Patents Examined by Aneeta Yodichkas
  • Patent number: 11630315
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for measuring and managing the brightness of digital content in a field of view of a head-worn computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventor: John N. Border
  • Patent number: 11630538
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an ultrasonic input module and a control unit. The control unit is electrically connected to the ultrasonic input module. The control unit is configured to: continuously read a setting signal of the ultrasonic input module within a preset time to generate a threshold, where the setting signal includes a plurality of sensing values; receive an input signal by using the ultrasonic input module, where the input signal includes a feature value; and compare the feature value with the threshold to generate associated information, and process the input signal according to the associated information. The disclosure further provides a touch method applied to the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Wen Fang Hsiao, I-Hsi Wu, Tsung-Yi Lin
  • Patent number: 11620024
    Abstract: A touch screen sensor includes a visible light transparent substrate and an electrically conductive micropattern disposed on or in the visible light transparent substrate. The micropattern includes a first region micropattern within a touch sensing area and a second region micropattern. The first region micropattern has a first sheet resistance value in a first direction, is visible light transparent, and has at least 90% open area. The second region micropattern has a second sheet resistance value in the first direction. The first sheet resistance value is different from the second sheet resistance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Matthew H. Frey, Michael J. Robrecht, George F. Jambor
  • Patent number: 11599206
    Abstract: Converter and conversion method for converting a click position of a flat panel display into a light pen simulated signal for a semiconductor manufacturing machine are provided. A converter includes a first connector, a second connector, and a controller coupled between the first connector and the second connector. The first connector is configured to obtain the click position from the flat panel display. The second connector is configured to provide the light pen simulated signal to the semiconductor manufacturing machine according to a synchronization signal from the semiconductor manufacturing machine. The controller is configured to generate the light pen simulated signal according to the click position and a mapping table of a first display resolution of the flat panel display and a second display resolution of the semiconductor manufacturing machine. The first display resolution is higher than the second display resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Sze Chen, Chin-Shen Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11594181
    Abstract: A display driving circuit for driving a display panel includes a control logic that adjusts brightness of a first partial area by adjusting pixel data values included in partial image data to be displayed on the first partial area of the display panel based on received brightness control information, and a data driver that generates image signals by digital-analog conversion of pixel data values provided from the control logic, the data driver providing the image signals to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Unki Park, Minsik Kim, Hyeonsu Park, Hyunwook Lim, Woohyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 11586276
    Abstract: A system for generating complementary data for a visual display that includes one or plurality of wearable sensors that collect tracking data for a users position, orientation, and movement. The sensor(s) are in communication with at least one processor that may be configured to receive tracking data, identify missing tracking data, generate complementary data to substitute for missing tracking data, generate a 3D model comprised of tracking data and complementary data, and communicate the 3D model to a display. Complementary tracking data may be generated by comparison to a key pose library, by comparison to past tracking data, or by inverse kinematics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: PENUMBRA, INC.
    Inventors: Hans Winold, Joseph White, Ryan Corniel, Mark Samuel Gutentag, John Lockhart
  • Patent number: 11581153
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a keyboard including a bottom plate, a key unit and a shielding layer. The bottom plate includes a through hole. The key unit is disposed on the bottom plate. The shielding layer covering a portion of the bottom plate includes a main part and an extension part extending from the main part toward the through hole. The shielding layer is provided with a black surface, and an orthographic projection of the key unit on the shielding layer overlaps the black surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: LITE-ON ELECTRONICS (GUANGZHOU) LIMITED, Lite-On Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kuo-Hui Hsu, Cheng-Kun Liao, Li-Sheng Hsiao, En-Huei Wang
  • Patent number: 11574505
    Abstract: A method for driving a display device is performed by the display device. The method includes: displaying a first image including user convenience information through a display panel; generating sensing data corresponding to a fingerprint sensing area by using a photoelectric sensor; and determining whether a sensed fingerprint corresponding to the sensing data is a fake fingerprint by comparing expected sensing light illuminance information based on the first image with sensed light illuminance information of the sensing data. The first image includes a first color pattern in the fingerprint sensing area of the display panel. A fake-determination image pattern includes the first color pattern and a second color pattern different from the first color pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soon Gyu Lee, Jin Woo Kim, Jin A Kang, Young Sik Kim
  • Patent number: 11567563
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for modifying XR applications is provided. The present invention may include receiving capability input associated with the capabilities of the user. The present invention may include determining operational requirements of an XR application. The present invention may include determining movement capabilities of the user. The present invention may include generating a movement capabilities profile. The present invention may include determining differences between the operational requirements of the XR application and the movement capabilities profile of the user. The present invention may include modifying the operational requirements of the XR application based on the determined differences. The present invention may include monitoring the user's participation in the XR application with modified operational requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Martin G. Keen, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, John M. Ganci, Jr., James E. Bostick
  • Patent number: 11558577
    Abstract: The application discloses a method for adjusting a wide viewing angle, including: obtaining gray scale values of two pixels located in a same column and two adjacent rows; obtaining a view angle value of a wide view angle, and determining a target difference value according to the view angle value; and reducing a gray scale value of one of the two pixels and/or increasing a gray scale value of another one of the two pixels according to the target difference value, to perform wide view angle adjustment of a picture to be displayed, wherein a difference value between the gray scale values of the two pixels after the wide view angle adjustment is greater than or equal to the target difference value. The application also discloses a display panel and a computer readable storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Wei Chen, Lidan Ye
  • Patent number: 11550386
    Abstract: A handheld electronic device including a holding assembly and a tracking assembly is provided. The tracking assembly includes a main body and a plurality of trackers. The main body is connected to the holding assembly and has an inner surface and an outer surface. The trackers are disposed on the inner surface and the outer surface of the main body. The trackers arranged on the outer surface and a part of the trackers arranged on the inner surface are exposed to the outside in a top view direction and are arranged in interleaving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Pei-Pin Huang, Chang-Hua Wei, Chih Chien Chen, Chun-Kai Huang
  • Patent number: 11551612
    Abstract: A display device includes a first pixel circuit, a first scan signal line disposed at a side of the first pixel circuit, extending in a first direction, and transmitting a scan signal; a second pixel circuit disposed at an outermost side of the display device, and a first dummy wire disposed at an outside of the second pixel circuit and extending in the first direction. A width of the first dummy wire is less than a width of the first scan signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyo, Bon-Yong Koo, Ji-Sun Kim, Hyeong Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 11546748
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a short-range wireless communication circuit that performs first short-range wireless communication based on a first protocol and second short-range wireless communication based on a second protocol, and a processor that connects the first short-range wireless communication with a peripheral device through the short-range wireless communication circuit, transmits a service discovery frame including service information associated with the peripheral device to devices included in a cluster configured to include the electronic device through the second short-range wireless communication when a trigger event occurs, establishes a wireless data communication path with an external electronic device, which transmits a message in response to the service discovery frame to the electronic device through the second short-range wireless communication, from among the devices included in the cluster, and transmits input information received from the peripheral device through the short-range wi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Inventors: Haewook Oh, Doosuk Kang, Yongju Kim, Youngmin Yoo, Seongjun Lee, Buseop Jung, Kunyoung Choi
  • Patent number: 11531226
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes a display panel including; a first substrate, a lower electrode on the first substrate, a second substrate, an upper electrode on the second substrate, and liquid crystalline polymers with a striped structure and liquid crystal molecules disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a light source unit disposed at a side of the display panel and configured to emit incident light on the side of the display panel; and a light guided structure disposed between the side of the display panel and the light source unit, wherein the light guided structure has a grid-like structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro Okuyama, Akira Sakaigawa
  • Patent number: 11513588
    Abstract: A handheld electronic device including a holding assembly and a tracking assembly is provided. The tracking assembly includes a main body and a plurality of trackers. The main body is connected to the holding assembly and has an inner surface and an outer surface. The trackers are disposed on the inner surface and the outer surface of the main body. The trackers arranged on the outer surface and a part of the trackers arranged on the inner surface are exposed to the outside in a top view direction and are arranged in interleaving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Pei-Pin Huang, Chang-Hua Wei, Chih Chien Chen, Chun-Kai Huang
  • Patent number: 11514830
    Abstract: The techniques disclosed herein provide apparatus, methods and systems that adaptively adjust the signal waveform (or waveshape) of the drive signal to a slow-scan mirror to compensate for non-linearities observed in the slow-scan feedback signal from a slow-scan mirror. Over large scan angles and high temperatures, the slow-scan mirror in a laser beam scanning device may exhibit a nonlinear response to the drive signal that results in poor image quality issues such as bright lines, bands in the display image, and image distortion. The presently disclosed technologies track the linearity performance of the overall system by detecting non-linearities in waveform of the slow-scan feedback signal real time, and consequently apply a pre-distortion to the drive waveform to compensate for these detected non-linearities. The parameters, logic and blocks of the control may be implemented in hardware, software or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Wenjun Liao, Algird Michael Gudaitis
  • Patent number: 11500476
    Abstract: In an example, a wearable apparatus may include a display device and an input device. The input device may include a network interface device having a first transceiver and a second transceiver. Further, the input device may include a processor connected to the network interface device to communicate with the display device via the first transceiver. Furthermore, the processor may monitor a position of a peer input device via the second transceiver based on a radio signal exchanged between the input device and the peer input device. In response to a determination that the position of the peer input device is less than a threshold distance, the processor may generate a collision alert on the display device via the first transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Chung-Chun Chen, Chih-Ming Huang, Ming-Shien Tsai
  • Patent number: 11481077
    Abstract: A touch sensing system is configured to determine a state of a paper material indicative of a touch input on the paper material. The actions include receiving one or more values of features representing physical properties of a paper material. The system generates, by a pair of electrodes in a conductive material that is electrically connected with the paper material, an electric field in the conductive material. The paper material is configured to shunt current from the conductive material when the paper material is touched. The system measures the electric field in the conductive material in the conductive material. The system generates an approximation of the electric field in the conductive material. The system determines with a classifier a state of the paper material indicative of a touch input on the paper material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Christopher Harrison, Yang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11474621
    Abstract: An embodiment pointing method to generate screen-frame displacement data based on 3D-space movements of a pointing electronic device, comprises receiving a gravity vector (g), having components (gx, gy, gz) corresponding to respective projections of gravity acceleration ({right arrow over (g)}) on three axes (X, Y, Z) of a 3D reference system associated with the pointing electronic device, generated by a sensor-fusion algorithm from joint processing of an acceleration signal, indicative of acceleration acting on the pointing electronic device along the three axes, and of a gyroscope signal (Gyro), indicative of angular rate of rotation of the pointing electronic device around the three axes. The method further comprises implementing a roll-compensation of the gyroscope signal (Gyro) as a function of the gravity vector (g) to determine a roll-compensated gyroscope signal (Gyro?); and generating the screen-frame displacement data based on the roll-compensated gyroscope signal (Gyro?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Stefano Paolo Rivolta, Federico Rizzardini, Lorenzo Bracco
  • Patent number: 11462187
    Abstract: Disclosed are a row drive circuit (100) of an array substrate and a display device. The row drive circuit (100) includes N row drive units (10) arranged in cascade and auxiliary circuit units (20). The Nth row drive unit (10) is configured to output Nth gate driving signal to pre-charge and charge the Nth row of sub-pixels, when its signal input end receives the gate driving signal output by (N?2)th row drive unit (10). The Nth auxiliary circuit unit (20) is configured to control Nth row drive unit (10) skip pre-charging the sub-pixels, when (N?1)th timing control signal received by the first timing signal input end of Nth auxiliary circuit unit (20) and (N+1)th timing control signal received by the second timing signal input end of Nth auxiliary circuit unit (20) are high level. N is positive integer greater than or equal to two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Beizhou Huang