Patents Examined by Brent D Castiaux
  • Patent number: 11194402
    Abstract: An interactive method using a floating image display and a system thereof are provided. The method is performed in the display apparatus. The display apparatus links to a computer system that executes a driver for establishing a communication interface there-between. In the method, the display apparatus receives image data from the computer system and floating image data can be obtained therefrom. The floating image display apparatus displays a floating image via a display panel after a conversion process. After that, a user can manipulate directly on the floating image by gesture. A procedure running in the display apparatus can determine an interactive instruction according to variations of three-dimensional coordinates. When the interactive instruction is transmitted to the computer system, a new image data is formed in response to the interactive instruction. The display apparatus then displays a new floating image after receiving new data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Lixel Inc.
    Inventors: Chun-Hsiang Yang, Kai-Chieh Chang, Chih-Hung Ting
  • Patent number: 11189251
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic apparatus including a display configured to output an image through a front surface of the electronic apparatus, an input part arranged to face a side surface of the electronic apparatus and comprising a first region and a second region, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine either the first region or the second region as an activation region based on a posture of the electronic apparatus, and receive a user input through the activation region. Various other embodiments are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS, INC
    Inventors: Hongjo Shim, Hyunwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11187895
    Abstract: A content generation system including an image generation unit operable to generate one or more images of a virtual environment for display at a first display device, and an image transmission unit operable to transmit generated images of the virtual environment to each of the first display device and the second display device, where the or each image displayed at one of the first display device and the second display device is a subset of the or each image displayed at the other of the first display device and the second display device, and where the viewpoint of the display device displaying a subset of the or each image is operable to modify the displayed field of view independently of the field of view displayed at the other display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Jesus Lucas Barcias, Claire Rogers, Douglas Ealey
  • Patent number: 11183132
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device, includes a first pixel line including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, a second pixel line including a third sub-pixel and a fourth sub-pixel, and a display driver supplying video signals which cause signal polarities of signal lines adjacent to each other to be opposite to each other, without varying the polarities in one frame period, the video signals having the same polarities as each other being written to the respective sub-pixels of the first pixel line, the video signals having the polarities which are the same as each other and opposite to the polarities of the video signals written to the first pixel line, being written to the respective sub-pixels of the second pixel line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masaya Tamaki, Tsutomu Harada, Hirotaka Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11183139
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first pixel connected to a first scan line and a data line; a second pixel connected to a second scan line and the data line; and a data driver connected to the data line. The data driver includes: a data voltage generator which applies a data voltage corresponding to a grayscale value of the first pixel to the data line when a scan signal of a turn-on level is applied to the first scan line; and an off voltage generator which applies an off voltage corresponding to a black grayscale value to the data line when a scan signal of a turn-on level is applied to the second scan line, in a first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won Tae Kim, Ji Hye Kim, Jae Hyeon Jeon
  • Patent number: 11176858
    Abstract: There is provided an integrity monitor for a display system, the display system comprising an image source and a display. The integrity monitor comprises a controller configured to analyse sensed characteristics at one or more predetermined positions in an image area of the display system and to relate the sensed characteristics to predetermined characteristics of a stimulus, when injected into the system, thereby to determine the presence of a fault in the system. The sensed characteristics may be sensed optically or non-optically. The stimulus may be optical or non-optical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS plc
    Inventors: Colin Richard Mills, Ian Thomas Macken
  • Patent number: 11175501
    Abstract: A screen includes a surface inclined with respect to a reference plane. A driver moves the screen in a movement direction orthogonal to the reference plane. When forming a first virtual image serving as a virtual image on a first virtual plane whose inclination angle ? with respect to an optical axis of a projector is smaller than a predetermined value, a controller is configured to hold the screen in the movement direction. When forming a second virtual image serving as the virtual image on a second virtual plane whose inclination angle ß with respect to the optical axis of the projector is larger than the predetermined value, the controller is configured to move the screen in the movement direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahito Ogata, Toshiya Mori, Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Hiroaki Okayama
  • Patent number: 11164542
    Abstract: A device and method of an image processing system where a Delta Sigma Pulse Density Modulation is used for digital displays, where the digital displays are emissive or non-emissive. The device and method a digital driving solution using Delta Sigma Encoding where N bit-per-component symbols at F1 frame-rate-per-second are represented using M bits-per-component symbols at F2 frame-rate-per-second, where N?M and F2?F1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Inventors: Wilbur Arthur Reckwerdt, Jr., Kam Fai Wang
  • Patent number: 11164539
    Abstract: Reduced-bandwidth versions of display signals that are currently being provided as outputs by multiple computer systems are received and processed for output, at another computer system, of a representation of each of the display signals. The received reduced-bandwidth versions may include, for example, versions of display signals that are generated by applying any one or more of the following to each of the display signals: scaling, segmenting, and compression. At a transmit side, respective requests for different reduced-bandwidth versions of a display signal that is currently being provided as an output by a computer system are received from multiple other computer systems. The different reduced-bandwidth versions of the display signal are generated and transmitted to the requesting computer systems responsive to the requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: ROSS VIDEO LIMITED
    Inventors: Garn H. Morrell, David Austin Tubbs
  • Patent number: 11157105
    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: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo-youl Shim, Joonsam Kim, Hun-tae Kim, Wuhyeon Jung
  • Patent number: 11156837
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device. In the electronic device according to the present invention, a display panel disposed to emit light in a gravity direction, a concave mirror positioned below the display panel, and a polarizer positioned between the display panel and the concave mirror are used and the polarizer includes a cholesteric liquid crystal, thereby securing a visible distance and miniaturizing a size and a volume of the entire electronic device when a user wears the electronic device. The electronic device according to the present invention may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a device related to a 5G service, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Induck Hwang, Inho Choi, Hoyoung Choi, Hoon Hur, Hyeongseok Chae
  • Patent number: 11150470
    Abstract: A head-mounted display is presented. The head-mounted display includes an inertial measurement unit (IMU), one or more displays and a controller. The controller is configured to establish a reprojection plane for displaying imagery on the one or more displays. Based on output from the IMU, the position and orientation of the HMD relative to the reprojection plane is determined. Image data is then reprojected to the displays. A depth treatment is applied to each of a plurality of locations on the displays based on the determined position and orientation of the HMD relative to the reprojection plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond Kirk Price, Michael Bleyer, Christopher Douglas Edmonds, Brent Michael Wilson
  • Patent number: 11151954
    Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel, and a display device are provided. A Thin Film Transistor (TFT) device of a Gate Driver on Array (GOA) circuit includes a first-type TFT, a second-type TFT, a third-type TFT, and a fourth-type TFT that are disposed at intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignees: CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Junhong Cao
  • Patent number: 11145261
    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: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    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: 11145273
    Abstract: A control method including home screen display step of making display section display a home screen where identification images representing the respective input interfaces are displayed in respective display areas so as to correspond one-to-one when image information is not input to N input interfaces provided to the display device, determination step of determining whether one of the input interfaces has changed to state in which the image information is input, identification step of identifying display area having the highest priority representing an order of displaying image out of the display areas where the identification images are currently displayed when the determination result is affirmative, and home screen information update step of displaying image input to input interface in display area thus identified, and displaying the identification images of the input interfaces in the state in which the image information is not input in the display areas lower in priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiteru Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 11142141
    Abstract: A digital license plate comprising includes a display system capable of showing a first image and a power supply rail connected to the display system. A display controller is provided with a data connection to the display system and arranged to measure at least one of power consumption and impedance of the power supply rail. The display controller is further configured to prevent sending a second image to the display system if display failure is indicated by measured power consumption or impedance as being below a defined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Inventor: Todd Christopher Mason
  • Patent number: 11145242
    Abstract: An apparatus for efficiently driving visual displays via light-emitting devices may include (1) at least one light-emitting device, (2) a buck driver circuit electrically coupled to the light-emitting device, wherein the buck driver circuit includes an inductor, and (3) a boost circuit electrically coupled between the buck driver circuit and a power source, wherein the boost circuit includes an additional inductor. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yuming Liu, Xiaobei Li, Lawrence Chang-Yung Wang, Sam Sarmast, Phillip Freeman King, Benjamin Nicholas Jones
  • Patent number: 11131854
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device. The electronic device according to the present disclosure can adjust the length of a band surrounding a user's head, by sensing pressure of a part of the electronic device coming into contact with the user. Furthermore, the electronic device according to the invention can identify a direction in which the user's eyeball looks, and deduce the user's facial expression, by sensing the movement of muscle around the user's eyeball. The electronic device of the invention can be associated with artificial intelligence modules, robots, augmented reality (AR) devices, virtual reality (VR) devices, devices related to 5G service, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Haklim Lee, Jaesuk Yoo, Sanghyuk Im
  • Patent number: 11120751
    Abstract: A display device and its control method are disclosed. The display device includes: a display panel including a first display area and a second display area; at least one sensor located in the second display area and configured to operate according to the ambient light sensed by the second display area; wherein the second display area includes a plurality of staggered light-emitting areas and light-transmitting areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Desheng Xiang, Xi Chen, Jianye Tang, Gaowei Chen, Sa Li, Yadong Zhang, Dawei Wang, Jiaqiang Wang, Jian Ren, Yanming Wang, Cheng Chang
  • Patent number: 11112603
    Abstract: An optical scanner includes a light source to emit irradiation light, a light deflector to scan the irradiation light emitted from the light source in a first scanning direction and in a second scanning direction intersecting with the first scanning direction, a photodetector to detect the irradiation light when the light deflector scans a detection field, and circuitry to turn on the light source in a first irradiation field scanned by the light deflector from the detection field to an end in the first scanning direction and turn on the light source in a second irradiation field scanned by the light deflector from the end in the first scanning direction towards the detection field, and cause an edge of the first irradiation field on the detection field side to move to get close to the detection field from a position away from the detection field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuya Ohshima