Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110102451 | MULTIPLE ORIENTATION MOBILE ELECTRONIC HANDHELD DEVICE AND METHOD OF AMBIENT LIGHT SENSING AND BACKLIGHT ADJUSTMENT IMPLEMENTED THEREIN - A method is set forth for automatically adjusting display brightness on a mobile electronic device having a light sensor, display screen and orientation sensor, for legibility under varying lighting conditions and orientations of the device. The method includes obtaining light level samples from the light sensor, and orientation from the orientation sensor, and adjusting backlight intensity of the display responsive to the light level samples and orientation of the device. Preferably, backlight adjustments are made from dim to bright notwithstanding orientation of the device whereas adjustments from bright to dim are made only for orientations of the device where the light sensor is unlikely to be covered. | 05-05-2011 |
20110199533 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING CONTINUOUS AUTOFOCUS POWER CONSUMPTION - A method and apparatus providing an autofocus routine in a camera apparatus having a processor is disclosed. The camera apparatus is adapted to detect a number of images and communicate image signals representative thereof to the processor. The method includes determining that a degree of change between a first image signal and a second image signal is below a predetermined threshold and responsive thereto, performing the autofocus routine. | 08-18-2011 |
20110211807 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING A FLASH LED AS A VIDEO INDICATOR LIGHT - A method and an apparatus providing a visual indication of the occurrence of video recording operations on an electronic device. The video recording operations including recording a plurality of frames according to a number of characteristics. The method comprising providing a time interval between the recording of two consecutive frames by modifying at least one of the characteristics of the video recording operations and providing the visual indication of video recording operations during the time interval. | 09-01-2011 |
20120105774 | DISPLAY DEVICES CONTAINING A CIRCULAR POLARIZING SYSTEM AND METHODS RELATED THERETO - Various embodiments include devices and methods that allow a display device to, among other things, substantially match reflected color or luminance, or both, between a lens border and an active area of the display device. In one embodiment, a circular polarizer located external to a display area of the device is used. In one embodiment an additional quarter wave retarder located external to the display area is used. | 05-03-2012 |
20120218314 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO QUICKLY FADE THE LUMINANCE OF AN OLED DISPLAY - Various embodiments include devices, methods, circuits, data structures, and software that allow for rapid variation in the luminance of an OLED display panel. An OLED display driver circuit can include a first input, a second input, and a scaling circuit. The first input is to receive a scaling factor. The second input is to receive an image input signal including a digital representation of a desired output for a pixel. The scaling circuit is to multiply a pixel-level output voltage associated with the desired output for the pixel by the scaling factor. | 08-30-2012 |
20120292169 | QUANTUM DOTS IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE EXTERIOR SURFACE - Applying quantum dots to surface features of an electronic device to augment or replace reflective and transmissive features. Applying quantum dots can yield more efficient illumination of those features and can permit use of diverse internal light sources to cause those features to emit any color of visible light. An electronic device, keyboard for same and method of applying features to areas of the exterior surface of an electronic device are provided. Quantum dots are applied to an area of the exterior surface that is illuminated by the device's internal light source. The quantum dots absorb incident light then emit predetermined longer wavelength light. The interior light may be a UV light, high energy light emitting diode, or back light. The quantum dots can be applied to exterior surfaces, buttons or key on electronic devices, mobile devices, and keyboards for mobile devices. | 11-22-2012 |
20120327014 | TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING SAME - A touch-sensitive display includes a display, a capacitive touch sensor disposed on the display, a cover spaced from the capacitive touch sensor, and a liquid disposed in a cavity between the capacitive touch sensor and the cover. | 12-27-2012 |
20130069924 | DATA DISPLAY ADAPTED FOR BRIGHT AMBIENT LIGHT - Systems and method to generate more readable modified images that are presented on electronic displays in bright ambient light, such as direct sunlight. Images normally presented in lower ambient light are modified to generate modified images that have higher contrast and that contain less information. For example, modified images contain pixels that are either “on” or “off” and may be inverted to present a black on white background image on the display. Some information, such as text fields or icons, is removed from the modified image to increase readability in bright ambient light. A backlight level of the display is also able to be increased in bright ambient light. | 03-21-2013 |
20130265239 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DISPLAY OF INFORMATION ON A TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY - A method includes detecting a touch on a touch-sensitive display of an electronic device, displaying information on the touch-sensitive display utilizing touch data of the detected touch, filtering the touch data to produce filtered data, and updating the information displayed based on the filtered data. | 10-10-2013 |
20130293484 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF DETECTING TOUCHES ON A TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY - A method includes applying a first plurality of pulses to scanning electrodes during a first scan to detect touches on a touch-sensitive display, receiving an indication to scan in a reduced power condition, and when in the reduced power condition, applying a second plurality of pulses to scanning electrodes during a second scan to detect touches on the touch-sensitive display, wherein the second plurality of pulses comprises fewer pulses than the first plurality of pulses. | 11-07-2013 |
20130307787 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - A method includes detecting, by a touch-sensitive display of a first electronic device, presence of a touch-sensitive display of a second electronic device. A data signal is transmitted from the first electronic device to the second electronic device by applying a drive signal to drive lines of the touch-sensitive display of the first electronic device. The touch-sensitive display of the second electronic device may the received a signal associated with the applied drive signal. | 11-21-2013 |
20140028563 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - A method includes displaying a selectable feature on a touch-sensitive display of an electronic device, detecting a touch at a location within a target area associated with the selectable feature, and adjusting the target area based on a contact area of the touch and a magnitude of at least one signal when the touch is detected. | 01-30-2014 |
20140038524 | METHOD AND APPARATUS PERTAINING TO THE TIMING OF STYLUS LOCATION TRANSMISSIONS - A stylus includes a stylus housing that contains a location-beacon transmitter, a wireless receiver, and a control circuit that operably couples to the preceding. By one approach the control circuit is configured to use the location-beacon transmitter to transmit signals as a function of at least one signal received via the wireless receiver. The aforementioned wireless receiver can comprise a Bluetooth™-compatible wireless transceiver that pairs with the corresponding display-based device. The signal received via this wireless receiver can comprise transmission-synchronization information that represents a video-display event for the display-based device such as refreshing the display of the display-based device. In such a case, the signal can comprise a vertical synchronization pulse as sourced by the display-based device. So configured, the stylus can time the transmission of its location-beacon signals to arrive at the display-based device just prior to when the latter refreshes its display. | 02-06-2014 |
20140049479 | SMUDGE EFFECT FOR ELECTRONIC DRAWING APPLICATION - An electronic device, computer-readable medium and method provide for line smudging in electronic drawing. The electronic device has a touch sensitive display screen that is responsive to user touch and stylus input. A graphics module is operable to render a line on the touch sensitive display screen in response to motion of the stylus. If a trajectory of the touch input intersects with the line within a set time period after the line is rendered, the line is replaced by a representation of a smudged line. The electronic device may be controllable by instructions stored on a computer-readable medium. | 02-20-2014 |
20140050516 | COMBINATION PEN REFILL CARTRIDGE AND ACTIVE STYLUS - A dual mode apparatus for writing on paper, inputting information to a host electronic device, and/or controlling applications on a host electronic device. The apparatus is preferably constructed and arranged as a combination pen and active stylus that includes a pen refill cartridge and an active stylus module. The pen refill cartridge comprises a body configured for storing ink and a ball-point assembly for dispensing the ink on a writing surface or physical media. The active stylus module is configured to transmit signals to the ball-point assembly of the pen refill cartridge. The ball-point assembly may include an antenna, optical transducer or ultrasonic transducer. In one expedient, the signals may be radio signals characterizing a force applied to the ball-point assembly, the level of a battery or the level of ink in the pen refill cartridge. | 02-20-2014 |
20140051481 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE WITH REDUCED INTERFERING ENERGY FROM THE DISPLAY AND RELATED METHODS - A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing and circuit board carried by the housing and includes radio frequency (RF) circuitry and a processor carried by the circuit board and operative with each other. A display connector for an LCD connector is mounted on the circuit board and adapted to be connected to a display. Display connection lines are carried by the circuit board and interconnect the display connector and processor for carrying signals from the processor to the display connector and a connected display. Filters are carried by the circuit board and connected to the display connection lines and reduce any interfering energy from the processor and display. | 02-20-2014 |
20140062898 | METHOD AND APPARATUS PERTAINING TO THE INTERLACING OF FINGER-BASED AND ACTIVE-STYLUS-BASED INPUT DETECTION - A control circuit controls detection of both finger-based input and active-stylus-based input as input via a display. In particular, during a single scan period, the control circuit interleaves use of the finger-detection resources with use of the active-stylus-detection resources. | 03-06-2014 |
20140160088 | ACTIVE STYLUS FORCE SENSING MECHANISM FOR GENERATING A WAKEUP INTERRUPT TO THE CONTROLLER - An active stylus having a control circuit configured to wake up the stylus from a sleep mode to an active mode in response to pressure applied to a tip of the stylus. The stylus includes a force sensor electrically coupled to a power source, an operational amplifier, and a voltage level comparator, the voltage level comparator configured to output a digital wake up interrupt signal when pressure is applied to the tip when the control circuit is in the sleep mode. The operational amplifier is configured to provide an analog signal representative of varying pressure on the tip. This signal is processed by the control circuit such that the stylus goes into the sleep mode after a specified period of time following cessation of variations in the analog signal. | 06-12-2014 |