Patents Examined by Lixi C Simpson
  • Patent number: 11217191
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a plurality of sub-pixels, each sub-pixel including at least one memory; a setting circuit configured to select either a first mode in which a still image is displayed or a second mode in which a moving image is displayed; and a switching circuit configured to switch coupling between the sub-pixels and the memories according to the selection made by the setting circuit. The first mode is a mode in which each of the sub-pixels is coupled to one of the at least one memory included in the sub-pixel, and the second mode is a mode including a time period in which at least one of the sub-pixels is coupled to the at least one memory included in another of the sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Yutaka Mitsuzawa
  • Patent number: 11204502
    Abstract: A rendering section renders an object in a virtual space to generate a computer graphics image. A post-process section post-processes the computer graphics image. A transmitting and receiving section transmits the post-processed computer graphics image together with depth information to a head mounted display for superimposing the post-processed computer graphics image on a captured image in a real space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Ohashi
  • Patent number: 11205061
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensor includes a substrate, and a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the substrate, and including a plurality of first pattern parts and a plurality of first connectors. The plurality of first electrodes is repeatedly arranged in a second direction intersecting a first direction, and the plurality of first connectors connects the plurality of first pattern parts in the first direction. The fingerprint sensor further includes an insulating layer disposed on the plurality of first electrodes, and a plurality of second electrodes disposed on the insulating layer, and including a plurality of second pattern parts and a plurality of second connectors. The plurality of second electrodes is repeatedly arranged in the first direction, and the plurality of second connectors connects the plurality of second pattern parts in the second direction. The plurality of first connectors and/or the plurality of second connectors include a metal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seokwhan Chung
  • Patent number: 11200400
    Abstract: A fingerprint identification apparatus and an electronic device applicable to an electronic device having a display screen, including: an optical function layer, disposed between the display screen and a middle frame of the electronic device, wherein the optical function layer includes a quarter-wave plate and a polarizer, and the polarizer is disposed under the quarter-wave plate; and an optical fingerprint module, disposed under the optical function layer, and configured to receive a fingerprint optical signal transmitted through the quarter-wave plate and the polarizer, wherein the fingerprint detecting signal is used for detecting fingerprint information of a finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mengping Li, Canhong Du, Songjin Zhong
  • Patent number: 11194419
    Abstract: A touch sensor display device and an interface method thereof are provided. The touch sensor display device comprises a display panel in which a touch panel, gate lines, data lines, sensing lines, and subpixels are disposed; a gate driver circuit drives the gate lines; a data driver circuit drives the data lines; a touchscreen driver circuit drives the sensing lines, and includes a sleep module which controls switching to a sleep mode, and a wake-up module which performs a wake-up function to cancel and return to a normal state, and transmitting a sleep mode signal pattern or a wake-up signal pattern to the micro control unit; and a micro control unit determining whether a touch is detected, by the touchscreen driver circuit. Accordingly, power consumption is reduced in the display device. A mode change is performed by a driver circuit to enable rapid mode changes while reducing power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JuneGun Chung, Youngwoo Jo
  • Patent number: 11176351
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a fingerprint identification method and apparatus, a storage medium, and a terminal. The fingerprint identification method includes: collecting a to-be-identified fingerprint image of a to-be-identified fingerprint; calculating an image correlation between the to-be-identified fingerprint image and a standard fingerprint image, wherein the standard fingerprint image is a fingerprint image collected from a standard fingerprint; and determining whether the to-be-identified fingerprint is consistent with the standard fingerprint according to the image correlation. The solution provided by the present disclosure can effectively improve the accuracy of fingerprint identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Shanghai Harvest Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xueke Hu, Tianyang Wang, Fei Wang, Sheng Feng, Fengjun Gu, Jiandong Huang
  • Patent number: 11170197
    Abstract: Provided is a biometric recognition apparatus and a fingerprint feature extraction method that can automatically optimize parameters used for extracting a feature template from a biometric image. The biometric recognition apparatus includes: a teacher data generation unit that generates a genuine pair and an imposter pair of a first biometric image and a second biometric image; a learning data generation unit that uses a plurality of different temporary parameters to extract feature templates from the first biometric image and the second biometric image; and an optimum solution determination unit that calculates a score separation degree on the temporary parameter basis based on a first score representing a similarity degree of a pair of the feature templates extracted from the genuine pair and a second score representing a similarity degree of a pair of the feature templates extracted from the imposter pair and determines the temporary parameter based on a level of the score separation degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuya Shimahara
  • Patent number: 11151776
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques for adjusting a prediction level and a throttle level, as frames are being rendered on a head-mounted display (HMD), based on an application's rendering performance. The prediction level is increased if a number of late frames, out of a past N rendered frames of (N being any suitable number), meets or exceeds a threshold number of late frames, which causes a compositor of the HMD to predict pose data of the HMD farther out into the future. The throttle level can be increased independently from, or in synchronization with, the increase in the prediction level to causes the compositor to throttle the frame rate of the application (e.g., to a fraction of the refresh rate of the HMD). The prediction level (and the throttle level, if at the same level) can be decreased if a particular number of consecutively-rendered frames finish rendering early.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron Leiby, Alex Vlachos
  • Patent number: 11138941
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display includes a display area including a pixel for receiving an emitting signal and emitting light, and first and second emitting signal generators provided on respective sides of the display area. Each of the first and second emitting signal generators includes a plurality of emitting signal stages. Each of the plurality of emitting signal stages are respectively connected to n-numbered pixel rows, and two adjacent emitting signal stages to which the n-numbered adjacent pixel rows are connected are in a same one of the first and second emitting signal generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jong Seok Woo
  • Patent number: 11132969
    Abstract: A display device which achieves both a high-accuracy sensing operation and smooth input in a touch sensor unit is provided. The display device includes a display unit and the touch sensor unit. The touch sensor unit performs a touch sensing operation when the display unit does not perform a display image rewriting operation; thus, a highly accurate sensing operation is possible. A gate driver of the display unit includes a first circuit and a second circuit. The second circuit includes a plurality of shift registers. Only a display image of a region that needs to be rewritten can be rewritten. The first circuit is a shift register and designates a shift register from the plurality of shift registers included in the second circuit to operate. In the case where an image in the entire display region does not need to be rewritten, the time assigned for the sensing operation of the touch sensor unit increases, leading to the smooth input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11106297
    Abstract: A display apparatus with an integrated touch screen is provided. The display apparatus includes: a light-emitting device layer on a first substrate, a first encapsulation layer on the light-emitting device layer, a touch sensing layer on the light-emitting device layer, and a second encapsulation layer on the touch sensing layer, the second encapsulation layer including at least one inorganic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae-Kyung Kim, Wonyeol Choi
  • Patent number: 11099031
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for calibrating the Zero Rate Offset (ZRO) of a gyroscope are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: IDHL Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan A. Cook, Yun Li
  • Patent number: 11100892
    Abstract: A system may include a display element. The display element may include pixel groups. Each of the pixel groups may include: a first sub-pixel configured to output light of a first color; a second sub-pixel configured to output light of a second color; a third sub-pixel configured to output light of a third color; and a fourth sub-pixel configured to output light, wherein the fourth sub-pixel has a maximum brightness that is dimmer than a maximum brightness of each of the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher A. Keith, Jana Wills, Michael Newman, Michael A. Ropers, Bobby D. Foote
  • Patent number: 11100898
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method of adjusting an electronic device display based on eyewear properties. Eyewear properties such as tint level, tint shade, and polarization are obtained from eyewear, a database, or manual entry. The device display is then adjusted based on the eyewear properties to facilitate viewability of the electronic display for the user while wearing the eyewear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michal Broz, Steven D. Clay, Richard S. Schwerdtfeger, Shunguo Yan
  • Patent number: 11067802
    Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) apparatus comprising at least one optical system, each optical system comprising a lens having a reflective optical surface and an HMD device associated with and distanced from the reflective optical surface. The HMD device comprises a substrate having horizontal and/or vertical convex curvatures having a curved geometric profile which continuously curves with smooth transitions in horizontal and/or vertical dimensions. The curved profile is dimensioned to curve around a temple of a wearer and extend in a direction toward an ear of a wearer. The substrate comprising a plurality of pixel elements arranged along the horizontal convex curvature and being controlled to selectively radiate light representative of computer-generated content (CGC) to the associated reflective optical surface such that those selected pixel elements for display emanate rays of the light for subsequent reflection from the reflective optical surface toward a respective one eye of the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregory A. Harrison, David A. Smith, Joshua D. Kitain
  • Patent number: 11030947
    Abstract: A display device includes a display including a plurality of pixels having a plurality of light-emitting elements, a pixel selector configured to select a pixel from among a plurality of pixels, a positional information generator configured to generate the positional information representing the position of the selected pixel, and a light emission processor configured to superpose the positional information on the light emitted by the selected pixel. A position detecting device is used to detect and output the positional information superposed on the light of the selected pixel on the display device, thus making it easy to accurately detect the position of the pixel subjected to calibration in luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryoji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11023571
    Abstract: The present invention is for registering and authenticating biometric data in an electronic device, the electronic device including: a display including a touch sensor; a fingerprint sensor for acquiring fingerprint data through at least a partial region of the display region of the display; and a processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Inventors: Haechang Lee, Jaehyung Park, Jiwoong Oh, Pil-Joo Yoon
  • Patent number: 11017709
    Abstract: The invention provides a driving method for a pixel matrix. The pixel matrix includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a matrix, the polarity of data lines is inverted once every two columns, the polarity of the voltage loaded in the direction of the data lines is exchanged once every N sub-pixels, and each data line alternately loads the voltage to the lth column and (I+2)th column of sub-pixels every N sub-pixels. The driving method includes: acquiring original pixel data; generating a first driving voltage and a second driving voltage according to the original pixel data; and loading the first driving voltage or the second driving voltage to the pixel matrix along the data lines within one frame, where I?1, N?2. In addition, the invention further provides a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: XIANYANG CAIHONG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yusheng Huang, Yuyeh Chen
  • Patent number: 11010578
    Abstract: A capacitive fingerprint recognition unit using a thin-film transistor (TFT) sensor array to sense a user's fingerprint in a capacitive manner, a capacitance measurement circuit of a fingerprint sensor, and a fingerprint recognition device having the capacitance measurement circuit are disclosed. A capacitive fingerprint recognition unit includes a thin-film transistor (TFT) sensor array, a gate driver, an upper switch and a lower switch. The TFT sensor array includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of sensing lines, a plurality of TFTs connected to the gate line and the sensing line, and a fingerprint recognition pattern connected to each of the TFTs. The gate driver sequentially supplies a gate signal to the gate line. The upper switch is connected to a first end of each of the sensing lines and the lower switch is connected to a second end of each of the sensing lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Inventor: Sang-hyun Han
  • Patent number: 11010004
    Abstract: An input element includes: a first electrode and a second electrode that face each other; and an intermediate layer disposed between the first and the second electrodes and made of rubber or a rubber composition, the rubber or rubber composition containing siloxane. The intermediate layer is made of rubber or a rubber composition, the rubber or rubber composition containing siloxane that has a silicon atom bound to three to four oxygen atoms. The intermediate layer has concentration profiles such that, while oxygen increases from one side to the other side of a thickness direction thereof and has a maximal value, carbon decreases from the one side to the other side thereof and has a minimal value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mayuka Araumi, Yuko Arizumi, Makito Nakashima, Megumi Kitamura, Tomoaki Sugawara, Tsuneaki Kondoh, Takahiro Imai, Junichiro Natori, Hideyuki Miyazawa, Mizuki Otagiri