William R Conway

US Patent:

20170293386, Oct 12, 2017

Filed:

Apr 7, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/093019

Inventors:

- Detroit MI, US
James A. Carpenter - Rochester Hills MI, US
William E. Conway - Birmingham MI, US
Reno V. Ramsey - Sterling Heights MI, US
Davide Silvestri - Macomb MI, US
George Degener - Pinckney MI, US

Assignee:

GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC - Detroit MI

International Classification:

G06F 3/041
G02F 1/13

Abstract:

A touchscreen panel is configured to accept an input touch command. The touchscreen panel includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) layer. The touchscreen panel also includes a touch sensor having a receiving element and a transmitting element, each arranged on the LCD layer. The receiving element and the transmitting element together are configured to detect an impending touch of the touch sensor via a hover system and a touch event in a touch-detecting mode. At least one of the receiving element and the transmitting element is configured to operate in a heating mode, as a heating element, when the impending touch of the touch sensor is not detected. The resultant heating element generates a heat energy input to the LCD layer and accelerates responsiveness of the LCD layer to the touch event. A method of controlling a touchscreen panel is also disclosed.

US Patent:

20170277332, Sep 28, 2017

Filed:

Mar 24, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/080076

Inventors:

- Detroit MI, US
James A. Carpenter - Rochester Hills MI, US
Reno V. Ramsey - Sterling Heights MI, US
William E. Conway - Birmingham MI, US
Davide Silvestri - Macomb MI, US

Assignee:

GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC - Detroit MI

International Classification:

G06F 3/041
G09G 3/36

Abstract:

A display assembly includes a display console having an image plane spaced from a touch plane. The touch plane includes at least one touch sensitive area. A controller is operatively connected to the display console, and includes a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which is recorded instructions for executing a method of dynamically adjusting at least one touch sensitive area in real-time. The controller may be programmed to determine respective correction shifts to each pixel in the touch sensitive area for multiple viewing positions of one or more users. The display console may be curved. The controller may be programmed to simultaneously a first correction shift to a first touch sensitive area for the viewing position of the first user and a second correction shift to a second touch sensitive area for the viewing position of the second user.

US Patent:

20170278218, Sep 28, 2017

Filed:

Mar 24, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/080056

Inventors:

- Detroit MI, US
Thomas A. Seder - Warren MI, US
William E. Conway - Birmingham MI, US

Assignee:

GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC - Detroit MI

International Classification:

G06T 3/60
G06F 3/01
G06T 3/20

Abstract:

A display assembly includes a display console displaying at least one image on an image plane. The image is divided into a plurality of pixels. A controller is operatively connected to the display console and includes a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which is recorded instructions for executing a method for dynamically adjusting the image in real-time for off-axis viewing. The controller is programmed to generate a compensation-over-viewing-angle map which includes respective compensation factors for each of the plurality of pixels for multiple viewing positions. In one embodiment, the controller is programmed to apply separate respective compensation factors for the instantaneous viewing positions of a first user at a time j and a second user at a time k. In another embodiment, the controller is programmed to apply first and second compensation factors simultaneously at a time m, for a first image and a second image, respectively.