Patents Examined by Duc Q Dinh
  • Patent number: 10422994
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for self-relative body tracking in virtual reality systems using magnetic tracking is disclosed, which allows more accurate tracking of a user's body relative to the user's field of vision. A head-mounted magnetic tracking (HMMT) system is used, in which other parts of a user's body are tracked relative to the HMD on the user's head, rather than relative to a base station. This results in less distortion of the magnetic field used for tracking and thus allows for more accurate determination of the position and orientation of a user's body parts relative to the user's field of vision, so that a more accurate avatar may be presented on the HMD to the user. This allows the avatar of the user's body part to be shown in a location that corresponds closely to its physical position. In an alternative embodiment, multiple portions of the user's body may be tracked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Sixense Enterprises Inc.
    Inventors: Owen Walter Pedrotti, Oded Y. Zur, Alejandro Santiago Diaz, Amir Rubin
  • Patent number: 10417967
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel circuits, and each of the pixel circuit includes an initialization component, a data writing component, a light emitting control component, a voltage storage component, a driving transistor, a first voltage maintenance component, a switching control component, an external compensation component and a light-emitting diode. The driving transistor is a dual-gate transistor, and a second gate of the dual-gate transistor is electrically connected to the external compensation component through the switching control component. The external compensation component is under the control of the switching control component to firstly collect the voltage at a third node and then provide a compensation voltage to a second node to adjust the threshold voltage of the dual-gate transistor so that the threshold voltage of the dual-gate transistor is more approximate to a standard threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Renyuan Zhu, Yana Gao, Yue Li, Zeyuan Chen
  • Patent number: 10416775
    Abstract: Systems and methods for shifting haptic feedback function between passive and active modes are disclosed. For example, one disclosed method includes receiving a first signal from a sensor, the first signal associated with a mode of interaction with a graphical user interface; receiving a second signal associated with an interaction with the graphical user interface; determining a haptic feedback effect based at least in part on the mode of interaction with the graphical user interface and the interaction with the graphical user interface; and generating a haptic signal configured to output the haptic feedback effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: David M. Birnbaum, Christopher J. Ullrich
  • Patent number: 10404898
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for operating a camera included in a touch input device including a touch screen is disclosed. A processor determines a capacitance pattern for a varying capacitance throughout the touch screen when the touch screen is underwater and no touch input occurs. The processor resets a varying reference capacitance for determining whether a touch input by an object occurs or not, the varying reference capacitance being reset based on the determined capacitance pattern when the touch screen is underwater and no touch input occurs. The touch screen receives a touch pressure by the object underwater. Operation of the camera is controlled according to the touch pressure to the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: HiDeep Inc.
    Inventors: Seyeob Kim, Sangsic Yoon, Bonkee Kim, Hojun Moon, Taehoon Kim, Sunyoung Kwon
  • Patent number: 10401699
    Abstract: A first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor are provided. In the first transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a first wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to a gate terminal of the second transistor; a gate terminal is electrically connected to a fifth wiring. In the second transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a third wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to a sixth wiring. In the third transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a second wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to the gate terminal of the second transistor; a gate terminal is electrically connected to a fourth wiring. In the fourth transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to the second wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to the sixth wiring; a gate terminal is connected to the fourth wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Umezaki
  • Patent number: 10400940
    Abstract: A wireless keyboard module, portable electronic device and methods for charging and pairing a wireless keyboard module to a portable electronic device are provided herein. According to one embodiment, the wireless keyboard module includes a wired connector configured to electrically connect to a wired connector on a back surface of the portable electronic device when the wireless keyboard module is mounted onto the back surface of the portable electronic device. Upon connecting the wired connectors of the wireless keyboard module and the portable electronic device, the wireless keyboard module is configured to receive a charging signal from the portable electronic device and configured to transmit a pairing code to the portable electronic device across the wired connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Bradford E. Vier, Kevin Bosse
  • Patent number: 10394355
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device with a built-in touch screen. The display device includes a gate electrode and a pixel electrode on a substrate, an activation layer and a sensing contact portion, a source electrode and a drain electrode, and a gate insulation layer provided between the gate electrode and the activation layer and between the pixel electrode and the sensing contact portion. Thereby, it is possible to reduce the number of data lines arranged in the display panel. Also disclosed is a method of fabricating a display device with a built-in touch screen. The method includes forming a first gate electrode and a pixel electrode according to a first mask process, and forming an activation layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a touch sensing line according to a second mask process. Thereby, it is possible to reduce the number of mask processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunho Kim, SunJa Park, Dongmin Seo, JeongHo Kim
  • Patent number: 10379344
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for self-relative body tracking in virtual reality systems using magnetic tracking is disclosed, which allows more accurate tracking of a user's body relative to the user's field of vision. A head-mounted magnetic tracking (HMMT) system is used, in which other parts of a user's body are tracked relative to the HMD on the user's head, rather than relative to a base station. This results in less distortion of the magnetic field used for tracking and thus allows for more accurate determination of the position and orientation of a user's body parts relative to the user's field of vision, so that a more accurate avatar may be presented on the HMD to the user. This allows the avatar of the user's body part to be shown in a location that corresponds closely to its physical position. In an alternative embodiment, multiple portions of the user's body may be tracked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Sixense Enterprises Inc.
    Inventors: Owen Walter Pedrotti, Oded Y. Zur, Alejandro Santiago Diaz, Amir Rubin
  • Patent number: 10372247
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to the technical field of displaying technology, and provide a touch display panel and manufacture method thereof, as well as a display device, which may mitigate or avoid the problem of uniformity of displayed image caused by the difference of the transmittances between the region of the touch electrode and the region of the lead. The manufacture method for a touch display panel comprises: forming a touch electrode in an electrode region; forming a lead connected with the touch electrode in a lead region; collecting a first transmittance of the electrode region and a second transmittance of the lead region respectively; determining difference values between a preset reference value and the first transmittance as well as the preset reference value and the second transmittance respectively; setting a light shading area of the electrode region and/or the lead region based on the difference values to compensate for the first transmittance and/or the second transmittance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gang Zhou, Mingzhou Guo, Xiaofei Yang
  • Patent number: 10372207
    Abstract: Techniques described herein are directed to adaptive virtual reality and augmented reality viewing based on a user's eye condition data. In a first implementation, a software application renders video content based on the user's eye condition data by mapping the user's eye condition data to video rendering parameters. The video content rendered based on the user's eye condition data may be made available to a virtual reality/augmented reality player and played using a head mounted display. The video content rendered based on the user's eye condition data may be pre-rendered before video content playback or rendered in real time during video content playback. In an additional implementation, the head mounted display may be calibrated and adjusted based on the eye condition data prior to video playback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Bombard, Yazmaliza Yaacob, Gregory Head
  • Patent number: 10365732
    Abstract: An electronic device with a touch-sensitive display and one or more sensors to detect signals from a stylus associated with the device: displays a user interface on the touch-sensitive display; while displaying the user interface on the touch-sensitive display, detects the stylus moving towards the touch-sensitive display, without the stylus making contact with the touch-sensitive display; determines whether the detected stylus movement towards the touch-sensitive display satisfies one or more stylus movement criteria; in accordance with a determination that the detected stylus movement satisfies the one or more stylus movement criteria, displays a menu overlaid on the user interface, the menu including a plurality of selectable menu options; detects selection of a first menu option in the plurality of selectable menu options; and, in response to detecting selection of the first menu option: performs an operation that corresponds to the first menu option, and ceases to display the menu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Linda L. Dong, Mark K. Hauenstein, Julian Missig
  • Patent number: 10365735
    Abstract: A hand-held device with a sensor for providing a signal indicative of a position of the hand-held device relative to an object surface enables power to the sensor at a first time interval when the hand-held device is indicated to be in a position that is stationary and adjacent relative to the object surface, enables power to the sensor at a second time interval shorter than the first time interval when the hand-held device is indicated to be in a position that is moving and adjacent relative to the object surface, and enables power to the sensor at a third time interval when the hand-held device is determined to be in a position that is removed relative to the object surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Brian Gates, Jeremy K. Black
  • Patent number: 10360850
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display module driving device, comprising a display driving module, driving each of the organic light emitting diodes to emit light; a plurality of light sensors, detecting brightnesses of corresponding light sensors and outputting corresponding actual brightness values; a gray scale brightness conversion module, acquiring a gray scale value of each of the sub pixels in a present display frame and converting the gray scale value into a corresponding target brightness value; a comparing module, receiving and comparing the target brightness value and the corresponding actual brightness value of each of the sub pixels; and a controlling module, controlling the display driving module to drive the organic light emitting diodes to maintain the target brightness value as the actual brightness value is equal to the target brightness value. The display module driving device can effectively solve the problem of the display difference caused by the uneven brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Weinan Yan, Fu-Chih Chang
  • Patent number: 10356401
    Abstract: A method of operating a VR or AR head mounted display (HMD) system includes obtaining a video performance parameter for a video signal, selecting a clock frequency for video data transfer within the HMD system based on the video performance parameter, detecting one or more available frequency bands for a wireless data connection between a host device and the HMD system, and selecting a frequency band from the one or more available frequency bands for the wireless data connection, based on a predetermined connection suitability parameter for the one or more available frequency bands and based on the selected clock frequency for video data transfer within the HMD system. The method further includes establishing a wireless connection between the host device and the HMD system over the selected frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Rui Zhang, Dong Yang
  • Patent number: 10347172
    Abstract: A hidden display apparatus, system, and method. A display apparatus embodiment may include a face layer and a projection layer, with the projection layer positioned behind the face layer. The face layer may include a front side and a back side. The front side may include a first area configured to display high resolution images and a second area positioned around the first area. The first area and the second area may be made of the same material, and have similar color(s) and/or patterns. The projection layer may include a light source operative in an active mode and an inactive mode. When in the active mode, the projection layer may project light to the face layer to display images in the first area. When in the inactive mode, the face layer may be visually obscured so that the first area and the second area together display a colored surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Vivint, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Moulton, Craig DeVries, Stephen Edward Boynton
  • Patent number: 10345641
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display apparatus and a method for driving a liquid crystal display apparatus capable of effectively suppressing the deterioration in gamma characteristics even when an angle between a normal line to a display screen from a position of observation and an observer's line of sight is relatively large. Pixels P, arranged in a matrix, are defined to include a plurality of pairs of electrodes for applying a voltage to a liquid crystal layer. Each of two subpixels included in each pixel P is defined to include a pair of electrodes consisting of a subpixel electrode and a counter electrode. A pair of electrodes in each of the two subpixels included in the pixel P (including a pair of electrodes in a third subpixel which may also be included in the pixel P) applies a voltage to the crystal liquid layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Irie, Masae Kitayama
  • Patent number: 10347212
    Abstract: An information processing device including a display unit and an input unit is driven by a first step of inputting an input signal from the input unit, a second step of starting to move an image displayed on the display unit, a third step of lowering luminance of the image, a fourth step of checking whether the image reaches a position of predetermined coordinates, a fifth step of increasing the luminance of the image in the case where the image reaches the position of the predetermined coordinates, and a sixth step of stopping moving the image so as to perform eye-friendly display with the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yuji Iwaki, Jiro Imada
  • Patent number: 10324604
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for controlling zooming of a displayed object includes receiving a single-point slide operation performed by a user on a displayed object of a touch screen, generating a slide signal, parsing the slide signal to obtain a slide track and a feature value of the single-point slide operation, determining whether the feature value of at least one point in the single-point slide operation is greater than a preset value, and controlling zooming of the displayed object according to the slide track when the feature value is greater than the preset value. A slide track and a feature value of a single-point slide operation of a user are identified, and zooming of a displayed object of the touch screen is controlled when the feature value is greater than a preset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen Huang, Jianchun Zhang
  • Patent number: 10318086
    Abstract: Reducing power consumption in a touch screen. In some examples, a first level of touch accuracy can be determined, and a first portion of the touch screen can be operated in a first mode corresponding to the first level of touch accuracy. In some examples, a second level of touch accuracy can be determined, and a second portion of the touch screen can be operated in a second mode corresponding to the second level of touch accuracy. The first and/or second levels of touch accuracy can be determined based on an application running on a device including the touch screen and/or a user interface displayed on the touch screen. In some examples, in the first and/or second modes, the respective portions of the touch screen can transition between a touch sensing phase and a display phase at different transition frequencies and/or can sense touch at different ratios of touch sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: SungChang Lee, Chia-Yeh Lee
  • Patent number: 10310711
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an electronic device. The electronic device generates for presentation on a display a user interface including a plurality of content items, a first heading, and a second heading. While the user interface is presented on the display, the electronic device receives input scrolling the plurality of content items. In response to the input, the electronic device scrolls the plurality of content items including: scrolling the first heading with a first content item of the plurality of content items that is currently playing; and scrolling the second heading with a second content item of the plurality of content items that is next in a queue of content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, Joe Howard, Joshua McGlinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, William M. Bachman, Elbert D. Chen, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Jennifer L. C. Folse, Lynne Kress, Kory M. Westerhold, Monika E. Gromek, Policarpo Bonilla Wood, Jr.