Patents Examined by Carl Adams
  • Patent number: 11321920
    Abstract: A state information storage (121) stores an observation position, an observation direction, and a base direction in a virtual space. Upon acceptance of an instruction input given to an external controller and indicating a moving direction, an observation position updater (112) updates the observation position so that the observation position moves in the moving direction indicated by the instruction input relative to the base direction. An observation direction updater (114) updates the observation direction in accordance with a change in orientation of a display apparatus (100) as detected by a detector (113). An obtainer (115) obtains a relative position between the controller and the display apparatus (100). A base direction updater (116) updates the base direction on the basis of the observation direction and of the obtained relative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Iwase
  • Patent number: 11315988
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel having a single display area including a plurality of light emitting elements and a single non-display area having a plurality of display pads electrically connected to the plurality of light emitting elements; a first printed circuit board disposed on the single non-display area of the display panel and electrically connected to the plurality of display pads; a first adhesive member disposed on the single display area of the display panel and a portion of the first printed circuit board; a second printed circuit board overlapping with the single non-display area; an anisotropic conductive film disposed on the second printed circuit board; a plurality of sensing electrodes overlapping with the single display area; a plurality of signal lines, each of which is connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of sensing electrodes; and a plurality of sensing pads disposed on the anisotropic conductive film and electrically connected to the second printed circuit board
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mi-ae Park, Jinhwan Kim, Byeong-jin Lee
  • Patent number: 11314342
    Abstract: A mouse device includes a casing, a button, and an elastic guiding structure. The casing includes a shell plate. The shell plate has a through hole, and the through hole has a hole edge. The button is disposed on the shell plate. The button includes a switch-triggering member, and the switch-triggering member is penetrated through the through hole. The elastic guiding member includes a first elastic bar and a second elastic bar. The first elastic bar is disposed at the hole edge and extends toward the switch-triggering member to have a first free end. The second elastic bar is disposed at the hole edge and extends toward the switch-triggering member to have a second free end. The switch-triggering member is sandwiched between the first free end and the second free end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: CHICONY ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao-Kuan Chen, Huei-Chen Wong
  • Patent number: 11308834
    Abstract: A gate driver on array (GOA) display panel is provided, including a display area, a bezel area, a plurality of pixel units, and a GOA circuit. The plurality of pixel units are disposed in the display area in an array. The GOA circuit includes a GOA unit group and a trace group. The GOA unit group is disposed in the display area. The trace group is electrically connected to the GOA unit group and is disposed in the bezel area. The trace group includes a GOA bus and a common electrode line. A super narrow bezel design is achieved by arranging the cascaded GOA unit group of the GOA circuit within the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jing Zhu
  • Patent number: 11307676
    Abstract: A light-beam emitter and a display device are provided. The light-beam emitter includes a main body, and a light-emitting assembly, a projection button, an operation button, and a control assembly disposed on the main body; wherein the control assembly is connected to the projection button, the operation button, and the light-emitting assembly, the control assembly is configured to control the light-emitting assembly to emit a projection beam when the projection button is pressed, and the control assembly is configured to control the light-beam emitter to perform a corresponding operation when the operation button is pressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixuan Chen, Miao Jiang, Xin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11302273
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel; and a source driver configured to output an image signal to the liquid crystal panel. The source driver may include a digital-to-analog converter (DA converter) configured to convert digital image data into an image signal of normal polarity and an image signal of inversion polarity; a plurality of multiplexers each of which receives the image signal of the normal polarity and the image signal of the inversion polarity from the DA converter, and outputs the image signal of the normal polarity and the image signal of the inversion polarity as they are or cross outputs the image signal of the normal polarity and the image signal of the inversion polarity; and an inversion controller configured to output a control signal to each of the plurality of multiplexers through a plurality of output terminals respectively connected to the plurality of multiplexers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Jin Lim, Ji Hye Kim
  • Patent number: 11289019
    Abstract: There is provided a pixel circuit including: a light-emitting element; a driving transistor whose source is connected to an anode of the light-emitting element; a sampling transistor, whose source is connected to a gate of the driving transistor, that samples a signal voltage to be written to the driving transistor; and a reset transistor that resets the anode of the light-emitting element to a predetermined potential at a predetermined timing. The reset transistor switches from on to off before the signal voltage is written to the driving transistor, switches from off to on while the signal voltage is being written to the driving transistor after the switching, and switches from on to off before a period in which the light-emitting element emits light after the writing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Naobumi Toyomura
  • Patent number: 11287893
    Abstract: A haptic feedback device includes a dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) and a driving unit. The DEA includes at least one dielectric layer, electrode layers sandwiching the dielectric layer, and a transmitting layer that forms an outermost layer. The at least one dielectric layer includes an expansion-contraction portion, which expands and contracts when applied with a voltage, and a heat generating portion, which generates heat when applied with a voltage. The haptic feedback device is configured to transmit vibration to a user via the transmitting layer by applying an expansion-contraction voltage between the electrode layers sandwiching the expansion-contraction portion through the driving unit, and transmit heat sensation to the user via the transmitting layer by applying a heat generating voltage between the electrode layers sandwiching the heat generating portion through the driving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yonehara, Tadatoshi Kurogi, Takeshi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11281320
    Abstract: An electronic device may include an edge touch screen including a main display region and an edge display region extending from the main display region each including one or more of red pixels, near infrared ray pixels, and sensor pixels for detecting light with different wavelengths; and a controller configured to, drive the edge touch screen in response to a touch input for the edge display region being maintained for a set time by instructing at least one selected red pixel of the red pixels and at least one selected near infrared ray pixel of the near infrared ray pixels corresponding to a position of the touch input to emit light, and measure biometrics based on light amounts of light of different wavelengths received from at least one selected sensor pixel of the sensor pixels corresponding to the position of the touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chul Joon Heo, Kyung Bae Park, Yong Wan Jin
  • Patent number: 11281300
    Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-tactile fusion feedback handle, characterized in that the handle comprises three areas, namely, a finger tactile function area, a palm tactile function area and a space positioning function area. The finger tactile function area comprises one or more tactile buttons, a finger can operate the tactile buttons alone or in combination, and the tactile buttons have feedback functions for one or more kinds of tactility, namely, softness, temperature, surface friction and texture, and shape. The palm tactile function area comprises a multi-point independent vibration source and/or a multi-point independent heat source, which can be used for multi-point independent vibration feedback and/or multi-point independent temperature feedback, as well as vibration flow and heat flow feedback. The space positioning function area comprises a space positioning module, which can obtain position information of the handle in space in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Inventors: Dangxiao Wang, Yuru Zhang, Qiqi Guo, Yijie Gong
  • Patent number: 11270631
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including an active area that includes at least one module area and a bezel area positioned outside the active area, wherein a pixel array is positioned in the active area, and the at least one module area is formed as a light-transmissive area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Namwook Cho, Changsoo Kim, Cheolhwan Lee
  • Patent number: 11262966
    Abstract: Devices for mitigating or stopping noise or surface current on a display are provided. An electronic device including a display may include a display substrate, a mid-support plate that is adjacent to the display substrate, and a lower support plate that is adjacent to the mid-support plate. A space exists between the mid-support plate and the lower support plate. The mid-support plate includes one or more electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structures formed through the mid-support plate, one or more electromagnetic band gap structures mounted onto the mid-support plate, or both. The one or more electromagnetic band gap structures may mitigate or stop surface current flow across the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mahmoud N. Mahmoud, Cheung-Wei Lam, Ali Foudazi, Le Wang, Qianyi Zhao, Kedi Zhang, Xingchao C. Yuan, Jon F. Housour, Gary Chung
  • Patent number: 11263994
    Abstract: Displays having calibrators are disclosed. An example display includes a sensor to measure a plurality of readings for color settings of a color pattern presented by the display. A processor is to calculate average values corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of readings for the color settings. A calibration manager is to generate calibrated measurement values based on the average values. The calibrated measurement values to enable determination of color space information for the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Humberto M. Fossati, Greg Staten, John W. Frederick, Syed S. Azam
  • Patent number: 11249562
    Abstract: In an embodiment pointing electronic device, a sensor fusion processing stage generates an orientation estimation quantity indicative of an orientation about a longitudinal axis based on a sensor fusion algorithm envisaging processing of acceleration and gyroscopic signals; and a pointing determination stage implements an orientation-compensation of the gyroscopic signal as a function of the orientation estimation and generates screen-frame displacement data corresponding to 3D-space movements of the pointing electronic device based on the orientation-compensated gyroscopic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Federico Rizzardini, Stefano Paolo Rivolta, Lorenzo Bracco
  • Patent number: 11244621
    Abstract: A differential input circuit and a driving circuit including the same are provided. The differential input circuit transforms an analog voltage signal corresponding to a sensing line on an OLED panel to a pair of differential input signals being output to a gain amplifier. The differential input circuit includes a sampling circuit and a scaling circuit. The sampling circuit receives the analog voltage signal and a reference voltage through a first scaling path and a second scaling path, respectively. The scaling circuit includes a first scaling path and a second scaling path. The first scaling path and the second scaling path collectively generate the pair of differential input signals, based on a first shift voltage, a first scaled voltage, a second shift voltage, and a second scaled voltage. The first shift voltage is less than the second shift voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chieh-An Lin, Tzu-Chien Tzeng
  • Patent number: 11244652
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display; an optical sensor; and a processor configured to: obtain a current illumination value detected by the optical sensor while the display displays an image, identify a first illumination level corresponding to the obtained current illumination value, the first illumination level being previously obtained at a time when the display is displaying a preset image, identify an ambient brightness based on a second illumination level, the second illumination level corresponding to the identified first illumination level and being previously obtained at a time when the display is not displaying any image, and perform an operation based on the identified ambient brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Youngmin Kim
  • Patent number: 11243683
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for executing a default action on a touchscreen device is provided. The method includes receiving a touch input from a user on a touchscreen device and determining a context associated with the touch input. The context is associated with one or more actions including a default action. The method also includes determining that the received touch input comprises a default gesture, and performing the default action associated with the determined context. The default gesture may be a two-finger double-tap gesture. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Fady Samuel, Varun Jain
  • Patent number: 11221814
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for distributed computing and/or networking for mixed reality systems. A method may include capturing an image via a camera of a head-wearable device. Inertial data may be captured via an inertial measurement unit of the head-wearable device. A position of the head-wearable device can be estimated based on the image and the inertial data via one or more processors of the head-wearable device. The image can be transmitted to a remote server. A neural network can be trained based on the image via the remote server. A trained neural network can be transmitted to the head-wearable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric C. Browy
  • Patent number: 11221693
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a touch layer, a main display region, and a functional add-on region. A plurality of first pixels are arranged in the functional add-on region, and the touch layer is provided with an opening corresponding to the functional add-on region. A transmittance of the touch layer corresponding to the functional add-on region is greater than a transmittance of the touch layer corresponding to the main display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconduetor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Zhao, Zuomin Liao, Tao Chen
  • Patent number: 11217167
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a scanning line, a data line intersecting with each other, a pixel circuit which is provided corresponding to the intersection thereof, and a wire. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, one transistor which controls a current flowing to the light emitting element, and the other transistor of which conduction state is controlled according to a scanning signal which is supplied to the scanning line between a gate node of the one transistor and the data line. The wire is provided between the data line and the one transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shin Fujita