Patents Examined by Adam R. Giesy
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Patent number: 11121194Abstract: The display device may include a first substrate including a plurality of pixel areas; a plurality of display elements arranged in the plurality of pixel areas on the first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a plurality of spacers arranged between the plurality of pixel areas and maintaining a constant space between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a plurality of touch sensing electrodes arranged on a surface of the second substrate which faces the first substrate. Here, each touch sensing electrode may include at least one first area and at least one second area that is electrically separated from the first area. The plurality of spacers may be arranged to correspond to the first area.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Inventor: Ji Ryun Park
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Patent number: 11119721Abstract: A system including a secondary visual digital display on the customer-facing side of a cash register or point-of-sale terminal display. The customer-facing digital display presents advertising content, videos, informational content, or any other form of content that the business or location owner or operator would like to have displayed to customers. An application program, as described below, is stored and/or loaded on memory storage in the secondary display and run by a microprocessor in the secondary display, or alternatively, is stored and/or loaded on a separate device, and run by a microprocessor in the secondary display or in the separate device. The content may be displayed based upon context.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Inventor: Beth Harris
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Patent number: 11112866Abstract: An electronic device according to the present application includes a display and a controller configured to determine a user's gaze position in a display area of the display based on user's gaze movement. In a state where a first image as an object is displayed in the display area, the controller is configured to hide the first image as the object when the gaze position separates from an area of the first image by a predetermined distance in a direction away from the first image as the object.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Akiyoshi Noda
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Patent number: 11099674Abstract: A pixel array substrate includes a first touch signal line having a first and second portion and a bridge portion, pixel structures including a first and second pixel structure, a first and second data line, a first and second connection pattern, and a touch electrode. The first pixel structure and the second pixel structure are respectively located on a first and second side of the first touch signal line. The first data line and the second data line are respectively located on the second and first sides of the first touch signal line. The first connection pattern is electrically connected to the first data line and the first pixel structure. The second connection pattern is electrically connected to the second data line and the second pixel structure. The bridge portion of the first touch signal line crosses over the first connection pattern and the second connection pattern.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Kuan-Yu Chiu, Teng-Fu Tung, Yi-Chi Chen, Ming-Hsuan Lee
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Patent number: 11093052Abstract: A direction control pad includes a body with a top side. The top side includes a center surface with a plurality of cardinal surfaces oriented at an angle to the center surface and a plurality of diagonal surface oriented at an angle to the center surface. The cardinal surfaces are recessed below the cardinal surfaces. Each of the cardinal surfaces connect to the center surface at a discontinuity.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Ryan Eugene Whitaker
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Patent number: 11094910Abstract: A pixel display component used in a display screen, includes a light-emitting unit and an anode. The anode includes a first anode portion and a second anode portion arranged in a direction parallel to the display screen. The first anode portion includes a light-transmitting material, and the second anode portion includes a non-light-transmitting material. The light-emitting unit is arranged between a cathode and the anode of the display screen, and the anode is arranged between a substrate of the display screen and the light-emitting unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jian Bai
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Patent number: 11094295Abstract: Devices, methods and computer program products that facilitate automated adjustment of size or configuration of head up display image in a vehicle. A device can include a memory and a processor that executes computer executable modules. The computer executable modules can include: a head up display that generates an image visible to a driver of a vehicle within an eye box, a detection module that determines position of the driver's eyes or head relative to position of the eye box, and an adjustment module that adjusts size or configuration of the image within the eye box in response to the determined driver's eye or head position.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATIONInventors: Claes Edgren, Elias Olsson
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Patent number: 11079999Abstract: Method for providing image of HMD user to a non-HMD user includes, receiving a first image of a user including the user's facial features captured by an external camera when the user is not wearing a head mounted display (HMD). A second image capturing a portion of the facial features of the user when the user is wearing the HMD is received. An image overlay data is generated by mapping contours of facial features captured in the second image with contours of corresponding facial features captured in the first image. The image overlay data is forwarded to the HMD for rendering on a second display screen that is mounted on a front face of the HMD.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Ruxin Chen
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Patent number: 11081068Abstract: A liquid crystal display device that displays an input video signal according to a present disclosure comprises: a first liquid crystal display panel and a second liquid crystal display panel disposed to be laminated; a first video signal generator that generates a first video signal for the first liquid crystal display panel by performing stereoscopic vision suppression processing of suppressing stereoscopic vision due to parallax on the video signal; and a second video signal generator that generates a second video signal for the second liquid crystal display panel using the first video signal, wherein when the video signal indicates a black spot, the first video signal generator performs the stereoscopic vision suppression processing with intensity different from that in a case where the video signal indicates a bright spot.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignees: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., PASONA KNOWLEDGE PARTNER INC.Inventors: Toshikazu Koudo, Hideyuki Nakanishi
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Patent number: 11079855Abstract: A method includes sensing entities in first and second domains. If a first stimulus is present and an entity is in the first domain, the entity is transferred from first to second domain via a bridge. If a second stimulus is present and an entity is in the second domain, the entity is transferred from second first domain via the bridge. At least some of the first domain is outputted. An apparatus includes a processor that defines first and second domains and a bridge that enables transfer of entities between domains, an entity identifier that identifies entities in the domains, a stimulus identifier that identifies stimuli, and a display that outputs at least some of the first domain. The processor transfers entities from first to second domain responsive to a first stimulus, and transfers entities from second to first domain responsive to a second stimulus.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Atheer, Inc.Inventor: Michael Lamberty
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Patent number: 11081063Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes scan lines arranged in horizontal lines, data lines intersecting the scan lines, a pixel array including pixels coupled to the scan lines and the data lines, the pixels including at least first color pixels, a panel tester including switching elements coupled to first ends of the data lines, the switching elements including at least first and second switching elements, and a first line coupled to the first switching elements and a second line coupled to the second switching elements. Data lines of K-th to (K+L)-th (where K and L are natural numbers) first color pixels arranged in a predetermined horizontal line are coupled to the first line through the first switching elements, and data lines of at least a part of remaining first color pixels arranged in the predetermined horizontal line are coupled to the second line through the second switching elements.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dae Youn Cho, Sang Kil Kim, Hyo Jung Kim, Jong Woo Park, Dong Gi Ahn, Jong Won Lee, Ju Hee Lee, Young Tae Choi
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Patent number: 11081071Abstract: A liquid crystal display device that displays an input video signal, the liquid crystal display device comprising: a first liquid crystal display panel and a second liquid crystal display panel disposed to be laminated; a gamma corrector that generates a corrected video signal by performing gamma correction decided depending on a first control signal input from an outside with respect to the video signal; a first video signal generator that generates a first video signal for the first liquid crystal display panel using the corrected video signal; and a second video signal generator that generates a second video signal for the second liquid crystal display panel using the first video signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignees: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., PASONA KNOWLEDGE PARTNER INC.Inventor: Toshikazu Koudo
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Patent number: 11068066Abstract: A load control system may include load control devices for controlling an amount of power provided to an electrical load. The load control devices may be capable of controlling the amount of power provided to the electrical load based on control instructions received from a gesture-based control device. The gesture-based control device may identify gestures performed by a user for controlling a load control device and provide control instructions to the load control device based on the identified gestures. The gestures may be identified based on images received from a motion capture device. A gesture may be associated with a scene that includes a configuration of one or more load control devices in a load control system. The user may perform one or more gestures to program the gesture-based control device.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Soumya Jain, Michael J. Zizza, John Nill
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Patent number: 11056054Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a first pixel region and a second pixel region having a smaller area than the first pixel region. The second pixel region is connected to the first pixel region. A first pixel is provided in the first pixel region and a second pixel is provided in the second pixel region. A first line is connected to the first pixel and a second line is connected to the second pixel. A dummy unit overlaps at least one of the first line and the second line, and compensates for a difference in load values between the first and second lines.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yang Wan Kim, Sun Ja Kwon, Byung Sun Kim, Hyun Ae Park, Su Jin Lee, Jae Yong Lee
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Patent number: 11042037Abstract: An earphone including a base, a cover, a rotating plate, a speaker, a displacement transducer and a follower is provided. The cover is disposed on the base. The rotating plate is rotatably disposed between the base and the cover. The speaker is disposed between the base and the cover. The displacement transducer is fixed to the base and located between the base and the cover. The rotating plate is coupled to the follower, and the follower is coupled to displacement transducer. A head-mounted display is further provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Chun-Hung Wen, Chun-Hsien Chen
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Patent number: 11043153Abstract: A control circuit board, an additional circuit board and a display device. The control circuit board includes a timing control circuit, the timing control circuit is configured to read a configuration code from a storage circuit on an additional circuit board outside the control circuit board, the configuration code includes a first code for configuring the timing control circuit, and the timing control circuit is further configured to generate, based on the first code, a control signal for controlling the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignees: HEFEI BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Ke Dai, Tao Li, Liugang Zhou
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Patent number: 11035908Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a conductive layer disposed under the display panel, a first flexible printed circuit board including a first substrate portion having a side connected to the display panel, a bending portion extending from the first substrate portion, and a second substrate portion extending from the bending portion and disposed under the conductive layer. The second substrate portion includes a first sensing pattern. The display device further includes a coupling portion disposed between the second substrate portion and the conductive layer and coupling the second substrate portion and the conductive layer. The display device further includes a driver chip electrically connected to the first sensing pattern and configured to detect whether the coupling portion has been separated from either the second substrate portion or the conductive layer based on a capacitance that depends on a distance between the conductive layer and the first sensing pattern.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hee Gwon Lee, Sung Un Park
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Patent number: 11029775Abstract: Disclosed herein is a pointer display device, including, a touch panel provided on a display screen of a display section, a pointer display section configured to detect a contact point in a touch operation on the touch panel and to display a pointer in an area containing the contact point, and a hotspot detection section configured to detect as a hotspot a position corresponding to one part of the pointer exclusive of the contact point.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Inventors: Eijiro Mori, Takuo Ikeda, Ken Yano
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Patent number: 11023196Abstract: A flexible display includes a plurality of pixel chips, chixels, provided on a flexible substrate. The chixels and the light emitters thereon may be shaped, sized and arranged to minimize chixel, pixel, and sub-pixel gaps and to provide a desired bend radius of the display. The flexible substrate may include light manipulators, such as filters, light converters and the like to manipulate the light emitted from light emitters of the chixels. The light manipulators may be arranged to minimize chixel gaps between adjacent chixels.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: NanoLumens Acquistion, Inc.Inventors: Richard Cope, Drew F. Meincke, Daniel P. Bradbury, David Scott Rowley
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Patent number: 11016375Abstract: A light projection system for generating an image with three primary colors, each primary color being respectively defined by a first, second and third wavebands. The system includes a first blue laser source emitting a first beam in a fourth waveband, the first blue laser source having a first laser driver, a second blue laser source emitting a second beam having a central wavelength and a fifth waveband, the second blue laser source having a second laser driver, a substrate having a wavelength conversion element for emitting light at a plurality of wavelengths after absorption of a light beam at an excitation wavelength within a fifth waveband of the second blue laser source and a beam combiner for combining the combined first beam and the converted beam, which combination results in a white beam. Dichroic losses can be reduced by using a green phosphor together with red laser assistance.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: BARCO N.V.Inventors: Mihaela Tarpan, Allel Chedad, Bart Maximus, Nico Coulier