Patents Examined by Chayce R Bibbee
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Patent number: 12287914Abstract: A wearable electronic device includes a display, and at least one processor connected to the display, where the at least one processor is configured to obtain a first space necessary for a motion of a user corresponding to a motion of an avatar, the motion of the avatar being performed in a virtual space of virtual reality (VR) content displayed through the display, obtain a second space for safely performing the motion of the user, set a scale value, based on the first space and the second space, and based on obtaining the motion of the user, determine, using the set scale value, a size of the motion of the avatar, the motion of the avatar being performed by the motion of the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jaeyung Yeo, Sungoh Kim, Choelmin Park, Chungwan Hong
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Patent number: 12287916Abstract: Examples of systems and methods for interacting with content and updating the location and orientation of that content using a single controller. The system may allow a user to use the same controller for moving content around the room and interacting with that content by tracking a range of the motion of the controller.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.Inventors: Karen Stolzenberg, Marc Alan McCall, Frank Alexander Hamilton, IV, Cole Parker Heiner, John Austin Day, Eric Norman Yiskis
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Patent number: 12277281Abstract: Disclosed is an input device including a position detection sensor, an operation including a position indicator which, in operation, indicates a position through interaction with the position detection sensor and accepts a predetermined operation, the operation part being disposed on an input surface that serves as a position detection region of the position detection sensor, an operation detection circuit that, in operation, detects the operation accepted by the operation part, based on the interaction between the position indicator of the operation part and the position detection sensor, and a control signal output circuit that, in operation, outputs a control signal corresponding to the operation detected by the operation detection circuit.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: So Kato, Tatsunosuke Tobita, Shigeru Yamashita
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Patent number: 12272305Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are disclosed. The display substrate includes a light-transmitting region, wherein the light-transmitting region includes a plurality of rows of effective sub-pixel sets and a plurality of main spacers, each row of the plurality of rows of effective sub-pixel sets includes a plurality of effective sub-pixel sets, each of the plurality of effective sub-pixel sets includes a plurality of effective sub-pixels, any two adjacent effective sub-pixel sets in a same row are spaced apart from each other by one main spacer, the main spacer includes at least two sub-spacers arranged along a column direction. At least two sub-spacers arranged along a row direction have different widths; and/or at least two sub-spacers of a same main sub-spacer have different widths.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhiqiang Xu, Wei Qin, Chunfang Zhang, Weixing Liu, Tieshi Wang, Xuefei Sun
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Patent number: 12254819Abstract: A display panel can include a plurality of first pixel circuits configured to receive a pixel driving voltage and a reference voltage for displaying an image; and a plurality of second pixel circuits including a power line supplied with the pixel driving voltage and a reference voltage line supplied with the reference voltage, the plurality of second pixel circuits being configured to short-circuit the power line to the reference voltage line for at least some amount of time within a vertical blank period. Also, the plurality of second pixel circuits can maintain uniform luminance of the plurality of first pixel circuits.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Tae Kwon, Yong Won Jo, Jong Wook Jang
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Patent number: 12242663Abstract: An electronic device includes a sensor unit. The sensor unit includes a sensor and low power, low area sensor processing unit. The sensor processing unit performs an unsupervised machine learning processes to learn to recognize an activity or motion of the user or device. The user can request to learn the new activity. The sensor processing unit can request that the user remain stationary for a selected period of time before performing the activity. The sensor processing unit records sensor data while the user performs the activity and generates an activity template from the sensor data. The sensor processing can then infer when the user is performing the activity by comparing sensor signals to the activity template.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Swapnil Sayan Saha, Mahesh Chowdhary
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Patent number: 12230198Abstract: An organic light emitting display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The display device has sub-pixels of multiple colors. In one aspect, the organic light emitting display device detects sub-pixels which are positioned at the edges of the panel. Data for the sub-pixels on the edges are reduced so that colors on the edges are less observable.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ji-Yeon Yang, Geun-Young Jeong, Takeshi Kato, Myung-Ho Lee
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Patent number: 12223909Abstract: A pixel driving circuit includes: a driving transistor connected to a first node, a second node and a third node; a first light-emitting control unit connected to the second node; a second light-emitting control unit connected to the third node and a fourth node; a first reset unit connected to the fourth node, and configured to load a second power supply voltage to the fourth node in response to a scan signal. One end of the light-emitting element is connected to the fourth node, and the other end of the light-emitting element is used for loading the second power supply voltage.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Tingliang Liu, Huijuan Yang, Linhong Han, Xiaoqing Shu, Maoying Liao, Xiangdan Dong
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Patent number: 12217676Abstract: A pixel circuit of a display device includes first to sixth thin-film transistors, and first and second capacitors. The first thin-film transistor generates a driving current, the sixth thin-film transistor is connected between a light-emitting element and the first thin-film transistor and controls a transfer of the driving current, and the second capacitor is connected between a gate electrode of the sixth thin-film transistor and the light-emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyoungju Shin, Yangsoo Kim, Jungkook Park, Jaeyoung Oh, Woojin Lee, Jaeho Jung
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Patent number: 12198615Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels. The pixels are configured to be operated in a plurality of frame periods. Each of the frame periods includes at least two first emission periods corresponding to a first scan signal and at least two second emission periods corresponding to a second scan signal. Each of the pixels includes a light emitting diode and a driving circuit coupled to the light emitting diode. In a same frame period, a first pixel of the plurality of pixels is emitted in the at least two first emission periods and a second pixel of the plurality of pixels is emitted in the at least two second emission periods.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Innolux CorporationInventor: Hirofumi Watsuda
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Patent number: 12197632Abstract: A virtual head-up display which is displayed to a user with a head-mounted display, wherein at least some elements of the HUD are displayed substantially stationary in respect of the head's coordinates at the edge of the user's field of vision, even if the head is moved is provided. A tracking device captures at least one hand and/or finger movement by the user as a gesture. The gesture is detected and processed as an interaction with at least one element of the HUD. Direct interaction with the naked hand allows the user to operate, very intuitively, elements of the HUD, even close to his face. Direct interaction with the HUD by means of gestures represents a disruptive break with previous approaches to the implementation of a HUD for VR and AR applications.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Robert Wilde
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Patent number: 12174377Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an image processing method for a head-mounted display device, an apparatus and an electronic device. The method includes: acquiring a to-be-processed image and eyeball-tracking information; determining a first region of interest of an eyeball on the to-be-processed image according to the eyeball-tracking information; assigning a weight value to each pixel point in the to-be-processed image, wherein weight values of pixel points located in the first region of interest are higher than weight values of pixel points located in other regions which are regions other than the first region of interest; adjusting a pixel value of each pixel point according to the weight value corresponding thereto so as to obtain a processed image.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Qingdao Pico Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Dongzhuang Yu
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Patent number: 12161029Abstract: In a display device, a through-hole and a surrounding region surrounding the through-hole are provided inside an edge of a display region, in which there are provided a first bypass wiring line formed in a first metal layer and bypassing the through-hole in the surrounding region, a first divided wiring line formed in the first metal layer and divided onto one side and the other side of the through-hole, a second bypass wiring line formed in a second metal layer and bypassing the through-hole in the surrounding region, and a second divided wiring line formed in the second metal layer and divided onto one side and the other side of the through-hole.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsunori Tanaka, Takeshi Yaneda
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Patent number: 12159149Abstract: A gesture operation method includes a terminal device that starts an application. When a conflict exists between a gesture supported by the application and a default gesture of an operating system of the terminal device, the terminal device enables a standby gesture for the conflicted default gesture of the operating system such that a user can use different functions defined by the operating system and the application for the conflicted gesture.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: PETAL CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Chuanfeng Chen
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Patent number: 12147631Abstract: A method for interacting with controls in a graphical user interface (GUI), including recording user interface gestures performed by a user, for each recorded gesture: when the gesture includes the user virtually touching a specific GUI control, applying the gesture to the specific GUI control; and when the gesture is performed without the user virtually touching a specific GUI control, identifying a particular GUI control that the user is gazing at and applying the gesture to that particular GUI control.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Neonode Inc.Inventors: Björn Thomas Eriksson, Sven Robert Pettersson, Stefan Johannes Holmgren, Xiatao Wang, Rozita Teymourzadeh, Per Erik Lindström, Emil Anders Braide, Jonas Daniel Justus Hjelm, Erik Anders Claes Rosengren
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Patent number: 12135427Abstract: A eyewear comprising a heads-up display provides information to a user without the user losing focus on a work area is presented. The eyewear further includes magnification devices that are oriented within the eyewear to magnify the work area. The heads-up displays information provides information to the user in a manner such that the user may view the provided information without changing their orientation or eye position.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Designs for Vision, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Koscheka, Matthew D. Siedman, Matthew A. Kenyon, Moty Solomon, Richard E. Feinbloom
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Patent number: 12118162Abstract: A touch display drive circuit, a drive method and a touch display panel. The display panel includes: M rows and N columns of touch display units; the M rows and N columns of touch display units form K partitions along a column direction, and each partition includes m rows and N columns of touch display units; the touch display drive circuit includes a control module and M×N multiplex selection modules. By dividing the display panel into a plurality of partitions and providing a multiplex selection module for each touch display unit, the touch signal can be written into other partitions while controlling the display be written into one partition.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Yuanjie Yang, Haijiang Yuan
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Patent number: 12111964Abstract: A power wheelchair [4] includes moveable components, motors, a drive controller [6] operatively connected to the motors, and a drive manager device [8] operatively connected to the drive controller [6]. The drive manager device [8] is configured to communicate with an input collection/display unit (IC/DU) 10 via a first communication interface, the IC/DU [10] operable by a user in the power wheelchair. The drive manager device [8] is configured to communicate with a caregiver unit [12] via a second communication interface, the caregiver unit [12] operable by a caregiver. The drive manager device [8] is configured to determine a command made by the user or the caregiver by processing command data received in a communication with the IC/DU [10] or the caregiver unit [12]. The drive manager device [8] is configured to cause voltage to be applied to the drive controller [6] to cause the drive controller [6] to interact with the motors to actuate at least one of the moveable components.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Life Drive LLCInventors: John Patrick Sexton, Shawn Patrick Sexton, Mary Kathryn Bryson Sexton
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Patent number: 12112673Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes p pixel unit groups, and each of the p pixel unit groups includes q rows of pixel units, both p and q being integers greater than or equal to 2. Pixel units in a same group are simultaneously supplied with a gate scan signal by a same shift register, and pixel units in a same group and in a same column are supplied with data voltage signals through different data lines, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Chongyang Zhao, Yingmeng Miao, Zhihua Sun, Feng Qu, Xiaochun Xu
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Patent number: 12111478Abstract: A facial interface for a head-mounted display, which is to be worn on a head of a user, includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion engages an upper facial region above eyes of the user. The lower portion that engages a lower facial region below the eyes of the user. The lower portion has a lower shear compliance in that is greater than an upper shear compliance of the upper portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Dustin A. Hatfield, Kristi E. Bauerly