Patents Examined by Christopher E Leiby
  • Patent number: 11440407
    Abstract: A non-contact operating apparatus, for a vehicle, includes a generating unit, a projecting device, an operation detecting device, an operation determining unit, and a motion detecting device. The generating unit is configured to generate and update an image containing an image object. The image object is operable by an occupant present within a vehicle compartment. The projecting device is configured to project the image in a predetermined display region. The operation detecting device is configured to detect an operation site of the occupant. The motion detecting device is configured to detect motion of the vehicle. The operation determining unit is configured to adjust a detection result of the operation detecting device to suppress the motion of the occupant on the basis of a detection result of the motion detecting device, and determine presence or absence of the operation against the image object by the operation site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Sase, Takemi Oguri, Tomoyuki Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11436956
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a head-up display (HUD) including a photosensor for measuring the illuminance of incoming light and a light shutter in order to protect an imaging element vulnerable to thermal damage from sunlight reaching from the outside, and a method including setting the HUD protection mode by operating the light shutter, determining whether to release the HUD protection mode by estimating the change in the incident angle of the incoming light from the change in the vehicle orientation angle instead of using the photosensor incapable of measuring the light as the incoming light is blocked and additionally determining whether to release the HUD protection mode based on vehicle information including vehicle location, navigation map information, the brightness of surroundings of the vehicle, and rain sensor detection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hak Yong Seo
  • Patent number: 11416199
    Abstract: A system for displaying information is intended to be incorporated in a motor vehicle including at least a dashboard, a central console, a display screen on the central façade and a front windscreen. The display system includes a manual or automatic selection device for selecting among at least three display modes each containing information, being progressively off-centre with respect to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignees: Renault s.a.s., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eric Enregle
  • Patent number: 11417271
    Abstract: A brightness adjustment method of a display panel, a display panel and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The display panel includes a display region. The brightness adjustment method includes: determining a target pulse width for a gate signal inputted into the display region according to data write time determined for the display region; and adjusting a pulse width of the gate signal to the target pulse width, to make the display region display target brightness corresponding to the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Yu, Chuanyan Lan, Lixia Shen, Xiaohuan Chang
  • Patent number: 11409104
    Abstract: Data characterizing a relative arrangement of vehicle occupants with respect to one another are continuously transmitted to display devices worn on the heads of the vehicle occupants. Virtual environments are displayed as a function of these data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marcus Kühne, Nils Wollny
  • Patent number: 11407309
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle controlling apparatus for controlling a vehicle having a display. The vehicle controlling apparatus includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with the display; and a processor configured to set at least one region among an entire region of the display as a display region, based on a sight line range changed according to a position of a passenger who got on the vehicle, and configured to control the communication unit so that visual information is displayed on the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyongguk Kim, Hyeongjin Im, Chiwon Song, Jaehoon Cho, Heejeong Heo, Yoonjung Hong
  • Patent number: 11403985
    Abstract: A display control device includes: an input part receiving an input signal including gray levels of the first color, the second color and the third color constituting a color for each of the plurality of pixels; a selection part selecting at least one of the plurality of pixels as a selection pixel and other of the plurality of pixels as a non-selection pixel; and an output part outputting an output signal controlling luminances of the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, the third sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel based on the input signal, wherein at least one of the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel of the non-selection pixel is controlled to have a luminance of 0 according to the output signal, and wherein the fourth sub-pixel of the selection pixel is controlled to have a luminance of 0 according to the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Takasugi, Hyun-Jong Ji
  • Patent number: 11400814
    Abstract: A display control device includes: a traveling state judging unit configured to judge a traveling state of a vehicle; and a display control unit configured to control the display of content in a display area facing outward from the vehicle. The display control unit displays the content in achromatic colors in the display area while the traveling state judging unit judges that the vehicle is traveling, and displays the content in chromatic colors in the display area while the traveling state judging unit judges that the vehicle is standing still.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshikatsu Kuramochi, Junya Ono, Hitomi Hamamura
  • Patent number: 11402902
    Abstract: User interaction concepts, principles and algorithms for gestures involving facial expressions, motion or orientation of body parts, eye gaze, tightening muscles, mental activity, and other user actions are disclosed. User interaction concepts, principles and algorithms for enabling hands-free and voice-free interaction with electronic devices are disclosed. Apparatuses, systems, computer implementable methods, and non-transient computer storage media storing instructions, implementing the disclosed concepts, principles and algorithms are disclosed. Gestures for systems using eye gaze and head tracking that can be used with augmented, mixed or virtual reality, mobile or desktop computing are disclosed. Use of periods of limited activity and consecutive user actions in orthogonal axes is disclosed. Generation of command signals based on start and end triggers is disclosed. Methods for coarse as well as fine modification of objects are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Perceptive Devices LLC
    Inventor: Uday Parshionikar
  • Patent number: 11402628
    Abstract: A vehicular display apparatus that displays an image on a windshield of a vehicle has an attention target detector configured to detect an attention target to which attention of a driver of the vehicle needs to be drawn, and calculate a distance from the attention target to the vehicle, and a display controller configured to perform display control that displays an attention mark on the windshield in a superimposed manner such that, from a point of view of the driver, the attention mark is displayed close to the attention target detected by the attention target detector, the attention mark being displayed to draw the attention of the driver to the attention target. The display controller sets a base point at a position of the attention target on the windshield, sets a display position of the attention mark at a position which is a predetermined distance away from the base point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Kosaka, Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11398208
    Abstract: An information display apparatus capable of reducing the viewpoint movement of a driver and achieving safer driving in consideration of the relationship between the traveling speed and the stopping distance of a vehicle is provided. The information display apparatus is configured to display image information in a transportation and comprises a HUD apparatus disposed between a windshield of the transportation and an instrument panel of the transportation. The HUD apparatus detects a viewpoint position of a driver; and displays a virtual image of the image information in front of the transportation by reflecting light emitted from the HUD apparatus to display the image information by the windshield. The HUD apparatus is configured to set a display position of the virtual image in accordance with movement of the viewpoint position of the driver who is driving the transportation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Hirata, Akio Misawa, Takumi Nakada
  • Patent number: 11398188
    Abstract: What is disclosed are methods of non-uniformity compensation for active matrix light emitting diode device (AMOLED) and other emissive displays. For each pixel, greyscale level offsets for a number of predetermined greyscale drive levels which produce a uniform flat field are determined and used to generate a correction function for the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond Leerentveld, Daniel James Hills, Samer Musa
  • Patent number: 11388390
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device according to the present invention. The electronic device according to the present invention may open and close pinholes formed in the electronic device, depending on whether an image is output to a display panel. The electronic device according to the present invention may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a device related to a 5G service, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dongog Min, Seungyong Shin, Changkyu Hwang
  • Patent number: 11381790
    Abstract: A video processing device according to an embodiment includes: a determination unit configured to determine whether pixel shift display is performed according to an original video; a control signal generation unit configured to generate a control signal indicating ON/OFF of the pixel shift display and a pixel display position when the pixel shift display is turned ON, based on a determination result by the determination unit; a display image generation unit configured to generate a display image from the original video, based on the determination result by the determination unit; and an addition unit configured to add the control signal to the display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryosuke Nakagoshi
  • Patent number: 11360581
    Abstract: A sensor panel is overlaid on a display apparatus and connected to an integrated circuit that detects a position of an active pen in an active region of the display apparatus. The sensor panel includes first electrodes that extend in a first direction. The sensor panel also includes second electrodes that extend in a second direction. The first electrodes include first and second outer electrodes that are located at the outermost edges of the first electrodes and first inner electrodes disposed between the first and second outer electrodes. A width of at least one of the first and second outer electrodes in the second direction is smaller than a width of each of the first inner electrodes in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Kadowaki
  • Patent number: 11351862
    Abstract: An assembly of a graphical user interface in a transportation vehicle with a transportation vehicle seat to which a range is assigned and having a touchscreen arranged in the transportation vehicle relative to the transportation vehicle seat so a first sub-region of the touchscreen is arranged within the range and a second sub-region is arranged outside of the range. The assembly includes a control unit by which a virtual operating surface with an application region and an information region are generated. The virtual operating surface is output on the touchscreen so the application region extends substantially over the first sub-region of the touchscreen and the information region extends substantially over the second sub-region of the touchscreen. During the output process, a first section of the virtual operating surface is displayed on the touchscreen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Inventors: Maria Esther Mejia Gonzalez, Heino Wengelnik, Indra Lena Koegler, Frank Althoff
  • Patent number: 11353955
    Abstract: A system can include one or more processors that determine a first position of an object in view of a user of a head mounted display (HMD) and a first gaze direction towards the first position. The object can be detected by one or more sensors. The one or more processors detect that the user is gazing at the object. The one or more processors determine, responsive to detecting that the user is gazing at the object, a second gaze direction based on at least a second position of one or more eyes of the user of the HMD provided via an eye tracking operation of the HMD. The one or more processors calibrate, based at least on a difference between the first gaze direction and the second gaze direction, the eye tracking operation of the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kirk Erik Burgess, Sebastian Sztuk
  • Patent number: 11345303
    Abstract: A vehicle interior component configured to present a user interface for a vehicle occupant with at least one vehicle system and/or network is disclosed. The component may comprise a housing, cover structure and user interface system configured to present the user interface at a cover surface. The user interface may comprise a light display configured to transmit light from a light source and/or an input device configured to interface with a sensor arrangement. The user interface may comprise output from the light display and/or input by interaction with the input device at the cover surface through the sensor arrangement. The component may comprise an interface module comprising the light display and the input device. The light display may comprise a light guide and/or display panel. The light guide may comprise a projection and/or icon configured to transmit light through an aperture and/or recess of the cover structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Shanghai Yanfeng Jinqiao Automotive Trim Systems Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher Kring, Dale Todd Glynn, Scott Allen Hansen, James Bradley Price, Bryan Todd Jones, Tyler Lacroix, Liu Cheng, Wang Bin, Qiongxia Duan
  • Patent number: 11347466
    Abstract: An active display (102) can be used in a theatre environment (100) in which content to be displayed by the active display (102) can be delivered wirelessly using emitters (118). The active display (102) can include tiles (104a-104d) with detectors (106a-106d) that can detect the wireless signals. The active display (102) can include circuitry that can interpret instructions from the wireless signals for controlling the output (108a-108d) of pixels on the tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: IMAX Theatres International Limited
    Inventors: Steen Svendstorp Iversen, Anton Leonard Baljet, Denis Gilles Tremblay
  • Patent number: 11345238
    Abstract: A vehicle function control apparatus and method use a detachable knob. The vehicle function control method includes determining, by an integrated manipulation unit, a target attachment position on an attachment unit having a plurality of attachment positions, sensing the position of a detachable knob having at least one magnet and a manipulation means on the attachment unit, and controlling a plurality of electromagnets disposed so as to correspond to the plurality of attachment positions such that the detachable knob is moved from the sensed position to the target attachment position, among the plurality of attachment positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Si Hoon Sung, Jae Hoon Chung, Sung Un Kim