Patents Examined by Towfiq Elahi
  • Patent number: 11874964
    Abstract: A glove includes a body, a hand-back base, a fingertip base, an elastic element, a control wire, a shape memory alloy element, a braking element and a processor. The body is used for wearing on a hand of a user. The hand-back base is disposed on a hand-back part of the body. The fingertip base is disposed on a fingertip part of the body. The elastic element is connected between the hand-back base and the control wire. The control wire is connected between the fingertip base and the elastic element. The processor is disposed on the body and is used for electronically controlling the shape memory alloy element to actuate the braking element to brake the control wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Li-Hsun Chang, Kuan-Ying Ou
  • Patent number: 11868569
    Abstract: A system for interacting with a screen without touching it, comprising a source of radiating energy directed into a predefined area, at least one directionally sensitive sensor that detects the radiation when it's reflected off of an object within the predefined area, and a processor that calculates position and motion information of the object and generates therefrom image information, which it sends to a screen where it is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Stephen H. Lewis
  • Patent number: 11861117
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, and a touch sensing unit on the display panel, the touch sensing unit including a first conductive pattern on the display panel, an insulating layer covering the first conductive pattern, and a second conductive pattern on the insulating layer, partially crossing the first conductive pattern, and having a thickness that is greater than a thickness of the first conductive pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chiwook An, Doyeon Kim, Sunghyun Park, Jaehyun Lee, Sung-woong Cho
  • Patent number: 11861101
    Abstract: A touch sensing device configured to be installed in an electronic device, the electronic device including a side unit and a touch switch unit, the side unit including a non-conductive cover and a conductive frame coupled to the cover, the touch switch unit including a first touch member that is a portion of the cover, the touch sensing device including a first sensing electrode configured to be disposed inside the electronic device near the first touch member; a first sensing coil configured to be disposed inside the electronic device; and a first connection wire including one end connected to the first sensing electrode and another end connected to the first sensing coil, thereby electrically connecting the first sensing electrode to the first sensing coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo Hyoung Lee, Joo Yul Ko
  • Patent number: 11860478
    Abstract: A light emitting substrate is provided. The light emitting substrate includes at least one light emitting controlling unit. The at least one light emitting controlling unit includes a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in M rows and N columns and grouped into (P×Q) number of sub-units, M being an integer equal to or greater than one, N being an integer equal to or greater than one, P being an integer equal to or greater than one, and Q being an integer equal to or greater than one; P groups of first voltage signal lines; and Q groups of second voltage signal lines. The (P×Q) number of sub-units are arranged in P rows and Q columns. A respective sub-unit in a p-th row and a q-th column includes K columns of light emitting elements, K being an integer equal to or greater than one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Yang, Yanan Niu, Fuqiang Li, Qi Qi, Wanzhi Chen, Zhenyu Zhang, Changfeng Li
  • Patent number: 11861063
    Abstract: Provided are an eye-tracking device that may rapidly and accurately track an observer's eye and may be made compact, and a display apparatus including the eye-tracking device. The eye-tracking device includes: a light source configured to emit an illumination light; a light guide plate configured to transmit the illumination light emitted from the light source to an observer's eye and transmit the illumination light reflected from the observer's eye in a direction opposite to a propagation direction of the illumination light emitted from the light source; a photodetector array configured to detect the illumination light reflected from the observer's eye; and a signal processor configured to determine an angle of rotation of the observer's eye based on a two-dimensional (2D) intensity distribution of the illumination light detected by the photodetector array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Aleksander V. Morozov, Elena G. Malinovskaya, Sergey E. Dubynin, Vladislav V. Druzhin
  • Patent number: 11861123
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a substrate, an insulating layer, a sensor, and sensing lines. The substrate includes: a sensing region, and a peripheral region at a periphery of the sensing region. The insulating layer is on the substrate. The insulating layer includes contact holes. The sensor is on the substrate and overlaps the sensing region. The sensing lines are on the substrate and overlap the peripheral region. The sensing lines are connected to the sensor. Each of the sensing lines is formed as a multilayer structure. The multilayer structure includes a first electrically conductive layer on the substrate, and a second electrically conductive layer connected to the first electrically conductive layer via a contact hole among the contact holes. Widths of the sensing lines are different from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Su Yul Seo, Yu Jin Choi, Yeon Ju Kang, Ki Hyuk Kim, Gyeong Nam Bang
  • Patent number: 11854503
    Abstract: A wireless electronic label comprises a display module, a rectenna module and a control drive module. The display module has a display surface. The rectenna module is disposed on the display surface of the display module. The rectenna module is used to receive an electromagnetic wave signal and convert it into an electrical energy signal. The rectenna module is made of light-transmitting electronically conductive material. The control drive module is used to convert the electrical energy signal into electrical energy to power the wireless electronic label and to send a command signal to the display module. The display module is further used to display a label signal on the display surface according to the command signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NANJING SILERGY MICRO (HK) CO., LIMITED
    Inventor: Chia-Lin Chang
  • Patent number: 11854508
    Abstract: A driving method and device for a shift register. In a data refreshing phase, loading an input signal having a pulse level to an input signal end, loading a control clock pulse signal to a control clock signal end, loading a noise reduction clock pulse signal to a noise reduction clock signal end, controlling a cascade signal end of the shift register to output a cascade signal having a pulse level, and controlling a drive signal end of the shift register to output a drive signal having a pulse level; in a data holding phase, loading a fixed voltage signal to the input signal end, loading a first set signal to the control clock signal end, loading a second set signal to the noise reduction clock signal end, controlling the cascade signal end to output a fixed voltage signal having a second level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guangliang Shang, Tian Dong, Shuo Huang, Can Zheng
  • Patent number: 11854461
    Abstract: The present application discloses a GOA circuit and a display panel. High-temperature durability of a first node is improved not only by adding a thirteenth transistor to a pull-down remaining module to lower a voltage difference between a source and a drain of the an eleventh transistor to suppress electric leakage of the first node, but also by adding a twentieth transistor to the pull-down remaining module to lower a voltage difference between a gate and a source of a nineteenth transistor to suppress electric leakage of the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventor: Jing Zhu
  • Patent number: 11842432
    Abstract: A controller device is provided, including: a main housing configured to be held by a user's hand; a band extending from a first end of the main housing to a second end of the main housing; a plurality of proximity sensors disposed along the band, said proximity sensors being positioned by the band so as to be proximate to fingertips of the user's hand when corresponding fingers of the user's hand are substantially extended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Yutaka Yokokawa
  • Patent number: 11841933
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and systems that enable radar-based authentication status feedback. A radar field is used to enable an electronic device to account for the user's distal physical cues to determine and maintain an awareness of the user's location and movements around the device. This awareness allows the device to anticipate some of the user's intended interactions and provide functionality in a timely and seamless manner, such as preparing an authentication system to authenticate the user before the user touches or speaks to the device. These features also allow the device to provide visual feedback that can help the user understand that the device is aware of the user's location and movements. In some cases, the feedback is provided using visual elements presented on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Leonardo Giusti, Ivan Poupyrev, Vignesh Sachidanandam, Johan Prag, Brandon Barbello, Tyler Reed Kugler, Alok Chandel
  • Patent number: 11836300
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus, that includes a light emission control unit that turns on IR LEDs (light emission units) included in electronic pens (operation bodies) in which communication with the information processing apparatus is established and blinks the IR LEDs included in the electronic pens at timings different from each other in a case where another electronic pen approaches. Then, a light emission recognition unit detection unit detects a position according to the IR LED included in each of the electronic pens in association with the electronic pen. An input/output control unit (display control unit) displays information associated with the electronic pen at a position corresponding to the IR LED detected by the light emission recognition unit in a case where the electronic pen is in an information input state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11822197
    Abstract: To suppress a malfunction of a circuit due to deterioration in a transistor. In a transistor which continuously outputs signals having certain levels (e.g., L-level signals) in a pixel or a circuit, the direction of current flowing through the transistor is changed (inverted). That is, by changing the level of voltage applied to a first terminal and a second terminal (terminals serving as a source and a drain) every given period, the source and the drain are switched every given period. Specifically, in a portion which successively outputs signals having certain levels (e.g., L-level signals) in a circuit including a transistor, L-level signals having a plurality of different potentials (L-level signals whose potentials are changed every given period) are used as the signals having certain levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 11822092
    Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a display host, a head belt base, a first lateral head belt, a second lateral head belt, an auxiliary head belt, a knob, a first driving component and a second driving component. The head belt base is connected to the display host through the first and second lateral head belts and the auxiliary head belt. The knob is pivoted to the head belt base, and the knob is coupled to the first and second lateral head belts through the first driving component and is coupled to the auxiliary head belt through the second driving component. The knob synchronously drives the first and second driving components, to drive the first and second lateral head belts through the first driving component and drive the auxiliary head belt through the second driving component. Alternatively, the knob drives one of the first driving component and the second driving component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Yu-Cheng Shih, Chih-Heng Tsou, Yen-Chou Chueh, Wei-Chih Wang, Hui-Ping Sun, Chun-Hsien Chen
  • Patent number: 11816298
    Abstract: A capacitive sensing layer of an input device includes a substantially rectangular sensor pattern extending in a horizontal direction and in a vertical direction, including first and second electrodes. Each of the first electrodes includes a strip extending in the vertical direction. The first electrodes are separated in the horizontal direction by first gaps. Each of the second electrodes includes a substantially rectangular pad, disposed adjacent to one of the first electrodes, in one of the first gaps. Two of the second electrodes are disposed in each of the first gaps in the horizontal direction. The two of the second electrodes in each of the first gaps are separated by second gaps. A subset of the second electrodes are disposed in each of the first gaps, in the vertical direction. The capacitive sensing layers also includes routing traces of the second electrodes disposed in the second gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: David Hoch
  • Patent number: 11815951
    Abstract: A training apparatus has an input device and a wearable computing device with a bio-signal sensor and a display to provide an interactive virtual reality (“VR”) environment for a user. The bio-signal sensor receives bio-signal data from the user. The user interacts with content that is presented in the VR environment. The user interactions and bio-signal data are scored with a user state score and a performance scored. Feedback is given to the user based on the scores in furtherance of training. The feedback may update the VR environment and may trigger additional VR events to continue training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: INTERAXON INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Allen Aimone, Trevor Ce Coleman, Ariel Stephanie Garten, Kapil Jay Mishra Vidyarthi, Locillo (Lou) Giuseppe Pino, Michael Apollo Chabior, Paul Harrison Baranowski, Raul Rajiv Rupsingh, Madeline Ashby, Paul V. Tadich
  • Patent number: 11810230
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for validating the graphical generation of symbols to display, comprising a graphical generation of symbols to display to form a video stream comprising a plurality of rasters, comprising a pixel generation, with the attribution of at least one associated symbol attribute for each pixel contributing to one of said symbols. The method comprises, for at least one raster of said video stream: obtaining at least one reference symbol attribute associated with at least one symbol to be monitored; identifying pixels having the reference symbol attribute(s), during a scan of the pixels of said raster in a predetermined course direction, these pixels contributing to said at least one symbol to be monitored, and calculating associated characteristic information; validating the display of the symbol(s) to be monitored based on the calculated characteristic information and of source information associated with said symbols to display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Nicolas Levasseur, Matthieu Grossetete, Sylvain Le Henaff
  • Patent number: 11809546
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for adaptive biometric authentication. According to one example method, a failure of a first type of biometric authentication is detected. In response to detecting the failure of the first type of biometric authentication, an alternative type of authentication is completed. In response to completing the alternative type of authentication, a biometric characteristic of a biometric signature is selectively modified in a stored user profile for processing a subsequent attempt of the first type of biometric authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffry Copps Robert Jose, Ankur Anil Aher
  • Patent number: 11797122
    Abstract: A touch method, a touch circuit and a touch device are provided. The touch method includes: in ath touch time period, providing a touch driving signal to ath touch driving electrode; wherein a is a positive integer, a is less than or equal to A, and A is a positive integer; in ath background data detection time period, providing a touch accompanying signal to N touch driving electrodes adjacent to the ath touch driving electrode; wherein N is a positive integer; and performing touch detection according to ath touch sensing signal on touch sensing electrodes in the ath touch time period and ath background data voltage signal on the touch sensing electrodes in the ath background data detection time period; wherein an amplitude of the touch accompanying signal is less than an amplitude of the touch driving signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: Wuhan BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning Zhu, Jian Zhao, Peng Jiang, Jiantao Liu