Patents Examined by Amare Mengistu
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Patent number: 11836301Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for tracking operations using data received from a wearable device. An example method can include determining a first position of a wearable device in a physical space; receiving, from the wearable device, position information associated with the wearable device; determining a second position of the wearable device based on the received position information; and tracking, based on the first position and the second position, a movement of the wearable device relative to an electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sebastien Mounier, Tom Edward Botterill, Jonathan Kies, Ramesh Chandrasekhar
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Patent number: 11837190Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal panel; a source driver configured to output a grayscale voltage to the liquid crystal panel; a power supply configured to provide a voltage to the source driver; and a controller configured to control the power supply and the source driver to change a maximum voltage provided to the source driver and a grayscale voltage based on conversion of a screen mode, and to set a predetermined grayscale region and an over driving region within an entire grayscale region.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Jinoh Kim
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Patent number: 11835723Abstract: An optical device may include a wedge-shaped light turning element. The optical device can include a first surface that is parallel to a horizontal axis and a second surface opposite to the first surface that is inclined with respect to the horizontal axis by a wedge angle. The optical device may include a light module that includes a plurality of light emitters. The light module can be configured to combine light for the plurality of emitters. The optical device can further include a light input surface that is between the first and the second surfaces and is disposed with respect to the light module to receive light emitted from the plurality of emitters. The optical device may include an end reflector that is disposed on a side opposite the light input surface. The second surface may be inclined such that a height of the light input surface is less than a height of the side opposite the light input surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Hui-Chuan Cheng, Hyunsun Chung, Jahja I. Trisnadi, Clinton Carlisle, Kevin Richard Curtis, Chulwoo Oh
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Patent number: 11829572Abstract: There is provided an image display apparatus that enables an intuitive operation even when a detection target is not able to be inserted into a first space in which a three-dimensional object is visually recognized. A position of a detection target is detected, and a display position of a pointer displayed by a display unit is moved on a basis of a position of the detection target that exists within a second space not overlapping the first space which is a space in which the three-dimensional object is displayed among the position of the detected detection target.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Kaoru Koike, Itaru Shimizu, Takanobu Omata, Yuichi Miyagawa, Hisataka Izawa
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Patent number: 11829566Abstract: A touch sensor device (TSD) includes TSD electrodes associated with a surface of the TSD. Also, an overlay that includes marker electrode(s) is also associated with a region of the surface of the TSD. The TSD also includes drive-sense circuits (DSCs) operably coupled to the plurality of TSD electrodes. A DSC is configured to provide a TSD electrode signal to a TSD electrode and simultaneously to sense a change of the TSD electrode signal based on a change of impedance of the TSD electrode caused by capacitive coupling between the TSD electrode and the marker electrode(s) of the overlay. Processing module(s) is configured to process a digital signal generated by the DSC and other digital signals generated by other DSCs determine the region of the surface of the TSD that is associated with the overlay and to adapt sensitivity of the TSD within that region.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SigmaSense, LLC.Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Gerald Dale Morrison, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Kevin Joseph Derichs, Shayne X. Short, Timothy W. Markison
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Patent number: 11816817Abstract: A method includes: obtaining a plurality of view images; identifying a representative value from among difference values between values of a plurality of sub-pixels corresponding to a first position in the plurality of view images and an intermediate value of a bit range of a display; determining filtering strength corresponding to the representative value, based on a correspondence map indicating a correspondence relationship between filtering strength and a difference value between a value of a sub-pixel and the intermediate value; and applying a filter having the determined filtering strength to the plurality of sub-pixels corresponding to the first position, wherein a value resulting from applying the filter having the determined filtering strength to the plurality of sub-pixels corresponding to the first position is included in a range of sub-pixel values according to the bit range of the display.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyungmin Lim, Seunghyun Lee, Jaesung Lee, Sunil Lee
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Patent number: 11817048Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus, a signal processing method, and a display apparatus that are able to provide suitable functionality according to applications. The signal processing apparatus provided by the present technology includes a signal processing section that acquires at least one of first information regarding a color of a video to be displayed on a panel section, second information regarding brightness of a screen of the panel section, and third information measured as a physical quantity related to the panel section, and that performs, on the basis of the acquired information, adaptive control of a voltage according to a load on and an application of the panel section. The voltage is used for driving the panel section. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a self-luminous display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Inventors: Masao Zen, Tetsuo Ikeyama, Daisuke Miki, Syunsuke Kikuchi, Kazuhiro Nukiyama, Kazutaka Kobayashi, Yasushi Konuma, Kazuki Uchida, Masayoshi Sasaki, Masayuki Okochi
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Patent number: 11804142Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus for simulating visual impairment of a person 10. The apparatus for simulating visual impairment of a person 10 comprises a headset 14 and a position sensor 16. The headset 14 is worn by a user and displays a scene 20 to the user. The position sensor 16 senses the position of the headset. The headset 14 changes the scene 20 displayed to the user in dependence on an output from the position sensor 16. The headset 14 also changes an extent of obscuration of the scene 20 displayed to the user in dependence on an output from the position sensor 16.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Virtual Reality Empathy Platform LimitedInventors: David Burgher, Kevin Gordon
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Patent number: 11803347Abstract: An image display system causes a plurality of image display devices having different device characteristics to respectively display images. The image display system includes an external light detection device that detects external light and an image adjustment device that performs adjustment to make at least one of contrast, chromaticity, and luminance continuous between the images displayed on the plurality of image display devices, the adjustment being performed based on the device characteristics and the detected external light.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshito Tanaka, Takashi Yamada, Daizaburo Matsuki, Yoshinori Okazaki
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Patent number: 11804179Abstract: An electroluminescent display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a pixel including a driving element having a gate electrode connected to a data line and a source electrode connected to a readout line, a sensing circuit configured to sense a voltage of the readout line which changes according to a pixel current flowing through the driving element during sensing operation, and a boosting circuit connected between the data line and the readout line and configured to change a voltage of the data line according to the changed voltage in the readout line during the sensing operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Min Kim, Hyuck Jun Kim, Ji Su Choi, Tae Young Lee
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Patent number: 11797081Abstract: Methods, devices, and media are disclosed for mapping of input and output spaces in head-based human-computer interactions. In some embodiments, an end-to-end method is described for designing a head-based user interface, calibrating the interface to individual users, and interacting with a user in real time by mapping head-based user inputs to an output space in a way that optimizes the target selection efficiency of the interaction. Head orientation may be leveraged to define the mapping between the user input and the output space.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Wei Zhou, Mona Hosseinkhani Loorak, Ghazaleh Saniee-Monfared, Sachi Mizobuchi, Xiu Yi, Pourang Polad Irani, Jian Zhao, Wei Li
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Patent number: 11798490Abstract: A gate drive circuit, a driving method of the gate drive circuit, and a display panel are disclosed. The gate drive circuit includes a gate start signal selection circuit, at least two gate drive units, and at least two gate start signal lines. The gate driving units drive the at least two display sections in one-to-one correspondence. The gate start signal lines are connected to the gate driving units in one-to-one correspondence. After receiving a gate start signal, the gate start signal selection circuit outputs the gate start signal to the corresponding gate start signal output terminal to drive the corresponding display section.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Zhicheng Tao, Haijiang Yuan
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Patent number: 11789551Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a corresponding electronic device for dynamically providing perceptible feedback for a rotary control component of an electronic device are provided. An operation on the rotary control component is detected. An initial value of the rotary control component is synchronized with a software control value of the electronic device. A variation value corresponding to the operation is identified. It is determined that the initial value and the variation value meet a feedback condition. Perceptible feedback is provided through a feedback component of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Paul Kos, Masaaki Fukumoto, Siyuan Ma
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Patent number: 11790841Abstract: A pixel and a display device including the same are disclosed. The pixel includes a light emitting element, first through seventh transistors, and a first capacitor. The first transistor is connected between first and second nodes. The second transistor is connected between a data line and a fourth node and configured to be turned on by a first scan signal. The third transistor is connected between the first node and a third node and configured to be turned on by a second scan signal. The fourth transistor is connected between the fourth node and a third power line and configured to be turned on by a third scan signal. The fifth transistor is connected between the third node and the third power line and configured to be turned on by a fourth scan signal. The sixth transistor is connected between the first node and a fifth node and configured to be turned off by an emission control signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Byung Chang Yu, Hyun Joon Kim, Hae Min Kim, Myung Hoon Park, Dong Hoon Lee
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Patent number: 11783787Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a driving device. The device includes a first voltage generation module, a voltage regulation module, a first switch module, a first capacitor module, a first transistor module, and a first light-emitting module. The first voltage generation module may be configured to generate a first voltage; the first switch module may be configured to output the first voltage to a first end of the first capacitor module over a first period; the voltage regulation module may be configured to determine a second voltage based on an amount of change in a voltage at the first end of the first capacitor module and to output the second voltage to the second end of the first capacitor module over a second period; and the first transistor module may be configured to drive the first light-emitting module to emit a light using voltage at the first end of the first capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Chipone Technology (Beijing) Co., LTD.Inventor: Zongzhe Xie
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Patent number: 11783770Abstract: A display device includes a display panel which includes a letterbox area and an image display area which displays an image and includes a boundary luminance variable area extending from the letterbox area; and a luminance control unit which controls a reduced luminance amount of the boundary luminance variable area based on the image.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Yoon Kim, Minjae Yoo, Wangun Lee
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Patent number: 11783755Abstract: The disclosure relates to a disclosed display device and a display driving method. According to an embodiment, the disclosed display device may include a display panel having a first subpixel including a light emitting element and being connected to a sensing line in the display panel for sensing a characteristic value of the first subpixel; a gate driving circuit configured to supply a scan signal to the first subpixel through a gate line in the display panel; a data driving circuit configured to supply a data voltage to the first subpixel through a data line in the display panel; and a timing controller. The timing controller may be configured to: control the gate driving circuit; determine compensation data for compensating for a deviation in the characteristic value of the first subpixel based on a first sensing voltage, a second sensing voltage, and a third sensing voltage on the sensing line; and control the data driving circuit based on the compensation data.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: SangHyun Park, Sieun Park
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Patent number: 11776468Abstract: An optoelectronic light emitting device includes a plurality of programmable pixels arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, each pixel including at least one optoelectronic semiconductor component, and programming device configured to program the pixels in a plurality of successive time intervals. A row pattern including a subset of the rows of the matrix is given. The programming device is configured to program the pixels of those rows per time interval which are comprised by the row pattern. The row pattern is shifted by at least one row per time interval.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBHInventor: Thomas Schwarz
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Patent number: 11775103Abstract: A display device includes a first sensing cell located in a display area; a first sensing line extending toward a non-display area from the first sensing cell; a second sensing cell most adjacent to the first sensing cell in a first direction in the display area; a second sensing line extending toward the non-display area from the second sensing cell; a multiplexer located in the non-display area, the multiplexer is connected to the first sensing line, the multiplexer is not connected to the second sensing line; a first pad connected to the multiplexer through a first multiplexer line; and a second pad connected to the second sensing line.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gwang Bum Ko, Heon Seok Lee, Hyun Jae Lee, So Young Park
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Patent number: 11768576Abstract: A method includes displaying a home ER environment characterized by home ER world coordinates, including one or more diorama-view representation of one or more respective ER environments. Each diorama-view representation includes ER objects arranged in a spatial relationship according to corresponding ER world coordinates. In some implementations, in response to detecting an input directed to a first diorama-view representation, the method includes transforming the home ER environment. Transforming the home ER environment includes transforming the spatial relationship between a subset of the ER objects as a function of the home ER world coordinates and corresponding ER world coordinates.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Inventors: Bruno M. Sommer, Tucker Bull Morgan, Shih Sang Chiu, Connor Alexander Smith