Having Display Patents (Class 455/566)
  • Patent number: 11099806
    Abstract: A system is provided for streaming media content in a vehicle. The system includes a personal media streaming appliance system configured to connect to a media delivery system and receive media content from the media delivery system at least via a cellular network. The personal media streaming appliance system operates to transmit a media signal representative to the received media content to a vehicle media playback system so that the vehicle media playback system operates to play the media content in the vehicle. Various types of rotations of a knob part of the personal media streaming applicant system result in different media playback actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Johan Oskarsson
  • Patent number: 11093114
    Abstract: Techniques for better information sharing and control switching in a graphical user interface (GUI) are described. In an example, a computer system determines a user context indicating a likely user interest in applications. Upon a user request for a menu, windows are added to a dynamic area of the menu based on the user context and correspond to the applications. The menu is presented in the GUI and each window be shown in a glanced state to provide quick information about the corresponding application. When the user focus shifts to a window, that window is presented in a focused state to also provide a selectable action that can be performed. Upon a user selection of the window, the window is presented in a selected state to further provide additional performable actions. The window can be pinned to the GUI and user control can automatically switch to another application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Yamamoto, Katsuya Hyodo, Kohichi Aoki, Robert E. Brown
  • Patent number: 11090567
    Abstract: Information may be provided to smartphones to allow users to display video game characters of other individuals in a social or other setting, outside of and/or independent of game play of the video game. The smartphones may read information, for example of a badge or a face, and use the information to obtain information of a visual representation of a virtual game character of another person. The information of the game character may also be used for displays in a virtual reality game, results of which may be used to update game character status in a video game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Activision Publishing, Inc.
    Inventors: Josiah Eatedali, Rob Schonfeld
  • Patent number: 11086356
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a foldable support device, including: a driving component and a support component connected with the driving component; and a rotating gear and a rack intermeshing with each other and connected with the driving component and the support component. The driving component and the support component are disposed on a non-display surface of a flexible display panel; and the flexible display panel is folded or unfolded with intermeshing rotating and relative moving of the rotating gear and the rack. By setting the rotating gear and the rack, when the flexible display panel is folding, the rotating gear rotates along the rack and drives the support component to move away from the driving component. Sufficient storage space is generated for the flexible display panel while folding to effectively prevent the display failure caused by folding of the flexible display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: YUNGU (GU'AN) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongqi Hou, Zhaoji Zhu, Liwei Ding, Fu Liao, Kanglong Sun, Yuhua Wu
  • Patent number: 11089374
    Abstract: A method for navigating through video content. The method includes using a graphical user interface displayed on a touch screen. The user interface includes: a video player, which can play, video content; and a banner having comprising a fixed number of images extracted from the video content. The images extend parallel to the banner in chronological order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Orange
    Inventor: Christophe Rufin
  • Patent number: 11086583
    Abstract: A display system includes multiple display devices (11, 12) and a control device (30) connected to the multiple display devices (11, 12). The control device (30) includes a device selecting unit (131) that causes a user to select at least one display device (11) out of the multiple display devices (11, 12), and a display control unit (132) that displays image data on the selected display device (11). Accordingly, a display system can be provided where, when displaying image data on multiple display devices, display can be made at a position intended by the user, to facilitate viewing of the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noriyoshi Kanki
  • Patent number: 11089464
    Abstract: Embodiments of the systems, devices and methods described herein generally facilitate performing Bluetooth pairing between a first device and a second device. In accordance with one example embodiment, a first device generates a barcode that encodes Bluetooth pairing data for transmission to the second device, wherein the pairing data comprises a Bluetooth address associated with the first device, and wherein the pairing data further comprises a personal identification number usable to complete the Bluetooth pairing, the barcode is transmitted to the second device, and Bluetooth pairing is performed with the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventors: Michael Stephen Brown, Herbert Anthony Little
  • Patent number: 11079892
    Abstract: A coordinate input device including a coordinate sensor and a wireless communication circuit that wirelessly transmits coordinate data, etc. to an external electronic device is realized without affecting coordinate detection by the coordinate sensor and without impeding downsizing of the coordinate input device. A shield sheet (1C) is provided to cover the whole of a surface (back surface) of a sensor (1B) opposite to a sensor input surface (front surface) facing an electronic pen. A controller (200) that controls transmission of the coordinate data detected by the sensor (1B) to the external electronic device is disposed facing the sensor (1B) with the shield sheet (1C) disposed between the sensor and the controller, and a transmission antenna connected with the controller (200) is arranged outside a region covered with the shield sheet (1C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: 11075663
    Abstract: This present invention pertains to a method and apparatus to take a consumer grade mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet computer with or without a desktop mode and use a protective mobile device case optimized for temperature regulation and heat transfer and couple them to a vehicle or a cart based dock capable of maintaining mobile device operating temperatures when exposed to extreme high or low temperatures seasonally. A temperature control monitors thermally sensitive internal component temperatures within the mobile device and triggers heating or cooling based on preset temperature thresholds designed to protect those components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Man & Machine Inc.
    Inventor: Jerrold Scott Pine
  • Patent number: 11073593
    Abstract: A network access transceiver with a housing, a controller disposed within the housing, a first communication system disposed within the housing and connected to the controller for connecting to the internet, a second communication system disposed within the housing and connected to the controller for connecting to a wireless device, a display connected to the controller, and a terminal disposed on the housing and connectable to a removable power tool battery pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: BLACK & DECKER INC.
    Inventors: Andrew E. Seman, Jr., Daniel J. White, Ryan H. Peloquin, Matthew J. Velderman, Randy L. Rhoades, Ryan G. Sax, Kelly M. Musselwhite, Michael J. Stoller, Gregory J. Santoro, Thomas G. Hornyak, Patrick J. Mulhern, Daniele C. Brotto
  • Patent number: 11075873
    Abstract: A method for facilitating focused use of an email client includes entering an inbox pause mode and pausing display of at least some new email messages and email notifications while in the inbox pause mode. The method also includes detecting, while in the inbox pause mode, a selection by a user of a previously received email message that was received prior to entering the inbox pause mode. The method also includes displaying, while in the inbox pause mode, information about a subsequently received email message that is received subsequent to entering the inbox pause mode and that belongs to a conversation comprising the previously received email message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ilya David Gorelik, Thomas Constantin, Suzan Marashi, Elena Catrinescu, Lydia Johanna Utkin, Gil Shulman, Sebastian De La Chica
  • Patent number: 11070279
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device such as a user equipment (UE) may include multiple antenna arrays used to support wireless communications. The antenna arrays may be located at different parts of the UE and may allow the UE to flexibly perform beamforming communications. The antenna arrays maybe configured as antenna sets, and the size of each antenna set may vary based on the configuration of the UE. For example, a UE may include a foldable display having multiple foldable display units, and the communication parameters used for transmission and reception of signals via the antenna arrays may depend on the configuration of the foldable display units. In some aspects, a state of the foldable display units or the arrangement of the antenna arrays relative to one another may be used to configure and perform beamforming communications between the UE and a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11061487
    Abstract: An electronic device including a housing including a first inner space and a hole leading to the first inner space, a first wireless communication circuit positioned inside the housing, a stylus pen insertable into the first inner space through the hole, the stylus pen including an elongated pen housing including a second inner space elongated between a first end and a second end, a pen tip disposed at the first end, a pushable first button disposed at the second end, and a second wireless communication circuit positioned inside the pen housing and configured to wirelessly transmit and/or receive a signal to/from the first wireless communication circuit, a processor positioned inside the housing and operatively connected with the first wireless communication circuit, and a memory positioned inside the housing and operatively connected with the processor, wherein the memory is configured to store instructions that, when executed, enable the processor to disregard a first signal transmitted by the second wirele
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Inventors: Kyujin Kwak, Minsoo Kim, Kwangho Shin, Jinman Kim, Hyunsuk Choi
  • Patent number: 11061544
    Abstract: Methods and electronic devices are provided for processing an input. A first object is displayed on a display of the electronic device. A first input related to the first object is received from a user of the electronic device. The first object is moved according to the first input. A speed at which the first object is moving is determined. The speed is compared with a preset threshold. An instruction corresponding to the first input is determined based on a comparison of the speed with the preset threshold. The instruction is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Inventors: Youn-Sun Lee, Seok-Hee Na
  • Patent number: 11063124
    Abstract: A high-electron mobility transistor includes a substrate; a buffer layer over the substrate; a GaN channel layer over the buffer layer; a AlGaN layer over the GaN channel layer; a gate recess in the AlGaN layer; a source region and a drain region on opposite sides of the gate recess; a GaN source layer and a GaN drain layer grown on the AlGaN layer within the source region and the drain region, respectively; and a p-GaN gate layer in and on the gate recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Shin-Chuan Huang, Chih-Tung Yeh, Chun-Ming Chang, Bo-Rong Chen, Wen-Jung Liao, Chun-Liang Hou
  • Patent number: 11061530
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system for managing an electronic signature is provided. A data collector receives one or more information items. A signature builder builds an electronic signature based on at least one of the information items. The electronic signature includes a set of icons. Individual icons in the set of icons are respectively associated with at least one of the information items. Individual icons in the set of icons are configured to initiate a communication application when one of the icons is selected in order to communication via the communication application using the information item associated with the selected icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Inventor: Jacob J. Dayan
  • Patent number: 11048681
    Abstract: This application relates to features for a mobile device that allow the mobile device to assign utility values to applications and thereafter suggest applications for a user to execute. The suggested application can be derived from a list of applications that have been assigned a utility by software in the mobile device. The utility assignment of the individual applications from the list of applications can be performed based on the occurrence of an event, an environmental change, or a period of frequent application usage. A feedback mechanism is provided in some embodiments for more accurately assigning a utility to particular applications. The feedback mechanism can track what a user does during a period of suggestion for certain applications and thereafter modify the utility of applications based on what applications a user selects during the period of suggestion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen C. Peters, Kit-Man Wan, Gaurav Kapoor
  • Patent number: 11050866
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile terminal having a flexible display. The mobile terminal includes a first frame, a second frame coupled to the first frame to move in a first or second direction, a third frame coupled to the second frame to move in the first or second direction. The mobile terminal further includes a flexible display having a first region on a front side of the mobile terminal, a second region on a backside of the mobile terminal, and a third region between the first and second regions, and the third region is disposed on the front side or backside of the mobile terminal selectively. The mobile terminal further includes a drive unit configured to move the second and third frames in the first or second direction, and the drive unit is further configured to be manually operable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hakho Choi, Ahrah Koh, Sungdo Kim
  • Patent number: 11051082
    Abstract: A method of a reception apparatus for processing control information, reception apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. In the method, content is received from a content source. A display is controlled to display the received content. The control information is received during the display of the received content. The control information includes location information indicating a location of application information. The application information includes an application control document. The application information is retrieved using the location information based on a change in the control information. The application control document is loaded and the display is controlled in accordance with the application control document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Mark Eyer
  • Patent number: 11050880
    Abstract: A method of providing a recent call list of calls recently received or initiated by a telecommunications device where information on recent services which are services recently handled by or using the telecommunications device other than calls are incorporated as entries in a recent call list of the telecommunications device. Each entry can be formed by a data structure being composed of a plurality of data fields. Each data field can include a data value. An entry representing a recent service other than a call in the recent call list can include a service code identifying a recent service as a data value. A device, system, and apparatus can be configured to utilize or execute the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Unify Patente GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Vasileios Giatilis
  • Patent number: 11044794
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an intelligent lighting control system. A first switch control circuit of a first lighting control module of a plurality of lighting control modules is actuated. The actuation is detected at each lighting control module in the plurality of lighting control modules. The light sensor in each lighting control module are polled by the respective processor in each lighting control module, to detect a change in a light level. The change in the light level detected by the respective lighting control module is transmitting, from each lighting control module. The lighting control modules that detected the change in the light level are catalogued into a 1st zone of one or more zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Racepoint Energy, LLC
    Inventor: William Lark, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11036062
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure relate to a device, method, and medium storing instructions for execution by a processor for displaying multiple images. In an example, a device may include a display to present two images interleaved, where the display includes a vertical axis parallel to a line passing through a center-bottom of the display and a center-top of the display. The device includes a first parallax barrier placed between the display and an intended viewable area, where the first parallax barrier includes a first number of parallax barrier lines, where the first number of parallax barrier lines are opaque and parallel to the vertical axis. The device includes a second parallax barrier placed between the first parallax barrier and the intended viewable area, where the second parallax barrier includes a second number of parallax barrier lines, where the second number of parallax barrier lines are opaque and parallel to the vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventor: Nicholas Brian Hansen
  • Patent number: 11036258
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a rollable display; a drive unit configured to roll up or roll down the rollable display; a network interface unit configured to exchange data with at least one mobile terminal; and a controller configured to change a height of the rollable display based on data received from the at least one mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kwangsoo Choi, Ilho Seo, Sukhyun Hong
  • Patent number: 11030438
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system that may be incorporated into currently available electronic devices such as laptops, cell-phones and tablets, that help the user to maintain a viewing distance that is safe for the eyes. In order to avoid near-point stress on the eyes which may lead to the onset of myopia and/or accelerate the progression of myopia, especially in children or young adults, the system of the present invention monitors viewing distance and automatically distorts the image and/or text display into a format that is unreadable, for example, through blurring or pixilation, when the device is too close to the viewer. Alternatively, the system may automatically turn off the display when the device is too close and turn the display on when the device is at the proper viewing distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Ernesto Quinteros, Vicente Caride
  • Patent number: 11032622
    Abstract: Display information that indicates the communication status of network-connected instruments, and makes it possible to easily know an error-detected position, error contents, the extent of influence of an error and the like is generated. Display information that allows identification of data of inter-group communication between a transmission data group constituted by a plurality of pieces of transmission data, and a reception data group constituted by a plurality of pieces of reception data is generated. Information is displayed such that it becomes possible to identify whether communication of each piece of data among a plurality of pieces of communication data of each group is underway or stopped. Furthermore, at a time of occurrence of an error, warning information including an error level or contents is displayed on a connection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuaki Nishino, Susumu Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11031249
    Abstract: A semiconductor wafer is provided, which includes a wafer; a nitride crystal layer formed of one or more crystal layers of group III nitride; and a cap layer; the wafer, the nitride crystal layer and the cap layer are positioned in an order of the wafer, the nitride crystal layer and the cap layer, and the cap layer is a silicon nitride layer having crystallinity and has a thickness of 5 nm or more. Also, a semiconductor wafer is provided, where a layer that is of the nitride crystal layer and that is in contact with the cap layer, and a layer near the layer function as active layers of a field-effect transistor, the cap layer is a silicon nitride layer having crystallinity and a thickness that is equal to or larger than a thickness in which a gate of the field-effect transistor can be embedded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Taiki Yamamoto, Takenori Osada
  • Patent number: 11029907
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device may include a front display and a rear display, a touch panel to sense a user input, a camera disposed on a rear surface of the electronic device, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may output an image, which is obtained by the camera in a first shooting mode, to the rear display, output the image, which is obtained by the camera in a second shooting mode, to the front display, and control the camera in response to the user input sensed to the front display. Moreover, various embodiment found through the disclosure are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Inventors: In Sik Myung, Hyun Soo Nah, Jung Won Lee, Jong Woo Jung, In Young Choi
  • Patent number: 11032404
    Abstract: A portable terminal is provided for operation in a first mode in which information is provided on a first curved surface area or a second mode in which information is provided on a second curved surface area, and controlling the display to provide, in response to an occurrence of an event while in the first mode, information related to the event on the first curved surface area, and provide, in response to the occurrence of the event while in the second mode, information related to the event on the second curved surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Donghyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11025770
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device comprising a case and a mobile terminal configured to be coupled with the case, where the mobile terminal includes a controller; a connection port provided at one side of the mobile terminal, and a first display, and where the case includes a first body configured to accommodate at least part of the mobile terminal, a connector protruding inward at one side of the first body and configured to engage with the connection port when the mobile terminal is accommodated at the first body, a second body comprising a second display, and a wiring unit electrically connecting the first body and the second body and configured to transfer a signal from the mobile terminal to the second display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jungeun Kwon, Seongmi Kim, Jaewook Kim, Daeho Moon, Youngshik Shin, Jungbin Lee, Changho Lee, Minhaeng Cho, Byungkee Chae, Taekyu Choi
  • Patent number: 11023700
    Abstract: A first substrate including a first surface and a second surface on an opposite side of the first surface, the first surface being a detection surface for detecting unevenness of an object coming in contact or close, a second substrate facing the other surface of the first substrate, and a sensor unit provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and which detects the unevenness of a finger coming in contact with or close to the detection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hayato Kurasawa
  • Patent number: 11019243
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a camera unit and a mobile body capable of improving Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) performance. The camera unit includes a shield arranged at least on a side of one side surface of a sensor substrate to which an image sensor is attached and a contact portion that has conductivity and is provided on the sensor substrate so as to have contact with a portion on a side of a side surface of the sensor substrate of the shield. The present technology is applied to, for example, a camera unit or the like mounted on a mobile body such as a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomonori Agawa, Eiji Oba, Hiroo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11016532
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first roller; a second roller; a gear unit that is coupled to the second roller and configured to rotate with the second roller; a rail unit that is engaged with the gear unit; a housing where the rail unit is provided; and a display panel module of which one end is fixed to the housing and the other end is fixed to the second roller and is configured to be bent by the first roller and then rolled on the second roller, wherein the display panel module is configured to be slide-extended and slide-retracted as the gear unit and the rail unit operate while being engaged with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jeong Do Yang
  • Patent number: 11012810
    Abstract: A mobile device locationing system that overrides the reported position with that of the charge room when the AC charge signal is detected by the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Russell Calvarese, Richard J. Lavery, Menuka Gayan Senevirathna, Dammika Prasad Wijethunga
  • Patent number: 11004381
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a display device for reducing the space occupied by the antenna inside the mobile phone, so as to reduce the thickness of the mobile phone and make the mobile phone thinner and lighter. The array substrate according to the present disclosure includes dummy signal lines and a conductive portion. The dummy signal lines and the conductive portion are disposed in different layers. An insulating layer is disposed between the dummy signal lines and the conductive portion. A via is disposed on the insulating layer. The dummy signal line is connected to the conductive portion through the via. The dummy signal line and the conductive portion are used to form an antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanwei Ren, Yezhou Fang, Jingyi Xu, Xin Zhao, Min Liu, Chaochao Sun
  • Patent number: 10992791
    Abstract: A portable terminal is provided for operation in a first mode in which information is provided on a first curved surface area or a second mode in which information is provided on a second curved surface area, and controlling the display to provide, in response to an occurrence of an event while in the first mode, information related to the event on the first curved surface area, and provide, in response to the occurrence of the event while in the second mode, information related to the event on the second curved surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Donghyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10987958
    Abstract: A printer cover is mounted on a tape printer that includes a plurality of housing faces that include a first housing face in which a first cavity opening portion of a cartridge mounting section into which a tape cartridge is mounted is formed and a lid member that openably closes the first cavity opening portion. The printer cover is an integrally formed body having elasticity. The printer cover has cover faces that include the first cover face that covers the first mounting-side housing face, and a first lid-exposure opening that is provided in the first mounting-side cover face and through which lid member is exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Kubota
  • Patent number: 10984569
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for generating ideograms from a set of images received in an image stream. The systems and methods detect at least a portion of a face within the image and identify a set of facial landmarks within the portion of the face. The systems and methods determine one or more characteristics representing the portion of the face, in response to detecting the portion of the face. Based on the one or more characteristics and the set of facial landmarks, the systems and methods generate a representation of a face. The systems and methods position one or more graphical elements proximate to the graphical model of the face and generate an ideogram from the graphical model and the one or more graphical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Artem Bondich, Volodymyr Maltsev
  • Patent number: 10985271
    Abstract: A method for fabricating high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes the steps of: forming a buffer layer on a substrate; forming a first barrier layer on the buffer layer; forming a patterned mask on the first barrier layer; forming a second barrier layer adjacent to two sides of the patterned mask; removing the patterned mask to form a recess; forming a gate electrode in the recess; and forming a source electrode and a drain electrode adjacent to two sides of the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Po-Yu Yang
  • Patent number: 10986221
    Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium that the processor may execute to initiate a testing process of the apparatus following a boot up of the apparatus, in which a popup message is displayed on the apparatus following the boot up and the popup message blocks performance of the testing process and in which the apparatus is to enter into a lock mode following the popup message being displayed. While the apparatus is in the lock mode, the apparatus may be caused to emerge from the lock mode, in which emergence from the lock mode is to dismiss the popup message from being displayed on the apparatus. In addition, execution of the testing process of the apparatus may be continued following dismissal of the popup message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: MICRO FOCUS LLC
    Inventor: Eliel Cohen
  • Patent number: 10979794
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention may comprise: a housing comprising a first surface facing in a first direction and a second surface facing in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction, the first surface comprising an at least partially transparent part and at least one opening formed adjacent to the at least partially transparent part; a camera positioned inside the housing, the camera comprising an image sensor facing in the first direction through the at least partially transparent part of the housing; and an acoustic component arranged between the first surface and the second surface, the acoustic component comprising a vibration plate configured to generate a sound such that the same moves in at least one direction selected from the first and second directions, a first passage formed in a third direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction such that the generated sound passes through the same, and a second passage forme
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Bae Park, Byoung-Hee Lee, Jae-Hee You, Tae-Eon Kim, Han-Bom Park, Sun-Young Lee, Byoung-Uk Yoon, Kyung-Hee Lee, Ho-Chul Hwang
  • Patent number: 10976925
    Abstract: A computing device is described that displays a set of graphical elements in a status bar of a graphical user interface. Each graphical element corresponds to a different pending notification. While expanding a notification shade from the status bar, the device displays the graphical elements within an area of the notification shade that is adjacent to a leading edge of the notification shade. Responsive to determining that a particular notification message is newly visible, the device removes, a particular graphical element that corresponds to the particular notification message, and displays the particular graphical element within the particular notification message. In this manner, interaction with the notification area may be more efficient, as during a process of expanding or contracting this area, the user may be informed the underlying state of the set of pending notifications as a whole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Selim Flavio Cinek, Justin R. Barber, Allyson E. Tong, Daniel Park, William Levi Frohn, Madeleine Denise Mellor
  • Patent number: 10979545
    Abstract: A functional assembly is provided. The functional assembly includes a functional module and a lifting assembly. The lifting assembly is fixed in the housing and configured to drive the functional module to move. In addition, the functional assembly further includes a rotating assembly. The rotating assembly is connected to the functional module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Chui-Hung Chen, Ching-Yuan Yang, Cheng-Han Chung, Chia-Min Cheng
  • Patent number: 10969828
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display module in which a folding area foldable with respect to a virtual folding axis on a plane and first and second non-folding areas adjacent to both sides of the folding area are defined and which is configured to display an image; a support plate below the display module; and an adhesion film between the display module and the support plate. The support plate includes a first support plate bonded to the adhesion film on the first non-folding area, and a second support plate bonded to the adhesion film on the second non-folding area. The first support plate includes a plurality of first protrusions protruding toward the second support plate, the second support plate includes a plurality of second protrusions protruding toward the first support plate, and the first and second protrusions are alternately arranged with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyungseop Kim, Sungkyun Park, Jinbo Shim, Jaewon Choi, Jung-moo Hong
  • Patent number: 10969911
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a base layer; a first electrode member that includes a plurality of first electrodes arranged on the base layer and electrically connected to each other along a first direction, each of the first electrodes including a first opening; a second electrode member that includes a plurality of second electrodes arranged on the base layer and electrically connected to each other along a second direction that intersects the first direction; a conductive member that includes a plurality of conductive patterns electrically connected to each other along the first direction; and a proximity detector that is electrically connected to the conductive member and configured to detect proximity of an object by receiving a proximity sensing signal from the conductive member. Each of the conductive patterns is located in the first opening of each of the first electrodes and spaced apart from each of the first electrodes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Inventors: Do ik Kim, Jang hui Kim, Sang Chul Lee, Ga Young Kim
  • Patent number: 10965797
    Abstract: A terminal is provided, in accordance with the embodiments of the present disclosure. The terminal includes a support, a display panel, a camera module and a sensor module. The display panel is opposite to the support. The camera module and the sensor module are disposed on the support. The display panel defines at least one recess. The sensor module and the camera module are disposed adjacently for determining a distance between the terminal and an external object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Haiping Zhang
  • Patent number: 10966065
    Abstract: Tracking areas that comprise service cells capable of providing advanced long-term evolution (LTE-A) features, can be utilized to indicate to a mobile device that the mobile device can access the advanced features. For example, an LTE-A capable mobile device can display an LTE-A icon if the mobile device is in a geographic area that qualifies as an LTE-A tracking area. However, if the mobile device is not capable of receiving LTE-A services, then the mobile device can display an LTE icon instead of an LTE-A icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Inderpreet Ahluwalia, Sashikala Dalvie, Jiansong Wang, Donald Hjort
  • Patent number: 10958772
    Abstract: A portable terminal is provided for operation in a first mode in which information is provided on a first curved surface area or a second mode in which information is provided on a second curved surface area, and controlling the display to provide, in response to an occurrence of an event while in the first mode, information related to the event on the first curved surface area, and provide, in response to the occurrence of the event while in the second mode, information related to the event on the second curved surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Donghyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10956112
    Abstract: A method for a touchscreen mobile device (35) to control a remote display device (31), where the touchscreen comprises a touch sensitive input layer and an internal display for displaying an image of the main screen of the mobile device (35) showing one or more applications that the mobile device (35) is executing. When the mobile device (35) is connected to the display device (31), the mobile device (35) enters a display mode in which the mobile device (35) transmits the image to the display device (31) for display on the display device (31) and does not displace the image on the internal display, but maintains the touch sensitive input layer operational to enable the mobile device (35) to be used as an input/output device with which a user can interact using the touch sensitive input layer, such as a keyboard (34), game controller or other input device, such as a trackpad to sense movement of one or more fingers of a user across the touch sensitive input layer for controlling a cursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: DISPLAYLINK (UK) LIMITED
    Inventor: Robin Alexander Cawley
  • Patent number: 10959179
    Abstract: A method and apparatus capable of minimizing power consumption occurring when a mobile device is changed from a sleep state to a wake-up state by partially controlling on/off of a display unit and partial booting control of a system function are provided. The method includes detecting a change of the mobile device from a sleep state to a wake-up state, turning on a display unit of the mobile device such that a first section of the mobile device displays an operating region, the first section including one or more portions of the display unit and less than an entire screen of the display unit and waiting for a system function registered in the operating region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byeong Do Ahn, Sung Min Cho
  • Patent number: 10956000
    Abstract: The technical solutions provide a method for presentation by a terminal device, and a terminal device, so as to reduce a memory burden of the terminal device, improve efficiency and an interaction capability, and facilitate use for a user. Specifically, a method for presentation by a terminal device is provided, where the method includes: when the mobile terminal is in a locked state, display, on the touch screen, the first interface, the first interface including an interface of a first application program (FAP), an interface of a second application program (SAP) and a first content determined by the mobile terminal based on a habit of using the mobile terminal by a user of the mobile terminal, the interface of the SAP occupying a second area on the touch screen, and the second area being part of the whole display area of the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Cheng, Huaqi Hao