Patents Examined by Brent D Castiaux
  • Patent number: 11790816
    Abstract: A sensor integrated circuit (IC) employing opposite facing ambient light sensor and proximity sensor, and related electronic devices and fabrication methods. As an example, the sensor IC can be integrated into an electronic device (e.g., a wearable device) to detect the proximity of a user and ambient light to control functions of the electronic device. To provide for the proximity sensor and the ambient light sensor to disposed in the sensor IC face outward in different (e.g., opposite) directions in a package to align towards a user and the user's experience of ambient light, the proximity sensor and the ambient light sensor are disposed on different sides of the sensor IC. In this manner, the ambient light sensor can be facing in the direction of ambient light perceived by a user of the electronic device, and the proximity sensor detect the user from a different side of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Venkatesh Sadineni, Prachir Puri, Veera Venkata Charan Junnu
  • Patent number: 11790828
    Abstract: A control method for a display apparatus includes receiving a first control signal transmitted from a first terminal and a second control signal transmitted from a second terminal, storing priority information in which data showing that the second control signal has lower priority than the first control signal is recorded, and, when processing by the first control signal and processing by the second control signal are incompatible with each other, preferentially executing the processing by the first control signal according to the priority information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Koya Kokubo
  • Patent number: 11790873
    Abstract: An electronic display may include a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit may include memory storage to store data values representative of image data to be depicted via the pixel circuit. The memory storage may also include memory components for storing bits of the data value. The pixel circuit may also include a light-emitting device for emitting light based at least in part on the data value and a controller. The controller may receive the data value and store the bits based on a mapping between the bits and the memory components. The mapping may be determined based on routing one or more of the bits associated with one or more defective memory components of the memory components to one or more other memory components of the memory components. The controller may also drive the light-emitting device to emit light based on the bits stored in accordance with the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley Bo-Ting Wang, Derek Keith Shaeffer, Ivan Knez, Jose Antonio Dominguez-Caballero, Tien-Chien Kuo
  • Patent number: 11789688
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for presenting content based on environmental data. In various implementations, a device includes a display, a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the display and the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining environmental data associated with a physical environment in which the device is located. In some implementations, the method includes selecting, from a plurality of presentation modes, a first presentation mode for content based on the environmental data. In some implementations, the method includes presenting the content in accordance with the first presentation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Shruti Singhal, Pal Kristian Engstad, Tobias Eble, Norman Nuo Wang, Ivan Gavrenkov, Olivier Denis Roger Gutknecht, Sabine Webel
  • Patent number: 11774653
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wavelength conversion film including at least two or more dyes and absorbing irradiation light to emit light at a longer wavelength than that of the irradiation light. The wavelength conversion film includes a first dye having a maximum absorption wavelength in a red light region, and a second dye absorbing excitation energy of the first dye to emit light in a near infrared region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Mio Watanabe, Kenichi Tabata, Ryo Nakabayashi, Yasuo Miyata
  • Patent number: 11769463
    Abstract: A video streaming transmission system and a transmitter device are provided. The video streaming transmission system includes a receiver device and a transmitter device. The receiver device is coupled to a display module. The transmitter device is coupled to an image providing device through a transmission line. The transmitter device includes a processing unit, a storage unit, and a wireless communication module. The storage unit is coupled to the processing unit. The wireless communication module is coupled to the processing unit, and is coupled to the receiver device in a wireless communication manner. The processing unit generates virtual extended display identification data and stores them in the storage unit, and provides the virtual extended display identification data to the image providing device through the transmission line, so that the image providing device recognizes multiple virtual displays coupled thereto, and outputs multiple video streams through the transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: BENQ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chen-Chi Wu, Chun-Han Lin, Chia-Nan Shih, Chin-Fu Chiang, Jung-Kun Tseng, Chuang-Wei Wu
  • Patent number: 11763773
    Abstract: A computer device and a multi-computer system are provided. The computer device includes a central processing unit (CPU), a wireless connection circuit, and a switch circuit. The CPU is coupled to a display to provide an enabling display signal to the display according to a hot plug detection signal provided from the display. The wireless connection circuit receives one of a wireless connection signal and a wireless disconnection signal from a wireless input device. The switch circuit is coupled between the display and the CPU and coupled to the wireless connection circuit. The switch circuit provides the hot plug detection signal to the CPU when the wireless connection circuit receives the wireless connection signal, and masks the hot plug detection signal from the CPU when the wireless connection circuit receives the wireless disconnection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Kai-Peng Chung, Chin-Chang Chang
  • Patent number: 11731513
    Abstract: A display control device includes a processor. The processor acquires a vehicle state, and displays, at spatial coordinates set above an instrument panel in a vehicle cabin, a predetermined icon corresponding to the vehicle state via a lens that is able to be attached to an eyeball of an occupant. Thus, the occupant can grasp the vehicle state without having the vehicle condition displayed on a display in a vehicle cabin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaki Kato
  • Patent number: 11735095
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes an input/output interface connected to a source apparatus, a display, and a processor configured to, based on detecting that the source apparatus is connected through the input/output interface, receive identification information of the source apparatus from the source apparatus, and based on the received identification information of the source apparatus, control the display to display a user interface (UI) for changing a resolution, and based on receiving a user input for changing a resolution through the displayed UI, identify whether the source apparatus can transmit a content of the resolution corresponding to the user input based on the identification information of the source apparatus, and based on identifying that the source apparatus can transmit a content of the resolution corresponding to the user input, transmit a signal requesting the content of the resolution corresponding to the user input to the source apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gaewon Seo, Sungchang Jang
  • Patent number: 11735094
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provides a display device for automatically recognizing an external device connected to external input terminals, the display device receiving pieces of control information about external devices connected to the same Internet, and then sensing whether a change in the output images occurs during the transmission of a control signal by using the pieces of received control information, while sequentially outputting images received from the external input terminals, thereby recognizing the external device connected to the input terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyungryun Lee, Miyeon Kwon, Seongwoon Seol, Sangjin Ahn
  • Patent number: 11730915
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image display method and an image display system for alleviating motion sickness. The image display method includes: obtaining a number of shock and speed information of a transportation; comparing at least one of the shock and speed information with one or more than one corresponding threshold to determine whether motion sickness occurs; and in response to the determination that motion sickness occurs, positioning a position of a first image displayed on a display unit according to the shock and speed information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Wei-Lin Hsu, Hong-Ming Dai
  • Patent number: 11720314
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display presenting content. A communication device is electronically in communication with a content presentation companion device operating as a primary display for the electronic device. The communication device receives signals indicating a geometric orientation of the content presentation companion device in three-dimensional space. One or more processors alter the content being presented on the display to obtain altered content configured in accordance with one or more content input parameters required for content presentation on the content presentation companion and defined by the geometric orientation of the content presentation companion device in the three-dimensional space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Daniel M Vacura, Bill Ryan, Amit Kumar Agrawal, Jeffrey S Vanhoof
  • Patent number: 11720218
    Abstract: To provide a highly browsable data processing device or a highly portable data processing device, a data processing device including the following is devised: an input/output unit provided with a display portion which can be folded and unfolded and a sensor portion that can sense the folded and unfolded states of the display portion and can supply data on fold, and an arithmetic unit that stores a program for executing different processing depending on the data on fold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11718177
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer readable storage media provide a flexible and variability-accommodating instrument cluster for display on an in-vehicle screen and a user experience interaction model for providing dynamic driving-context-relevant information via the instrument cluster. The instrument cluster may be shown in a contextual content view, wherein the contextual content view may include a one or more gauges and/or messaging that are determined to be relevant to a determined contextual state of the vehicle. The contextual state of the vehicle may be determined based on signaling data provided by a plurality of data sources, wherein the signaling data may indicate one or a combination of conditions associated with the contextual state. The instrument cluster may be dynamically updated to display the driving-context-relevant information when the contextual state is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: PACCAR, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Karl Jahns, Ryan Anthony Reed, Jonathan Scott Duncan, Josef Lotz, Kevin James Allen, Jerrold Adam Regan, Christina Nenke, Marc George Wilczak, Nicole Johnson
  • Patent number: 11715442
    Abstract: A video input interface receives video data. An OSD circuit draws an intermediate layer in a target region in which an OSD character is to be overlaid on the video data, and overlays the OSD character on the intermediate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroharu Endo
  • Patent number: 11711621
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes: a display device including a plurality of light-emitting elements for displaying an optical image on a front side of the display device; an illumination element integrated into the display device and configured to emit light for illuminating a scene in front of the front side of the display device; an optical sensor configured to sense reflections of the light from the scene; an optical transmitter configured to transmit an optical control signal encoded with control information for controlling light emission by the illumination element; and an optical receiver integrated into the display device and configured to receive the optical control signal and generate an electrical control signal based on the optical control signal. The electronic device further includes a driver circuit integrated into the display device and configured to drive the illumination element based on the electrical control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Hannes Plank, Markus Dielacher, Martin Flatscher, Heinrich Guenther Heiss, Robert Lobnik, Armin Josef Schoenlieb
  • Patent number: 11699250
    Abstract: A method for low visibility driving includes receiving image data from a visible-light camera. The image data includes an image of an area in front of a vehicle. The method includes receiving sensor data from an object-detecting sensor. The object-detecting sensor is configured to detect an object in front of the vehicle. The sensor data includes information about the object in front of the vehicle. The method further includes detecting the object in front of the vehicle using the sensor data received from the object-detecting sensor and determining whether the visible-light camera is unable to detect the object in front of the vehicle that was detected by the object-detecting sensor. The method further includes commanding a display to generate a virtual image using the sensor data to identify the object in front of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Morgan Lee McCann, Joseph F. Szczerba, John P. Weiss, Kai-Han Chang, Thomas A. Seder
  • Patent number: 11699368
    Abstract: A head-up display for displaying graphics upon a windscreen of a vehicle includes a graphic projection module for generating one or more graphic images upon the windscreen of the vehicle, a forward-facing camera collecting image data representative of a view of a surrounding environment of the vehicle visible through the windscreen, an ambient light sensor detecting a level of ambient light present in the surrounding environment of the vehicle, and one or more controllers in electronic communication with the graphic projection module, the forward-facing camera, and the ambient light sensor. The one or more controllers executes instructions to determine the level of ambient light present in the surrounding environment of the vehicle based on an ambient light signal, and adjusts a saturation level of one or more colors of the one or more graphic images generated by the graphic projection module based on the level of ambient light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Kai-Han Chang, Thomas A. Seder
  • Patent number: 11686938
    Abstract: An augmented reality device for providing three-dimensional (3D) augmented reality and an operation method of the same are provided. The augmented reality device includes a multi-view picture generation unit configured to generate a multi-view picture including single-view images having respective individual characteristics, and generate an exit pupil including the generated multi-view picture, a waveguide configured to replicate the exit pupil generated by the multi-view picture generation unit, and an eyebox viewing zone generation unit configured to separate the single-view images based on the individual characteristics, and generate a three-dimensional (3D) image by outputting the single-view images in viewing zones in an eyebox corresponding to views of the single-view images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Aleksander Victorovich Morozov, Igor Vitalievich Yanusik, Anastasiia Andreevna Kalinina, Jinho Lee
  • Patent number: 11686983
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes display unit comprising common electrodes two dimensionally arrayed on substrate, drive signal lines configured to transmit drive signals for touch detection to common electrodes, and switch circuit comprising transistors connected to drive signal lines to select at least one common electrode; flexible substrate connected to substrate; pads at connections of flexible substrate and substrate; and touch detection circuit configured to transmit drive signals to common electrodes, wherein: transistors comprises: first transistor connected to first electrode of common electrodes via first wiring of first length; and second transistor connected to second electrode of common electrodes via second wiring of second length; channel width of first transistor is narrower than channel width of second transistor; drive signal lines are respectively connected to pads separated at two or more positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Gen Koide