Patents Examined by Calvin C Ma
  • Patent number: 11450291
    Abstract: The resolution of a low-resolution image is made high and a stereoscopic image is displayed. Resolution is made high by super-resolution processing. In this case, the super-resolution processing is performed after edge enhancement processing is performed. Accordingly, a stereoscopic image with high resolution and high quality can be displayed. Alternatively, after image analysis processing is performed, edge enhancement processing and super-resolution processing are concurrently performed. Accordingly, processing time can be shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 11429227
    Abstract: There is achieved an electronic device including a position detector that can detect a touch position with high accuracy even when thickness reduction proceeds. A touch position detection method includes: a first determination step (S710) of determining whether or not negative-value data is included in mutual capacitance detection data; a second determination step (S720) of determining whether or not a mutual capacitance detection region and a self-capacitance detection region overlap; a third determination step (S730) of determining whether or not the maximum value of the absolute value of negative-value data and the area of a negative-value data region are equal to or greater than thresholds; a correction step (S740) of correcting the mutual capacitance detection data on the basis of self-capacitance detection data; and a touch position specification step (S750) of specifying a touch position on the basis of the mutual capacitance detection data after the correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Mayumi, Daiji Kitagawa, Atsushi Aoki
  • Patent number: 11429198
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a terminal device control method and a terminal device. The method includes: when a bending behavior of a flexible display occurs, determining a bending parameter of the flexible display, where the bending parameter includes at least one of a bending time parameter, a bending location parameter, a bending direction parameter, and a bending degree parameter; and adjusting a user interface (UI) of the flexible display based on the bending parameter, or generating, based on the bending parameter, a command corresponding to a first application. According to the method provided in the embodiments of the present invention, the bending behavior of the flexible display is abstracted as the bending parameter, and the bending parameter is used as input of the application. This manner can effectively improve user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoxiao Chen, Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 11429201
    Abstract: A surface including: multiple data pages, wherein each data page includes: multiple optically detectable marks indicating boundaries of the data page; and an array of data cells, wherein a location of an optically detectable mark in a data cell of the array of data cells encodes information and adjacent data pages use different encoding patterns such that an encoded value would be represented by a first pattern of marks on a first data page and the same encoded value would be represented by a second, different pattern of marks on a second data page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Fred Charles Thomas, III, Derek Lukasik, Guy Adams
  • Patent number: 11422399
    Abstract: A portable device and method of manufacturing a display device includes a display panel having a glass substrate and a polarizer adhered to the glass substrate, a touch panel which is made of resin material and adhered to the polarizer of the display panel by a first adhesive material, and a front window which is made of glass and adhered to the touch panel by a second adhesive material. One of the first adhesive material and the second adhesive material is an adhesive sheet, and an other of the first adhesive material and the second adhesive material is an ultraviolet-curing adhesive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eiji Oohira
  • Patent number: 11416104
    Abstract: A system includes a screen and a computer that detects an object near the screen and allows interaction between the object and the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: T1V, INC.
    Inventors: James E. Morris, Michael R. Feldman
  • Patent number: 11410585
    Abstract: A verifiable display is provided that enables the visual content of the display to be detected and confirmed in a variety of ambient lighting conditions, environments, and operational states. In particular, the verifiable display has a display layer that is capable of visually setting an intended message for human or machine reading, with the intended message being set using pixels. Depending on the operational condition of the display and the ambient light, for example, the message that is actually displayed and perceivable may vary from the intended message. To detect what message is actually displayed, a light detection layer in the verifiable display detects the illumination state of the pixels, and in that way is able to detect what message is actually being presented by the display layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Chromera, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Atkinson, John Rilum, Edzer Huitema
  • Patent number: 11402932
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device enabling reduction in cost and identification of input devices, the information processing device including: a light emission control unit that performs control such that a first light emission instruction is output to a first input device, if first identification information has been received from the first input device; and a processing unit that associates first light emission position information with the first identification information, if the first light emission position information has been acquired, the first light emission position information indicating a position where light has been emitted by a first light emission unit of the first input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Ida, Yuri Kusakabe, Takuya Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11397470
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for identifying tongue movement comprises detecting an electroencephalography (“EEG”) signal from an EEG sensor. The EEG sensor is configured to sense the EEG signal generated by a brain in association with a tongue movement. The method also comprises detecting the EMG signal from the EMG sensor. The EMG sensor is configured to sense the EMG signal generated by cranial nerve stimulation of muscles associated with the tongue movement. The method also includes identifying the tongue movement based on the EEG signal and the EMG signal. The method then includes correlating the tongue movement with one of a plurality of tongue location areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, A BODY CORPORATE
    Inventors: Tam Vu, Phuc Nguyen, Nam Bui, Robin Deterding
  • Patent number: 11398196
    Abstract: A driving method is provided for an electric-optic display having a plurality of display pixels, the method including dividing the plurality of display pixels into multiple groups of pixels, applying at least one waveform structure to the multiple groups of pixels, the at least one waveform structure having a driving section for updating the multiple groups of pixels, and updating the multiple groups of pixels in a contiguous fashion such that only one group of display pixels completes the driving section at any given time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves Emelie, Ana L. Lattes, Kenneth R. Crounse, Chih-Hsiang Ho
  • Patent number: 11392222
    Abstract: Introduced is an electronic device comprising: a housing forming an outer appearance of the electronic device; an inductor disposed in the housing; a weight body coupled to the inductor and disposed to have a position that changes inside the electronic device according to the movement of the electronic device; a first conductor disposed on a first location of the housing; and a second conductor disposed on a second location of the housing, wherein the electronic device is configured such that a signal of a resonant frequency on the basis of locations of the first conductor, the second conductor, and the weight body is emitted, in response to a signal obtained from an external electronic device. Other various embodiments are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ildong Kang
  • Patent number: 11385854
    Abstract: A foldable display is disclosed. In one aspect, the foldable display includes a first display unit located on a front surface of the foldable display, a second display unit located on a first side surface of the foldable display, and a third display unit located on a second side surface of the foldable display. The foldable display includes a first configuration in which the first to third display units are exposed and a second configuration in which the first display unit is folded and the second and third display units are exposed. The second and third display units are configured to form a fourth display unit inclined with respect to the folded first display unit in the second configuration of the foldable display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung Gon Jung
  • Patent number: 11381895
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a display layer including light-emitting elements disposed on a substrate, and a sensor electrode layer disposed on the display layer. The sensor electrode layer includes a first sound electrode and a second sound electrode; a vibration layer electrically contacting the first sound electrode and the second sound electrode and being deformed in response to a first sound driving voltage applied to the first sound electrode and a second sound driving voltage applied to the second sound electrode; and sensor electrodes disposed on the vibration layer. The sensor electrodes sense an input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Seok Seo, Jung Hun Noh, Seung Lyong Bok, Yi Joon Ahn, Sun Mi Yu, Jin Oh Kwag
  • Patent number: 11366541
    Abstract: A display device and an electric apparatus are provided in the present disclosure. A touch unit of the display device includes a touch layer and an optical compensation layer arranged oppositely, the touch layer includes multiple first electrode groups and multiple second electrode groups, multiple second touch electrodes in the second electrode group are connected to each other through the optical compensation layer, and an orthographic projection of the optical compensation layer on a surface of the touch layer covers the touch layer, so that each position of the touch unit is a double-layer structure formed by the touch layer and the optical compensation layer, which avoids the problem that an electrode bridge in the display device may be visible in some cases caused by different light absorption levels in certain areas of the touch unit due to the different number of film layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignees: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd., Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
    Inventors: Min Chen, Xinzhao Liu, Qingxia Wang
  • Patent number: 11354000
    Abstract: A processing system and method are provided. The processing system includes a sensor circuit that drives, during a first sensing period, a first plurality of sensor electrodes with first sensing signals, receives first resulting signals from the first plurality of sensor electrodes, and mixes the first resulting signals with a first mixer signal to generate a first mixed signal, wherein the first mixer signal has a first phase and the first mixed signal corresponds to at least a portion of a capacitive image. The processing system also includes a noise measurement circuit that receives second resulting signals from a second plurality of sensor electrodes, and mixes the second resulting signals with a second mixer signal to generate a second mixed signal, wherein the second mixer signal has a second phase and the second mixed signal corresponds to a first noise measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Guozhong Shen, Chunbo Liu
  • Patent number: 11347327
    Abstract: A computer peripheral device (e.g., a computer mouse) includes an optical sensor configured to generate optical data corresponding to a surface that the computer peripheral device is placed upon and a processor(s) configured to determine, based on the optical data, a relative displacement of the computer peripheral device along the surface, identify one or more characteristics of the surface based on the optical data; compare the one or more characteristics with one or more corresponding baseline characteristics stored in memory; classify, based on the comparing of the one or more characteristics with one or more corresponding baseline characteristics, a type of the surface; and adjust, based on the classified type of the surface, an aspect of the determination of the relative displacement of the peripheral device or an operation of the optical sensor that alters the generating of the optical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Nicolas Chauvin, François Morier
  • Patent number: 11340734
    Abstract: A touch control micro light emitting diode (micro LED) display apparatus is provided. The touch control micro LED display apparatus includes a base substrate; a first electrode layer on the base substrate; a second electrode layer on a side of the first electrode layer away from the base substrate, wherein the second electrode layer includes a plurality of second electrodes spaced apart from each other; an insulating layer on a side of the second electrode layer away from the base substrate; and a third electrode layer on a side of the insulating layer away from the base substrate, wherein the third electrode layer includes a plurality of third electrodes spaced apart from each other. The touch control micro LED display apparatus is operated in a time-division driving mode including an image display mode and a touch control mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shengji Yang, Xiaochuan Chen, Hui Wang
  • Patent number: 11331054
    Abstract: A biological information measuring instrument performs high precision biological information measurement on a living body. The biological information measuring instrument includes: a measuring unit and an analysis unit that measure a user in a contactless manner to acquire biological information; and a speech unit that produces an alarm for reducing body movements of the user. The measuring unit and the analysis unit start to acquire biological information at an acquisition starting time. A control unit sets the acquisition starting time so as to fall in a prescribed range of time defined using an alarm starting time for the speech unit as a reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Adachi, Tetsuya Okumura, Takashi Nunokawa, Rieko Ogawa, Yuki Edo
  • Patent number: 11327567
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to operate equipment according to biological information indicating an operation item of the equipment in a case where the biological information indicating an operation item of the equipment is measured from a user before the equipment runs, and change an operation item of the equipment in a case where biological information not satisfying a condition regarding a running state of the equipment is measured from the user after the equipment runs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Agama-X Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Sato, Kengo Tokuchi
  • Patent number: 11320945
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, a first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer. The first electrode layer is disposed over the substrate. The first electrode layer includes a plurality of first receiving electrodes, and the first receiving electrodes are separated from each other, extend along a first direction, and are arranged along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The second electrode layer is disposed over the substrate and is electrically insulated from the first electrode layer. The second electrode layer includes a driving electrode and a second receiving electrode. The driving electrode extends along the first direction. The second receiving electrode is separated from the driving electrode and extends along the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: Interface Technology (ChengDu) Co., Ltd., Interface Optoelectronics (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Interface Optoelectronics (Wuxi) Co., Ltd., General Interface Solution Limited
    Inventors: Hsien-Ying Chou, Po-Lun Chen, Chun-Ta Chen, Chih-Lin Liao, Fu-Cheng Wei, Po-Ching Lin