Patents Examined by Afroza Chowdhury
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: 11816273
    Abstract: A keyboard, touchpad, and palm rest haptic response system may comprise a coversheet to identify a keyboard, a touchpad, and a palm rest on a C-cover for an information handling system, a haptic palm rest and touchpad feedback assembly disposed beneath the haptic palm rest area including haptic touchpad, and a haptic keyboard feedback assembly disposed beneath the keyboard. Keyboard controller and palm rest and touchpad controller may receive piezo actuation signals from keyboard piezoelectric elements and touchpad and palm rest piezoelectric elements, respectively, and send a haptic feedback control signals to the respective keyboard piezoelectric elements or palm rest and touchpad piezoelectric elements to cause keyboard haptic feedback or palmrest or touchpad haptic feedback at an actuation location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Priyank Gajiwala, Michiel Knoppert, Thomas M. Hinskens
  • Patent number: 11816917
    Abstract: A multi-sensor structure according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a base layer, a first touch-fingerprint sensor electrode layer disposed on a top surface of the base layer, a second touch-fingerprint sensor electrode layer disposed at an upper level of the first touch-fingerprint sensor electrode layer, and an antenna electrode layer spaced apart from the first touch-fingerprint sensor electrode layer and the second touch-fingerprint sensor electrode layer in a planar direction. The antenna electrode layer is disposed at the same level as that of the first touch-fingerprint sensor electrode layer or the second touch-fingerprint sensor electrode layer. A sensor in which a touch-fingerprint sensing and an antenna signal sensing are integrated is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Min Kim, Dong Pil Park, Jae Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 11816293
    Abstract: A touch sensing apparatus tracking a curve includes an interpolation coordinate generator configured to sense a first touch point, a second touch point and a third touch point, and calculate an interpolation point between the second touch point and the third touch point, wherein the curve is formed by the first touch point, the second touch point, the third touch point and the interpolation point, and the interpolation point is determined by the first touch point, the second touch point and the third touch point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: LX Semicon Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yang Been Lim
  • Patent number: 11809638
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling a screen display content of a display terminal, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium, which belongs to the field of image display technology. The method includes: acquiring angular acceleration data collected by a motion sensor in a terminal device, and determining a movement trajectory of the terminal device according to the angular acceleration data; determining an operation instruction corresponding to the movement trajectory of the terminal device according to a preset mapping relationship between the movement trajectory and the operation instruction; and sending the operation instruction to control a screen of the display terminal to switch the display content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaomin Wang, Wei Liang, Qimeng Sun
  • Patent number: 11803282
    Abstract: An input device is provided and includes substrate; first metal mesh shape electrodes provided on layer of substrate; second metal mesh shape electrodes provided on same layer of the substrate as first metal mesh shape electrodes; second metal connection electrodes each of which connects adjacent two of second metal mesh shape electrodes on same layer as first metal mesh shape electrodes; insulating film covering second metal connection electrodes; first transparent connection electrodes each of which connects adjacent two of first metal mesh shape electrodes on insulating film; and protective film covering first metal mesh shape electrodes, second metal mesh shape electrodes, and first transparent connection electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa, Hiroshi Mizuhashi
  • Patent number: 11803274
    Abstract: A multi-virtual button finger-touch input system includes a cover layer, force-measuring and touch-sensing integrated circuits (FMTSICs), each coupled to the inner surface of the cover layer corresponding to one of the virtual buttons, an elongate flexible circuit, and a host controller. The FMTSICs are mounted to the elongate flexible circuit. The host controller is in communication with each of the FMTSICs via digital bus wiring. The host controller is configured to: (1) obtain force-localization features and ultrasound-localization features of the FMTSICs and (2) determine whether an event is a finger-touch event or a false-trigger event and if the event is determined to be finger-touch event, identify one of the virtual buttons as a touched virtual button, using at least in part a model that has the force-localization features and the ultrasound-localization features as inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: UltraSense Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Chen, Zhongxuan Tu, Sina Akhbari, Hao-Yen Tang
  • Patent number: 11789555
    Abstract: A touch screen display includes a display, a video graphics processing module, electrodes integrated into at least a portion of the display, and drive-sense circuits coupled to the electrodes. The drive-sense circuits, when enabled and concurrent with the display rendering frames of data into the visible images, detect changes in electrical characteristics of electrodes. At least some drive-sense circuits monitor sensor signals on at least some electrodes. A sensor signal includes a drive signal component and a receive signal component. The at least some drive-sense circuits generate the drive signal components of the sensor signals. The receive signal component is a representation of a change in an electrical characteristic of an electrode of the at least some electrodes when a corresponding drive signal component is applied to the electrode. The change in the electrical characteristic of the electrode is indicative of a proximal touch to the touch screen display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Gerald Dale Morrison, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11762500
    Abstract: Sensors capable of detection of user objects within different detection zones can be used to reduce power consumption of a touch screen interface of an electronic device, even while the device is in a suspended or sleep state. At least one object sensor, such as a capacitive sensor, has a detection zone or range exceeding the range of a touch screen sensor, so the touch screen sensor can be placed into a low power state until the object sensor detects a user object in a position approaching the touch screen. The object sensor(s) are positioned around or within the perimeter of the interaction area of the touch screen. The object sensor(s) can have less power consumption than the touch screen sensors, so the electronic device can have extended standby battery life or other more energy efficient operation. Object sensors are also used to detect gestures or user object positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Tavys Q. Ashcroft