Patents Examined by Robert J Michaud
  • Patent number: 11657759
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a method of driving the same, and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a drive circuit, a data writing circuit, a compensating circuit, a reset circuit and a first light emitting control circuit. The drive circuit is configured to control a drive current for driving a light emitting element to emit light; the data writing circuit is configured to write a data signal to the first terminal of the drive circuit; the compensating circuit is configured to compensate the drive circuit; the reset circuit is configured to apply a reset voltage to the control terminal of the drive circuit and the first terminal of the light emitting element; the first light emitting control circuit is configured to apply a first voltage of the first voltage terminal to the first terminal of the drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xueling Gao
  • Patent number: 11650657
    Abstract: It is provided method for communicating olfactory content. The method is performed in an olfactory device and comprises the steps of: obtaining olfactory content to be rendered at a recipient device; identifying an olfactory state at the recipient device; determining an adjustment of at least one olfactory component, based on the identified olfactory state, to render the olfactory content; and triggering the recipient device to perform the adjustment of at least one olfactory component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: José Araújo, Lars Andersson, Bengt Lindoff, Zeid Al-Husseiny
  • Patent number: 11651726
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes: a pixel circuit including a driving transistor, a first transistor, and a second transistor; a light-emitting element; a first signal line connected to a gate of the first transistor; a second signal line connected to a gate of the second transistor; and a first capacitor. A source or drain of the first transistor is connected to a gate of the driving transistor; and a source or drain of the second transistor is connected to a source or drain of the driving transistor. When being projected on a surface of the display panel, the second signal line is located between the gate of the driving transistor and the first signal line, or the first signal line and the second signal line are located at two sides of the gate of the driving transistor respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuping Xu, Jieliang Li
  • Patent number: 11645980
    Abstract: A pixel of a light-emitting display device includes a capacitor, a first transistor, a second transistor including a gate receiving a gate writing signal, a third transistor including a gate receiving a scan signal, a fourth transistor including a gate receiving a gate initialization signal, a fifth transistor including a gate receiving a first emission signal, a sixth transistor including a gate receiving a second emission signal, and a light-emitting diode. The scan signal and the gate writing signal may be provided at a first frequency, and the first emission signal, the second emission signal and the gate initialization signal may be provided at a second frequency higher than the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Joon Kim, Jun Ki Jeong
  • Patent number: 11645896
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for control of actuators are provided. In aspects, the systems, methods, and devices provided herein enable the generation of sharp cutoff haptic effects of both limited and extended duration. The systems, methods, and devices use open loop braking signals to generate the sharp cutoff haptic effects. The braking signals are determined based on predictions of system response made according to driving signals used to cause the haptic effects in the actuators. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: IMMERSION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Majid Sheikholeslami, Peyman Karimi Eskandary, Vahid Khoshkava, Jamal Saboune
  • Patent number: 11630514
    Abstract: A brainwave feedback system, adapted to generate feedback based on a user's brainwave, the brainwave feedback system comprises: a brainwave sensing device, configured to obtain a first brainwave signal of the user; a server, storing a keyword string pool including a plurality of sorted keywords, and performing a feedback procedure when a first physiological parameter falls outside of a predetermined parameter range, wherein the first physiological parameter is associated with the first brainwave signal, the feedback procedure includes choosing a keyword from the keyword string pool by the server as a feedback keyword, and outputting the feedback keyword; and an output component, in communicable connection with the server, wherein the output component presents an analysis result corresponding to the first physiological parameter. The present disclosure further discloses an operation method of brainwave feedback system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Sheng-Fu Liang, Fu-Zen Shaw, Chih-En Kuo, Yung-Hung Wang, Tsung-Hua Lu, Tsung-Hao Hsieh, Tai-Jie Yun, Jen Jui Hsueh, I Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11619835
    Abstract: Eyewear including a multi-layered display having an adhesive bonding the layers together at an offset distance inward from an outer edge of the layers. The display has an image display layer, such as an optical waveguide in one example, and a pair of layers encompassing the image display layer and which may comprise optically transparent substrates, such as glass. A respective adhesive is positioned the offset distance inward from the outer edge of the display layer between the image display layer and each of the pair of layers to reduce stress in the display. Each of the adhesives may be a continuous bead such that there is no adhesive between the pair of layers and the image display layer at the outer edges. In one example, the offset distance may be at least double the thickness of the image display layer to reduce stress in the image display layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Benamanahalli K. Nagaraj
  • Patent number: 11614912
    Abstract: A dual-system device and writing method and apparatus thereof, and interactive intelligent tablet includes a first system and a second system receiving touch data, where the data rendering speed of the first system is faster than that of the second system, and the data processing speed of the second system is faster than that of the first system; the first system acquiring data to be rendered from a target storage area, where the data to be rendered is generated by the second system according to the touch data and stored in the target storage area; the first system rendering the data to be rendered to obtain handwriting data to be displayed, and transmitting the handwriting data to be displayed to a display screen of the dual-system device for display. The disclosure solves the technical problem of writing delay of an external system when using dual-system to perform writing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: GUANGZHOU SHIYUAN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., GUANGZHOU SHIZHEN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Xiang
  • Patent number: 11614841
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic apparatus including a window, a display panel disposed below the window, a digitizer disposed below the display panel and including a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, a first adhesive layer disposed on the first surface, and a second adhesive layer disposed below the second surface, wherein the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer are two-time-cured. Accordingly, an electronic apparatus having improved folding and viewability properties may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Kishimoto, Dasom Gu, Yongchan Jeon, Hyun-Been Hwang
  • Patent number: 11609645
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to a user interaction system having a head unit for a user to wear and a totem that the user holds in their hand and determines the location of a virtual object that is seen by the user. A fusion routine generates a fused location of the totem in a world frame based on a combination of an EM wave and a totem IMU data. The fused pose may drift over time due to the sensor's model mismatch. An unfused pose determination modeler routinely establishes an unfused pose of the totem relative to the world frame. A drift is declared when a difference between the fused pose and the unfused pose is more than a predetermined maximum distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Sheng Wan
  • Patent number: 11611245
    Abstract: A mobile device can be used to control a computing device different from the mobile device. The mobile device includes a processor configured to receive user input through a graphical user interface (GUI) of the mobile device. The processor can be configured to generate the GUI after detecting a magnetic field generated by a wireless power transmitter. The GUI includes a simulated button and/or an interface configured to receive tactile input indicative of spatial information. The processor is configured to provide information indicative of user input to the computing device to control the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: MEDIATEK Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Vladimir Alexander Muratov, Fu-Chi Lin
  • Patent number: 11601016
    Abstract: An electronic device for providing a wireless charging function and a method thereof is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a touch pad which is disposed in the housing and includes an electrode pattern and multiple openings formed on the electrode pattern, a wireless charging coil, and a processor operationally connected to the touch pad and the wireless charging coil, wherein the processor is configured to perform a touch detection function of detecting a touch by an inputting subject by using at least one electrode pattern of the touch pad, calculate a capacitance variation of the touch pad while the touch detection function is performed, determine whether the inputting subject requires a charging function, based on the calculated capacitance variation, and, in response to determining that the inputting subject requires the charging function, perform a charging function of transmitting power by using the wireless charging coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kisung Jung, Myoungjun Choi, Duckwon Yoon, Byongjeon Lee
  • Patent number: 11600211
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a housing; a display for displaying an image; a driving unit configured to change a size of a display area exposed to the outside of the housing among an entire area of the display; and a controller, wherein the controller determines whether an image displayed through at least a portion of the display area is a static image, when the size of the display area is smaller than the size of the entire area, determines whether the image is displayed for a certain time or longer, when the image is the static image, controls the driving unit to change the size of the display area, when the image is displayed for the certain time or longer, and controls the display so that the image is displayed in response to a degree of change in the size of the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Hyoyeong Kim
  • Patent number: 11592697
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel, a frame positioned behind the display panel, a plate positioned between the display panel and the frame, and a side frame, which extends along an edge of the frame behind the frame and which is coupled to the frame, wherein the plate includes a base facing the frame, and a projection, which projects rearwards from the base through the frame and the side frame and which is bent at an end thereof so as to be coupled to the side frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seunggyu Kang, Hyuncheol Cho
  • Patent number: 11587493
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display device including the display substrate are disclosed. In one aspect, the display substrate includes a plurality of pixels formed in a substantially circular pixel area and a driving circuit formed in a peripheral area surrounding the pixel area and configured to drive the pixels. A boundary is formed between the pixel area and the peripheral area, and the boundary is substantially concentric with respect to an arc defining the substantially circular pixel area. The driving circuit comprises a conductive pattern having a first side which extends in a peripheral direction crossing the boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hye-Jin Shin, Won-Kyu Kwak, Kwang-Min Kim
  • Patent number: 11587254
    Abstract: Raycast-based calibration techniques are described for determining calibration parameters associated with components of a head mounted display (HMD) of an augmented reality (AR) system having one or more off-axis reflective combiners. In an example, a system comprises an image capture device and a processor executing a calibration engine. The calibration engine is configured to determine correspondences between target points and camera pixels based on images of the target acquired through an optical system, the optical system including optical surfaces and an optical combiner. Each optical surface is defined by a difference of optical index on opposing sides of the surface. At least one calibration parameter for the optical system is determined by mapping rays from each camera pixel to each target point via raytracing through the optical system, the raytracing being based on the index differences, shapes, and positions of the optical surfaces relative to the one or more cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Huixuan Tang, Hauke Malte Strasdat, Qi Guo, Steven John Lovegrove
  • Patent number: 11588027
    Abstract: A thin film transistor, a display panel comprising the same and a display apparatus are discussed. The thin film transistor comprises a buffer layer embodied on a substrate, a semiconductor layer embodied on the buffer layer, including a channel area, a first conductor portion and a second conductor portion, a gate insulating film embodied on the semiconductor layer, a gate electrode embodied on the gate insulating film, and an auxiliary electrode overlapped with the second conductor portion, wherein the first conductor portion is extended from one side of the channel area, and becomes a source area, and the second conductor portion is extended from the other side of the channel area, and becomes a drain area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: InTak Cho, Jiyong Noh, Jaeman Jang, PilSang Yun, Jeyong Jeon
  • Patent number: 11580932
    Abstract: A display device, includes: a first processor configured to increase or decrease values of color components representing three colors and included in a first video signal, in accordance with values corresponding to the values of the color components representing three colors; a second processor configured to convert a second video signal into a third video signal, the second video signal including the color components representing three colors and having the values increased or decreased by the first processor, and the third video signal including color components representing four colors; and a display configured to display the third video signal including the color components representing four colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryosuke Niizuma, Hironori Shimoda
  • Patent number: 11562716
    Abstract: A voice-activated system for interactive heads-up display (HUD) and control of traffic targets is disclosed. In embodiments, the HUD receives and decodes traffic information from onboard surveillance systems to identify proximate aircraft within a threshold range and the positions of each aircraft. The HUD arranges proximate aircraft into an ordered sequence based on distance from ownship or other priority criteria. When the HUD is active, interactive symbols are displayed at the positions of the proximate aircraft. A heads-up controller includes a microphone and switch operable by the pilot to signal incoming spoken instructions. The pilot can use voice commands to activate or deactivate the traffic overlay system or set parameters. Voice commands allow the pilot to highlight, select, and designate traffic targets for visual separation or other traffic applications based on the locations of traffic targets or by verbally identifying specific traffic targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley R. Thompson, Sarah Barber, Felix B. Turcios
  • Patent number: 11547052
    Abstract: A lawn vehicle network including a lawn vehicle including a movement mechanism and at least one rotatable blade, a circuit capable of residing on the lawn vehicle, a sensor associated with the lawn vehicle and capable of sensing at least one characteristic of the lawn vehicle, a data packet representative of the at least one characteristic of the lawn vehicle, a transmitter connected to the circuit and to a computing device, the transmitter capable of transmitting the data packet to the computing device, the computing device connected to a speaker, the speaker capable of outputting an audible command representing the at least one characteristic of the lawn vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Hydro-Gear Limited Partnership
    Inventors: David J. Ashbrook, Damon J. Hoyda