Having Display Patents (Class 455/566)
  • Patent number: 10146402
    Abstract: A user terminal device including a screen processor which creates home screen divided into a plurality of spaces provided with different features from each other, a storage which stores data and programs that can be matched with at least one space, a display which displays one space from among the plurality of spaces, and a controller which controls the display to convert the space displayed on the display to another space according to a user's manipulation is provided. The controller controls the screen processor to constitute the plurality of spaces by using data and programs matched with the plurality of spaces, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sin-ae Kim, Nam-wook Kang, Young-sun Kim, Jong-hyun Ryu, Seung-eok Choi
  • Patent number: 10147370
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system perform gamma correction for a variable refresh rate display panel. An image is received for display on a screen of a display device. The image is adjusted based on gamma correction factors that are dependent on a variable refresh rate of the display device and the adjusted image is output for display on the screen of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tom Verbeure, Robert Jan Schutten, Gerrit A. Slavenburg
  • Patent number: 10146263
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including: a display panel configured to generate an image; a touch screen panel formed on the display panel; and a window formed on the touch screen panel and extending over a side edge of the touch screen panel to facilitate a covering and sealing of the touch screen panel. According to the present invention, by providing a display device having a laminated structure in which the edge of the touch screen panel is sealed so as to prevent moisture from permeating from the outside, occurrence of product defects may be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Hwan Kim, Joo-Han Bae, Byeong-Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 10147902
    Abstract: A cover plate for packaging a curved display apparatus is provided. The cover plate includes a plate body having a plurality of grooves configured to assist to bend the plate body to cause the cover plate have a bending tendency for reducing a radial stress and tangential stress of the curved display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Li Sun
  • Patent number: 10147238
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques that use mixed reality, e.g., augmented reality and virtual reality technologies to improve analysis of retail processes and activity in retail establishments. A server system receives images from a mixed reality device, which images including representations of physical objects and receives voice data from the mixed reality device and executes a cognitive agent to process the voice data received from the mixed reality device that generates a set of virtual objects that include data describing merchandising process concepts regarding the set of physical objects, based on input queries received in the voice data and sending by a server system, the set of virtual objects to the mixed reality device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Paul B. Rasband
  • Patent number: 10140957
    Abstract: A computing device may output content including text content, audio content, and video content according to one or more content output features. The content output features may include font features and page layout features for text content, volume and playback rate for audio content, and playback rate for video content. In some cases, a consumption rate of content by the individual may be determined to identify values of content output features that may increase consumption of content by the individual. The settings for the content output features may be modified to correspond with the values that provide increased consumption of content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur, Kathryn Ann Chinn, Elaine Yuan
  • Patent number: 10140268
    Abstract: Unlike the GPU's FlexRender, a browser engine can intercept rendering at a higher level in the software stack, and because of the simpler nature of the browser tiles that need to be rendered, a browser engine can instruct the GPU to perform composition via traditional tiled-rendering or via direct rendering, where an output of the GPU is written to slower system memory, rather than the faster GPU memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Innovation Center, Inc.
    Inventors: Shiu Wai Hui, Shyama Prasad Mondal, Ahmed Sheikh
  • Patent number: 10134540
    Abstract: An electronic device including a waterproof structure is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a window arranged in at least a part of the housing, a display module arranged in a rear surface of the window, a heat radiating member arranged in a rear surface of the display module, a polymer member arranged between a first surface of the heat radiating member and the rear surface of the display module, and a conductive member arranged in a second surface of the heat radiating member facing the first surface of the heat radiating member. A waterproof structure for the heat radiating member may be configured using at least one of the polymer member or the conductive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Min Choi, Daehyeong Park, Young-Sik Choi, Byoung-Uk Yoon
  • Patent number: 10133529
    Abstract: An electronic device and an operation method of providing event notification on a display of the electronic device are disclosed. The method includes detecting a notification event, determining at least one section corresponding to the notification event among a plurality of sections of an edge area extended from a main area of a display unit, and displaying a color light in the determined section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Dongkyu Lim, Seunghwan Lee, Seonhwa Kim, Kyungdae Park, Mijung Park, Wansoo Lim
  • Patent number: 10133374
    Abstract: The objective is to provide a cover glass having edge surfaces and a through-hole, formed with high external dimensional precision. The cover glass has a unit substrate comprising glass, and a resinforced portion containing a resin material provided on the edge surfaces of the unit substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Takahashi, Akiyoshi Uchida, Shinichi Sakano, Minoru Nakanishi, Shinsuke Nakazawa, Satoshi Emori
  • Patent number: 10133531
    Abstract: To provide a display device that is suitable for increasing in size. To provide a display device in which display unevenness is suppressed. To provide a display device that can display an image along a curved surface. The display device includes two display panels, two plates, two stages, two driver circuits, two adjusting units, and a frame. Each display panel includes a display portion, an operating circuit portion, a terminal, an external electrode, a transparent portion, and a first portion and has flexibility. Each transparent portion includes a region transmitting visible light. The display panels are fixed so that transparent portions and parts of the display portions extend beyond the plates. The display portion of one of the two display panels overlaps with the transparent portion of the other display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratories Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Yoshitani, Kazuhiko Fujita, Akihiro Kaita
  • Patent number: 10135925
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. The instructions, when executed by a processor of a presenter terminal configured to be connectable to a network, cause the presenter terminal to execute receiving specific data relating to each of one or more participant terminals, storing identification information and position information in association with each other, and transmitting, to a participant terminal, a command to display document data on a display of the participant terminal. The instructions executed by the processor further including receiving state information indicating a display state on the display of the participant terminal, identifying position information associated with identification information of the participant terminal, based on the identification information and the position information stored in the storage, and displaying a corresponding image in an identified position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Inagaki
  • Patent number: 10135967
    Abstract: A touch-panel cellular phone specifies an invalid area not accepting a user's input operation on a touch panel in advance. The cellular phone detects a user's touch area on the touch panel so as to execute a function pre-assigned to the touch area not encompassed by the invalid area. Additionally, it is possible to reduce and display menu icons in the display area precluding the invalid area on the touch panel. Thus, it is possible to prevent an error operation when a user holding a cellular phone inadvertently touches the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoya Makiguchi
  • Patent number: 10127705
    Abstract: An incident scene is searchable via a portable communication device and method that provides for displaying a masked augmented reality of the incident scene to the display of the portable communication device. A geofenced area is applied within the displayed masked augmented reality of the incident scene as an indication to the user of an area to be searched. As the geofenced area is searched, masking is removed from the displayed masked augmented reality of the incident scene. The masking is only being removed within the geofenced area based on user attention span provided to the geofenced area. The removal of masking indicates areas that have been searched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Bing Qin Lim, Alfy Merican Ahmad Hambaly, Shijie Hua, Chew Yee Kee
  • Patent number: 10126590
    Abstract: A display device being switchable between a normal display mode and an anti-peeping display mode and a display system comprising the display device are disclosed. The display device comprises: a housing; a display panel mounted within the housing and provided with a polarizer only on a light incidence side thereof, the polarizer being configured to polarize light to be incident into the display panel; and a polarization analyzing structure fitted onto the housing, and configured to selectively analyze light emitted out from an active display area of the display panel so as to achieve a normal display mode, in which a user is able to directly view an image displayed in the display device, and anti-peeping display mode, in which the user is able to view the image displayed in the display device only by means of an additional polarization analyzer, of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenbo Li
  • Patent number: 10129387
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a terminal anti-lost method and a terminal, to resolve a problem that a lost terminal is difficult to find when a user discovers in a timely manner that the terminal is lost. The method in the embodiments of the present disclosure includes: first detecting, by the terminal when receiving a specific instruction, whether the terminal is currently in a lock screen state, where the specific instruction represents an instruction of controlling the terminal to decrease volume and/or an instruction of preventing the terminal from receiving a carrier signal; and skipping executing, by the terminal, the instruction when it is determined that the terminal is in the lock screen state, and controlling the terminal to increase the volume and/or play an alarm tone by using a loudspeaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhihong Wang, Mingxing Cai
  • Patent number: 10114476
    Abstract: A flexible display apparatus includes a flexible display, a sensor which senses bending of the flexible display, and a controller which determines a screen activation region and a screen inactivation region from among a plurality of display regions of the flexible display based on the sensed bending, and displays a predetermined screen on the screen activation region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon-kyu Seo, Jung-joo Sohn, Hyun-jin Kim, Geun-ho Lee
  • Patent number: 10116924
    Abstract: A mobile electronic device includes a transparent display screen for comparing and accurately determining the color of a predetermined object, for various applications, including augmented reality. Color data for a perceived color stores in a memory and displays images as perceived through the transparent display screen. Image difference values are determined between a first set of optical processing data and a second set of optical processing data. The transparent display screen indicates image difference values from including differences in color, texture, transparency, lighting, etc., especially for augmented reality applications. A memory stores optical processing data and optical processing instructions and algorithms. A computer processor executes optical processing instructions and algorithms and in response to optical processing data generated. An optical lens captures an image of an object for display on the transparent display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Inventor: Suk K. Kim-Whitty
  • Patent number: 10101901
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for deleting an email from a terminal device running Android system. The method includes: acquiring sliding trace information of a touch point; acquiring, if a sliding operation of the touch point meets a pre-determined condition, initial coordinates of the control in a first layout file of an email interface where the touch point is located, target coordinates of a deletion button in a second layout file, and a preset interface shift threshold; shifting, according to the interface shift threshold, the initial coordinates of the control in a preset direction, and shifting, according to the interface shift threshold and a width value of the deletion button, the deletion button in a preset direction to the target coordinates of the deletion button; and deleting the email when a touch point is detected in a deletion button region of the email interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Hisense Mobile Communications Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuanyuan Li
  • Patent number: 10104218
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal which can detect the operation states of a plurality of other devices, and a method for controlling the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal comprises: a display unit; a transceiver for receiving information regarding the operation state of each of a plurality of devices and transmitting information regarding the current operation state to at least one of the plurality of devices; and a control unit for carrying out control related to an occurred event when an event occurs, wherein the control unit determines the availability state of the terminal, and transmits, using a wireless communication unit, information related to the event to another terminal in order to enable the information regarding the occurred event to be outputted by another terminal in accordance with the result of the determination, or outputs the information related to the event through an output unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngbin Yim, Hyukjae Jang, Jungseok Lee, Sungho Woo, Taejung Kwon, Jiyong Yoo, Minjae Kim
  • Patent number: 10097974
    Abstract: A mobile communication device. The device comprises a processor, a memory, an activation client stored in the memory, and a content client stored in the memory. When executed by the processor during a process of activating the device, the activation client establishes a slot-0 communication channel and completes an activation of the device with a provisioning server in the provisioning infrastructure via a plurality of activation messages exchanged via the slot-0 communication channel. When executed by the processor, the content client parses and analyzes the parsed activation messages, based on analyzing the parsed activation messages, sends a request for content to a media server over the slot-0 communication channel, receives the requested content via the slot-0 communication channel, and presents the received content in a first window of a split-screen in a visual display, where the activation client presents activation information in a second window of the split-screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Jagannath Ghoshal, Dale S. Schempp, Kristin B. Wear, Simon Youngs
  • Patent number: 10097756
    Abstract: A technique processes captured data on a device, wherein selected captured data of a given quality resolution is transferred via a communication link to a separate storage location for future availability. A storage protocol may include various storage organization categories. A possible aspect may provide an identifier record to enable future accessibility to selected captured data by one or more authorized parties or approved devices or authorized recipients. In some embodiments the captured data may include both a video data stream and one or more still image frames having different quality characteristics and/or formats. Initial and ongoing coordination as well as correlation may be facilitated between video and still image data derived from related fields of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Invention Science Fund I, LLC
    Inventors: Royce A. Levien, Robert W. Lord, Mark A. Malamud, John D. Rinaldo, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10090577
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data communication device includes a housing and an antenna. The housing includes a base formed of a carbon material and circumferential edges continuous with edges of the base and formed of a resin material. The antenna is accommodated in the housing and includes a conductive portion grounded via the base and an element portion arranged further away from the base than the conductive portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Ippei Kashiwagi
  • Patent number: 10082839
    Abstract: An information handling system having rotationally coupled housing portions supports a flexible display disposed across the housing portions with a hinge structure that manages flexible display curve radius in a folded configuration. A dual axis synchronized hinge defines the flexible display bend radius by the distance between the hinge axes and by a shape memory alloy planar support fixed in position relative to the hinge. A ramp structure engages a flexible display frame during rotation to an open position to maintain the display frame in a planar configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin M. Turchin, Gerald R. Pelissier, John T. Morrison
  • Patent number: 10082838
    Abstract: An information handling system having rotationally coupled housing portions supports a flexible display disposed across the housing portions with a hinge structure that manages flexible display curve radius in a folded configuration. The hinge includes plural hinge elements having an arc face, arc cavity interior and mounts that couple with hinge coupling elements. The mounts align the hinge coupling element rotational axis out of the cavity to aid in maintaining the hinge elements having no gaps during rotation of the information handling system housing portions. The hinge coupling element integrates friction plates disposed normal the rotation axis to generate torque for managing housing rotational movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jung Hwan Hong, Duck Soo Choi, John T. Morrison
  • Patent number: 10080113
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods of and systems for converting data that is in a format unsupported by a recipient device into images that are supported and can thus be accurately rendered by the recipient device. Thus, recipient devices, such as mobile phones and text messengers, all of which are able to display images, are all able to render characters in languages not supported by the recipient device. A method of the present invention converts data for display on a receiving device configured to accurately render data in one or more supported formats. The method includes determining whether a first format of the data is a supported format, and automatically converting the data into a second format supported by the second device if the first format is not a supported format. Preferably, the first format is defined by a character set and the second format is a binary image format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Syniverse Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaomei Guan, Huiyue Xu
  • Patent number: 10079270
    Abstract: A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes a base portion, a first support plate slidably coupled to the base portion, and configured to support a display module, a second support plate below the first support plate and hinge-combined to the base portion to be vertically rotatable with movement of the first support plate, and configured to support the display module, and an elastic member between the base portion and the second support plate, and configured to provide an elastic force to rotate the second support plate upward with movement of the first support plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang Wol Lee
  • Patent number: 10079912
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. In an embodiment, data is stored on a wireless mobile device, where the data is correlated to information to install a wireless server on an electronic system. At least a portion of the data from the wireless mobile device may be downloaded to initiate installation of the wireless server on the electronic system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jesse Boudreau, David Yach
  • Patent number: 10073582
    Abstract: Embodiments are described for handling the launching of applications in a multi-screen device. In embodiments, a first touch sensitive display of a first screen receives input to launch an application. In response, the application is launched. A determination is made as to whether the first touch sensitive display already has windows in its stack. If there are no windows in the stack of the first touch sensitive display, a new window of the first application is displayed on the first touch sensitive display. If there are windows in the stack, a determination is made whether a second display has windows in its stack. If not, the new window is displayed on the second display. If the second display also has windows in its stack, the new window will be displayed on the first touch sensitive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Martin Gimpl, Rodney Wayne Schrock
  • Patent number: 10075579
    Abstract: A mobile terminal, a method in the mobile terminal, and a cover of the mobile terminal are provided for processing input. A first area of a touch screen of the mobile terminal corresponding to a window area of the cover is defined, and a second area of the touch screen of the mobile terminal corresponding to a non-window area of the cover is defined. A first input in the second area while the cover is closed over the touch screen is detected and the first input as a first control command is processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sung-Joon Won, Young-Hak Oh
  • Patent number: 10069194
    Abstract: An electric device includes a metal shell having a back metal shell part and a first side metal shell part, and a first antenna which includes: a first radiating surface formed by the back metal shell part and the first side metal shell part and having a variant T-shaped group of slots and a first L-shaped slot, a part of the variant T-shaped group of slots being formed in the back metal shell part, and the other part thereof being formed in the first side metal shell part, the first L-shaped slot being formed in the first side metal shell part; a first dielectric sheet disposed on a front surface of the back metal shell part; and a first L-shaped feeder disposed on a front surface of the first dielectric sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: BYD Company Limited
    Inventors: Qinyang Cai, Yijin Wang, Wensong Wang, Munyong Choi
  • Patent number: 10069953
    Abstract: An electronic device has a combination touch sensor (such as a fingerprint reader) and mechanical switch (actuated, for example, by a button press). The electronic device carries out various functions according to whether the touch sensor is being touched, the mechanical switch is being actuated, the electronic device is face up or face down, the state of the electronic device (awake or in sleep mode), and the function that the electronic device is currently carrying out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Lombardi, Amber M. Pierce
  • Patent number: 10061358
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a body including a first body and a second body fastened to the first body, the second body separable from the first body, a flexible display including a first flexible display connected to the second body and located on a front surface of the body and a second flexible display connected to the first flexible display and located on a rear surface of the body, and a guide sheet positioned in a rear surface of the flexible display and providing the flexible display with an elastic force. At least a portion of the second flexible display is located on the front surface of the body when the second body is separated from the first body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS
    Inventors: Haklim Lee, Jongbeom Han
  • Patent number: 10063492
    Abstract: In one embodiment, in response to data to be transmitted to or from an electronic device, the electronic device determines whether the electronic device currently has a first network connection with a sufficiently high bandwidth. If the electronic device currently does not have a first network connection with a sufficiently high bandwidth, then the electronic device estimates a future time when the electronic device is likely to have a second network connection with a sufficiently high bandwidth, and schedules transmission of the data at the future time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Shaheen Ashok Gandhi, David Scott Reiss, David Harry Garcia
  • Patent number: 10063964
    Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry that is configured to transmit wireless signals during operation. A maximum transmit power level may be established that serves as a cap on how much power is transmitted from the electronic device. Adjustments may be made to the maximum transmit power level in real time based on sensor signals and other information on the operating state of the electronic device. The sensor signals may include motion signals from an accelerometer. The sensor signals may also include ultrasonic sound detected by a microphone. Device orientation data may be used by the device to select whether to measure the ultrasonic sound using a front facing or rear facing microphone. Maximum transmit power level may also be adjusted based on whether or not sound is playing through an ear speaker in the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ruben Caballero, Michael DiVincent, Indranil S. Sen, Robert W. Schlub, Mohit Narang, Ricardo R. Velasco, Christopher B. Crowe, Scott Vernon
  • Patent number: 10055124
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication processor configured to provide wireless communication; a display including a main region and an extended region extended from the main region toward at least one side of the main region; and a controller configured to deactivate the main region and the extended region of the display, activate the main region of the display without activating the extended region in response to a knock code being input on the main region of the display, and activate the extended region of the display without activating the main region in response to the knock code being input on extended region of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yoomee Song, Minkyoung Chang, Arim Kwon, Cheongha Park, Kyunghye Seo, Jaehwa Lee
  • Patent number: 10056029
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are provided in which photodetectors disposed throughout a display are used to control the display brightness. The photodetectors are to be used for ambient light sensing, proximity sensing, or to compensate for aging OLEDs. In some embodiments, photodiodes are fabricated with OLEDs during the TFT fabrication process. In some embodiments, the photodetectors may be disposed throughout the display in zones containing OLEDs. The photodetectors are used to control the display brightness and color for the OLEDs in areas around each photodetector based on ambient light, aging, and/or nearby objects. A controller makes driving strength adjustments to the OLEDs in each zone independent of other zones. Photodetectors disposed throughout the display may improve proximity sensing and provide additional functionality to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Brian Lynch, Paul Stephen Drzaic, Benjamin Mark Rappoport, Fletcher R. Rothkopf, John Patrick Ternus, Scott A. Myers
  • Patent number: 10048920
    Abstract: An apparatus for an extendable display strip, the apparatus includes a first display panel coupled to a second display panel, where the second display panel is capable of extending and retracting beneath a bottom surface of the first display panel. The apparatus also includes an elastic based coupled to the first display panel and the second display panel, where a first portion of the bottom surface of the first display panel is coupled to the elastic base and a first portion of a bottom surface of the second display panel is coupled to the elastic base, where the extending and the retracting of the second display panel beneath the bottom surface of the first display panel is based on an extending and a retracting of the elastic base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy A. Greenberger, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 10048832
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a user interface in a device, in which first and second selection areas are displayed on a display. The first selection area can be an area for selecting an object. In response to user input being received that selects the first selection area and the second selection area, a first predetermined action is performed for the selected object in response to the user input selecting the first selection area before the second selection area, and a second predetermined action is performed for the selected object in response to the user input selecting the second selection area before the first selection area. The user input can be received by various methods, including a touch and/or drag event received through a touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: German Jose D' Jesus Bencci
  • Patent number: 10042600
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for controlling the display of an electronic device are provided. The method includes dividing the display into a first area and a second area in response to detecting that the display is bent, displaying a surface of an application on the first area of the display, and displaying a control menu of the application on the second area of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Jae-Young Yang
  • Patent number: 10042535
    Abstract: A method and device for executing an object on a display. The method of executing an object includes receiving a user input to an object displayed on a display; gradually enlarging and displaying the object; and executing the application corresponding to the object as the object is enlarged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se-hee Han, Jun-hyung Kim, Jong-hyun Ryu, Jong-hyo Lee, Joo-Yeol Lee, Ji-hye Lee
  • Patent number: 10038816
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an external apparatus, comprises: an obtainment unit that obtains information from an external apparatus; a determination unit that determines an operation mode of the information processing apparatus; and a notification unit that performs a notification based on the information obtained by the obtainment unit, wherein the notification unit, if the mode determined by the determination unit is a specific operation mode, performs the notification based on the information obtained by the obtainment unit in a second notification screen that is smaller than a first notification screen, and, if the mode determined by the determination unit is not the specific operation mode, performs the notification based on the information obtained by the obtainment unit in the first notification screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuyuki Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10031665
    Abstract: In a time data display mode, a time data is displayed in at least one display block partially assigned to a touch screen of an electronic device. After the touch gesture or the drag gesture is detected in one of the display block, the current time data in the display block can be replaced with a new time data according to the touch gesture or the drag gesture. The new time data may be a following time data or a previous time data which can be determined according to a location of the touch gesture, or a direction and a distance of the drag gesture. In addition, the extent of a change in the time data may be determined according to duration of the touch gesture or a speed of the drag gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun Sun Kim, Kyung Dae Park, Mi Na Kwag, Byung Joo Kim, Tae Won Um, Hyung Min Yook, Eun Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 10015300
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a control method of an Audio Video Navigation (AVN) system for vehicles. The control method may include: connecting the AVN system to a terminal through a wired connection based on a first protocol, transmitting an activation signal to the terminal through the wired connection, receiving address information and acceptance information of the terminal for wireless connection with the terminal based on a second protocol through a specific application in the terminal activated based on the activation signal, automatically executing wireless connection with the terminal based on the acceptance information, and automatically requesting specific information to the terminal and receiving the specific information through wireless connection based on the acceptance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sung Woo Park
  • Patent number: 10013228
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a primary integrated display device housing and a second integrated display device housing attached via a hinge and a processor to determine a first relative orientation of the primary integrated display device housing to the second integrated display device housing from a plurality of orientation sensors. The processor further determines a working software application context by detecting at least a first software application running on the information handling system wherein the working software application context further includes an operating state rank of the first software application relative to other software applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Deeder M. Aurongzeb, Mark W. Welker, Abu S. Sanuallah, Claude L. Cox, Joseph Kozlowski, Jorge A. Abullarade, Knut Graf, Kenneth W. Stufflebeam
  • Patent number: 10013738
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for adjusting one or more images displayed to a viewer are provided. In some implementations, the system comprises: at least one processing circuit configured to: detect an orientation of a viewer based on at least two points associated with the viewer; determine, based on the orientation, a rotational position of a first image to be displayed on a display; and generate a display image for display on the display, wherein the display image includes at least a portion of the first image rotated based on the rotational position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Majd Bakar, David Deephanphongs
  • Patent number: 10015163
    Abstract: Provided is a process that includes: authenticating a user based on a sequence of transactions that specify a knowledge factor credential where the knowledge-factor credential is lower entropy than the sequence of user-entered transactions, such that possession of the fully entered knowledge-factor credential, without possession of the sequence of user-entered transactions, does not reveal all of the user-entered transactions by which the fully entered knowledge-factor credential was specified by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: UniVaultage LLC
    Inventor: Barry K. Shelton
  • Patent number: 10013226
    Abstract: Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface on a second screen. More particularly, the method includes a change in the display mode of a multiple screen device from a first screen to a second screen while the device is closed. The change in the display mode may be made in response to a request from an application. The application may be executed and have the user interface window associated with the application moved to a second screen. The change to the second screen can be requested based on input into the application or automatically generated based on the type of application. In response to the request from the application, the device can render the user interface in the second screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Mohammed Selim
  • Patent number: 10015331
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a display; a first display controller configured to display a background screen image(s); and a second display controller configured to display, within each background screen image, at least one object image each for receiving a command for executing a corresponding predefined processing. The first display controller executes a display switch processing to switch the background screen image being displayed on the display from a first background screen image to a second background screen image by moving the first and second background screen images in a first direction. The second display controller executes a shaking display processing in which the object image displayed within the second background screen image is repeatedly moved between two positions. The shaking display processing is started upon a start of the display switch processing and finished after an end of the display switch processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinsuke Kaigawa
  • Patent number: 10009313
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for managing multiple personas within end user applications are disclosed. According to one method, a first profile definition defining a first persona through which a user accesses at least one social networking, OTT, or other hosted service and at least one trigger condition associated with the activation of the first persona is accessed. The method further includes determining a context for the user. The method further includes determining whether the context for the user satisfies the at least one trigger condition. In response to determining that the context satisfies the at least one trigger condition, the first persona is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: GENBAND US LLC
    Inventors: Michael Leeder, Carroll Louise Gray-Preston, James Angus McEachern, Richard C. Taylor