Patents Examined by Cory A Almeida
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Patent number: 11977244Abstract: A method includes capturing a plurality of different views of a real-world object with a plurality of image capture devices, and generating a visual representation of the real-world object in three physical dimensions by displaying images on a transparent display device that continuously rotates completely around an axis of rotation. The images displayed on the transparent display device are selected based on the plurality of different views of the real-world object. A system includes a plurality of image capture devices arranged to capture a plurality of different views of a real-world object, a transparent display device configured to continuously rotate completely around an axis of rotation, and a processor based apparatus. A storage medium storing one or more computer programs is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Dennis D. Castleman
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Patent number: 11977226Abstract: A head-up display system includes a first projection module that projects a first image to display the first image in a forward direction not directly facing a user, a second projection module that projects a second image to display the second image in a forward direction directly facing the user, and a reflective optical element that reflects at least a part of the first image and at least a part of the second image.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Kaoru Kusafuka, Mitsuhiro Murata, Sunao Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11971637Abstract: A display device includes wires that are coupled to driver terminals that are able to be coupled to a driver integrated circuit (IC) and that are provided along a first direction and extending so as to spread toward outsides in the first direction as the wires are directed toward a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and dummy wires that are provided along the wires on one outside and another outside in the first direction of the wires and that are not coupled to the driver terminals and the wires, wherein a number of the dummy wires on the one outside and a number of the dummy wires on the other outside are respectively three or more, the dummy wires extend in parallel with the wires, and a width of the dummy wire is equal to a width of the wire.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Koji Yamamoto, Naoyuki Obinata, Kengo Shiragami
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Patent number: 11966051Abstract: The device (3) includes a display panel (6), a shutter panel (7), and a controller (8). The display panel (6) includes subpixels for displaying a parallax image including a first image and a second image having parallax between the images. The shutter panel (7) is configured to define a traveling direction of image light representing the parallax image from the display panel (6). The controller (8) is configured to change, in a certain time cycle, areas on the shutter panel in a light transmissive state to transmit the image light with at least a certain transmittance and areas in a light attenuating state to transmit the image light with a transmittance lower than the transmittance in the light transmissive state, and is configured to change the subpixels to display the first image and the second image based on positions of the areas in the light transmissive state.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Kaoru Kusafuka
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Patent number: 11955038Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. The display may have a number of independently controllable viewing zones. Each viewing zone displays a respective two-dimensional image. Each eye of the viewer may receive a different one of the two-dimensional images, resulting in a perceived three-dimensional image. The electronic device may include display pipeline circuitry that generates and processes content to be displayed on the lenticular display. Content generating circuitry may generate content that includes a plurality of two-dimensional images, each two-dimensional image corresponding to a respective viewing zone. Pixel mapping circuitry may be used to map the two-dimensional images to the array of pixels in the lenticular display. The array of pixels may have a diagonal layout. An offset map may be used by the pixel mapping circuitry to account for the diagonal layout.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Chaohao Wang, Yi-Pai Huang, Yue Ma, Ping-Yen Chou, Fu-Chung Huang
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Patent number: 11947127Abstract: A head-up display for a vehicle having a window. The head-up display comprises a picture generating unit and a projection engine. The picture generating unit is arranged to output pictures. Each picture comprises a first picture component and a second picture component. The projection engine is arranged to receive the pictures output by the picture generating unit and project the pictures onto the window of the vehicle in order to form a first virtual image of the first picture component at a first virtual image distance and a second virtual image of the second picture component at a second virtual image distance. Light of the first picture component is polarised in a first polarisation direction and light of the second picture component is polarised in a second polarisation direction perpendicular to the first polarisation direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Envisics LtdInventors: Mate Karner, Jamieson Christmas
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Patent number: 11941206Abstract: A touch control component and a touch control display device are provided. The present disclosure can improve touch control sensitivity of the touch control component by at least one second branch electrode surrounding at least one first branch electrode corresponding thereto, by at least one third branch electrode adjacent to the at least one first branch electrode surrounding the at least one second branch electrode positioned between the at least one first branch electrode and the at least one third branch electrode, and by two adjacent third branch electrodes respectively positioned in two of touch control units adjacent to each other in a first direction being connected to each other on one end away from the third branch electrodes connected to a first main stem electrode.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jieping Wang, Jian Ye
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Patent number: 11935496Abstract: A variety of methods for driving electro-optic displays so as to reduce visible artifacts are described. Such methods includes driving an electro-optic display having a plurality of display pixels and controlled by a display controller, the display controller associated with a host for providing operational instructions to the display controller, the method may include updating the display with a first image, updating the display with a second image subsequent to the first image, processing image data associated with the first image and the second image to identify display pixels with edge artifacts and generate image data associated with the identified pixels, storing the image data associated pixels with edge artifacts at a memory location, and initiating a waveform to clear the edge artifacts.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Teck Ping Sim, Yuval Ben-Dov, Joanna F. Au, Kenneth R. Crounse
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Patent number: 11928297Abstract: A touch screen panel includes: a flat panel display including an upper substrate, a lower substrate, and pixels arranged on a display region of the lower substrate in a stripe arrangement; first sensing cells arranged in a first direction on the upper substrate and second sensing cells arranged in a second direction on the upper substrate; first connection patterns electrically connecting adjacent ones of the first sensing cells to each other in the first direction, and second connection patterns electrically connecting adjacent ones of the second sensing cells to each other in the second direction, wherein at least one of the first connection patterns and the second connection patterns is inclined so that it partially overlaps with the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Do-Youb Kim, Won-Kyu Kwak, Brent Jang
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Patent number: 11899218Abstract: A head-up display and a movable body can display a virtual image viewable at a position nearer a user. The head-up display includes a display device that displays a first image and emits image light from the first image in a first direction, a first optical member located in the first direction from the display device, and a second optical member located between the display device and the first optical member in the first direction. The second optical member reflects the first image in a first plane direction and a second plane direction and displays a virtual image of the first image in a space between the first optical member and a user.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Kaoru Kusafuka, Mitsuhiro Murata, Sunao Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11892624Abstract: In one method, device data including an orientation of a targeting device is received in a computing system. Target coordinates of the targeting device as projected onto a field-of-view of a display device are then located based on the device data. Pursuant to locating the target coordinates within a predefined margin, a target graphic indicating the target coordinates is superposed onto the field-of-view. Pursuant to locating the target coordinates outside of the predefined margin, an off-target graphic is superposed onto the field-of-view and aligned to a display perimeter of the display device.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Raymond Kirk Price, Michael Bleyer, Christopher Douglas Edmonds
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Patent number: 11885970Abstract: According to various, but not necessarily all, embodiments there is provided an apparatus comprising means for binocularly displaying visual content as a first image directed towards a first eye of a user and as a second image directed towards a second eye of the user. The first image comprises a first area in which a blue spectral component of the visual content is reduced as compared to a corresponding first area of the second image. The second image comprises a second, different area in which a blue spectral component of the visual content is reduced as compared to a corresponding second area of the first image.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Christopher Wright, Matthew Lawrenson, David Duffy, Timothy Beard
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Patent number: 11885965Abstract: A head-mounted display a housing, two display modules, and a head support. The two display modules are coupled to the housing. Each of the two display modules includes a display for outputting light that forms graphical content, a lens for refracting the light output by the display, and an eye illuminator. The eye illuminator includes a light-emitting diode, a flexible circuit to which the light-emitting diode is coupled, and a stiffener laminated to the flexible circuit with one or fewer layers of adhesive. The lens is removably coupled to the display indirectly by the stiffener. The head support is coupled to the housing for supporting the housing on a head of a user with the two display modules positioned to provide the graphical content to eyes of the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Ivan S. Maric, Jan K. Quijalvo, Marinus Meursing
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Patent number: 11880033Abstract: A wearable device may include a head-mounted display (HMD) for rendering a three-dimensional (3D) virtual object which appears to be located in an ambient environment of a user of the display. The relative positions of the HMD and one or more eyes of the user may not be in desired positions to receive, or register, image information outputted by the HMD. For example, the HMD-to-eye alignment may vary for different users and change over time (e.g., as a given user moves around or as the HMD slips or otherwise becomes displaced). The wearable device may determine a relative position or alignment between the HMD and the user's eyes. Based on the relative positions, the wearable device may determine if it is properly fitted to the user, may provide feedback on the quality of the fit to the user, and may take actions to reduce or minimize effects of any misalignment.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Lionel Ernest Edwin, Zachary C. Nienstedt, Ivan Li Chuen Yeoh, Samuel A. Miller, Yan Xu, Jordan Alexander Cazamias
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Patent number: 11874464Abstract: A head-up display includes a display panel, a parallax barrier, an optical system including a reflector and an optical member, and a controller. The optical system projects a virtual image of an image displayed by the display panel onto a virtual image plane. The controller controls the display panel such that first second images which have a parallax with each other are projected as a three-dimensional image in a field of view of the user, and a convergence angle at which the user views a point on the three-dimensional image is equal to or less than a maximum convergence angle which is greater by 0.43 degrees than a convergence angle for viewing a point on the virtual image plane and is equal to or greater than a minimum convergence angle which is less by 0.43 degrees than the convergence angle for viewing a point on the virtual image plane.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Ryo Tadauchi, Kaoru Kusafuka
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Patent number: 11867907Abstract: An electronic device may include a display module that produces light having an image, a lens that directs the light to a waveguide, and a waveguide that directs the light to an eye box. The lens may produce a foveated image in the light by applying a non-uniform magnification to the image in the light. The non-uniform magnification may vary as a function of angle within a field of view of the lens. This may allow the foveated image to have higher resolution within the central region than in the peripheral region. Performing foveation using the lens maximizes the resolution of images at the eye box without increasing the size of the display module. Control circuitry on the device may apply a pre-distortion to the image that is an inverse of distortion introduced by the lens in producing the foveated image.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventors: Vikrant Bhakta, David A. Kalinowski, Hyungryul Choi, Nathanael D. Parkhill, Stanley K. Melax, Byron R. Cocilovo
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Patent number: 11867909Abstract: There is provided an optical device, including a light-transmitting substrate, having at least two parallel major surfaces, edges and an output aperture, an optical element for coupling light waves into the substrate to effect total internal reflection, at least one redirecting element positioned outside of the substrate, and at least one reflecting surface having at least one active side located between the two major surfaces of the light-transmitting substrate for coupling light waves out of the substrate, wherein light waves trapped inside the substrate are coupled out from the substrate through the output aperture substantially inclined in relation to the normal to the substrate major surfaces and are reflected from the redirecting element into a viewer's eye, and wherein the redirecting element is a single flat reflecting surface parallel to the major surfaces of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: OORYM OPTICS LTD.Inventors: Yaakov Amitai, Menachem Amitai
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Patent number: 11852811Abstract: In a linked display system in which wireless communication connection between a first information device and a second information device has been established, when the first information device transmits text data to the second information device in a state of displaying content containing the text data and image data, the second information device displays the text data while the first information device stops displaying the text data and enlarges and displays the image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Megumi Kurachi, Masuo Oku, Hirokazu Ishii, Osamu Kawamae, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 11852826Abstract: There is provided an optical device, including a light-transmitting substrate having at least two major surfaces and edges, a display source based on a time-sequential color imaging, characterized by a frame time, three different primary colors, and coupled-in brightness, an optical element for coupling light waves from the display source into the substrate to effect total internal reflection, at least one flat reflecting surface located between the two major surfaces of the light-transmitting substrate for coupling light waves out of the substrate, and a dynamic partially reflecting element for re-directing the coupled-out light waves into a viewer's eye, wherein the transmittance and the reflectance of the dynamic partially reflecting element is dynamically controllable to yield high reflection in each one of the three primary colors, while simultaneously having high transmittance of two other colors of the three primary colors.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: OORYM OPTICS LTD.Inventors: Yaakov Amitai, Menachem Amitai
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Patent number: 11852819Abstract: An electronic device may include a display module that produces foveated images having high and low resolution regions. The module may include a reflective display panel that produces first reflected light during first time periods and second reflected light during second time periods. The first reflected light may reflect off of a beam splitter to form the low resolution region of the foveated image. The second reflected light may be transmitted by the beam splitter, de-magnified by a lens, and redirected by an optical steering element to produce the high resolution region at a desired, adjustable, location in the foveated image. The reflective display panel may be replaced by sets of emissive display panels that concurrently display the high and low resolution regions in the foveated image. The sets of emissive display panels may be replaced by front-lit reflective display panels.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Inventors: Graham B. Myhre, Guolin Peng, Hyungryul Choi, Scott M. DeLapp, Vikrant Bhakta