Patents Examined by Xuemei Zheng
  • Patent number: 11803206
    Abstract: A user interface device for controlling a robot manipulator having an end effector comprising at least one movable element, the user interface device comprising: a body for being held by a user, the body comprising an elongate grip portion configured to be gripped by one or more of a user's second to fourth fingers; a trigger extending transversely to the direction of elongation of the grip portion, the trigger being supported by the body so as to be capable of rotating relative to the body about a rotation axis passing through the grip portion; and a drive mechanism at least partially housed in the grip portion, the drive mechanism being coupled to the trigger for applying a torque to the trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: CMR Surgical Limited
    Inventor: Rebecca Anne Cuthbertson
  • Patent number: 11798492
    Abstract: A display device capable of improving image quality is provided. The display device is provided with an adder circuit in and outside a display region, and the adder circuit has a function of adding a plurality of data supplied from a source driver together. Components of the adder circuit are divided and partly arranged in the display region. Thus, limitation on the size of the component included in the adder circuit can be eased, and data addition can be performed efficiently. In addition, by providing other components included in the adder circuit outside the display region, the number of wirings in the display region can be reduced and the aperture ratio of the pixel can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Naoto Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 11798448
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a near-eye display device. The near-eye display device includes: a light source module and an optical module, where the light source module includes multiple laser image sources, which are vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) image sources or collimated light image sources; the light source module is configured to: perform digital-to-analog (D-A) conversion on an image signal and load the image signal into the laser image sources, such that the laser image sources emit red, green, and blue (RGB) laser beams; the optical module includes a compound eye control chip and a projection element array; the projection element array includes multiple projection elements, which are arranged on the compound eye control chip according to a preset arrangement pattern; and the optical module is configured to: control the projection elements to rotate within a preset angle through the compound eye control chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventor: Wei Shu
  • Patent number: 11800743
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a light-emitting device to emit light; and an input sensor disposed on the display panel. The input sensor includes a first insulating layer disposed on the display panel; a first conductive layer disposed on the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer covering the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer disposed on the second insulating layer. At least one of the first and second insulating layers includes a plurality of diffraction patterns arranged to diffract at least a portion of the light provided from the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung Sock Choi, Sunmi Kang, Cheol Jang, Sunyoung Jung, Hyunho Kim, Sanghwan Cho
  • Patent number: 11789230
    Abstract: An optical element includes a plate portion including a reflecting surface on an upper surface in a direction of a vertically extending central axis, a shaft that extends in a direction of a first axis intersecting with the central axis and is fixed to a lower surface of the plate portion, a magnet below the shaft in the direction of the central axis, and plates that fix the plate portion and the shaft, the plate portion including a protruding portion that extends downward in the direction of central axis from a lower surface, the plate including a shaft fixing portion to which the shaft is fixed and a plate portion fixing portion to which the plate portion is fixed, the plate portion fixing portion being fixed to the protruding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuro Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11790826
    Abstract: Provided are a shift register and a driving method thereof, a drive circuit and a display device. A first capacitor is provided with a first terminal electrically connected to a cascade signal output terminal and a second terminal electrically connected to a fixed voltage signal terminal, so that a load capacitance of the cascade signal output terminal is compensated, and the charging and discharging process of the first capacitor is combined to reduce a noise of a signal of the cascade signal output terminal and improve the signal stability of the cascade signal output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: Fuzhou BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Hu, Sang Jin Park, Wenchao Wang, Linlin Lin
  • Patent number: 11783757
    Abstract: A novel display is provided. A display having a small change in chromaticity of a micro light-emitting diode in proportion to current density is provided. A display capable of reducing power consumption in the driver circuit when displaying a still image is provided. The display includes a plurality of pixels each including a display element and a microcontroller. The microcontroller includes a first transistor, a triangular wave generator circuit, a comparator, a switch, and a constant current circuit. The first transistor has a function of retaining a potential corresponding to data written to the pixel by being switched off. The triangular wave generator circuit has a function of generating a triangular wave signal. The comparator has a function of generating an output signal corresponding to the potential and the triangular wave signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Takahashi, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe, Susumu Kawashima, Kouhei Toyotaka, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11783743
    Abstract: A shifting register, a driving method thereof, a driving circuit and a display device are provided. The shifting register includes a control circuit (10), a first output circuit (20), a second output circuit (30) and a first switching transistor (T1). Shifting output of signals may be realized through interaction of all of the circuits. Moreover, an influence of a leak current on a signal of a second end of the first switching transistor is reduced by setting the first switching transistor (T1) to isolate the second output circuit (30) and a second node (N2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hongfei Cheng
  • Patent number: 11783785
    Abstract: A light emitting diode device is provided and includes a first light emitting diode(LED) package emitting light to generate a first brightness. The first LED package includes a first diode being driven in response to a pulse width modulation (PWM) current to generate a first portion of the first brightness and a second diode being driven in response to a first direct current (DC) current to generate a second portion of the first brightness. In a first operation mode of the LED device, the first diode and the second diode are enabled to make the first brightness to reach a first value. In a second operation mode, different from the first operation mode, of the LED device, the second diode is disabled to reduce the brightness from the first value to a second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: AmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hung-Ta Yu
  • Patent number: 11776481
    Abstract: A display substrate and a manufacture method, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a shift register unit, a first clock signal line, and a second clock signal line. The shift register unit includes an input circuit, an output circuit, a first control circuit, a second control circuit, and a voltage stabilizing circuit. A first electrode of the first noise reduction transistor of the second control circuit and a first electrode of the voltage stabilizing transistor of the voltage stabilizing circuit are in a first source-drain electrode layer, which includes a first transfer electrode, which includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion is connected to the first electrode of the first noise reduction transistor and the first electrode of the voltage stabilizing transistor, and the second portion is connected to the gate electrode of the first control transistor of the first control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenqiang Li, Ke Liu, Ling Shi
  • Patent number: 11776492
    Abstract: A device may include an electronic display having a backlight that generates light and multiple display pixels that modulate the amount of generated light emitted from the electronic display based on compensated image data. The backlight may include multiple illuminators that generate the light, and a first color component illuminator may have a slower response rate than a second color component illuminator. The device may also include image processing circuitry that generates the compensated image data by compensating input image data for a color shift associated with a change in brightness of the backlight and the slower response rate of the first color component illuminator. The input image data may be compensated by increasing first color component pixel values of the input image data relative to second color component pixel values of the input image data, and the compensated image data may be output to the electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chengrui Le, Fang-Cheng Lin, Alexey Kornienko
  • Patent number: 11769451
    Abstract: A pixel includes a plurality of transistors, a storage capacitor, and an organic light emitting diode. A first transistor controls the amount of current from a first driving power source to the organic light emitting diode based on a data voltage. A second transistor is connected to a data line and is turned on based on a scan signal. A third transistor coupled to the first transistor and is turned on based on the scan signal. A first stabilizing transistor is coupled to the third transistor or between the first and third transistors and is turned off when the third transistor is turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chong Chui Chai, Dong Woo Kim, Kyoung Ju Shin, Bo Yong Chung
  • Patent number: 11762204
    Abstract: A head mountable display, HMD, system to display images to a user via an HMD includes an illumination detector to detect an illumination level of an ambient environment around the HMD; an operation detector to detect one or more operations indicative of one or both of: (i) initiation of the HMD being put on by the user; and (ii) initiation of the HMD being taken off by the user; and a controller to control the illumination level of the display images, the controller being configured to generate and apply a temporary illumination level variation to the display images in response to a detection of the one or more operations by the operation detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Jacobus Breugelmans, Philip Cockram, Calum Armstrong
  • Patent number: 11762193
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an electromagnetic radiation source having an axis, a set of optics disposed about the axis, a reflector disposed about the axis non-symmetrically, and a controller configured to operate the electromagnetic radiation source while controlling a beam steering orientation (e.g., rotation) of the reflector. The reflector is disposed to reflect electromagnetic radiation emitted by the electromagnetic radiation source. The set of optics is disposed to shape electromagnetic radiation emitted by the electromagnetic radiation source and direct electromagnetic radiation received from the reflector into a panoramic field of view about the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tong Chen, Wenrui Cai, Mark T. Winkler
  • Patent number: 11756508
    Abstract: An electronic device operates in a first mode and a second mode and includes: a display panel including a min part on which an opening area and a display area surrounding the opening area are defined, and a sub-display part disposed below the main part; and an electronic module disposed below the display panel. In the first mode, the sub-display part is disposed below and overlaps the opening area in a plan view, and in the second mode, the electronic module is disposed below and overlaps the opening area in the plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minwoo Woo, Sungho Kim, Seokje Seong, Jinsung An, Seunghyun Lee, Wangwoo Lee, Hyung Joo Jeon
  • Patent number: 11756459
    Abstract: A display device includes display panels; and a specular reflection structure that converts positions of images displayed by the display panels and merges the images at a predetermined position to generate an integrated image, wherein the specular reflection structure includes at least one specular mirror that corresponds to each of the display panels, and the at least one specular mirror converts a display direction by reflecting the images displayed on the display panels wherein a size of each of the images is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: You Ra Kim, Young-Jun Seo, Yong Woo Yi
  • Patent number: 11749188
    Abstract: A display element includes a shield line disposed between adjacent ones of signal lines that transmit a digital signal from a latch unit to a plurality of digital-to-analog converters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamasaki, Yu Maehashi
  • Patent number: 11749227
    Abstract: A method and system to dynamically configure a display controller based on configuration of a display panel with which the display controller is connected. An example method includes the display controller detecting that the display panel is connected with the display controller. And the example method further includes, responsive to detecting that the display panel is connected with the display controller, (i) the display controller determining a configuration of the display panel, and (ii) based on the determined configuration of the display panel, the display controller dynamically configuring itself to interwork with the connected display panel having the determined configuration. This method could enable selective connection of a display controller with a display panel and automatic configuration of the display controller based on the configuration of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Murthi, Erwin B. Bellers, Paul Nangeroni, Adil Jagmag
  • Patent number: 11740744
    Abstract: A display device which can achieve compatibility between the simplicity of the configuration or control of electronic equipment and the maintaining of its high operability includes: a display panel and a touch panel arranged on a front surface side of the display panel as viewed from a viewer. The touch panel includes one transparent substrate and a conductive pattern disposed on the substrate. A plurality of detection areas in each of which a touch position can be detected are provided in the touch panel. A non-detection area in which the touch position is not detected is provided between two detection areas next to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masaki Kubo, Shigeyuki Nishitani
  • Patent number: 11741898
    Abstract: A power supply unit adapts based on an image to be displayed by a display panel. The power supply unit includes a controller circuit for generating a power control signal, and a power supply circuit for generating one or more power supply voltages having a waveform based the power control signal. The controller circuit receives a set of configuration parameters from a display device and generates the power control signal based on the set of configuration parameters. The configuration parameters are stored in a look-up table of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Klement, Aaron Jacob Steyskal, Donghee Nam, Wenhao Qiao, Wonjae Choi