Patents Examined by Douglas M Wilson
  • Patent number: 11752872
    Abstract: An assembly includes an instrument panel and a base rotatably mounted to the instrument panel between a front position and a stowed position. An interior component is supported by the base. A spring biases the base toward the stowed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mangesh Kadam, Srinivas Reddy Malapati, Eric D. Veggian, Keith Trudgeon
  • Patent number: 11733951
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a microprocessor configured to perform determining whether a position of a first device is a predetermined position, and controlling image displays on a first display portion provided at the first device and a second display portion provided at a second device in accordance with a determination result. The microprocessor is configured to perform the controlling including controlling image displays on the first display portion and the second display portion so that a predetermined image is displayed on the first display portion before it is determined that the first device is the predetermined position, and the predetermined image is displayed while gradually moving over time from the first display portion to the second display portion when it is determined that the first device is the predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yashiki, Takashi Tetsuka, Atsushi Ito, Nanami Tsukamoto, Shinichiro Yamauchi, Tomoko Shintani
  • Patent number: 11727870
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device including: a pixel array portion; a drive portion; and a power source wiring; the pixel array portion, at least a part of the drive portion configured to drive the pixel array portion and the power source wiring are forming a panel, the pixel array portion including scanning lines disposed in rows, signal lines disposed in columns, and pixels disposed in matrix in portions where the scanning lines and the signal lines cross each other, respectively, the drive portion including a scanner portion configured to drive the pixels in a line-sequential manner through the scanning lines, and a signal portion configured to supply a video signal to each of the signal lines in correspondence to the line-sequential drive, so that an image is displayed on the pixel array portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Minami, Yukihito Iida, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 11718175
    Abstract: According to an embodiment disclosed in this specification, an electronic device may be configured to control a size of an exposed region of a first display based on driving information of a vehicle and to set a user interface for receiving a user input associated with content displayed on the first display to at least one of the first display or an auxiliary input interface based on a size of an exposed region. Other various embodiments as understood from the specification are also possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Inventors: Taeyoung Ha, Sungkwon Kim, Juyeon You, Deokyeol Lee, Sungwook Lee, Changyoul Lee, Yongjun Lim, Jaemo Choi, Jinyoung Choi, Kwaneui Hong
  • Patent number: 11715410
    Abstract: A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a display panel configured to drive a frame of a first resolution at a first frame rate, a communication interface comprising circuitry configured to receive content, and a processor configured to, based on a frame rate of the received content being greater than the first frame rate, adjust the received content to a second resolution, and to control the display panel to display a content of the second resolution at a second frame rate, the second frame rate being greater than the first frame rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Minhoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11706383
    Abstract: In various implementations, a method of presenting video streams at a head-mountable device (HMD) includes generating a first video stream at a first frame rate for a first display portion. In some implementations, the first frame rate indicates a rate at which frames are presented by the first display portion. In various implementations, the method includes generating a second video stream at a second frame rate for a second display portion. In some implementations, the second frame rate indicates a rate at which frames are presented by the second display portion. In some implementations, the second frame rate is within a threshold relative to the first frame rate. In various implementations, the method includes temporally shifting the second video stream relative to the first video stream so that a majority of refresh times of the first display portion are different from refresh times of the second display portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Tobias Eble, Sabine Webel
  • Patent number: 11687308
    Abstract: There is provided, in a vehicle capable of accommodating a plurality of passengers, a display system capable of providing a motivation to start a conversation among the passengers in view of conversation intentions of each passenger. The display system includes a control device, and at least one display device. The control device is configured to perform a conversation desire display process to display a conversation desire level of each of the passengers. Alternatively, the control device is configured to perform a conversation intention display process to display a conversation intention of each of the passengers for the other passengers. The conversation desire level and the conversation intention among passengers are input to the input device provided in the display system, by an operation of the passenger. Alternatively, they are estimated by the control device based on the passenger state information detected by the sensor provided in the display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Saki Narita, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Daisaku Honda, Yuhei Katsumata, Hideki Fukudome, Takuya Watabe, Naoko Ichikawa, Yuta Maniwa, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11682355
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a display apparatus, a display control method, a portable terminal apparatus, and a program capable of representing various states of an apparatus in a limited region. A television receiver includes a display unit that displays a predetermined image, a communication unit that performs communication of image data with another image display apparatus, an indicator unit that is disposed at at least a part of surroundings of the display unit and includes an indicator which is turned on with predetermined luminance, and a control unit that turns on the indicator so as to correspond to a transmission operation of the image data in another image display apparatus. The present invention is applicable to, for example, a display apparatus such as a television receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Masao Kondo, Fumiya Matsuoka, Ken Yano, Hirotaka Tako
  • Patent number: 11679679
    Abstract: A floating-information display includes a first quarter-wave retarder disposed on a side of an optical plate. A reflective polarizer is disposed between the first quarter-wave retarder and the optical plate. A first display is configured to transmit a first image along a first axis through the first quarter-wave retarder to the reflective polarizer. The reflective polarizer redirects the first image along a second axis through the first quarter-wave retarder toward a viewer. The first image appears to the viewer to be oriented normal to the second axis and at a first location. A second display is configured to transmit a second image to the optical plate. The second image is transferred through the first quarter-wave retarder along the second axis toward the viewer. The second image appears to the viewer to be oriented normal to the second axis and at a second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Fredrick Luther Weindorf, Pawel Murzyn, Qais Sharif
  • Patent number: 11679676
    Abstract: In representation processing, when a capacity retention is higher than a threshold value while a warranty condition is satisfied, an ECU has the capacity retention shown in a first manner. When the capacity retention is equal to or lower than the threshold value while the warranty condition is satisfied, the ECU has the capacity retention shown in a second manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Uchida, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Kazuki Kubo, Junta Izumi
  • Patent number: 11675200
    Abstract: Determining a relative location of an object in an environment of a head-mountable device by performing a Wi-Fi round trip time (RTT) process to determine a location of the head-mountable device based on respective round-trip times for a plurality of access points or peer devices, using data generated by an inertial measurement unit as a basis for determining a pose of the head-mountable device, determining a location of a first object in an environment of the head-mountable device, and based at least in part on the location and pose of the head mountable device and the location of the first object, determining a relative location of the first object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Hoover, Jay Kothari, Melvin Chua, Alberto Vidal, Prasad Panchalan
  • Patent number: 11668075
    Abstract: A work vehicle 1 includes a display unit 51 of a rechargeable work vehicle 1, and a display unit controller 53 configured to reduce a brightness of the display unit 51 during charge of the work vehicle 1, compared with that during operation of the work vehicle 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Nomura, Takanori Yamane, Kaoru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11639108
    Abstract: A vehicle display device is configured to be mounted at a housing within a vehicle and to open and close an opening defined at the housing. The vehicle display device includes a first frame configured to be disposed at the opening, a second frame disposed at the first frame and configured to move relative to the first frame, a roller rotatably disposed at the second frame, a third frame disposed at a back surface of the second frame and configured to move relative to the second frame, and a display disposed at a front surface of the first frame and wound around the roller to connect to the third frame. The vehicle display device is configured to open and close at least a portion of the opening, where a size of the opened portion corresponds to a movement distance of the second frame with respect to the first frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Romain Diboine, Seunghwan Song, Seung Mo Kang
  • Patent number: 11640086
    Abstract: A novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. The display panel includes a first pixel, a second pixel, and a functional layer. The first pixel includes a first display element, and the second pixel includes a second display element. The functional layer includes a first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit. The first display element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a layer containing a liquid crystal material. A first distance is provided between the first electrode and the functional layer. A second distance is provided between the second electrode and the functional layer. The first electrode and the second electrode each include a region overlapping with the layer containing a liquid crystal material. The second distance is shorter than the first distance. The second display element includes a third electrode, a fourth electrode, and the layer containing a liquid crystal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 11635556
    Abstract: Method, product and blocking element of short wavelengths in LED-type light sources consisting of a substrate with a pigment distributed on its surface and, in that said pigment has an optical density such that it allows the selective absorption of short wavelengths between 380 nm and 500 nm in a range between 1 and 99%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID
    Inventor: Celia Sanchez Ramos
  • Patent number: 11634891
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for navigating an operator of a self-propelled vehicle for coupling with an attachment implement therefor. Each one of a first set of sensing elements arranged on the vehicle coupler forms a sensing pair with a respective one of a set of second sensing elements arranged on the attachment implement. Indicia for each of the sensing pairs on a user interface is displayed to the operator, corresponding to a three-dimensional spatial orientation of the first and second sensing elements with respect to each other. The user interface may comprise respective portions for each sensing pair, each portion comprising an indicator dynamically adjusted in a crosshair corresponding to first and second dimensions of alignment of the corresponding sensing elements with respect to each other, and the indicator in each portion further dynamically adjusted in appearance corresponding to a third dimension of distance between the corresponding sensing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Aashish Sud, Salimnawaz Shaikh, Amit Naik
  • Patent number: 11630544
    Abstract: A touch panel, a display panel, and a display unit achieving prevention of erroneous detection caused by external noise. The touch panel includes: a plurality of detection scan electrodes extending in a first direction and a plurality of detection electrodes facing the plurality of detection scan electrodes and extending in a second direction which intersects the first direction. A ratio of fringe capacitance to total capacitance between one or more selected detection scan electrodes and a first detection electrode is different from a ratio of fringe capacitance to total capacitance between the one or more selected detection scan electrodes and a second detection electrode. The one or more selected detection scan electrodes are selected, in a desired unit, from the plurality of detection scan electrodes, to be supplied with a selection pulse, and each of the first and the second detection electrodes is selected from the plurality of detection electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakanishi, Koji Noguchi, Koji Ishizaki, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takeya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11620932
    Abstract: A displaying device and a driving method thereof, wherein the displaying device includes a first display panel, a second display panel and a driving circuit; the first display panel includes a plurality of first pixel units that are able to display a color, wherein each of the first pixel units includes a plurality of sub-pixel units; and the second display panel is provided on a light exiting side of the first display panel, including a plurality of second pixel units; wherein a distribution density of the plurality of second pixel units is greater than a distribution density of the plurality of sub-pixel units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Wang, Lin Xu, Xin Ma, Qiuli Wang, Chuan Sun, Jianfeng Yao, Dingyang Tan, Xinyu Wang
  • Patent number: 11613181
    Abstract: An information displaying apparatus for a vehicle includes a translucent cover panel, first and second displays which are placed in erect positions located on one side of the cover panel, and imaging optical elements which are placed beside the first and second displays along a surface of the cover panel on the one side of the cover panel, and are configured to form real images of screens of the first and second displays as floating images in a region located on the other side of the cover panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kei Yamamoto, Kenji Sato, Takashi Nishimoto
  • Patent number: 11617276
    Abstract: A display device is configured to be mounted in an indoor space of a vehicle and to change a display area. The display device includes a first frame having a first end configured to be coupled to an interior member of the vehicle, a second frame having a first end coupled to a second end of the first frame, and a flexible display disposed at a first surface of the first frame and a first surface of the second frame. The second frame is configured to rotate about the second end of the first frame, and the flexible display is configured to fold to allow the first surface of the first frame to face the first surface of the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seunghwan Song, Sang-Hyeun Son, In Koo Shim