Patents Examined by Adam R. Giesy
  • Patent number: 12271535
    Abstract: Input of various kinds of information to an image processing device by use of a foot part of a user is enabled in order not to cause a difference between an image that changes and a feeling with respect to the motion of the body of the user. Position indicators are disposed at a sole back part of a foot-part position indicating instrument. A foot-part position detecting device receives a position indication signal from the position indicators, detects whether the foot-part position indicating instrument makes forward movement that is movement in the extension direction of a line extended in a direction from a heel-side part toward a toe-side part or makes backward movement that is movement in the extension direction of a line extended in a direction from the toe-side part toward the heel-side part, and indicates the forward movement and the backward movement to the image processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: So Kato, Tatsunosuke Tobita
  • Patent number: 12260736
    Abstract: A display system is provided with a display device, a first imaging device, a storage device, and a processing device. The display device displays an image based on content information at a display position. The first imaging device images a human who is going to pass through the display position. The storage device stores a learned model obtained by performing machine learning on a correspondence relation between features of a behavior of the human, the content information to be used for the image, and a degree of risk of the human. The processing device obtains pre-passage behavior data representing a behavior of the human based on imaging result of the first imaging device, and determines the content information to be used for the image using the pre-passage behavior data and the learned model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Nishioka
  • Patent number: 12259757
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device including a camera for imaging the person to be photographed and a flexible and foldable display is provided with a line of sight detection unit for detecting a line of sight of the person to be photographed. Here, when photographing in the state where the mobile terminal device is folded, the mobile terminal device displays a mirror image on the display part on the side of the person to be photographed when it has been identified that the line of sight direction of the person to be photographed detected by the line of sight detection unit is directed to the display part on the side of the person to be photographed, the camera, or at least the mobile terminal device itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Akiyama, Yoshinori Okada
  • Patent number: 12249262
    Abstract: A method for driving electro-optic displays including electro-optic material disposed between a common electrode and a backplane. The backplane includes an array of pixel electrodes, each coupled to a transistor. A display controller applies waveforms to the pixel electrodes. The method includes applying first measurement waveforms to a first portion of the pixel electrodes. During each frame of the first measurement waveforms, the same time-dependent voltages are applied to each pixel electrode of the first portion of pixel electrodes. The method includes determining the impedance of the electro-optic material in proximity to the first portion of pixel electrodes based on a measurement of the current flowing through a current measurement circuit and the time-dependent voltages applied to each pixel electrode during the first measurement waveforms, and selecting driving waveforms based on the impedance of the electro-optic material in proximity to the first portion of pixel electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Karl Raymond Amundson, Teck Ping Sim, Michael D. McCreary, Yi Lu
  • Patent number: 12245490
    Abstract: A display panel including a pixel defining layer including a first portion, in which an opening to expose the first electrode is defined, and a second portion, which is disposed on the first portion and overlaps the first portion. A plurality of thin-films are disposed on the second electrode. An insulation pattern is disposed on the plurality of thin-films, overlaps the pixel defining layer, and overlaps the second portion. A distance between the first portion, which overlaps the insulation pattern, of the sensing electrode and the base insulation layer is greater than that between the second portion, which non-overlaps the insulation pattern, of the sensing electrode and the base insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyeonbum Lee, Hyoeng-Ki Kim, Kwangwoo Park, Jin-whan Jung
  • Patent number: 12245480
    Abstract: An electronic device has a peripheral region and includes a substrate, a first metal layer, and a protrusion structure. The first metal layer is disposed on the substrate and comprises a first portion and a second portion. The protrusion structure is disposed on the substrate and in the peripheral region. The first portion is not overlapped with the protrusion structure, the second portion is overlapped with the protrusion structure, and an end of the second portion is located in the protrusion structure and higher than the first portion in a normal direction of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Pai-Chiao Cheng, Meng-Kai Huang
  • Patent number: 12223164
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises: a panel; a sensor configured to detect a user's touch with respect to at least one region among a plurality of areas in the panel; a plurality of icon members positionable to an upper portion of the at least one region from among the plurality of regions of the panel based on the user's touch on the at least one region being detected by the sensor, the plurality of icon members being configured to respectively display icons corresponding to functions performable by the electronic device; and a processor configured to perform a function corresponding to an icon member based on the user's touch on the at least one region detected by the sensor occurring in association with the icon member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangho Park, Kwangyoun Kim, Sooam Kim, Jeewoong Kim, Joonjae Park, Dockjo Yang, Soonbae Yang, Soyong Lee, Boeun Jang, Youngwoong Joo
  • Patent number: 12222618
    Abstract: The present application discloses a liquid crystal display panel, a driving method thereof, and a display device. The liquid crystal display panel includes a pixel structure, which includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a matrix; data lines and scan lines arranged perpendicularly cross each other, wherein each of the sub-pixel groups includes two of the sub-pixels of same color; a first driving unit electrically connected to the scan lines, wherein the first driving unit inputs scan signals to the scan lines in a preset sequence, the sub-pixel groups of the pixel modules sequentially obtain the scan signals, two of the sub-pixels in each of the sub-pixel groups obtain the scan signals at a same time, and two of the sub-pixels in a same one of the sub-pixel groups obtain the scan signals at a same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoonsung Um, Ji Li, Lixia Li, Yingchun Zhao, Qi Zhang, Fen Long, Ce Liang
  • Patent number: 12201898
    Abstract: A method that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a device comprising a processor, a first signal from a motion-sensitive component of the device; receiving, by the device, a second signal from a touch-sensitive interface of the device, detecting, by the device, from a combined signal comprising the first signal and the second signal, a selection of a portion of the device; and causing, by the device, a sensory feedback generator to provide a feedback signal in accordance with the combined signal. The feedback signal may comprise an audible sound, a visual effect, a tactile effect, or any combination thereof. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventors: Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Bruce Hawver, Jacob Wolff-Petersen, Kim Rom, Francis Arnold Grever, Tino Soelberg
  • Patent number: 12204094
    Abstract: A method for operating a MEMS system having a projection unit for providing an image via a light beam, and a deflecting unit for the two-dimensional deflection of the at least one light beam. The method includes: driving the deflecting unit via a reference signal, so that the deflecting unit periodically deflects a light beam at least two-dimensionally, measuring a controlled variable of the deflecting unit that corresponds to an actual position of the deflected light beam, ascertaining a current deviation of the controlled variable from a target variable that corresponds to a target position of the light beam, calculating a compensating variable based on the ascertained deviation, controlling the deflecting unit and/or controlling the projection unit based on the calculated compensating variable for reducing the deviation of the light beam from the target position. The compensating variable is additionally calculated based on an earlier deviation in an earlier period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Gering, Andreas Petersen, Florian Schuster
  • Patent number: 12198587
    Abstract: A projection-type display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel including a panel pixel, an optical path shifting element that shifts a projected pixel projected from the panel pixel, and a display control circuit that controls the liquid crystal panel and the optical path shifting element. The display control circuit supplies, to the liquid crystal panel, the same data signal and controls the projected pixel to be at a same position in a unit period f1-1 and a unit period f2-1 period, and controls the optical path shifting element to cause the position of the projected pixel in each of a unit period f1-2 to a unit period f1-4, to be different from the position of the projected pixel in a respective one of a unit period f2-2 to a unit period f2-4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Aoki, Hiroyuki Hosaka, Yusuke Komuro
  • Patent number: 12190780
    Abstract: Disclosed are a GOA circuit and a display panel. The gate driver on array circuit comprises a plurality of GOA units, which is cascaded, and a nth stage GOA unit comprises: a pull-down module, pulling down a pull-up control signal and a nth stage gate drive signal to a low potential when the scanning is completed; and a pull-down maintaining module, maintaining the pull-up control signal and the nth stage gate drive signal at the low potential according to a nth stage non-inverting clock signal and a nth inverting clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tuo Feng, Xianjin Ge
  • Patent number: 12174389
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device is disclosed herein. The device includes a housing, a light output module disposed in the housing and configured to output an image, a speaker module disposed in the housing, the speaker module including a conductive plate and a coil surrounding the plate, a battery disposed in the housing, and a power transmission structure disposed in the housing, and configured to transmit power from the battery to the light output module, wherein at least a portion of the power transmission structure is disposed above the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeongwon Park, Chulkwi Kim, Younsang Yoo, Jongmin Yoon, Chanmin Park, Donghyun Yeom
  • Patent number: 12175042
    Abstract: A display module is provided. The display module includes a cover plate and a reflection layer. A touch light source is disposed in an edge region of the display module. A first grating is disposed on a side of the cover plate facing toward the touch light source. The first grating is obliquely disposed to the cover plate. After light emitted from the touch light source passes through the first grating, the light enters into the cover plate and is total reflection. Obtaining information of a to-be-recognized terminal from an entire surface of the display module can be realized after the total reflection is destroyed when the to-be-recognized terminal touches a surface of the cover plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guangkun Liu
  • Patent number: 12175053
    Abstract: In the method, a processor generates a three dimensional interface with at least one virtual object, defines a stimulus of the interface, and defines a response to the stimulus. The stimulus is an approach to the virtual object with a finger or other end-effector to within a threshold of the virtual object. When the stimulus is sensed, the response is executed. Stimuli may include touch, click, double click, peg, scale, and swipe gestures. The apparatus includes a processor that generates a three dimensional interface with at least one virtual object, and defines a stimulus for the virtual object and a response to the stimulus. A display outputs the interface and object. A camera or other sensor detects the stimulus, e.g. a gesture with a finger or other end-effector, whereupon the processor executes the response. The apparatus may be part of a head mounted display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: West Texas Technology Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Allen Yang Yang, Sleiman Itani
  • Patent number: 12154476
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a luminance adjustment method and device of a display panel. In the method, firstly, a difference between the luminance parameters of different regions of the target panel are obtained, and temperatures of different regions of the target panel are obtained according to the difference of the luminance parameters of the different regions of the target panel. Then, luminance compensation parameters of the corresponding regions are obtained according to a correlation of the luminance to the temperature and a difference of the operating temperatures of the different regions, and finally, the luminance of a corresponding region is compensated according to the luminance compensation parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yedong Wang, Jia Zhang
  • Patent number: 12130444
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device is disclosed herein. The device includes a housing, a light output module disposed in the housing and configured to output an image, a speaker module disposed in the housing, the speaker module including a conductive plate and a coil surrounding the plate, a battery disposed in the housing, and a power transmission structure disposed in the housing, and configured to transmit power from the battery to the light output module, wherein at least a portion of the power transmission structure is disposed above the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeongwon Park, Chulkwi Kim, Younsang Yoo, Jongmin Yoon, Chanmin Park, Donghyun Yeom
  • Patent number: 12130957
    Abstract: An interactive energy effect system that includes one or more sensors configured to generate a signal indicative of a position of a user-associated object in the system. The interactive energy effect system also includes a system controller that receives the signal and generates a first and second set of instructions based on the signal. The system controller transmits the first instructions to an energy emission system to cause the energy emission system to reposition and activate an energy emitter. The system controller transmits the second instructions to a multi-layer display system to cause the multi-layer display system to move towards or away from the user-associated object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventors: Giulianna Silva, Michael Tresaugue
  • Patent number: 12112090
    Abstract: A system including a secondary visual digital display on the customer-facing side of a cash register or point-of-sale terminal display. The customer-facing digital display presents advertising content, videos, informational content, or any other form of content that the business or location owner or operator would like to have displayed to customers. An application program, as described below, is stored and/or loaded on memory storage in the secondary display and run by a microprocessor in the secondary display, or alternatively, is stored and/or loaded on a separate device, and run by a microprocessor in the secondary display or in the separate device. The content may be displayed based upon context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Inventor: Beth Harris
  • Patent number: 12108508
    Abstract: Creating ambient lighting based on a color temperature range may be performed by a computing apparatus storing a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may comprise instructions that when executed, cause a processor of the computing apparatus to receive as input, an indication of a target color temperature range for the computing apparatus. The computer-readable storage medium may comprise instructions to compare a measured color temperature on a display of the computing apparatus to the target color temperature range, and using a plurality of color lighting elements communicatively coupled to the computing apparatus, create ambient lighting in an environment surrounding the computing apparatus based on the target color temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ron Y Zhang, John Tyler O'Hara Bovee, Mario E. Campos