Patents Examined by Andre L Matthews
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Patent number: 11307415Abstract: An optical system for a head mounted display (HMD) includes a display layer, an illumination layer, an optical combiner, and an active optics block. The display layer is configured to emit display light and the illumination layer includes an array of point light sources configured to emit calibration light. The optical combiner is configured to pass the display light to a front side of the optical system and to direct the calibration light to a camera. The active optics block includes an adjustable lens disposed between the illumination layer and the optical combiner, where the adjustable lens is configured to pass the calibration light to the optical combiner and to focus the display light for a user of the HMD. The active optics block is further configured to adjust an optical power of the adjustable lens based on a calibration image captured by the camera responsive to the calibration light.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Robin Sharma, Katherine Marie Smyth, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Karol Constantine Hatzilias, Christopher Yuan-Ting Liao
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Patent number: 11256335Abstract: This document describes techniques for fine-motion virtual-reality or augmented-reality control using radar. These techniques enable small motions and displacements to be tracked, even in the millimeter or sub-millimeter scale, for user control actions even when those actions are small, fast, or obscured due to darkness or varying light. Further, these techniques enable fine resolution and real-time control, unlike conventional RF-tracking or optical-tracking techniques.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ivan Poupyrev, Patrick M. Amihood
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Patent number: 11250775Abstract: A display device includes a pixel, a first control pad, a second control pad, and a first dummy pad. The pixel may emit light with luminance corresponding to a data signal. Supply of the data signal to the pixel depends on a first control signal and a second control signal. The first control pad is connected to a first control line for supplying the first control signal. The second control pad is connected to a second control line for supplying the second control signal. The first dummy pad is positioned between the first control pad and the second control pad and may receive a first dummy signal. A voltage level of the first dummy signal is in a range from a voltage level of the first control signal to a voltage level of the second control signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Inventors: Ju Hee Lee, Dae Youn Cho, Jong Woo Park, Young Tae Choi
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Patent number: 11226704Abstract: Techniques for providing a virtual touch screen are described. An example of a computing device with a virtual touch screen includes a projector to project a user interface image and a depth camera to detect objects in the vicinity of the user interface image. The computing device also includes a touch service that receives image data from the depth camera and analyzes the image data to generate touch event data. The computing device also includes a User Input (UI) device driver that receives the touch event data from the touch service and reports the touch event data to an operating system of the computing device. The touch service and UI device driver are system level software that is operable prior to a user logging onto the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Royce Fernald, Kedar A. Dongre
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Patent number: 11216064Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including obtaining gaze data that indicates a position of a gaze of a user at each of a plurality of times, determining a first movement regarding the gaze of the user based on the gaze data, displaying, on a screen of a display device, gaze information indicating a position of the gaze at each of a plurality of times from a time at which a second movement occurs when the first movement includes the second movement, and displaying, on the screen, gaze information indicating a position of the gaze at each of a plurality of times during a specified time period when the first movement does not include the second movement.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Yoshihide Fujita, Akinori Taguchi, Koichiro Niinuma
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Patent number: 11216133Abstract: A device includes an AC coupling circuit, a sense-regulation circuit, an inbound data processing module, an outbound data processing module, and a communication circuit. The AC coupling circuit receives a sense signal from, and transmits a transmit signal to, a touch screen of a computing device. The sense-regulation circuit generates a receive error signal based on the sense signal and a representation of transmit data. The inbound data processing module converts transmit data into a representation of the transmit data. The outbound data processing module converts the receive error signal into receive data. The communication circuit receive the transmit data from, and sends the receive data to, another computing device.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: SigmaSense, LLC.Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Michael Shawn Gray
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Patent number: 11183147Abstract: Various aspects of a video processing device and method for display control includes detection, from a sequence of image frames received from a video source, a transition from one or more frames associated with a first metadata to one or more other frames associated with a second metadata. First visual properties of the one or more frames are determined based on the first metadata. Second visual properties of the one or more other frames are determined based on the second metadata. The determined second visual properties of the one or more other frames are controlled in accordance with the determined first visual properties of the one or more frames to enable a smooth transition.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Peter Shintani
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Patent number: 11163166Abstract: In one example, an apparatus may include a frame that includes an optical component configured for use with a near-eye display that is part of a head-worn display system. The frame magnetically attaches to the head-worn display system, and when the frame is attached to the head-worn display system, the frame may align the optical component for use with the near-eye display. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventor: Ryan Michael Ebert
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Patent number: 11158223Abstract: Method for producing an electrophoretic display device comprising a low-voltage microcontroller. The invention relates to a method for producing a segmented electrophoretic display device comprising a bistable display operating at predetermined opposing voltages and an electronic circuit with microcontroller for controlling the display according to a control program. The method includes the following steps: supplying the controller, which is different from a specific display controller for a bistable display and configured to deliver voltages, lower in absolute value to the predetermined voltages, and compensating the voltages with at least one compensation voltage to at least reach the predetermined opposing voltages. The invention also relates to the corresponding device.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: THALES DIS FRANCE SAInventor: Stéphane Touvet
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Patent number: 11150777Abstract: A wearable display system can automatically recognize a physical remote or a device that the remote serves using computer vision techniques. The wearable system can generate a virtual remote with a virtual control panel viewable and interactable by user of the wearable system. The virtual remote can emulate the functionality of the physical remote. The user can select a virtual remote for interaction, for example, by looking or pointing at the parent device or its remote control, or by selecting from a menu of known devices. The virtual remote may include a virtual button, which is associated with a volume in the physical space. The wearable system can detect that a virtual button is actuated by determining whether a portion of the user's body (e.g., the user's finger) has penetrated the volume associated with the virtual button.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Adrian Kaehler, John Adam Croston
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Patent number: 11151964Abstract: A display apparatus includes a pixel array, an optical modulator, a controller, and at least one memory device storing a frame memory. The optical modulator modulates the light emitted from the pixel array to corresponding angles. The controller generates images of a scene with different lighting profiles corresponding to different viewing angles according to information stored in the frame memory. The frame memory stores color information and material information of objects in the scene. The display apparatus displays the images through the first pixel array at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: InnoLux CorporationInventors: Naoki Sumi, Keiko Edo, Jian-Cheng Chen, Toshihiko Araki
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Patent number: 11144123Abstract: Systems, computer readable media, and method concern includes generating data renderings for a data set. The data renderings for the data set include one or more of visual renderings of portions of the data set and one or more sonic renderings of portions of the data set. The method further includes providing the data renderings to a user via one or more output devices. The method also includes capturing biofeedback data from the user using one or more human interface devices. The biofeedback data includes biological responses to the one or more data renderings. Further, the method includes continuously generating and providing new data renderings based on the biofeedback data. The new data renderings incorporate features in the data renderings identified from the biofeedback data. The method also includes determining one or more features of interest in the data set based on the biofeedback data and the new data renderings.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYInventors: Tamas Budavari, Sandor Szalay, R. Jacob Vogelstein, Nicholas Samuel Carey
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Patent number: 11132968Abstract: A gate on array (GOA) circuit and a built-in touch display panel are provided. The GOA circuit collects a scan signal from a GOA unit, detects whether the scan signal from the GOA unit is abnormal in order to identify an abnormal GOA unit, and then restores a scan signal from the abnormal GOA unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Di Zhang
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Patent number: 11119717Abstract: A digital signage system and a data processing method in the same are disclosed. The digital signage system comprises a plurality of display devices displaying a signage content; and a server including a communication unit for transmitting signage content data to each display device, a sensor unit for sensing movement of the plurality of display devices, and a controller for controlling the display devices of which display areas are overlapped, differently from each other on the basis of the sensed movement data of the display devices, if display areas of at least two of the plurality of display devices are overlapped with each other at a predetermined threshold value or more.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Sangmin Lee, Jiwoon Kim
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Patent number: 11099687Abstract: Methods and devices are disclosed for characterizing user inputs. A first input object may be detected in a sensing region of an input device. A resonance frequency of the first input object may be determined. A first characteristic may be assigned to the first input object based at least in part on the resonance frequency of the first input object. User inputs provided by the first input object may be processed based at least in part on the first input object characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATEDInventors: Tom R. Vandermeijden, Jeffrey Lukanc, Timothy J. Vehling
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Patent number: 11087659Abstract: Different functional views for a mobile device are provided depending on orientation of the device. The mobile device includes an enclosure and a display disposed within the enclosure, wherein the display presents a functional view to a user when the device is positioned in a first orientation and a second functional view when the display is rotated to a second orientation.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2011Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventors: Philip John Stroffolino, Terry Douglas Lee
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Method for determining touch layer pattern, touch display device, computer device and storage medium
Patent number: 11079869Abstract: A method for determining a touch layer pattern, a touch display device, a computer device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: providing a pixel pattern which contains a light shielding region and a sub-pixel region defined by the light shielding region; superimposing at least two different touch patterns with the pixel pattern respectively to obtain at least two superimposed patterns; and determining, as a touch layer pattern, a touch pattern from the at least two touch patterns, according to equivalent grayscales of the at least two superimposed patterns.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Junhui Wu, Xin Bi, Xun Pu, Jiandong Guo, Zhongshan Wu -
Patent number: 11080556Abstract: Various embodiments dynamically learn user-customizable input gestures. A user can transition a radar-based gesture detection system into a gesture-learning mode. In turn, the radar-based gesture detection system emits a radar field configured to detect a gesture new to the radar-based gesture detection system. The radar-based gesture detection system receives incoming radio frequency (RF) signals generated by the outgoing RF signal reflecting off the gesture, and analyzes the incoming RF signals to learn one or more identifying characteristics about the gesture. Upon learning the identifying characteristics, the radar-based gesture detection system reconfigures a corresponding input identification system to detect the gesture when the one or more identifying characteristics are next identified, and transitions out of the gesture-learning mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Nicholas Edward Gillian, Jaime Lien, Patrick M. Amihood, Ivan Poupyrev
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Patent number: 11080505Abstract: An optical fingerprint reader apparatus is configured to detect skin features of a finger using Frustrated Total Internal Reflection contrast detection. The apparatus comprises a display comprising a transparent cover and a substrate comprising an array of active pixels that serve as an illuminator of the apparatus. The apparatus comprises a pinhole array which can be affixed to a transparent display or integrated within an opaque display. An optical sensor is optically coupled to the display via the pinhole array and comprises an array of photosensors. A processor is coupled to the display and the optical sensor. The processor is configured to control reading of signals from the photosensors and to control illumination of selected active pixels in accordance with a predefined scanning pattern that covers a finger sensing region of the transparent cover during a fingerprint reading operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Inventors: Waleed Sami Haddad, Yuxin Wang
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Patent number: 11073980Abstract: Techniques for bi-manual control of an operation may allow gestural input for the operation to be inputted blindly with one hand while a user's attention remains on the other hand. An operation invoked and controlled by the gestural input may automatically associate with an operation controlled by the other hand. The gestural input may facilitate blind control of the operation by being able to be initially recognized without regard for the scale, orientation, and/or location of the invoking gestural input. Moreover, scale and/or orientation of the operation may be determined by the gestural input. Changes in scale and/or orientation of the gestural input during the blind operation may change the scale and/or orientation of the operation. The operation may manifest by displaying corresponding graphics at a location independent of the gestural input or by associating functionality of the blind operation with an operation performed by the other hand.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Christian Klein, Andrew S. Glass