Patents Examined by Brent D Castiaux
  • Patent number: 11960086
    Abstract: A distorted image generating section directly renders an image having a distortion such that a proper image can be seen when viewed through an eyepiece lens. Specifically, the distorted image generating section calculates which position a target pixel on a view screen will be displaced to by the lens, generates a ray of light that passes from a viewpoint through a pixel at a displacement destination, and uses color information obtained by ray tracing as a pixel value of the target pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Akio Ohba
  • Patent number: 11961429
    Abstract: A head-up display includes a display panel, a reflective optical element, a controller, and an obtainer. The display panel displays a first image. The reflective optical element reflects image light from the first image displayed by the display panel. The controller controls a position at which the first image is displayed on the display panel. The obtainer obtains, as positional information, a position of an eye of a user. The controller changes the position at which the first image is displayed on the display panel in accordance with the positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Kaoru Kusafuka, Mitsuhiro Murata, Sunao Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11960646
    Abstract: A display control device includes a processor. The processor identifies an attraction target that guides a line of sight of an occupant, acquires the line of sight of the occupant, and causes a display unit attached to an eyeball of the occupant to display a guidance display that guides the line of sight of the occupant to the attraction target based on positional relationship between the line of sight of the occupant and the attraction target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Miura
  • Patent number: 11955084
    Abstract: A driving circuit and a display panel are provided. The gate driver circuit includes a plurality of gate driving units which are cascaded. An Nth stage gate driving unit includes a pull-down control module, a pull-down module, a pull-up control module, a first pull-up voltage stabilizing module, a pull-up module, a second pull-up voltage stabilizing module, and a pull-down voltage stabilizing module. Stability of the gate driver circuit can be improved by increasing stability of a voltage level at a fourth node via the first pull-up voltage stabilizing module and the second pull-up voltage stabilizing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuanyun Wang, Chao Dai, Jianlong Wu, Ruiting He
  • Patent number: 11948535
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an application processor and a display control circuit. The display control circuit may output a (tearing effect) TE signal to the application processor and receive an image frame from the application processor. A data processing circuit of the display control circuit generates a notification signal when the data processing circuit is ready to receive the image frame from the application processor. The timing controller generates the TE signal having a first frequency during a period from a first time point when the notification signal is received to a second time point when the application processor starts transmitting the image frame to the data processing circuit. The first frequency is greater than a reference frequency based on an output frame rate of the display control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Cheng Hsien Li, Yuan-Po Cheng
  • Patent number: 11947116
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are defined for displaying images on a flexible display in a head-mountable device (HMD). One or more flexible display devices may be inserted in the HMD. The one or more flexible display devices may be constrained by the HMD to take a particular curved form and wrap the field of view (FOV) of images displayed on the one or more flexible display devices for an improved user experience. The display surface of the one or more flexible displays may be divided in display areas, the display areas corresponding to a focus area and a peripheral FOV. Image processing may be differentiated according to display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Pierre Andrivon, Franck Galpin, Fabrice Urban
  • Patent number: 11942864
    Abstract: A voltage conversion circuit and a display device are provided. The voltage conversion circuit includes a voltage conversion module, a comparison module, and a control module. The voltage conversion module includes at least two voltage conversion units, and the voltage conversion unit converts the input voltage into a target voltage. The comparison module compares each of testing voltages with a reference voltage to generate a feedback signal. The control module receives the feedback signal and controls the voltage conversion unit to convert the input voltage to the target voltage based on the feedback signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wenfang Li
  • Patent number: 11941213
    Abstract: A touch structure and a display panel are provided. The touch structure includes: first mesh electrodes extending in a first direction and second mesh electrodes extending in a second direction. The touch structure is absent in a window region. First mesh electrodes include at least one cross-window row separated by the window region, which includes a first cross-window row including: a first window mesh block adjacent to the window region and on a first side of the window region; a first conductive plate directly connected to mesh lines of the first window mesh block; and a first non-window mesh block on a side of the first window mesh block away from the window region; second mesh electrodes include at least one cross-window column including a first cross-window column which includes: a second window mesh block; a second conductive plate; and a second non-window mesh block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Yi Zhang, Fuqiang Yang, Chao Zeng
  • Patent number: 11935442
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations for controlling brightness in an AR device. The operations comprise displaying an image on an eyewear device worn by a user; detecting a gaze direction of a pupil of the user; identifying a first region of the image that corresponds to the gaze direction of the pupil; and modifying a brightness level or value of pixels in the image based on the gaze direction such that pixels in the first region of the image are set to a first brightness value and pixels in a second region of the image are set to a second brightness value that is lower than the first brightness value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventor: Russell Douglas Patton
  • Patent number: 11929022
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multiplexing circuitry, a multiplexing method, a multiplexing module, and a display device. The multiplexing circuitry includes N multiplexing unit circuitries, N energy storage unit circuitries and N control unit circuitries. An nth multiplexing unit circuitry is configured to enable an nth output data line to be electrically coupled to or electrically decoupled from an input data line under the control of a potential at an nth control end; an nth energy storage unit circuitry is configured to control a potential at the nth control end in accordance with an nth clock signal; and an nth control unit circuitry is configured to enable the nth control end to be electrically coupled to or electrically decoupled from an nth switch control line in accordance with a control voltage signal and an nth switch control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhidong Yuan, Yongqian Li, Can Yuan
  • Patent number: 11927751
    Abstract: The present application discloses a system and device for displaying content. The system includes two optical units. The two optical units are part of the system that is wearable. Each of the two optical units comprises a front lit display. The system includes an adjustable mounting. The adjustable mounting enables a user to adjust a mounting position of the two optical units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sindarin, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Eli Nelson Chelf, John Aaron Boiles, Nicholas Cory Johnson, Kevin Robert McKinney, Steven David Oliver, Tun Yuen Yeung, Keith Alsberg, Jeremiah O'Leary
  • Patent number: 11900880
    Abstract: A display substrate, a display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, a first display region, and a second display region, and a light transmittance of the first display region is greater than that of the second display region A plurality of sub-pixels are arranged on the base substrate and in the first display region, wherein the sub-pixels include a first pixel driving circuit and a first light-emitting device, and the first pixel driving circuit includes a compensation transistor, a switching transistor, and a light-emitting device initialization transistor each having an active layer. A scan signal line is provided in the first display region. An orthographic projection of the scan signal line on the base substrate overlaps with that of the active layer of each of the compensation transistor, the switching transistor and the light-emitting device initialization transistor on the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ke Liu, Ling Shi, Yipeng Chen, Hui Lu, Shuai Xie, Zhu Wang, Zhenhua Zhang
  • Patent number: 11899207
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display that generates image display light; a concave mirror that reflects the image display light such that the image display light is projected onto a transparent member; and a drive mechanism that moves the display in a range in which a distance from the concave mirror to the display is smaller than or equal to a reference distance at which the image display light traveling from the concave mirror to the transparent member becomes parallel light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Yuki Wada
  • Patent number: 11899201
    Abstract: A vehicular head-up display that is provided in a vehicle and is configured to display a predetermined image to an occupant of the vehicle includes: a housing that has an opening upward; a transparent cover that covers the opening of the housing; a picture generation section; and a cleaner that is configured to clean an outer surface of the transparent cover. The picture generation section includes: a picture generation unit that is provided inside an accommodation portion formed with the housing and the transparent cover in order to emit light for generating the predetermined image; and a reflection unit that reflects light so that light emitted by the picture generation unit heads toward a windshield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Inoue, Noriko Sato, Kouhei Murata
  • Patent number: 11893958
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to receive a brightness setting for each region of a deformable continuous display surface through a user instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kengo Tokuchi
  • Patent number: 11893966
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving operating characteristics of displays such as liquid crystal on silicon displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen John Hart, Rock Edward Kent, Howard V. Goetz, James L. Sanford, Nicholas W. Melena
  • Patent number: 11880503
    Abstract: A system and method for predicting an estimated head pose solution of a head worn display (HWD) at a future time selects or determines, for each HWD rotational axis, a relative angular rate of a head reference frame relative to a body reference frame. By sampling the relative angular rate, a relative angular acceleration is determined. Based on a projection time associated with estimated display latency, angular increment vectors for each rotational axis are determined for relative angular rate and relative angular acceleration. The current head pose solution is adjusted with respect to one or more axes based on the angular increment vectors to project the head pose estimate ahead based on the projection time, the resulting projected head pose solution corresponding to a predicted orientation of the head frame relative to the body frame at the future time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Gavin P. Haentjens, Christopher M. Boggs, Troy D. Driscoll, William T. Kirchner, Brandon E. Wilson
  • Patent number: 11875761
    Abstract: A display driving circuit includes a frame rate extractor configured to receive a vertical synchronization signal indicating a start of a k-th frame, k-th frame data including information about the k-th frame, and a data enable signal indicating an active period of the k-th frame and a variable blank period that occurs after the active period, and extract a frame rate of the k-th frame, based on the vertical synchronization signal; and an image corrector configured to correct frame data received after reception of the k-th frame data, based on the frame rate of the k-th frame, and output the corrected frame data as output image data, wherein the vertical synchronization signal is received before a start time point of the active period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyuchan Lee, Pureum Ryoo, Hyoungpyo Lee, Junghyun Lim
  • Patent number: 11869443
    Abstract: There are provided a gate driver and a display device including the same. The gate driver includes: a first scan driver; a first sensing driver; a first scan clock line; and a first sensing clock line. The first scan clock line includes a first scan clock main line extending in one direction, and a first scan clock connection line connected to the first scan clock main line and the first scan driver. The first sensing clock line includes a first sensing clock main line extending in one direction, and a first sensing clock connection line connected to the first sensing clock main line and the first sensing driver. The first scan clock main line is closer to each of the first scan driver and the first sensing driver than the first sensing clock main line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Hyun Park, Dong Woo Kim, An Su Lee, Kang Moon Jo
  • Patent number: 11861077
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to interacting with an electronic device without touching a display screen or other physical input mechanisms. In some examples, the electronic device performs an operation in response to a positioning of a user's hand and/or an orientation of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Lukas Robert Tom Girling, Julian Missig, Golnaz Abdollahian