Patents Examined by Richard J Hong
  • Patent number: 11887526
    Abstract: A circuit device includes: a color reduction circuit configured to execute color reduction processing from input image data in which pixel data is m bits to color-reduced image data in which pixel data is n bits, and configured to apply spatial error diffusion or temporal error diffusion in the color reduction processing; a storage circuit storing the color-reduced image data; and an image conversion circuit configured to execute image conversion processing, which is at least one of mapping processing and scaling processing, on the color-reduced image data stored in the storage circuit to output output image data, and configured to execute interpolation processing, which is in the image conversion processing, of generating pixel data of the output image data from a plurality of pieces of pixel data of the color-reduced image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventor: Yasutoshi Akiba
  • Patent number: 11887518
    Abstract: A display device includes a first liquid crystal panel, a second liquid crystal panel disposed on a back face side of the first liquid crystal panel, a position compensation unit that compensates for a display position of an image on the second liquid crystal panel based on position compensation information indicating a relative positional relationship between the first liquid crystal panel and the second liquid crystal panel, and an area expansion unit that expands a displayable area of the image before the display position is compensated for or a displayable area of the image after the display position is compensated for by the position compensation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsunori Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11862067
    Abstract: Circuitry comprises driver circuitry to control display of a prevailing display image by display elements of a display device, the driver circuitry generating a signal providing electrical charge for storage by display elements, in which an electrical charge stored by a display element controls a display output of that display element; detector circuitry to detect, for a display image transition from a current display image to a second, display image, a first set of one or more display elements which are in a respective first state controlled by a first stored electrical charge in the current display image and which are required to be in a respective second state controlled by a second electrical charge, in the second display image; switching circuitry, responsive to the detector circuitry, to divert electrical charge from the set of display elements to secondary charge store in response to initiation of the display image transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Parameshwarappa Anand Kumar Savanth, Jedrzej Kufel, Benoit Labbe, Sahan Sajeewa Hiniduma Udugama Gamage
  • Patent number: 11862075
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a drive circuit, including: a first module, generating display data based on image information; a second module, generating a display signal based on the display data and a plurality of clock signals; a third module, outputting a constant current based on the display signal; and a fourth module, configured to provide a reference current to the third module, wherein the fourth module includes: a reference voltage generation module, a bias module, a current generation module, and a pre-charging module. Any two adjacent clock signals of the plurality of clock signals differ by M complete clock cycles, where 0?M<1. This circuit can realize relatively high image display accuracy with relatively low system power consumption and chip cost, and meanwhile realize effective low grayscale compensation for image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CHENGDU LIPPXIN MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yongsheng Tang, Li Huang, Shixiong Lu
  • Patent number: 11854449
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a housing; and a flexible display that includes at least some region that is rolled in a substantially circular shape with respect to a first axis in the internal space of the housing. When the flexible display is drawn out of the housing by a specified movement distance, the flexible display may be bent to interfere with the housing so as not to be introduced into the internal space of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyungsok Yeo, Valeriy Prushinskiy, Changryong Heo, Minwoo Yoo, Seonho Hwang
  • Patent number: 11842016
    Abstract: A flexible display device is provided that includes a display panel having an active area including a plurality of pixels displaying an image and a non-active area surrounding the active area, first data pads disposed in the non-active area adjacent to the active area of the display panel and electrically connected with the plurality of pixels, pads disposed in a direction away from the first data pads and the active area, second data pads disposed between the first data pads and the pads, and a protrusion pattern located between the second data pads and the third data pads and disposed on an upper part of the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoung Sung, Sangho Kim, Eunjin Oh
  • Patent number: 11842663
    Abstract: The present application relates to a display device and a method of providing the same. A display device includes a display panel which is bendable, the display panel including a bending area and a pad area which is adjacent to the bending area, and a lower layer extending along the pad area of the display panel. The lower layer includes a lower film layer defining an opening at the pad area, the opening exposing a portion of the pad area to outside the lower film layer, and a step compensation member which is in the opening of the lower film layer and on the portion of the pad area which is exposed to outside the lower film layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Duk Lee, Chan Jae Park
  • Patent number: 11837185
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed herein related to controlling a scanning mirror system. One example provides a display device, comprising a light source, a scanning mirror system configured to scan light from the light source in a first direction at a first, higher scan rate, and in a second direction at a second, lower scan rate, and a drive circuit configured to control the scanning mirror system to display video image data by providing a control signal to the scanning mirror system to control scanning in the second direction, and for each video image data frame of at least a subset of video image data frames, combining the control signal with an adjustment signal to adjust the scanning in the second direction, the adjustment signal comprising a low pass filtered signal with a cutoff frequency based on a lowest resonant frequency of the scanning mirror system in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Algird Michael Gudaitis, Mark Alan Champion
  • Patent number: 11836341
    Abstract: A method includes displaying, by an electronic device, a graphical user interface (GUI) of a first application on a touchscreen of the electronic device, detecting, by the electronic device, a screenshot operation from a user, taking, by the electronic device, a screenshot of the GUI in response to the screenshot operation, displaying, on the touchscreen, a first preview image corresponding to an obtained first screenshot, detecting, by the electronic device, a first touch operation on the first preview image, updating the first preview image to a second preview image in response to the first touch operation, and displaying the second preview image on the touchscreen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Duan, Zhiyan Yang, Kai Qian
  • Patent number: 11835727
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a physical information acquisition unit, a gesture information acquisition unit, a determination condition setting unit, and a control unit. The physical information acquisition unit acquires physical information of a user wearing a head-mounted casing. The gesture information acquisition unit acquires gesture information regarding a gesture of the user. The determination condition setting unit sets, on the basis of the physical information, a determination condition for determining a trigger gesture that is a trigger for an operation input by the gesture of the user. The control unit determines, on the basis of the gesture information and the determination condition, whether or not the trigger gesture is performed and controls, on the basis of a result of the determination, an output corresponding to the trigger gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akane Kondo, Tomoya Narita, Ryo Fukazawa
  • Patent number: 11829522
    Abstract: A head-mounted device (HMD) has a segmented metal chassis including a plurality of physically separate radio frequency (RF) antennas corresponding to different head regions. The HMD further includes a plurality of RF transceivers, each electrically connected to a corresponding RF antenna. Each RF transceiver is configured to drive the corresponding RF antenna with a drive signal at a frequency within a resonant frequency band of the corresponding RF antenna and sense a frequency response to the drive signal. The HMD further includes a plurality of notch filter circuits, each electrically connected in series with a corresponding RF antenna. Each notch filter is configured to attenuate signals at frequencies within the resonant frequency band of the corresponding RF antenna and pass signals at frequencies outside of the resonant frequency band, such that the segmented metal chassis functions as a common ground plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jouya Jadidian, Ruben Caballero
  • Patent number: 11810495
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display driver integrated circuit (IC) which includes a data line driver that drives a first data line connected with a first pixel of a display in response to output image data, and a dithering circuit that receives a brightness value of the display, calculates a first reference grayscale value corresponding to the brightness value using a first group of threshold grayscale values, receives input image data with a first grayscale value, which corresponds to the first pixel, compares the first grayscale value and the first reference grayscale value, and generates the output image data having not the first grayscale value but an output grayscale value when the first grayscale value is smaller than the first reference grayscale value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byoungyoon Jang, Yong Hoon Yu, Se Whan Na, Jong-Hee Na, Hyeonsu Park
  • Patent number: 11803210
    Abstract: A flexible display panel includes: a flexible panel including a first region including a display region and oriented on a first plane and a second region including a first non-display region, a second non-display region and a third non-display region, each bent with respect to the display region, and a fourth non-display region unbent with respect to the display region; a flexible encapsulation member disposed on the flexible panel so as to encapsulate at least the display region; a touch region disposed on the flexible encapsulation member; touch wirings outside the touch region; and a pad unit on the third non-display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Un Jin, Woo-Jong Lee, Yang-Wan Kim, Young-Sik Kim, Jun-Sang Lyu, Sang-Min Kim
  • Patent number: 11797120
    Abstract: A method includes a first computing device generating a signal having an oscillating component and driving the signal on a first touch sense element of the first computing device. The method continues with the first computing device detecting a touch on the first touch sense element based on the signal. While the touch is detected, the method continues by the first computing device modulating the signal with data to produce a modulated data signal. The method continues with a second computing device receiving the modulated data signal via a transmission medium and a second touch sense element of the second computing device, where the transmission medium includes at least one of a human body and a close proximity between the first and second computing devices. The method continues with by the second computing device demodulating the modulated data signal to recover the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SigmaSense, LLC.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Gerald Dale Morrison, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Timothy W. Markison
  • Patent number: 11797100
    Abstract: Systems and methods of generate a classification of touch events are disclosed. A system may detect a first touch event, the first touch event being effected by a touch effector upon a touch receiver. The system may then determine a first touch gesture associated with the first touch event, determine an orientation associated with the touch effector, determine an orientation of the touch receiver, calculate a first relative orientation between the orientation associated with the touch effector and the orientation of the touch receiver, and generate a classification of the first touch event based on the first touch gesture and the first relative orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Szu Wen Fan
  • Patent number: 11789544
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) receiving information associated with a real-time output of a recognition model adapted to recognize at least one behavior of a user, (2) determining, based on the information, a level of uncertainty associated with the real-time output, (3) modulating at least one attribute of feedback based on the level of uncertainty, and (4) presenting the feedback to the user substantially contemporaneous with the real-time output of the recognition model. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ting Zhang, Aakar Gupta, Marcello Giordano, Tanya Renee Jonker, Hrvoje Benko
  • Patent number: 11790820
    Abstract: An electronic device including a rollable display is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a main body, a first planar part disposed at one end of the main body, and a second planar part disposed at another end of the main body and disposed in parallel to the first planar part, a rollable display drawn out from an interior of the housing or inserted into the interior of the housing through a slit formed in a direction perpendicular to the first planar part, and a handler member combined with an end of the rollable display and including a first magnet. A second magnet having a polarity different from a polarity of the first magnet disposed within the main body so that the handler member is attached to a surface of the main body in a state in which a part of the rollable display has been drawn out from the interior of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myunghoon Kwak, Songyi Lee, Junyoung Choi, Yangwook Kim, Yangsoo Choi, Hyunju Hong
  • Patent number: 11783449
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for adjusting a displayed content, a host, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: displaying a visual content, wherein the visual content comprises a first virtual object and a second virtual object; and in response to determining that a synchronization mode associated with the first virtual object is activated, automatically adjusting a first posture of the first virtual object at least based on a host posture of the host and maintaining a second posture of the second virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Hung Chen, Yi-Hsin Chang, Kuan-Wei Li
  • Patent number: 11782321
    Abstract: An array substrate includes pixel electrodes arranged in an array, a plurality of scan lines extending along the row direction of the array and arranged along the column direction of the array and a plurality of data lines extending along the column direction and arranged along the row direction. One group of data lines includes a first data line and a second data line. The loaded drive voltage of the first data line and the loaded drive voltage of the second data line are different in the same frame. The driving process of one frame includes a reset stage and a display stage. At the reset stage, the first data line is connected to the second data line. At the display stage, the first data line is disconnected from the second data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yang Zeng
  • Patent number: 11776510
    Abstract: A screen update method for a display device and a driving device thereof, the frame update method includes: following a write-in command, controlling a driving circuit to drive a display panel to update a screen; the write-in command represents writing a display data to a storage element. The driving device includes: the driving circuit, which is coupled to the display panel and drives the display panel to update the screen; and a control circuit, which receives the write-in command and the display data, is coupled to the driving circuit; the control circuit follows the write-in command writing the display data to the storage element, and follows the write-in command to control the driving circuit to drive the display panel to update the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Sitronix Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Chih Hao Liu