Patents Examined by Adam R. Giesy
  • Patent number: 12386441
    Abstract: A method, a computer readable medium, and an apparatus for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may receive, via a radio frequency channel, a first data from a first human interface device at a first time slot of a frame. The apparatus may transmit the first data to a computing device. The apparatus may receive, via the radio frequency channel, a second data from a second human interface device at a second time slot of the frame. The apparatus may transmit the second data to the computing device. The apparatus may transmit, via the radio frequency channel at a third time slot of the frame, at least one of a first acknowledgment to the first data, a first lighting effect configuration data for the first human interface device, a second acknowledgment to the second data, or a second lighting effect configuration data for the second human interface device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Razer (Asia-Pacific) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kah Yong Lee, Chee Oei Chan, Gui Mei Dai
  • Patent number: 12379786
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to triggering virtual keyboard selections using multiple input modalities. An interface manager can display an interface, such as a virtual keyboard, to a user in an artificial reality environment. Implementations of the interface manager can track user eye gaze input and user hand input (e.g., hand or finger motion). The interface manager can resolve a character selection on the virtual keyboard according to the tracked user gaze input based on detection that the user's hand motion meets a trigger criteria. For example, the interface manager can: detect that the tracked user hand motion meets the trigger criteria at a given point in time; and resolve a selection from the virtual keyboard (e.g., selection of a displayed character) according to the tracked user gaze on the virtual keyboard at the given point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Faucher, Pol Pla I Conesa, Daniel Rosas, Nathan Aschenbach
  • Patent number: 12361894
    Abstract: A shift register includes a shift module configured for causing the cascade signal output end to output a cascade signal in response to a signal of the input signal end; an reverse output module configured for causing the reverse signal output end to output a signal reverse to the cascade signal output end in response to a signal of the cascade signal output end; a latch module configured for causing an output end of the latch module to output a control signal of the masking signal end in response to signals of the cascade signal output end and the reverse signal output end of a previous level; and a selection output module configured for providing a signal of the first power supply end or the second power supply end to the driving signal output end in response to a signal of the output end of the latch module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenbo Chen, Ziyang Yu, Mengqi Wang, Tiaomei Zhang, Erjin Zhao, Quanyong Gu, Tianyi Cheng, Jianpeng Wu, Zhiliang Jiang, Ming Hu
  • Patent number: 12327500
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may include a camera that captures a live video feed of an environment. A display in the head-mounted device may display passthrough display content that includes the live video feed. Control circuitry may dynamically adjust a maximum allowable brightness for the passthrough display content during operation of the head-mounted device. Upon an initial donning of the head-mounted device, the passthrough display content may be permitted to use most or all of the achievable brightness range of the display. After a given time period, the user may be adapted to the brightness range of the display and the maximum allowable brightness for the passthrough display content may be reduced to allow additional headroom for rendered display content. The control circuitry may continue to adjust tone mappings for passthrough display content and rendered display content based on whether the display content favors real-world content or virtual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Inventors: Elizabeth Pieri, Teun R Baar, Alexander G Berardino, David M Cook, Peng Liu, Zuo Xia
  • Patent number: 12322329
    Abstract: A display panel and a spliced display are provided. The display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of light-emitting elements, a driving circuit, and an optical sensor. The substrate includes a through hole, and the through hole includes a hole. The plurality of the light-emitting elements are disposed on the substrate. The through hole is located in a region between two of the plurality of the light-emitting elements. The driving circuit is disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the plurality of the light-emitting elements. The optical sensor is disposed corresponding to the through hole and receives sensing light through the hole. The width W of the hole meets the equation of H?W<D. H is the depth of the hole, and D is the distance between the two of the plurality of the light-emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Chin-Lung Ting, Chien-Chih Chen, Ti Chung Chang, Chih-Chieh Wang, Jenhung Li
  • Patent number: 12315409
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display panel and a display device, and more particularly, a display panel and a display device capable of reducing a bezel area by reducing the number of subpixels per unit area of a second display area adjacent to a first display area in which the light-receiving device is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Miso Kim, YongMin Ha, Hanwook Hwang, JungChul Kim
  • Patent number: 12300170
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a pixel, a temperature sensor which senses a temperature of the display panel and outputs the temperature of the display panel as a sensing temperature, a first compensation part which receives a gate-source voltage sensed in the pixel as a sensing voltage and compensates for the sensing voltage by a change amount of the gate-source voltage corresponding to a difference value between a reference temperature and the sensing temperature, and a second compensation part which compensates for data to be applied to the pixel by comparing a compensated sensing voltage with an initial gate-source voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seonghwan Choi, Hyun-Sik Yoon, Moonju Kim, Jiyoung Eom, Yong-Ju Jeong
  • Patent number: 12298504
    Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display module having a picture generation unit emitting a light field. A plurality of linear polarizers are arranged in a stack. A first of the linear polarizers receives the light field from the picture generation unit. A last of the linear polarizers emits the light field. A windshield reflects the light field from the last linear polarizer such that the reflected light field is visible to a human driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventors: David Kay Lambert, Steven Craig Bower
  • 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: 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: 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: 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