Patents Examined by Vijay Shankar
  • Patent number: 11409376
    Abstract: A method for controlling movement of a computer display cursor based on a point-of-aim of a pointing device within an interaction region includes projecting an image of a computer display to create the interaction region. At least one calibration point having a predetermined relation to the interaction region is established. A pointing line is directed to substantially pass through the calibration point while measuring a position of and an orientation of the pointing device. The pointing line has a predetermined relationship to the pointing device. Movement of the cursor is controlled within the interaction region using measurements of the position of and the orientation of the pointing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: UltimatePointer, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Erik Jan Banning
  • Patent number: 11402927
    Abstract: A method for controlling movement of a computer display cursor based on a point-of-aim of a pointing device within an interaction region includes projecting an image of a computer display to create the interaction region. At least one calibration point having a predetermined relation to the interaction region is established. A pointing line is directed to substantially pass through the calibration point while measuring a position of and an orientation of the pointing device. The pointing line has a predetermined relationship to the pointing device. Movement of the cursor is controlled within the interaction region using measurements of the position of and the orientation of the pointing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: UltimatePointer, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Erik Jan Banning
  • Patent number: 11403996
    Abstract: The display driving device includes: a grouper that performs grouping of a plurality of light emitting elements (for example, light emitting elements arranged on a scanning line (for example, a scanning line of the display into one or more light emitting element groups (for example, light emitting element groups based on video information input; and a driver (for example, a cathode driver that drives the one or more light emitting element groups so that driving periods do not overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Nakanishi, Masahiro Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 11404494
    Abstract: One example provides a method enacted on a display device comprising an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel and a light sensor positioned behind the OLED display panel with respect to a viewing surface of the OLED display panel. The method comprises receiving data samples from the light sensor and determining a temporal location for each of one or more non-emissive states of the OLED display panel. The method further comprises determining an ambient light characteristic using one or more data samples acquired during the one or more non-emissive states of the OLED display panel and adjusting an emission characteristic of the OLED display panel based at least in part on the ambient light characteristic determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Eliyahu Barel, Eran Arbel
  • Patent number: 11405038
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a level shifter circuit and a display panel. The level shifter circuit includes a level shifter module, a compare module connected to the level shifter module. The level shifter module includes a level shifter unit, a control unit connected to the level shifter unit. The level shifter unit receives a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal and generates a level shifter result signal according to the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal. The compare module is configured to compare a voltage corresponding to the level shifter result signal with a reference voltage at a predetermined time and generate a comparison result. The control unit stops the shifter unit when the voltage corresponding to the level shifter result signal is less than the reference voltage. The present disclosure prevents the display panel from being damaged by short circuiting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventors: Wenfang Li, Xianming Zhang
  • Patent number: 11398184
    Abstract: The present application provides a pixel driving circuit, a display apparatus and a method for driving a pixel driving circuit. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving sub-circuit, a duration control sub-circuit and a data writing sub-circuit. The driving sub-circuit is electrically coupled to the duration control sub-circuit and the data writing sub-circuit, respectively, the data writing sub-circuit is configured to transmit a data signal to the driving sub-circuit, the duration control sub-circuit is configured to control a turned-on duration of the driving sub-circuit, and the driving sub-circuit is configured to control a current of a to-be-driven element according to the data signal during the turned-on duration. The display apparatus includes the pixel driving circuit provided by the present application. The method is applied to the pixel driving circuit provided by the present application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongni Liu, Minghua Xuan
  • Patent number: 11388382
    Abstract: A suggested viewport indication is generated and sent for use in a panoramic video. In one example, a method includes receiving encoded video including viewport metadata, decoding the video, extracting the viewport metadata, generating a viewport of the decoded video based on the viewport metadata, and buffering the generated viewport for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Jill M. Boyce
  • Patent number: 11385724
    Abstract: Techniques are described for notebook hinge sensors. For example, a computing device may comprise a housing having a processor circuit and an input device, the input device arranged on a side of the housing, a lid having a digital display arranged on a side of the lid, a hinge arranged to couple the housing and the lid, and a sensor module coupled to the processor circuit, the sensor module arranged inside the hinge and operative to capture motion input outside of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: James M. Okuley
  • Patent number: 11388381
    Abstract: A suggested viewport indication is generated and sent for use in a panoramic video. In one example, a method includes receiving encoded video including viewport metadata, decoding the video, extracting the viewport metadata, generating a viewport of the decoded video based on the viewport metadata, and buffering the generated viewport for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jill M. Boyce
  • Patent number: 11379061
    Abstract: A method for switching a display mode is applied to a terminal, wherein a display screen covers a front surface and a back surface of the body of the terminal including a first display region on the front surface of the body and a second display region on the back surface; the method includes: displaying in a first display mode in which the first display region is in a screen-on state and the second display region is in a screen-off state; acquiring touch information of the display screen and a flip angle of the terminal; and switching the display mode from the first display mode to a second display mode in which the first display region is in the screen-off state and the second display region is in the screen-on state when the touch information satisfies a first condition and the flip angle of the terminal satisfies a second condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD. NANJING BRANCH, BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Di Wang
  • Patent number: 11372480
    Abstract: A flexure guidance system may be provided for controlling movement of an optical subassembly and/or a connected combiner lens. For instance, the flexure guidance system may include a distal end piece, a proximal end piece, and multiple wire flexures that link the distal end piece to the proximal end piece. The linking wire flexures may be spaced to form an interior cavity between the distal end piece and the proximal end piece. This interior cavity may house various electronic components. One or more actuators in the system may move the electronic components according to input signals along different axes of movement provided by the wire flexures. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Ryan Michael Ebert
  • Patent number: 11367382
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of driving a display device, comprising the steps of: step S1, providing a display device, comprising a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array; step S2: dividing data signals of the sub-pixels in a frame of an image into a plurality of sub-frames having different time weights; step S3, dividing the plurality of sub-pixels into at least two driving groups, and the plurality of sub-frames corresponding to the sub-pixels in different driving groups having different display order; and step S4, driving each of the sub-pixels to display image according to a display order of one of the sub-frames corresponding to each of the sub-pixels, such that through setting different display order of sub-frames of the sub-pixels of different driving groups, the flicker caused by the digital driving can be reduced without increasing driving frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zeng Wang, Pengfei Liang
  • Patent number: 11366628
    Abstract: A tiled electronic device includes a first display panel, at least two other display panels and a roller. The first display panel transmits a plurality of signals to the at least two other display panels directly. The at least two other display panels include a second display panel being adjacent to the first display panel. The roller is rotatable in a rotating direction, wherein the first display panel is connected to the roller, and the second display panel is connected to the roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Jui-Jen Yueh, Kuan-Feng Lee
  • Patent number: 11361736
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for energy or resource management of a human-machine interface comprises the following steps carried out by computer hardware components of the human-machine interface: determining a level of attention of a user of the human-machine interface to the human-machine interface; and setting an energy and/or resource utilization related setting of the human-machine interface based on the determined level of attention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Tim Welsch, Roland Hollemann
  • Patent number: 11362076
    Abstract: A display module and system applications including a display module are described. The display module may include a display substrate including a front surface, a back surface, and a display area on the front surface. A plurality of interconnects extend through the display substrate from the front surface to the back surface. An array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) are in the display area and electrically connected with the plurality of interconnects, and one or more driver circuits are on the back surface of the display substrate. Exemplary system applications include wearable, rollable, and foldable displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc
    Inventors: Andreas Bibl, Kapil V. Sakariya, Vikram Pavate
  • Patent number: 11360732
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed that allows multiple casting devices to work together to populate a large display screen according to the subject matter disclosed herein. The system includes a receiving device that includes two or more screen-cast receivers and a controller. Each screen-cast receiver receives from a corresponding casting device at least a portion of a frame of original content of the corresponding casting device generated in a native resolution of the corresponding casting device. The controller synchronizes each received portion of the frame of the original content of the corresponding casting device to form a video output signal that comprises a combination of each received portion, in addition to any internally generated content derived by the receiving display. A casting device may be a smartphone, a tablet, or a computing device, such as a laptop computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Gabriel T. Dagani, David C. Tannenbaum, Christopher P. Frascati, Michael Phillip
  • Patent number: 11361718
    Abstract: An image processing device reduces power consumption of a backlight by lowering a dimming value through brightness distribution for pixels. The image data processing device includes: an image analyzing circuit configured to analyze original image data on a video image divided into a plurality of regions and calculate a representative brightness value for each region; a dimming value calculating circuit configured to calculate a dimming value for each region in order to adjust the brightness of a backlight according to the representative brightness value; a pixel analyzing circuit configured to analyze brightness distribution for a plurality of pixels in each region; a dimming control circuit configured to re-adjust the dimming value for one region according to the brightness distribution; and a dimming output circuit configured to output, to a backlight driving device, a dimming control signal for driving the backlight according to the dimming value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Won Lee, Jung Eun Baek, Xin Cui, Do Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11361700
    Abstract: A driving chip for a display panel is provided. The display panel includes a plurality of subpixels arranged at a display region, the display region is provided with a boundary extended by a non-straight line, and the plurality of subpixels includes first subpixels separated from the boundary by a distance substantially smaller than a predetermined threshold and second subpixels other than the first subpixels. The driving chip includes: an adjustment circuit configured to, when the display panel is in a predetermined display mode, adjust a first grayscale value of at least a part of the first subpixels in original image data into a second grayscale value substantially smaller than the first grayscale value; a driving circuit configured to drive the at least a part of first subpixels in accordance with the second grayscale value to display an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui Liu, Wei Sun
  • Patent number: 11355056
    Abstract: A local active matrix display panel, circuits and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, a local active matrix display panel includes an array of pixel driver chip, a thin film transistor layer in electrical contact with the array of pixel driver chips, and an array of light emitting diodes electrically connected with the thin film transistor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hjalmar Edzer Ayco Huitema, Thomas Charisoulis, Xia Li
  • Patent number: 11353981
    Abstract: A display device including a first pressure sensor disposed under a display panel that includes an upper surface, a first upper curved portion extended from a first edge of the upper surface, and a first side surface extended from the first upper curved portion. The first pressure sensor is disposed in the first upper curved portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee Seomoon, Won Ki Hong, Sung Kook Park, So Hee Park, Tae Hee Lee