Patents Examined by Mark Edwards
  • Patent number: 11726560
    Abstract: Low-power eye tracking for detecting position and movements of a user's eyes in a head-mounted device (HMD). An eye tracking system for an HMD may include eye tracking cameras and eye odometers that may reduce power consumption of the system. The eye odometers may be used as a low-power component to track relative movement of the user's eyes with respect to the HMD between frames captured by the eye tracking cameras, which may allow the frame rate of the eye tracking cameras to be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Tom Sengelaub
  • Patent number: 11726576
    Abstract: A system for allowing an individual to request assistance in a retail environment, the system comprising: (a) providing a physical device comprising at least one sensor, wherein the at least one sensor is capable of recognizing a set of gestures; (b) providing software to distinguish unwanted gestures from desired gestures within the set of gestures; (c) providing a means of communicating a notification to store associates within the retail environment; and (d) providing a means of resetting or canceling the request for assistance. Alternatively, the device may house a low power secondary sensor that is capable of detecting motion and/or the heat signature of a human hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Indyme Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Budano, Steven Deal
  • Patent number: 11720202
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including: a display layer; and a sensor layer on the display layer, and including first, second, and third areas; a first driver electrically connected with the sensor layer through a first pad area; and a second driver electrically connected with the sensor layer through a second pad area. The sensor layer includes: a plurality of electrodes at the first, second, and third areas; a plurality of first intersecting electrodes at the first area, and electrically connected with the first driver; a plurality of second intersecting electrodes at the second area, and electrically connected with the first driver and the second driver; and a plurality of third intersecting electrodes at the third area, and electrically connected with the second driver. Each of the first pad area and the second pad area is spaced from the second area in a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soowon Kim, Jaseung Ku, Hyungchul Kim, Yerin Oh
  • Patent number: 11714507
    Abstract: A sensor region of a touch sensor may include active and inactive sensor regions. The inactive sensor regions may include one or more routing connectors electrically connected to the active sensor regions, electrically connected to connection forming elements, and/or electrically connected to tracking lines. At least two sides of a periphery of the touch sensor may be free of tracking lines. Sensing systems and touch displays may include touch sensors with such sensor regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Amtel Corporation
    Inventors: Rob Ann Beuker, Mark Cheng, Yona Tsai, Samuel Daniel Brunet
  • Patent number: 11710445
    Abstract: The disclosure describes various aspects of backplanes, including unit cells, architectures, and operations. In an aspect, a backplane unit cell is described that includes first and second switches, a storage element, a comparator, a source (e.g., a current or voltage source), where the source generates a drive signal to control light emission of a selected one of the light emitting elements in a display, and where the drive signal is based on a power signal selected by the second switch. In another aspect, a device is described that includes a backplane configured in an active matrix topology including multiple data columns and multiple row selects; and a set of electrical contacts associated with the active matrix topology and configured to electrically couple the backplane with the display, the display having multiple light emitting elements configured in a passive matrix topology. Methods of operation of the backplane are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Gang He
  • Patent number: 11698696
    Abstract: A touch display panel and a touch display device. The touch display panel includes a first display area, a second display area and a binding area arranged along a first direction, and a touch bonding pad is arranged in the binding area and is configured to input touch driving signals; a plurality of touch electrodes are arranged in each of the first display area and the second display area; the touch display panel further includes a plurality of touch signal lines extending along the first direction and arranged at intervals along a second direction, the touch bonding pad is electrically connected to the touch electrodes by the touch signal lines; and touch signal lines electrically connected to the touch electrodes in the first display area are first touch signal lines, touch signal lines electrically connected to the touch electrodes in the second display area are second touch signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI AVIC OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huijun Jin, Dandan Qin
  • Patent number: 11699387
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels. One of the pixels includes a light emitting diode and a driving circuit coupled to the light emitting diode. A display frame period includes at least two emission periods. The light emitting diode emits light according to a data signal including a gray level in each of the at least two emission periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Hirofumi Watsuda
  • Patent number: 11693525
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a touch display device. A body portion and a wing portion of a touch electrode are formed by cutting the electrode metal along the direction in which the electrode metal is arranged. The body portion, the wing portion and a dummy metal located therein are irregularly formed, so that it is possible to improve the performance of touch sensing and improve the visibility of the electrode metal. In addition, in the case of a large-area touch display device, by dividing the touch electrode line and forming a cutting pattern corresponding to the divided boundary of the touch electrode line inside the touch electrode line, it is possible to prevent the divided boundary of the touch electrode line from being recognized and reduce a load on the touch electrode line, thereby improving the performance of touch sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jonghyun Han, Youngsoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11693495
    Abstract: An active stylus including a pen housing, a pen core module disposed in the pen housing, a control module disposed in the pen housing, and an elastic member assembled to the control module and the pen core module is provided. The pen core module has a first end and a second end opposite to each other. The first end is protruded out of the pen housing. The control module has a force sensing element, and an elastic force of the elastic member drives the second end of the pen core module to be abutted to the force sensing element seamlessly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: EMRight Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien Chia Lien, Ting-Cheng Lai
  • Patent number: 11681113
    Abstract: A head mounted display including a first optical system, a second optical system, a first display, a second display, a first driver and a first adjusting system is provided. The first display is assembled to an object side of the first optical system. The second display is assembled to an object side of the second optical system. The first adjusting system is connected to the first driver, the first optical system, the first display and the second display. The first driver drives the first adjusting system to adjust a distance between the first display and the second display in a first mode. The first driver drives the first adjusting system to adjust a distance between the first display and the first optical system in a second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Li-Hsun Chang, Kuan-Ying Ou
  • Patent number: 11669121
    Abstract: A joystick includes a casing, a stick body, an identification mark and an optical sensor. The casing has a hole. The stick body is movably disposed on the casing. The stick body has a first section and a second section. The first section penetrates through the hole to protrude from the casing, and the second section is inside the casing. The identification mark is disposed on the second section of the stick body. The identification includes a first line group and a second line group crossed to each other. The first line group and the second line group respectively has a plurality of lines with different widths and arranged adjacent to each other. The optical sensor is disposed inside the casing and adapted to acquire an identification image containing the identification mark to determine a gesture of the stick body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Chao-Chien Huang, Yi-Chung Chen
  • Patent number: 11670241
    Abstract: A display element includes a light-emitting unit of a current drive type, and a drive unit that drives the light-emitting unit, in which the drive unit includes a capacitance unit, a drive transistor that causes a current corresponding to a voltage held by the capacitance unit to flow through the light-emitting unit, and a write transistor that writes a signal voltage to the capacitance unit, the drive transistor and the write transistor are formed in a state of being separated by an element isolation region, on a semiconductor substrate, and a capacitance generated in a portion where the drive transistor and the write transistor face each other through the element isolation region functions as at least a part of the capacitance unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Kei Kimura
  • Patent number: 11656759
    Abstract: A method of sensing an interaction with an object using a semitransparent tactile surface (STS) sensor having an image sensor and a semitransparent membrane includes capturing, by the image sensor, a stream of images; separating the stream of images into a visual stream including light traveling through the semitransparent membrane and a tactile stream including light reflecting off of the semitransparent membrane; and processing the visual stream and tactile stream through a multimodal deep neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Francois Hogan, Michael Jenkin, Gregory Lewis Dudek, Yogesh Girdhar, Sahand Rezaei-Shoshtari, David Meger
  • Patent number: 11656730
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit having a display area with a first hole formed therein, and an input sensing unit which is disposed on the display unit and having a second hole corresponding to the first hole, the input sensing unit includes a base layer which includes: an adjacent area adjacent to the second hole; and a sensing area overlapping the display area, detection electrodes disposed on the sensing area; and a first connection wiring disposed on the adjacent area and that electrically connects at least two detection electrodes spaced apart by the second hole, disposed at respective sides of the second hole. The display unit includes dams disposed adjacent to the first hole, each of the dams forming a closed loop along edges of the first hole. The first connection wiring overlaps at least one of the dams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Bum Kim, Hyung Chul Kim, Jung Mok Park, Young Sik Kim, Young Seok Yoo
  • Patent number: 11650707
    Abstract: The present application discloses a capacitive sensing device and a sensing method thereof. A plurality of driving signals corresponding to a plurality of driving codes are outputted to a plurality of driving electrodes, thereby, a plurality of sensing signal are generated on a plurality of sensing electrodes corresponding to the driving electrodes, where the sensing signals are decoded to sensing data by an operation circuit. Hereby, the calculation function of the operation circuit according to the present application may be simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Sitronix Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Chun-Liang Chen, Sheng-Ying Lin
  • Patent number: 11645029
    Abstract: Systems and methods for remotely monitoring display assemblies are provided. Each of the electronic display assemblies includes sensors in electronic communication with a controller, which is in electronic communication with a network communication device. At a monitoring center, different customer identifiers are associated with different portions of data, a particular customer identifier is received from a customer device, the portions of the data associated with the particular customer identifier are identified for transmission to the customer device, and one or more user displays are generated with the identified data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventors: Elliot Newnham, Brock Bearchell, William Dunn
  • Patent number: 11639806
    Abstract: Various embodiments of smart thermostats are presented herein. A smart thermostat can include a thermostat housing defining a rounded front aperture and having a sidewall. The smart thermostat can include a capacitive touch strip that senses a plurality of gestures. The smart thermostat can include an electronic display. The electronic display may be caused to display icons arranged in a graphical arc. The smart thermostat may include a reflective cover positioned such that the electronic display is viewed through the reflective cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ranhee Chung, Dongkyu Lee, Sung Kyun Bai, Maj Isabelle Olsson, Andrew William Goldenson, Justin Wodrich, William Dong, Sathya Kurcharlapati, Eyal Ron, Prathik Muppidi
  • Patent number: 11640066
    Abstract: A wearable computing device includes: a wearable housing; a display assembly supported by the housing and switchable between (i) an active configuration to occlude an optical path between an operator field of view and an exterior of the wearable computing device, and (ii) a fail-safe configuration to clear the optical path; and a mitigation subsystem including an actuator controllable to switch the display assembly from the active configuration to the fail-safe configuration in response to detection of a display failure condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: William R. Bang, Ronald Zancola
  • Patent number: 11635843
    Abstract: An electronic device, includes: a sensor layer having an active region and a peripheral region adjacent to the active region, the sensor layer including a plurality of sensing units on the active region and a plurality of wiring lines on the peripheral region, wherein each of the plurality of sensing units includes a plurality of sub-sensing units, wherein each of the plurality of sub-sensing units includes: a first portion extending in a first direction; a plurality of second portions protruding from the first portion; a plurality of cross patterns spaced apart from each other across the first portion; and a bridge pattern insulated from the first portion and electrically connected to the plurality of cross patterns, the bridge pattern intersecting the first portion, wherein the plurality of wiring lines include a first wiring line and a second wiring line that are electrically connected to the plurality of sub-sensing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gyeongnam Bang, Deokjung Kim, Eunyoung Kim, Hyeyun Han
  • Patent number: 11635805
    Abstract: A wearable device according to various embodiments may include a display configured to allow external light toward a first surface to go through a second surface opposite to the first surface, and having a display area on the second surface, a memory for storing instructions, at least one camera, and at least one processor configured to, when executing the instructions, display content on the display area of the display, detect an external entity using the at least one camera, recognize the external entity as a controller for controlling the content having one designated shape of a plurality of designated shapes, identify a posture change of the external entity recognized as the controller, a gesture input for the external entity recognized as the controller, or a combination thereof using the at least one camera, and control the content, based on the identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jueun Lee, Choonkyoung Moon, Shinjae Jung