Patents Examined by Andre L Matthews
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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
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Patent number: 11056031Abstract: A control device, which controls a laser scanning display device, includes a laser device, a first current source that generates a first driving current supplied to the laser device, a second current source that generates a second driving current supplied to the laser device, and a controller. The controller controls the first current source to generate the first driving current having a first set current value that is 1/n times a threshold current value at a time when oscillation of the laser device starts, when scanning a non-display area in which no image is displayed, where n is a number greater than 1. The controller controls the second current source to generate the second driving current having a second set current value that is zero or greater and less than 1?1/n times the threshold current value, when scanning the non-display area.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Etsuji Hayakawa, Toyoki Tanaka
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Patent number: 11048332Abstract: A picture selection method of projection touch for a projection touch system is provided. The projection touch system includes an image projection module, a sensing module, an image recognition module including at least one camera module and a processing unit. The picture selection method includes: the sensing module sensing and transferring a first projection coordinate on the target picture at a first time point of a sensing action; the sensing module sensing and transferring a second projection coordinate on the target picture at a second time point of the sensing action; the processing unit selecting at least one to-be-selected picture in the target picture based on the first and second projection coordinates and generating a set of selected image data; and the processing unit controlling the selected image data projected by the image projection module to move to a designated position according to a movement instruction of the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Compal Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Yu-Hao Tseng, Kun-Hsuan Chang, Wei-Jun Wang, Ting-Wei Wu, Hsin-Chieh Cheng, Jui-Tsen Huang
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Patent number: 11048359Abstract: A variable-capacitance pressure sensor and a real-handwriting stylus. The variable-capacitance pressure sensor includes a pressure variable capacitor and a pressure touch switch, and has pressure detection function. The real-handwriting stylus includes a real-handwriting optical stylus and a real-handwriting electromagnetic stylus, and has pressure sensing function and writing effect of real handwriting.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2016Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: GUANGDONG ZONGHUA TOUCH CONTROL TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.Inventors: Bangzi Xi, Dezhong Zhu
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Patent number: 11038007Abstract: The disclosure provides a display panel including: the display substrate including a display area and a non-display area. The non-display area is provided therein with a first circuit and a second circuit extending to the display area respectively. The non-display area is further provided therein with a first auxiliary circuit electrically connected in parallel with the first circuit and/or a second auxiliary circuit electrically connected in parallel with the second circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yanqin Song
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Patent number: 10996769Abstract: In one approach to eye tracking, a contact lens contains a network of twelve accelerometers. The accelerometers are positioned within the contact lens so that the measurements of acceleration can be used to estimate a position and an orientation of the eye relative to an external reference frame. One advantage of accelerometers is that they can be made relatively small and do not require much power. However, because the contact lens has a curved shape and is relatively thin, the possible locations for the accelerometers are limited. Various geometries for the accelerometer network and approaches to optimizing these geometries are described.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Tectus CorporationInventors: Ramin Mirjalili, Joseph Czompo, Jieyang Jia, Michael West Wiemer
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Patent number: 10990206Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel and a touch display device. The display panel comprises: a first substrate and a second substrate provided opposite to each other, which are adhered to each other via a sealant; a plurality of pressure sensors, which are provided on one side of the first substrate facing the second substrate or on one side of the second substrate facing the first substrate, wherein, the pressure sensor comprises plurality of resistors, and a projection of the sealant in a direction vertical to the display panel covers at least one resistor in the pressure sensor. In the embodiments of the disclosure, the projection of the sealant adhering the first substrate to the second substrate in the direction vertical to the display panel covers at least one resistor in the pressure sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Liang Liu, Qijun Yao, Xingyao Zhou
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Patent number: 10963046Abstract: A system tracks eye position using a first Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) eye tracking unit to determine a first position of an eye of a user. The OCT eye tracking unit projects low coherence interference light onto a portion of the user's eye, and uses captured light reflected from the illuminated portion of the user's eye to generate a dataset describing the portion of the user's eye. The first position of the user's eye is determined based upon the generated dataset and a previously generated dataset. In order to minimize error and reduce the effects of draft, a reference tracking system is configured to determine a second position of the user's eye, which is used to update the determined first position of the user's eye.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Robert Dale Cavin, Alexander Jobe Fix, Andrew John Ouderkirk
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Patent number: 10950322Abstract: A shift register unit circuit is disclosed that includes a first node control circuit, a second node control circuit, and a plurality of output circuits. Each of the plurality of output circuits is connected to a respective output terminal and provides a gate drive signal to the respective output terminal. Also disclosed are a method of driving the shift register unit circuit, a gate drive circuit, and a display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2017Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Fan, Jie Zhang, Jiguo Wang, Fuqiang Li
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Patent number: 10936051Abstract: Power management systems and methods for gesture recognition in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (xR) applications is described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: receive frames captured by a camera of a Head-Mounted Device (HMD) worn by a user in an xR application, wherein the HMD is coupled to a plurality of infrared (IR) emitters; identify a state of a gesture sequence being performed by the user based upon the frames; and select a level of illumination provided by the plurality of IR emitters in response to the state.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Vivek Viswanathan Iyer, Yagiz Can Yildiz, Christopher A. Torres
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Patent number: 10908741Abstract: A touch input is detected. From a plurality of transmitters coupled to a propagating medium, propagating signals are emitted through the propagating medium. At a plurality of receivers coupled to the propagating medium, one or more of the propagating signals that have been disturbed by the touch input are received. The plurality of transmitters and the plurality of receivers are coupled to the propagating medium on an internal side of a device sidewall. One or more detected propagating signals that have been disturbed by the touch input are analyzed to identify the touch input on an external surface of the device sidewall.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2016Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Inventors: Lapoe E. Lynn, Samuel W. Sheng, Stanislav Maximov, Shih-Ming Shih
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Patent number: 10908686Abstract: Systems and methods for pre-touch and true touch are disclosed. For example, in one described system for pre-touch and true touch includes a touch-sensitive interface configured to detect a user interaction and transmit a first interface signal based at least in part on the user interaction. The system also includes a processor in communication with the touch-sensitive interface and configured to receive the first interface signal and determine a haptic effect based at least in part on the first interface signal. The processor is further configured to preload a haptic signal associated with the haptic effect. The system also includes a cache in communication with the processor and configured to store the preloaded haptic signal for a time period and then transmit the haptic signal and a haptic effect generator in communication with the cache and configured to receive the haptic signal from the cache and, in response, output a haptic effect based at least in part on the haptic signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2011Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Immersion CorporationInventors: Erin Ramsay, Pedro Gregorio
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Patent number: 10908698Abstract: A patient support apparatus, such as a bed, stretcher, cot, operating table, chair, or the like, includes a support surface for an occupant, a user interface, and a control system. The user interface includes multiple sensing layers to detect when a user touches the user interface. The control system activates only a first one of the sensing layers when the patient support apparatus is in a sleep mode, and upon the first sensing layer detecting a user touching the user interface while in the sleep mode, the control system activates that second sensing layer. One of the sensing layers may be resistive and the other capacitive. One of the layers may also detect a position at which the user touches the user interface, while the other layer may only detect that the user interface was touched, but not detect the position of the touch.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Michael Joseph Hayes, Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu, Daniel Vincent Brosnan, Anish Paul, Aaron Douglas Furman, Lavanya Vytla, Brian Keith Carpenter
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Patent number: 10891892Abstract: A display device comprises: selector transistors in each of which one of conductive electrodes is connected to each of ends of gate lines, the selector transistor being divided into a plurality; selection signal supplying wirings each of which is provided in each block, and connected to each control electrode of the selector transistors corresponding to the block; gate voltage supplying wirings that are commonly connected to the other conductive electrode of each of the selector transistors; a gate driver that sequentially supplies a gate voltage to the gate voltage supplying wirings while supplying a control voltage to the selection signal supplying wiring in order to on or off the selector transistor, and a light shielding part that is disposed between at least the two adjacent blocks.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuo Fukami, Masahiro Ishii
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Patent number: 10878777Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a gamma reference voltage setter to set a gamma reference voltage, a gamma reference voltage generator to generate a gamma reference voltage set by the gamma reference voltage setter, and a gamma voltage generator to generate a gamma voltage based on the gamma reference voltage. The gamma reference voltage setter sets the gamma reference voltage to a first temporary value, increases the first temporary value by a first delta value, searches a second temporary value at which luminance of the display panel is less than a preset value, and sets the gamma reference voltage based on the searched second temporary value.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyung Ho Hwang, Young Seob Kim, Ji Tae Kim
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Patent number: 10863232Abstract: A display device including a display configured to display a received broadcast; a user input interface configured to receive a signal from a remote control device; and a controller configured to: when a function key setup mode entry signal is received from the remote control device, display a plurality of keys of the remote control device on the display, the plurality of keys respectively including images of numeric keys for inputting a desired number, display a mapped application icon on the image of a key to which an application is mapped among the plurality of keys, in response to a first preset input on the image of the key to which the application is mapped, input the desired number, and in response to a second preset input on the image of the key to which the application is mapped, stop the broadcast and execute the application.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jungoo Han, Ubeom Heo, Yunseok Jeong
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Patent number: 10839733Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Display driver circuitry may be provided along an edge of the display. Data lines that are associated with columns of the pixels may be used to distribute data from the display driver circuitry to the pixels. Gate lines in the display may each have a horizontal straight portion that extends along a respective row of the pixels and may each have one or more non-horizontal segments such as zigzag segments. The non-horizontal portion of each gate line may be connected to the horizontal straight portion of the gate line by a via. The non-horizontal portions may each have portions that are overlapped by portions of the data lines. Dummy gate line structures may be provided on the display that are not coupled to any of the pixels in the display.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Shinya Ono, Chun-Yao Huang, Hao-Lin Chiu, Ivan Knez, Patrick B. Bennett, Shih Chang Chang, Byung Duk Yang
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Patent number: 10838246Abstract: A force-sensitive display assembly provides a user input that is reliable, consumes a relatively small amount of power, and protects against water, dust, and other environmental ingress. The force-sensitive display may be implemented using a force-sensing substrate, such as a force-sensing resistor (FSR). The FSR provides a change in output resistance in response to a change in pressure applied to the FSR. In an embodiment, the FSR enables detection of a tap input on a display.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Mingjing Huang, Jacob E. Ben-Poorat, Jane Hong
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Patent number: 10802621Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, first to third touch electrode series, and a plurality of insulation patterns. The first touch electrode series includes first and second portions respectively extending along first and second directions. The second touch electrode series includes third and fourth portions respectively extending along third and second directions. The third portion intersects with the first portion of the first touch electrode series. The third touch electrode series includes fifth and sixth portions respectively extending along the first and third directions. The fifth and sixth portions respectively intersect with the fourth portion of the second touch electrode series and the second portion of the first touch electrode series. The first to third directions are different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignees: AU OPTRONICS (SUZHOU) CORP., LTD., AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventor: Guang-Dong Wei
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Patent number: 10795489Abstract: A detecting method for a touch panel is disclosed. The sensing electrode of the detecting method is indirectly and repeatedly charged several times via the charge holding capacitor circuit to reach a certain higher voltage. The driving electrode is switched to the first voltage or the second voltage under the cooperation of the driving circuit when several measuring cycle is conducted. After the voltage is switched every time, several measured values of different situations are obtained rapidly so as to eliminate the noise to get the best signal via several measured values. There is only to wait the balancing time in the measuring cycle, which effectively shortens the reaction time of the touch detecting.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignees: IMAGINATION BROADWAY LTD., SALT INTERNATIONAL CORP.Inventor: Ko-Hao Ting