Patents Examined by Benjamin Morales
  • Patent number: 11468841
    Abstract: An emission control driver includes: a plurality of stages having: a first circuit portion configured to generate a first control signal at a first node and a second control signal at a second node; a second circuit portion configured to control a voltage level of the first control signal; a third circuit portion configured to generate a third control signal based on the first control signal, the second control signal, and the second clock signal; a first output transistor configured to output a first voltage as the emission control signal in response to the first control signal; and a second output transistor configured to output a second voltage as the emission control signal, and wherein the third circuit portion comprises a first capacitor configured to maintain a substantially constant voltage between both electrodes while each of the plurality of stages outputs the emission control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minwoo Byun, Jongwon Park
  • Patent number: 11449139
    Abstract: A method for passively calibrating and verifying eye tracking in a surgical robotic system. The gaze of a user facing a user display of a user console of a surgical robotic system is tracked while the user is using a user interface device (UID). When a user interaction to the UID is detected, an expected gaze position on the display of the user console is determined without instructing the user to look at the expected gaze position. The latter becomes a reference gaze point of the user at the time of detected user action. The measured gaze point of the user is compared with an acceptable threshold of the reference gaze point, and in response to a determination of a mismatch, calibration parameters used by the tracking are adjusted according to the reference gaze point. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: VERB SURGICAL INC.
    Inventors: Anette Lia Freiin von Kapri, Denise Miller, Joan Savall
  • Patent number: 11430402
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel comprising a pixel which is connected to a gate line and a data line, a gate driver configured to generate a gate signal having a gate-on voltage and a gate-off voltage and to provide the gate line with the gate signal, and a gate controller configured to generate a clock signal having a duty ratio and to provide the gate driver with the clock signal, where a mean amplitude of the clock signal in a vertical blanking period of a frame cycle is smaller than the mean amplitude of the clock signal in an active period of the frame cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jahun Koo, Haksun Kim, Kyung-Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 11392220
    Abstract: A bidirectional active stylus and a sensing system are provided. The stylus includes a receiving electrode, a first emitting diode and a second emitting diode. The receiving electrode is configured to receive a synchronous signal from a touch pad. The receiving electrode is disposed at a position closer to the touch pad with respect to the first emitting diode and the second emitting diode. The strength of received signals is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
    Inventor: Han-ning Chen
  • Patent number: 11347336
    Abstract: A display device including a touch display panel, a roller housing, a touch bar, and a panel driver. The touch display panel includes a plurality of pixels and a plurality of touch sensing elements. At least a portion of the touch display panel is rolled around a roller. The roller housing is configured to receive the roller and has an opening configured to receive the touch display panel. The touch bar is disposed between the roller housing and the touch display panel and contacts the touch display panel. The panel driver divides a display portion of the touch display panel into a display area and a non-display area according to positions of touch sensing elements contacting the touch bar. The panel driver deactivates at least a portion of the non-display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taean Seo, Sunho Kim, Youngseok Seo, Junghun Lee, Jinhwan Choi
  • Patent number: 11347303
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining movement of a hand-held controller (HHC) with respect to a head-mounted display (HMD) are described. A camera is located at a lower region of the HMD for capturing images of the HHC. The images of the HHC are used to determine a position and an orientation of the HHC with reference to the HMD. Also, the camera or another camera can be used to determine a position and orientation of the HMD with respect to a real-world environment. The position and orientation of the HMD and the position and orientation of the HHC are used to change to state of an application executed on a game cloud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Todd Tokubo
  • Patent number: 11340447
    Abstract: A display device includes: a light source unit that outputs laser light; a light-guide optical system that forms a plurality of optical paths of the laser light; an optical path switch element that switches an optical path of the laser light to any one of the plurality of optical paths; an optical member that forms a single optical path in a subsequent stage of the plurality of optical paths; and a projection mirror that forms a projection image to be projected on a screen by scanning the laser light that passed through the single optical path. The plurality of optical paths includes an optical path for low luminance and an optical path for high luminance which make the laser light have different luminance. The optical path switch element is disposed on an optical path between the light source unit and the projection mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventor: Akihiro Oguri
  • Patent number: 11340698
    Abstract: Eye movements and/or physiological characteristics of a user viewing a subject are detected and quantified to produce data to determine one or more details that is or was observable in the scene or image of which the user may or may not be consciously aware. Eye movement data includes the number of times a user looks at each area of a subject (“fixation number”), the length or duration of the fixation (“fixation duration value”), the number of times a user returns to look at a particular area (“fixation repeats”), and additionally any changes to pupil size based on dilation/constriction (“pupil size”). Physiological characteristic data includes heart rate, pulse or skin conductance. Advantageously, the system and methods may be used for a variety of purposes including evaluation improvement and training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: University of Massachusetts
    Inventors: Gregory J. Digirolamo, Max P. Rosen
  • Patent number: 11327575
    Abstract: A system for positioning and controlling sound images in three-dimensional space, comprising: a three-dimensional motion sensing input device; and a computer system incorporating a digital audio workstation application including a gesture library and one or more built-in features, the computer system being connected to the three-dimensional motion sensing input device by a communication link, wherein gestures that are pre-defined in the gesture library are captured by the three-dimensional motion sensing input device and are provided to the computer system via the communication link and used by the digital audio workstation application to position a sound image in three-dimensional space or to control one or more built-in features of the digital audio workstation application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Inventor: Tino Fibaek
  • Patent number: 11320901
    Abstract: A head-up display system and display method, a vehicle, and a computer product. The head-up display system includes: a display device configured to output first linearly polarized light for displaying a first image in a first time intervals and output second linearly polarized light for displaying a second image in a second time intervals; and a polarization beam splitting element in an optical path of light exiting from the display device, being configured to deflect a propagation direction of the first linearly polarized light by a first angle and deflect a propagation direction of the second linearly polarized light by a second angle, and the first angle and the second angle are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Hong
  • Patent number: 11315504
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to driving methods for driving an electro-optic display device which can display high quality color states. The electro-optic display may have a plurality of display pixels, a first type of pigment particle, a second type of pigment particle, and a third type of pigment particle, wherein the three types of pigment particles have optical characteristics differing from one another, the method may include: (i) driving a display pixel to the color state of the first type of pigment particles or the color state of the second type of pigment particles; (ii) driving the pixel to a grey state between the color state of the first type of pigment particle and the color state of the second type of pigment particles; and (iii) applying at least one pair of opposite driving pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: E INK CALIFORNIA, LLC
    Inventors: Craig Lin, Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 11315471
    Abstract: A shift register unit, a driving device, a display device and a driving method are provided. The shift register unit includes an input circuit, a first pull-up node reset circuit, an output circuit, an output reset circuit, a pull-down node control circuit and a power-on initialization circuit. The power-on initialization circuit is configured to reset the pull-up node in response to a power-on initialization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lele Cong, Jian Sun, Zhen Wang
  • Patent number: 11307697
    Abstract: An in-cell touch display panel includes a sensing line. A touch electrode corresponds to more than one pixel electrodes. A first insulation layer is formed on the sensing line and has a first opening to expose the sensing line. A gate of a thin film transistor (TFT) is formed on the first insulation layer. A second insulation layer is formed on a gate line and has a second opening corresponding to the first opening. A source of the TFT is formed on the second insulation layer. A third insulation layer is formed on the source and has a third opening corresponding to the second opening. The touch electrode is formed on the third insulation layer and electrically connected to the sensing line through the third opening, the second opening, and the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: Hann Star Display (Nanjing) Corporation, Hann Star Display Corporation
    Inventors: Mu-Kai Kang, Jing-Xuan Chen, Cheng-Yen Yeh, Sz-Kai Huang
  • Patent number: 11302249
    Abstract: A display control device includes: a display processing part displaying an image in a display unit; and a movement processing part changing a display position of the image according to a display time of the image within a movement range having a reference display position of the image in the display unit as a center, wherein the movement processing part changes the display position within the movement range such that an accumulated display time of the image is reduced from the center to a periphery of the movement range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Takasugi
  • Patent number: 11295663
    Abstract: A method of adjusting brightness of a display panel includes a database creation step: storing attenuation data and a plurality of first brightness gain factors in a database. The attenuation data is performance attenuation data of a functional device of a display panel, and the first brightness gain factors are provided to display brightness of the display panel. A retrieving step: retrieving the attenuation data and the first brightness gain factors from the database. An adjustment step: adjusting the first brightness gain factors according to the attenuation data to obtain a plurality of second brightness gain factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Limin Wang
  • Patent number: 11295688
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel comprising a pixel which is connected to a gate line and a data line, a gate driver configured to generate a gate signal having a gate-on voltage and a gate-off voltage and to provide the gate line with the gate signal, and a gate controller configured to generate a clock signal having a duty ratio and to provide the gate driver with the clock signal, where a mean amplitude of the clock signal in a vertical blanking period of a frame cycle is smaller than the mean amplitude of the clock signal in an active period of the frame cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jahun Koo, Haksun Kim, Kyung-Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 11289034
    Abstract: A display device includes a backlight unit including light source rows, each of the light source rows including light source blocks, a display panel configured to display an image by transmitting light emitted by the backlight unit, a panel driver configured to drive the display panel, and a backlight driver configured to drive the backlight unit. The backlight driver is configured to perform a vertical direction scan operation that sequentially select the light source rows and a horizontal direction sequential driving operation that sequentially drives the light source blocks included in a selected light source row of the light source rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Inventors: Jahun Koo, Seong Soon Cho, Jongwoon Kim, Kyung-Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 11150478
    Abstract: There is provided an image display device including (A) an image forming device, (B) an optical device configured to receive incident light output from the image forming device and output the incident light, and (C) a light receiving device configured to detect the light output from the image forming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Mukawa
  • Patent number: 11150752
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a base substrate including a display area and a non-display area adjacent to the display area, a display element layer disposed on an upper portion of the base substrate, a sensor part disposed on a lower portion of the base substrate, and a sensing circuit board disposed on the lower portion of the base substrate and generating an electric field in response to an input from outside. The sensing circuit board includes a main board including a first opening part exposing the sensor part, and an auxiliary board overlapping the sensor part, disposed on the main board, and electrically connected to the main board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventors: Sungmin Kim, Jaelok Cha
  • Patent number: 11137839
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided that address interoperability limitations of current digital pens and touch sensitive devices. In aspects, methods are provided for operating an adaptable digital pen and touch sensitive device to determine the best means for pen state information such as pressure information to be transferred from the pen to the device. A digital pen includes multiple communication interfaces to permit wide compatibility with touch sensitive devices. A communication interface is provided that enables the digital pen to communicate via an active pen protocol with a digitizer of the touch sensitive device while operating in a first mode. Another communication interface is provided as an alternative channel for communicating pen state information to the touch sensitive device while operating in a second mode. Where neither such interface suffices for communicating pen state information to the touch sensitive device, the digital pen may operate in a reflective capacitive mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: David Abzarian, Jerry K. Koh, Connor Weins