Patents Examined by Chayce R Bibbee
  • Patent number: 12387670
    Abstract: Electronic devices, displays, and methods are provided for operating an electronic display in coexistence with sensors that could be adversely impacted by the operation of the electronic display. An electronic device may include an electronic display and a sensor. The electronic display may display image content by light emission during an emission period and periodically enter a quiet period in which the light emission of the electronic display is turned off. The sensor may perform sensing operations during the quiet period without interference from the operation of the electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Ce Zhang, Haitao Li, Hari P Paudel, Hopil Bae, Jeongsup Lee, Nikhil Acharya, Pablo Moreno Galbis, Seung B Rim, SeyedAli TaheriTari, Shengzhe Jiao, Stanley B Wang, Sunmin Jang, Xiang Lu, Yaser Azizi, Young Don Bae
  • Patent number: 12379067
    Abstract: A head mounted device includes a ring-shaped mount unit for mounting the head mounted device on a head of a user, the ring-shaped mount unit including a first housing having a band portion on each of both sides thereof and a second housing having an engagement portion to be engaged with the band portion, and the ring-shaped mount unit being formed in a ring shape that enables enlargement and reduction of a circumference thereof by engagement of the band portion with the engagement portion. The head mounted device further includes a circumference holding unit, such as a torque limiter, configured to generate a holding force at least in a circumference enlargement direction of the ring-shaped mount unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takashi Torii
  • Patent number: 12366923
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems and non-transitory computer readable memory for gesture inference. For instance, a first method may include computer vision to train and/or infer gesture inferences. For instance, a second method may include using transformations to data and/or ML models to address inter/intra-session variability of sensor data. For instance, a third method may include using ML model selection to select a ML model to address inter/intra-session variability of sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Pison Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Dexter Ang, David Cipoletta, Xiaofeng Tan, Matt Fleury, Dylan Pollack
  • Patent number: 12366920
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems and non-transitory computer readable memory for gesture inference. For instance, a first method may include computer vision to train and/or infer gesture inferences. For instance, a second method may include using transformations to data and/or ML models to address inter/intra-session variability of sensor data. For instance, a third method may include using ML model selection to select a ML model to address inter/intra-session variability of sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Pison Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Dexter Ang, David Cipoletta, Xiaofeng Tan, Matt Fleury, Dylan Pollack
  • Patent number: 12352962
    Abstract: A virtual reality (VR) wearable assembly is described herein. The VR wearable assembly includes a wearable frame adapted to be worn over a patient's eyes and a pair of photosensor oculography (PSOG) assemblies mounted to the wearable frame such that each PSOG assembly is positioned adjacent a corresponding eye of the patient. Each PSOG assembly includes a display housing having an inner surface defining an interior cavity extending between a first end and second end, a micro-OLED display coupled to the display housing and positioned within the interior cavity adjacent the second end of the display housing, an eye tracking assembly coupled to the display housing and positioned adjacent the first end of the display housing, and a pancake lens mounted to the display housing and positioned within the interior cavity between the eye tracking assembly and the micro-OLED display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Inseye Inc.
    Inventors: Piotr Krukowski, Michal Meina, Piotr Redmerski, Klaudia Borowczyk
  • Patent number: 12340627
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems and non-transitory computer readable memory for gesture inference. For instance, a first method may include computer vision to train and/or infer gesture inferences. For instance, a second method may include using transformations to data and/or ML models to address inter/intra-session variability of sensor data. For instance, a third method may include using ML model selection to select a ML model to address inter/intra-session variability of sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Pison Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Dexter Ang, David Cipoletta, Henry Valk
  • Patent number: 12321510
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for using interface mechanisms to recover from inaccurate predictions. Particularly, aspects are directed to collecting input data from a user that includes characteristics of activities performed by the user, extracting features from the input data, predicting a recommendation for the user based on the features, generating a user interface comprising one or more graphical user interface elements configured to enable the user to recovery from the recommendation when the recommendation is inaccurate, rendering the recommendation and the user interface on the display, receiving a request from the user via the user interface to recovery from the inaccurate recommendation, where the request includes selection of an option to generate a new recommendation, modify the recommendation, or a combination thereof, generate a response based on the received request from the user, and render the response to the user on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Yan Xu
  • Patent number: 12313936
    Abstract: A display device includes a first liquid crystal (LC) layer and a second LC layer arranged between a backlight unit and a linear polarizer, and a multiscopic optical element arranged between the first LC layer and the second LC layer. Drive signals for LC cells of the first LC layer and the second LC layer are generated, based on corresponding images to be presented to each eye of each individual user, a relative location of each eye with respect to an image plane of the display device, and relative positions of the LC cells of the first LC layer and the second LC layer with respect to multiscopic cells of the multiscopic optical element. The LC cells are controlled using the drive signals, to adjust a polarization of light passing therethrough, for producing a synthetic light field presenting the corresponding images to each eye of each individual user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Distance Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Mikko Strandborg
  • Patent number: 12287914
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaeyung Yeo, Sungoh Kim, Choelmin Park, Chungwan Hong
  • Patent number: 12287916
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Karen Stolzenberg, Marc Alan McCall, Frank Alexander Hamilton, IV, Cole Parker Heiner, John Austin Day, Eric Norman Yiskis
  • Patent number: 12277281
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: So Kato, Tatsunosuke Tobita, Shigeru Yamashita
  • Patent number: 12272305
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Xu, Wei Qin, Chunfang Zhang, Weixing Liu, Tieshi Wang, Xuefei Sun
  • Patent number: 12254819
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Tae Kwon, Yong Won Jo, Jong Wook Jang
  • Patent number: 12242663
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Swapnil Sayan Saha, Mahesh Chowdhary
  • Patent number: 12230198
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Yeon Yang, Geun-Young Jeong, Takeshi Kato, Myung-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 12223909
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tingliang Liu, Huijuan Yang, Linhong Han, Xiaoqing Shu, Maoying Liao, Xiangdan Dong
  • Patent number: 12217676
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoungju Shin, Yangsoo Kim, Jungkook Park, Jaeyoung Oh, Woojin Lee, Jaeho Jung
  • Patent number: 12197632
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Robert Wilde
  • Patent number: 12198615
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Hirofumi Watsuda
  • Patent number: 12174377
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Qingdao Pico Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dongzhuang Yu