Patents Examined by Abbas I Abdulselam
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Patent number: 11615768Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display apparatus capable of configuring layout information including rotation information of a display without user setting when a plurality of display apparatuses are connected, a method of controlling the display apparatus, and a display system. The display apparatus includes a display; a communication interface configured to communicate with at least one other display apparatus; and a controller configured to calculate position information of a display apparatus, to receive position information including rotation information of the at least one other display apparatus through the communication interface, and to output an output image signal to the display based on the position information of the display apparatus and the position information of the at least one other display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sae Rom Hong, Kook-Heon Kim
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Patent number: 11610558Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device includes a housing, a display viewable through a front surface of the housing and configured to display a screen, a camera sensor disposed in at least a portion of the front surface of the housing and configured to measure an external illuminance, a processor operationally connected to the display and the camera sensor; and a memory operationally connected to the processor. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to control the electronic device to: detect an turn-on event of the display, turn on the camera sensor to acquire the external illuminance using the camera sensor based on the display being turned on, acquire preview image information for a specified time through the camera sensor, turn off the camera sensor, acquire the external illuminance using an exposure time and a brightness value based on the acquired preview image information, and control a luminance of the display based on the external illuminance.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wanjae Ju, Nanyoung Park, Jungyong Yun, Heewoong Yoon
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Patent number: 11599193Abstract: The disclosed system may include a support structure dimensioned for a user's hand. The system may also include transmitting electrodes coupled to a first finger portion of the support structure and may further include receiving electrodes coupled to a second, different finger portion of the support structure. The system may also include a controller that is coupled to the support structure and that is communicatively connected to the transmitting and receiving electrodes. The controller may also be configured to cause the transmitting electrodes to transmit a signal, detect at least some of the transmitted signal at the receiving electrodes and, based on the detected signal, determine that at least two fingers of the user's hand are touching each other. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Shiu Sang Ng, Yanjun Ma, Wolf Kienzle, Hrvoje Benko
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Patent number: 11594193Abstract: An electronic device (e.g., smartphone) can be connected to an external display device, allowing the electronic device to display content on the external display device. The external display device can be a standalone display device or be part of another electronic device (e.g., a laptop or tablet). The electronic device supports multiple input styles including a gesture-based input style and a non-gesture-based input style. The electronic device adapts to the external display device by using the gesture-based input style if the external display device is touch enabled and using the non-gesture-based if the external display is not touch enabled. Additionally or alternatively, the external display device adapts to the input style being used by the electronic device by displaying an augmentation bar associated with the content and supporting the non-gesture-based input style when the external display device detects that the electronic device is using the gesture-based input style.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal, Santhosh Kumar M S
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Patent number: 11586295Abstract: A wink gesture based control technique for entering text, selecting, controlling and manipulating virtual objects and smart applications on a display using facial gestures of the user, in particular winking, blinking and squinting movements of the eyes. The wink gesture based control technique utilizes wink gestures of a user to select, control, and manipulate virtual objects on a display. A head mounted device is adapted to allow detection and classification of specific wink gestures. The head mounted device in some embodiments may also be adapted to recognize certain characteristics of the wink gestures, such as duration or amplitude, to allow enhanced navigation of a computer interface.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Inventor: Maximilian Ralph Peter von und zu Liechtenstein
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Patent number: 11586243Abstract: A portable information handling system folds a flexible display over a hinge and selectively engages a brake that restricts hinge movement if a predetermined condition exists, such as a predetermined thermal state associate with potential damage to the flexible display. Heating and cooling elements increase or decrease the flexible display thermal state to fall within a constraint that supports folding and releases the hinge brake.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Yagiz Can Yildiz, Christopher A. Torres, Kevin M. Turchin, Gerald R. Pelissier
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Patent number: 11586287Abstract: A system includes a microcontroller, one or more sensors affixed to an object, and memory storing one or more programs including instructions for receiving and storing first sensor data from the one or more sensors in response to motion of the object, determining whether the first sensor data meets a first threshold, in accordance with a determination that the first sensor data meets the first threshold: receiving and storing second sensor data from the one or more sensors in response to subsequent motion of the object for as long as the second sensor data meets a second threshold, performing pattern recognition on the second sensor data, and identifying a first position of the object based on the pattern recognition of the second sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Inventor: Rohit Seth
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Patent number: 11586317Abstract: An interactive assembly including at least one interactive surface element, at least a first region of the at least one interactive surface element having first user sensible functionality and at least a second region of the at least one interactive surface element having second functionality, different from the first user sensible functionality, input sensor functionality, including at least one input sensor located in propinquity to at least one of the at least one interactive surface element, operative to sense impingement of an electromagnetic radiation spot on at least one of the at least one first region and the at least one second region of the at least one interactive surface element and utilization functionality for employing outputs of the input sensor functionality in respect of impingement on either or both of the at least one first region and the at least one second region.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Power2b, Inc.Inventors: Sarah Michelle Lipman, Eran Kali, Boris Gutin, Mordehai Margalit, Robert Michael Lipman, Ken Zwiebel
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Patent number: 11587954Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Vasudha Gupta, Jae Won Choi, Shih Chang Chang, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Young Bae Park
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Patent number: 11580939Abstract: In a head mounted display 100, a memory 71 stores an application. An image pickup unit 74 takes an image of a site of a user 1, and a position specifying unit 73 specifies a position and a direction of the head mounted display 100. A detector 75 detects a position indicated by the user 1 on the basis of the image taken by the image pickup unit 74, and a setting unit 76 sets a position indicating a home position on the basis of a result detected by the detector 75 and the position and the direction specified by the position specifying unit 73.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11581341Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises a display panel, at least one signal generator, and a plurality of wires. The display panel has a plurality of input ends to receive data signal. The at least one signal generator has a plurality of output ends to supply the data signal to the input ends of the display panel, respectively. The wires connects the output ends of the at least one signal generator to the input ends of the display panel, respectively, the wires having lengths measured between the output ends of the at least one signal generator and the input ends of the display panel, respectively, the length of the wires being different from each other according to location of the output ends of the at least one signal generator.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiyuki Ishida, Kenta Ide
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Patent number: 11574610Abstract: A signal processing method of a transparent display is disclosed. The signal processing method includes: receiving an input signal; performing a signal conversion step on the input signal to form a converted signal; after performing the signal conversion step, performing a signal identification step based on the converted signal; generating an image signal and a control signal from the input signal and a signal identification result of the signal identification step; outputting the image signal for light emission adjustment of the transparent display; and outputting the control signal for transparency adjustment of the transparent display, wherein a converted gray scale of a pixel is obtained by multiplying at least two gray scales among a red gray scale, a green gray scale, and a blue gray scale of the pixel by previously set corresponding coefficients and summing the multiplied gray scales.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Innolux CorporationInventors: Yu-Chia Huang, Kuan-Feng Lee, Tsung-Han Tsai
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Patent number: 11575878Abstract: Provided is a display device including: left and right displays that are spaced apart from each other; left and right lens groups respectively located at the rear of the left display and the rear of the right display; left and right display housings configured to surround the left and right displays and the left and right lens groups; a main frame provided between the left and right display housings; a connection structure capable of adjusting an angle between the main frame and a connector electrically connected to an external electronic device; and electronic components provided inside the main frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2016Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Soon-seob Han, Chang-yeong Kim, Jae-woo Ko, Yong-gyoo Kim
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Patent number: 11556211Abstract: An integrated display and input device including a pixel array operative to provide a visually sensible output, at least one sensor operative to sense at least a position of at least one object with respect to the pixel array when the at least one object has at least a predetermined degree of propinquity to the pixel array and circuitry receiving an output from the at least one sensor and providing a non-imagewise input representing the position of the at least one object relative to the pixel array to utilization circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Power2b, Inc.Inventors: Sarah Michelle Lipman, Eran Kali, Boris Gutin, Moti Margalit, Robert Michael Lipman, Ken Zwiebel
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Patent number: 11543894Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display panel; a housing configured to support and protect the display panel; a support, the support being arranged between the display panel and the housing; a plurality of sensors, the plurality of sensors being fixed on the support; a window, the window being located in the display panel or the housing and being configured to expose at least one sensor; and a driver, the driver being configured to control the support to move along a plane parallel to the display panel, and to control the support to stop moving when a required sensor moves to a position of the window.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yongda Ma
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Patent number: 11537347Abstract: A method may include receiving, via a processor, a frame of image data, such that the frame of image data may include an active portion and an idle portion. The active portion may include data for presenting one or more images via a first display of a first electronic device. The method may also include receiving a signal from a second electronic device during the idle portion of the frame of image data, such that the second electronic device is separate from the first display. The method may then involve initiating processing of the frame of image data in response to the signal being received from the second electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Assaf Menachem, Peter F. Holland, Yung-Chin Chen
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Patent number: 11538437Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that includes a display and is configured enabling a low power refresh during a semi-active workload. The electronic device includes a display engine, where the display engine generates a video stream with a frame rate, a display, where the display includes an image viewable by a user and the image is refreshed at a first refresh rate, and a timing controller located in the display, where the timing control receives an indicator from the display engine and uses the indicator to determine that the first refresh rate can be lowered to a second refresh rate without the frame rate of the video stream from the display engine being changed. In an example, the indicator is frame with no image data at the start of the frame. In another example, the indicator is an implicit indictor sent by the display engine.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Vishal R. Sinha, Paul S. Diefenbaugh, Douglas Robert Huard
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Patent number: 11530608Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a stand break detection system. In some embodiments, the stand break detection system includes a sensor and a data processing system. The sensor may measure a movement of drill pipe as it is tripped out of a wellbore. The processor may execute instructions stored in a memory to receive measured movement data from the sensor and identify a stand break associated with one or more drill pipes using the measured movement data.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: James Minh Tran, Richard Woods, Tania Maria Oviedo Gutierrez, Irina Kim
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Patent number: 11531441Abstract: An electronic device according to certain embodiments may include: a sensor, a display panel including a sensor area overlaying or underlying the sensor and a pixel area including at least one pixel and a drive wiring line configured to drive the at least one pixel while surrounding the sensor area, a window disposed over the display panel, and one or more opaque members disposed between the sensor and the window and along an edge of the sensor area.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Songhee Jung, Yongkoo Her, Sungyoung Shin, Byungduk Yang, Harksang Kim, Hyunchang Shin, Joongyu Lee
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Patent number: 11526221Abstract: There is provided a frame rate adjusting method of a navigation device including: counting a frame period using a clock of a local oscillator of the navigation device; counting a polling period using the same clock; calculating a difference between the frame period and the polling period; adjusting a frame rate of the navigation device when the difference is smaller than a predetermined margin.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.Inventors: Keng-Yeen Lye, Kevin Len-Li Lim