Patents Examined by B. Lee
  • Patent number: 11092998
    Abstract: A system comprises an eyewear device that includes a frame, a temple connected to a lateral side of the frame, a fingerprint sensor, and a sensing circuit. The fingerprint sensor includes an input surface to receive input of a finger skin surface. The sensing circuit is configured to track a pattern of fingerprint ridges of the finger skin surface on the input surface. Execution of programming by a processor configures the system to perform functions to track, via the sensing circuit, the pattern of fingerprint ridges of the finger skin surface on the input surface; generate a fingerprint image having the tracked pattern of fingerprint ridges; extract fingerprint features from the fingerprint image; and authorize the user to utilize the eyewear device based on the extracted fingerprint features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Julio Cesar CastaƱeda, Rajeev Ramanath
  • Patent number: 11086361
    Abstract: Reconfigurable touch screen computing devices with folding configurations that include flexible and rigid displays made up of segments that can be reconfigured from a compact state to an expanded state. The form factor of the compact state is roughly the size of a typical handheld phone, with an integrated speaker and microphone. The form factor of the expanded state is roughly the size of a tablet computer which may also include the mechanical functionality of a laptop. Both states may provide a configuration which includes a touch screen display on a front side and a protective housing on a back side. The computing devices may further include sensors to indicate the state of configuration and mechanisms for alignment, locking, and structural support. A module attached to, situated within, or associated with at least one segment may contain substantially all processing and memory, and a communications system, usable in either state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: LEPTON COMPUTING LLC
    Inventor: Stephen E. Delaporte
  • Patent number: 11086467
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel that includes a concave portion at a side of the display panel; and an input detection unit disposed over the display panel. The input detection unit includes a plurality of first detection electrodes electrically connected to each other in a first direction, a plurality of second detection electrodes electrically connected to each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a connection wire that electrically connect a pair of the first detection electrodes of the plurality of first detection electrodes disposed at both sides of the concave portion, and the connection wire includes a plurality of segments separate from each other and conjunction portions that electrically connect two adjacent segments to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jonghwa Kim, Iljoo Kim, Kyungsu Lee, Jeongyun Han
  • Patent number: 11087698
    Abstract: A display device is proposed, the display device including a display panel having a plurality of pixels; a data driving circuit converting pixel data to a data voltage based on a gamma compensation voltage to supply the same to the plurality of pixels through a plurality of data lines; a gate driving circuit supplying a scan signal through a gate line connected to pixels of each horizontal line of the display panel; a power supply unit supplying a pixel driving voltage to the plurality of pixels through a power line; and a gamma reference voltage adjusting unit adjusting a range of the gamma compensation voltage based on a pixel driving voltage measurement value measured in synchronization with the scan signal at a plurality of positions on the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donggun Lee, Kyujin Kim
  • Patent number: 11081076
    Abstract: A display device includes a signal controller configured to provide data and a frame control signal, a display panel including first to m-th data line groups, and a data driver configured to receive the data and the frame control signal, and output a data signal corresponding to the data to the first to m-th data line groups. The data driver includes first to m-th data driving circuit units electrically connected to the first to m-th data line groups in one-to-one correspondence, Each of the first to m-th data driving circuit units includes a clock adjustment unit configured to generate a second clock signal using a first clock signal and the frame control signal. The second clock signal controls an output timing of the data signal to be transmitted to a first channel among a plurality of channels of each of the first to m-th data line groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taegon Im, Jae-Han Lee
  • Patent number: 11077360
    Abstract: An information processing device obtains information regarding the position of each fingertip of a user in a real space, and determines contact between a virtual object set within a virtual space and a finger of the user. The information processing device sets the virtual object in a partly deformed state such that a part of the virtual object, the part corresponding to the position of the finger determined to be in contact with the object among the fingers of the user, is located more to a far side from a user side than the finger, and displays the virtual object having the shape set thereto as an image in the virtual space on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Ohashi
  • Patent number: 11079867
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to facilitate user interactions with foldable displays are disclosed. A computing device includes a foldable display having a first region, a second region, and a bendable region between the first and second regions. The computing devices includes a hover sensing system associated with the bendable region to detect a hover event, and a touch sensing system associated with at least one of the first region or the second region to detect a touch event. The computing device further includes an operations controller to implement an action on the computing device responsive to at least one of the hover event or the touch event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Jiang, Russell Beauregard, Saara Kamppari-Miller, Vivek Paranjape
  • Patent number: 11069277
    Abstract: A display system includes mobile devices each including a position detection unit that detects a position, a physical quantity detection unit that detects a physical quantity, a display unit that displays an image, and a process unit that can perform a process of controlling the display unit so that the image is displayed. The process unit can perform an overlapping display process in which the process unit controls the display unit so as to display a physical quantity image expressing the physical quantity detected by the physical quantity detection unit in a manner of overlapping on a travel route image expressing a travel route of the mobile device that is determined depending on the position detected by the position detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryutaro Uemura, Daisuke Matsuoh, Toshinori Okazaki, Shoya Kaneko, Ayaka Ohtake
  • Patent number: 11061506
    Abstract: A detection apparatus includes a substrate, a display area, a peripheral area, a plurality of electrodes, a plurality of terminals, a first wire, and a second wire. The display area is provided on the surface of the substrate. The peripheral area is provided outside the display area. The electrodes are provided to the display area. The terminals are provided in correspondence with the respective electrodes in the peripheral area. The first wire couples an electrode to a terminal. The second wire couples the electrode to the terminal to which the first wire is coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa
  • Patent number: 11056029
    Abstract: A LED module applicable to a LED display system includes: an interface circuit, transmitting display data and a control signal between the LED display system and the LED module; a uniform standard conversion circuit, which is coupled to the interface circuit and computes the display data and a calibration parameter pre-stored in the uniform standard conversion circuit to generate and output grayscale data; a display memory storing and outputting the grayscale data; a constant current driving circuit, which is coupled to the display memory and outputs a constant current according to the grayscale data; and a LED lamp generating a light source according to the constant current to display an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: WEIDA HI-TECH CORPORATION LTD.
    Inventor: Jen-Chuan Wang
  • Patent number: 11056044
    Abstract: A method of compensating pixel data for a display panel includes the steps of: receiving a first pixel data and a second pixel data respectively corresponding to two adjacent data lines of the display panel; generating a compensation pixel data by searching a lookup table based on the first pixel data and the second pixel data; and transmitting the compensation pixel data to one of the two adjacent data lines to be displayed on the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hsien-Po Huang, Yen-Tao Liao
  • Patent number: 11054861
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may have a flexible display layer covered by a protective display cover layer. The flexible display layer may be an organic light-emitting diode display layer or other layer with a flexible substrate. The flexible display layer may have a central region with peripheral edges. The central region may be rectangular, may be octagonal, or may have other shapes. Strip-shaped protrusions may extend along each of the peripheral edges of the central region. The strip-shaped protrusions may be bent to provide the protrusions with curved surface profiles. The display cover layer may have a cushion shape with bowed edges that overlap parts of the strip-shaped protrusions, may have curved inner and outer surfaces and/or planar surfaces, may have rounded corners with compound curvature, may have edges with curved surface profiles, and/or may have other configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Tyler S. Bushnell
  • Patent number: 11054946
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to image recognition devices and touch panels. An image recognition apparatus comprises a plurality of depth cameras including a plurality of depth camera units, each depth camera including two depth camera units, wherein the plurality of depth camera units is arranged in an array on a same substrate. According to the image recognition devices and touch panels of the embodiments, the accuracy of the depth detection can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengpeng Wang, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Chihjen Cheng, Yanling Han, Ping Zhang
  • Patent number: 11049460
    Abstract: A display device is proposed, the display device including a display panel having a plurality of pixels; a data driving circuit converting pixel data to a data voltage based on a gamma compensation voltage to supply the same to the plurality of pixels through a plurality of data lines; a gate driving circuit supplying a scan signal through a gate line connected to pixels of each horizontal line of the display panel; a power supply unit supplying a pixel driving voltage to the plurality of pixels through a power line; and a gamma reference voltage adjusting unit adjusting a range of the gamma compensation voltage based on a pixel driving voltage measurement value measured in synchronization with the scan signal at a plurality of positions on the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donggun Lee, Kyujin Kim
  • Patent number: 11048301
    Abstract: A mobile electronic device may include a primary electronic display, a barcode scanner engine including an optical sensor configured to capture light reflected from a machine-readable indicia to be used in reading the machine-readable indicia, and a secondary electronic display positioned adjacent to the barcode scanner engine. A process for operation of the mobile device may include operating the barcode scanner engine of the mobile electronic device. The secondary electronic display may be operated. In response to the primary electronic display being unlocked or transitioned to an ON state, the secondary electronic display may be transitioned to an OFF state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Datalogic IP Tech S.r.l.
    Inventors: Chiara Curti, Mattia Piunti, Davide Frascari, Cristian Broccoli
  • Patent number: 11048299
    Abstract: Reconfigurable touch screen computing devices with folding configurations that include flexible and/or rigid displays made up of segments reconfigured from a compact state to an expanded state are described. The form factor of the compact state is the size of a handheld phone (including an integrated speaker and microphone). The form factor of the expanded state is the size of a tablet computer (including the mechanical functionality of a laptop). Both states provide a configuration including a touch screen display on a front side and a protective housing on a back side. The computing devices include sensors indicating the state and mechanisms for folding, alignment, and structural support, and magnets for the devices to be locked in the folded or unfolded state. A module attached to at least one segment may contain substantially all processing and memory, and a communications system, all which may be used in either state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: LEPTON COMPUTING LLC
    Inventor: Stephen E. Delaporte
  • Patent number: 11048300
    Abstract: Reconfigurable touch screen computing devices with folding configurations that include flexible and rigid displays made up of segments that can be reconfigured from a compact state to an expanded state. The form factor of the compact state is roughly the size of a typical handheld phone, with an integrated speaker and microphone. The form factor of the expanded state is roughly the size of a tablet computer which may also include the mechanical functionality of a laptop. Both states may provide a configuration which including a touch screen display on a front side and a protective housing on a back side. The computing devices may further include sensors to indicate the state of configuration and mechanisms for alignment, locking, and structural support. A module attached to, situated within, or associated with at least one segment may contain substantially all processing and memory, and a communications system, usable in either state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: LEPTON COMPUTING LLC
    Inventor: Stephen E. Delaporte
  • Patent number: 11036317
    Abstract: A roller input device includes a housing, a passive member and an active member. A roller is pivotally disposed inside the housing, and the roller includes an annular tooth portion. The passive member is movably disposed inside the housing, and the passive member includes an abutting portion and a first magnetic module. The active member has a second magnetic module, and the active member is disposed inside the housing and operably moved to a first mode or a second mode to make the first magnetic module and the second magnetic module attract each other or make the first magnetic module and the second magnetic module repel each other to drive the passive member to move relative to the housing to a first position or a second position, such that the abutting portion and the annular tooth portion abut against or separate from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: CHICONY ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu-Long Lee
  • Patent number: 11037507
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; and a driving controller configured to: generate a data signal corresponding to an input image data; generate a data voltage based on the data signal; and output the data voltage to the pixels, wherein the driving controller is configured to output the data signal in at least one driving frequency higher than a predetermined low frequency during an image transition period in a low frequency driving mode during which the data signal outputs in the low frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sehyuk Park, Hyojin Lee, Hui Nam, Jinyoung Roh, Bong Hyun You, Eunho Lee
  • Patent number: 11029756
    Abstract: In some examples, a display includes a plurality of display pixels. Each display pixel includes one or more light emitters. At least some of the plurality of display pixels also includes a light detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Richmond F. Hicks, Khaled Ahmed, Divya Pratap