Patents Examined by Andrew Sasinowski
  • Patent number: 12223983
    Abstract: Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, method, and one or more processing devices that are configured to: maintain respective measures of write commands associated with respective ones of shingled magnetic recording (SMR) zones defined in a data storage device, wherein data associated with the write commands is stored in a write cache associated with the data storage device; select one of the SMR zones based on the respective measures; perform a pre-heat operation of a laser diode included in a head associated with the selected one of the SMR zones; and perform a continuous write operation in the selected one of the SMR zones following the pre-heat operation, wherein the continuous write operation writes at least a portion of data stored in the write cache associated with the selected one of the SMR zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Zarko Popov, Andrew Larson, Wayne H. Vinson
  • Patent number: 12216833
    Abstract: A physical keyboard can be used to collect user input in a typing mode or in a tracking mode. To use a tracking mode, first movement data is detected for a hand of a user in relation to a physical keyboard at a first location. A determination is made that the first movement data is associated with a tracking movement. In response to determining that the movement type is associated with the tracking movement, a tracking mode is initiated. User input is provided based on the movement data and in accordance with the tracking mode. Contact data and non-contact data is used to determine a user intent, and a user instruction is processed based on the user intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michele Stoppa, Waleed Abdulla, Henning Tjaden, Sree Harsha Kalli, Senem E. Emgin, John B. Morrell, Seung Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 12210792
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication interface, a display, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to establish a communication connection to a head-mounted device according to a designated communication scheme through the communication interface, identify, based on a first content (C1) to be displayed on the display, a second content (C2) to be displayed in the head-mounted device, display, on the display based on identifying of the second content (C2), first display data in which at least part of the identified second content (C2) in the first content (C1) is corrected, and transmit second display data related to the identified second content (C2) to the head-mounted device through the communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoang Minh Quan, Vu Van Dieu, Nguyen Dang Tung, Nong Thi Thu Ha, Tong Ngan Ha, Tran Thi Ngoc Hoa
  • Patent number: 12198744
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of concurrently storing visible grey scale or color information of an image and additional digital information on a data carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Kunze, Christian Pflaum
  • Patent number: 12197246
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a glass housing member that includes an upper portion defining a display area, a lower portion defining an input area, and a transition portion joining the upper portion and the lower portion and defining a continuous, curved surface between the upper portion and the lower portion. The electronic device may include a display coupled to the glass housing member and configured to provide a visual output at the display area. The electronic device may include an input device coupled to the glass housing member and configured to detect inputs at the input area. The electronic device may include a support structure coupled to the glass housing member and configured to support the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Keith J Hendren, Paul X Wang, Adam T. Garelli, Brett W. Degner, Christiaan A. Ligtenberg, Dinesh C. Mathew
  • Patent number: 12197660
    Abstract: A peripheral device with an adaptive scroll wheel can be used to provide additional control of a host computing device. A variable force is used to change friction on the adaptive scroll wheel for different situations. Examples include stopping a scroll wheel at an end of a document, changing a number of ratchet steps based on a number of items on a list, and changing scroll profiles based on application, such as a scroll profile for document processing and a scroll profile for gaming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Dunant, Jan Stoeckli, Maxim Vlasov, Nicolas Ramond, Patrick Cerisier
  • Patent number: 12198741
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for forming a magnetic recording medium having a recording layer with a plurality of perpendicular magnetic domains configured to store data; and a carbon overcoat formed on the recording layer. The carbon overcoat is characterized by a sp3 carbon content greater than 70%, and a thickness of less than 1.2 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Nanyang Technological University
    Inventors: Rajdeep Singh Rawat, Choon Keat Paul Lee, Joseph Vimal Vas, Mayank Mishra, S. N. Piramanayagam
  • Patent number: 12183245
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an optical compensating system and method. Specifically, there may be provided an optical compensating method, comprising generating a first photographed image for a first area of a display panel including an overlapping area, generating a second photographed image for a second area of the display panel including the overlapping area, extracting a camera gamma value for the second area, calculating a reference grayscale value in the overlapping area, using the camera gamma value for the second area, generating a corrected luminance value of the overlapping area by applying weights on the basis of the position to the reference grayscale value, generating compensation data from the corrected luminance value, and transmitting the compensation data to a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JaeSung Jeon, Hyeonju Park, Hyeonwoo Lee
  • Patent number: 12183378
    Abstract: A method for forming birefringent voxels comprises simultaneously generating a first seed pulse and a first data pulse. The first seed pulse and the first data pulse are spatially-separated laser pulses having different amplitudes. The first seed pulse is focused at a first seed location, and the data pulse is focused at a first data location. The first seed location and the first data location are separated by a predetermined distance along a scan path, with the first seed location being ahead of the first data location. Subsequently, a second seed pulse and a second data pulse are generated, and focused at a second seed location and second data location, respectively. The second seed and data locations are separated by the predetermined distance. The second data location is the same as the first seed location, resulting in formation of a birefringent voxel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Masaaki Sakakura, Rokas Drevinskas, Daniel Jonathan Finchley Cletheroe, Richard John Black, Austin Nicholas Donnelly, Timothy John Deegan, James Hilton Clegg, Philip Athelstan Wainman, Patrick Neil Anderson, Teodora Ilieva, Thomas Torsten Dr Winkler, Pablo Rafael Andreas Wilke Berenguer, Erika Blancada Aranas, Bridgette Rosanna Doris Cooper, Ioan Alexandru Stefanovici
  • Patent number: 12183264
    Abstract: A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a display panel including first pixels and second pixels, and a display panel driver which drives the display panel. In a first mode, the display panel driver drives both the first pixels and the second pixels. In a second mode, the display panel driver drives the second pixels in a first part for one frame, and drives the first pixels in a second part for the one frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeonuk Won, Dohyun Kang, Jungkook Park, Donghak Pyo
  • Patent number: 12175902
    Abstract: A detection method and a detection device for a display panel are provided. The detection method includes: performing a detection operation on pixel-driving circuits. The detection operation includes applying a gate voltage and a source voltage to a gate and a source of each driving transistor, to turn on a driving transistor; and sampling voltages at the sources. The detection operation is repeated n times, where in each repetition, the gate voltage is the sum of the gate voltage in the initial detection operation and an accumulative addition of a difference between the gate voltage and the sampled voltage in the previous detection operation, with n being a positive integer. Based on the sampled voltage of the driving transistor of each pixel-driving circuit obtained in the n-th repetition of the detection operation, it is determined whether the threshold voltage of the driving transistor in the pixel-driving circuit is abnormal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fan Tian
  • Patent number: 12170049
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit including a pixel which displays an image based on a first power voltage and a data signal, a gamma voltage generator which generates gamma voltages, and a data driver which generates the signal using the gamma voltages and provides the data signal to the pixel. The gamma voltage generator generates first and second reference voltages, generates first and second corrected reference voltages by correcting the first and second reference voltages using a target voltage and an external power voltage provided from the display unit in correspondence with the first power voltage, and generates the gamma voltages by dividing the first and second corrected reference voltages. The gamma voltage generator sets the target voltage based on at least one selected from the first reference voltage, the second reference voltage, and a ground voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se Byung Chae, Su Bin Kim, Jin Young Jeon
  • Patent number: 12165575
    Abstract: The power consumption of a display device is reduced. The power consumption of a driver circuit in a display device is reduced. A pixel included in the display device includes a display element. The pixel is configured to have a function of retaining a first voltage corresponding to a first input pulse signal and a function of driving the display element with a third voltage obtained by addition of a second voltage corresponding to a second input pulse signal to the first voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kei Takahashi, Susumu Kawashima, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12165571
    Abstract: A driving circuit board includes a driving circuit board includes: a plurality of driving electrode regions on a surface of the driving circuit board; a plurality of driving electrodes symmetrically arranged on the plurality of driving electrode regions; and a driving circuit electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of driving electrodes, wherein the plurality of driving electrodes include at least one dummy electrode that is not connected to the driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION
    Inventors: Junsik Hwang, Geonwook Yoo, Hojin Lee, Yongchan Kim, Kyungwook Hwang
  • Patent number: 12165576
    Abstract: A pixel includes a first light source including at least one first light emitting element between a first split electrode and a second power supply; a second light source unit including at least one second light emitting element between a second split electrode and the second power supply; a driving-current generator including a first transistor between a first power supply and the first and second light source units and generating a driving current corresponding to a first data signal; a first switching unit including a first switching element between the driving-current generator and the first light source; and a second switching unit including a second switching element between the driving-current generator and the second light source unit and controlling an electrical connection between the first and second light source units in response to a second data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yo Han Lee, Su Mi Moon, Hyun Min Cho
  • Patent number: 12165550
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein relate to methods, devices, and apparatuses for display processing. The apparatus may obtain a first intensity map associated with first luminance information for a scene. The apparatus may also configure a second intensity map based on the first intensity map and at least one coordinate frame from a perspective of a user of a device for display content associated with the scene. The apparatus may also determine whether luminance information for at least one region in the second intensity map is within a suitable luminance range for the display content associated with the scene. The apparatus may also process a set of pixels corresponding to a section in a display associated with the at least one region based on the luminance information being at least one of: within the suitable luminance range, outside of the suitable luminance range, or within an indistinguishable luminance range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rakesh Raju Chenna Madhavuni, Wesley James Holland, Simon Peter William Booth
  • Patent number: 12165682
    Abstract: A method of writing data to a transparent substrate comprises forming a first voxel by focusing a first laser pulse on a first location in a transparent substrate; and forming a second voxel by focusing a second laser pulse on a second location in the transparent substrate. The first laser pulse and the second laser pulse have different amplitudes, resulting in the first and second voxels having different strengths. Also provided are a system useful for implementing the method; an optical data storage medium obtainable by the method; and a method of reading data from the optical data storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Torsten Dr Winkler, Rokas Drevinskas, Ariel Gomez Diaz, Charles Ernest Whittaker, Timothy John Deegan, James Hilton Clegg, Daniel Jonathan Finchley Cletheroe, Hugh David Paul Williams, Austin Nicholas Donnelly, Richard John Black, Masaaki Sakakura, Teodora Ilieva, Bridgette Rosanna Doris Cooper, Ioan Alexandru Stefanovici, Erika Blancada Aranas, Pablo Rafael Andreas Wilke Berenguer
  • Patent number: 12154489
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a data driver, a scan driver, and a light emitting driver. The display panel includes a first display area and a second display area. The display panel displays a first image on the first display area and the second display area in a first mode, and displays a second image on the first display area in a second mode. The light emitting driver activates emission control signals applied to the first display area and the second display area in the first mode. The light emitting driver activates emission control signals applied to the second display area during a first partial frame in the second mode, and maintains the emission control signals applied to the second display area in a deactivation state during a plurality of second partial frames in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taehoon Kim, Sangan Kwon, Soon-Dong Kim, Hui Nam, Eun Sil Yun, Changnoh Yoon
  • Patent number: 12142732
    Abstract: A battery cell, comprising a first electrode plate, an separator and a second electrode plate, the first electrode plate, the separator and the second electrode plate are stacked in sequence along a first direction, the battery cell also includes a first side surface and a second side surface which are disposed along the first direction and adjacent to each other, the first side surface and the second side surface are connected through a first connection region, the battery cell further includes an adhesive film, and the adhesive film is disposed in the first connection region, and is bonded to the first electrode plate, the separator and the second electrode plate, thereby improving safety of the battery cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: NINGDE AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yan Xu, Rui Li, Xuchen Lian, Xingguo Jiang
  • Patent number: 12124758
    Abstract: A multi-host system and an operation sharing method are provided. In the method, whether operating information of a human-machine interface device being conformed with a switching condition is determined through a first software. When the operating information is conformed with the switching condition, operating the screen displayed by the second display according to the operating information of the human-machine interface device through a first host device or a second host device. Accordingly, interaction convenience and flexibility between multiple host devices are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: GENESYS LOGIC, INC.
    Inventors: Huan-Sen Ge, Chih-Wei Wen, Feng-Chang Lo