Patents Examined by Muhammad N. Edun
  • Patent number: 11966657
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive an input operation of a user; and a display controller configured to display, in a display area having a first area and a second area, an image. The display controller includes: an icon controller configured to display, in the second area, first icons associated one-to-one with different layouts in splitting the first area, and a first splitter configured to split the first area into split areas based on a layout corresponding to a selected first icon to when the receiver receives an input operation for selecting any of the first icons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichirou Matsumura, Kuniichiro Naruse, Keita Saito, Akira Kurosawa, Hiroki Takagaki, Kiwako Miura, Yuki Kobayashi, Takehisa Gokaichi
  • Patent number: 11960691
    Abstract: A technique for reading the columns (12) and rows (14) of a touch sensor (10) provides several advantages, including scalability to touch sensors with high column/row counts. A simultaneously applied set of column input signals (24) yields a corresponding set of column output signals (34) that are combined into a combined column signal (38) that is transformed into the frequency domain after digitization, to yield column values (48) corresponding to the respective touch sensor columns (12). The same process applied with respect to the touch sensor rows (14) yields a set of row values (50), with evaluation of the frequency-domain column and row values (48, 50) providing the basis for detecting touch inputs to the touch sensor (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Mohammed Zourob, Alexander Hunt, Andreas Kristensson, Mohammed Abdulaziz
  • Patent number: 11961474
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed that includes a pixel. The pixel includes a first transistor connected between a second node and a third node and including a gate electrode connected to a first node. A first capacitor is formed between the first node and a fourth node. A second capacitor is formed between the fourth node and a first power line. A second transistor is connected between a data line and the fourth node. An eighth transistor is connected between the first power line and the second node. A ninth transistor is connected between the second node and a bias power line. A sixth transistor is connected between the third node and a fifth node. A light emitting element is electrically connected between the fifth node and a second power line. A gate electrode of the eighth transistor and a gate electrode of the sixth transistor are connected to different gate lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Wook Yang, Dong Gyu Lee, Jae Hyeon Jeon
  • Patent number: 11960635
    Abstract: A virtual object display device comprises a display and a display control device configured to perform display control of the display. The display control device includes: a coordinate system calculation unit configured to detect movement and rotation of the virtual object display device in a real world, and use an inertial coordinate system in which a coordinate origin thereof follows the movement of the virtual object display device and an effective field of view of the display is rotated therein in accordance with the rotation of the virtual object display device so as to define an arrangement position of an inertial coordinate system virtual object; and a display control unit configured to, when the inertial coordinate system virtual object is included in the effective field of view of the display, display the inertial coordinate system virtual object within the effective field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Naohisa Takamizawa, Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11948205
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for providing media content based on playback zone awareness. In one aspect, a computing system receives, via a network interface, zone data from the media playback system, wherein the zone data includes an indication of a particular zone of the media playback system, and wherein the particular zone comprises at least one playback device. The computing system identifies audio content based on (i) the indication of the particular zone and (ii) contextual data associated with the particular zone, and provides, via the network interface, an indication of the identified audio content to the media playback system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Kristen Bender, Ron Kuper
  • Patent number: 11942029
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel. The pixel includes a light-emitting element, a first capacitor, and first to fifth transistors. The first transistor is connected between a first voltage line receiving a first driving voltage and the light-emitting element, and operates in response to a potential of a first node, and the second transistor is connected between a data line and the first node, and receives a first scan signal. The first capacitor is connected between the first node and a second node, and the third transistor is connected between the first transistor and the first node, and receives a second scan signal. The fourth transistor is connected between a reference voltage line and the first node, and receives a third scan signal, and the fifth transistor is connected between the first transistor and the second node, and receives an emission control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY)
    Inventors: Byungchang Yu, Oh-Kyong Kwon, Kyunghoon Chung
  • Patent number: 11935487
    Abstract: A substrate assembly includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The substrate assembly includes a first conductive portion disposed on the first surface, and a second conductive portion disposed on the second surface. The substrate assembly includes a connective portion that is at least partially disposed in the substrate and penetrates from the first surface to the second surface. The first conductive portion is electrically connected to the second conductive portion through the connective portion. The substrate assembly includes a processing unit disposed on the first surface, and an electronic element disposed on the second surface. The first conductive portion, the second conductive portion and the connective portion are overlapped with either of the processing unit or the electronic element, and the other of the processing unit or the electronic element is electrically connected to the first conductive portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuan-Feng Lee, Yuan-Lin Wu
  • Patent number: 11935461
    Abstract: A method for control of a pixel array based on a temperature estimate is provided. A method includes sampling an anode voltage of each LED of a plurality of pixels resulting in sampled voltages, determining an average voltage based on the sample voltages, and determining a total voltage to provide to the pixels based on the average voltage and voltage data from a memory coupled to the controller, the voltage data including one or more of a 3-sigma value, a driver headroom value, a resistance value, or a k-factor value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Ronald Johannes Bonne, Claire Yue Gao, David Christopher Jansson, Zhi Hua Song
  • Patent number: 11928316
    Abstract: A stroke erasing method, a terminal device, and a computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: determining an intersecting stroke on an electronic whiteboard that intersects with an erasing region; traversing each of collection points of the intersecting stroke to determine whether a line of connection between each two adjacent ones of the collection points intersects with the erasing region; determining, in response to the line of connection intersecting with the erasing region, an approximate intersection point between the line of connection and the erasing region by means of midpoint recursion; and splitting the intersecting stroke into segments according to the approximate intersection point, and drawing the segments not erased by the erasing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Qian Dong
  • Patent number: 11922862
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display apparatus includes a display panel including first and second pixel, a data voltage supply unit supplying the first pixel with a first data voltage of a first gate signal and supplying the second pixel with a second data voltage of a second gate signal in a vertical active period of a first frame and continuously supplying the second pixel with a sensing data voltage and a recovery data voltage of a third gate signal in a vertical blank period of the first frame, and a sensing circuit sensing an electrical characteristic of the second pixel based on the sensing data voltage in the vertical blank period. The recovery data voltage is supplied to the second pixel later than the sensing data voltage. The recovery data voltage supplied to the second pixel in the vertical blank period includes the first and second data voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Joon Min Park
  • Patent number: 11922839
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates a display device and a method of driving the same. For example, a display device according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure includes pixels, a sensing unit, and a compensator calculating a current compensation value for each of the pixels based on a sensing value of the sensing unit, a first pixel among the pixels includes at least two light emitting diodes connected in series with a first transistor that controls a current, the sensing unit outputs a sensing value by sensing a voltage of the light emitting diodes in a sensing period, and the compensator increases the current compensation value for the first pixel as a voltage of the second node decreases in the sensing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yo Han Lee
  • Patent number: 11914775
    Abstract: Biometric enabled virtual reality (VR) systems and methods are disclosed for detecting user intention(s) and modulating virtual avatar control based on the user intention(s) for creation of virtual avatar(s) or object(s) in holographic space, two-dimensional (2D) virtual space, or three-dimensional (3D) virtual space. A virtual representation of an intended motion of a user corresponding to an intention of muscle activation of the user is determined based on analysis of a biometric signal data of the user as collected by a biometric detection device. The virtual representation of the intended motion is used to modulate virtual avatar control or output to create at least one of a virtual avatar representing aspect(s) of the user or an object manipulated by the user in a holographic space, virtual 2D space, or virtual 3D space. The avatar or the object is created based on: (1) the biometric signal data of a user, or (2) user-specific specifications as provided by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: COAPT LLC
    Inventors: Blair Andrew Lock, Levi John Hargrove
  • Patent number: 11908384
    Abstract: A circuit for generating a PWM signal includes a shift register having a plurality of clock-controlled register units. Each clock-controlled register unit has an input and an output. The circuit also includes a write unit configured to set the outputs of the register units each to a designated logical value. The circuit further includes a clock generator configured to drive the register units with a common clock signal. The register units are connected in series. The shift register is configured to output the PWM signal at an output contact. The PWM signal is a chronological sequence of the logical values set in the register units, the PWM signal assumes each of the logical values with the duration of one clock of the clock signal, the clock signal is cyclic, during one cycle the duration of successive clocks changes, and the clock signal is identical per cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
    Inventors: Christopher Soell, Markus Koesler, Jens Richter
  • Patent number: 11908396
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver and an emission driver. The display panel includes a pixel. The gate driver is configured to provide a gate signal to the pixel. The data driver is configured to provide a data voltage to the pixel. The emission driver is configured to provide an emission signal to the pixel. The pixel includes a light emitting element, a driving switching element and a bias switching element. The driving switching element is configured to apply a driving current to the light emitting element. The bias switching element is configured to provide a bias voltage to an input electrode of the driving switching element. A frequency of a bias gate signal applied to a control electrode of the bias switching element is greater than a frequency of a data write gate signal applied to the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junhyun Park, Jangmi Kang, Minjae Jeong
  • Patent number: 11900862
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display apparatus are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate; sub-pixels arranged in an array and on the base substrate; data line groups on the base substrate; each data line group includes data lines, each of which is connected to one column of sub-pixels; data selectors on the base substrate and connected to the data line groups in a one-to-one correspondence; data lines in a same data line group are connected to a same data selector; and data selection signal lines, wherein different data selection signal lines output different data selection signals; and different data lines connected to a same data selector correspond to different data selection signal lines, respectively. The display panel provided may effectively reduce the resistance on the data selection signal lines, thereby reducing the delay of the data selection signals and further improving the charging uniformity of sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Zhang, Zhen Wang, Deshuai Wang, Han Zhang, Wei Yan, Jian Sun
  • Patent number: 11900867
    Abstract: An electronic device able to be operated with a first state and a second state includes a substrate and light emitting units. When the electronic device is extended along a direction from the first state to the second state, the substrate has a first width in the first state and a second width in the second state in the direction, and the second width is greater than the first width. The light emitting units are disposed on the substrate and can be in a mode of ON. The number of the light emitting units being in the mode of ON in the second state is greater than that in the first state. The numbers of the light emitting units being in the mode of ON per unit area of the substrate while in the first state and second state are respectively defined as PPA_1 and PPA_2, and 1.5×PPA_1?PPA_2?0.5×PPA_1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan-Lin Wu, Chan-Feng Chiu, Kuan-Feng Lee
  • Patent number: 11889717
    Abstract: Various embodiments set forth light emission display elements, and display devices that include such display elements. In some embodiments, a display element includes an electroluminescent light source and a pair of reflective elements that form a resonant cavity for a particular range of wavelengths and/or a particular polarization of light. One or both of the reflective elements can include meta-reflectors, such as anisotropic meta-reflectors or chiral meta-reflectors. An optional waveplate can be placed between the reflective elements to adjust the polarization state of light emitted by the display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Zhimin Shi, Yuge Huang, Fenglin Peng, Anurag Tyagi
  • Patent number: 11881852
    Abstract: An operator for controlling electrically adjustable furniture includes a housing and an actuation panel movably supported in the housing to form a cover body. A circuit board is provided in the housing, and a main control unit for detecting an actuation signal is provided on the circuit board. A first switch for generating a first actuation signal and a second switch for generating a second actuation signal are provided between the actuation panel and the main control unit, and a third switch for generating a third actuation signal is provided between a bottom wall of the housing and the main control unit. The main control unit issues a first command when simultaneously detecting the first actuation signal and the second actuation signal, and the main control unit issues a second command when simultaneously detecting the first actuation signal, the second actuation signal, and the third actuation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG JIECANG LINEAR MOTION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Renchang Hu, Xiaojian Lu, Xueli Chen, Zhekang Zhang, Shaoping Zhou
  • Patent number: 11881153
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display apparatus includes a display panel including first and second pixel, a data voltage supply unit supplying the first pixel with a first data voltage of a first gate signal and supplying the second pixel with a second data voltage of a second gate signal in a vertical active period of a first frame and continuously supplying the second pixel with a sensing data voltage and a recovery data voltage of a third gate signal in a vertical blank period of the first frame, and a sensing circuit sensing an electrical characteristic of the second pixel based on the sensing data voltage in the vertical blank period. The recovery data voltage is supplied to the second pixel later than the sensing data voltage. The recovery data voltage supplied to the second pixel in the vertical blank period includes the first and second data voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Joon Min Park
  • Patent number: 11876513
    Abstract: A low power consumption boost circuit for providing high driving voltage of a touch circuit is provided. The low power consumption boost circuit includes a charge pump circuit, two digital-to-analog converters (DACs), and a switch circuit. The charge pump circuit receives a system voltage and correspondingly outputs a positive output voltage twice the system voltage and a negative output voltage with opposite polarity as the system voltage. One of the DACs receives the positive output voltage from the charge pump circuit as supply voltage, and the other DAC receives the negative output voltage from the charge pump circuit as supply voltage. The switch circuit is connected between the DACs and the touch circuit. The DACs are connected between the charge pump circuit and the switch circuit. The DACs are alternately connected to the touch circuit by controlling the switch circuit, thereby driving the touch circuit alternately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Jia-Ming He, Yaw-Guang Chang, Zong-You Hou