Patents Examined by Brent D Castiaux
  • Patent number: 11663939
    Abstract: An augmented reality head-up display system for displaying graphics upon a windscreen of a vehicle includes one or more image-capturing devices that capture image data of an environment surrounding the vehicle, a graphic projection device for generating images upon the windscreen of the vehicle, and a controller in electronic communication with the one or more image-capturing devices and the graphic projection device. The controller executes instructions to receive object detection data indicating a current position of objects located within the environment surrounding the vehicle. The controller executes instructions to compare the current position of the objects within the environment with a visual location of the objects within the environment determined based on the image data to identify a visually occluded object located within the environment. In response to identifying the visually occluded object, the controller determines a contextual graphic that signifies the visually occluded object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: John P. Weiss, Joseph F. Szczerba, Omer Tsimhoni, Jeffrey Rupert Cooke
  • Patent number: 11654824
    Abstract: The disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for providing a display pertaining to a vehicle payload. An example method executed by a processor of a vehicle payload display system includes determining a weight of a payload placed upon the vehicle and displaying upon a ground surface outside the vehicle and/or upon a windshield of the vehicle, an image that provides an indication of the weight of the payload placed upon the vehicle. Another example method executed by the processor includes obtaining information about a laden weight of the vehicle, determining a weight difference between the laden weight and a payload capacity of the vehicle, determining, based on the weight difference, a payload margin available for loading the vehicle or an excess weight loaded upon the vehicle, and displaying the payload margin or the first excess weight upon a display surface that is viewable from outside the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Aed M. Dudar
  • Patent number: 11657773
    Abstract: A variety of methods for driving electro-optic displays so as to reduce visible artifacts are described. Such methods include (a) applying a first drive scheme to a non-zero minor proportion of the pixels of the display and a second drive scheme to the remaining pixels, the pixels using the first drive scheme being changed at each transition; (b) using two different drive schemes on different groups of pixels so that pixels in differing groups undergoing the same transition will not experience the same waveform; (c) applying either a balanced pulse pair or a top-off pulse to a pixel undergoing a white-to-white transition and lying adjacent a pixel undergoing a visible transition; (d) driving extra pixels where the boundary between a driven and undriven area would otherwise fall along a straight line; and (e) driving a display with both DC balanced and DC imbalanced drive schemes, maintaining an impulse bank value for the DC imbalance and modifying transitions to reduce the impulse bank value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Karl Raymond Amundson, Matthew J. Aprea, Kenneth R. Crounse, Demetrious Mark Harrington, Jason Lin, Theodore A. Sjodin, Chia-Chen Su
  • Patent number: 11650683
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area, a display element layer, a pad group, a touch electrode layer, and a touch insulation layer. The display element layer includes display elements disposed in the display area. The pad group is disposed on the substrate and includes output pads disposed in the non-display area. The output pads include central output pads and outer output pads disposed outside the central output pads in a first direction. The touch electrode layer is disposed on the display element layer. The touch insulation layer is disposed on the display element layer and contacts the touch electrode layer. A groove pattern is defined in the touch insulation layer overlapping the non-display area, and does not overlap at least a predetermined number of the outer output pads in a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo-youl Shim, Joonsam Kim, Hun-tae Kim, Wuhyeon Jung
  • Patent number: 11644930
    Abstract: A removable electronics device and related pre-fabricated sensor assemblies having different sensor layouts are provided. The removable electronics module includes one or more processors, an inertial measurement unit, a first communication interface configured to communicatively couple the removable electronics device to one or more computing devices, a second communication interface configured to communicatively couple the removable electronics device to a plurality of pre-fabricated sensor assemblies, and a housing at least partially enclosing the processor, the inertial measurement unit, the first communication interface, and the second communication interface. The housing includes a first opening in at least one longitudinal surface and adjacent to at least a portion of the first communication interface and a plurality of second openings in a lower surface and adjacent to the plurality of contact pads of the second communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Kishore Sundara-Rajan, Mauricio E. Gutierrez Bravo, Ivan Poupyrev, Alejandro Kauffmann, Mustafa Emre Karagozler
  • Patent number: 11631383
    Abstract: A resolution adjustment method applied to image display of a display device includes the display device providing a display menu to obtain a display layout composed of a plurality of display areas, the display device performing a resolution parameter setting on each display area according to the display layout and an original resolution parameter of the display device, the display device generating an updated product code and a plurality of updated resolution parameters according to an original product code and the original resolution parameter of the display device and each resolution parameter setting, and each image source reading the updated product code and the updated resolution parameter and outputting an image corresponding to the updated resolution parameter via a corresponding transmission port to the corresponding display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: BenQ Corporation
    Inventor: Hsin-Nan Lin
  • Patent number: 11620965
    Abstract: A video display method includes: acquiring at least one frame image corresponding to a current display time point in at least one source video; reading a stage configuration file, obtaining a stage modeling parameter of the stage space at the current display time point and a corresponding relationship between the at least one frame image and the stage space according to a specific stage related parameter in the stage configuration file; according to the stage modeling parameter and the corresponding relationship, processing the at least one frame image to obtain divided regions corresponding to all display screens included in the at least one stage plane; determining display contents corresponding to the divided regions, and copying the display contents to at least one target memory; and outputting a content in the at least one target memory to the at least one stage plane for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Gangyi Ding, Tianyu Huang, Peng Li, Lijie Li, Mingxiang Tang
  • Patent number: 11619811
    Abstract: An image display system includes: an image projection unit that projects and displays an image on a display target for a moving body; a posture angle calculation unit that calculates a posture angle for the moving body on the basis of chronological data for acceleration detection values for the acceleration of the moving body in a prescribed time period; and a display control unit that controls the display position at which the image is projected and displayed on the display target, in accordance with the posture angle calculated by the posture angle calculation unit. The acceleration detection values include bi-directional components. The posture angle calculation unit excludes acceleration detection values from the chronological data used when calculating the posture angle, said acceleration detection values being included in an exclusion time period which has a ratio for the bidirectional components, in the prescribed time period, that is outside a prescribed range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihito Inukai, Toshiya Mori, Masanaga Tsuji, Ken′ichi Kasazumi, Yukihiro Chokyu
  • Patent number: 11615724
    Abstract: A head-up display and a method for operating a head-up display for a motor vehicle. Virtual objects may be assigned to parts of the environment of the motor vehicle, where a virtual reference feature is obtained, the orientation of which is defined on the basis of a roadway that is or can be used by a vehicle. An orientation of the motor vehicle may be determined in relation to the virtual reference feature. A virtual object may be displayed when the part of the environment to which it is assigned lies within a field of view for the head-up display, wherein a horizontal position of the object that is displayed is defined in the field of view on the basis of the relative orientation to the virtual reference feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Alexander Kunze, Ulrich Wuttke
  • Patent number: 11604526
    Abstract: A driving circuit is provided for display device having pixel electrodes and drive electrodes facing the pixel electrodes in display area. The driving circuit includes touch wiring that is routed in frame area located outside display area and supplies alternating current touch drive signal to drive electrodes; display wiring that supplies display drive voltage; and switches conducting between at least one of drive electrodes and touch wiring in touch detection period, and conducting between at least one of drive electrodes and display wiring in display period, wherein display wiring is disposed closer to display area than touch wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11600243
    Abstract: A display controller, comprising a 3D_LUT random access memory, which stores at least a 3D Lookup table; and a display control processing unit, comprising: a computing unit, a register, a color signal booster, and a color signal attenuator; wherein after input color signals are received by the color signal booster, and the color signal booster amplifies color signals by a first predetermined factor, wherein the computing unit calculates the address of the 3D Lookup table, and loads the 3D Lookup table from the 3D_LUT random access memory according to the register, wherein the color signal attenuator attenuates color signals by a second predetermined factor. The present disclosure significantly increases the precision of color conversion from one RGB color space to another RGB color space, and does not increase the RAM cost, since the cost of multiplying or dividing by power of 2, for example, is limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignees: VeriSilicon Microelectronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lefan Zhong, Song Li, Jun Chen, Isaac Wang
  • Patent number: 11586105
    Abstract: A head-up display includes a picture generation unit configured to project image light, a hexagonal optical reflection element arranged on a light path of the image light and including a hollow hexagonal cylinder, a concave mirror and an image display plate. The hollow hexagonal cylinder has a first sidewall, a second sidewall, a third sidewall, a fourth sidewall, a fifth sidewall and a sixth sidewall which are sequentially connected to form a closed hexagonal column. The second sidewall is transparent, and the first sidewall and the fifth sidewall opposite to the second sidewall are configured to reflect the image light. The concave mirror is disposed on the light path of the image light and configured to receive the image light reflected from the hollow hexagonal cylinder. The image display plate is configured to receive image light reflected from the concave mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: Interface Technology (ChengDu) Co., Ltd., Interface Optoelectronics (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Interface Optoelectronics (Wuxi) Co., Ltd., General Interface Solution Limited
    Inventors: Chewen Chiang, I Chen Liu
  • Patent number: 11586040
    Abstract: An information display apparatus that displays image information on a vehicle includes a HUD apparatus projecting a large-scale virtual image onto a distant position and serving as a first information display apparatus 100 arranged between a windshield glass 6 of the vehicle and an instrument panel, and effectively displays a plurality of pieces of the image information by making coordination with a second information display apparatus 48 close to the windshield glass 6, the second information display apparatus causing a transparent dispersion sheet in the windshield glass to directly reflect a screen of a large-scale high-resolution image display panel so that the screen is observed by the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Hirata, Koji Fujita, Eiji Takagi, Toshinori Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11575881
    Abstract: The invention discloses a near-eye display module which includes at least one projection module, a bracing structure, and a control unit, releasing the eye's focus from a fixed plane. A projection module consists of more than one projection units, and the bracing structure functions as a holder for these projection units. A projection unit includes a display panel, a converging device which converges the light beams incident onto or outgoing from the display panel, and a deflection aperture which deflects the light coming from the converging device. The viewer wears two such near-eye display modules as eye-glasses. In the near-eye display module corresponding to an eye, the projection units of a same projection module jointly project at least one whole image to this eye, for VAC-free (Convergence-Accommodation conflict-free) three dimensional (3D) display based on Maxwellian view or multiple-images-one-eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Dongdong Teng, Lilin Liu
  • Patent number: 11567331
    Abstract: A display device (10) for producing images to be viewed by an observer includes an optical system (14) and a control unit (20). The optical system receives input light indicative of an image into a light propagation channel (14A) and produces, at an exit pupil (14B), output light having a field of view (FOV) corresponding to the image to be presented to the observer (18). The light propagation channel has an intensity transfer function map I1(x,?) of the optical system across a lateral dimension x of the exit pupil and an angular 20 span ? of the FOV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: LUMUS LTD.
    Inventors: Yuval Rubin, Elad Sharlin
  • Patent number: 11567723
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method for displaying supplemental content. The method includes determining environmental characteristics, e.g., wall space, empty areas, colors, etc., for a display environment, determining supplemental content based in part on a primary content displayed by a primary display, and displaying the supplemental content in the display environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Evan M. Goldberg, Daniel L. Baker, Steven M. Chapman, Dane M. Coffey, Matthew Deuel, Mark R. Mine
  • Patent number: 11567315
    Abstract: A head-up display apparatus includes: a display unit, which includes a display cell and a first polarizing plate with a retardation layer arranged on an output side of the display cell, the first polarizing plate with a retardation layer including a polarizer and a first retardation layer in the stated order from the display cell side, and which is configured to output projection light; at least one reflector configured to reflect the projection light; a housing, which has an opening portion, and which is configured to store the display unit and the reflector therein; a cover member configured to cover the opening portion; and a second polarizing plate with a retardation layer, which is arranged on a housing inner side of the cover member, and which includes a polarizer and a second retardation layer in the stated order from the cover member side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Asanoi, Takehito Fuchida, Katsunori Takada
  • Patent number: 11547361
    Abstract: A display controller (20) includes an information acquisition unit configured to obtain input data of attentional resources of an occupant of a mobile object such as traveling time, occupant status information, driving environment information or display image history and a display-image generation unit configured to generate, in a mode determined based on the input data, a display image to be displayed by a display device (10) provided for the mobile object. The mobile object is for instance a vehicle comprising a head-up display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Kusanagi, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Yuuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11551639
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a display region, and including a light transmission region overlapping an electronic element within an edge portion of the display region, and a panel driver configured to drive the display panel, and configured to perform an edge-dimming operation that gradually decreases a luminance of an area of the display region excluding the light transmission region from a center portion of the display region to the edge portion of the display region while not decreasing a luminance of the light transmission region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Kyung Choi, Youngseok Kim, Han-Na Ma, Dong-Yeol Yeom
  • Patent number: 11526008
    Abstract: A head-up display and a multiview head-up display system provide a plurality of different views of a multiview image combined with a view of a physical environment to an eye box as a combined view. The head-up display includes a multibeam element-based display configured to provide the different views of the multiview image and an optical combiner configured to relay the different views to the eye box along with the view of the physical environment view. The multibeam element-based display includes an array of multibeam elements configured to provide a plurality of directional light beams having directions corresponding to respective view directions of the plurality of different views and an array of light valves configured to modulate the plurality of directional light beams to provide the multiview image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: LEIA INC.
    Inventor: David A. Fattal