Patents Examined by Nitin Patel
  • Patent number: 11885965
    Abstract: A head-mounted display a housing, two display modules, and a head support. The two display modules are coupled to the housing. Each of the two display modules includes a display for outputting light that forms graphical content, a lens for refracting the light output by the display, and an eye illuminator. The eye illuminator includes a light-emitting diode, a flexible circuit to which the light-emitting diode is coupled, and a stiffener laminated to the flexible circuit with one or fewer layers of adhesive. The lens is removably coupled to the display indirectly by the stiffener. The head support is coupled to the housing for supporting the housing on a head of a user with the two display modules positioned to provide the graphical content to eyes of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ivan S. Maric, Jan K. Quijalvo, Marinus Meursing
  • Patent number: 11880033
    Abstract: A wearable device may include a head-mounted display (HMD) for rendering a three-dimensional (3D) virtual object which appears to be located in an ambient environment of a user of the display. The relative positions of the HMD and one or more eyes of the user may not be in desired positions to receive, or register, image information outputted by the HMD. For example, the HMD-to-eye alignment may vary for different users and change over time (e.g., as a given user moves around or as the HMD slips or otherwise becomes displaced). The wearable device may determine a relative position or alignment between the HMD and the user's eyes. Based on the relative positions, the wearable device may determine if it is properly fitted to the user, may provide feedback on the quality of the fit to the user, and may take actions to reduce or minimize effects of any misalignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Lionel Ernest Edwin, Zachary C. Nienstedt, Ivan Li Chuen Yeoh, Samuel A. Miller, Yan Xu, Jordan Alexander Cazamias
  • Patent number: 11882267
    Abstract: A spatial direction of a wearable device that represents an actual viewing direction of the wearable device is determined. The spatial direction of the wearable device is used to select, from a multi-view image comprising single-view images, a set of single-view images. A display image is caused to be rendered on a device display of the wearable device. The display image represents a single-view image as viewed from the actual viewing direction of the wearable device. The display image is constructed based on the spatial direction of the wearable device and the set of single-view images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Ajit Ninan, Neil Mammen
  • Patent number: 11875729
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a panel region. The panel region includes a block, and the block includes a pixel. The display device further includes a temperature sensor sensing a region temperature of the panel region and a temperature estimator estimating a temperature of the display panel. The temperature estimator includes a stress calculator calculating an accumulated stress value corresponding to the block based on input image data, a temperature potential calculator calculating a temperature potential corresponding to the block based on the accumulated stress value and a resistance model related to a heat diffusion within the display panel, and a temperature calculator calculating a block temperature based on the region temperature and the temperature potential. The temperature of the display panel is estimated based on the block temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seokha Hong, Joon-Chul Goh, Jaesung Bae
  • Patent number: 11874464
    Abstract: A head-up display includes a display panel, a parallax barrier, an optical system including a reflector and an optical member, and a controller. The optical system projects a virtual image of an image displayed by the display panel onto a virtual image plane. The controller controls the display panel such that first second images which have a parallax with each other are projected as a three-dimensional image in a field of view of the user, and a convergence angle at which the user views a point on the three-dimensional image is equal to or less than a maximum convergence angle which is greater by 0.43 degrees than a convergence angle for viewing a point on the virtual image plane and is equal to or greater than a minimum convergence angle which is less by 0.43 degrees than the convergence angle for viewing a point on the virtual image plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Tadauchi, Kaoru Kusafuka
  • Patent number: 11869437
    Abstract: A display device including pixels connected to a data line and a sensing line; a data driver supplying one of an image data signal and a sensing data signal to the data line; a sensing unit supplying an initialization voltage to at least one of the pixels through the sensing line and obtaining a sensing current value from at least one of the pixels through the sensing line; and a compensator generating compensation image data according to a sensing pixel current value among the sensing current value using an artificial neural network model learned to output reference image data corresponding to at least one reference sensing current value among the sensing current value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Ik Lee, Joon Chul Goh, Min Seok Bae
  • Patent number: 11869442
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device having an emission control driver are discussed. The display device can include a display panel to display an image through sub pixels, a scan driver to supply a second scan signal to each of second gate lines, and an emission control driver to supply an emission control signal to each of third gate lines and supply a first scan signal to each of first gate lines. Each emission control stage of the emission control driver can include an output buffer. The output buffer can output an emission control signal to an output line and output a first scan signal to a scan output line under control of a first control node, and output a high potential power supply voltage to the output line and output a low potential power supply voltage to the scan output line under control of a second control node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyelim Ji, Yeonkyung Kim
  • Patent number: 11868520
    Abstract: A method comprising: rendering, in a first state, any portion of content for rendering that is not defined as restricted content and rendering, in a second state, different to the first state, any portion of the content for rendering that is defined as restricted content; and using a combination of a user perception direction and an observation field of perception to define restricted content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Niko Saarnisto, Miikka Vilermo, Jussi Leppänen, Jukka Holm
  • Patent number: 11867907
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display module that produces light having an image, a lens that directs the light to a waveguide, and a waveguide that directs the light to an eye box. The lens may produce a foveated image in the light by applying a non-uniform magnification to the image in the light. The non-uniform magnification may vary as a function of angle within a field of view of the lens. This may allow the foveated image to have higher resolution within the central region than in the peripheral region. Performing foveation using the lens maximizes the resolution of images at the eye box without increasing the size of the display module. Control circuitry on the device may apply a pre-distortion to the image that is an inverse of distortion introduced by the lens in producing the foveated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Vikrant Bhakta, David A. Kalinowski, Hyungryul Choi, Nathanael D. Parkhill, Stanley K. Melax, Byron R. Cocilovo
  • Patent number: 11862101
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel, a scan driver, an emission driver, and a data driver. The pixel includes: a light emitting element; a first transistor; a second transistor connected between a data line and a first node; a third transistor connected between a second node and a third node connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor; a fourth transistor connected between the second node and a third power line; a fifth transistor connected between the first node and a fourth node; a sixth transistor connected between a first power line and the first node and which is turned off in response to a first emission control signal; a storage capacitor connected between the third node and the fourth node; and a first capacitor connected between the first power line and the fourth node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Wook Yang, Gun Hee Kim, Sun Young Jung
  • Patent number: 11854490
    Abstract: To reduce the amount of space occupied in the inactive area of a display by gate driver circuitry, at least a portion of the gate driver circuitry may be positioned in the active area of the display. To accommodate the gate driver circuitry, emissive sub-pixels may be laterally shifted relative to corresponding thin-film transistor sub-pixels. This allows for the thin-film transistor sub-pixels to be grouped adjacent to the central area of the active area, leaving room along an edge of the active area to accommodate one or more additional display components such as gate driver circuitry or fanout portions of data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Levent Erdal Aygun, Chin-Wei Lin, Yun Wang, Xin Lin, Aida R Colon-Berrios, Shih Chang Chang, Fan Gui, Mohammad Reza Esmaeili Rad, Ran Tu, Warren S Rieutort-Louis, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran, Cheng-Chih Hsieh, Ricardo A Peterson, Shyuan Yang, Ting-Kuo Chang, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Yuchi Che
  • Patent number: 11852834
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing. The head-mounted housing may have rear-facing displays that display images for a user. The images are viewable from eye boxes while the head-mounted device is being worn by the user. The displays may be mounted in left and right optical modules that have respective left and right lenses. A positioning system may be used to adjust the spacing between the left and right optical modules to accommodate different interpupillary distances. An adjustable heat extraction system may be provided that includes fans configured to force air between airflow inlets and outlets past heat sinks. The heat sinks may have fins that are adjusted in orientation and/or that are otherwise adjusted based on changes in optical module spacing. The airflow inlets and/or outlets may have adjustable louvers or other movable members that allow these ports to be fully opened, fully closed, or partly closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Forrest C. Wang, Ritu Shah
  • Patent number: 11852819
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display module that produces foveated images having high and low resolution regions. The module may include a reflective display panel that produces first reflected light during first time periods and second reflected light during second time periods. The first reflected light may reflect off of a beam splitter to form the low resolution region of the foveated image. The second reflected light may be transmitted by the beam splitter, de-magnified by a lens, and redirected by an optical steering element to produce the high resolution region at a desired, adjustable, location in the foveated image. The reflective display panel may be replaced by sets of emissive display panels that concurrently display the high and low resolution regions in the foveated image. The sets of emissive display panels may be replaced by front-lit reflective display panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventors: Graham B. Myhre, Guolin Peng, Hyungryul Choi, Scott M. DeLapp, Vikrant Bhakta
  • Patent number: 11846777
    Abstract: The invention relates to a diffractive waveguide display device comprising an image projector capable of emitting laser rays at one or more wavelengths, a waveguide body having a first surface and an opposite second surface and adapted to guide said laser rays from the image projector between the first surface and the second surface, an out-coupling diffractive optical element on said first surface for coupling said laser rays out of the waveguide body, and an anti-interference coating (35) arranged on the second surface of the waveguide body aligned with the out-coupling diffractive optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: DISPELIX OY
    Inventors: Juuso Olkkonen, Kasimir Blomstedt
  • Patent number: 11841729
    Abstract: A joystick for controlling a machine comprising; a handle assembly allowed to rotate around a central axis extending along a longitudinal direction of the joystick, a control portion having a casing in which a lower circuit with a lower sensor is provided and a control lever attached to the said casing so as to move pivotally about at a pivot axis which extends perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the control lever. Advantageously, said control lever having at least one embedded lower magnet is manufactured from plastic by the injection molding; said control lever comprises: at least one pivotal protrusion extending outwardly from the control lever for bearing in a housing of a casing; said pivotal protrusion forming a monolithic structure with the control lever by said injection molding and in that said lower magnet is embedded within the pivotal protrusion to be in the proximity of said lower circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: MAKERSAN MAKINA OTOMOTIV SANAYI TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI
    Inventor: Levent Erkocak
  • Patent number: 11836305
    Abstract: A cooking device according to the present disclosure comprises: a heating device for heating a cooking material; an input device having a touch region receiving an input of a function command related to control of the heating device and a malfunction prevention region disposed around the touch region; and a processor for, when a user operation is input through the touch region, determining whether to perform the function command, and when the performing of the function command is determined, controlling the heating device so as to allow an operation corresponding to the function command to be performed, wherein the processor determines to perform a function command corresponding to the touch region when a user operation is input only to the touch region, and determines not to perform the function command corresponding to the touch region when user operations for the touch region and the malfunction prevention region are input together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youngwoong Joo, Changsun Yun
  • Patent number: 11829527
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided in which a first screen is displayed on a first display of the first electronic device. An image of an eye of a user of the first electronic device is obtained. A first object in the first screen corresponding to a gaze direction of the user is identified based on the image of the eye of the user. An input interface is displayed on a second display of the second electronic device based on a type of the first object. A second screen that is different from the first screen is displayed on the first display of the first electronic device, based on a first input obtained through the input interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventors: Kyunghwa Kim, Ilku Chang, Yeojin Kim, Giyoung Shin
  • Patent number: 11830406
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including areas including pixels electrically connected to a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines; a gate driver that supplies a gate signal to each of the plurality of gate lines; an average grayscale calculator that receives input image data, and calculating average grayscale values with respect to the areas; an area determiner that compares the average grayscale values with a low grayscale reference value to determine a low grayscale area among the areas, and output a charge boosting signal; a memory that stores gate clock signal information according to a grayscale; and a gate clock signal generator that supplies a gate clock signal corresponding to the areas to the gate driver by reflecting the charge boosting signal and the gate clock signal information according to the grayscale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Hyun Koh, Jin Pil Kim
  • Patent number: 11823630
    Abstract: Discussed is a display apparatus including a substrate including a display portion, a plurality of pixels connected to a gate line and a data line disposed in the display portion, and a gate driving circuit disposed in the display portion to drive the gate line. The gate driving circuit includes a stage circuit unit including a plurality of stage circuits respectively disposed in a plurality of division regions defined in the display portion, and a circuit repair portion configured to repair at least one of the plurality of stage circuits and including a plurality of repair patterns. Further, at least one of the plurality of repair patterns is configured to be electrically disconnected from the at least one of the plurality of stage circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youngin Jang, Kyungmin Kim, Hyundong Kim
  • Patent number: 11825723
    Abstract: A touch panel display includes a pixel including an organic EL element, a first transistor electrically connected to the power supply line and the organic electroluminescence element, and a second transistor electrically connected to the data signal line and the first transistor, a touch sensor overlapping the pixel, and a shield electrode between the pixel and the touch sensor. The shield electrode includes an opening in a region overlapping with the second transistor, the third gate electrode is disposed inside the opening, and the third gate electrode and the fourth gate electrode are electrically connected, the first gate electrode is electrically connected to the shield electrode, and the second gate electrode is connected to a drain of the second transistor, and the shield electrode is grounded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: MIKUNI ELECTRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sakae Tanaka