Patents Examined by Benjamin C. Lee
  • Patent number: 12079420
    Abstract: Power management for a touch controller is disclosed. The touch controller can include a transmit section for transmitting stimulation signals to an associated touch sensor panel to drive the panel, where the touch controller can selectively adjust the transmit section to reduce power during the transmission. The touch controller can also include a receive section for receiving touch signals resulting from the driving of the panel, where the touch controller can selectively adjust the receive section to reduce power during the receipt of the touch signals. The touch controller can also include a demodulation section for demodulating the received touch signals to obtain touch event results, where the touch controller can selectively adjust the demodulation section to reduce power during the demodulation of the touch signals. The touch controller can also selectively reduce power below present low levels during idle periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christoph H. Krah, Thomas James Wilson
  • Patent number: 12073753
    Abstract: A method and a system for improving a performance at different viewing angles associated with displaying different human skin colors are provided. Based on a V-T curve and an XYZ data of WRGB at different viewing angles are measured in a case of proportions of RGB being the same, by setting different proportions of the RGB, a V-T curve and an XYZ data of the WRGB at different viewing angles are simulated under the above proportions. By extracting a characteristic RGB grayscale value of an image to be improved associated with viewing angles, a performance of the characteristic RGB grayscale value at different viewing angles is simulated. The proportions of the RGB are constantly adjusted to meet specifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Inventor: Yuecu Lin
  • Patent number: 12073779
    Abstract: The present specification discloses a display device which, upon consecutive viewing of images of different frequencies, may improve abnormalities on a screen according to frequency change, and a method for controlling same. A digital device, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a processor; a display unit comprising a plurality of pixels; and a timing controller for temporally controlling a driving frequency such that the display device is driven, wherein the timing controller controls a light-emitting signal at a preset duty ratio in one frame interval, and when the display unit displays an image of a first input frequency and thereafter displays an image of a second input frequency, a value of a vertical blanking interval for each frame interval gradually changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngho Chun, Byungwoo Ryu, Hyungil Lee, Joonduk Jang
  • Patent number: 12067157
    Abstract: The technology disclosed can provide capabilities such as using motion sensors and/or other types of sensors coupled to a motion-capture system to monitor motions within a real environment. A virtual object can be projected to a user of a portable device integrated into an augmented rendering of a real environment about the user. Motion information of a user body portion is determined based at least in part upon sensory information received from imaging or acoustic sensory devices. Control information is communicated to a system based in part on a combination of the motion of the portable device and the detected motion of the user. The virtual device experience can be augmented in some implementations by the addition of haptic, audio and/or other sensory information projectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventor: David S. Holz
  • Patent number: 12056318
    Abstract: In the case of a black-colored object having an electromagnetic or electric field function, wherein the black-colored object is colored by means of pigments, is covered with a component colored by means of pigments, or is coated with a lacquer, wherein the lacquer includes pigments, provision is made for the pigments to be electrically non-conductive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Seifert
  • Patent number: 12056299
    Abstract: An input display device includes a display configured to display an image, a capacitive touch panel configured to be attached onto the display and include at least one three-dimensional UI portion on a surface of the touch panel, and a detection unit configured to detect an operation on the touch panel. The three-dimensional UI portion includes a pulling portion imitating the shape of a pulling type switch, and the detection unit determines a pulling operation by detecting a change in a capacitance in response to a change in a distance from a finger touching the pulling portion to the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Amano
  • Patent number: 12056330
    Abstract: An input display device includes a display configured to display an image, a capacitive touch panel configured to be attached onto the display and include at least one three-dimensional UI portion on a surface of the touch panel, and a detection unit configured to measure a capacitance of the touch panel and detect an operation on the touch panel based on the measured capacitance. The detection unit detects a rotation of the three-dimensional UI portion from a change in coordinates of a finger touching the three-dimensional UI portion, determines that a rotation detected when a finger distance decreases is valid, and determines that the rotation detected when the finger distance does not decrease is invalid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Amano
  • Patent number: 12047386
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for an augmented-reality system is provided. The computer-implemented method comprises obtaining sensed data, representing an environment in which the AR system is located, determining that the AR system is in a location associated with a first authority characteristic, and controlling access to the sensed data for one or more applications operating in the AR system. Each of the one or more applications is associated with a respective authority characteristic. Controlling access to the sensed data for a said application is performed in dependence on the first authority characteristic and a respective authority characteristic associated with the said application. An AR system comprising one or more sensors, storage for storing sensed data, one or more application modules, and one or more processors arranged to perform the computer-implemented method is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Roberto Lopez Mendez, Daren Croxford, Ioan-Cristian Szabo, Mina Ivanova Dimova
  • Patent number: 12046180
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for compensating for a luminance deviation. A difference in pixel value of the image capturing device between a first pixel and a second pixel in the screen and a difference in gray scale level between first and second gray scale levels are derived from a captured image at the first gray scale level and a captured image at the second gray scale level which include pixel values of the image capturing device. A pixel value for the second pixel is calculated from the captured image at the first gray scale level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Geon Ho Park, Won Yeol Lee, Cheon Heo
  • Patent number: 12039749
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for low-power visual tracking systems. An example method can include receiving one or more images captured by each image sensor system from a set of image sensor systems on a first device, the one or more images capturing a set of patterns on a second device, wherein the first device has lower power requirements than the second device, the set of patterns having a predetermined configuration on the second device; determining, from the one or more images captured by each image sensor system, a set of pixels corresponding to the set of patterns on the second device; determining, based on the set of pixels corresponding to the set of patterns, a location and relative pose in space of each pattern; and determining, based on the location and relative pose of each pattern, a pose of the first device relative to the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ravishankar Sivalingam, Donald William Kidwell, Russell Gruhlke, Edwin Chongwoo Park, Khurshid Syed Alam
  • Patent number: 12039114
    Abstract: A mouse device includes a casing and a roller module. The roller module is disposed within the casing. The roller module includes a scroll wheel, a magnetic ratchet, a supporting element and a permanent magnet. The scroll wheel includes a concave structure. The magnetic ratchet is disposed within the concave structure of the scroll wheel. While the scroll wheel is rotated, the magnetic ratchet is correspondingly rotated. The magnetic ratchet includes a ratchet frame and plural tooth structures. The plural tooth structures are discretely arranged on an inner surface of the ratchet frame. While the magnetic ratchet is rotated with the scroll wheel, the plural tooth structures of the magnetic ratchet are sequentially transferred through a region over the permanent magnet, and a magnetic attractive force between the corresponding tooth structure and the permanent magnet is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Nan Su, Chun-Che Wu, Sheng-An Tsai, Shu-An Huang, Li-Kuei Cheng
  • Patent number: 12033572
    Abstract: A display driver includes image processing circuitry and drive circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to determine a total current of a display panel and perform an IR-drop compensation using the total current and a first graylevel for a first subpixel of the display panel to determine a first voltage level for the first subpixel. The drive circuitry is configured to update the first subpixel based at least in part on the first voltage level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Masao Orio, Hirobumi Furihata, Takashi Nose
  • Patent number: 12027106
    Abstract: A display and a dehumidification method thereof are disclosed. The method includes the following. An interval time from a previous dehumidification process is calculated, and the interval time is compared with a threshold time. When the interval time exceeds the threshold time, a first reminder window is displayed for a user to choose whether to perform a dehumidification process when the dehumidification process or booting is executed automatically in a shutdown state. It is determined whether to limit a brightness of a display panel of the display according to a selecting operation with regard to the dehumidification process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: ViewSonic International Corporation
    Inventors: Jia-Shin Tsai, Li wei Cheng, Shun-Chang Chen
  • Patent number: 12014692
    Abstract: A display driving module includes a gate driving circuit, a plurality of data lines and a data driving circuit. The pixel circuits in odd-numbered rows and one column are electrically connected to a data line, and the pixel circuits in even-numbered rows and the one column are electrically connected to another data line. The data driving circuit includes a data driver and a multiplexing circuit, the multiplexing circuit includes a first multiplexing sub-circuit and a second multiplexing sub-circuit. The gate driving circuit includes a plurality of levels of shift register units, and an nth-level shift register unit is electrically connected to the pixel circuits in a (2n?1)th row and a (2n)th row, and configured to apply a same gate driving signal to the pixel circuits in the (2n?1)th row and the (2n)th row, where n is a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pengfei Yu, Yi Zhang, Jie Dai, Lu Bai
  • Patent number: 12008943
    Abstract: The display panel includes a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns of pixel circuits, a plurality of rows of gate lines, a plurality rows of reset control lines, and a plurality of columns of data lines, a same row of pixel circuits corresponds to two rows of gate lines, and one/the other row of gate line is electrically connected to odd/even-numbered columns of pixel circuits in the row of pixel circuits, and provides a corresponding gate driving signal for the odd/even-numbered columns of pixel circuits; a same column of pixel circuits corresponds to two columns of data lines, and one/the other column of data line of the two columns of data lines is electrically connected to odd/even-numbered rows of pixel circuits, and provides a corresponding data voltage for the odd/even-numbered rows of pixel circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tian Dong, Can Zheng, Li Wang, Long Han, Yu Feng, Hao Zhang, Jiangnan Lu, Jie Zhang, Bo Wang, Jingquan Wang
  • Patent number: 12002419
    Abstract: A pixel includes a first capacitor including a first electrode connected to a wire of a first power supply voltage, and a second electrode connected to a gate node, a first transistor including a gate electrode connected to the gate node, and a back gate electrode connected to a back gate line, a second transistor which transmits a data signal to a source of the first transistor in response to a first gate signal, a third transistor which diode-connects the first transistor in response to the first gate signal, a fourth transistor which transmits an initialization voltage to the gate node in response to a second gate signal. The first transistor receives a back gate voltage, which is obtained by delaying the first gate signal by a ½ frame, through the back gate electrode in a low-frequency driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keunwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 12001624
    Abstract: An input sensing unit including a plurality of first electrodes, each of which including a plurality of first main patterns and a plurality of connection patterns disposed between the first main patterns to connect two first main patterns adjacent to each other, a plurality of second electrodes each of which including a plurality of second main patterns and a plurality of connection patterns disposed between the second main patterns to connect two second main patterns adjacent to each other, and a plurality of third electrodes receiving an electrical signal that is different from that received by the second electrode. Each of the third electrodes includes a plurality of third main patterns spaced apart from the second sensing patterns in a plan view and a plurality of third connection patterns disposed between the third main patterns to connect two third main patterns adjacent to each other and spaced apart from the first connection patterns in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiwook Kim, Kwang-Min Kim, Yangwan Kim, Jisu Na
  • Patent number: 11983130
    Abstract: A USB hub, including multiple USB upstream ports, multiple downstream ports, multiple image processing units, a USB hub unit, a first multiplexer, and a second multiplexer, is provided. The USB upstream ports include a first USB upstream port and a second USB upstream port. The downstream ports include a first downstream port and a second downstream port. The image processing units include a first image processing unit and a second image processing unit. The first multiplexer is coupled to the first USB upstream port, the second USB upstream port, the first image processing unit, the second image processing unit, and the USB hub unit. The second multiplexer is coupled to the first image processing unit, the second image processing unit, the USB hub unit, the first downstream port, and the second downstream port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: GENESYS LOGIC, INC.
    Inventor: Wei-Te Lee
  • Patent number: 11983823
    Abstract: Examples of wearable systems and methods can use multiple inputs (e.g., gesture, head pose, eye gaze, voice, totem, and/or environmental factors (e.g., location)) to determine a command that should be executed and objects in the three-dimensional (3D) environment that should be operated on. The wearable system can detect when different inputs converge together, such as when a user seeks to select a virtual object using multiple inputs such as eye gaze, head pose, hand gesture, and totem input. Upon detecting an input convergence, the wearable system can perform a transmodal filtering scheme that leverages the converged inputs to assist in properly interpreting what command the user is providing or what object the user is targeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Lacey, Samuel A. Miller, Nicholas Atkinson Kramer, David Charles Lundmark
  • Patent number: 11984066
    Abstract: A processing method and a processing device for pixel data, a display device, a display method, and a storage medium are provided. The processing method includes: determining a target pixel point in pixel points of a display frame image to be revised, a pixel data of each pixel point including S initial pixel data of different primary colors and a white initial pixel data; converting a white initial pixel data in a pixel data of the target pixel point into S equivalent pixel data of the different primary colors; obtaining S target pixel data of the different primary colors and a white target pixel data of the target pixel point according to the S equivalent pixel data and according to S initial pixel data of the different primary colors in the pixel data of the target pixel point, the white target pixel data corresponding to a 0 gray scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wenchao Bao