Patents Examined by Aaron Midkiff
  • Patent number: 11159036
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor and an interface configured to electronically interface between the processor and a display assembly, wherein the interface is configured to provide a legacy supply voltage to the display assembly and an alternate supply voltage other than the legacy supply voltage to the display assembly in lieu of or in addition to the legacy supply voltage, such that the interface is compatible with each of a first type of display assembly having a first type of voltage regulator tree that generates regulated output voltages from the legacy supply voltage and a second type of display assembly having a second type of voltage regulator tree that generates regulated output voltages from the alternate supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Andrew Thomas Sultenfuss, Judy M. Amanor-Boadu
  • Patent number: 11157071
    Abstract: Systems and methods for eye image set selection, eye image collection, and eye image combination are described. Embodiments of the systems and methods for eye image collection can include displaying a graphic along a path connecting a plurality of eye pose regions. Eye images at a plurality of locations along the path can be obtained, and an iris code can be generated based at least partly on at least some of the obtained eye images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Adrian Kaehler
  • Patent number: 11144742
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensor and a terminal device are provided. The fingerprint sensor includes a plurality of integration circuits (110) and a negative feedback circuit (120); the negative feedback circuit (120) is connected to the plurality of integration circuits (110) for respectively fixing an input common mode voltage of each of the integration circuits (110) as a reset bias voltage when the plurality of integration circuits (110) are in a reset phase; and each of the integration circuits (110) corresponds to a fingerprint capacitor respectively, and the integration circuit (110) is configured to perform integration processing on a charge of the corresponding fingerprint capacitor when in an integration phase, and output an output voltage related to the fingerprint capacitor. A fingerprint sensor and a terminal device of the present application could improve an SNR of a fingerprint image without increasing resources of a main control RAM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mengwen Zhang
  • Patent number: 11145237
    Abstract: A gate driver includes a plurality of stages, a memory and a selector. The plurality of stages provides a plurality of gate signals to a plurality of gate lines. The memory receives a gate input signal applied to at least one of the stages and outputs the gate input signal as a selection signal. The selector outputs a vertical start signal to a scan start point among the stages based on the selection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hae-Kwan Seo, Myungho Lee
  • Patent number: 11145235
    Abstract: An electro-optic display having a plurality of pixels is driven from a first image to a second image using a first drive scheme, and then from the second image to a third image using a second drive scheme different from the first drive scheme and having at least one impulse differential gray level having an impulse potential different from the corresponding gray level in the first drive scheme. Each pixel which is in an impulse differential gray level in the second image is driven from the second image to the third image using a modified version of the second drive scheme which reduces its impulse differential The subsequent transition from the third image to a fourth image is also conducted using the modified second drive scheme but after a limited number of transitions using the modified second drive scheme, all subsequent transitions are conducted using the unmodified second drive scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Demetrious Mark Harrington, Kenneth R. Crounse, Karl Raymond Amundson, Teck Ping Sim, Matthew J. Aprea
  • Patent number: 11127329
    Abstract: A display device configured to receive an input image of an electronic device. The display device comprises a display panel, a scanning circuit, and an adjusting circuit. The display panel comprises an active zone. The scanning circuit is configured to determine a display region of the active zone in which the input image is displayed. The adjusting circuit is coupled to the scanning circuit. The adjusting circuit is configured to capture an image of the display region when an adjusting signal associated with the display panel is received in order to display the image of the display region on the active zone correspondingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hung-Chun Hsieh, Chun-Hao Huang
  • Patent number: 11099798
    Abstract: A multi-view display system that detects and locates viewers, establishes a set of characteristics for the viewers, generates or selects personalized content for each viewer based on the characteristics, and displays the personalized content, via at least one multi-view display, to the plurality of viewers simultaneously is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Misapplied Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Han Ng, Paul Henry Dietz, David Steven Thompson
  • Patent number: 11074879
    Abstract: Disclosed are a drive circuit of a display device, a display device and a display panel. The drive circuit of the display device drives a first drive signal output branch and a second drive signal output branch to output a preset logic level signal separately by drive signals of a timing controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaoyu Huang
  • Patent number: 10990174
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing a dynamically-updated computerized musculo-skeletal representation comprising a plurality of rigid body segments connected by joints. The method comprises recording, using a plurality of autonomous sensors arranged on one or more wearable devices, a plurality of autonomous signals from a user, wherein the plurality of autonomous sensors include a plurality of neuromuscular sensors configured to record neuromuscular signals. The method further comprises providing as input to a trained statistical model, the plurality of neuromuscular signals and/or information based on the plurality of neuromuscular signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Kaifosh, Timothy Machado, Thomas Reardon, Erik Schomburg
  • Patent number: 10976845
    Abstract: An array substrate, a touch display panel and a touch display device are provided. In the array substrate, the number of inverters in a second buffer unit is smaller than the number of inverters in a first buffer unit, or a size of an inverter in the second buffer unit is smaller than a size of an inverter in the first buffer unit, or the number of inverters in the second buffer unit is smaller than the number of inverters in the first buffer unit and the size of the inverter in the second buffer unit is smaller than the size of the inverter in the first buffer unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Wang, Zhenqing Xie, Ying Sun, Bingping Liu, Yumin Xu, Guozhao Chen, Min Huang
  • Patent number: 10970511
    Abstract: A system and method for correcting distortions within a biometric image. The biometric image is generated from first sensor data acquired from a sensing device. The first sensor data may include distortions generated in response to a change in distance or tilt between elements of a corresponding electronic device. Further, second sensor data corresponding to a calibration image is acquired from the sensing device. A corrected biometric image is generated based at least in part on the biometric image and the sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Joseph Kurth Reynolds
  • Patent number: 10963672
    Abstract: Method for detecting the presence of a body part carrying an imprint on an imprint sensor comprising a transparent face on which a body part must be placed, an image sensor, situated opposite the transparent face, able to acquire an image of an imprint, a light source for illuminating a body part placed on the transparent face. The method comprises: switching on the light source; acquiring a multicomponent image with the image sensor, each color component of the multicomponent sensor corresponding to a predefined wavelength range; obtaining, for each color component of said multicomponent image, information representing a signal generated by said image sensor for said color component; comparing said representative items of information with each other and detecting the presence of a body part according to the result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE
    Inventor: Denis Dumont
  • Patent number: 10955924
    Abstract: A multi-view display system that enables viewers to individually interact with the system to provide information thereto is disclosed. The system includes a multi-view display, a system controller, and an input/communications device. In the illustrative embodiment, the input/communications device provides a way for a viewer to communicate, to the system, a viewing preference pertaining to the presentation of content and facilitates associating the viewing preference with a viewing location so that the content that is ultimately displayed via the multi-view display is viewable by viewer at the proper viewing location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Misapplied Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Henry Dietz, Albert Han Ng, David Steven Thompson
  • Patent number: 10937843
    Abstract: A display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel includes a display area, a bezel area and a hole area. The bezel area includes an inner bezel area surrounding the hole area and an outer bezel area surrounding the display area, and the display area surrounds the hole area and is disposed between the inner bezel area and the outer bezel area. The display panel also includes a substrate layer, a light-emitting layer, an encapsulation layer and a touch layer that are sequentially stacked; at least two detection soldering pads disposed in the outer bezel area; and a detection line including at least one first detection segment disposed in the inner bezel area, at least two second detection segments disposed in the display area and at least two third detection segments in outer bezel area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong Ding, Qijun Yao
  • Patent number: 10937372
    Abstract: A spot compensating apparatus including a spot compensation data generator configured to generate spot compensation data based on a first precision unit in a first block area having a spot, and based on a second precision unit in a second block area not having the spot, the spot compensation data being for compensating the spot displayed on a display panel configured to display an image based on first image data, the second precision unit having less precision than the first precision unit, and a spot compensator configured to perform a spot compensation on the first image data using the spot compensation data to output second image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byoung-Kwan An, Seung-Ho Park, Hee-Sook Park, Ji-Hye Eom
  • Patent number: 10928914
    Abstract: A multi-view display system that permits viewers to individually interact therewith to communicate commands or viewing preferences is disclosed. Methods in accordance with the present teachings enable a multi-view display to deliver a unique content stream to each of plural viewers, based on the viewers' interactions with the multi-view display system, wherein the viewers are not in fixed locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Misapplied Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Han Ng, Paul Henry Dietz, David Steven Thompson
  • Patent number: 10916182
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving perceived image quality of an electronic display communicatively coupled to an image data source that outputs a synchronization control signal, which indicates when an image frame is expected to stop being written, based on a source clock signal. The electronic display includes a display pixel row, a display driver, and a timing controller. The timing controller determines a target scan time to be used to write the image frame to the display pixel row and instructs the display driver to write the image frame to the display pixel row based on the target scan time and a display block signal, in which the timing controller instructs the display driver to continue writing the image frame to display pixel row after the electronic display receives the synchronization control signal when the synchronization control signal is received before the target scan time is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sinan Alousi, Haifeng Li, Mohammad Hajirostam, Yafei Bi
  • Patent number: 10915074
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device of present invention comprises a display unit providing an image; a control unit placed spaced apart from the display unit, the control unit providing the display unit with a electric power and a signal; a cable electrically connect the display unit and the control unit, the cable carrying the electric power and the signal; and a controller configured to control a property of the electric power in accordance with a length of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Youngho Chun
  • Patent number: 10906790
    Abstract: A control box and operator interface for an industrial vehicle includes a left thumb joystick controller, a right thumb joystick controller, and integrated handles positioned adjacent the left thumb joystick controller and the right thumb joystick controller, respectively. The integrated handles are ergonomically positioned relative to the left and right thumb joystick controllers such that when an operator grasps the handles, the operator's thumbs are naturally positioned adjacent the left and right thumb joystick controllers, respectively. An enabling mechanism is associated with each of the integrated handles and includes a switch that serves to activate operational functionality of the left and right thumb joystick controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: JLG INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew I. Gilbride, Ignacy Puszkiewicz, Brian K. Mohlman, David W. Lombardo
  • Patent number: 10901442
    Abstract: A technique is provided that reduces dullness of a potential provided to a line such as gate line on an active-matrix substrate to enable driving the line at high speed and, at the same time, reduces the size of the picture frame region. On an active-matrix substrate (20a) are provided gate lines (13G) and source lines. On the active-matrix substrate (20a) are further provided: gate drivers (11) each including a plurality of switching elements, at least one of which is located in a pixel region, for supplying a scan signal to a gate line (13G); and lines (15L1) each for supplying a control signal to the associated gate driver (11). A control signal is supplied by a display control circuit (4) located outside the display region to the gate drivers (11) via the lines (15L1). In response to a control signal supplied, each gate driver (11) drives the gate line (13G) to which it is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohei Tanaka, Hidefumi Yoshida, Takeshi Noma, Ryo Yonebayashi, Takayuki Nishiyama, Mitsuhiro Murata, Yosuke Iwata