Patents Examined by Jonathan M Blancha
  • Patent number: 11978371
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling presentation on a foldable display of an electronic device is provided. A foldable electronic device comprises a foldable housing including a hinge structure, a first housing structure and a second housing structure foldable and unfoldable with respect to the first housing structure about the hinge structure. The electronic device includes a processor and a memory to store instructions that cause the processor to receive a first user input to select an application program; detect a change from a folded state to an unfolded state; determine whether the selected application program has user interface size restrictions; and in the unfolded state, display a user interface of the selected application on at least a portion of the foldable display, based in part on the screen size restriction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Duncan Knarr, Andrew R McHugh, Seokhyun Yoon
  • Patent number: 11966062
    Abstract: A head-mounted augmented reality device (10) includes a pair of optical modules (12) for the right and left eyes of the user, each having a collimating display source (14) optically coupled to a light guide (16) for directing image illumination towards an eye of the user. A support structure (20) is supported by the head of the user. An optical bench (22) provides a first set of alignment features (26, 28, 32, 74) for aligning and affixing the right optical module and a second set of alignment features (26, 28, 32, 74) for aligning and affixing the left optical module. A suspension arrangement suspends the optical bench relative to the support structure. The optical bench (22) provides the sole mechanical connection between the pair of optical modules (12) and the support structure (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Lumus Ltd.
    Inventors: Yaakov Greenstein, Uri Shultz, Shmuel Friedman
  • Patent number: 11960096
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes an image display unit (300a, 300b) configured to emit image light, a light guide member (100a, 100b) configured to guide the image light and emit the image light to eyes of a wearer who wears the head-mounted display device, and a relay optical system (201a, 201b) arranged between the image display unit and the light guide member, and configured to relay the image light from the image display unit to the light guide member, and form an intermediate image at least once before the image light enters the light guide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigenobu Hirano, Yasuo Katano, Kenji Kameyama, Norikazu Igarashi, Satomi Tanaka, Naoki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11958607
    Abstract: A support configured to be reversibly installed on an upper part of an uncovered backrest of a seat. The support includes a plate configured to bear, completely or partly, against a rear face of the backrest, three clamping mechanisms, a Li-Fi technology data communicator connected to the plate, and a connector. Each clamping mechanism includes a bearing member and a clamping screw that are configured to cooperate with the plate so as to clamp a structural frame of the backrest between the bearing member and the plate. The connector being connected to the data communicator by a cable and being connectable an electronic equipment item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LATELEC
    Inventors: Bastien Puertolas, Jérémy Pisanu
  • Patent number: 11961425
    Abstract: A display device may include a first pixel, a second pixel, a first data line electrically connected to the first pixel, a second data line electrically connected to the second pixel and electrically insulated from the first data line, a first signal wire electrically connected to the first data line, a second signal wire electrically connected to the second data line, and a connecting wire electrically connecting the second data line to the second signal wire. The connecting wire may include a first section and a second section. The second section may be directly connected to the first section, may overlap the first pixel, may overlap the first data line, and may be oblique relative to each of the first data line and the second data line in a plan view of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee Rim Song, Gyung Soon Park, Mu Kyung Jeon
  • Patent number: 11947125
    Abstract: Optical assemblies may include a projector assembly, a waveguide, and a mounting mechanism. The projector assembly may be configured for generating an image, and the waveguide may be configured for transmitting the image to a location in front of a user's eye. The mounting mechanism may removably couple the waveguide to an underlying frame. The mounting mechanism may include a detachable coupling, at least one flexure secured to a peripheral edge of the waveguide, and at least one flexure support coupled to the at least one flexure. The flexure support may be removably secured to the detachable coupling by a removable retainer. Various other related systems, methods, and devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chandrashekar Subba, Shobhit Verma, Jason Victor Tsai
  • Patent number: 11947124
    Abstract: A display device of the present disclosure includes an optical system, the optical system including an image light generation device configured to generate image light, a projection optical system including an optical element, the optical element including an optical surface asymmetric in a direction along at least a first axis of two axes orthogonal to each other and perpendicular to an optical axis of the image light, a support member configured to support the optical element, a first adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a position of the optical element in the direction along the first axis, and a second adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a position of an emission region of the image light in the direction along the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi Yonekubo, Masafumi Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 11948531
    Abstract: A light source device, including a first light source, providing a first light beam in a first time period of a first period; and a second light source, providing a second light beam in a second time period of the first period, is provided. The first light beam and the second light beam have the same color temperature. The first light beam and the second light beam are emitted alternately in the first period, and a color rendering index of mixed light of the first light beam and the second light beam is greater than or equal to 85.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Tzung-Te Chen, Hsin-Yun Tsai, Shih-Yi Wen, Chia-Fen Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11941219
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a base layer including a sensing area and a non-sensing area; and a sensor electrode disposed in the sensing area and including sensor patterns. The sensing area may include a first area including at least one non-square boundary with a predetermined curvature and a second area not including the non-square boundary. In an exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept, sensor patterns disposed in the first area and sensor patterns disposed in the second area among the sensor patterns may have different sizes from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Jun Choi, Il Joo Kim, Deok Jung Kim
  • Patent number: 11941790
    Abstract: The present disclosure may improve contrast and deep black by efficiently controlling local dimming in consideration of the ratio of a black image data and the non-uniformity in the area between blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pil Jae Min, Kwon Chung
  • Patent number: 11942032
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first transistor including a semiconductor layer, a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode and the second electrode respectively electrically connected to a source area and a drain area of the semiconductor layer, and a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode corresponding to a channel area of the semiconductor layer and facing each other, and a capacitor including a first capacitor electrode, a second capacitor electrode above the first capacitor electrode, and a third capacitor electrode below the first capacitor electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junhyun Park, Dongwoo Kim, Sungjae Moon, Kangmoon Jo
  • Patent number: 11935502
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure can receive a hardware Vsync signal from a display, generate a hardware timestamp signal based on the hardware Vsync signal, determine an error for a pulse in the hardware timestamp signal, determine whether the error for the pulse is over a threshold, synchronize a software Vsync signal based on the hardware timestamp signal, wherein the pulse of the hardware timestamp signal is ignored in synchronization based on whether the error is above the threshold, and control rendering and transmission of a frame to the display based on the synchronized software Vsync signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Nan Zhang, Long Han, Yongjun Xu
  • Patent number: 11930207
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a display device, a signal processing device, and a signal processing method which make it possible to realize interpolation more suitable for viewing when interpolating motion between original images. Provided is a display device which includes a signal processing unit that, when an interpolation frame is generated for original frames along a time axis, the interpolation frame interpolating between the original frames, controls an interpolation rate of the interpolation frame depending on motion between the original frames in a certain direction. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a television receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Kunio Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11927758
    Abstract: A display system includes a wearable eyewear arrangement with a projector for propagating display light associated with an image and a waveguide for propagating the display light to an eye box. The waveguide includes volume Bragg gratings (VBGs), which may be in groups of three or more gratings with same horizontal period allowing each color to be coupled out from the waveguide by the same type of grating, thus, at the same angle, reducing or eliminating image blurriness and ghost images while allowing a smaller size waveguide. A 100% reflective mirror or mirror array is used for broad spectrum reflection into the waveguide for light input. Selection of two or more wavelengths for each color at the projector provides spectral response matching to the waveguide allowing wider field of view (FOV) coverage for the entire wavelength spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Wanli Chi, Dominic Meiser, Yang Yang, Ningfeng Huang
  • Patent number: 11906740
    Abstract: There is provided a display system used for a head mounted display including a head mounted device having a lens for guiding image light to an eye of a user and configured to be mounted on a head of the user and a portable terminal having an imaging unit for photographing a front of a display surface and capable of being housed in the head mounted device. The display system includes a display control section configured to display a moving image on the display surface, an image information obtaining section configured to obtain image information photographed by the imaging unit, and a position information obtaining section configured to obtain position information of an optical axis of the lens on the display surface on the basis of position information of at least two reference positions whose relative positions with respect to the optical axis are determined in advance, the at least two reference positions being included in the image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Manabu Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11886765
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device, where when the head-mounted display device enables a low power consumption display mode, a left-eye display system and a right-eye display system alternately display an image. A switching time interval for the left-eye display system and the right-eye display system to alternately display the image is determined based on a current display mode. Different current display modes correspond to different switching time intervals, or correspond to a same switching time interval. Therefore, in the low power consumption display mode of the head-mounted display device, one display system displays the image within a same time period to reduce power consumption of the head-mounted display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chunjing Mao
  • Patent number: 11887550
    Abstract: A display system including a tracking subsystem configured to track one of a pose of a head of a viewer or a pose of an eye of the viewer. The display system further includes an image correction module configured to, for each pixel of at least a subset of pixels of an input image, determine a pixel view angle for the pixel based on the pose of the head or the pose of the eye, determine a corrected pixel value based on an input pixel value of the pixel in the input image and based on the pixel view angle; and provide the corrected pixel value for the pixel in an angle-corrected image corresponding to the input image. The display system further includes a display panel to display the angle-corrected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Llull, John D. Perreault, Andrew Huibers
  • Patent number: 11875006
    Abstract: Techniques are described for using an alternating-current-mode (AC-mode) bridge for low-noise self-capacitor sensing in a capacitive touch panel array integrated with a display panel. Each channel of the array has a self-capacitance (Ci) that changes responsive to presence or absence of a local touch event local. Pairs of channels are read out differentially by coupling pairs of channels to branches of an AC-mode bridge. The AC-mode bridge includes current sources that drive each branch (and thereby each channel) with a sinusoidal current, manifesting a branch voltage on each branch based on the self-capacitance of the branch. The branch voltages are used to generate an output voltage. The sinusoidal current is controlled by comparing a driver signal with feedback from the branches, so that common-mode noise on the channels becomes a common-mode component of the sinusoidal currents and is rejected in the generation of the output voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao Yang, Mohamed Elsayed, Dazhi Wei
  • Patent number: 11875080
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an object sharing method and apparatus. The method can include: receiving target information sent by a second head-mounted device, where the target information is used to indicate a target object contained in a second image collected by the second head-mounted device; generating prompt information for the target object according to a first image collected by a first head-mounted device. Through the technical solution of the present disclosure, users wearing different head-mounted devices can share a target object in a same scenario. When any head-mounted device pays attention to a certain target object, users of other head-mounted devices can be prompted about the target object, improving interaction experience between users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING SUPERHEXA CENTURY TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Shaohua Su
  • Patent number: 11868608
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described herein related to a secured stylus. A secure connection is established between a digitizer processor in a computing device and a remote server providing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). A digitizer interposer implemented in the computing device, the server, and/or between them receives raw or encrypted digitizer input that bypasses the operating system (OS) and processor of the computing device. Digitizer signal processing, normally performed by the OS, is performed on one or more servers. An edge server provides haptic feedback to a stylus and/or generates display of temporary digital ink as created while a cloud server completes digital ink processing and generates video for display by the computing device. A secure connection between a graphics processing unit (GPU) and the server protects secure connection video by encryption bypassing the OS and processor of the user computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Shoham Dekel, Assaf Bar-Ness, Orr Srour