions and bent around the magnetic roller, and a rolling plate attached to the flexible display. The magnetic roller provides magnetic force to cause the rolling plate to be attached to the magnetic roller. The mobile terminal may maintain the display in a flat state during movement of the second frame by preventing the display from being separated.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Insu Song, Sungchul Hong, Woojin Lee, Seongcheol Lee
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Patent number: 10884573Abstract: A set of user interfaces for a data processing system that operates with two or more display devices coupled to the system. In one embodiment, in response to moving a first window between two displays, the first window is displayed, as it straddles the two displays, differently on the two displays. For example, while a reference point (e.g. a cursor) on the window remains on a first display, a first portion of the window on the first display is displayed normally while a second portion on the second display is displayed with more translucence (more transparency) than the first portion; when the references point crosses to the second display, the first portion becomes more translucent than the second portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: John O. Louch, Raymond S. Sepulveda, Kristin M. Forster
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Patent number: 10872574Abstract: A display device includes a backlight unit including a plurality of light emitting blocks, a first controller configured to generate first block representative value information for first pixel blocks based on first image data, and a second controller configured to generate second block representative value information for second pixel blocks based on second image data. The first controller receives the second block representative value information from the second controller, and the second controller receives the first block representative value information from the first controller. The first and second controllers generate duty information for the plurality of light emitting blocks based on the first and second block representative value information, and generate light profile information of the backlight unit. The first controller compensates the first image data based on the light profile information, and the second controller compensates the second image data based on the light profile information.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Youngsoo Sohn, Yoongu Kim, Seung Young Choi, Akihiro Takegama
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Patent number: 10871932Abstract: An embodiment modular light-emitting diode (LED) display panel includes attachment points for use in attachment as part of a multi-panel modular LED display, a printed circuit board including a first side and an opposite second side, and a plastic casing attached to the opposite second side of the printed circuit board. A perimeter of the plastic casing is substantially rectangular and has a height and a width. The modular LED display panel further includes a display surface including a plurality of LEDs arranged as pixels and attached to the first side of the printed circuit board. The pixels are arranged in a rectangular array including at least fifty pixels. Each of the pixels of the rectangular array is spaced from each respective adjacent pixel of the rectangular array by a pitch. The pitch is a predetermined constant number. The pitch does not depend on the height and the width.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: ULTRAVISION TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventor: William Y. Hall
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Patent number: 10871802Abstract: A display device includes a polymer base layer including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and a display panel including a third surface facing the second surface and a fourth surface opposite to the third surface, where the polymer base layer includes a first outer side surface adjacent to the first surface, a second outer side surface adjacent to the second surface and spaced outward from the first outer side surface, and a cut surface disposed between the first outer side surface and the second outer side surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Geun Woo Yug
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Patent number: 10871871Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methodologies and devices for handling maximizing and minimizing of hierarchically related windows.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Z124Inventors: Ron Cassar, Paul E. Reeves, Volodimir Felixovich Lemberg, John S. Visosky
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Patent number: 10871801Abstract: According to an aspect of the disclosure, an auxiliary monitor is provided. The auxiliary monitor includes a mount including at least one rail, one or more coupling elements coupled to the mount and configured to be coupled to a computer, and a display portion. The display portion includes a communications interface configured to be communicatively coupled to the computer, at least one display screen configured to display output information, and at least one hinge configured to be slidably coupled to the at least one rail, and configured to allow the display portion to rotate relative to the mount.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: MOBILE PIXELS INC.Inventors: Xiaoliang Yao, Wenglong Ng
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Patent number: 10867059Abstract: In an exemplary process, while a device is in a locked state, a lock screen interface including a camera icon is displayed on a touch-sensitive display. A gesture is detected on the touch-sensitive display. In response to a determination that the gesture is on the camera icon and meets predetermined activation criteria, the lock screen interface ceases to be displayed and an interface for a camera application displayed. In response to a determination that the gesture starts at a location on the touch-sensitive display other than the camera icon and includes movement in a first direction, the lock screen interface ceases to be displayed and an unlocked user interface with access to a plurality of applications is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Richard R. Dellinger, Imran Chaudhri, Gregory Christie, Scott Forstall
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Patent number: 10858123Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for monitoring sensors and other data sources and detecting data anomalies. One exemplary method involves determining a probable range for a metric influenced by a behavior a sensor based at least in part on historical data associated with the sensor, identifying an anomalous condition with respect to the sensor based on a relationship between a current value for the metric indicative of a current behavior of the sensor and the probable range, and providing a graphical indication of the anomalous condition on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Michael Dillard, Stephen Whitlow, Umut Orhan
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Patent number: 10861341Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for prompting a pilot of an aircraft of reporting waypoint tasks. The method comprises retrieving compulsory reporting waypoints that are located along a stored planned flightpath for the aircraft. Pre-defined waypoint tasks are also retrieved for each compulsory reporting waypoint. The location of the aircraft is tracked along the planned flightpath and an alert for the pilot as the aircraft reaches each compulsory reporting waypoint. The alert prompts the pilot of the waypoint tasks by displaying the alert on a visual display device located on-board the aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Subash Samuthirapandian, Pramod Kumar Malviya, Thea L. Feyereisen, Gang He, Brock Graham, Bryan Charles Weaver
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Patent number: 10861415Abstract: A wearable display device and a calibration method for the wearable display device are provided. The wearable display device or its component(s) may exhibit optical throughput dependent on beam angle or beam coordinate at the eyebox. The linear or angular dependencies of throughput may be accounted for when generating an image to be displayed, to lessen or offset these dependencies during operation of the wearable display.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Yijing Fu, Pasi Saarikko, Hee Yoon Lee, Wanli Chi
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Patent number: 10845983Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: displaying, on a first display, an application view; providing an area of the first display that is associated with a second display; receiving, from a user, an input associating the application view with the area of the first display; and repositioning, using a processor, the application view from the first display to a second display after receiving the input. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Neal Robert Caliendo, Jr., Arnold S. Weksler
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Patent number: 10831237Abstract: A dual-screen electronic apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes: a first display screen with a first physical border; a second display screen with a second physical border; and a processor, configured to control display of the first display screen and the second display screen. In response to a first mode of use, a first portion of the second physical border and a second portion of the first physical border are hidden from view; and in response to a second mode of use, the first display screen is arranged on a first surface of the dual-screen electronic apparatus, and the second display screen is arranged on a second surface of the dual-screen electronic apparatus, the first surface being opposite to the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Lijun Wang, Xinli Yu, Yimin Zheng, Yue Liu
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Patent number: 10811630Abstract: A display device includes a first display substrate including a display area and a non-display area, a second display substrate facing the first display substrate and including an end portion corresponding to the non-display area and extending along a first direction; a connection circuit board connected to the first display substrate at the non-display area thereof and disposed adjacent to the end portion of the second display substrate; and a first spacer and a second spacer each on the end portion of the second display substrate, and spaced apart from each other along the first direction to define a space therebetween. Along a second direction which crosses the first direction, a central portion of the connection circuit board connected to the first display substrate faces the space between the first spacer and the second spacer on the second display substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Seungjae Kang, Ilhyun Yang, Bongchun Park, Hyunseop Song
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Patent number: 10809958Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for configuring a group of displays. A grouping of display devices that are to be combined to form an integrated display is identified. A prompt is generated for user input indicative of a spatial arrangement of the display devices. In response to the prompt, a series of user inputs is received by one or more input sensors. Based on the series of user inputs, the spatial arrangement of the display devices is estimated. Based on the estimated spatial arrangement of the display devices, portions of display data are mapped to the display devices. The mapped portions of the display data are rendered on the display devices to form an integrated display.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Matthias Baer, Tyler White, Craig Thomas McIntyre, Gargee Sharma
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Patent number: 10809961Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of cabinets arranged adjacently to each other to provide a display screen, at least one sensor, and a main processor. Each cabinet of the plurality of cabinets includes a display module, a sub-processor configured to be activated in a stand-by mode, and a processor. A first sub-processor included in a first cabinet connected to the sensor, among the plurality of cabinets, is configured to, based on a signal being received from the sensor in the stand-by mode, activate a first processor in an inactivated state included in the first cabinet, and provide state information of the first processor to a second sub-processor included in a second cabinet that is adjacent to the first cabinet, and the second sub-processor is configured to activate the first processor using the state information in the stand-by mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sangwon Kim, Jeongryeol Seo
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Patent number: 10806009Abstract: In some embodiments, a configurable lighting device, connectors, controllers, and methods for layout detection are provided. The configurable lighting devices, suitably connected, form an assembly of configurable lighting devices that can be removably connected with one another and re-arranged. Connectors are provided that form mechanical and electrical connections between configurable lighting devices such that a flow of electricity and control signals may be propagated without the need for direct connection between every configurable lighting device and a controller. The controller or devices connected to the controller are configured to perform layout detection such that pleasing visualizations may be rendered across the assembly that are rendered using at least the detected layout. When the configuration of the configurable lighting devices changes, the layout detection is automatically updated.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Nanogrid LimitedInventors: Tomas Rodinger, Aliakbar Juzer Eski, Henry Chow, Arash Sadr, John Anders Ohrn, Gimmy Chu
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Patent number: 10802541Abstract: A foldable display screen solves the problem of low reliability of foldable display screens in the prior art. The foldable display screen includes a meander line. The foldable display screen includes at least one gap located at an end of the meander line.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Li Lin, Xiuqi Huang, Bo Yuan, Shixing Cai, Kun Hu
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Patent number: 10803833Abstract: A display system includes first and second systems. First system includes first panel, first set of gate driver circuits, and first set of integrated source driver circuits, Second system includes second panel, second set of gate driver circuits, and second set of integrated source driver circuits. First set of integrated source driver circuits are cascaded-connected; the second set of integrated source driver circuits are cascaded-connected; a last one in the first set of integrated source driver circuits is coupled to a first one of the second set of integrated source driver circuits via an auxiliary communication port based on an auxiliary communication protocol; an auxiliary communication signal having frame start, frame resolution information of first system, and a system enable bit of first system is transmitted to second system via auxiliary communication port to synchronize image display operation of first system with image display operation of second system.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Wei-Jen Chang, Kuo-Tung Hsu
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Patent number: 10789805Abstract: A gaming machine includes a gaming cabinet, an electronic display device, a masked area, a light source, and a diffused lighting area. The display device is within a cabinet enclosure and has an active area with an image surface, which is defined by a plurality of active edges and is configured to display images of a casino wagering game. The masked area is adjacent to the active area and lacks any display of the images of the casino wagering game. The light source is concealed from view relative to a player position and emits an initial light. The diffused lighting area is adjacent to the masked area, extends to overlap the adjacent peripheral edge of the cabinet enclosure, and includes a single diffuser that receives the initial light and transmits it towards the player.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: SG Gaming, Inc.Inventors: Christian L. Castro, Nicholas M. Garoufalis, Robert J. Glenn, II, Paul M. Lesley, Timothy C. Loose, Brian J. Goldstein
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Patent number: 10782734Abstract: A dynamically flexible, attachable article, such as a wristband or an armband, includes a flexible electronic component coupled to a flexible support in a manner that is bendable or conformable to a user's wrist or other curved surface in a manner that makes the flexible electronic component easily viewable to the user. The attachable article also includes a connection mechanism disposed proximate to one or both of first and second ends of the attachable article to connect two different portions of the article together.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: FLEXTERRA, INC.Inventors: Philippe Inagaki, Hjalmar Edzer Ayco Huitema
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Patent number: 10776066Abstract: An embodiment modular light-emitting diode (LED) display panel includes attachment points for use in attachment as part of a multi-panel modular LED display, a printed circuit board including a first side and an opposite second side, and a plastic casing attached to the opposite second side of the printed circuit board. A perimeter of the plastic casing is substantially rectangular and has a height and a width. The modular LED display panel further includes a display surface including a plurality of LEDs arranged as pixels and attached to the first side of the printed circuit board. The pixels are arranged in a rectangular array including at least fifty pixels. Each of the pixels of the rectangular array is spaced from each respective adjacent pixel of the rectangular array by a pitch. The pitch is a predetermined constant number. The pitch does not depend on the height and the width.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: ULTRAVISION TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventor: William Y. Hall
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Patent number: 10772179Abstract: In some embodiments, a configurable lighting device, connectors, controllers, and methods for layout detection are provided. The configurable lighting devices, suitably connected, form an assembly of configurable lighting devices that can be removably connected with one another and re-arranged. Connectors are provided that form mechanical and electrical connections between configurable lighting devices such that a flow of electricity and control signals may be propagated without the need for direct connection between every configurable lighting device and a controller. The controller or devices connected to the controller are configured to perform layout detection such that pleasing visualizations may be rendered across the assembly that are rendered using at least the detected layout. When the configuration of the configurable lighting devices changes, the layout detection is automatically updated.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Nanogrid LimitedInventors: Tomas Rodinger, Aliakbar Juzer Eski, Henry Chow, Arash Sadr, John Anders Ohrn, Gimmy Chu
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Patent number: 10768355Abstract: A display screen operable on at least a partial area A in two operating modes, free-viewing mode B1, and restricted-viewing modeB2, with the residual display area of the screen outside the area A maintaining a free viewing mode; comprising a first backlight arranged below the residual display area; a second backlight arranged below the area A; a transmissive image generator in front of the backlights; a plate-shaped transparent light guide arranged between the image generator and the backlights that outcouples, through one of its large surfaces, light coupled in through one of its edges; light sources arranged laterally an edge of the light guide, wherein the light guide is transparent to at least 70% of the light emitted by the backlights, and wherein in the B1 mode, the light sources are switched on, and in the B2 mode, the backlights are on and the light sources are off.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: siOPTICA GmbHInventors: Markus Klippstein, Jürgen Schwarz, Ambrose Peter Nari, Uwe Schröter, Stepan Alkhimenko, Uwe Jahrmarkt
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Patent number: 10761799Abstract: Techniques for inference of an intended primary display of a hinged mobile device are described. Generally, the techniques described herein improve a user experience when the user interacts with the device, such as to change the posture of the device. For example, the techniques described herein detect physical movement of a first and/or second display portion of the device. In implementations, the physical movement is recognized as a device gesture to indicate which of the display portions is intended to be used as the primary display. Then, a determination is made that the first display portion is intended to be used as the primary display based on the device gesture. Based on the determination, the primary display is initiated via the first display portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Robert Joseph Disano, Christian Klein, Katherine Blair Huffman
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Patent number: 10756158Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a substrate, a display element provided on the substrate, a driver provided on the substrate configured to drive the display element and a first wire electrically connected to the display element. The first wire includes a first bent portion projecting in a first direction and provided in a first location, and a second bent portion projecting in a direction opposite to the first direction and provided in a second location different from the first location in the first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Hisashi Tomitani
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Patent number: 10747431Abstract: A portable device having a display, the display including a main surface area, a first curved surface area extending from a first side of the main surface area, and a second curved surface area extending from a second side of the main surface area that is opposite the first side, a sensor configured to detect a state of the portable device, and a controller configured to control the display to display a user interface (UI) on one of the first curved surface and the second curved surface based on the state detected by the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jong-hyun Ryu, Youn-ho Choi, Yong-Ho Kim, Jin La, Yong-gook Park, Yu-dong Bae, Ae-young Lim, Kyung-ho Jeong
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Patent number: 10732916Abstract: Two separate executing agents that execute on two separate devices coordinate to animate objects between two separate displays. The agents take control and pass control of the objects presented on the displays between one another and a common scene can be synchronized between the two displays by the agents. The objects are animated and rendered on the displays by the agents.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Omar Javier Rodriguez, Brett Jamison Wolfe
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Patent number: 10733689Abstract: Data processing apparatus comprises a server device and a client device connected for data communication by a data communication path. The server device comprises a server graphics processing unit (GPU) to receive and process graphics processing commands to generate processed graphics data. The client device comprises a client data processing unit; and a client GPU interface to receive graphics processing commands from the client data processing unit, to transmit graphics processing commands to the server GPU, to receive processed graphics data from the server GPU and to provide processed graphics data to the client data processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: ARM LIMITEDInventors: Jiangning Liu, Zhennan Qin, Hao Liu
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Patent number: 10736225Abstract: A display device reduces or minimizes a stress applied to a display panel in a folded state. The display device includes a display panel including a bendable area; and a panel support portion combined to the display panel and including a multi-joint member to support the bendable area, and the multi-joint member includes: a plurality of hard material portions sequentially arranged in a first direction, mutually combined to be rotated with respect to one another, and including a first surface arranged toward the bendable area; and a soft material portion contacting the first surface and fixed to the plurality of hard material portions.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sung Chul Choi, Young Eun Oh, Han Sun Ryou, Man Sik Myeong