Patents Assigned to The HTC Corporation
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Publication number: 20230394782Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for determining a floor plane and a host. The method includes: determining a first plane as a reference floor plane based on motion data; in response to determining that the host has moved for a predetermined distance after determining the first plane as the reference floor plane, determining a plurality of first feature points on the reference floor plane; determining a second plane based on the first feature points on the reference floor plane; and in response to determining that the second plane meets a predetermined condition, determining the second plane as the reference floor plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: HTC CorporationInventors: Yun-Ting Wang, Nien Hsin Chou
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Publication number: 20230395976Abstract: An antenna structure includes a first signal source, a second signal source, a first radiator, a second radiator, a third radiator, a first circuit, and a second circuit. The first signal source is used to generate a first wireless signal, and the second signal source is used to generate a second wireless signal. The first radiator is coupled to the first signal source to receive the first wireless signal, and the second radiator is coupled to the second signal source to receive the second wireless signal. The first circuit has a first end coupled to the third radiator and a second end coupled to the first radiator or the first signal source. The second circuit has a first end coupled to the third radiator and a second end coupled to the second radiator or the second signal source.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: HTC CorporationInventors: Cheng-Hung Lin, Szu-Po Wang, Chia-Te Chien, Chun-Chieh Wang, Kang-Ling Li, Chun-Hsien Lee, Yu-Chieh Chiu
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Publication number: 20230397371Abstract: A heat dissipation device with a communication function includes a conductive substrate, a first conductive sidewall, a plurality of heat sink elements, and a feeding element. The first conductive sidewall and the heat sink elements are respectively coupled to the conductive substrate. The feeding element is coupled to a signal source. An antenna structure is formed by the feeding element, the conductive substrate, and at least one of the heat sink elements. A resonant path of the antenna structure is formed by at least one of the heat sink elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: HTC CORPORATIONInventors: Ta-Chun PU, Chun-Yih WU
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Patent number: 11838730Abstract: A virtual image display includes acoustic sensors and a controller, and a method is for operating the same. The acoustic sensors are for detecting the wind frequency information in the environment. The controller computes time points of the acoustic sensors receiving the wind frequency information, and computes wind direction information based on the time points.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Chia-Chu Ho, Ching-Hao Lee
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Patent number: 11836302Abstract: A motion computing system for virtual reality is provided, which comprises a wearable device and a head-mounted display. The head-mounted display performs following steps for: setting a wearing position of the wearable device; determining whether to generate a hand model having finger skeleton data for the hand of the user is found in a monitored field by a hand tracking algorithm; in response respond to that determine the hand model is found in the monitored field, identifying a device position according to the wearing position and the finger skeleton data, and identifying a device rotation of the wearable device in the monitored field according to the inertial data; calculating a pointer direction in the monitored field according to the device position and the device rotation; and generating a ray in a virtual reality field according to the pointer direction and the device position.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2023Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Tzu-Yin Chang, SyuanYu Hsieh, Cheng-Han Hsieh
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Patent number: 11835725Abstract: A head-mounted display device assembly and an external adjustment module are provided. The head-mounted display device assembly includes a head-mounted display device and the external adjustment module. The head-mounted display device has a first lens and a second lens corresponding to both eyes, and also has a driven mechanism. The first lens and the second lens are respectively coupled to the driven mechanism. The external adjustment module is used for assembling and electrically connecting to the head-mounted display device, and includes a driving element and a transmission element. In a coupling state, the transmission element is coupled to the driving element and the driven mechanism, and the driving element drives the driven mechanism via the transmission element to adjust a distance between the first lens and the second lens. In a separation state, at least one of the driving element and the driven mechanism is separated from the transmission element.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Chun-Wei Chang, Ying-Chieh Huang, Pei-Yu Su, Yen-Te Chiang, Chun-Kai Yang, Wei-Ting Hsiao, Yien-Chun Kuo
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Publication number: 20230386129Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide an analysing method for gratings, an electronic device, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: determining candidate gratings; determining grating combinations based on the candidate gratings, wherein each of the grating combinations includes at least one of the candidate gratings, and the at least one of the candidate gratings in each grating combination is different from each other; determining a first diffraction response map of a first multiplexing grating corresponding to a first grating combination of the grating combinations; determining a first luminous intensity map of the first multiplexing grating corresponding to the first grating combination via modifying the first diffraction response map based on at least one parameter of a light engine; and determining a first reconstruction image corresponding to the light engine via processing a template image based on the first luminous intensity map.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: HTC CorporationInventor: Chih-Ying Chen
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Patent number: 11831795Abstract: A wireless transceiving device including a main body and at least one camera lens is provided. The camera lens is detachably connected to a connection part on the main body. The camera lens includes a barrel part, a first lens, a phase matching structure, a data storage device, and an electrical connection terminal. The data storage device is configured to store specification information. When the camera lens is connected to the connection part, a wireless transmitter is coupled to the data storage device through the electrical connection terminal and reads the specification information in the data storage device. The wireless transmitter controls a plurality of transmitting phases and a plurality of transmitting powers of a plurality of transmitted wave beams according to the specification information.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Chun-Yih Wu, Ta-Chun Pu, Yen-Liang Kuo
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Patent number: 11829531Abstract: The present disclosure provides a human-computer interaction method and system. The method includes following operations: by a motion sensor, sensing a hand movement to generate a movement signal; by a camera module, capturing a plurality of images of the hand movement; by at least one processor, generating a plurality of feature values according to the movement signal adjusted based on hand movement information, wherein the hand movement information is generated by analyzing the plurality of images of the hand movement; and by the at least one processor, controlling a virtual object by a first hand gesture determined by a hand gesture determination model according to the plurality of feature values.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Cheng-Han Hsieh, Tzu-Yin Chang
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Publication number: 20230369764Abstract: A mobile device includes a housing, a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a third radiation element, a first switch element, and a second switch element. The first radiation element has a first feeding point. The second radiation element has a second feeding point. The first radiation element, the second radiation element, and the third radiation element are distributed over the housing. The first switch element is closed or open, so as to selectively couple the first radiation element to the third radiation element. The second switch element is closed or open, so as to selectively couple the second radiation element to the third radiation element. An antenna structure is formed by the first radiation element, the second radiation element, and the third radiation element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2022Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: HTC CorporationInventors: Cheng-Hung LIN, Szu-Po WANG, Chia-Te CHIEN, Chun-Chieh WANG, Kang-Ling LI, Chun-Hsien LEE, Yu-Chieh CHIU
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Patent number: 11809640Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for detecting a movement of a ring controller, a ring controller, and a computer readable medium. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of moving parameters of the movement of the ring controller, wherein the ring controller is used to interact with a user interface; determining a rotating condition of the ring controller based on the moving parameters; and adjusting a visual content provided in the user interface based on the rotating condition of the ring controller.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: HTC CorporationInventor: Wei-Cheng Chiu
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Patent number: 11810242Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for stabilizing a raycast and an electronic device. The method includes: determining a specific raycast associated with a hand gesture in a virtual environment; determining whether the hand gesture is a pinch gesture; and in response to determining that the hand gesture is the pinch gesture, locking the specific raycast during the pinch gesture.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: HTC CORPORATIONInventors: Fan Yuan Ng, Ryan Jeffrey Hoback, Russell L McLellan, Edwin Alberto Fonseca
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Patent number: 11810492Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for determining an ambient light luminance, a host, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a first frame and a second frame, wherein the first frame comprises a plurality of first regions of interest (ROI), the second frame comprises a plurality of second ROIs, and the first ROIs respectively correspond to the second ROIs; in response to determining that the first ROIs comprise at least one specific ROI satisfying a predetermined condition and at least one first candidate ROI, obtaining at least one second candidate ROI among the second ROIs, wherein the at least one second candidate ROI respectively correspond to the at least one specific ROI; and determining the ambient light luminance based on the at least one first candidate ROI and the at least one second candidate ROI.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Chia-Wei Yu, Ping-Chang Hsieh, Chin-Yu Chang
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Publication number: 20230351632Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for providing a visual content, a host, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: providing a reference object at a first location to aim at a first point and accordingly determining a first reference line related to the first point, wherein the first point is associated with an external camera; providing the reference object at a second location to aim at the first point and accordingly determining a second reference line related to the first point; determining a camera position of the external camera based on the first reference line and the second reference line; obtaining a specific image captured by the external camera; and generating a specific visual content via combining the specific image with a virtual scene based on the camera position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2022Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: HTC CorporationInventor: Wei-Jen Chung
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Patent number: 11805615Abstract: A method of manufacturing a casing of an electronic device including the following steps is provided. A metallic housing is provided, wherein the metallic housing has an inner surface and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface and includes a back region and at least one side region. At least one gap, a plurality of apertures and a non-conductive layer are formed on the inner surface of the metallic housing, wherein the apertures is formed on a surface of the at least one gap, part of the non-conductive layer is formed in the at least one gap and extended from the back region to the at least one side region, and part of the non-conductive layer is extended into the apertures. Part of the metallic housing is removed for exposing part of the non-conductive layer, thereby forming a plurality of non-conductive spacers located in the at least one gap.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Tim Chung-Ting Wu, Cheng-Chieh Chuang, Chi-Jen Lu, Chun-Lung Chu, Chien-Hung Lin
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Publication number: 20230341990Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a visual content generating method, a host, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a first eye image rendered by a 2D editor application, wherein the first eye image shows a virtual environment of a reality service; obtaining a screen view image of the 2D editor application, wherein the screen view image shows an editing interface of the 2D editor application editing the virtual environment; generating a visual content via overlaying the screen view image onto the first eye image, wherein the visual content includes a first content area and a second content area respectively corresponding to the first eye image and the screen view image, and the first content area is synchronized with the second content area.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2022Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: HTC CorporationInventor: Si-Huai Kuo
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Patent number: 11797130Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a finger touch detecting method and a handheld device. The method includes: detecting a finger distribution area touched by a plurality of fingers on a touch detection area, wherein the touch detection area comprises a plurality of touch sensors, and the finger distribution area includes a plurality of specific sensors of the touch sensors; distributing a predetermined data size over the specific sensors, wherein each specific sensor is distributed with a corresponding bit size; obtaining a raw data detected by each of the specific sensors; quantizing the raw data of each of the specific sensors based on the corresponding bit size; and providing the quantized raw data of each of the specific sensors.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Chen-Si Dai, Wei-Chih Kuo
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Publication number: 20230326045Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for managing tracking devices, a device manager, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: receiving a local map corresponding to each of a plurality of tracking devices and accordingly generating a shared map; obtaining a pose ambiguity status corresponding to each of the tracking devices; determining at least one first specific device among the tracking devices based on the pose ambiguity status corresponding to each of the tracking devices; and disabling at least one function of the at least one first specific device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2022Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: HTC CorporationInventors: Sheng-Kun Huang, Jia-Yau Shiau
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Publication number: 20230324699Abstract: A head-mounted display device assembly and an external adjustment module are provided. The head-mounted display device assembly includes a head-mounted display device and the external adjustment module. The head-mounted display device has a first lens and a second lens corresponding to both eyes, and also has a driven mechanism. The first lens and the second lens are respectively coupled to the driven mechanism. The external adjustment module is used for assembling and electrically connecting to the head-mounted display device, and includes a driving element and a transmission element. In a coupling state, the transmission element is coupled to the driving element and the driven mechanism, and the driving element drives the driven mechanism via the transmission element to adjust a distance between the first lens and the second lens. In a separation state, at least one of the driving element and the driven mechanism is separated from the transmission element.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: HTC CorporationInventors: Chun-Wei Chang, Ying-Chieh Huang, Pei-Yu Su, Yen-Te Chiang, Chun-Kai Yang, Wei-Ting Hsiao, Yien-Chun Kuo
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Publication number: 20230324987Abstract: An eye tracking device and an eye tracking method are provided. The eye tracking device includes a sensor and multiple signal transmitting units. The sensor is disposed on an eyeball of a user. The sensor has multiple signal receiving units. The signal transmitting units are disposed around the sensor and surround the sensor. The signal transmitting units respectively transmit multiple transmitting signals. The signal receiving units receive the transmitting signals to respectively generate multiple sensing signals. The eye tracking device calculates a position of the eyeball according to the sensing signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2022Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: HTC CorporationInventors: Lun-Kang Lin, I-Han Tai