Patents Examined by Grant Sitta
  • Patent number: 11755121
    Abstract: This application provides a gesture information processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: determining an electromyography signal collection target object in a gesture information usage environment; dividing the electromyography signal sample through a sliding window having a fixed window value and a fixed stride into different electromyography signals of the target object, and denoising the different electromyography signals of the target object; recognizing the denoised different electromyography signals, and determining probabilities of gesture information represented by the different electromyography signals; and weighting the probabilities of the gesture information represented by the different electromyography signals, so as to determine gesture information matching the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaolin Hong, Qingqing Zheng, Xinmin Wang, Kai Ma, Yefeng Zheng
  • Patent number: 11749158
    Abstract: A shift register unit, a gate driving circuit, a display device, and a driving method are provided. The shift register unit includes a first input circuit, an output control circuit, and an output circuit. The first input circuit is configured to output a first input signal to a first node in response to a first control signal; the output control circuit is configured to output an output control signal to a second node under control of a level of the first node; and the output circuit includes an output terminal, and the output circuit is configured to output an output signal to the output terminal under control of a level of the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 11740702
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to wearable devices (150) worn at a location on a user's body, which in response to execution of processor-executable instructions (120) detect for the user pose or motion and pose at location proximate to or more distally disposed to the wearable device (150). The apparatus (100) includes a wearable user interface device. The wearable device (150) via an associated processor (104) detects, at least, volume changes in a user's limb. The wearable device (150) generates gesture information from, at least one of, myographic force data, proximity data, and inertial measurement data. The wearable device (150) may be included in a larger apparatus (100). The wearable device (150) or larger apparatus (100) may include methods of operation in which at least one processor (105) generates gesture and/or extremity information and takes at least one tangible action based on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BIOINTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Gautam Sadarangani, Zhen Xiao, Sohail Sangha, Allan Fernandes, Yin He, David Silvester
  • Patent number: 11734959
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing operations comprising: capturing, by an electronic mirroring device, a video feed received from a camera of the electronic mirroring device, the video feed depicting a user; in response to capturing the video feed, evaluating a set of conditions for activating a hands-free mode of operating the electronic mirroring device; in response to determining that the set of conditions are satisfied, activating the hands-free mode of operating the electronic mirroring device; and performing one or more functions on the electronic mirroring device based on detection of one or more gestures performed by the user in the video feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Dylan Shane Eirinberg, Kyle Goodrich, Andrew James McPhee, Daniel Moreno
  • Patent number: 11724285
    Abstract: Typically, the displacement of piezo-electric actuators is quite small. Accordingly, some sort of amplification may be needed for specific applications to amplify the displacement of the piezo-electric actuator, and thereby amplify the haptic feedback. For all solutions, the goal is to amplify the displacement of a moveable mass in order to increase vibration to improve the haptic feedback. If the host device is a wearable or portable device, e.g. a smart watch, it would be preferable to excite a heavy moveable mass that is already part of the assembly to harvest enough energy to transmit to the interface with the user. If the device is a large display, e.g. a display in a vehicle info system, the display itself could be the moveable mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Boréas Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Guillaume Chauvette
  • Patent number: 11726554
    Abstract: A computer-implemented simulation of a virtual hand in a virtual environment can include reading in a hand dataset that is representative of a shape of a real hand of a user, applying the hand dataset to a trained, artificial neural network, and determining an output dataset with the artificial neural network to which the dataset has been applied indicative of forces acting on a virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Turgay Isik Aslandere, Cem Mengi
  • Patent number: 11715327
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first display on a major surface, a second display positioned on another major surface, and optionally at least one imager collocated with the second display. One or more processors identify a predefined event occurring and select whether to present content on the first display or the second display. The one or more processors can cause an imager to capture at least one image. When image matches a first predefined criterion, the one or more processors cause a presentation of content to occur on the first display. When the image matches a second predefined criterion, the one or more processors cause the presentation of the content to occur on the second display. The one or more processors can also compare sizes of the first touch sensitive display portion and the second touch sensitive display portion to select between the first display and the second display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Rachid Alameh, Eric Krenz, William Groves, John Gorsica
  • Patent number: 11709543
    Abstract: A switching method and system of interactive modes of a head-mounted device is provided. The interactive modes include gamepad tracking interactive mode and bare hand tracking interactive mode. A standard deviation of position data, a standard deviation of attitude data and a standard deviation of accelerometer data among IMU data are acquired, respectively. Whether the standard deviation of the position data, the standard deviation of the attitude data and the standard deviation of the accelerometer data meet a first preset condition is determined. Moreover, the standard deviation of the accelerometer data within a second preset duration is acquired in real time, and whether the standard deviation of the accelerometer data meets a second preset condition is determined. In cases where the standard deviation of the accelerometer data meets the second preset condition, the bare hand tracking interactive mode is paused, and the gamepad tracking interactive mode is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: QINGDAO PICO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Wu
  • Patent number: 11693484
    Abstract: A device control method, a device control apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The electronic device includes an ultrasonic emitter and an ultrasonic receiver. The method includes that operating gesture recognition is performed by the electronic device through ultrasonic waves, a recognition result is generated, a motion parameter of the electronic device is obtained, the recognition result is verified based on the motion parameter, and the electronic device is controlled based on a verification result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Fenggui Yan
  • Patent number: 11693499
    Abstract: A display device includes a touch panel (TP), a transparent adhesive member (TAM) on a surface of the TP, a touch printed circuit board (TPCB), and a display panel (DP) on a surface of the TAM. The TP includes a sensing portion and a pad side portion (PSP) on a side of the sensing portion. The TPCB includes a contact portion (CP) attached to a surface of the PSP. The DP includes a substrate, an optical film (OF) on a surface of the substrate, and a bending protection layer (BPL) on a side of the OF on the surface of the substrate. The surface of the PSP includes a connection area attached to the CP and a non-connection area not attached to the CP. The OF is spaced from the BPL with a gap disposed therebetween. The TAM overlaps, in a thickness direction, with the TPCB and the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheol Hwan Eom, Min Young Song, Sang Min Kang, Young Eun Nam, Hyea Weon Shin, Chui Woo Jeong
  • Patent number: 11681397
    Abstract: A position detection system includes a position detection apparatus and a server. The position detection apparatus includes an imaging apparatus that captures an image of an operation surface, a processor that detects a pointed position at which a pointing element is pointing on the operation surface by using a learned model based on captured images captured by the imaging apparatus, and a first communication apparatus that transmits the captured images to the server apparatus. The server apparatus includes at least one processor that detects a first image that does not contain an image of the pointing element out of the captured images, generates learning data containing the first image, and relearns the learned model by using the learning data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corportation
    Inventors: Takayuki Kitazawa, Yuma Iwahara
  • Patent number: 11680814
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing augmented reality content corresponding to a translation in association with travel. The program and method provide for receiving, by a messaging application running on a device of a user, a request to scan an image captured by a device camera; obtaining, in response to receiving the request, a travel parameter associated with the request, and an attribute of an object depicted in the image; determining, based on the travel parameter and the attribute, to perform a translation with respect to the object; performing, in response to the determining, the translation with respect to the object; and displaying an augmented reality content item, which includes the translation, with the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Virginia Drummond, Jean Luo, Alek Matthiessen, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis
  • Patent number: 11662827
    Abstract: A mobile device configured to perform gesture recognition for a vehicle information and/or entertainment system comprises a depth camera; an orientation sensor; and a processor configured to detect one or more gestures from images captured by the depth camera according to a gesture detection algorithm; in which the processor is configured to vary the gesture detection algorithm in dependence upon an orientation of the mobile device detected by the orientation sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Varun Arora, Avasare Prabhat
  • Patent number: 11663444
    Abstract: Systems and methods for pipelined neural network processing with continuous and asynchronous updates are described. A method for processing a neural network comprising L layers, where L is an integer greater than two, includes partitioning the L layers among a set of computing resources configured to process forward passes and backward passes associated with each of the L layers. The method further includes initiating processing of the forward passes and the backward passes using the set of computing resources. The method further includes upon completion of a first set of forward passes and a first set of backward passes associated with a first layer of the L layers, initiating update of parameters associated with the first layer when gradients are available for updating the parameters associated with the first layer without waiting to calculate gradients associated with any of remaining L layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andy Wagner, Tiyasa Mitra, Saurabh M. Kulkarni, Marc Tremblay, Sujeeth S. Bharadwaj
  • Patent number: 11663945
    Abstract: A patch scanning display apparatus and a technique for reconstructing a target image frame on a projection surface is disclosed. The patch scanning display apparatus includes a backlight and a spatial light modulator (SLM). An optical scanning device scans the image projected by the SLM across the projection surface in accordance with a scan trajectory. A decomposition model is used to generate a set of image patches based on the target image frame and the scan trajectory. In an embodiment, the decomposition model is a projective non-negative matrix factorization model. The set of image patches are utilized to generate a modulation signal for the SLM and a binary backlight signal is then generated for each time step of the scan trajectory within a frame period to activate or deactivate the light-emitting elements of the backlight during the frame period at a high refresh rate while the projected image is scanned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventor: Kaan Aksit
  • Patent number: 11656698
    Abstract: To suppress cracks generated by a change in environmental temperature in a sensor body of a touch sensor that includes a light-transmissive resin film substantially made of a cycloolefin-based resin. A liquid optically clear adhesive layer is an adhesive layer including a cured body of an adhesive adhering to a glass plate that is a solid member. A sensor body having a film shape firmly adheres to the glass plate by the liquid optically clear adhesive layer, and detects a position of a contact point on a display area. A light-transmissive resin film of the sensor body is substantially made of a cycloolefin-based resin. A buffer layer having viscoelasticity at 25° C. is provided between the light-transmissive resin film and the liquid optically clear adhesive layer to relieve stress transferred from the liquid optically clear adhesive layer to the light-transmissive resin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: NISSHA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Michiya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11656690
    Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an Interaction Engine. According to various embodiments, the Interaction Engine generates, within a unified three-dimensional (3D) coordinate space: a virtual 3D medical model positioned according to a current model pose and at least one a virtual 3D hand representation. The Interaction Engine renders an AR display that includes display of the virtual 3D medical model positioned according to the current model pose and the virtual 3D hand representation. The Interaction Engine identifies selection of a slate virtual interaction based on the type of movement of the virtual 3D hand representation. The Interaction Engine modifies the AR display by rendering a virtual slate concurrently displayed with the virtual 3D medical model. The Interaction Engine adjusts the display of the virtual 3D medical model based at least on subsequent physical gestures with respect to the virtual slate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Medivis, Inc.
    Inventors: Long Qian, Wenbo Lan, Christopher Morley, Osamah Choudhry
  • Patent number: 11650669
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a display; a user interface; and a controller, configured to perform: in response to a user input, synchronizing menu content data set under a current source to other sources, so that the other sources can obtain the same display effect as that under the current source. Unnecessary repeated setting is avoided, and convenience is brought to users in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhiyong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11650689
    Abstract: A touch display device, a driving circuit, and a driving method are provided. An image defect which occurs when display driving and touch driving are simultaneously executed can be reduced by performing control such that a voltage level of a touch electrode driving signal (TDS) varies in a section other than a high-level period (Pon) of an ON-clock signal (ON_CLK) and/or a high-level period (Poff) of an OFF-clock signal (OFF_CLK).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SungChul Kim, HoonBae Kim, SunYeop Kim, Seongkyu Kang
  • Patent number: 11644902
    Abstract: A method can include determining, by a head-mounted device, that a user is looking at a first electronic device; determining that the user made a predefined gesture; determining content that was presented by the first electronic device when the user made the predefined gesture; and instructing a second electronic to present the content that was presented by the first electronic device when the user made the predefined gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ian Chen Zhang, Ricardo John Campbell