Patents Examined by Adam R. Giesy
  • Patent number: 11011123
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes accessing a first rendered frame generated at a first frame rate. The method includes generating, based on the first rendered frame, one or more sub-frames at a second frame rate that is higher than the first frame rate. A first sub-frame of the one or more sub-frames is generated by determining a displacement measure associated with an anticipated movement of an optics component of a display system and applying, based on the displacement measure, one or more transformations to the first rendered frame to generate the first sub-frame. The first sub-frame is to be perceived by a user using the optics component of the display system. The method includes outputting the one or more sub-frames for display at the second frame rate. The one or more sub-frames are perceived by the user using the optics component of the display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Warren Andrew Hunt, William Thomas Blank, Ilias Pappas, Michael Yee, Edward Buckley
  • Patent number: 11005076
    Abstract: A flexible display device includes a substrate including a light-emitting diode having an emissive layer arranged in a light-emitting area of each of sub-pixels; a thin-film encapsulation layer covering the light-emitting diode; a black matrix arranged in a peripheral area of the sub-pixels and including a plurality of first openings respectively corresponding to light-emitting areas; a color filter layer including a plurality of color filters in each of the plurality of first openings; a low refractive layer arranged on the color filter layer; and a high refractive layer arranged on the low refractive layer and having a refractive index higher than a refractive index of the low refractive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Inventor: Eonjoo Lee
  • Patent number: 10989917
    Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display module having a picture generation unit emitting a light field. A plurality of linear polarizers are arranged in a stack. A first of the linear polarizers receives the light field from the picture generation unit. A last of the linear polarizers emits the light field. A windshield reflects the light field from the last linear polarizer such that the reflected light field is visible to a human driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventors: David Kay Lambert, Steven Craig Bower
  • Patent number: 10971049
    Abstract: A display device includes: a connector unit including a plurality of receiving electrodes configured to receive an input signal from a plurality of transmission electrodes of an interface unit having a flat plate shape; a signal processor which determines an arrangement of an input data included in the input signal; and a display output portion which performs an image output processing according to the arrangement of the input data determined by the signal processor, wherein the plurality of receiving electrodes are disposed to face the plurality of transmission electrodes in each of a plurality of connection directions defined by in-plane rotation angles of the interface unit, in a predetermined region which the interface unit opposes, and wherein the signal processor determines the arrangement of the input data according to the connection direction of the interface unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Hiraki, Takayuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10957747
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an electronic panel including an active area and a pad area and including an input sensing member and a circuit board overlapping at least a side of the pad area. The electronic panel includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a first organic insulation layer disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, a pattern layer disposed on the second conductive layer, overlapping the plurality of second conductive patterns, and including a plurality of organic patterns, and a second organic insulation layer covering the pattern layer and the second conductive layer. The pattern layer covers an upper surface of the second conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Inventors: Ji-hyun Kim, Junhong Park, Jun Chun, Euisuk Jung, Hoon Kang, Jeongmin Park
  • Patent number: 10937351
    Abstract: A Gamma-curve correction method for a display apparatus, and a display apparatus. The method includes: determining a standard Gamma curve according to the display apparatus; selecting a plurality of test gray scale values on the standard Gamma curve, and acquiring a plurality of target brightness values corresponding to the plurality of test gray scale values; adjusting an input gray scale value of the display apparatus to obtain a plurality of test-correction gray scale values, where the test-correction gray scale values are corresponding input gray scale values when display brightness of the display apparatus is equal to respective target brightness; generating an association relationship between input gray scale values and correction gray scale values, according to the plurality of test gray scale values and the plurality of test-correction gray scale values; and adjusting the input gray scale value to a corresponding correction gray scale value, according to the association relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Song Meng, Quanhu Li
  • Patent number: 10930714
    Abstract: A display device includes an organic light emitting display panel defining a display area for displaying an image and a non-display area adjacent the display area, and including a base layer, a circuit layer on the base layer, a light emitting device layer on the circuit layer, and a thin film sealing layer on the light emitting device layer and divided into a first thin film sealing area, and a second thin film sealing area adjacent the first thin film sealing area, and a touch detection unit including a first sensor part on the first thin film sealing area of the thin film sealing layer, and a second sensor part on the second thin film sealing area of the thin film sealing layer, wherein an upper surface of the thin film sealing layer that faces the touch detection unit includes a first upper surface in the first thin film sealing area, and a second upper surface in the second thin film sealing area and protruding away from the base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sanghyun Jun, Kiho Bang, Eunae Jung, Keunlim Ku, Mi-ran Ji
  • Patent number: 10923054
    Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel, a display device, and driving methods thereof are provided. The array substrate includes a plurality of subpixels arranged in an array, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of switches. The plurality of subpixels include subpixels of a first color, subpixels of a second color, subpixels of a third color, and subpixels of a fourth color, in odd rows of subpixels, the subpixels of the first color, the subpixels of the second color, the subpixels of the third color, and the subpixels of the fourth color are sequentially arranged; in even rows of subpixels, the subpixels of the third color, the subpixels of the fourth color, the subpixels of the first color, and the subpixels of the second color are sequentially arranged; and each column of subpixels corresponds to and is connected with a data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhen Wang, Wenwen Qin, Mingchao Ma, Wenchao Han, Jian Sun, Yun Qiao, Jun Fan
  • Patent number: 10921898
    Abstract: A machine implemented 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: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Atheer, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Lamberty
  • Patent number: 10909896
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a common voltage generation circuit, a common voltage generation method, and a display device, and belongs to the field of display technology. The common voltage generation circuit includes: an initial common voltage generation component configured to generate an initial common voltage controlled by a ground voltage and a positive power supply voltage according to a clock synchronization signal and a serial digital signal as received; and a common voltage adjustment component configured to generate a common voltage controlled by the ground voltage and a negative power supply voltage according to the initial common voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yifei Zhan, Dayu Zhang, Xiaohan Ling
  • Patent number: 10909897
    Abstract: A gate driving circuit includes a shift register configured to generate a plurality of output signals based on at least one clock signal, a plurality of output buffers configured to generate a plurality of gate signals by amplifying the output signals and to sequentially output the gate signals to a plurality of gate lines in a display panel, a detector configured to sequentially sense the gate signals and to compare each of the gate signals to a reference voltage, and a dummy output buffer configured to be coupled between the shift register and a gate line of the gate lines instead of an output buffer of the output buffers when a voltage level of a corresponding gate signal from the output buffers is less than a voltage level of the reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Han Lee, Sooyeon Kim, Taegon Im, Jung Hwan Cho
  • Patent number: 10901257
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. In some embodiments of the disclosure, opening support structures are arranged between a first substrate and a second substrate in at least a sub-area corresponding to the largest one of respective first spacings, that is, the opening support structures are arranged in at least the sub-area in which connection segments of touch signal lines are the most sparsely arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventors: Donghua Li, Xiaoli Wei, Xiufeng Zhou, Boping Shen
  • Patent number: 10898799
    Abstract: A method that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a device comprising a processor, a first signal from a motion-sensitive component of the device; receiving, by the device, a second signal from a touch-sensitive interface of the device, detecting, by the device, from a combined signal comprising the first signal and the second signal, a selection of a portion of the device; and causing, by the device, a sensory feedback generator to provide a feedback signal in accordance with the combined signal. The feedback signal may comprise an audible sound, a visual effect, a tactile effect, or any combination thereof. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventors: Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Bruce Hawver, Jacob Wolff-Petersen, Kim Rom, Francis Arnold Grever, Tino Soelberg
  • Patent number: 10885828
    Abstract: This disclosure describes implementation of a display with resolution of one to ten million color pixels per square inch of display area. Fabrication in a CMOS foundry uses silicon waveguide technology. Red, green, and blue light are distributed via waveguide to all display pixels. Optical modulators in each pixel control image color and luminance. A photo diode is incorporated into each display pixels to enable uniformity correction of pixel luminance and color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventor: Richard H. Vollmerhausen
  • Patent number: 10877662
    Abstract: An input device includes: a printing layer on which an image of a key including a character is printed; a 3D lens that three-dimensionally floats the image of the key printed on the printing layer; and an input detector that detects an input in accordance with the depression of the image of the key floating three-dimensionally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Maiko Kikuchi, Akio Nakamura, Katsuya Funakoshi
  • Patent number: 10861376
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a state control method for a display screen, which includes that: a current state of a display screen is acquired; a corresponding signal transmitter in a first signal transmitter and a second signal transmitter is controlled according to the current state to transmit a detection signal, wherein the detection signal is reflected by a barrier to form a reflected signal; a distance state between a terminal and the barrier is judged according to an intensity of the reflected signal received by a signal receiver; and the state of the display screen is controlled according to the distance state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yibao Zhou
  • Patent number: 10860135
    Abstract: A display panel, a display device, and a driving circuit including both a touch sensor configuration and a photosensor configuration are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: DukKeun Yoo, HyunGon Kim
  • Patent number: 10861367
    Abstract: According to a drive method for the display panel, m multiplex signals sequentially generate the high level pulse at the beginning of the (2i?1)th row period in a predetermined order. The high level pulse of the multiplex signal that is the last one to generate the high level pulse in the (2i?1)th row period continues until the end of the (2i?1)th row period. The m multiplex signals sequentially generate the high level pulse at the beginning of the (2i)th row period in a reverse order to the predetermined order. The high level pulse of the multiplex signal that is the last one to generate the high level pulse in the (2i)th row period continues until the end of the 2i row period. As a result, the number of times that the levels of the multiplex signals are changed in a frame period can be decreased to reduce the power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventors: Lihua Zheng, Mang Zhao, Yong Tian
  • Patent number: 10839767
    Abstract: A display driver includes an operational amplifier, a D/A conversion circuit, a resistance circuit, and a resistance element. The D/A conversion circuit includes first and second variable resistance circuits including one end to which first and second voltages are input and another end connected to an inverting input node. The resistance circuit is provided between the inverting input node and an output node. The resistor is provided between the output node and the inverting input node. A resistance value of the first variable resistance circuit is set based on upper bit data of display data. A resistance value of the second variable resistance circuit is set based on lower bit data of the display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Morita, Takeshi Nomura
  • Patent number: 10831273
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, from at least one sensor, data, wherein the data is based upon an action performed by a user; identifying, using a processor, the data as an activation cue; and activating, responsive to identifying the data as an activation cue, a voice response system. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Nathan J. Peterson, Arnold S. Weksler, John Carl Mese