Patents Examined by Ryan A Lubit
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Patent number: 11681487Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprising a processor and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic apparatus to: acquire a plurality of images obtained from a plurality of different image sources; store information about relationship between an orientation of a display device and at least one of the plurality of images in a storage; detect an orientation of a display device; and control the display device to display an image obtained from a same image source, among the plurality of different image sources, as that of an image associated with the detected orientation.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Atsushi Mikawa
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Patent number: 11682359Abstract: An electronic display includes a display panel that operates in a single display mode to provide a single display, or a dual display mode to provide two displays separated by an inactive region. The electronic display includes the display panel and a panel driver. The display panel includes a left pixel region, a right pixel region, and a middle pixel region between the left and right pixel regions. In the single display mode of the electronic display, the panel driver provides first gate signals generated from first input data to the left, right, and middle pixel regions. In a dual display mode, the panel driver provides second gate signals generated from second input data to the left and right pixel regions. The first input data has a first resolution that is larger than a second resolution of the second input data.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Evan M. Richards, Cheonhong Kim, Nirav Rajendra Patel
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Patent number: 11669149Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting touch events with an accelerometer are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes measuring first accelerometer data at a first rate, detecting a first touch event based on the first accelerometer data, in response to detecting the first touch event, measuring second accelerometer data at a second rate, determining whether a second touch event is detected based on the second accelerometer data, measuring third accelerometer data at the first rate in response to an absence of the second touch event being detecting in the second accelerometer data over a predetermined threshold period of time.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Yu Jiang Tham, Xing Mei
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Patent number: 11662592Abstract: Provided are a head-mounted display device and a head-mounted display system. The head-mounted display device includes: a processor, a first interface, a transfer switch, a wireless communication module and a display screen, the wireless communication module is configured to be in wireless communication connection with a hand-held controller; the processor is configured to control the transfer switch to switch for communication between the first interface and the display screen when detecting that the first interface is connected to a host, and send first position data and second position data to the host via the first interface, so as to allow the host to render an image according to the first position data and the second position data and to output and display a rendered image on the display screen via the first interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: QINGDAO PICO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiuzhi Zhang, Hongwei Zhou, Guanghui Liu, Hengjiang Guo
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Patent number: 11659958Abstract: A blender with a display panel is provided to effectuate presentations of visual content. Exemplary implementations may: receive a first type of user input through the control interface; make detections regarding the user input received through the control interface; effectuate presentation of visual content on the display panel, responsive to a first detection of the first type of detections; and/or perform other operations.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: BlendJet Inc.Inventor: Ryan Michael Pamplin
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Patent number: 11656699Abstract: The present invention provides a product with an operation display panel incorporated therein, which naturally harmonizes with the environment to not create visual noise for a user and allow the user to operate the operation display panel intuitively while feeling a natural material. A thin layer, made of a natural wood, natural fiber, natural leather, or natural stone, or a resin, synthetic fiber, synthetic leather or artificial stone created by imitating the appearance and touch of a natural material, is provided on the peripheral surface of a housing so that the thin layer covers at least the entire front surface of a display panel. A touch sensor incorporated comes in contact with the front surface of the panel. The thickness of the thin layer and the luminance of the panel are designed to allow the user to view the content displayed on the panel.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: MUI LAB, INC.Inventors: Kazunori Oki, Nobuyasu Hirobe, Fumiaki Shibayama, Shinji Horii, Takanori Yamamoto, Makoto Nomura
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Patent number: 11651612Abstract: A fingerprint sensing apparatus includes a plurality of fingerprint sensing electrodes, a plurality of data lines respectively sandwiched by a first capacitance-shielding wire and a second capacitance-shielding wire, a fingerprint sensing circuit including a driver circuit with a gain larger than zero or equal to zero. During fingerprint sensing, the fingerprint sensing circuit sends a capacitance-exciting signal to a selected fingerprint sensing electrode, receiving a fingerprint sensing signal from the selected fingerprint sensing electrode, processing the fingerprint sensing signal with the driver circuit into a capacitance-eliminating signal and applying the capacitance-eliminating signal to the first capacitance-shielding wire and the second capacitance-shielding wire respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATIONInventors: Hsiang-Yu Lee, Shang Chin, Chia-Hsun Tu, Ping-Tsun Lin
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Patent number: 11647392Abstract: A method for securing a mobile device includes determining whether the mobile device is unlocked whether a user is logged into a mobile application running on the mobile device. The method further includes determining, when the mobile device is unlocked while the user is logged into the mobile application, whether the mobile device is currently in a threat scenario by analyzing data from one or more sensors. The threat scenario indicates that the mobile device is exposed to unintended and malicious interactions. The method further includes displaying, when it is determined that the mobile device is currently in the threat scenario, a step-up authentication screen that replaces or at least partially covers an application screen of the mobile application. The method further includes restoring the application screen of the mobile application in response to receiving a valid authentication input from the user on the step-up authentication screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventor: Myles Lawrence
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Patent number: 11640056Abstract: Computer-implemented methods of operating an augmented reality device can involve capturing camera images, processing the camera images, and displaying virtual display images. The camera images can be captured automatically using a camera disposed within an augmented reality device worn by a user. The camera images can be processed automatically using a processor located within the augmented reality device. The virtual display images can be displayed automatically to the user within the augmented reality device while the user is looking through the augmented reality device and simultaneously viewing real objects through the augmented reality device. The virtual display images can be based on the processed camera images. Additional steps can include accepting a first user input, storing camera image(s) on a memory located within the augmented reality device based on the first input, accepting a second user input, and displaying stored image(s) to the user based on the second input.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2022Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Brilliant Labs LimitedInventors: Benjamin Raymond Heald, Bobak Tavangar, Austin Wilson, Venkat Rangan
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Patent number: 11637162Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a first transistor including a first gate electrode, a first source region, and a first drain region, a second transistor connected to the first source region of the first transistor, a third transistor connected to the first gate electrode and the first drain region of the first transistor, a fifth transistor connected to the first source region of the first transistor, and a sixth transistor connected to the first drain region of the first transistor. The pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel disposed adjacent to each other. The first and second pixels share a fourth transistor connected to the third transistor of the first pixel and the third transistor of the second pixel, and share a seventh transistor connected to the sixth transistor of the first pixel and the sixth transistor of the second pixel.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jeong-Soo Lee, Moo Soon Ko, Min Woo Woo, Ju-Won Yoon, Deuk Myung Ji
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Patent number: 11635839Abstract: One variation of a method for detecting and characterizing force inputs on a surface includes: during a resistance scan cycle of a sampling period, driving a shield electrode arranged over a resistive touch sensor to a reference potential and reading resistance values across sense electrode and drive electrode pairs in the resistive touch sensor; during a processing cycle of the sampling period, transforming the resistance values into a position and a magnitude of a force applied to a tactile surface over the shield electrode, releasing the shield electrode from the reference potential, reading a capacitance value of the shield electrode, and detecting proximity of an object to the tactile surface based on the capacitance value; and generating a touch image representing the position and the magnitude of the force on the tactile surface based on the proximity of the object to the tactile surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Sensel Inc.Inventors: Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, John Aaron Zarraga, Charles Watson
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Patent number: 11635856Abstract: Provided are an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program capable of accurately and simply controlling a movement sensitivity of an index displayed on a finder monitor to a sensitivity desired by a user by using a touch panel installed on a rear monitor. The imaging apparatus (10) has a finder that includes the finder monitor (13), the touch panel (31) that receives a swipe operation for moving the index, and an image processing unit (24). The image processing unit (24) includes a sensitivity setting unit that sets a first sensitivity for coarsely moving the index by the swipe operation or a second sensitivity for finely moving the index by detecting a contact operation to the touch panel in the swipe operation, and a movement control unit that moves the index on the basis of the swipe operation on the touch panel and the sensitivity set by the sensitivity setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yuki Sugihara, Masaru Kobayashi, Kazuki Ishida, Masahiko Miyata
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Patent number: 11630577Abstract: A screen display control method may be implemented by an electronic device configured with a foldable touchscreen. The touchscreen includes a first area and a second area. A first interface is displayed in a first area and a first operation is detected in a first interface. A second interface is displayed in a second area in response to the first operation and the second interface is associated with content displayed in the first interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaoxiao Chen, Wei Zhao, Xiuming Yuan, Qingyu Cui
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Patent number: 11625091Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for generating obfuscated control interfaces for extended reality (XR) experiences. An example method can include determining a pose of an XR device within a mapped scene of a physical environment associated with the XR device; rendering a virtual control interface within the mapped scene according to a configuration including a first size, a first position relative to the pose of the XR device, a first ordering of input elements, and/or a first number of input elements; and adjusting the configuration of the virtual control interface based on a privacy characteristic of data associated with the virtual control interface and/or characteristics of the physical environment associated with the XR device, the adjusted configuration including a second size, a second ordering of input elements, a second number of input elements, and/or a second position relative to the pose of the XR device and/or first position.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wesley James Holland, Ramesh Chandrasekhar, Daniel James Guest, Sebastien Mounier, Bijan Forutanpour
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Patent number: 11620015Abstract: The disclosure provides an electronic device, including a display panel, a touch component, and a processor. The display panel includes a display region, the touch component includes a touch region, and the processor is electrically connected to the display panel and the touch component. The processor defines an effective input region for executing a function of at least one input component in the touch region, to establish link setting information between the input component and the corresponding effective input region, and execute the function of the input component according to the link setting information in response to a touch operation sensed by the effective input region.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Ya-Ting Chen, Chien-Chih Tseng, Yao-Yu Tsai
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Patent number: 11614667Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes a base substrate and at least one signal line unit in a fan-out region of the base substrate. Each of the at least one signal line unit includes two first signal lines and one second signal line, and the two first signal lines and the one second signal line are respectively in different layers and extend in a same direction. A center line of an orthographic projection of the one second signal line on the base substrate overlaps with a center line of an orthographic projection of an interval region between the two first signal lines.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignees: Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhenhong Xiao, Peng Liu, Chao Liang, Aiyu Ding, Yongqiang Zhang, Jingyi Xu, Hui Yuan, Jiantao Liu
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Patent number: 11609650Abstract: Embodiments described herein generally take the form of an electronic device including a primary and secondary display; at least the secondary display is force-sensitive and further has its force-sensing circuitry in-plane with the display. The secondary display and force-sensing circuitry may be encapsulated between two glass layers that are bonded to one another by a frit. In some embodiments the force-sensing circuitry is formed from, or constitutes part of, the frit.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hung Sheng Lin, ByoungSuk Kim, Jun Qi
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Patent number: 11609320Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a transparent substrate, a display, an antenna module, and a plurality of first conductive structures. The display emits image light to the transparent substrate. The antenna module emits a first beam to the transparent substrate. The plurality of first conductive structures is disposed on a first surface of the transparent substrate and a travel path of the image light, and forms a first conductive pattern. The plurality of first conductive structures change a direction of the first beam and generate a second beam to an object.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Chun-Yih Wu, Ta-Chun Pu, Yen-Liang Kuo
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Patent number: 11609663Abstract: A self-capacitive touch display panel is provided, including a display panel and a touch layer disposed on the display panel. The touch layer includes a touch lead layer including a plurality of touch leads, a first insulating layer, a touch shielding layer, a second insulating layer, and a touch sensing layer including sensing patterns arranged in an array, disposed in order on the display panel, wherein the sensing patterns of the touch sensing layer are configured to communicate with the touch leads through the touch shielding layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Bi Chen
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Patent number: 11599225Abstract: The display apparatus includes a display including a touch screen; a plurality of transducers provided to be spaced apart from each other at edges of the touch screen, and configured to transmit and receive an ultrasonic signal with respect to the touch screen; and a processor configured to identify a touch position on the touch screen based on the ultrasonic signal transmitted and received by the plurality of transducers, wherein the transducer includes a plurality of electrodes arranged from an edge side of the touch screen toward an inner side of the touch screen, and a first electrode at the edge side among the plurality of electrodes is shorter than a second electrode at the inner side.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITYInventors: Huijun Shim, Kwankyu Park, Gwanhyung Kim