Patents Examined by Andrew B Schnirel
  • Patent number: 12340036
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for selectively activating and suspending control of a graphical user interface by two or more electronic devices. A portable eyewear device includes a display projected onto at least one lens assembly and a primary touchpad through which the user may access a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display. A handheld accessory device, such as a ring, includes an auxiliary touchpad that is configured to emulate the primary touchpad. The eyewear processor temporarily suspends inputs from one touchpad when it detects an activation signal from the other touchpad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Jiang Tham, Stephen Pomes, Jonathan M. Rodriguez, II, Nir Daube
  • Patent number: 12340725
    Abstract: A display method, including: determining a gray tone compensation parameter of a target sub-pixel in at least one sub-display area of a display area by at least one photosensitive device arranged in the display area; determining a gray tone voltage of a target sub-pixel in a display stage by using the gray tone compensation parameter of the target sub-pixel and a gray tone value to be output in the display stage; and determining a gray tone voltage of the remaining sub-pixels in the sub-display area in the display stage according to the gray tone voltage of the target sub-pixel in the display stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Wang, Yicheng Lin
  • Patent number: 12340061
    Abstract: A user-worn device (100) comprising an ultrasonic transducer configured for contacting a first body-part (116), e.g., a wrist, of a user and a touch-device (250) comprising an ultrasonic transducer (201) configured for contacting a second body-part (112), e.g., a finger, of the user are provided. The ultrasonic transducer comprised in the user-worn device (100) is further configured for transmitting data between the user-worn device (100) and the touch-device (250) encoded in ultrasound (121) via the second body-part (112). The user-worn device (100) is operative to receive, from the touch-device (250), an indication identifying data to be transmitted to the touch-device, select data for transmission to the touch-device (250) based on the received indication, and transmit the selected data to the touch-device (250).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Till Burkert, Lars Andersson, Matthew John Lawrenson, Julian Charles Nolan
  • Patent number: 12302729
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a display device and a display driving method. The display panel includes a first display region and a second display region each including a plurality of pixel repeat units, each pixel repeat unit includes two pixel groups in adjacent pixel rows, and the two pixel groups in a same pixel repeat unit are closest to each other relative to two pixel groups in different pixel repeat units. Each pixel group includes a plurality of sub-pixels in different colors, and the sub-pixels in different colors are arranged in different modes along a pixel row direction in the two pixel groups in a same pixel repeat unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhaohui Meng
  • Patent number: 12299341
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and processor-readable media for managing a virtual workspace shared by multiple devices are described. A unified GUI is presented to each device in which the other devices sharing the virtual workspace are represented by GUI elements, with the location of the other local devices present within the same local environment corresponding to a display location of the corresponding GUI element around the perimeter of the GUI screen. The locations of the other local devices are determined based on sensor data from the local devices, such as NFC radio data or other short-range sensor data, without the need for a dedicated, specially positioned camera or other sensor configured to track the devices within the local environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Li, Che Yan, Da Yuan Huang
  • Patent number: 12293045
    Abstract: A touch display panel and an electronic terminal are disclosed in the present application, including a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer of different layers, and an insulation layer is arranged between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The first conductive layer includes a plurality of touch electrodes arranged along a first direction and a second direction. The second conductive layer includes a first touch lead and a first auxiliary structure both overlapped with a first touch electrode in the plurality of touch electrodes. The first auxiliary structure is located on at least one side of the first touch lead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shengrong Yu, Liang Ma
  • Patent number: 12282635
    Abstract: A touch display device includes a substrate, a display element layer, a composite substrate, a touch electrode and an adhesive layer. The display element layer is disposed on the substrate. The composite substrate includes a support layer and a moisture barrier layer. The moisture barrier layer is in direct contact with and covers a surface of the support layer. The display element layer is located between the substrate and the composite substrate. A moisture transmission rate of the moisture barrier layer is less than 1×10?2 g/m2/day. The touch electrode is disposed on the composite substrate. The adhesive layer is disposed between the display element layer and the composite substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Chen Cheng Lin, Hung Wei Tseng, Yi Chun Kuo, Fang Chia Hu
  • Patent number: 12260807
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a first display panel and a second display panel stacked in a first direction. The first display panel includes a first substrate, and light-emitting units on a side of the first substrate away from the second display panel. The light-emitting units include first light-emitting units and second light-emitting units. One first light-emitting unit includes a first light-emitting layer, and a distance between the first light-emitting layer and the first substrate in the first direction is D1. One second light-emitting unit includes a second light-emitting layer, and a distance between the second light-emitting layer and the first substrate in the first direction is D2, where D1>D2. The second display panel includes a reflective surface on a side of the first substrate away from the light-emitting units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mengmeng Xie
  • Patent number: 12254795
    Abstract: A device and method for displaying security information to a user is provided. The present invention may include a security device configured to display a security information on a display surface. The security information may include at least one component having two images based on a splitting of its representation that are viewable from corresponding angles of view. The images may be fused into the representation of the at least one component by a visual system of the user looking at them at a reading distance causing the eyes of the user to look at the images from the corresponding angles of view. A corresponding method for displaying security information to a user is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alessandra Asaro, Chiara Conti, Remo Freddi, Roberto Ragusa
  • Patent number: 12242681
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, first electrodes, second electrodes, and a driver. The first electrodes are disposed in a matrix (row-column configuration) in a display region of the substrate. The second electrodes are disposed in a peripheral region on the outside of the display region of the substrate. The driver supplies a drive signal to the first electrodes and the second electrodes. The first electrodes output detection signals corresponding to self-capacitance changes in the first electrodes. The second electrodes output detection signals corresponding to self-capacitance changes in the second electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Teranishi, Gen Koide
  • Patent number: 12230184
    Abstract: At least one chip group and a group of first PLG wirings corresponding to each of the chip groups are disposed in a first bonding area, each of the chip groups includes at least two groups of chip units, each group of the chip units includes at least one gate drive chip, each group of the first PLG wirings includes a first wiring and at least one second wiring; power pins of any two adjacent gate drive chips are connected by the first wiring, each of the second wirings surrounds and passes through each of the gate drive chips, the first wirings connected with the power pin of the last gate drive chip in the previous group of the chip units and any of the second wirings, are parallelly connected with the power pin of the first gate drive chip in the next group of the chip units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiujie Su, Yingmeng Miao, Dongchuan Chen, Yanping Liao, Seungmin Lee, Xibin Shao, Xiaofeng Yin
  • Patent number: 12223926
    Abstract: Provided is a data integrated circuit including: a data driving circuit, a shift register configured to output a plurality of latch clock signals, a latch configured to latch a plurality of image signals in response to the plurality of latch clock signals and output a plurality of digital image signals in response to a plurality of latch output signals, and a clock generator configured to divide a main clock signal into the plurality of latch output signals and output the plurality of divided latch output signals to the latch. At least two of the latch output signals are activated at different time intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wontae Kim, Sooyeon Kim, Young-Il Ban, Sunkyu Son
  • Patent number: 12196955
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, pupil-related characteristic detection or spectacles correction/adjustment based thereon may be facilitated. In some embodiments, a stimulus may be presented at a location on a first display portion of the user device at a first time to cause a first eye of a user to fixate on the location. A stimulus may be presented at the location on a second display portion of the user device to cause a second eye of the user to fixate on the location at a time subsequent to the first time. Movement of the first or second eye to fixate on the location on the respective first or second display portion in connection with the stimulus presentation at the second time may be determined. In response to the movement of the first or second eye exceeding a threshold movement amount, a user profile may be generated that includes the user's pupil distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: HERU INC.
    Inventor: Mohamed Abou Shousha
  • Patent number: 12189120
    Abstract: An assembly includes a movable laser projector configured to project images and to also act as a mapping apparatus such as a LIDAR apparatus configured to generate a data structure representing a three-dimensional map of a space. A head mount (HM) includes a camera to generate signals representing the gaze direction of the wearer of the HM. The laser projector moves according to the signals to project images in the space using the data structure generated by the mapping apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Dennis Castleman
  • Patent number: 12175946
    Abstract: A foldable display device comprises a foldable display panel configured to display an image; a data driver configured to drive the foldable display panel; and a timing controller configured to control the data driver, wherein the timing controller blocks transmission of a data signal to be supplied to the data driver based on an analysis of a data signal input from outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heain Jung, Myungkook Moon, Haejong Jang
  • Patent number: 12170048
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a brightness regulating method, a regulating system and a displaying device. The method is applied to a displaying device. The displaying device includes a backlight module. The regulating method includes acquiring maximum grayscale values of the light areas and a maximum grayscale value of the backlight source; according to the maximum grayscale values of the light areas and the maximum grayscale value of the backlight source, obtaining a plurality of first brightness parameters; according to the plurality of first brightness parameters, obtaining a second brightness parameter; and subsequently, according to the second brightness parameter and the initial brightnesses of the light areas, regulating brightnesses of the light areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Sun, Jin Sha, Bo Xu, Yang Chen, Qiang Chen, Meilong Hu, Zhi Zhang, Wencheng Luo
  • Patent number: 12164679
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, device may perform operations for receiving a signal from an operational space associated with an accessory device, determining hand feature information according to the signal, accessing device location information associated with the computing accessory device, generating hand-device interaction information according to the hand feature information and device location information associated with the accessory device, and transmitting the hand-device interaction information to a virtual reality system, wherein the virtual reality system generates, according to the hand-device interaction information, a virtual hand and a virtual accessory device in a virtual reality image. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventor: Tino Soelberg
  • Patent number: 12147613
    Abstract: A control method, suitable for a virtual reality system including a head-mounted device (HMD device) and a tracking device, is disclosed. The control method includes the following operations: showing a first marker on a screen of the HMD device, in which the first marker is generated according to a capability of a camera of the HMD device; and localizing the tracking device with an HMD map of the HMD device when the tracking device is aligned with the first marker by the tracking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Sheng-Hui Tao
  • Patent number: 12136401
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display device and an electronic device. The display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a driving integrated circuit. An output end of the driving integrated circuit is electrically connected to shared thin-film transistors of subpixels having a same color. By supplying different powers to the shared thin-film transistors of the subpixels having different colors through different output ends of the driving integrated circuit, a power of a load carried by a same power supply loop can be reduced, thereby increasing a uniformity of displayed brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xinbo Fu, Ruoqiao Chen
  • Patent number: 12124622
    Abstract: Range finding methods and apparatus that may be implemented by VR/MR systems that include a head-mounted display (HMD) and an accessory that the user holds or wears. Range finding sensors (e.g., ultrasonic transducers) may be included on the HMD and on the accessory and used to track distances to and relative position of walls, objects, and other obstacles within constrained physical environments such as rooms, gyms, yards, or fields, or in unconstrained physical environments. Range finding information from the sensors on the HMD and accessory can be used to generate a 3D map of the user's environment that can be used for various purposes in the VR/MR system. In addition to mapping the user's environment, the range finding methods and apparatus may also be used to track the relative position of the accessory with respect to the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wesley W. Zuber, Thayne M. Miller, Jae Hwang Lee