Patents Examined by Michael J Jansen, II
  • Patent number: 11567323
    Abstract: A partial electronic see-through HMD includes one or more subassemblies that occlude a central portion of a user's field of view (the peripheral portions of the user's field of view may remain unobstructed). Each subassembly includes an outward facing camera, a display, and an eyepiece. Images of the occluded central zone are captured by the camera and projected to the user via the display and eyepiece. The projected images can also include electronic information, such as AR image overlays. The peripheral zones are not occluded and remain directly viewable by the user. Thus, the projected images complete (or partially complete) the user's FOV of the external environment between the peripheral zones and may provide additional electronic information to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Vision Products, LLC
    Inventor: Michael P. Browne
  • Patent number: 11567534
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include wearable devices and methods for performing courier services. In one implementation, the device includes a depth camera for detecting object depths in a field of view, a scanner for decoding visual codes, a speaker for producing audible sounds in response to an electrical signal, memory, and a processor. The processor may execute instructions to detect a scanning event based on a first signal received from the depth camera, determine a scan region associated with the scanning event, provide a second signal to the scanner causing the scanner to decode a visual code located within the scan region, generate scan data based on a third signal received from the scanner, and provide a fourth signal to the speaker causing the speaker to emit a notification sound. The wearable device may also capture signatures, dimension objects, and disable device functions based on time and place restrictions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Federal Express Corporation
    Inventor: Reuben F. Burch
  • Patent number: 11567596
    Abstract: A touch display device includes a light-emitting component, a first insulating layer, a touch part, a first transmission part, a first conductive connection structure, a second transmission part and a bonding part. The light-emitting component is disposed within a display area. A first insulating layer is disposed above the light-emitting component and disposed within the display area and a peripheral area. The touch part is disposed above the first insulating layer and within the display area. The first transmission part is disposed within the peripheral area. The first transmission part is electrically connected to the touch part. The second transmission part is disposed below the first transmission part and within the peripheral area. The first transmission part is electrically connected to the second transmission part via the first conductive connection structure. The bonding part is electrically connected to the second transmission part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Hsiao-Lang Lin, Jui-Jen Yueh
  • Patent number: 11545099
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The A display apparatus includes a plurality of subpixels, the plurality of subpixels comprising a plurality of first subpixels, a plurality of second subpixels, and a plurality of third subpixels. The plurality of third subpixels are arranged in an array of I columns and J rows. The display apparatus includes a plurality of repeating units. A respective repeating unit of the plurality of repeating units includes one of the plurality of first subpixels, one of the plurality of second subpixels, and two of the plurality third subpixels. The two of the plurality third subpixels in the respective repeating unit are arranged along a first direction or a second direction, the one of the plurality of first subpixels and the one of the plurality of second subpixels in the respective repeating unit are arranged along the second direction or the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lujiang Huangfu, Zhenzhen Li, Wenjing Tan
  • Patent number: 11543893
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to input devices configured for use with computing devices. The present invention relates to input device configured with a plurality of input members grouped into contoured-shaped bowls on a portion of the input devices. The input device may also be configured for use with multiple hand positions and multiple profiles based on the hand positions. The input device may enable switching between user-programmable profiles, and may include sensory feedback indicating the profiles active on the input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Christopher Pate, Cormac O Conaire, Marten Helwig, James Lynch
  • Patent number: 11538399
    Abstract: A display panel, a driving method, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a data-writing module, a driving module, a compensation module, and a first light-emission controller. The driving module is configured to provide driving current for the light-emitting element. The driving module includes a driving transistor, and the driving transistor is an NMOS transistor. The data-writing module is connected between a data-signal input terminal and a first terminal of the driving transistor for selectively providing a data signal for the driving module. The compensation module is configured to compensate a threshold voltage of the driving transistor. The first light-emission controller is connected between a first power signal terminal and a second terminal of the driving transistor for selectively providing a first power signal to the driving module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jieliang Li, Jiaxian Liu
  • Patent number: 11538411
    Abstract: A display device and a method for driving the display device are discussed, which can save costs and implement high luminance by adopting a voltage sensing scheme for accurately sensing characteristic values of the light emitting device in the subpixel for compensation while also increasing the available display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: MooKyoung Hong, KwangMo Park
  • Patent number: 11531392
    Abstract: A system, having: a first sensor module having an inertial measurement unit and configured to be attached to a forearm of a user and to generate first motion data identifying an orientation of the forearm connected between a hand of the user and an upper arm of the user; a second sensor module having an inertial measurement unit and configured to be attached to the hand of the user and to generate second motion data identifying an orientation of the hand; and a computing device communicatively coupled to the first sensor module and the second sensor module through communication links, the computing device configured to calculate, based on the orientation of the forearm, a position of the forearm, and the orientation of the hand, an orientation of the upper arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: FINCHXR LTD.
    Inventors: Viktor Vladimirovich Erivantcev, Alexey Ivanovich Kartashov, Roman Tagirovich Karimov, Gary Stuart Yamamoto, Guzel Kausarevna Khurmatullina
  • Patent number: 11531416
    Abstract: A display device with a touch detection function including: a plurality of elements performing display operation; a plurality of touch detection electrodes arranged side by side to extend in one direction, and each outputting a detection signal based on a change in an electrostatic capacitance caused by an external proximity object; a conductive film insulated from or connected with high resistance to the touch detection electrodes, and disposed to cover the touch detection electrodes; and a touch detection circuit detecting the external proximity object by sampling the detection signal. The conductive film has a sheet resistance equal to or smaller than a predetermined resistance value, and has a time constant larger than a predetermined minimum time constant defined by sampling timings in the touch detection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Koji Noguchi, Osamu Ishige
  • Patent number: 11526270
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for limiting notifications on an electronic device. In one example process, data representing a user input can be received by an electronic device. The data representing the user input can include touch data from the touch-sensitive device, ambient light data from an ambient light sensor, intensity data from a contact intensity sensor, and/or motion data from one or more motion sensors. Based on the data, it can be determined whether the user input is a cover gesture over a touch-sensitive display of the electronic device. In response to determining that the user input is a cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display, the electronic device can be put into a DND mode for a predetermined amount of time. While in the DND mode, the electronic device can cease to output some or all notifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Gary Ian Butcher, Imran Chaudhri, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kevin Lynch, Curtis A. Rothert, Monica Jenkins
  • Patent number: 11521535
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device comprises: a display including a plurality of display modules; a display driving unit including a plurality of driving modules connected to each of the plurality of display modules; a storage for storing current control information according to the luminance of a display device; and a processor for calculating the maximum power amount available in each of the plurality of display modules on the basis of the entire power capacity, which can be provided by the plurality of driving modules, and of the individual power consumption amount of each of the plurality of display modules, calculating a peak luminance level of each of the plurality of display modules on the basis of the calculated maximum power amount, and controlling, on the basis of the current control information, the plurality of driving modules such that each of the plurality of display modules has the corresponding peak luminance level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-hyang Lee, Ho-seop Lee
  • Patent number: 11520443
    Abstract: A touch display panel and a touch display device are provided. The touch display panel has a display region and a non-display region arranged on a periphery of the display region, and the display region has a non-rectangular shape. The touch display panel comprises a plurality of first touch electrodes and a plurality of second touch electrodes. The plurality of first touch electrodes is arranged in the display region. The plurality of second touch electrodes is arranged at a side of the first touch electrode next to the non-display region. The second touch electrode has a different shape from the first touch electrode. An area of the first touch electrode is S1, an area of the second touch electrode is S2, and S1 and S2 satisfy: 0.85S1S21.15S1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yangzhao Ma, Baoling Chen, Boping Shen, Ling Wu
  • Patent number: 11514848
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the display device includes a timing controller configured to output a power control signal for controlling a driving current to the data driver. The data driver includes a plurality of source driving integrated circuits (SDICs) which each supplies the data voltage to each of the plurality of active areas. The timing controller generates the power control signal depending on a difference value between comparison data which is the maximum data transition value between adjacent pixel rows disposed in each of the plurality of active areas and edge comparison data which is the maximum data transition value between adjacent pixel rows disposed in the plurality of edge active areas. Thus, it is possible to improve an image quality at a boundary between the active areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: MinKi Kim, JinSung Kim
  • Patent number: 11514870
    Abstract: A timing controller, a display panel and a driving method are proposed. The display panel includes a display sub-pixel and a virtual sub-pixel. The display sub-pixel includes first sub-pixels, second sub-pixels and third sub-pixels. If the grayscale information of the two adjacent first sub-pixels are the same, then a driving signal of the virtual sub-pixel is the same as a driving signal of a third sub-pixel close to the virtual sub-pixel; otherwise, the driving signal of the virtual sub-pixel is the same as a driving signal of the third sub-pixels, which are outnumbered in the histogram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Guangxing Xiao
  • Patent number: 11508303
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided to include a pixel array composed of a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a pulse-generating unit producing a first pulse and a second pulse with opposite phases; a first switching unit; a light-emitting unit; and a second switching unit. The first switching unit, the light-emitting unit, and the second switching unit are connected in series, the first switching unit is controlled by the first pulse, and the second switching unit is controlled by the second pulse, and the first switching unit and the second switching unit are configured to be turned on or turned off synchronously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SeeYA Optronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhongshou Huang
  • Patent number: 11508274
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a technique for determining a fault of a data line disposed in a display panel using a data driving device. The data driving device may determine a fault of a data line by supplying a data voltage corresponding to a greyscale value to a data line and checking whether another data line is influenced by the data voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jung Min Choi
  • Patent number: 11488546
    Abstract: A driving controller of a display device includes a timer which counts an operation time and outputs a count signal, a memory which stores compensation data, a control signal generation part which receives the compensation data from the memory in response to the count signal and outputs a compensation data signal corresponding to the compensation data, and an image processor which converts an image signal into a data signal and outputs the data signal, where the data signal is obtained by combining the image signal and the compensation data signal. The compensation data includes first compensation data corresponding to a first operation time and second compensation data corresponding to a second operation time which is different from the first operation time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyung-Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 11488504
    Abstract: A driving circuit includes a gamma chip configured to provide a plurality of initial binding point voltages; the gamma chip including a first type of output terminals and a second type of output terminals, currents corresponding to the initial binding point voltages outputted by the first type of output terminals being less than a preset driving current; and currents corresponding to the initial binding point voltages outputted by the second type of output terminals being greater than the preset driving current; and a data driving chip including a processor and a plurality of operational amplifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., HKC Corporation Limited
    Inventor: Li Tang
  • Patent number: 11481066
    Abstract: A capacitance-sensing circuit may include a channel input associated with measuring a capacitance of a unit cell of a capacitive sense array. The capacitance-sensing circuit may also include a capacitive hardware baseliner that is coupled to the channel input. The capacitive hardware baseliner generates a baseline current based on a time constant of the channel input associated with the measuring of the capacitance of the element of the capacitive sense array using the programmable baseline resistor. The capacitive hardware baseliner provides the baseline current at the channel input to provide a charge for a sense capacitor. A change in the charge of the sense capacitor is provided by the baseline current indicating a presence of a tough object proximate to the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Denis Ellis, Kaveh Hosseini, Timothy Williams, Gabriel Rowe, Roman Ogirko, Brendan Lawton
  • Patent number: 11468845
    Abstract: A scan driver including a stage that includes: an input circuit controlling a voltage of a first node in response to signals at first and second input terminals; a first signal processing circuit controlling a voltage of a second node in response to the signal at the first input terminal and supplies a voltage of a first power to the second node in response to the signal at the second input terminal; a second signal processing circuit supplying a voltage of a second power to the first node in response to a signal at a third input terminal and the voltage of the second node; a first output circuit outputting the signal at the third input terminal as a first scan signal; and a second output circuit outputting a signal at a fourth input terminal as a second scan signal at a different time from the first scan signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Hwan Kim, Eun Ju Kim