Patents Examined by Minh Q Phan
  • Patent number: 11698572
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for controlling a multi-axial point tilt of a camera lens and a method therefor, characterized by controlling a camera lens to move within a common stroke section among respective stroke sections in which the camera lens can move in an axis direction (z-axis) parallel to an optical axis direction at each of three or more axial points, wherein the camera lens is moved to a target position by using a compensation factor that is compensated such that a lens movement distance for each control code is the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: DONGWOON ANATECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Da Woon Lee, Young Ho Lee, Noh Yeol Park
  • Patent number: 11696022
    Abstract: Disclosed is an auxiliary capturing device for remotely controlling a capturing action of a capturing device. The capturing device is provided with a plurality of function keys, the plurality of function keys includes a press function key, a rotation function key, and a toggle function key, the auxiliary capturing device includes: a device body configured to be detachably mounted on the capturing device; an electric drive mechanism provided on the device body, a plurality of drive portions being formed on the electric drive mechanism, the plurality of drive portions being connected to the press function key, the rotation function key, and the toggle function key, respectively, to drive the press function key, the rotation function key, and the toggle function key to perform corresponding capturing actions; and a control assembly electrically connected to the electric drive mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: ZHONGSHAN YUEGUANG INTELLIGENT IMAGING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenming Tang, Siqi Guo
  • Patent number: 11693031
    Abstract: A meter collar is an adapter that may be inserted between a meter socket box and the meter. The meter collar may include a housing that is provided with first contacts to facilitate a mechanical and electrical connection with utility-side contacts of the meter socket box and second contacts to facilitate a mechanical and electrical connection with customer-side contacts of the meter socket box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: INFINITE INVENTION INC.
    Inventors: Sebastian Hassell, John Schroeder, Jon Knauer, Katie Bentley, Whitman Fulton
  • Patent number: 11686770
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable medium described herein relate to techniques for characterizing and/or anomaly detection in integrated circuits such as, but not limited to, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). In one example aspect of certain example embodiments, a fully digital technique relies on the pulse width of signals propagated through a path under test. In another example aspect, the re-configurability of the integrated circuit is leveraged to combine the pulse propagation technique with a delay characterization technique to yield better detection of certain type of Trojans and the like. Another example aspect provides for running the test through reconfigurable path segments in order to isolate and identify anomalous circuit elements. Yet another example aspect provides for performing the characterization and anomaly detection without requiring golden references and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: GRAMMATECH INC.
    Inventor: Jason Alvin Dickens
  • Patent number: 11674822
    Abstract: A position detection device includes a first position detector, a second position detector, and a signal generator. The first position detector includes a first magnetic field generation unit, a second magnetic field generation unit, and a first magnetic sensor. The second position detector includes a third magnetic field generation unit, a fourth magnetic field generation unit, and a second magnetic sensor. The positions of the second and fourth magnetic field generation units vary in response to variations in a detection-target position. The signal generator generates a position detection signal, which is the sum of a first detection signal generated by the first magnetic sensor and a second detection signal generated by the second magnetic sensor. Each of the first and second position detectors includes a bias magnetic field generation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Umehara, Hayato Miyashita, Keisuke Uchida, Hiraku Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 11662232
    Abstract: A sensor package including a metal carrier and a sensor chip arranged on the metal carrier and having a first sensor element. In an orthogonal projection of the sensor chip onto a surface of the metal carrier, at least two edge sections of the sensor chip are free of overlap with the surface of the metal carrier. The sensor chip is designed to detect a magnetic field induced by an electric current flowing through a current conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Volker Strutz, Rainer Markus Schaller
  • Patent number: 11656532
    Abstract: An information handling system peripheral camera ensures privacy with a cover that minimizes distance of a camera module to a front opening of the camera housing. For instance, opposing cover members rotate about geared ends that engage to translate rotation between the members, where the members meet over a camera opening to block capture of visual images and move to opposing sides to expose the camera module. In an alternative embodiment, a rotating shutter arrangement selectively covers the camera for security and also covers a microphone to provide security against unauthorized audible access through the camera. Selective covering and exposing of a camera module, infrared camera, microphone and user presence detection sensor support adaptive security at a camera based upon end user context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Peng Lip Goh, Suet Chan Law, Eng Kang Chng, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 11656535
    Abstract: A shoe device of an accessory that secures necessary functions and mechanical strength when the accessory is used with attaching to an electronic apparatus and that improves convenience during use when the accessory is used without attaching to an electronic apparatus. An engagement member is attachable to and detachable from an accessory shoe device of an electronic apparatus by sliding in a first direction. A holding member holds the engagement member. An attachment part is provided in the engagement member or the holding member and allows attachment of a member different from the accessory shoe device. A connection member has connection terminals arranged in a second direction that intersects perpendicularly with the first direction and is arranged in a front of the holding member in the first direction. The attachment part is provided behind the connection terminals in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Okano, Kenji Ishii, Keita Hirayama
  • Patent number: 11650482
    Abstract: An optical system is provided, including a first optical module, a second optical module, and a light-quantity adjustment module. The first optical module, the second optical module, and the light-quantity adjustment module are arranged in a direction of an optical axis. The first optical module and the second optical module are movable in the direction of the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Chao-Hsi Wang, Shu-Shan Chen, Chao-Chang Hu, Chih-Wei Weng
  • Patent number: 11619546
    Abstract: A sensing module is provided. The sensing module includes a light source, unit pixels, a leakage current detector, and a pixel driving circuit. The light source outputs an optical signal. The unit pixels are connected to row lines and column lines, and sense the optical signal to generate a pixel signal. The leakage current detector compares an amplitude of the pixel signal generated by the unit pixels with a first reference voltage, in a state in which the light source is deactivated, to detect a unit pixel, among the unit pixels, in which a leakage current equal to or greater than a threshold value is generated. The pixel driving circuit deactivates the detected unit pixel in a state in which the light source is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jungwook Lim, Seungki Jung
  • Patent number: 11609284
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic sensor which can improve the detection precision of a weak magnetic field and can be downsized. A magnetic sensor is provided with a magnetic body changing the direction of a magnetic field input to a magnetoresistance effect element in the vicinity of the magnetoresistance effect element in which the resistance value changes according to the direction of the input magnetic field, the magnetic body has a mean for changing the direction of a magnetic field on the surface at a side where the magnetoresistance effect element is formed. The chamfer part of the magnetic body may be chamfered with a shape having at least one flat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kei Tanabe
  • Patent number: 11598475
    Abstract: A caliper pig for detecting geometrical deformation of a pipeline is disclosed. The caliper pig includes a body and a first sensor arm assembly. The first sensor arm assembly includes a primary caliper sensor ring adapted to be mounted on the body. Further, the first sensor arm assembly includes a plurality of sensor arms adapted circumferentially distributed on the primary caliper sensor ring. Each of the plurality of sensor arms includes a sensing arm adapted to be in contact with an internal surface of the pipeline and a pair of magnets adapted to rotate along the sensing arm. Each of the plurality of sensor arms includes a sensing unit configured to detect a change in magnetic field based on the movement of the sensing arm. The sensing unit is configured to generate an output indicative of an angle of deflection of the sensing arm while traversing on the internal surface of the pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Indian Oil Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Sai Kiran Tummapalli, Pradeep Kumar Sharma, Dhirendra Pratap, Purushottam Kashinath Nimje, Mohammad Amir Qasi, Kannan Chandrasekaran, Sanjiv Kumar Mazumdar, Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar
  • Patent number: 11592468
    Abstract: A system for testing a plurality of electrical circuits includes a first remote cooperative testing device including a testing component and a first transceiver and a second remote cooperative testing device including a conductive component and a second transceiver. In response to receiving instructions from a remote computing device, the first remote cooperative testing device locates a first electrical circuit and a second electrical circuit and selectively positions the testing component to electrically couple a first portion of the first electrical circuit to a first portion of the second electrical circuit at a first node, and the second remote cooperative testing device selectively positions the conductive component to electrically couple a second portion of the first electrical circuit to a second portion of the second electrical circuit at a second node, thereby forming a testing circuit between the first node and the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Rajarshi Roychowdhury, David Jeffeory Berels, Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam, Scott Mayberry
  • Patent number: 11592726
    Abstract: The invention refers to a lighting device comprising at least one light emitting diode (LED). The object to provide a lighting device that is capable of providing a light pattern for illuminating an object in 3D imaging, wherein the lighting device is simple and cost-effective to manufacture, while the lighting device may in addition have a very small form factor, is solved in with a lighting device comprising: at least one LED for emitting light towards a light-emitting side; a first grating with a regular pitch having light-blocking sections and light-permeable sections; wherein the first grating is arranged on the light-emitting side to block the passage of light at the light-blocking sections, such that the light passing the light-permeable sections is capable to illuminate an object with a line pattern. The invention further corresponds to a method for producing a lighting device and the use of a lighting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Rob Engelen, Varun Dev Kakkar
  • Patent number: 11578996
    Abstract: A position detection element includes an exchange coupling film having a large exchange coupling magnetic field and a position detection apparatus showing good detection accuracy in a high temperature environment. The position detection element includes an exchange coupling film composed of a fixed magnetic layer and an antiferromagnetic layer stacked on the fixed magnetic layer. The antiferromagnetic layer includes an X(Cr—Mn) layer containing X that is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of platinum group metals and Ni and containing Mn and Cr. The X(Cr—Mn) layer includes a PtMn layer as a first region relatively closer to the fixed magnetic layer and a PtCr layer as a second region relatively farther from the fixed magnetic layer. The content of Mn in the first region is higher than the content of Mn in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamichi Saito, Fumihito Koike
  • Patent number: 11579175
    Abstract: A pulse measurement device is provided, including a first signal source, a second signal source, two microwave resonators, two mixers, and a signal processing unit. The first signal source and the second signal source output a first high-frequency signal and a second high-frequency signal, respectively. Each of the microwave resonators generates an electric field according to the first high-frequency signal, and senses a variation in the electric field which is interfered by a pulse to obtain a sensing signal. Each of the mixers is coupled to one of the microwave resonators, to mix the sensing signal and the second high-frequency signal to output a down-converted signal. The signal processing unit respectively demodulates amplitudes of the down-converted signals of the two mixers to obtain amplitude signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: National Cheng Kung University
    Inventors: Ching-Lung Yang, Chia-Hui Chen
  • Patent number: 11573430
    Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function includes a reflection member reflecting light entering from the outside, a movable body turnably holding the reflection member, a fixed body turnably holding the movable body, a drive mechanism structured to turn the reflection member with respect to the movable body and turn the movable body with respect to the fixed body, and a turning axis part structuring a turning center of the movable body with respect to the fixed body. The movable body is capable of turning with respect to the fixed body with a first direction as an axial direction of turning, and the turning axis part includes a first ball disposed on one side of the movable body, a second ball disposed on the other side of the movable body and contacted with the fixed body, and an urging member which urges the first ball toward the second ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Sue, Shogo Kasahara
  • Patent number: 11573486
    Abstract: A notebook computer including a screen, a body, and a camera module is provided. The body is pivotally connected to the screen so that the screen is opened and closed relative to the body. The camera module is stored in one of the screen and the body and includes a photosensitive element and a first polarizer. The first polarizer is disposed between the screen and the photosensitive element. The screen includes a display panel and a second polarizer. The second polarizer is disposed between the display panel and the first polarizer. The first polarizer and the second polarizer have different polarization directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Hsin Yeh, Cheng-Hao Hsu, Ting-Hsuan Yu, Han-Tsai Liu, Jyh-Chyang Tzou, Chih-Wen Chiang
  • Patent number: 11569329
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an array substrate and a detection method therefor, a display panel, and a display device. The array substrate includes: a base substrate, wherein the base substrate has a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area; a plurality of sub-pixel units, wherein the plurality of sub-pixel units are arrayed in the display area; a plurality of data lines, wherein the data lines are electrically connected to the sub-pixel units in corresponding columns; at least one first switching transistor, wherein the first switching transistor is located at a first side of the peripheral area, a drain of the first switching transistor is electrically connected to one of the data lines, and the data line connected to the drain of the first switching transistor is a first data line; a gate control line; and at least one detection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongfei Cheng, Xueguang Hao
  • Patent number: 11561283
    Abstract: A distance measurement apparatus comprises a distance measurement optical signal generation part, a collimating part, a beam diameter change part, an emission direction control part, and a beam diameter change control part. The distance measurement optical signal generation part generates an optical signal for measuring the distance to a target. The collimating part collimates the optical signal. The beam diameter change part is able to change a beam diameter of the collimated light. The emission direction control part controls an emission destination of the collimated light with the diameter changed. The beam diameter change control part controls the changing of the beam diameter by the beam diameter change part according to the emission direction of an outgoing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tsuji, Junichi Abe, Hidemi Noguchi