Patents Examined by Abbas I Abdulselam
  • Patent number: 11922899
    Abstract: A method for identifying a dynamic resolution for an application (150) of an electronic device (100) is provided. The method includes identifying, by the electronic device, a base resolution for a window of the application (150), wherein the window includes a plurality of views; identifying, by the electronic device, a plurality of resolutions respectively corresponding to the plurality of views based on the base resolution and at least one characteristic of each of the plurality of views; applying, by the electronic device, the plurality of resolutions to the plurality of views, respectively; and displaying, by the electronic device, the plurality of views in the plurality of resolutions, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sulabh Rastogi, Hemanth Chenna, Dileep Pudi, Pioush Kumar, Pankaj Chanchlani, Saurabh Pareek
  • Patent number: 11909145
    Abstract: A detecting circuit of an external display device includes a first connector, a display circuit configured to provide a display signal to the external display device through the first connector, a switch circuit, a power supply circuit configured to provide power needed for operating the display circuit through the switch circuit when the switch circuit is on, and a control circuit configured to turn on the switch circuit upon detecting the external display device so as to connect the power supply circuit to the display circuit. When the switch circuit is on, the control circuit accumulates a duration or a number of times of detection that the external display device is continually not detected, and then turns off the switch circuit to disconnect the power circuit from the display circuit when the duration reaches a time threshold or the number of times of detection reaches a count threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GETAC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuan-Yu Chen, Yao-Wei Yang, Hsueh-Mao Cheng
  • Patent number: 11910678
    Abstract: A display panel including a display area including a first display area and a second display area; and a non-display area at least partially surrounding the display area, the non-display area including a first fan-out area located on one side of the display area along a first direction, the first fan-out area including a plurality of fan-out lines the second display area being located on at least one side of the first display area along a second direction, both the first display area and the second display area including a plurality of data lines extending along the first direction and arranged along the second direction, the data lines being electrically connected the fan-out lines, the data lines in the second display area being electrically connected to the fan-out lines through a connecting line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenshuai Zhang
  • Patent number: 11907422
    Abstract: A method for setting up a communication intended for at least one terminal of at least one second user via analysis of eye movements of a first user. The method is implemented by a device for setting up a communication via analysis of the eye movements of the first user. The device possesses at least one camera, and at least one region of interest is associated, via an identification datum, with the at least one terminal of the at least one second user. The method includes: capturing eye movements with the camera; analysing the captured eye movements; evaluating a duration for which the analysis of the eye movements indicates that a gaze of the user remains directed towards the region of interest; and, when the evaluation indicates that this duration is longer than a threshold, transmitting at least one first message to the at least one terminal identified via the identification datum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Orange
    Inventors: Jean Cartigny, Thomas Maherault
  • Patent number: 11902503
    Abstract: Systems and methods for rendering a 3D image are provided. The system receives texture and depth data (depth map) for an image. The system generates, based on the image data, a plurality of folded focal planes matrices. For each respective pixel matrix, the system preprocesses pixel values in the respective focal pixel plane matrix to generate a respective preprocessed matrix, wherein the respective preprocessed matrix clusters together pixel values of the respective folded focal plane matrix based on the depth data for the image. The system generates phase functions based on a plurality of the preprocessed matrices. The system configures a spatial light modulator of the SLM device in accordance with the generated phase functions. The system then provides the plurality of the preprocessed matrices as input to the SLM device to generate for display a 3D representation of the received image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
    Inventors: Seppo Valli, Pekka Siltanen
  • Patent number: 11889726
    Abstract: A display device, includes: a display area including an upper side, a lower side, a left side, a right side, and inclined corner portions where the upper, lower, left, and right sides meet; a demultiplexing circuit unit adjacent to the lower side of the display area and the corner portion connected thereto; and a scan transmission line which extends toward the display area from an outer side of the left side and overlaps with the demultiplexing circuit unit outside the corner portion, wherein the demultiplexing circuit unit includes a demultiplexer transistor, and the scan transmission line is formed of a different conductive layer from an electrode of a demultiplexer transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han Sung Bae, Se Ho Kim, Sun Ja Kwon, Dong Wook Kim, Jun Yong An, Sang Moo Choi, Jun Won Choi
  • Patent number: 11889729
    Abstract: A display device includes a short ring TFT, wherein the short ring TFT includes a semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode, a first gate insulating film provided between the semiconductor layer and the first gate electrode, and a second gate insulating film provided between the semiconductor layer and the second gate electrode, one of a pair of adjacent lead-out wiring lines is electrically connected to a source region of the semiconductor layer, the other of the pair of adjacent lead-out wiring lines is electrically connected to a drain region of the semiconductor layer, one of the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode is electrically connected to the source region or the drain region, and the other of the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode is electrically connected to a threshold value control wiring line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Takeshi Yaneda
  • Patent number: 11886267
    Abstract: An electronic device incorporating a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen comprises at least one at least one radio frequency (RF) antenna mounted behind a LCD panel of the LCD screen, and a processor. The RF antenna includes a directional transmit RF antenna that transmits an RF signal through the LCD panel to impinge on a human user, and includes a receive antenna configured to receive a RF signal reflected from tissue of the human user. The processor processes the reflected RF signal to generate a processed signal indicative of presence or absence of the human user, and responsive to the processed signal, controls an operating mode of the electronic device and/or enables control of the device by the human user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Advanced Telesensors, Inc.
    Inventors: Sajol Ghoshal, David Kramer, Jaime Martinez
  • Patent number: 11880629
    Abstract: A display control method and an apparatus applied to a first device that supports projection. When the first device determines that the first device is in a state of performing projection onto a second device, the first device receives a first instruction to run a first application in a foreground, and when the first device determines that the first device is in the display state of performing projection onto the second device, the first device determines, based on the first instruction, a second application that is running in the background on the first device and that has same attribute information as the first application, and simultaneously projects a running interface of the first application and a running interface of the second application onto a display interface of the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hejin Gu
  • Patent number: 11880628
    Abstract: A screen mirroring display method implemented by a first electronic device, where the method includes displaying a first display interface, receiving a screen mirroring instruction for projecting the first display interface onto a second electronic device, determining a first target control in the first display interface in response to the screen mirroring instruction, and sending a first message to the second electronic device, where the first message includes a drawing instruction of the first target control to prompt the second electronic device to draw a first screen mirroring interface according to the drawing instruction, where the first screen mirroring interface includes the first target control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenhua Fan, Yuan Cao, Xi Wei
  • Patent number: 11876099
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Osawa, Kyung-Wook Kim, Ming-Chin Hung, Shih Chang Chang, Yu-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 11874710
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to operate closed-lid portable computers are disclosed. An example portable computer includes a first display on a lid of the portable computer, the first display to be deactivated when the lid is in a closed position; a second display distinct from the first display, the second display to be visible when the lid is in the closed position; instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to cause activation of the first display in response to a user interaction with the second display while the lid is in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Barnes Cooper, Aleksander Magi, Arvind Kumar, Giuseppe Raffa, Wendy March, Marko Bartscherer, Irina Lazutkina, Duck Young Kong, Meng Shi, Vivek Paranjape, Vinod Gomathi Nayagam, Glen J. Anderson
  • Patent number: 11876112
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a spliced display device. The display panel includes pixel rows and spacing areas. The pixel rows include a type-A pixel row adjacent to a first panel edge and type-B pixel rows including a first type-B pixel row. The spacing areas correspond to and are adjacent to the type-B pixel rows, and close to the first panel edge. The pixel row includes light-emitting devices and pixel circuits. The pixel circuit includes a first part and a second part. In the type-A pixel row, the first part is located at a side of the light-emitting device close to the first panel edge, and the second part is located in the spacing area corresponding to the first type-B pixel row. In at least one type-B pixel row, the pixel circuit is located at a side of the light-emitting device close to the first panel edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tenggang Lou, Ximin Qi
  • Patent number: 11868162
    Abstract: A method may include receiving, via a processor, a frame of image data, such that the frame of image data may include an active portion and an idle portion. The active portion may include data for presenting one or more images via a first display of a first electronic device. The method may also include receiving a signal from a second electronic device during the idle portion of the frame of image data, such that the second electronic device is separate from the first display. The method may then involve initiating processing of the frame of image data in response to the signal being received from the second electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Assaf Menachem, Peter F. Holland, Yung-Chin Chen
  • Patent number: 11868606
    Abstract: An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface and display can execute a messaging application. In the messaging application, swipe options can be displayed for messages and threads. Swipe options correspond to actions that can be taken on the messages or threads. Messages and threads can be associated with notification rules as well as be ignored. Composition interfaces and messages can be displayed simultaneously in the messaging application. The messaging application can display a conversation view of a message thread with a common header that can include subject information and names of participants in the threads. The messaging application allows for adding and removing participants to the conversation view. The messaging application allows for grouping search results from a search of messages using a search term. The grouping can be based on the location of the search term within the messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Y. Yang, Stephen O. Lemay, Tiffany S. Jon, Mohammed N. Jisrawi, Cristobal Baray, Chanaka G. Karunamuni
  • Patent number: 11837198
    Abstract: In a head mounted display 100, a memory 71 stores an application. An image pickup unit 74 takes an image of a site of a user 1, and a position specifying unit 73 specifies a position and a direction of the head mounted display 100. A detector 75 detects a position indicated by the user 1 on the basis of the image taken by the image pickup unit 74, and a setting unit 76 sets a position indicating a home position on the basis of a result detected by the detector 75 and the position and the direction specified by the position specifying unit 73.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11821984
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method and apparatus that can be used to determine whether an object is in proximity of an electronic device. When an object is not in proximity to the electronic device, the arrangement of two sensors at different distances from the optical emitter results in a higher strength of a reflection signal received in the sensor closer to the optical emitter and a lower strength of a reflection signal received in the sensor further from the optical emitter. The system uses this difference in reflection signals to calculate a ratio between the signals that are being reflected to both sensors, and based on the ratio whether an object is in proximity to the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: AMS INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Helmut Theiler, Christian Halper
  • Patent number: 11809768
    Abstract: A display apparatus is configured to activate a display control apparatus by transmitting an activating signal to the display control apparatus in response to determining that a start condition is satisfied. In response to receiving the activating signal, the display control apparatus is enabled to transmit a video data corresponding to a video to be displayed in a display in the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshitaka Asai, Mitsuo Tamagaki, Yoshitaka Adachi, Naoki Yokota, Ken Aida, Satoshi Katano
  • Patent number: 11809617
    Abstract: A system includes processing circuitry configured to receive sensor data regarding a user operating a head mounted display (HMD). The processing circuitry is configured to identify a plurality of reference points of a pose of the user based at least on the sensor data. The processing circuitry is configured to apply one or more models to the plurality of reference points to determine a type of the pose of the user. The processing circuitry is configured to select a mode of operation of the HMD responsive to the type of the pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Alan Johnson, Mahdi Salmani Rahimi
  • Patent number: 11809657
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display device for improving productivity. The display device having a touch sensor is configured such that the total thickness of at least one inorganic insulation layer disposed on the region above each of dams is different from the total thickness of the at least one inorganic insulation layer disposed on a trench region between the dams. Thus, a photoresist for forming a routing line is formed so as to have a uniform thickness on the region above each of the dams and the trench region between the dams, and thus productivity is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Hyung Jang, Min-Joo Kim, Eun-Pyo Hong, Jae-Won Lee, Sang-Hoon Pak, Sang-Hyuk Won, Yeon-Woo Shin, Ji-Hun Lee