Patents Examined by Prabodh M. Dharia
  • Patent number: 11755167
    Abstract: A touch display device can include a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed on a substrate, each light-emitting element including an emission area having a plurality of vertices. The touch display device can further include an encapsulation unit disposed on the plurality of light-emitting elements, and a plurality of touch electrodes disposed on the encapsulation unit so as to surround the emission area. Each of the plurality of touch electrodes can have a mesh structure configured to surround the emission area, and surfaces of the each of the plurality of touch electrodes facing the plurality of vertices of the emission area can be formed in a rounded shape. A distance from a peripheral edge of the emission area to a corresponding touch electrode can be substantially same in each of the plurality of light-emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung-Jin Park
  • Patent number: 11749195
    Abstract: A display device includes: active stages each include a scan output circuit outputting a scan clock signal to a first output terminal and a carry output circuit outputting a carry clock signal to a second output terminal, when a voltage of a first node is at a logic high level. The scan output circuit and carry output circuit output a scan signal of a turn-off level to the first output terminal when a voltage of a second node or a carry signal is at a logic high level. An interval between pulses of the carry clock signal generated during one frame period is the same, and at least two of intervals between pulses of the scan clock signal generated during the one frame period are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoon Jung Chai, Won Jun Lee, Chol Ho Kim, Sung Hoon Lim, Yoo Seok Jang
  • Patent number: 11749230
    Abstract: A rotational image viewer for viewing an image on a mobile device having a display including a viewport. The image viewer monitors the orientation of the mobile device and enlarges/reduces the image responsive to the mobile device's orientation such that the viewport remains filled with at least a portion of the image (i.e., no letterboxing or pillarboxing within the viewport).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Huang, Oleksandr Romanov
  • Patent number: 11748875
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to optical devices for augmented, virtual, and/or mixed reality applications. In one or more embodiments, an optical device metrology system is configured to measure a plurality of see-through metrics for optical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Yangyang Sun, Jinxin Fu, Kazuya Daito, Ludovic Godet
  • Patent number: 11740738
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel that displays an image, an input sensing layer disposed on the display panel and that senses an input applied thereto from outside of the display device, a display driver that receives an image signal and drives the display panel at a first driving frequency or a second driving frequency lower than the first driving frequency, and a sensing driver that drives the input sensing layer. The display panel displays the image in a plurality of frames, each including a first period and/or a second period. The sensing driver drives the input sensing layer in the first period of each of the frames when the display panel is driven at the first driving frequency, and drives the input sensing layer in the second period of each of the frames when the display panel is driven at the second driving frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeonseo Cho, Bogeun Yuk
  • Patent number: 11737344
    Abstract: A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display panel includes a buffer layer and/or at least one adhesive layer. The buffer layer is disposed on a bottom of the display panel, and the adhesive layer is disposed between two of adjacent layers in a layered structure of the display panel. Wherein, the buffer layer and the adhesive layer have materials having Poisson's ratio of less than 0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenbo Dong, Xiaomeng Hou, Quanming Bai
  • Patent number: 11726360
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of first electrodes arranged in a display region for displaying an image; a second electrode opposed to the first electrodes; a plurality of switching elements that are arranged in the display region and coupled to the first electrodes or the second electrode; a gate line for supplying a scanning signal for scanning the switching elements; a data line for supplying a signal to the switching elements that are coupled to the switching elements; and conductive wire that is opposed to the second electrode via an insulating layer and is coupled to the switching elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Hiroshi Mizuhashi
  • Patent number: 11726565
    Abstract: Context aware backlighting techniques include determining a focal point of a display space based on a user display context. An example backlight controller for selective backlight control of a monitor includes interface circuitry, memory, machine-readable instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the machine readable instructions to obtain a user display context relative to the monitor, the user display context based on sensor data, the sensor data to include user proximity data; determine whether to enable or disable the selective backlighting for the monitor based on the user display context; cause first backlight sections of the monitor to output at a first light intensity based on the user display context; and cause second backlight sections of the monitor to output at least one of (a) the first light intensity or (b) a second light intensity that is different than the first light intensity based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dhaval V. Sharma, Nivruti Rai, Durgesh Srivastava, Shobhit Kumar
  • Patent number: 11727884
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to a display device. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a display device includes a substrate including a first display region and a second display region surrounding the first display region, a first pixel disposed in the first display region, a second pixel disposed in the second display region, and scan stages which are disposed in the second display region and apply scan signals to the first pixel and the second pixel. The first pixel includes a first pixel driver including a first pixel transistor and a first pixel light-emitting device connected to the first pixel driver. The second pixel includes a second pixel driver including a second pixel transistor and a second pixel light-emitting device connected to the second pixel driver. The second pixel driver is disposed between scan stages adjacent to each other along a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Jin Lee, Mu Kyung Jeon, Mee Hye Jung, Hee Jean Park
  • Patent number: 11721255
    Abstract: A tiling display device includes a first display panel and a second display panel that is spaced apart from the first display panel by a horizontal tiling interval. The first display panel includes first to (n)-th pixel columns, and the second display panel includes first to (m)-th pixel columns. A first distance between the (n)-th pixel column of the first display panel and the first pixel column of the second display panel is less than a second distance between a (n?1)-th pixel column of the first display panel and the (n)-th pixel column of the first display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunkwun Son, Dong Hee Shin, Nahyeon Cha, Byoungsun Na, Joonhoo Choi
  • Patent number: 11709542
    Abstract: A multi-user virtual reality system for providing a virtual reality experience to a plurality of users in a body of water includes a reference system adapted for emitting and/or receiving signals. The multi-user virtual reality system includes equipment configured to be mounted to a first user in the body of water, wherein the equipment includes a first display unit and a first signal emitting or receiving system adapted for emitting and/or receiving signals. The multi-user virtual reality system includes equipment configured to be mounted to a second user in the body of water, wherein the equipment includes a second display unit and a second signal emitting or receiving system adapted for emitting and/or receiving signals. The multi-user virtual reality system includes a data processing system including one or more data processing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SHHUNA GMBH
    Inventors: Juri Platonov, Pawel Dürr
  • Patent number: 11705079
    Abstract: The present application discloses a color image processing method, a color image processing device, an electronic ink screen, and a storage medium. The color image processing method includes: obtaining an original image, and transforming original color data of a pixel in the original image into corresponding set color data in a set color space; determining a target color corresponding to the pixel in a plurality of set colors according to the set color data corresponding to the pixel and a color ratio allocation table; and generating a target image according to the target color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanhong Wu, Hanwen Liu, Lijie Zhang
  • Patent number: 11688127
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes input circuitry to receive viewpoint data indicative of respective viewpoints for a plurality of spectators of a virtual environment, detection circuitry to detect a portion of the virtual environment viewed by each of the respective viewpoints in dependence upon the viewpoint data, selection circuitry to select one or more regions of the virtual environment in dependence upon at least some of the detected portions, and output circuitry to output data indicative of one or more of the selected regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Maria Chiara Monti, Fabio Cappello, Matthew Sanders, Timothy Edward Bradley, Oliver Hume
  • Patent number: 11689704
    Abstract: A space in which an augmented reality (AR) computer simulation is played is mapped by multiple cameras. An AR video game player can select a location in space from which the AR player wishes to have a view of the space, including himself. Using the mapping of the space a synthesized video is generated as if from a camera located at the location in space selected by the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Black, Michael Taylor
  • Patent number: 11688315
    Abstract: The invention relates to this method comprising the following steps, for at least one input/output parameter: duplicating and inserting a list of graphical commands associated with said parameter within a calculation module of said chain, from a current value of said parameter, obtaining a current cyclic redundancy code associated with a current micropattern, generated by executing said at least one list, comparing said current cyclic redundancy code with a reference cyclic redundancy code stored in a dedicated memory space for a substantially identical value of said parameter within a tolerance threshold, in the event of a difference in cyclic redundancy code value, automatic sanctioning of said chain at least by suspending its execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventor: Philippe Chabot
  • Patent number: 11687350
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byungwoo Min, Nawoong Han, Seonghoon Choi, Sangheon Kim, Jinwan An
  • Patent number: 11687176
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus that are directed to accepting a plurality of positional data with corresponding times of the motion, determining one or more continuous positional functions that together represent an approximation of path of the positional data, and determining, for each positional function, one or more time functions that together represent an approximation of the times for the positional data corresponding to the positional functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: IMMERSION NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventor: Joshua Jersild
  • Patent number: 11683949
    Abstract: A flexible cover window includes a lower glass substrate including a first lower glass substrate; a second lower glass substrate, the first lower glass substrate and the second lower glass substrate being spaced apart from each other; an upper glass substrate that is disposed above the lower glass substrate and is thinner than the lower glass substrate; and an adhesive member disposed between the lower glass substrate and the upper glass substrate and extending between the first lower glass substrate and the second lower glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seongjin Hwang, Minsang Koo, Kyungman Kim, Sanghoon Kim, Minhoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11668938
    Abstract: A device including a frame that has first and second openings and a pair of temple arms that pivot relative to the frame. The device includes an imaging unit connected to the frame at a location adjacent to the first opening and capture images through the first opening. The device includes a mechanical switch disposed on the frame or the imaging unit adjacent to the first opening. The device includes lenses fitted within the first and second openings, and the lens that fits within the first opening includes a key interfaceable with the mechanical switch and configured to adjust firmware of the imaging unit based on physical features of the lenses upon interface with the mechanical switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas D. Woodman, Daniel J. Coster, Joshua T. Druker
  • Patent number: 11662782
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display layer, a sensor layer, a cover layer, and a driving chip. The display layer includes a peripheral area adjacent to an active area. The sensor layer is on the display layer and includes sensing electrodes and an antenna pattern. The cover layer is below the display layer and includes an opening overlapping the antenna pattern. The driving chip provides a signal to the antenna pattern through the opening in the cover layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignees: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jungsuek Oh, Sangrock Yoon, Kiseo Kim, Byeongjin Kim, Jeongtaek Oh