Patents Examined by Ifedayo B Iluyomade
  • Patent number: 11347331
    Abstract: An active stylus couples to an information handling system by a removable clip that inserts into a slot formed in the information handling system housing. Power to charge a battery of the active stylus passes from an interface internal to the information handling system, through the clip and to a charger in the active stylus. The active stylus clip releases the active stylus in the presence of excessive force to prevent damage to the information handling system and active stylus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jace W. Files, John T. Morrison
  • Patent number: 11341885
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pixel charging method, including: a preset charging duration and a current time point are acquired when a first gate integrated circuit is turned on; a precharging period and an actual charging period of a scan line of each target integrated circuit of the thin film transistor substrate are determined based on the preset charging duration and the current time point; thin film transistor switches corresponding to the scan line of each of the target gate integrated circuits are controlled to be turned on during the precharging period and the actual charging period of the scan line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Yanna Yang, Zhenli Song
  • Patent number: 11340721
    Abstract: A user-interface assembly disclosed herein comprises: a supporting frame; a part for providing a switch function to the user-interface assembly and to be received in a recess formed in the supporting frame; and an overlay for covering and adhering to an upper surface of the supporting frame and an upper surface of the part by a back adhesive when the part is received in the recess; wherein a transition zone is provided around the part under the overlay, which transition zone extends at least from a sidewall of the recess toward the part such that the overlay can smoothly transit from the upper surface of the supporting frame to the upper surface of the part. Also disclosed herein is a corresponding method for integrating a touch assembly into a user-interface assembly. A flat design of a user-interface assembly can be achieved in a cost effective manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Hao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11334154
    Abstract: An eye tracking system can include an eye-tracking camera configured to obtain images of the eye at different exposure times or different frame rates. For example, longer exposure images of the eye taken at a longer exposure time can show iris or pupil features, and shorter exposure, glint images can show peaks of glints reflected from the cornea. The shorter exposure glint images may be taken at a higher frame rate (than the longer exposure images) for accurate gaze prediction. The shorter exposure glint images can be analyzed to provide glint locations to subpixel accuracy. The longer exposure images can be analyzed for pupil center or center of rotation. The eye tracking system can predict future gaze direction, which can be used for foveated rendering by a wearable display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: David Cohen
  • Patent number: 11330720
    Abstract: A detection device is provided including first substrate including first region, second region and third region arranged in first direction, second region arranged between first and third regions; first detection electrode arranged on first substrate; second detection electrode arranged on first substrate and being adjacent to first detection electrode; first electrode coupled to first detection electrode and continuously formed from first to third regions; second electrode coupled to second detection electrode, and continuously formed from first to third regions, convex portions located between first electrode and second electrode in second region and spaced away from first and second electrodes; and protective layer formed on first and second electrodes in first region and not formed on first electrode and second electrode in third region, wherein at least one of convex portions is covered with protective layer, and at least another one of convex portions is not covered with protective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Daisuke Sonoda, Toshimasa Ishigaki
  • Patent number: 11294495
    Abstract: For the purpose of improving the usability of an electronic whiteboard in, for example, setting work by a user, an electronic whiteboard (2) of the present invention includes: an event acquisition unit (22, 24) configured to acquire information indicating an object coming into contact with a display (3, 115) and event information such as the coordinates of a contact location; an identifying unit (25, 38) configured to identify whether the contact object is an electronic pen (4) or a user's hand, and identify the event type, such as stroke drawing, UI operation, or gesture operation, from the coordinates of a contact location and the model name of an electronic whiteboard; and a processing unit (26, 27, 32) configured to perform processing on the event the type of which has been identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Nakamura, Yuichi Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 11294179
    Abstract: A small imager mounted on a user's eye (referred to as a femtoimager) is coordinated with an external camera. The femtoimager may be contained in a contact lens, and it may be aligned with the gaze a user's eye. The femtoimager and external camera capture images with overlapping views of the external environment. Images from the two imagers may be compared with one another to estimate the femtoimager's view of the external environment relative to the camera's view of the external environment. This may then be used for different applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Tectus Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Elliot Lemoff, Ritu Raj Singh, Michael West Wiemer
  • Patent number: 11294463
    Abstract: The disclosed technologies address various technical problems, including improving human-computer interaction, by augmenting the functionality provided by user input devices using a digital glove. For example, a digital glove can be utilized to provide pressure sensitivity for non-pressure sensitive touchscreen devices, attribute input made with a digital pen to a user wearing the digital glove, augment the functionality provided by mice and other types of handheld user input devices, augment the functionality provided gaze tracking systems, improve camera-based motion tracking systems, and to augment the functionality provided by speech recognition systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Christian Klein, Andrew Stuart Glass, Sang Ho Yoon
  • Patent number: 11289043
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a gate driver on array (GOA) circuit and a thin-film transistor substrate. The GOA circuit includes a plurality of cascaded GOA units. Each stage of the GOA units includes: a pull-up control module, a pull-up module, a bootstrap module for raising a voltage potential of a pull-up control signal, a control module for transmitting the raised voltage potential of the pull-up control signal to a scan signal of a present stage to raise the voltage potential of the scan signal of the present stage, a pull-down module, and a pull-down holding module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xuhuang Zheng
  • Patent number: 11263945
    Abstract: This application discloses a driving method of a display panel, a driving circuit and a display device. The display panel includes a first gate driving circuit and a second gate driving circuit respectively controlling all gate lines in a scanning display area, and the driving method includes the following steps: when a first preset condition is met, controlling the first gate driving circuit to be in a dormant state, and meanwhile, controlling the second gate driving circuit to be in a working state; and when a second preset condition is met, controlling the second gate driving circuit to be in a dormant state, and meanwhile, controlling the first gate driving circuit to be in a working state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Zeyao Li
  • Patent number: 11257447
    Abstract: A monitor includes a timing controller coupled to a liquid crystal display panel. A scaler unit receives a change event notification associated with a change to a new overdrive setting of the liquid crystal display panel, and determines a set of lookup table values associated with the change to the new overdrive setting of the liquid crystal display panel. The scaler unit determines a size of data to be transmitted based on the set of lookup table values, and divides the data to be transmitted into data portions based on factors that include the size of the data to be transmitted, speed of an inter-integrated circuit bus, or length of a vertical blank period. The scaler unit then transmits one of the data portions during the vertical blank period via the inter-integrated circuit bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Hyunseok Ko, Guentaek Oh
  • Patent number: 11244616
    Abstract: A display panel and an image data compensation method thereof are provided. The display panel includes a first data driving module and a second data driving module. The first data driving module is configured to provide image data signals for a first display area and perform De-Mura compensation. The second data driving module is configured to provide image data signals for a second display area and perform De-Mura compensation. The first data driving module is configured to obtain image data of the second display area after De-Mura compensation, and adjust image data of a first compensation area adjacent to the second display area in the first display area. The second data driving module is configured to obtain image data of the first display area after De-Mura compensation, and adjust image data of a second compensation area adjacent to the first display area in the second display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN ROYOLE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xingling Guo, Xiaoping Tan
  • Patent number: 11243608
    Abstract: A control method for a head-mounted visual apparatus, a corresponding computing apparatus, a head-mounted visual apparatus and a computer-readable storage medium. The head-mounted visual apparatus has an infrared transceiver including an infrared light source array and an infrared detector. The control method comprises the steps of: driving each sub-light source to emit coherent infrared light to form an interference enhanced scanning light spot on a face of a user who wears the head-mounted visual apparatus; controlling each phase of the coherent infrared light emitted by each sub-light source respectively to make the scanning light spot move in the local area, including eyes, of the face of the user, to realize a scanning of the local area; and using the infrared detector to receive the infrared light reflected from the local area to generate scanning data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanjie Lu, Xi Li, Hao Zhang, Lili Chen, Peng Han, Yu Lei, Huidong He
  • Patent number: 11217140
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of driving a display panel and a driving device. The present invention determines sub-pixels shared by sub-pixel rendering technology through comparing differences of the color components, and the sub-pixels shared by the display image are not fixed. Since the sub-pixels with the smallest absolute value of the color component difference are selected for sharing, a contrast of an edge region of an image is improved, and distortion of an edge region of an image is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Inventors: Liuqi Zhang, Baixiang Han
  • Patent number: 11210521
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storing section configured to store scenario information and device information associated with the scenario information. The scenario information includes information configured such that another information processing apparatus executes presentation or reception of predetermined information when the other information processing apparatus determines that a predetermined condition is satisfied. The device information includes information representing specifications of hardware of the other information processing apparatus required when the other information processing apparatus executes at least one of the determination that the predetermined condition is satisfied and the presentation or the reception of the predetermined information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Aonuma, Kaoru Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11200832
    Abstract: A pixel circuit is provided. A first terminal and a second terminal of a light-emitting sub-circuit are coupled to a first power supply terminal and a compensation sub-circuit respectively. A short-circuiting sub-circuit is coupled to the first terminal and the second terminal of, and short-circuits under control of a short-circuiting control terminal, the light-emitting sub-circuit. The compensation sub-circuit is coupled to a data voltage terminal, a reference voltage terminal, and a first electrode and a gate electrode of a driving transistor. The light-emitting sub-circuit emits a light of brightness in a level corresponding to a current flowing therethrough. The compensation sub-circuit loads, based on the data voltage terminal and the reference voltage terminal, a driving voltage related to a threshold voltage of the driving transistor onto the gate electrode of the driving transistor, such that a current flowing through the driving transistor is not influenced by its threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mengyu Luan, Xinfeng Wu, Youyuan Hu, Xinzhu Wang, Fei Li, Huihui Li, Chengpeng Zhao, Bo Mao, Kai Yang, Zhongsheng Qi, Jie Liu
  • Patent number: 11189228
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, a method for driving a pixel circuit, and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes: a storage circuit, a data writing circuit, a light emitting driving circuit, and a compensation circuit. The data writing circuit is configured to write a data voltage to the storage circuit under control of a scanning control signal; the storage circuit is configured to store the data voltage and enable a stored data voltage to be available to the compensation circuit for a compensation operation; the compensation circuit is configured to maintain a compensation voltage based on the stored data voltage at a control terminal of the light emitting driving circuit under control of a compensation control signal; and the light emitting driving circuit configured to drive the light emitting element to emit light under control of the compensation voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Quanhu Li, Yongfu Diao, Wenkang Wang, Zhongliu Yang, Mingjing Yang
  • Patent number: 11170686
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a controller which generates a gate reference signal, a gate control circuit which outputs a gate driving signal based on the gate reference signal, and a gate driving circuit which provides gate signals to the plurality of pixels based on the gate driving signal. The gate control circuit includes a protection enable circuit which detects a first period of the gate reference signal, determines whether the period of the gate reference signal is changed, and generates a protection enable signal when the first period of the gate reference signal is not changed, and an over-current protection circuit which generates an over-current occurrence signal by detecting an over-current of the gate driving signal, and stops outputting the gate driving signal based on the over-current occurrence signal and the protection enable signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keun Oh Kang, Dae-Sik Lee, Ji Youn Seo, Jong Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 11170720
    Abstract: The invention provides a display panel driving apparatus and a driving method thereof. The display panel driving apparatus includes a source driver circuit and a timing controller circuit. The source driver circuit loads data to data lines of the display panel in load data periods. The timing controller circuit controls the source driver circuit for dynamically configuring a time length of one of the load data periods according to whether charge sharing occurs. When a charge sharing operation is not performed on at least two of the data lines in the load data period, the load data period has a first time length. When the charge sharing operation is performed on at least two of the data lines in the load data period, the load data period has a second time length longer than the first time length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Pang-Jen Chiang, Jen-Chieh Hu, Chin-Hung Hsu
  • Patent number: 11170677
    Abstract: The present application discloses a clock signal test circuit, a control method thereof, a display panel and a test device. The clock signal test circuit comprises: N clock control signal lines; M control sub-circuits, each of which includes at least two control branches, wherein each of the control branches is configured to output a signal input from the input signal line to the corresponding output signal line under the control of a signal input from the corresponding clock control signal line; and a pull-down sub-circuit including N pull-down branches, wherein each of the pull-down branches is configured to output the first power supply voltage to the corresponding output signal line under the control of the signal input from the corresponding clock control signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yongqian Li