Patents Examined by Jonathan M Blancha
  • Patent number: 11716456
    Abstract: A near-eye display device comprises right and left display projectors, expansion optics, and inertial measurement units (IMUs), in addition to a plurality of angle-sensitive pixel (ASP) elements and a computer. The right and left expansion optics are configured to receive respective display images from the right and left display projectors and to release expanded forms of the display images. The right IMU is fixedly coupled to the right display projector, and the left IMU is fixedly coupled to the left display projector. Each ASP element is responsive to an angle of light of one of the respective display images as received into the right or left expansion optic. The computer is configured to receive output from the right IMU, the left IMU and the plurality of ASP elements, and render display data for the right and left display projectors based in part on the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Edward Samples, Dmitry Reshidko, Rayna Demaster-Smith
  • Patent number: 11709366
    Abstract: A headset includes a housing, an optical assembly disposed in the housing, and an adjustment assembly coupling the optical assembly to the housing. The optical assembly includes a first lens and a second lens spaced from the first lens by a first distance. The adjustment assembly includes an interpupillary distance adjustment mechanism and an eye relief distance adjustment mechanism. The interpupillary distance adjustment mechanism is configured to adjust the first distance between the first lens and the second lens along a first axis. The eye relief distance adjustment mechanism configured to adjust the optical assembly a second distance along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Michael Ebert, Nathaniel David Ginzton, David Christopher Lindberg, Seth Moczydlowski
  • Patent number: 11709367
    Abstract: Systems and devices for controlling camera privacy in wearable devices are described. A camera cover can be provided that is movable between a closed position and an open position. In the closed position, the camera cover can occlude a field of view of a camera, such that the camera cannot capture meaningful data. In the open position, the camera cover can be at least partially out of the field of view of the camera, such that the camera can capture meaningful data. The camera cover can be positioned within a housing of the wearable device, and an actuator can be positioned external to the housing of the wearable device. A user can move the camera cover by moving the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Tiffin, Joshua Moore, Adam Carvalho
  • Patent number: 11699377
    Abstract: Image data for a current image frame may be compensated for transient response variations due to variations in display panel temperatures at various positions of the display panel by performing pixel drive compensation. The pixel drive compensation may be performed based at least in part upon display panel temperatures at various portions of the display panel. In this way, drive compensation corresponding to various temperature variations in a display panel may be implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Mahesh B. Chappalli
  • Patent number: 11694655
    Abstract: A video play system, a video play device, and a video play method are provided. The video play system includes: a display module and a plurality of play modules electrically connected to the display module. The plurality of play modules individually decode and transcode a video source having first resolution to generate target video data, and simultaneously output the target video data generated themselves to the display module. The display module plays a video image having second resolution according to multiple channels of the target video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jinfeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11694652
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a data interface device of a display apparatus including a timing controller, encoding clock-embedded image data corresponding to a logic high period of a data enable signal and clock-embedded blank data corresponding to a logic low period of the data enable signal and transferring an encoded data transfer packet to a transfer line, and a source integrated circuit generating an internal clock based on the encoded data transfer packet received through the transfer line and selectively decoding the clock-embedded image data based on the internal clock, wherein a transition pattern of the clock-embedded blank data differs in a plurality of transfer lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Seok Jeong, Young Ho Kim, Dong In Noh
  • Patent number: 11690271
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including an opening area and a display area at least partially surrounding the opening area; and a metal layer including a first region and a second region adjacent to a non-display area between the opening area and the display area, the first region and the second region are spaced apart from each other, and one of the first region and the second region includes a protrusion extending toward the other of the first region and the second region, and the other of the first region and the second region has a shape to receive the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyeyun Han, Gyeongnam Bang, Changho Lee
  • Patent number: 11687167
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and systems that enable a visual indicator for paused radar gestures. The techniques and systems use a radar field to enable an electronic device to accurately determine radar gestures, or other movement, by a user. Further, the electronic device can determine certain conditions that can make it difficult for the electronic device to properly determine the user's radar gestures. When the device includes an application that can be controlled using radar gestures (a radar-gesture application), and the conditions are present, the device can enter a gesture-paused mode. When the device enters this mode, the techniques provide a gesture-paused feedback element on a display, which lets the user know that there is at least one radar-gesture application available or running on the electronic device but that radar gestures cannot presently be used to control the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Devon James O'Reilley Stern, Leonardo Giusti, Vignesh Sachidanandam, Lauren Bedal, John David Jacobs
  • Patent number: 11675433
    Abstract: A picture generation unit emits a light field. A mirror reflects the light field toward a windshield of a motor vehicle such that the light field is reflected off of the windshield and is visible to the driver as a virtual image. An infrared emitter transmits infrared energy through the mirror such that the infrared energy is substantially co-axial with the light field, and such that the infrared energy is reflected off of the windshield toward the human driver. An infrared camera captures infrared images based on the transmitted infrared energy reflected off of the human driver and received by the infrared camera. Eye tracking is performed based on the captured infrared images. The infrared energy is transmitted at a higher power level at a beginning of the eye tracking than after the beginning of the eye tracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventor: Liang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11675211
    Abstract: A three-dimensional display apparatus comprises a display panel (display element) and a parallax barrier (optical element). The display panel displays a left-eye image and a right-eye image respectively in first subpixels and second subpixels. The parallax barrier transmits at least part of the left-eye image toward the left eye, and at least part of the right-eye image toward the right eye. A first certain number of the first subpixels and of the second subpixels are each successively arranged in each column. A region in which the first subpixels are arranged and a region in which the second subpixels are arranged are displaced from each other by a second certain number between two adjacent columns. The first certain number is greater than the second certain number and is not a multiple of the second certain number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY, KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hideya Takahashi, Goro Hamagishi, Kaoru Kusafuka
  • Patent number: 11668944
    Abstract: The invention is directed towards a wearable platform system (e.g., head-mounted computing device) that allows for various modular peripheral devices to be interchangeably attached and detached, as well as methods and systems for transitioning an operational mode of the wearable platform between a hard connection mode and a wireless connection mode when a peripheral device is attached to or removed from the wearable platform. Specifically, the wearable platform may include a base member coupled to one or more arm members. A variety of modular peripheral devices may be attached at a hardware interface of the wearable platform to provide varied functionality to the wearable platform. As a user begins to remove a peripheral device, the wearable platform system may determine the peripheral device is being removed from the wearable platform and may transition from a hard connection mode to a wireless connection mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: RealWear, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Iain Parkinson, Sanjay Subir Jhawar, Stephen A. Pombo, George Henry Hines, Nima Lahijani Shams
  • Patent number: 11656472
    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: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: LUMUS LTD.
    Inventors: Yaakov Greenstein, Uri Shultz, Shmuel Friedman
  • Patent number: 11657778
    Abstract: A display presents picture-in-picture and/or picture-by-picture formatted visual information initiated by secondary information handling systems while the display presents primary visual information. The display broadcasts plural partial video buffer definitions to plural information handling systems that can selectively initiate network sessions to present visual images in areas of the display by storage of visual image information in a portion of the display video buffer. The secondary display area may present visual images for IoT or similar headless devices having relevance to an end user of a primary information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Dengzhai Xiong, Eng Soon Tan
  • Patent number: 11648759
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a light-transmitting electroconductive film 10 comprising a light-transmitting base material 11 and an electroconductive part 13 provided on one surface of the light-transmitting base material 11, wherein the electroconductive part 13 includes a light-transmitting resin 15 and plural electroconductive fibers 16 incorporated in the light-transmitting resin 15, and the electroconductive part 13 can conduct electricity from the surface 13A of the electroconductive part 13, and the electroconductive fibers 16 as a whole are unevenly distributed on the light-transmitting base material side than the position HL, which is located at half the film thickness of the electroconductive part 13 in the electroconductive part 13, and the electroconductive part 13 has a surface resistance value of 200 ?/? or less, and the electroconductive film 10 has a haze value of 5% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichiro Ogumi, Yoshimasa Ogawa, Eiji Ooishi, Yukimitsu Iwata, Yuji Shimizu, Ryota Kitayama, Hiroaki Mutou
  • Patent number: 11645993
    Abstract: A display substrate has a display area and a peripheral area around the display area. The display substrate includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array in the display area, and an interface circuit, at least two serial-to-parallel converters and at least one display driver that are in the peripheral area. The interface circuit is configured to receive target data including a plurality of serial display data. A serial-to-parallel converter in the at least two serial-to-parallel converters is used to convert the plurality of serial display data into parallel display data. The serial-to-parallel converter is electrically connected to one display driver to provide the parallel display data to the display driver. The display driver is used to output display driving signals to a plurality of sub-pixels according to the parallel display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yehao Zhang, Meng Shi, Jing Zhao, Yadong Huang, Dapeng Liang, Zhenguo Xu, Xiuyun Chen
  • Patent number: 11639138
    Abstract: A display system is provided in a vehicle and includes: an HUD positioned inside the vehicle and configured so as to display, on the vehicle window, a surrounding environment video indicating the environment surrounding the vehicle; and a display control unit controlling the HUD such that the surrounding environment video is displayed on the window in accordance with prescribed conditions associated to the vehicle or the environment surrounding the vehicle and configured so as to reduce the transmittance of the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Shibata, Misako Kamiya, Naoki Takii, Masaaki Nakabayashi, Yoshiaki Fushimi
  • Patent number: 11631379
    Abstract: A data authorization controlling and matching system includes a receiver, a plurality of display devices, and at least one transmitter. The receiver is used for receiving an image signal. The plurality of display devices are coupled to the receiver for displaying the image signal. The at least one transmitter is coupled to the receiver for outputting the image signal. After a member list saved in the receiver is configured, a data link between the receiver and the at least one transmitter is established. Hardware information of the at least one transmitter is saved in the receiver. The receiver automatically identifies the at least one transmitter according to the hardware information of the at least one transmitter. After the at least one transmitter is identified, the receiver sets authorization information of the at least one transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignees: BenQ Intelligent Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd, BENQ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chia-Nan Shih, Lin-Yuan You, Chin-Fu Chiang, Chen-Chi Wu, Jung-Kun Tseng, Chuang-Wei Wu
  • Patent number: 11626084
    Abstract: An electronic device coupled to a display includes a graphics card and a processor. The graphics card reads the extended display identification data from the display. The processor determines, according to the extended display identification data, that the display is able to display a default resolution at a first refresh rate at most, and determines, according to the extended display identification data, whether the display device is able to display the default resolution at a second refresh rate that exceeds the first refresh rate. When it is determined that the display is able to display the default resolution at the second refresh rate, the processor adds the second refresh rate into the extended display identification data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jun-Liang Lu, Hsin-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11610560
    Abstract: An output apparatus includes circuitry to receive content data from a transmission source of the content data. The circuitry checks first format information for the content data to be output. The circuitry changes second format information of the content data to the first format information. The second format information is supported by a capture board. The capture board is connected between the transmission source and the output apparatus. The circuitry outputs the content data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Kamekura
  • Patent number: 11593923
    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: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pil Jae Min, Kwon Chung