Patents Examined by Ariel Balaoing
-
Patent number: 11169622Abstract: A mouse device with zero gapped switching for resistance comprises a housing unit, at least one pressing unit, at least one switch unit, and at least one adjustment unit. The housing unit includes a housing that surrounds a housing space. The pressing unit is connected to the housing unit, and includes a pressing body and an extension body. The switch unit touches the pressing unit and includes a switch module. The adjustment unit includes an adjustment base and a first elastic body. The adjustment base is movable between a first position and a second position. When the adjustment base is located at the first position, the first elastic body applies a force in the direction toward the switch module on the extension body. When the adjustment base is located at the second position, the first elastic body applies a force opposite to the direction of the switch module on the extension body.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2021Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Corsair Memory, Inc.Inventor: I-Ning Chiu
-
Patent number: 11163914Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to managing enterprise security by utilizing a smart keyboard and a smart mouse. The smart keyboard may include pressure sensitive keys, a physical sensor configurable to detect a user characteristic associated with a user of the smart keyboard, an image capturing device configurable to capture an image of an activity in a vicinity of the smart keyboard, and a switch, communicatively coupled to the pressure sensitive keys, the physical sensor, and the image capturing device, where the switch is configurable to activate or deactivate the pressure sensitive keys, the physical sensor, and the image capturing device. The smart mouse may include a wheel, one or more pressure sensitive clickable components, and at least one physical sensor configurable to detect a user characteristic associated with a user of the smart mouse. Systems and methods for utilizing a smart keyboard and a smart mouse are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Elijah Clark, Edward Lee Traywick, George Albero, Elizabeth R. Liuzzo
-
Patent number: 11157107Abstract: An apparatus performs a method for providing a touch interface. The method includes receiving a touch input from a touch detection unit, detecting touch characteristics according to the touch input, and generating events different from each other according to the detected touch characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kwang-yong Lee, Woo-jin Jung, Beom-soo Cho, Yong-gook Park
-
Patent number: 11157093Abstract: A computer mouse with vibration function includes a base, a press control module disposed on a front portion of the base, a palm support disposed on a rear portion of the base, a vibrator installed on the palm support for receiving the signal from the computer, and a plurality of vibration damping units each of which includes a vibration damper abutting between the palm support and the base. The vibration dampers of the vibration damping units are disposed around the vibrator.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: SUNREX TECHNOLOGY CORP.Inventors: Che-Hsun Chang, Yun-Chuan Wang, Kuan-Jung Li, Tao Chou, Chun-Chieh Chen, Shi-Ming Chen, Jia-Bao Lin
-
Patent number: 11151922Abstract: A micro display, which includes LEDs and TFTs of a TFT electronic control circuit for controlling the LEDs, is produced monolithically on a silicon, silicon carbide, or sapphire wafer. The display includes red, green, and blue micro LEDs, and electronic control circuits include TFTs with Indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) channels or Indium phosphide (InP) channels. The TFTs are formed above the LEDs and laterally removed from the LEDs and paths of light emissions from the plurality of LEDs to prevent light blocking by the TFTs.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Khaled Ahmed, Kunjal Parikh
-
Patent number: 11144139Abstract: An electronic device includes a rod, a first sleeve, and a second sleeve. The rod has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a touch head. The first sleeve is slidably sleeved on the first portion of the rod, and is movable between a first position and a second position of the first portion. When the first sleeve is at the first position, the electronic device is adapted to serve as a roller-type input device. A function of the roller-type input device is controlled according to information of the first sleeve or the second sleeve rotating relative to the rod. When the first sleeve is at the second position, the touch head is exposed from the first sleeve and enabled, so that the electronic device is adapted to serve as a stylus. In addition, an electronic system with the electronic device is also mentioned.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATIONInventor: Hung-Lu Chan
-
Patent number: 11137835Abstract: A modular interactive visual display platform including interconnecting modules including tile modules forming a visual display sensing surface which generates graphical images and senses object proximate to the surface. Tile connector interfaces use tricoupling mechanisms including a mechanical connector, a power connector and a communication connector to connect modules together. The visual display sensing surface may include integrated addressable LEDs, proximity sensors and pressure sensors.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: TAKARO TECH LTD.Inventors: Amir Ben-Shalom, Ofer Atir
-
Patent number: 11138922Abstract: The present specification discloses a light-emitting diode (LED) driving apparatus in which a voltage drop phenomenon due to a common impedance is mitigated. In the LED driving apparatus according to the present specification, a circuit is configured by combining N-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) transistors or P-type MOS (PMOS) transistors such that a positive power source or a negative power source is not connected to a source terminal of a metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET). To this end, it is possible to eliminate common impedance effects on the positive power source or the negative power source.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: SAPIEN SEMICONDUCTORS INC.Inventors: Jae Hoon Lee, Jin Woong Jang
-
Patent number: 11127365Abstract: A gamma voltage generating circuit includes a gamma buffer configured to output a gamma voltage, a first gamma line and a second gamma line providing an output path of the gamma voltage, an output selecting unit configured to connect an output terminal of the gamma buffer to one of the first gamma line and the second gamma line, and an output resistor unit having a first resistor connected to the first gamma line and a second resistor connected to the second gamma line. The second resistor has a resistance value different from that of the first resistor.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jee Hwal Kim, Ki Ho Kong, In Suk Kim
-
Patent number: 11106289Abstract: A mouse device includes a housing, a switch, a button, and a biasing member. The housing has an accommodating space therein. The switch is disposed in the accommodating space. The button covers the housing and includes a pivotal portion and a trigger portion. The pivotal portion is pivotally connected to the housing. The trigger portion extends into the accommodating space. The biasing member is located between the pivotal portion and the trigger portion and downwardly exerts a force to the button in an upward-downward axial direction of the mouse device.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chin-Sheng Liu, Jung-Hsiu Lee
-
Patent number: 11073898Abstract: Touch detection may include determining, based on data from an IMU on a first device that monitors movement of a touching object, a touch event, wherein the touch event indicates contact between the touching object and a surface, obtaining a depth image captured by a second device, comprising a touch image, determining a touch point of the object based on the touch image, and providing a response based on the touch point of the object and the touched surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lejing Wang, Rohit Sethi
-
Patent number: 11061493Abstract: A mouse roller module includes a roller assembly, a sensing unit and a control unit. The roller assembly includes a stator and a rotator. When the roller assembly is in a first usage mode, the rotator is rotated relative to the stator in response to an applied force of a user. A rotating speed of the rotator relative to the stator is sensed by the sensing unit. If the rotating speed of the rotator relative to the stator reaches a threshold value when the roller assembly is in the first usage mode, the roller assembly is switched form the first usage mode to a second usage mode under control of the control unit. While the first usage mode is switched to the second usage mode, the roller assembly is switched to an enabled state, so that the stator drives rotation of the rotator.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.Inventors: Li-Kuei Cheng, Yung-Ming Tsai, Chun-Che Wu
-
Patent number: 11055918Abstract: A method is provided, including the following operations: presenting on a display device a virtual scene including a virtual character, the display device disposed in a local environment; providing a view of the local environment through a head-mounted display, the view through the head-mounted display including the display device and the virtual scene being presented thereon; animating the virtual character to show the virtual character moving from the virtual scene presented on the display device to the local environment as viewed through the head-mounted display, wherein the animating includes transitioning, from rendering the virtual character as part of the virtual scene presented on the display device, to rendering the virtual character as an augmented element in the view of the local environment provided through the head-mounted display.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Jorge Arroyo Palacios, Steven Osman, Richard Marks
-
Patent number: 11045725Abstract: Controller visualization systems and methods for use in virtual/augmented reality environments such as walk-around virtual reality environments are described. The virtual representation of a physical control device may be altered based on the context of the virtual environment. Certain embodiments combine the virtual rendering of the tracked control device with a real-time video representation of part of the operating space. In certain embodiments, the display of additional information relating to the function of interactive elements may be displayed based on context, such as when a specific action is required from a user in the virtual space.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Valve CorporationInventors: David Sawyer, Tristan Reidford, Yasser Malaika, Alan Yates, Jeremy Selan
-
Patent number: 11048340Abstract: A VR walking mechanism includes a first pedal, a second pedal, a sensing device, a control device and a driving device. The first pedal and the second pedal are connected to the driving device, respectively. The sensing device is configured to obtain motion information of a first object and/or a second object and send the motion information to the control device. The control device determines a predicted landing point of the first object and/or the second object based on the motion information and controls the driving device according to the predicted landing point so as to drive the first pedal and/or the second pedal to move to the corresponding position. The first pedal and/or the second pedal resets after sensing that the first object and/or the second object has stepped thereon. A VR walking method corresponding to the VR walking mechanism is further provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Inventor: Zhaosheng Chen
-
Patent number: 11042289Abstract: An electronic device according to one aspect includes a touch screen including a first key region to which a plurality of first keys are allocated and a second key region to which a plurality of second keys are allocated; and at least one controller configured to execute character input processing based on operations onto the first key detected in the first key region and the second key detected in the second key region of the touch screen, wherein the first key region is a region extending along a first rim of the touch screen, the plurality of the first keys is arranged along the first rim, the second key region is a region extending along a second rim of the touch screen which is different from the first rim, and the plurality of the second keys is arranged along the second rim.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Yushi Nagasaka
-
Patent number: 11029527Abstract: An optical mouse operated with respect to an illuminated surface outside the optical mouse is provided. The optical mouse includes a light source configured to emit a light beam, a light sensor, and a light pipe including a first optical element and a second optical element. The light beam enters the light pipe through the first optical element, and then propagates in the light pipe from the first optical element to the second optical element without reflection, and then leaves the light pipe through the second optical element, and then illuminates the illuminated surface. The light sensor is configured to receive at least a part of the light beam reflected or scattered by the illuminated surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.Inventors: Hun-Kwang Lee, Sai-Mun Lee, Priscilla Tze-Wei Goh, Lye-Pin Chu
-
Patent number: 11030938Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a first driving circuit and a plurality of first pixel units. The first pixel units include an image display region and a light transmissive region, and the image display region is driven by the first driving circuit to provide a corresponding brightness. An opening is formed at an edge of the image display region, the light transmissive region is formed within the opening, and an incident light emitted from an outer side of the display panel passes through the light transmissive region. The image quality of the under-screen camera is improved in term of the pixel density.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Inventors: Mian Zeng, Liang Sun, Shoucheng Wang
-
Patent number: 11024241Abstract: A timing controller may include a first compensator configured to generate second data by optically compensating for first data, based on compensation data, a first compensation memory configured to store the compensation data, a second compensator configured to generate image data by compensating for a lifetime of the second data, based on accumulated data of the second data, and a second compensation memory configured to store the accumulated data and the compensation data.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyun Dae Lee, Seung Hyun Moon, Dong Wook Yang, Bit Na Lee, Hee Chul Hwang
-
Patent number: 11017711Abstract: The present disclosure provides a gate driving circuit and a driving method, and a display device. The gate driving circuit includes: a plurality of first gate driving units, ith first gate driving unit being configured to output a first gate driving signal to ith row of gate line in a display phase; a plurality of first control modules, mth first control module being configured to control mth second gate driving unit to output a second gate driving signal to mth row of gate line in a vertical blanking phase; nth first control module being configured to control nth second gate driving unit not to output the second gate driving signal in the vertical blanking phase; a plurality of second control modules, kth second control module being configured to control kth second gate driving unit not to output the second gate driving signal in the vertical blanking phase.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignees: Hefei Xmsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Can Yuan, Yongqian Li, Zhidong Yuan, Meng Li