Patents Examined by Xuemei Zheng
  • Patent number: 11743445
    Abstract: To provide a naked-eye type stereoscopic display device which can achieve a fine stereoscopic display property while achieving high-definition display and high yield. An aperture part includes overlapping regions which overlap with an aperture part or another aperture part neighboring to each other in a second direction and a non-overlapping region which does not overlap. Provided that a light amount emitted from a linear aperture of the aperture part in parallel to a second direction is “longitudinal light amount”, the non-overlapping region includes longitudinal light amount fluctuating regions where the longitudinal light amount changes continuously from roughly a center of the aperture part towards both ends of the first direction, respectively. The sum of the longitudinal light amounts of the two overlapping regions overlapping with each other at a same position in the first direction is larger than the longitudinal light amount in roughly the center of the aperture part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Asai, Koji Shigemura
  • Patent number: 11741910
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display panel and a display device using the same. The display panel includes a pixel array in which a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines crossing the data lines, and a plurality of pixels are disposed; a first gate driver configured to supply a gate signal to gate lines connected to pixels disposed in a first area of the pixel array; and a second gate driver configured to receive a carry signal from the first gate driver and supply a gate signal to gate lines connected to pixels disposed in a second area of the pixel array. The second gate driver includes a signal transmission unit disposed in the pixel array to receive the carry signal from the first gate driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Suk Lee, Seung Taek Oh
  • Patent number: 11720170
    Abstract: An electronic device capable of determining an eye convergence angle using a magnetometer sensor is provided. The magnetometer sensor is capable of reporting angle readings in three dimensions that is aligned with an eye gaze direction of each eye of a user. The magnetometer which is incorporated into the device can fit into a human eye like a contact lens and determine the angle of the gaze direction of both eyes with respect to an object within a field of view. By obtaining this eye convergence angle for an object, it is possible to accurately detect depth information. The electronic device also functions as a digital contact lens that can automatically adjust the focal point of the object to provide the user with a clear vision. The electronic device also includes a display that provides the user with additional information about the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Dominique Paul Barbier
  • Patent number: 11721297
    Abstract: Provided is a display method applicable to a display device, the display device including a liquid crystal light control panel and a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel stacked together, the method including: acquiring a first sub-image and a second sub-image of an image to be displayed on the LCD panel, a boundary of the first sub-image being in contact with a boundary of the second sub-image; and decreasing a grayscale value of a first region, which is in contact with a boundary of a second light control region, in a first light control region, in response to determining that a grayscale value of the second sub-image is greater than a grayscale threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guangyun Tong, Zhuolong Li, Yu Zhang, Bochang Wang
  • Patent number: 11720166
    Abstract: To provide a display system which changes a video in accordance with the position of a real object on a display screen, and which provides a strong sense of immersion and a strong sense of presence in a scene. A video display system 100 comprises: a rendering device 10 which generates a two-dimensional video as seen from a specific camera position; a display device 20 which displays the video on a display screen; and a sensor device 30 which detects the position of a real object on the display screen. The rendering device 10 changes the camera position and renders a predetermined object within the video on the basis of the position of the real object the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: teamLab Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Inoko
  • Patent number: 11710435
    Abstract: A shift register unit and a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit, and a display device are provided. In the shift register unit, the input circuit inputs an input signal to a first node; the output circuit outputs an output signal to an output terminal; the first control circuit performs a first control on a level of a first control node; the first noise reduction control circuit controls a level of a second node; the second control circuit performs a second control on a level of a second control node; the second noise reduction control circuit controls a level of a third node; the first voltage-stabilizing circuit performs a third control on the level of the second control node, and the second control and the third control cause at least part of the second noise reduction control circuit to be in different bias states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xingyi Liu, Yongxian Xie, Jideng Zhou, Fengzhen Lv
  • Patent number: 11703685
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, computer implemented methods, and computer program products to enhance the operation of a vehicle. A HUD apparatus includes a laser light source to generate laser light to be reflected an optical member, one or more elastically deformable position adjustment members, and one or more UV light sources. The elastically deformable position adjustment members are operable to adjust a spatial orientation of the optical member, and include one or more photochromatic regions to facilitate movement of the one or more elastically deformable position adjustment members from a contracted state to an expanded state in response to exposure to UV light emitted by the U light source(s). In that way, adjustments in the spatial orientation of the optical member and a change in direction of laser light reflected by the optical member as obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Shailesh N Joshi, Ercan M Dede
  • Patent number: 11681362
    Abstract: Described herein are methods and display systems for enhanced eye tracking for display systems, such as augmented or virtual reality display systems. The display systems may include: a light source configured to output light and a moveable diffractive grating configured to reflect light from the light source, the reflected light forming a light pattern on the eye of the user; a plurality of light detectors to detect light reflected from the eye; and one or more processors. The display system changes the orientation of the diffractive grating, such that the light pattern reflected from the diffractive grating is scanned along an axis across the eye. Light intensity patterns are obtained via the light detectors, with a light intensity pattern representing a light detector signal obtained by detecting light reflected off of the eye as the light pattern is scanned across the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicolas Abele, Eric Chevallaz, Philippe De Gol, Julien Gamet, Gatien Cosendey, Stephan Arthur Gamper
  • Patent number: 11668940
    Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a method and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, via light from a light source, rendering an image on a retina.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony Van Heugten
  • Patent number: 11662580
    Abstract: A terminal device sends first information to a cloud device, where the first information indicates a posture and a location of the terminal device at a first moment. Then, the terminal device receives information about a first field of view image from the cloud device, where the first field of view image is a field of view image corresponding to the posture and the location of the terminal device at the first moment. The terminal device displays an image within a field of view range of the terminal device at a second moment based on the information about the first field of view image and a posture change and a location change of the terminal device from the first moment to the second moment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Bao, Cuijuan Ma, Yin Huang, Jianbin Liu, Guang Chen
  • Patent number: 11662854
    Abstract: A method for improving flexibility of a circuit board, e.g., comprising a touch-based sensor, and reducing manufacturing costs by eliminating routing around a border of the touch-based sensor is presented herein. The method comprises forming an array of touch sensors on a first side of the circuit board, in which portions of the circuit board located between three edges of the circuit board and a border of the array of touch sensors exclude traces; and forming first traces between respective second traces in a singular direction on a second side of the circuit board, in which the first traces are electrically coupled, using a first group of vias, to respective rows of the array of touch sensors, and the second traces are electrically coupled, using a second group of vias, to respective columns of the array of touch sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SENSEL, INC.
    Inventor: Ilya Daniel Rosenberg
  • Patent number: 11657774
    Abstract: An apparatus for driving an electro-optic display may comprise a first switch designed to supply a voltage to the electro-optic display during a first driving phase, a second switch designed to control the voltage during a second driving phase and a resistor coupled to the first and second switches for controlling the rate of decay of the voltage during the second driving phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Karl Raymond Amundson, Teck Ping Sim
  • Patent number: 11656467
    Abstract: A near-eye display device comprises a pupil-expansion optic, first and second lasers, a drive circuit coupled operatively to the first and second lasers, a beam combiner, a spatial light modulator (SLM), and a computer. The first and second lasers are configured to emit in respective first and second wavelength bands. The beam combiner is configured to geometrically combine emission from the first and second lasers into a collimated beam. The SLM is configured to receive the collimated beam and to direct the emission in spatially modulated form to the pupil-expansion optic. The computer is configured to parse a digital image, trigger the emission from the first and second lasers by causing the drive circuit to drive current through the first and second lasers, and control the SLM such that the spatially modulated form of the emission projects an optical image corresponding to the digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond Kirk Price, Christopher Douglas Edmonds, Michael Bleyer
  • Patent number: 11650630
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing merchant/customer interaction include determining that a tablet computer is in a merchant orientation, retrieving merchant product information according to a received instruction and merchant orientation information, and displaying a merchant screen on the tablet computer that includes the merchant product information according to the merchant orientation information. A change in the orientation of the tablet computer enclosure/stand is then detected from the merchant orientation to a customer orientation. In response, the merchant screen is transitioned on the tablet computer display to a customer screen as the tablet computer enclosure/stand changes orientations by moving the merchant screen and the customer screen linearly while in a stacked orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Voege, Faran Najafi, Egan Schultz, Satish Govindarajan
  • Patent number: 11639559
    Abstract: An optical element is provided. The optical element includes a solid crystal including crystal molecules aligned in a predetermined alignment pattern at least partially defined by an alignment structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Tanya Malhotra, Tingling Rao, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Arman Boromand, Lafe Joseph Purvis, Oleg Yaroshchuk, Sheng Ye, Sandeep Rekhi
  • Patent number: 11619829
    Abstract: An autostereoscopic 3D display assembly includes pixels configured to generate a first image intended for a user's left eye, and a second image intended for a user's right eye. Each of the images is projected with a respective line pattern, where the bright portions of the left eye line pattern alternate with the bright portions of the right eye line pattern. The left eye and right eye line patterns are formed using a grating or a double grating. In one embodiment, right eye pixels and left eye pixels each include a double grating, with a different offset between the first grating and second grating to generate the different line patterns. In another embodiment, right eye pixels and left eye pixels each include a grating and one or more micro-LEDs, with a different offset between the grating and the micro-LEDs to generate the different line patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Mehdi Aas, Rob Jacques Paul Engelen
  • Patent number: 11621316
    Abstract: A device such as a micro-OLED includes a display element having a display active area disposed over a silicon backplane and a display driver integrated circuit (DDIC) electrically coupled to the display element through at least one contact that extends through the silicon backplane. Through silicon via (TSV) technology may be used to form the contacts. A chip-on-flex architecture may be used to orient and attach the DDIC to the silicon backplane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Min Hyuk Choi, Cheonhong Kim, Richard Han Soo Cho
  • Patent number: 11614837
    Abstract: A device and a method for generating floating images are provided. An optical imaging module generates a first floating image. A sensing module sends a detection signal to sense first position information of a tested object at a first time point, and generates a feedback signal according to the first position information when the first position information is within a contour range of the first floating image. A signal processing module is electrically connected to the optical imaging module and the sensing module to receive the feedback signal and generate at least one control command and/or at least one feedback command corresponding to the feedback signal. The at least one control command is transmitted to a controller to perform corresponding control on the controller, and the at least one feedback command is transmitted to the optical imaging module, so that the optical imaging module generates a second floating image different from the first floating image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yi-Hsiang Huang, Ping-Chang Jui, Hung Tsou, Szu-Wei Wu, Han-Sung Chan
  • Patent number: 11615743
    Abstract: A shift register unit, a gate driving circuit, a display device, and a driving method are disclosed. The shift register unit includes a first sub-circuit, a second sub-circuit, and a leakage prevention circuit. The first sub-circuit includes a first input circuit and a first output circuit, the first input circuit is configured to control a level of a first node in response to a first input signal. The second sub-circuit includes a second input circuit and the second output circuit. The leakage prevention circuit is connected to the first node, and is configured to control a level of the leakage prevention node under control of the level of the first node, so that a circuit connected between the first node and the leakage prevention node is turned off, and a circuit connected between the second node and the leakage prevention node is turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE JOINT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li, Hao Liu
  • Patent number: 11614836
    Abstract: Disclosed are a reading support apparatus which can detect a user input (touch and/or drag) conducted on a real book by using one camera, and a user input detection method using the same. The reading support apparatus sets a finger and/or nail on a target surface image captured through one camera to touch recognition reference, detects, as a user input, a user's touch or drag conducted on the surface of the real book by comparing the finger and/or nail included in the target surface image to the touch recognition reference, and provides an action corresponding to the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: WOONGJIN THINKBIG CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jeonguk Park