Patents Examined by Gustavo Polo
  • Patent number: 11397964
    Abstract: Provided herein are method, apparatus, and computer program products for automatically outputting a wearer interface or a redemption interface. The wearer interface and the redemption interface may contain information related to a wearer of a wearable device and a provider respectively. The wearable device may reference a merchant redemption parameters database to facilitate the output of the redemption interface, and the wearable device my reference a wearer parameters database to facilitate the output of the wearer interface. Both the wearer interface and the redemption interface may be displayed on the wearable device by an interactive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Bengt Karl Bergstrom, Adam John Muhlbauer, Don Albert Chennavasin, Devdatta Gangal, Jingting Wang
  • Patent number: 11393430
    Abstract: A light emission apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a plurality of pixels that each include a light emission element, and a signal supply unit that supplies to each of the plurality of pixels a signal voltage that accords with inputted image data. Each of the plurality of pixels comprises a first transistor configured to control an amount of current that flows in the light emission element, and a second transistor disposed between a signal line on which the signal voltage is supplied and a gate electrode of the first transistor and, in an on state, write in the gate electrode the signal voltage. The signal supply unit adjusts the signal voltage in accordance with a frame rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mizuki Nagasaki, Hiromasa Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11393368
    Abstract: A display method of an image is disclosed. A first vergence plane of two eyes of a user is located at a first position when the user views a first image. A second vergence plane of the two eyes is located at a second position when the user views an object in the environmental scene. A first distance existing between the first position and the user and a second distance existing between the second position and the user satisfy a first relation: Dn<D1<Df. D1 represents the first distance, Dn=D2+?n, Df=D2+?f, D2 represents the second distance, ?n=(De/2)*{tan[tan?1(2*D2/De)??]}?D2, ?f=(De/2)*{tan[tan?1(2*D2/De)+?]}?D2, De represents a distance between the two eyes, ? represents an eye angular resolution of the two eyes, and ?=0.02 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Hao-Yu Liou, Ruey-Jer Weng, Naoki Sumi, Chih-Yung Hsieh, Chung-Kuang Wei
  • Patent number: 11388368
    Abstract: A processor is configured to be coupled to a display panel. The processor includes a first storage circuit, a converter circuit, and an overdrive circuit. The first storage circuit is configured to store input video data. The converter circuit is configured to receive the input video data, and adjust a frame rate of the input video data, to generate adjusted video data. The overdrive circuit is configured to perform an overdrive process according to the adjusted video data, to generate a driving signal, such that the display panel displays a video according to the adjusted video data and the driving signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jui-Te Wei, Po-An Chen, Wei-Chih Lin, Yung-Chih Chen
  • Patent number: 11386871
    Abstract: A vehicle instrument panel assembly includes a display that generates an image indicative of a vehicle operating parameter, a first sensor disposed proximate the display that senses a position of an operator relative to the display and a controller that modifies the image responsive to the sensed position of the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Irving Morales Rodriguez, Hermes Ivan Rodriguez-Apodaca, Alvaro Ivan Ontiveros, Kevin Arrunategui Mojica, Tobias Regner
  • Patent number: 11386403
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a maintenance management system includes a mobile terminal of a maintenance staff, and a maintenance target device to be maintained by the maintenance staff. The maintenance target device includes detection means, comparison means, and transmission means. The detection means detects a maintenance work of the maintenance staff. The comparison means compares a first log which is a log of a correct maintenance work in each process of a maintenance content with a second log which is a log of the maintenance work detected by the detection means. The transmission means transmits a comparison result obtained by the comparison of the comparison means. The mobile terminal includes reception means and display control means. The reception means receives the comparison result. The display control means causes the maintenance work of the process to be displayed based on the comparison result received by the reception means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koudai Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11380231
    Abstract: Electronic devices and methods for compensating for aging or other effects in a display during a non-transmitting state (off state) of the display. Sensing may include emissive element sensing of the display and/or thin film transistor sensing of the display. Compensating for the effects may preserve or increase a uniformity of transmission of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Hung Sheng Lin, Hyunsoo Kim, Hyunwoo Nho, Injae Hwang, Jesse A. Richmond, Jie Won Ryu, Junhua Tan, Kavinaath Murugan, Kingsuk Brahma, Shengkui Gao, Shiping Shen, Sun-Il Chang, Myung-Je Cho, Yafei Bi, Myungjoon Choi, Weichuan Yao, Chaohao Wang
  • Patent number: 11372618
    Abstract: An intercom system provides audio communication between multiple users wearing head-mounted devices (HMDs). In an embodiment, the intercom system determines a first location of a first HMD of a first user. The intercom system determines a second location of a second HMD of a second user. The intercom system receives audio of the first user from a microphone of the first HMD. The intercom system determines a volume level of the audio at the second location using at least the first location and the second location. The intercom system transmits the audio to the second HMD responsive to determining that the volume level is less than a threshold volume. The intercom system may also selectively transmit audio based on gaze direction of a user. Additionally, the intercom system may generate a transcript of audio input by users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SentiAR, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter Blume, Michael K. Southworth
  • Patent number: 11361113
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for sensitive information leak prevention using electromagnetic rays to prevent image capture of sensitive information. An example methodology implementing the techniques includes rendering a presentation slide on a display device, identifying at least one portion of the rendered presentation slide that contains sensitive information, and determining a location of the identified at least one portion on the rendered presentation slide. The method also includes triggering at least one electromagnetic emitter to emit an electromagnetic signal within the location of the identified at least one portion of the rendered presentation slide. The emitted electromagnetic signal inhibits image capture of the sensitive information by an image capture device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Tianze Jiang, Yihong Wu
  • Patent number: 11360579
    Abstract: The electronic devices described herein are configured to enhance user experience associated with using a pen on the touchscreens of the electronic devices. Contact of a pen on the touch screen is detected by a persistent, pen-aware shell that occupies some or all of the touch screen user interface throughout operation of the electronic device. Detected pen contact with the touch screen is captured/collected as pen input and used to perform a function of the electronic device or shared with an application such that the application may perform a function based on the pen input. A performed function or application with which to share the pen in put is selected by a user, automatically by an operating system, or a combination of the two. Automatic capture of pen input by the persistent, pen-aware shell provides an intuitive way of making use of pen/touch screen capability of an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Arunabh P. Verma, Sophie A. Beland, Oluwadara Oke, William M. Geraci, II
  • Patent number: 11348541
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a first sub display area and a second sub display area, and an illumination device, wherein the illumination device includes a first light source opposed to the first sub display area, a second light source opposed to the second sub display area, and a partition positioned between the first and second light sources and the display panel, and the partition includes a first side surface surrounding the first light source, a second side surface surrounding the second light source, and a connector which connects the first side surface and the second side surface, and the connector is formed of curved surfaces, or two or more flat surfaces, or a combination of curved surfaces and flat surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shigenori Aoki, Tatsuya Yata, Tsutomu Harada
  • Patent number: 11335281
    Abstract: An image processing method, an image processing system, an electronic device and a storage medium. The image processing method is applied to the server, and includes: receiving an image processing request sent by a terminal, wherein the image processing request includes an original-image information and an electronic-device information; determining a displaying protocol of an electronic device according to the electronic-device information, and processing the original-image information according to the displaying protocol, to obtain a target-image information; and sending the target-image information and the displaying protocol to the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Xinquan Yan
  • Patent number: 11335238
    Abstract: A signal transmission method is applied to a receiving terminal so as to improve the anti-interference capability of the signals on the transmission line, and the signal transmission method includes: receiving a signal sent by a transmitting terminal through a transmission line; detecting whether there is a transmission error in the received signal; and when there is a transmission error in the received signal, adjusting at least one parameter of specified parameters affecting an anti-interference capability of signals on the transmission line, and/or controlling the transmitting terminal to adjust the at least one parameter of the specified parameters affecting the anti-interference capability of signals on the transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xianyong Gao, Sijun Lei, Xu Lu, Liang Gao, Shanbin Chen, Bo Ran, Yansheng Sun
  • Patent number: 11322075
    Abstract: Provided is an optical compensation method for a display device including a pixel coupled between first power and second power sources. In the optical compensation method, the first voltage level of the second power source corresponding to a first luminance level is set while measuring the luminance of the display device, the second voltage level of the second power source corresponding to a second luminance level is set while measuring the luminance of the display device, the third voltage levels of the second power source for representative luminance levels including the first and second luminance levels are set based on the first and second voltage levels, and the fourth voltage levels of the second power source for the representative luminance levels according to temperature conditions are set based on the third voltage levels and temperature offsets according to the temperature conditions, under which the display device is driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventors: Si Beak Pyo, Hyun Jung Son
  • Patent number: 11314327
    Abstract: A head mounted display and a control method thereof are provided. The control method includes the following. An eye-tracking operation is activated to obtain a gazing direction of a user. At least one setting position is set on a display frame, and the at least one setting position serves to set at least one static object. Whether to display or hide the static object is determined according to the setting position and the gazing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Fu-Cheng Fan, Chung-Jung Chen
  • Patent number: 11315524
    Abstract: A method for restoring deterioration data of a display device, includes: reading deterioration data from a first storage unit; determining whether the deterioration data is abnormal by comparing a first deterioration value of a first block with adjacent deterioration values of adjacent blocks adjacent to the first block; restoring the deterioration data based on a look-up table in which a luminance retention rate according to a degree of deterioration is set and sensing data provided from a sensing unit, when the deterioration data is determined to be abnormal; and generating second image data by compensating for first image data based on the restored deterioration data. The display device includes blocks each including a pixel, the blocks include the first and adjacent blocks, the deterioration data includes deterioration values each representing a degree of deterioration of each of the blocks, and the deterioration values include the first and adjacent deterioration values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byoung Kwan An, Sang Myeon Han, Joon Hyeok Jeon
  • Patent number: 11308920
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may access an image to be displayed by a display. The system may determine one or more characteristics associated with a content of the image. The one or more characteristics may include a spatial frequency of the content in a spatial frequency domain. The system may determine a display persistence time period for the display to display the image based on the one or more characteristics associated with the content of the image. The system may configure the display to display the image using the display persistence time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC.
    Inventors: Alexander Goettker, Thomas Scott Murdison, Kevin James MacKenzie, Larry Seiler
  • Patent number: 11308919
    Abstract: A device (100) includes a plurality of display panels (102), a plurality of display controllers (116), each display controller of the plurality of display controllers being configured to control a corresponding display panel of the plurality of display panels, each respective display controller of the plurality of display controllers being configured to generate a timing indication (134), and a processor (136) coupled to the plurality of display controllers to receive the timing indications from the plurality of display controllers. Each timing indication is indicative of the respective display controller residing in a state ready for refresh of the corresponding display panel. The processor is configured to delay a refresh of the plurality of display panels until the timing indication is received from each respective display controller of the plurality of display controllers to synchronize the plurality of display panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Morris, Ying Zheng, Rajesh Dighde
  • Patent number: 11308896
    Abstract: The embodiments of this disclosure disclose a liquid crystal display device and a control method thereof, a head-mounted display device and a computer-readable storage medium. The control method of the liquid crystal display device comprises: obtaining a state of each pixel in the display panel based on inputted image data; obtaining a display zone comprising both pixels in a bright state and pixels in a dark state based on the state of each pixel in the display panel, and using the obtained display zone as a destination zone; obtaining a halo region based on the state of the pixels in the destination zone, wherein the halo region comprises pixels in the dark state in the destination zone; generating a first control signal based on the halo region; and controlling based on the first control signal a backlight zone to be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: BOE MLED TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tiankuo Shi, Zhihua Ji, Xiaomang Zhang, Lingyun Shi, Xiurong Wang, Hao Zhang, Lili Chen, Yilang Sun, Yifang Chu, Yanhui Xi, Wenyu Li, Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11310484
    Abstract: System and methods for allowing a person or a process to select between multiple spatial-temporal sub-channels provided within a multi-sub-channel video-audio stream being output to a viewer, where selection causes a specific sub-channel within the stream to be received when viewing through an active filter device. A single image of the stream comprises at least two spatial sub-channels and the stream comprises at least two temporal sub-channels, where spatial sub-channels are formed using polarization and restrictive narrow-band color filtering. The stream is output by a display or projector and viewed using an active filter device. The active filter device comprises a combination of an active spatial channel filter and an active temporal channel filter and is responsive to sub-channel selections indicated through either a manual or automatic content selection means, where an automatic selection means includes a program for example directing the person through an adjustable story movie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventors: James Andrew Aman, Delbert Jerard Aman, Jeffrey Paul Cheesman, David James Aman