Patents Examined by Afroza Chowdhury
  • Patent number: 11954321
    Abstract: A touch sensor system includes touch sensors, drive-sense circuits (DSCs), memory, and a processing module. A DSC drives a first signal via a single line coupling to a touch sensor and simultaneously senses, when present, a second signal that is uniquely associated with a user. The DSC processes the first signal and/or the second signal to generate a digital signal that is representative of an electrical characteristic of the touch sensor. The processing module executes operational instructions (stored in the memory) to process the digital signal to detect interaction of the user with the touch sensor and to determine whether the interaction of the user with the touch sensor compares favorably with authorization. When not authorized, the processing module aborts execution of operation(s) associated with the interaction of the user with the touch sensor. Alternatively, when authorized, the processing module facilitates execution of the operation(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Gerald Dale Morrison, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11947740
    Abstract: A six degrees of freedom (6 DoF) positioning tracking device and method, and an electronic apparatus are provided. The device includes at least three tracking cameras, an inertial navigation unit and a computation processing unit, where the at least three tracking cameras are distributed at preset angles and are configured to obtain image data in a current environment and transmit the image data to the computation processing unit; the inertial navigation unit is configured to obtain state information of the 6 DoF positioning tracking device in the current environment and transmit the state information to the computation processing unit; and the computation processing unit is configured to determine 6 DoF data of the 6 DoF positioning tracking device relative to the current environment according to the image data and the state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QINGDAO PICO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Wu
  • Patent number: 11941224
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for controlling a virtual camera in a three dimensional environment displayed on a two dimensional touchscreen display include: presenting on the two dimensional touchscreen display a camera view into the three dimensional environment; receiving input indicating a single touch by a user on the two dimensional touchscreen display, the single touch including a slide across the two dimensional touchscreen display; and updating, in response to the input, the camera view into the three dimensional environment presented on the two dimensional touchscreen display, the updating including rotating the camera view in accordance with a first direction of the input across the two dimensional touchscreen display, and changing a distance of the camera view in accordance with a second direction of the input across the two dimensional touchscreen display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TopGolf International, Inc.
    Inventor: Brett Jason Levin
  • Patent number: 11914833
    Abstract: A display device including: a display panel; and a digitizer overlapped by the display panel, wherein the digitizer includes a base layer, a folding area, first circuit patterns disposed on a first surface of the base layer and extending in a first direction, a plurality of first dummy patterns disposed in regions defined by the first circuit patterns, second circuit patterns disposed on a second surface of the base layer and extending in a second direction that intersects the first direction, and a plurality of second dummy patterns disposed in regions defined by the second circuit patterns, the second dummy patterns include a plurality of first lower dummy patterns, which do not overlap the folding area, and a plurality of second lower dummy patterns, which overlap the folding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Kishimoto, Seok Won Jang, Yong Chan Jeon, Hyun Been Hwang
  • Patent number: 11914818
    Abstract: An electrical device and an operation control method are provided. The electronic device includes a touch module and a processor. The touch module includes a touchable region. The touchable region is divided into at least a first touchable region and a second touchable region. The first touchable region is configured to implement a first function. The second touchable region is configured to implement the first function and a second function. The processor is electrically connected to the touch module. When at least one first touch point is detected in the first touchable region, at least one second touch point is detected in the second touchable region, and the processor determines that a distance between the first touch point and the second touch point is within a predetermined distance, the second touchable region is switched to implementing the first function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Yao-Yu Tsai, Chun-Tsai Yeh, Ya-Ting Chen
  • Patent number: 11914760
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device, and an information processing method for curbing occurrence of a feeling of strangeness in augmented reality in a use environment for a plurality of people. Position information indicating the self position of an AR device that outputs an AR object that is shown to the user as if the AR object existed in real space is acquired by the AR technology, and a deviation weight which is an evaluation value indicating how easily a plurality of users recognizes that an arrangement position of the AR object is deviated from each other on the basis of position information of a plurality of the AR devices and the arrangement position of the AR object. Then, the output method of the AR object is adjusted according to the deviation weight to make it difficult to recognize occurrence of the deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keijiroh Nagano, Hidenori Aoki, Haruka Fujisawa, Fujio Arai, Ryo Fukazawa, Tomohiko Gotoh
  • Patent number: 11906744
    Abstract: An embodiment according to an aspect of the present disclosure provides a device for manufacturing a display lens, a method for manufacturing a display lens using the device, and a head-mounted display device including the display lens manufactured thereby. The device for manufacturing a display lens including a holographic optical element formed by recording a hologram on a photosensitive substrate, in which a substrate is coated with a photosensitive material, through irradiation of laser beams includes: a first laser light incidence unit configured to cause first laser light, converging along an irradiation direction, to be incident on one surface of the photosensitive substrate; and a second laser light incidence unit configured to cause second laser light, diverging at a plurality of points along an irradiation direction, to be incident on the other surface of the photosensitive substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventors: Jae Jin Kim, Byung Mook Kim, Dae Han Seo, Min Soo Song, Bu Gon Shin
  • Patent number: 11899880
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer provided between a first substrate and a second substrate, a detection electrode configured to detect an external proximity object, a plurality of pixels overlapping the detection electrode in plan view, and a detection circuit configured to detect a detected capacitance value generated in the detection electrode. A liquid crystal capacitance value generated between each of the pixels and the detection electrode includes a first capacitance value at a first gradation and a second capacitance value at a second gradation smaller than the first gradation, and the detection circuit corrects the detected capacitance value based on a ratio between number of pixels with the first gradation and number of pixels with the second gradation out of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kaoru Ito, Akihiko Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 11893187
    Abstract: A display device including: a display panel configured to display an image in units of a frame; an input sensor disposed on the display panel, and configured to sense an external input; a panel driver configured to control driving of the display panel in response to a synchronization signal; and a sensor controller configured to control driving of the input sensor, wherein the sensor controller receives the synchronization signal from the panel driver and outputs a plurality of transmission signals to the input sensor, and the plurality of transmission signals are varyingly generated based on the synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinwoo Park, Taejoon Kim, Jungmok Park, Il Ho Lee, Wankee Jun, Hyun-Wook Cho
  • Patent number: 11880034
    Abstract: A high-assurance headtracking system for a head worn display (HWD) incorporating ground-truth fiducials is disclosed. In embodiments, the headtracking system includes a camera fixed to a mobile platform (e.g., an aircraft cockpit) and oriented toward a pilot wearing the HWD. Images captured by the camera detect fiducial markers attached to the HWD (and fixed in a device reference frame) and static fiducial markers fixed to the mobile platform, each static fiducial marker including a constellation of individual markers having a known position and orientation in the platform reference frame. The headtracking system include control processors for analyzing the images and identifying therein the device-frame and static fiducial markers. The headtracking system determines a device pose of the HWD relative to the platform reference frame and monitors the device pose for drift or error based on the known positions of the identified static fiducial markers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlo L. Tiana, Brandon E. Wilson, Alexander D. Reid, David I. Han
  • Patent number: 11874999
    Abstract: The present application provides a display panel with an under-screen camera and a method of manufacturing the same. The touch panel in the present application includes a sensing electrode and a driving electrode insulated from each other, wherein the sensing electrode and/or the driving electrode includes a lens-shaped touch point array made of a transparent material, material of the touch point array includes a transparent silver nano-wire conductor, and a transparency of the silver nano-wire conductor is greater than 91%, which can be used as a light adjustment layer, to increase the light output effect of the under-screen display area and reduce a difference in contrast between the under-screen display area and the normal display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Simin Peng
  • Patent number: 11875437
    Abstract: An image drawing method, an apparatus, a readable medium and an electronic device. The method relates to the field of image processing technology, and includes: determining a drawing area corresponding to a target template image according to a display interface; acquiring a user input operation according to the display interface; and in response to determining that an operation position corresponding to the user input operation and the drawing area meet a preset condition, drawing an image according to the operation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shiqi Gao
  • Patent number: 11868531
    Abstract: Methods of causing performance of commands at a computing device based on neuromuscular signals from thumb-initiated gestures are provided. A method includes receiving, by a wearable device, a sequence of neuromuscular signals indicating that a user is instructing a thumb on the user's hand to contact a portion of the user's hand. The portion of the user's hand is associated with at least one input command available at a computing device. The method further includes responsive to receiving the sequence of neuromuscular signals, providing, by the wearable device, data to cause the computing device to perform the at least one input command. The method also includes in response to receiving a second sequence of neuromuscular signals indicating that the user is instructing the thumb on the user's hand to contact the portion of the user's hand twice, providing data to cause the computing device to perform a second input command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Tugce Tasci
  • Patent number: 11868566
    Abstract: A touch response method, device, interactive white board and storage medium are provided. The method acquires, based on infrared touch detection, touch operation data generated correspondingly by a current contact point on a writing interface. The touch operation includes a first touch operation and a second touch operation, and the first touch operation and the second touch operation are distinguished by the touch area. When there is only one touch operation, it confirms to enter a writing mode or an erasing mode according to a type of the touch operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: GUANGZHOU SHIYUAN ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED, GUANGZHOU SHIYUAN INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY, CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shile Wu
  • Patent number: 11869130
    Abstract: A method for generating visual feedback based on a textual representation comprising obtaining and processing a textual representation, identifying at least one textual feature of the textual representation, assigning at least one feature value to the at least one textual feature, and generating visual feedback based on the textual representation. The generated visual feedback comprises at least one visual feature corresponding to the at least one textual feature. A system for generating visual feedback based on a textual representation, comprising a capturing subsystem configured to capture the textual representation, a processing subsystem configured to identify at least one textual feature and to generate visual feedback based on the textual representation, and a graphical user output configured to display the generated visual feedback. The visual feedback generated based on the textual representation comprises at least one visual feature corresponding to the at least one textual feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SOCIÉTÉ BIC
    Inventors: David Duffy, Bernadette Elliott-Bowman
  • Patent number: 11861076
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing computer implemented services using user input are disclosed. To obtain the user input, a passive human interface device may be used. The human interface device may include a magnet that may produce a magnetic field used to discern the user input. The magnet may be mechanically coupled to actuatable portions of the human interface device thereby facilitating both translation and rotation of the magnet responsive to actuations by a user. The translation and rotation of the magnet may be sensed and used to identify user input provided by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Loo Shing Tan, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Gerald Rene Pelissier, Thomas Marcus Hinskens
  • Patent number: 11847289
    Abstract: A pressing sensor is provided that generates an output voltage of a first polarity by deforming with an operation plate when a part of a user's body touches the operation plate, and generates the output voltage of a second polarity by deforming with the operation plate when the part of the user's body is moved away from the operation plate. Moreover, a calculation unit calculates an electrical parameter integral value by time-integrating an electrical parameter that changes with the output voltage generated by the pressing sensor. The electrical parameter has a third polarity when the output voltage has the first polarity and has a fourth polarity when the output voltage has the second polarity. The calculation unit calculates a subtraction electrical parameter integral value obtained by subtracting a predetermined value having the third polarity per unit time from the electrical parameter integral value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamichi Ando, Takashi Kihara, Hidekazu Kano, Yuuki Tachibana
  • Patent number: 11847992
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a control method based on a vertical synchronization signal and an electronic device, to shorten a response delay of the electronic device and improve fluency of the electronic device without increasing load of the electronic device. The method may include: drawing, by an electronic device including a display screen, one or more layers in response to a first vertical synchronization signal; refreshing and displaying an image frame in response to a second vertical synchronization signal; adjusting the first vertical synchronization signal, so that the adjusted first vertical synchronization signal is delayed by first delay time relative to the second vertical synchronization signal; and drawing one or more layers in response to the adjusted first vertical synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Li, Liang Wang, Jian Chen, Xin Wang
  • Patent number: 11836828
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include generating a virtual item within a virtual environment. The method may also include detecting, using various hardware sensors, a current position of a physical object that is to be portrayed within the virtual environment. The method may next include generating a virtual representation of the physical object within the virtual environment. The virtual representation of the physical object may be configured to at least partially follow movements of the physical object relative to the virtual item. The method may also include presenting the virtual item and the generated virtual representation of the physical object within the virtual environment, where the virtual representation of the physical object is at least partially, controllably decoupled from the movements of the physical object relative to the virtual item. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brandon Furtwangler, Norah Riley Smith, Andrew C Johnson, Etienne Pinchon, Samuel Matthew Levatich, Matthew Alan Insley, Jason Charles Leimgruber, Jennifer Lynn Spurlock, Michael Medlock
  • Patent number: 11825678
    Abstract: A portable information handling system presents visual images in a tablet configuration having a housing in a closed position by passing the visual images through a switchable film having a transparent state and out an upper surface of housing. The housing opens to a clamshell configuration to expose the display at the inner housing surface and presents display visual images against an opaque state of the switchable film. A graphics processor or timing controller adjusts the visual image orientation based upon whether the display is viewed from the inner surface or outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jace W. Files, John Trevor Morrison