Patents Examined by Brent D Castiaux
  • Patent number: 11893958
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to receive a brightness setting for each region of a deformable continuous display surface through a user instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kengo Tokuchi
  • Patent number: 11893966
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving operating characteristics of displays such as liquid crystal on silicon displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen John Hart, Rock Edward Kent, Howard V. Goetz, James L. Sanford, Nicholas W. Melena
  • Patent number: 11880503
    Abstract: A system and method for predicting an estimated head pose solution of a head worn display (HWD) at a future time selects or determines, for each HWD rotational axis, a relative angular rate of a head reference frame relative to a body reference frame. By sampling the relative angular rate, a relative angular acceleration is determined. Based on a projection time associated with estimated display latency, angular increment vectors for each rotational axis are determined for relative angular rate and relative angular acceleration. The current head pose solution is adjusted with respect to one or more axes based on the angular increment vectors to project the head pose estimate ahead based on the projection time, the resulting projected head pose solution corresponding to a predicted orientation of the head frame relative to the body frame at the future time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Gavin P. Haentjens, Christopher M. Boggs, Troy D. Driscoll, William T. Kirchner, Brandon E. Wilson
  • Patent number: 11875761
    Abstract: A display driving circuit includes a frame rate extractor configured to receive a vertical synchronization signal indicating a start of a k-th frame, k-th frame data including information about the k-th frame, and a data enable signal indicating an active period of the k-th frame and a variable blank period that occurs after the active period, and extract a frame rate of the k-th frame, based on the vertical synchronization signal; and an image corrector configured to correct frame data received after reception of the k-th frame data, based on the frame rate of the k-th frame, and output the corrected frame data as output image data, wherein the vertical synchronization signal is received before a start time point of the active period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyuchan Lee, Pureum Ryoo, Hyoungpyo Lee, Junghyun Lim
  • Patent number: 11869443
    Abstract: There are provided a gate driver and a display device including the same. The gate driver includes: a first scan driver; a first sensing driver; a first scan clock line; and a first sensing clock line. The first scan clock line includes a first scan clock main line extending in one direction, and a first scan clock connection line connected to the first scan clock main line and the first scan driver. The first sensing clock line includes a first sensing clock main line extending in one direction, and a first sensing clock connection line connected to the first sensing clock main line and the first sensing driver. The first scan clock main line is closer to each of the first scan driver and the first sensing driver than the first sensing clock main line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Hyun Park, Dong Woo Kim, An Su Lee, Kang Moon Jo
  • Patent number: 11861077
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to interacting with an electronic device without touching a display screen or other physical input mechanisms. In some examples, the electronic device performs an operation in response to a positioning of a user's hand and/or an orientation of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Lukas Robert Tom Girling, Julian Missig, Golnaz Abdollahian
  • Patent number: 11862216
    Abstract: A shift register, comprising an input circuit, a first control circuit, a second control circuit and an output circuit. The input circuit is configured to transmit a first voltage signal from a first voltage signal terminal to a first node under the control of an input signal from a signal input terminal. The first control circuit is configured to transmit a second voltage signal from a second voltage signal terminal to a second node under the control of a first clock signal from a first clock signal terminal and the voltage of the first node. The second control circuit is configured to transmit a second clock signal from a second clock signal terminal to a third node under the control of the voltage of the second node. The output circuit is configured to transmit the first voltage signal from the first voltage signal terminal to a scan signal output terminal under the control of the voltage of the third node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhu Wang, Ling Shi, Yipeng Chen, Hui Lu, Zhenglong Yan, Changchang Liu, Ke Liu
  • Patent number: 11860360
    Abstract: A display apparatus, a head-up display and a motor vehicle are provided. The display apparatus includes a projector device, a reflector structure and a light beam diffuser structure. Light emitted from the projector device passes through the light beam diffuser structure, is reflected by the reflector structure, and then reaches a first predetermined region; the light beam diffuser structure is configured to diffuse a light beam passing through the light beam diffuser structure; the reflector structure is configured to reflect the light emitted from the projector device and the light reflected by the plurality of sub-reflector structures reaches a second predetermined region within the first predetermined region if the light beam diffuser structure is removed from an optical path from the projector device to the first predetermined region, and an area of the second predetermined region is smaller than an area of the first predetermined region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUTURUS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junfeng Xu, Tao Fang, Huijun Wu
  • Patent number: 11852818
    Abstract: Disclosed is a thin near-to-eye display device with a large field of view angle. Two or more radial reflection units are adopted to be arranged in front of human eyes, and a large-area image is projected and formed on the retina of the human eyes, so that a near-to-eye display effect of the large field of view angle is achieved in a thin volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING ANTVR TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zheng Qin
  • Patent number: 11852828
    Abstract: A method for measuring performance of a head-mounted display module, the method including arranging the head-mounted display module relative to a plenoptic camera assembly so that an exit pupil of the head-mounted display module coincides with a pupil of the plenoptic camera assembly; emitting light from the head-mounted display module while the head-mounted display module is arranged relative to the plenoptic camera assembly; filtering the light at the exit pupil of the head-mounted display module; acquiring, with the plenoptic camera assembly, one or more light field images projected from the head-mounted display module with the filtered light; and determining information about the performance of the head-mounted display module based on acquired light field image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Miller Harry Schuck, III
  • Patent number: 11846781
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a thin type large field of view near-eye display device, which comprises two or more radial reflection units, which are arranged in front of human eyes to generate two or more sub-images and spliced into a larger image on the retina of human eyes, so as to realize a near-eye display effect with a large field of view in a thinner volume; the radial reflection units comprise a light source, a reflecting surface, a transmissive dioptric apparatus and/or a reflective optical component, and the present invention relates to the technical field of near-eye display devices. The thin type large field of view near-eye display device realizes the nesting of images with various definitions by adopting different areas of the same screen, and is widely used as a low-cost display solution to improve the definition of the central area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING ANTVR TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zheng Qin
  • Patent number: 11837122
    Abstract: A method of controlling a display device includes starting, by a first wireless communicator, first near field wireless communication with induced electricity, receiving configuration information using the first near field wireless communication, starting second near field wireless communication with another display device via a second wireless communicator based on the induced electricity, and transmitting the configuration information using the second near field wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Yoshii, Toru Shinomiya
  • Patent number: 11836978
    Abstract: A related information output apparatus 1 includes an acquisition unit 10 that acquires a captured image, a recognition unit 12 that recognizes one or more objects included in the captured image acquired by the acquisition unit 10, and an output unit 13 that outputs related information related to the objects recognized by the recognition unit 12. The output unit 13 may output the related information based on a combination of a plurality of the objects recognized by the recognition unit 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoonok Heo, Kevin Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11829225
    Abstract: Embodiments may include systems, techniques, methods, apparatus and/or device to receive an input selecting one or more areas of a display of the computing device, leaving one or more other areas of the display unselected, and to apply a masking layer to mask either pixels of the one or more selected areas or pixels of the one or more unselected areas to cause the masked pixels to be dimmed, to reduce power consumption by the display. Embodiments may further include where the one or more of the selected areas include a focus area of interest, and to apply the masking layer to mask pixels of the one or more unselected areas to cause the masked pixels to be dimmed. Embodiments may be implemented via software without directly interacting with hardware. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Lunkai Zou, Hua-Mei Yang, Yiming He, Feng-Ming Yang, Ajay Saini, Ahmed Omer
  • Patent number: 11817037
    Abstract: A method of controlling a vehicle headlamp that includes a plurality of LEDs may comprise receiving video images at a first frame rate; storing the video images in a memory at the first frame rate; receiving offset data associated with the video images; defining sub-images based on the offset data and the video images; and driving the plurality of LEDs to present the sub-images at a second frame rate, wherein the second frame rate is faster than the first frame rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Gernot Unterweger, Adolfo De Cicco
  • Patent number: 11816862
    Abstract: A head-up display device as a vehicle display device projects display light onto a front windshield of a vehicle, displays a virtual image by reflected display light, on the front windshield, so as to be superimposed on a real scene transparent through the front windshield, captures an image of a driver of the vehicle by projecting infrared light onto the driver, and detects the positions of the eyes of the driver based on the captured image. A control unit detects the position of a feature point of the face of the driver in the captured image and stores a positional relationship with the detected positions of the eyes, and, when it is difficult to detect the positions of the eyes in die captured image, estimates a viewpoint position of the driver based on the position of the feature point detected at this time and the positional relationship stored beforehand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Hada
  • Patent number: 11812200
    Abstract: A head-up display apparatus projects a plurality of virtual images of which depths perceived by a user are different from each other. The head-up display apparatus includes a first projection apparatus and a second projection apparatus. The first projection apparatus includes a first display-light emitting unit configured to emit first display light, and a concave mirror configured to reflect the first display light and thereby emit reflected light thereof, and is configured to enable the user to perceive a first virtual image by projecting the reflected light onto a virtual-image display unit. The second projection apparatus includes a second display-light generation unit configured to let the reflected light pass therethrough and generate second display light different from the first display light, and is configured to enable the user to perceive a second virtual image by projecting the generated second display light onto the virtual-image display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ken Kawamura
  • Patent number: 11796822
    Abstract: A modular sensor and display module comprises an enclosure with a rigid frame and front and back visor lens encapsulating sensors, waveguide optics, and display/projection devices that provide various functions for a typical head-mounted device. A front visor may conceal sensors and other components and may further provide dimming for holographic displays. The modular sensor and display module may include a standard interface for attachment to various fit systems, including, for example, headband, VR headset, glasses temples, helmet, and the like. A further module, such as a rear-attachment module, may be provided that can provide auxiliary compute, storage, and power resources for the modular sensor and display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Nicolas Denhez, Paul Andrew Bosveld, Louis Berger, Young Duk Song, Erik Holverson, Eric Witt
  • Patent number: 11796384
    Abstract: An optical sensing module, including a frame, a light sensing element, and a diffusion element is provided. The light sensing element is disposed on the frame. The diffusion element is connected to the frame and is disposed above the light sensing element. In a first sensing mode, ambient light passes through the diffusion element before received by the light sensing element to make the optical sensing module to obtain light intensity of the ambient light. In a second sensing mode, the optical sensing module rotates around a first rotation axis to make the light sensing element face a display surface of the display device for receiving image light of the display surface so that the optical sensing module obtains brightness or chromaticity of the display device. A display device having this optical sensing module is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: CHAMP VISION DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Kuo-Lung Lin, Yi-Wen Lin, Chen-Tsun Juan, Hsin-Hung Lee, Ching-Hung Chen
  • Patent number: 11792373
    Abstract: A display method includes, when making a plurality of projectors including a first projector project projection light to display a single image, the steps of trying, by the first projector, to obtain first position information representing the projector corresponding to an installation position of the first projector, judging, by the first projector, whether or not first multi-configuration information corresponding to the first position information is stored when the first position information is obtained, and displaying, by the first projector, a first portion of the single image based on the first multi-configuration information when it is judged that the first multi-configuration information is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Kawada