Patents Examined by Chineyere D Wills-Burns
  • Patent number: 11972085
    Abstract: A touchscreen display includes one or more conductive layers that is implemented for a touch sensor and a common portion. The touch screen display may include as few as one conductive layer that is partitioned for both the touch sensor and the common portion in some examples. A first conductor of the touch sensor is composed of first segments(s) that are electrically connected, and a second conductor of the touch sensor is composed of a second segments(s) that are electrically connected. Also, the common portion includes a third conductor. Drive-sense circuits (DSCs) are respectively implemented to service the conductors and to generate digital signals representative of electrical characteristics of signals provided to those conductors. Processing module(s) is/are configured to execute operational instructions to process the digital signals to facilitate operation of the touchscreen display including to detect presence, interaction, and/or gestures, etc. of a user with the touchscreen display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Patrick Troy Gray
  • Patent number: 11967274
    Abstract: A display substrate includes a first display region, a second display region, and a frame region. Light-emitting devices include first light-emitting devices in the first display region and second light-emitting devices in the second display region. Pixel drive circuits include first pixel drive circuits in the frame region and second pixel drive circuits in the second display region. The first pixel drive circuits are electrically connected to the first light-emitting devices. The second pixel drive circuits are electrically connected to the second light-emitting devices. Each of shift registers cascaded in the frame region is connected to the first pixel drive circuits and the second pixel drive circuits which are electrically connected to one row of first light-emitting devices and the same one row of second light-emitting devices respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiwei Wang, Kaipeng Sun, Jianchang Cai, Chao Wu, Yuanjie Xu, Yao Huang
  • Patent number: 11963429
    Abstract: A display module (10) includes: a display panel (12) and a circuit board (14) coupled to the display panel (12). The display panel (12) includes a driving chip (122) and a display unit (124); and the circuit board (14) includes a first filter element (142), wherein the first filter element (142) is coupled to the driving chip (122) and the display unit (124), and a direct current signal output by the driving chip (122) is filtered by the first filter element (142) and then transmitted to the display unit (124). The present disclosure also provides a display apparatus (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Wang, Yi Zhang, Tingliang Liu, Tinghua Shang, Huijuan Yang, Yang Zhou, Pengfei Yu, Linhong Han, Hao Zhang, Xiaofeng Jiang, Huijun Li
  • Patent number: 11953695
    Abstract: It is provided the wearable electronic device including a skeletal member comprising a temple, a frame, and a bridge; a display fixed to the temple and configured to output visible light corresponding to a virtual image; a beam steering member comprising a liquid crystal and configured to adjust a direction of the visible light traveling from an exit pupil of the display to an input grating of an optical waveguide using the liquid crystal; the optical waveguide configured to adjust a path of the visible light and output the virtual image; an infrared output unit configured to output infrared light for tracking a gaze of a user; an infrared sensor configured to detect infrared light reflected from a pupil of the user; a bend sensor connected to the temple and the frame to measure a first bending state between the temple and the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungbin Hong, Yonghyun Park, Jongmin Yoon, Seungnyun Kim, Heonjun Ha, Junghee Hwang
  • Patent number: 11947119
    Abstract: A display control device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires right hand position information indicating a position of a right hand of a user and left hand position information indicating a position of a left hand of the user of a head mounted display; and a display control unit that: controls the head mounted display to arrange a virtual object having a certain size at the position of the right hand and the position of the left hand based on of the right hand position information and the left hand position information; and controls the head mounted display to change a position of the virtual object independently of a change in a distance between a right hand and a left hand while maintaining a display state of the virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro Sato, Yasutaka Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 11947122
    Abstract: A tracking system for use in head-mounted device (HMD) includes light sources arranged spatially around user-interaction controller(s); controller-pose-tracking means arranged in user-interaction controller(s); HMD-pose-tracking means; camera(s) arranged on portion of HMD that faces real-world environment in which HMD is in use; and processor(s) configured to estimate relative pose, based on controller-pose-tracking data and HMD-pose-tracking data; determine sub-set of light sources, based on estimated relative pose and arrangement of light sources; selectively control light sources such that light sources of sub-set are activated, whereas remaining light sources are deactivated; process at least one image, captured by camera(s), to identify operational state of light source(s) of sub-set that is visible in image(s), wherein image(s) is indicative of actual relative pose; and correct estimated relative pose to determine actual relative pose, based on operational state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Varjo Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Roman Golovanov, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Juha Ala-Luhtala
  • Patent number: 11941182
    Abstract: A housing of an example of an electronic apparatus has a top surface and a bottom surface and has a flat shape. A power supply section having a flat shape is a power supply section, which is a housing case capable of accommodating a battery or is a battery, and the power supply section is provided at a position inside the housing that intersects with a reference plane perpendicular to the up-down direction. A first substrate is provided parallel to the reference plane on the top surface side relative to the power supply section. A second substrate is provided parallel to the reference plane on the bottom surface side relative to the power supply section. The electronic apparatus includes at least one of a vibrator and a speaker at a position that intersects with the reference plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wakana Ohori, Kazuhiro Maruyama, Yoshitaka Tamura, Masaya Takei, Takahiro Sato, Koji Saito, Mitsuru Katayama
  • Patent number: 11933974
    Abstract: An object is to provide an electronic device capable of recognizing a user's facial feature accurately. A glasses-type electronic device includes a first optical component, a second optical component, a frame, an imaging device, a feature extraction unit, and an emotion estimation unit. The frame is in contact with a side surface of the first optical component and a side surface of the second optical component. The imaging device is in contact with the frame and has a function of detecting part of a user's face. The feature extraction unit has a function of extracting a feature of the user's face from the detected part of the user's face. The emotion estimation unit has a function of estimating information on the user from the extracted feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Takayuki Ikeda, Hidetomo Kobayashi, Hideaki Shishido, Kiyotaka Kimura, Takashi Nakagawa, Kosei Nei, Kentaro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11928993
    Abstract: A display device and a display method therefor. The display device includes: a display panel (10), including a base substrate (101) and a plurality of pixel islands (102) located on the base substrate (101), each of the pixel islands (102) including a plurality of sub-pixels (p) arranged in a first direction (x) and a second direction (y), in the pixel island (102), a row of sub-pixels (p) arranged in the first direction (x) having the same color, and a row of sub-pixels (p) arranged in the second direction (y) having mutually different colors; and a light splitting device (20) located at a display surface side of the display panel (10) and configured to deflect part of light emitted by the display panel (10) to a first region, and deflect the other part of light to a second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunmiao Zhou, Kuanjun Peng, Tao Hong
  • Patent number: 11929001
    Abstract: A method and a device are provided. The device includes a light-measuring sensor, a display, a memory, and at least one processor operatively connected to the light-measuring sensor, the display, and the memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to analyze the frequency of an external light source, obtain an operation period of the display, obtain a ratio of an off period of time of the display on the basis of the operation period, and calculate illuminance by using different algorithms on the basis of the relationship between the frequency of the external light source and the operation period and the ratio of the off period of time of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongah Kim, Kyusung Kim, Jeongho Cho, Heewoong Yoon, Kihyuk Lee, Donghan Lee, Gwangho Choi
  • Patent number: 11927757
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display panel with an array of display pixels. Light from the display panel may be focused by a lens assembly towards a viewer. The presence of the lens assembly may cause geometric distortion for a viewer viewing images on the display through the lens assembly. To mitigate geometric distortion, geometric distortion compensation may be performed in the electronic device. The electronic device may include both a fixed lens element and a removable lens element in the lens assembly. The removable lens element may be changed, allowing the distortion function associated with the lens assembly to change over time. To dynamically compensate for geometric distortion caused by a lens assembly with a removable lens, ray tracing may be used to determine the geometric distortion caused by the lens assembly depending upon the particular removable lens that is present in the lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Milad Akhlaghi Bouzan, William W Sprague, Anup Rathi, Duncan A McRoberts, Tahereh Majdi
  • Patent number: 11921922
    Abstract: A system for brain-based digital menu selection includes an acquisition device to obtain one or more electrical signals corresponding to an operator's brain response, a stimulation generation device to generate a first stimulus with one or more target options based on the operator triggering the system, a first database including a first classification model, and processor. The processor receives a first response from the acquisition device corresponding to an operator's brain response to the first stimulus with the one or more target options, determines a probability of intended target, when the probability of intended target option is higher than a predefined confidence threshold value, selecting the intended target option and presenting a second stimulus, or executing a final action, according to the selected target option, and storing the first response and the selected target option in the first database with a classification identifier identifying the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE, CAMLIN ITALY S.R.L.
    Inventors: Jonas Ambeck-Madsen, Andrea Bellotti, Luca Ascari, Sergey Antopolskiy, Pietro Avanzini, Alessia Colucciello, Anna Marchenkova, Giovanni Vecchiato
  • Patent number: 11921289
    Abstract: A personal display device for displaying virtual images to a wearer. The personal display device includes a frame having a right temple section, a left temple section, a right rear section, a left rear section, a right eye see-through section, and a left eye see-through section; a projection display device connected to the frame for projecting an image to the wearer; at least one waveguide stack module connected to the frame for propagating image-bearing light beams along a length of the at least one waveguide stack module, the at least one waveguide stack module being configured to receive the image from the projection display device and detected touch motions of the wearer sensed by the touchpad including sensing directions of the touch motions of the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Vuzix Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Travers, Tyler Porter, Robert Schultz, Gregory Moens, Connor Hack, Adalberto Perez Reyes, Kevin Lloyd, Marc J. Krolczyk, Michael J. Telek, Paul A. Boris, Robert W. Gray, Alexander Kelly
  • Patent number: 11914153
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing a screen by using a device are provided. The method includes obtaining, at the second device, a display screen displayed on the first device and information related to the display screen according to a screen display request regarding the first device, determining, at the second device, an additional screen based on the display screen on the first device and the information related to the display screen, and displaying the additional screen near the display screen on the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myung-sik Kim, Su-jung Bae, Moon-sik Jeong, Sung-do Choi
  • Patent number: 11908361
    Abstract: The display device is provided with a degree-of-degradation calculating circuit that determines a degree of degradation representing a level of degradation of a compensation-target circuit element included in each of K pixel circuits which are some or all of a plurality of pixel circuits; a variation coefficient calculating circuit that calculates, as a variation coefficient, a value depending on a deviation determined based on degrees of degradation of the K pixel circuits; a reference luminance setting circuit that sets, based on the variation coefficient, reference luminance for determining display luminance of each display element after degradation compensation; and a compensation computing circuit that compensates for degradation of the compensation-target circuit elements by correcting input video signals based on the reference luminance and the degree of degradation of each of the K pixel circuits, upon generating video signals to be supplied to the plurality of pixel circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Furukawa, Chie Toridono, Masafumi Ueno
  • Patent number: 11906749
    Abstract: AR glasses are provided with left and right temples extending well behind the ears of the wearer to establish a center of gravity of the glasses that is approximately vertically above the front portion of the ears of the wearer. Rear segments the temples may be detachably engaged with the temples and may hold one or more electrical components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Naoki Ogishita, Jeffrey R. Stafford, Koichi Obana
  • Patent number: 11899203
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a design method of a coupling-out grating and the design method including: calculating a diffraction coupling-in angle, at which a light beam is diffracted and coupled into the optical waveguide body through the coupling-in grating, according to an angle at which the light beam is incident to the coupling-in grating, a wavelength of the light beam and a grating period of the coupling-in grating; calculating a distance between two adjacent coupling-out positions of the light beam; calculating a brightness difference rate of the light beam after being coupled out multiple times through the coupling-out grating according to the maximum diffraction efficiency of the coupling-out grating; and calculating the number of partitions of the coupling-out grating according to a length of the coupling-out grating, a sensitivity of a human eye to the light beam, the brightness difference rate, and the distance between the two adjacent coupling-out positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: JIAXING UPHOTON OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xingming Zhao, Zhentao Fan, Qingfeng Zhu, Lei Sui, Kehan Tian
  • Patent number: 11900875
    Abstract: A display substrate, a preparation method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes: a substrate, and a drive structure layer and a light-emitting structure layer that are sequentially stacked on the substrate and located in a display region. The display substrate further includes: M rows of scanning signal lines and M rows of light-emitting signal lines. The light-emitting structure layer includes: M rows and N columns of light-emitting structures. The drive structure layer includes: a pixel circuit array and a drive circuit array that extend in a column direction. The pixel circuit array and the drive circuit array are sequentially arranged in a row direction. The pixel circuit array includes: M rows and N columns of pixel circuits, and the pixel circuits are in one-to-one correspondence with the light-emitting structures and electrically connected to corresponding light-emitting structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenbo Chen, Tiaomei Zhang, Hong Yi, Qingqing Yan
  • Patent number: 11875725
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel according to an embodiment of the present application includes a plurality of pixels, a timing controller configured to receive a compensation command signal in a vertical blank period in which no image data are written in the pixels, and a sensing circuit configured to sense driving properties of the pixels in at least one sensing period corresponding to the compensation command signal, wherein a length of the vertical blank period is different from each other in a first frame and a second frame, and a number of sensing periods having a predetermined length varies depending on the length of the vertical blank period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Cho, Kyoung Sik Choi
  • Patent number: 11868541
    Abstract: An optical detection device includes a substrate, a housing, an optical modulating component, an optical sensor and a cover. The housing is disposed on the substrate and includes a first aperture. The housing is unvaried due to inspection standard or design requirement of the optical detection device. The optical modulating component is disposed on the housing and aligning with the first aperture. The optical sensor is disposed on the substrate and adapted to receive an optical signal passing through the optical modulating component and the first aperture. The cover is disposed on the housing to cover the first aperture. The cover is replaceable for attaching the cover varied for the inspection standard or the design requirement to the unvaried housing in response to a surface of the cover opposite to the housing matched and engaged with a light penetrating area on the optical navigation apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventor: Wei-Chung Wang