Patents Examined by Chineyere D Wills-Burns
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Patent number: 11963429Abstract: A display module (10) includes: a display panel (12) and a circuit board (14) coupled to the display panel (12). The display panel (12) includes a driving chip (122) and a display unit (124); and the circuit board (14) includes a first filter element (142), wherein the first filter element (142) is coupled to the driving chip (122) and the display unit (124), and a direct current signal output by the driving chip (122) is filtered by the first filter element (142) and then transmitted to the display unit (124). The present disclosure also provides a display apparatus (100).Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yu Wang, Yi Zhang, Tingliang Liu, Tinghua Shang, Huijuan Yang, Yang Zhou, Pengfei Yu, Linhong Han, Hao Zhang, Xiaofeng Jiang, Huijun Li
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Patent number: 11953695Abstract: It is provided the wearable electronic device including a skeletal member comprising a temple, a frame, and a bridge; a display fixed to the temple and configured to output visible light corresponding to a virtual image; a beam steering member comprising a liquid crystal and configured to adjust a direction of the visible light traveling from an exit pupil of the display to an input grating of an optical waveguide using the liquid crystal; the optical waveguide configured to adjust a path of the visible light and output the virtual image; an infrared output unit configured to output infrared light for tracking a gaze of a user; an infrared sensor configured to detect infrared light reflected from a pupil of the user; a bend sensor connected to the temple and the frame to measure a first bending state between the temple and the frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sungbin Hong, Yonghyun Park, Jongmin Yoon, Seungnyun Kim, Heonjun Ha, Junghee Hwang
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Patent number: 11947119Abstract: A display control device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires right hand position information indicating a position of a right hand of a user and left hand position information indicating a position of a left hand of the user of a head mounted display; and a display control unit that: controls the head mounted display to arrange a virtual object having a certain size at the position of the right hand and the position of the left hand based on of the right hand position information and the left hand position information; and controls the head mounted display to change a position of the virtual object independently of a change in a distance between a right hand and a left hand while maintaining a display state of the virtual object.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuro Sato, Yasutaka Fukumoto
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Patent number: 11947122Abstract: A tracking system for use in head-mounted device (HMD) includes light sources arranged spatially around user-interaction controller(s); controller-pose-tracking means arranged in user-interaction controller(s); HMD-pose-tracking means; camera(s) arranged on portion of HMD that faces real-world environment in which HMD is in use; and processor(s) configured to estimate relative pose, based on controller-pose-tracking data and HMD-pose-tracking data; determine sub-set of light sources, based on estimated relative pose and arrangement of light sources; selectively control light sources such that light sources of sub-set are activated, whereas remaining light sources are deactivated; process at least one image, captured by camera(s), to identify operational state of light source(s) of sub-set that is visible in image(s), wherein image(s) is indicative of actual relative pose; and correct estimated relative pose to determine actual relative pose, based on operational state.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Varjo Technologies OyInventors: Roman Golovanov, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Juha Ala-Luhtala
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Patent number: 11941182Abstract: A housing of an example of an electronic apparatus has a top surface and a bottom surface and has a flat shape. A power supply section having a flat shape is a power supply section, which is a housing case capable of accommodating a battery or is a battery, and the power supply section is provided at a position inside the housing that intersects with a reference plane perpendicular to the up-down direction. A first substrate is provided parallel to the reference plane on the top surface side relative to the power supply section. A second substrate is provided parallel to the reference plane on the bottom surface side relative to the power supply section. The electronic apparatus includes at least one of a vibrator and a speaker at a position that intersects with the reference plane.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wakana Ohori, Kazuhiro Maruyama, Yoshitaka Tamura, Masaya Takei, Takahiro Sato, Koji Saito, Mitsuru Katayama
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Patent number: 11933974Abstract: An object is to provide an electronic device capable of recognizing a user's facial feature accurately. A glasses-type electronic device includes a first optical component, a second optical component, a frame, an imaging device, a feature extraction unit, and an emotion estimation unit. The frame is in contact with a side surface of the first optical component and a side surface of the second optical component. The imaging device is in contact with the frame and has a function of detecting part of a user's face. The feature extraction unit has a function of extracting a feature of the user's face from the detected part of the user's face. The emotion estimation unit has a function of estimating information on the user from the extracted feature.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Takayuki Ikeda, Hidetomo Kobayashi, Hideaki Shishido, Kiyotaka Kimura, Takashi Nakagawa, Kosei Nei, Kentaro Hayashi
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Patent number: 11928993Abstract: A display device and a display method therefor. The display device includes: a display panel (10), including a base substrate (101) and a plurality of pixel islands (102) located on the base substrate (101), each of the pixel islands (102) including a plurality of sub-pixels (p) arranged in a first direction (x) and a second direction (y), in the pixel island (102), a row of sub-pixels (p) arranged in the first direction (x) having the same color, and a row of sub-pixels (p) arranged in the second direction (y) having mutually different colors; and a light splitting device (20) located at a display surface side of the display panel (10) and configured to deflect part of light emitted by the display panel (10) to a first region, and deflect the other part of light to a second region.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chunmiao Zhou, Kuanjun Peng, Tao Hong
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Patent number: 11929001Abstract: A method and a device are provided. The device includes a light-measuring sensor, a display, a memory, and at least one processor operatively connected to the light-measuring sensor, the display, and the memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to analyze the frequency of an external light source, obtain an operation period of the display, obtain a ratio of an off period of time of the display on the basis of the operation period, and calculate illuminance by using different algorithms on the basis of the relationship between the frequency of the external light source and the operation period and the ratio of the off period of time of the display.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jongah Kim, Kyusung Kim, Jeongho Cho, Heewoong Yoon, Kihyuk Lee, Donghan Lee, Gwangho Choi
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Patent number: 11927757Abstract: An electronic device may have a display panel with an array of display pixels. Light from the display panel may be focused by a lens assembly towards a viewer. The presence of the lens assembly may cause geometric distortion for a viewer viewing images on the display through the lens assembly. To mitigate geometric distortion, geometric distortion compensation may be performed in the electronic device. The electronic device may include both a fixed lens element and a removable lens element in the lens assembly. The removable lens element may be changed, allowing the distortion function associated with the lens assembly to change over time. To dynamically compensate for geometric distortion caused by a lens assembly with a removable lens, ray tracing may be used to determine the geometric distortion caused by the lens assembly depending upon the particular removable lens that is present in the lens assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Milad Akhlaghi Bouzan, William W Sprague, Anup Rathi, Duncan A McRoberts, Tahereh Majdi
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Patent number: 11921922Abstract: A system for brain-based digital menu selection includes an acquisition device to obtain one or more electrical signals corresponding to an operator's brain response, a stimulation generation device to generate a first stimulus with one or more target options based on the operator triggering the system, a first database including a first classification model, and processor. The processor receives a first response from the acquisition device corresponding to an operator's brain response to the first stimulus with the one or more target options, determines a probability of intended target, when the probability of intended target option is higher than a predefined confidence threshold value, selecting the intended target option and presenting a second stimulus, or executing a final action, according to the selected target option, and storing the first response and the selected target option in the first database with a classification identifier identifying the operator.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE, CAMLIN ITALY S.R.L.Inventors: Jonas Ambeck-Madsen, Andrea Bellotti, Luca Ascari, Sergey Antopolskiy, Pietro Avanzini, Alessia Colucciello, Anna Marchenkova, Giovanni Vecchiato
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Patent number: 11921289Abstract: A personal display device for displaying virtual images to a wearer. The personal display device includes a frame having a right temple section, a left temple section, a right rear section, a left rear section, a right eye see-through section, and a left eye see-through section; a projection display device connected to the frame for projecting an image to the wearer; at least one waveguide stack module connected to the frame for propagating image-bearing light beams along a length of the at least one waveguide stack module, the at least one waveguide stack module being configured to receive the image from the projection display device and detected touch motions of the wearer sensed by the touchpad including sensing directions of the touch motions of the wearer.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Vuzix CorporationInventors: Paul Travers, Tyler Porter, Robert Schultz, Gregory Moens, Connor Hack, Adalberto Perez Reyes, Kevin Lloyd, Marc J. Krolczyk, Michael J. Telek, Paul A. Boris, Robert W. Gray, Alexander Kelly
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Patent number: 11914153Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing a screen by using a device are provided. The method includes obtaining, at the second device, a display screen displayed on the first device and information related to the display screen according to a screen display request regarding the first device, determining, at the second device, an additional screen based on the display screen on the first device and the information related to the display screen, and displaying the additional screen near the display screen on the first device.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Myung-sik Kim, Su-jung Bae, Moon-sik Jeong, Sung-do Choi
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Patent number: 11908361Abstract: The display device is provided with a degree-of-degradation calculating circuit that determines a degree of degradation representing a level of degradation of a compensation-target circuit element included in each of K pixel circuits which are some or all of a plurality of pixel circuits; a variation coefficient calculating circuit that calculates, as a variation coefficient, a value depending on a deviation determined based on degrees of degradation of the K pixel circuits; a reference luminance setting circuit that sets, based on the variation coefficient, reference luminance for determining display luminance of each display element after degradation compensation; and a compensation computing circuit that compensates for degradation of the compensation-target circuit elements by correcting input video signals based on the reference luminance and the degree of degradation of each of the K pixel circuits, upon generating video signals to be supplied to the plurality of pixel circuits.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroyuki Furukawa, Chie Toridono, Masafumi Ueno
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Patent number: 11906749Abstract: AR glasses are provided with left and right temples extending well behind the ears of the wearer to establish a center of gravity of the glasses that is approximately vertically above the front portion of the ears of the wearer. Rear segments the temples may be detachably engaged with the temples and may hold one or more electrical components.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventors: Naoki Ogishita, Jeffrey R. Stafford, Koichi Obana
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Method for out-coupling grating for AR optical waveguide, and design method for AR optical waveguide
Patent number: 11899203Abstract: The disclosure provides a design method of a coupling-out grating and the design method including: calculating a diffraction coupling-in angle, at which a light beam is diffracted and coupled into the optical waveguide body through the coupling-in grating, according to an angle at which the light beam is incident to the coupling-in grating, a wavelength of the light beam and a grating period of the coupling-in grating; calculating a distance between two adjacent coupling-out positions of the light beam; calculating a brightness difference rate of the light beam after being coupled out multiple times through the coupling-out grating according to the maximum diffraction efficiency of the coupling-out grating; and calculating the number of partitions of the coupling-out grating according to a length of the coupling-out grating, a sensitivity of a human eye to the light beam, the brightness difference rate, and the distance between the two adjacent coupling-out positions.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: JIAXING UPHOTON OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xingming Zhao, Zhentao Fan, Qingfeng Zhu, Lei Sui, Kehan Tian -
Patent number: 11900875Abstract: A display substrate, a preparation method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes: a substrate, and a drive structure layer and a light-emitting structure layer that are sequentially stacked on the substrate and located in a display region. The display substrate further includes: M rows of scanning signal lines and M rows of light-emitting signal lines. The light-emitting structure layer includes: M rows and N columns of light-emitting structures. The drive structure layer includes: a pixel circuit array and a drive circuit array that extend in a column direction. The pixel circuit array and the drive circuit array are sequentially arranged in a row direction. The pixel circuit array includes: M rows and N columns of pixel circuits, and the pixel circuits are in one-to-one correspondence with the light-emitting structures and electrically connected to corresponding light-emitting structures.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wenbo Chen, Tiaomei Zhang, Hong Yi, Qingqing Yan
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Patent number: 11875725Abstract: A display device including a display panel according to an embodiment of the present application includes a plurality of pixels, a timing controller configured to receive a compensation command signal in a vertical blank period in which no image data are written in the pixels, and a sensing circuit configured to sense driving properties of the pixels in at least one sensing period corresponding to the compensation command signal, wherein a length of the vertical blank period is different from each other in a first frame and a second frame, and a number of sensing periods having a predetermined length varies depending on the length of the vertical blank period.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Won Cho, Kyoung Sik Choi
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Patent number: 11868541Abstract: An optical detection device includes a substrate, a housing, an optical modulating component, an optical sensor and a cover. The housing is disposed on the substrate and includes a first aperture. The housing is unvaried due to inspection standard or design requirement of the optical detection device. The optical modulating component is disposed on the housing and aligning with the first aperture. The optical sensor is disposed on the substrate and adapted to receive an optical signal passing through the optical modulating component and the first aperture. The cover is disposed on the housing to cover the first aperture. The cover is replaceable for attaching the cover varied for the inspection standard or the design requirement to the unvaried housing in response to a surface of the cover opposite to the housing matched and engaged with a light penetrating area on the optical navigation apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.Inventor: Wei-Chung Wang
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Patent number: 11867911Abstract: An optical measurement system includes a wearable device configured to be worn on a body of a user and a position alignment system. The wearable device includes a support assembly and a wearable assembly supported by the support assembly. The wearable assembly includes a plurality of light sources configured to emit a plurality of light pulses toward a target within the body of the user and a plurality of detectors each configured to receive a set of photons included in a light pulse included in the plurality of light pulses after the set of photons is scattered by the target. The position alignment system is configured to facilitate positioning of the wearable assembly at a same position on the body of the user during different use sessions of the wearable device.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: HI LLCInventors: Scott Jeremy Seidman, Jennifer Rines, Ryan Field, Isai Olvera, Zachary Phillip Sheldon, Katherine Perdue
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Patent number: 11868523Abstract: Techniques of tracking a user's gaze includes identifying a region of a display at which a gaze of a user is directed, the region including a plurality of pixels. By determining a region rather than a point, when the regions correspond to elements of a user interface, the improved technique enables a system to activate the element to which a determined region is selected. In some implementations, the system makes the determination using a classification engine including a convolutional neural network; such an engine takes as input images of the user's eye and outputs a list of probabilities that the gaze is directed to each of the regions.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Ivana Tosic Rodgers, Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello, Sofien Bouaziz, Rohit Kumar Pandey, Eric Aboussouan, Adarsh Prakash Murthy Kowdle