Patents Examined by Minh Q Phan
  • Patent number: 11899222
    Abstract: The invention discloses an anti-shake camera module, an anti-shake photosensitive assembly, and manufacturing method thereof and an electronic device. The anti-shake photosensitive assembly includes a circuit board assembly, at least one driver, and at least one photosensitive element. The circuit board assembly provides at least one attachment surface. Each driver is correspondingly attached to each attachment surface of the circuit board assembly. Each photosensitive element is correspondingly arranged on each driver, and the driver is located between the photosensitive element and an attachment surface of the circuit board assembly, so that the corresponding photosensitive element is moved by the driver, thereby achieving the anti-shake function for the anti-shake photosensitive assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NINGBO SUNNY OPOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuhui Liu, Wangzhen Zhang
  • Patent number: 11895794
    Abstract: A state detection apparatus and method for a folding screen and a folding screen apparatus. The state detection apparatus includes: at least one connection assembly, including a first component and a second component, the first component and the second component being electrically conductively coupled or decoupled correspondingly according to a motion state of the folding screen; and a detection assembly electrically coupled to the connection assembly, and configured to detect a state of electrical conduction connection or disconnection between the first component and the second component and determine a state of the folding screen according to the state of electrical conduction connection or disconnection between the first component and the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiankun Hu, Chunjie Lou
  • Patent number: 11892759
    Abstract: SMA actuators and related methods are described. One embodiment of an actuator includes a base; a plurality of buckle arms; and at least a first shape memory alloy wire coupled with a pair of buckle arms of the plurality of buckle arms. Another embodiment of an actuator includes a base and at least one bimorph actuator including a shape memory alloy material. The bimorph actuator attached to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Hutchinson Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Ryan N. Ruzicka, Yasushi Sakamoto, Mark A. Miller
  • Patent number: 11888374
    Abstract: An optical element driving mechanism is provided, including a movable portion, a fixed portion, a driving assembly, and an assisting assembly. The movable portion is used for connecting to an optical element having a main axis. The movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion. The driving assembly is disposed on the movable portion or the fixed portion for driving the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The movable portion is movably connected to the fixed portion through the assisting assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Chao-Chang Hu, Chen-Hsien Fan, Shang-Hung Chen, He-Ling Chang, Chih-Wei Weng
  • Patent number: 11880126
    Abstract: An embodiment comprises: a housing; a bobbin, accommodated inside the housing, for mounting a lens; a first coil arranged on an outer peripheral surface of the bobbin; magnets arranged in the housing; a coil board that comprises second coils arranged below the housing and arranged so as to be spaced from each other, and connection parts connected to the second coils; a circuit board, which is arranged below the coil board and comprises first pad parts arranged at locations corresponding to the connection parts; and a conductive adhesive member for bonding the connection part and the first pad part, which correspond to each other, wherein each of the connection parts comprises a groove part depressed from the outer surface of the coil board, and exposing any one corresponding upper surface among the first pad parts, and a bonding part prepared around the groove part, and the conductive adhesive member is arranged on the upper surface of the bonding part and on the upper surface of the first pad part exposed by
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Bong Park, Jun Taek Lee
  • Patent number: 11880090
    Abstract: An optical element driving mechanism is provided, including a movable part for connecting an optical element; a fixed part, wherein the movable part can move relative to the fixed part; a driving assembly for driving the movable part to move relative to the fixed part; and a supporting assembly, wherein the movable part can move relative to the fixed part in multiple dimensions via the supporting assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Chao-Chang Hu, Chen-Hsien Fan, Che-Wei Chang, Chih-Wei Weng, Chia-Che Wu, Mao-Gen Jian, Chien-Yu Kao, Sung-Mao Tsai
  • Patent number: 11874583
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a composite display device capable of switching between an electronic viewfinder function and a sighting device function. The composite display device includes an eye window and an object window, an organic EL panel that displays a sighting mark that is an indicator, and a photochromic mirror that is a reflective optical element for guiding the indicator to the eye window. A determination unit determines a subject, and a distance-measuring unit measures a distance to the subject. A body control unit controls the organic EL panel, and a photochromic mirror control unit controls a state and a shape of the photochromic mirror. The body control unit performs control for adjusting the projected position of the sighting mark on the basis of distance information of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichi Osada, Takashi Miyazaki, Koichi Odagaki
  • Patent number: 11874425
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying a blind spot in one or more decoupled measurements. The method may comprise disposing an electromagnetic well measurement system into a wellbore. The electromagnetic well measurement system comprise an electromagnetic transmitter and a plurality of electromagnetic receivers. The method may further comprise transmitting electromagnetic fields into a formation with the electromagnetic transmitter, measuring the electromagnetic fields with the plurality of electromagnetic receivers as one or more measurements at one or more depths in the wellbore, decoupling the one or more measurements to form decoupled measurements, identifying if a blind spot is in the decoupled measurements, and performing an inversion with the decoupled measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Li Pan, Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Yi Jing Fan, Jin Ma
  • Patent number: 11868037
    Abstract: A camera assembly includes a motor configured to generate a driving power; a motor shaft that extends from the motor, such as to define a first axis, and is configured to rotate by the driving power of the motor; a pulley configured to rotate on a second axis, that is spaced from the first axis, according to rotation of the motor shaft; a belt configured to couple the motor shaft and the pulley, and convert the rotation of the motor shaft to rotation of the pulley, and tension of the belt applies a force to the motor shaft in a direction towards the second axis; a camera module configured to be mounted on the pulley and rotate together with the pulley; and an elastic body configured to apply a biasing force to the motor shaft such as to bias the motor shaft in a direction away from the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HANWHA TECHWIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Yeon Kim, Byeong Ho Lee, Hye Jin Yu
  • Patent number: 11860125
    Abstract: A system for detecting wear in an encoder used to sense a wheel speed in a vehicle comprises a sensor configured to sense the wheel speed of the vehicle by sensing a magnetic material on the encoder coupled to a wheel of the vehicle. A noise detection module includes a plurality of noise detectors configured to detect noise in a wheel speed signal generated by the sensor. An estimation module is configured to estimate a state of health of the encoder based on the noise detected in the wheel speed signal and to generate an alert in response to the state of health indicating that an amount of wear on the encoder is greater than a predetermined threshold. A filter is configured to filter the noise in the wheel speed signal and to output a filtered wheel speed signal to a control system controlling stability of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Mohit Batra, Jasmeet Singh Ladoiye, Milad Alekajbaf, Douglas James Spry
  • Patent number: 11862901
    Abstract: An interposer for a test system includes coaxial cables, each of which is configured to transport a first portion of current originating from a current source, and printed circuit boards (PCBs), each of which is connected to a set of the coaxial cables in order to receive the first portion of the current from each coaxial cable in the set and to transport a second portion of the current. A spring leaf assembly includes spring leaves, each of which is connected to a PCB in order to transport a third portion of the current obtained from the PCB to a device interface board (DIB) that connects to devices under test (DUTs) to be tested by the test system. The coaxial cables on each PCB are arranged in parallel, the PCBs are arranged in parallel, and the spring leaves on each PCB are arranged in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TERADYNE, INC.
    Inventors: Frank Parrish, Diwakar Saxena, Michael Herzog, Edward Dague, Michael F. Halblander
  • Patent number: 11843849
    Abstract: In an operation by line-of-sight input, a position (designated position) designated by a gaze point is easier to view after a determination operation is performed by a user than before the determination operation is performed. An electric device includes a detector configured to detect a gaze point on a display unit, and a control unit configured to display an indicator indicating the gaze point on the display unit, wherein, in a case where a setting to keep displaying the indicator even in a case where an operation is performed on an operation unit by the user is set, the control unit performs control, in response to an operation performed on the operation unit by the user, to display a display item at the gaze point and to display the indicator and the display item in a changed display order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Seiji Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11835601
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a magnetoresistive (MR) magnetic field sensor system includes a MR magnetic field sensor bridge. The MF magnetic field sensor bridge includes a sense leg with a sense element with a first layer with a first fixed magnetization orientation and, a second layer with a first free magnetization orientation, the first free magnetization orientation orthogonal to the first fixed magnetization orientation at a zero applied magnetic field. A reference leg of the MF magnetic field sensor bridge is electronically connected in parallel to the sense leg. The reference leg includes at least one reference element with a third layer with a second fixed magnetization orientation parallel to, and in the same direction as, the first fixed magnetization orientation, and a fourth layer with a second free magnetization orientation, the second free magnetization orientation parallel to the first fixed magnetization orientation at the zero applied magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Brad Engel, Phillip Mather
  • Patent number: 11838612
    Abstract: An electronic view finder unit provided in an image pickup apparatus is movable between a retracted state in which the electronic view finder unit is retracted in a main body and a projecting state in which the electronic view finder unit projects from the main body. The electronic viewfinder unit includes a viewfinder having a display device, an eyepiece portion, and a lens holder. The eyepiece portion is slidable between an inserted position and an extracted position in the optical axis direction of the lens. At the position where, in the projecting state, the eyepiece portion is extracted, the viewfinder is rotatable around an axis orthogonal to the optical axis of the lens. Both during the rotating operation of the viewfinder and in a state in which the rotating operation has completed, the movement of the eyepiece portion from the extracted position to the inserted position is limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Kei
  • Patent number: 11828955
    Abstract: A position sensing circuit that can be used with a position control device including a differential sensing coil unit having a first sensing coil and a second sensing coil disposed to face a conductor disposed on one side of a lens barrel. The position sensing circuit includes: a differential oscillation circuit generating a first oscillation signal having a first amplitude based on a first inductance of the first sensing coil, variable according to positional movement of the conductor, and a second oscillation signal having a second amplitude based on a second inductance of the second sensing coil, variable according to positional movement of the conductor; an amplitude detection circuit detecting the first amplitude of the first oscillation signal and the second amplitude of the second oscillation signal; and a signal processing circuit calculating the first amplitude and the second amplitude to calculate a position value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joon Hyung Lim, Chang Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 11825814
    Abstract: A system for external fish parasites monitoring in aquaculture, the system comprising: —a camera (52) suitable to be submerged in a sea pen suitable for containing comprising fish, the camera being arranged for capturing images of the fish; and—an electronic image processing system (86) configured for identifying external fish parasites on the fish by analyzing the captured images, wherein: —a ranging detector (54) configured for detecting the presence of fish and measuring a distance from the detector to the fish is mounted adjacent to the camera (52); and—an electronic control system (12) is arranged to control a focus of the camera (52) on the basis of the measured distance and to trigger the camera (52) when a fish has been detected within a predetermined distance range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: INTERVET INC.
    Inventors: Russel Howe, Zachary Lizer, James Wallace Sarrett, Peter Jon Abrahamson, Jascha Tucker Little
  • Patent number: 11815570
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic sensor includes a first magnetic part, a first magnetic member, a second magnetic part, a second magnetic member, a first element, a second element, a third element, a fourth element, and a first interconnect. The first magnetic part includes first, second, and third portions. The first portion is between the second and third portions. The second magnetic part includes fourth, fifth, and sixth portions. The fourth portion is between the fifth and sixth portions. The first element includes a first magnetic layer. The second element includes a second magnetic layer. The third element includes a third magnetic layer. The fourth element includes a fourth magnetic layer. The first interconnect includes first and second interconnect portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hitoshi Iwasaki, Akira Kikitsu, Yoshihiro Higashi, Satoshi Shirotori
  • Patent number: 11815794
    Abstract: SMA actuators and related methods are described. One embodiment of an actuator includes a base; a plurality of buckle arms; and at least a first shape memory alloy wire coupled with a pair of buckle arms of the plurality of buckle arms. Another embodiment of an actuator includes a base and at least one bimorph actuator including a shape memory alloy material. The bimorph actuator attached to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hutchinson Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Ryan N. Ruzicka, Yasushi Sakamoto, Mark A. Miller
  • Patent number: 11809013
    Abstract: An optical system is provided. The optical system includes a first optical module. The first optical module includes a fixed portion, a movable portion, a driving assembly, and a circuit assembly. The movable portion is movably connected to the fixed portion, and the movable portion is used to connect to an optical element. The driving assembly is used to drive the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The circuit assembly is electrically connected to the driving assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Jungsuck Ryoo, Pai-Jui Cheng, Chao-Chang Hu, Min-Hsiu Tsai, Shu-Shan Chen, Chieh-An Chang
  • Patent number: 11803101
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a method for setting the focus of a film camera. In one embodiment, for example, the method includes the steps of: obtaining distance information from a measuring device arranged in a region of the film camera, the measuring device producing a real image and a depth image; setting the focus of the film camera using the obtained distance information; producing a real image which is augmented with depth information from the measuring device; and calculating the real image into the image of the film camera by means of an image transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: QINEMATIQ GMBH
    Inventor: Martin Waitz