Patents Examined by Temesghen Ghebretinsae
  • Patent number: 11614793
    Abstract: An augmented reality or virtual reality (AR/VR) system can include a virtual input device that can be rendered by an HMD, and a wearable impact detection device, such as a ring, smart watch, wristband, etc. with an inertial measurement unit (IMU), that can be used in conjunction with the HMD to track a location of the user's hands relative to the perceived location of the rendered virtual keyboard using, e.g., vision-based tracking via the HMD and determine when an intended input (e.g., button press) is entered by the user by detecting an impact of the user's finger(s) on a physical surface. The AR/VR system can then determine which key is pressed based on the physical location of the user's hands (e.g., using the vision-based tracking) and, more precisely, the user's finger(s) causing the detected impact and the closest key of the virtual input device to the detected point of impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Denis O'Keefe, Aidan Kehoe, Damien O'Sullivan, Fabien Zellweger
  • Patent number: 11616214
    Abstract: A display device includes a display layer including an active area including a plurality of pixel areas, and a peripheral area adjacent to the active area, an insulating layer disposed on the display layer, the insulating layer including at least one first opening overlapping the plurality of pixel areas, and at least one second opening in the peripheral area, a refractive index layer disposed on the insulating layer, having a refractive index greater than a refractive index of the insulating layer, and spaced apart from the at least one second opening, and a polarizing layer overlapping the refractive index layer. At least a portion of the polarizing layer overlaps the at least one second opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Il-Joo Kim, Gunwoo Ko, Yong-Hwan Kim, Taekon Kim, Hyunyoung Kim, Jong-Ryuk Park, Wangwoo Lee, Hyungjun Lim, Youngbae Jung, Jung-Hyun Cho
  • Patent number: 11609428
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes a line-of-sight information acquisition unit which acquires line-of-sight information related to a line-of-sight direction of a user, a movement information acquisition unit which acquires a center-of-gravity movement information related to a center-of-gravity movement direction of a body of the user, and a display control unit which performs a first display control for controlling a display device by moving a viewpoint of the imaging unit in the center-of-gravity movement direction while substantially maintaining the imaging posture of the imaging unit when the line-of-sight direction and the center-of-gravity movement direction are substantially parallel and performs a second display control for controlling the display device by rotating the imaging posture of the imaging unit and moving the viewpoint of the imaging unit in the center-of-gravity movement direction when the line-of-sight direction and the center-of-gravity movement direction are n
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soichiro Inatani, Kenji Sugihara, Mari Saito
  • Patent number: 11609653
    Abstract: A touch apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a touch sensor; and a touch controller that operates in a resonance driving mode during which a first driving signal is output for generation of a resonance signal of a stylus pen to the touch sensor and an idle mode during which the driving signal output to the touch sensor is stopped, and obtains first touch coordinate information from a detection signal input from the touch sensor during the resonance driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HIDEEP INC.
    Inventors: Seyeob Kim, Bonkee Kim
  • Patent number: 11610287
    Abstract: A motion trail update method includes: receiving first pose information for a target device transmitted by a first sensor at a first frequency; selecting second pose information meeting a preset condition from a second pose information queue as target second pose information to obtain a target second pose information set; performing trail smoothing on adjacent pose information and the first pose information by using the target second pose information set to obtain a smooth pose information sequence; performing mapping on each piece of smooth pose information in the smooth pose information sequence to obtain a target pose information sequence of a virtual object, corresponding to the target device, in a virtual space; and updating a motion trail of the virtual object in the virtual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HANGZHOU LINBAN TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Zeng
  • Patent number: 11604548
    Abstract: A display with a curved portion is provided. The display includes a capacitive sensor mesh layer including a plurality of cells, wherein at least a cell of the plurality of cells includes at least one cell face that has a discontinuity in the cell face based at least in part on a position of the cell on the curved portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hyungsoo Kim, Rajesh Manohar Dighde, Younghun Paik, Hyun Woo Koo, Ying Zheng
  • Patent number: 11604531
    Abstract: According to one aspect, a trackpad includes: a substrate; a stiffener plate; a circuit board between the substrate and the stiffener plate, the circuit board comprising position detecting circuitry configured to detect a position of an object adjacent the substrate, the circuit board including an inductive element; a grounding element that electrically connects the stiffener plate and the circuit board to each other; and force sensing circuitry configured to detect force applied to the substrate, the force detected using the inductive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jianxun Wang, Diego Rivas, Igor Markovsky, Debanjan Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 11599203
    Abstract: A backlight module includes a flexible circuit board and a light guide plate. A first light source assembly, a second light source assembly, and a positioning member are disposed on the flexible circuit board. The light guide plate is disposed over the flexible circuit board and includes a first single key light guide area, a second single key light guide area, and a connection area. The first single key light guide area has a first through hole accommodating the first light source assembly. The second single key light guide area has a second through hole accommodating the second light source assembly. The connection area is located between the first and second single key light guide areas and has an accommodating hole. The flexible circuit board is overlapped with the light guide plate with the positioning member being accommodated in the accommodating hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Chicony Power Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsuan-Wei Ho, Tsung-Hsun Chen
  • Patent number: 11600195
    Abstract: A digital input device includes a sensor that detects an electronic pen and outputs coordinates according to positions pointed by the electronic pen, a display device, an operation button, a processor, and a storage device storing a program that causes the digital input device to: display, on the display device, a predetermined template according to a format indicated by template data and inputted information according to the position pointed by the electronic pen and received via the sensor; provide timepoint information at each timepoint, generate pieces of time-series data based on the timepoint information provided at each timepoint, each of the pieces of the time-series data including: a timepoint value indicated by the timepoint information, coordinate values indicated by the coordinates output from the sensor, a writing pressure value, and a button status value; and store answer information and correction information in association with the template data indicating the format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshihiko Horie
  • Patent number: 11592915
    Abstract: An e-pen includes e-pen sensor electrodes (including a first and a second e-pen sensor electrode) and drive-sense circuits (DSCs) (including a first DSC and a second DSC. The first DSC drives a first e-pen signal having a first frequency via a first single line coupling to the first e-pen sensor electrode and simultaneously senses, via the first single line, the first e-pen signal. Based on e-pen/touch sensor device interaction, the first e-pen signal is coupled into at least one touch sensor electrode of the touch sensor device. The first DSC process the first e-pen signal to generate a first digital signal representative of a first electrical characteristic of the first e-pen sensor electrode. Similarly, the second DSC drives a second e-pen signal having a second frequency via a second single line coupling to the second e-pen sensor electrode and simultaneously senses, via the second single line, the second e-pen signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Gerald Dale Morrison, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Michael Shawn Gray, Kevin Joseph Derichs
  • Patent number: 11587515
    Abstract: A terminal device mainly includes: a display module (21), a middle frame (22) for fixing the display module (21), a light-guiding column (23) embedded on the middle frame (22), and an ambient light sensor (24) located at bottom of the light-guiding column (23), wherein a light-entry surface of the light-guiding column (23) guides ambient light to the ambient light sensor (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junjie Duan, Haijun Hou
  • Patent number: 11579723
    Abstract: A touch apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a touch sensor; and a touch controller that operates in a resonance driving mode during which a first driving signal is output for generation of a resonance signal of a stylus pen to the touch sensor and an idle mode during which the driving signal output to the touch sensor is stopped, and obtains first touch coordinate information from a detection signal input from the touch sensor during the resonance driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: HIDEEP INC.
    Inventors: Seyeob Kim, Bonkee Kim
  • Patent number: 11579502
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display device. A display device according to an embodiment of the present inventive concept includes gate lines extending along a first direction, data lines extending along a second direction, pixels including pixel electrodes, each of the pixels including a transistor connected to a gate line and a data line, and a pixel electrode connected to the transistor, the pixels including a first pixel which includes a first pixel electrode connected to a first data line and is disposed in nth pixel row and mth pixel column, and a second pixel which includes a second pixel electrode connected to the first data line or a second data line disposed adjacent to the first data line and is disposed in (n+1)th pixel row and the mth pixel column. The first data line does not overlap the first pixel electrode and overlaps the second pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventors: Se Hyun Lee, Hae Chan Park, Min Gyeong Shin, Hye Won Jang, Hak Sun Chang
  • Patent number: 11574971
    Abstract: An electronic panel including a base layer, a signal line disposed on the base layer, and an insulating layer disposed on the base layer and including an open edge that contacts the signal line and defines an open area, the open area exposing a portion of the base layer and an end portion of the signal line when viewed in a plan view, in which the insulating layer has a first thickness at a first point spaced apart from the open edge, and a second thickness greater than the first thickness at a second point disposed farther away from the open edge than the first point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minji Lee, Hyungjun An, Jeongoh Jin
  • Patent number: 11573650
    Abstract: Disclosed are a magnetic roller damping device and an implementing method thereof. The device includes a magnetic roller and a magnetic damping mechanism. The magnetic roller includes a first multipole magnet that includes at least one pair of magnetic poles with opposite polarities. The magnetic damping mechanism uses a magnetic damping magnet or metal attractable to the first multipole magnet, the magnetic damping magnet or metal is positioned in a magnetic field of the first multipole magnet, and a distance between the magnetic damping magnet or metal and the magnetic roller is adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Inventor: Yuanzhi Li
  • Patent number: 11574961
    Abstract: A novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. The display panel includes a first pixel; the first pixel includes a first display element, a first color conversion layer, and a first absorption layer; the first display element emits first light; the first absorption layer overlaps with the first display element; and the first absorption layer absorbs the first light. Furthermore, the first color conversion layer is sandwiched between the first display element and the first absorption layer; the first color conversion layer converts the first light into second light; and the second light has a spectrum including a high proportion of light with a long wavelength compared with the first light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Inventors: Tsunenori Suzuki, Yasuhiro Niikura, Tomoya Hirose, Satoshi Seo
  • Patent number: 11574451
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media containing instructions for moving virtual content between virtual planes in three-dimensional space are provided. In one implementation, the wearable extended reality appliance may present a virtual object at a first location on a first virtual plane; intraplanar input signals may be received for causing the virtual object to move to a second location on the first virtual plane, and in response the wearable extended reality appliance may virtually display an intraplanar movement of the virtual object from the first location to the second location; and interplanar input signals may be received for causing the virtual object to move to a third location on a second virtual plane, while the virtual object is in the second location, and in response the wearable extended reality appliance may virtually display an interplanar movement of the virtual object from the second location to the third location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: MULTINARITY LTD
    Inventors: Tamir Berliner, Tomer Kahan
  • Patent number: 11561617
    Abstract: An input apparatus includes an operation interface configured to receive an input operation from a user, a piezoelectric element attached to the operation interface, and a controller configured to acquire output based on the input operation to the operation interface from the piezoelectric element and to execute different control with respect to a controlled apparatus in accordance with the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeto Hattori
  • Patent number: 11561653
    Abstract: A control device that controls an electronic device including a top panel having an operation surface, a position detector that detects a position of operational input performed on the operation surface, and a first vibrating element that generates vibration in the top panel, the control device includes a first processor that outputs a first drive signal to the first vibrating element to drive the first vibrating element; a first capacitor inserted in series between the first vibrating element and the first processor; and a first differential amplifier that detects a first voltage of the first capacitor or the first vibrating element, wherein the first processor is configured to determine whether pressing operation to the top panel has been performed based on the first voltage detected by the first differential amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akinori Miyamoto, Kiyoshi Taninaka, Yuichi Kamata
  • Patent number: 11556209
    Abstract: A touch sensing device that compensates for a phase error of a downlink signal transmitted/received between a display device and an active pen. The touch sensing device includes a differential amplifier configured to amplify a difference between a first accumulated capacitance value for a first touch group and a second accumulated capacitance value for a second touch group, based on a first downlink signal generated during a pre-driving section, an ADC configured to convert an output signal of the differential amplifier into digital data, and a phase error compensator configured to detect an edge of the first downlink signal based on a difference value between current and previous values of the digital data and compensate for a phase error of the first downlink signal using the edge of the first downlink signal and an edge of an internal timing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sun Young Park, Kyung Hwan Kim