Patents Examined by Chineyere D Wills-Burns
  • Patent number: 11867911
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HI LLC
    Inventors: Scott Jeremy Seidman, Jennifer Rines, Ryan Field, Isai Olvera, Zachary Phillip Sheldon, Katherine Perdue
  • Patent number: 11868523
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ivana Tosic Rodgers, Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello, Sofien Bouaziz, Rohit Kumar Pandey, Eric Aboussouan, Adarsh Prakash Murthy Kowdle
  • Patent number: 11868525
    Abstract: A display system can include a head-mounted display configured to project light to an eye of a user to display virtual image content at different amounts of divergence and collimation. The display system can include an inward-facing imaging system possibly comprising a plurality of cameras that image the user's eye and glints for thereon and processing electronics that are in communication with the inward-facing imaging system and that are configured to obtain an estimate of a center of rotation of the user's eye using cornea data derived from the glint images. The display system may render virtual image content with a render camera positioned at the determined position of the center of rotation of said eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: David Cohen, Elad Joseph, Ron Nisim Ferens, Eyal Preter, Eitan Shmuel Bar-On, Giora Yahav
  • Patent number: 11868574
    Abstract: A touch substrate is provided with a mounting hole, and has a hole edge region around the mounting hole, and a main touch region located outside of the hole edge region. The touch substrate includes a substrate a plurality of first touch units disposed on the substrate and a plurality of second touch units disposed on the substrate and insulated from the plurality of first touch units. Each first touch unit extends in a first direction and includes a plurality of first touch electrodes and a plurality of first connecting portions, and each first connecting portion is electrically connected to two adjacent first touch electrodes. Each second touch unit extends in a second direction and includes a plurality of second touch electrodes and a plurality of second connecting portions. Each second connecting portion being electrically connected to two adjacent second touch electrodes; and the first direction intersecting with the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Yan, Lingran Wang, Erjin Zhao, Zhiliang Jiang, Gukhwan Song, Mingqiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11864364
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device is provided. The wearable electronic device includes a housing including a first portion constituting a first outer surface of the wearable electronic device and a second portion constituting a second outer surface of the wearable electronic device, at least one electronic component positioned in an inner space of the housing and configured to emit heat, and multiple support structures which are at least partially positioned to correspond to the at least one electronic component between the first portion and the second portion, wherein a boundary part between the first portion and the second portion is at least partially positioned along a surface boundary between the first outer surface and the second outer surface and includes at least one opening, and an at least one distancing space between the multiple support structures is configured to communicate with an outer space of the housing through the at least one opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangchul Jung, Hansang Kim, Yonghyun Park
  • Patent number: 11861158
    Abstract: A method for message processing and an electronic device are provided. The method for message processing performed by a transmit end device includes: receiving a first gesture input performed on a first message content, where the first gesture input is a gesture corresponding to a preset modifier; determining a first modification manner corresponding to the first gesture input in response to the first gesture input, and performing a first modification operation corresponding to the first modification manner on a marking area of the first gesture input in the first message content to obtain a second message content after modification; and sending the second message content to a receive end device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dan Fu
  • Patent number: 11852831
    Abstract: A pair of multifunctional smart eyeglasses with adjustable flexible ear-hooks includes: a lens bracket, lens legs, nose pads, a left lens, a right lens and a connecting bridge, the left lens and the right lens are installed in the lens bracket that is connected by the connecting bridge to the nose pads; the lens leg includes a flexible ear-hook connecting part; flexible ear-hooks include memory steel wires and rubber sleeves therein, rubber sleeve temples and rubber sleeve extensions are located at lens leg ends and outer sides of lens leg frames, and deep memory steel wire recesses accommodate the memory steel wires; the nose pad includes the connecting bridge in an integral structure, and an annular groove is formed at an end of the connecting bridge near the nose pad. The smart eyeglasses can be adjusted to most comfortable tightness according to each person's head shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: MIRIK AUDIOINC.
    Inventor: Xiaojun Gao
  • Patent number: 11852820
    Abstract: An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a first camera configured to capture a frontal external environment of the electronic device, a second camera oriented opposite to the first camera and configured to capture gaze directions of a user's left eye and right eye, a first display panel corresponding to the left eye, a second display panel corresponding to the right eye, a memory, and a processor that implements the method, including: identifying, using the second camera, a dominant eye and a non-dominant eye among the left eye and right eye, identifying a dominant display panel from among the first and second display panels corresponding to the dominant eye, and a non-dominant display panel from among the first and second display panels corresponding to the non-dominant eye, and changing settings of the dominant display panel to be different from settings of the non-dominant display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongmin Yoon, Chulkwi Kim, Jeongwon Park, Younsang Yoo, Chanmin Park, Donghyun Yeom
  • Patent number: 11846981
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are provided for managing an extended reality conference. In one implementation, the computer-readable medium may include instructions to cause a processor to: facilitate a multi-participant video conference; enable, via a wearable extended reality appliance, viewing of a first environment representing a physical space and a second peripheral environment; enable a display of participants in the second peripheral environment; receive a first selection of a first participant in the second peripheral environment; move a virtual representation of the first participant to the first environment while a second participant remains in the second peripheral environment; receive a second selection of the second participant in the second peripheral environment; and move a virtual representation of the second participant to the first environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SIGHTFUL COMPUTERS LTD
    Inventors: Orit Dolev, Tamir Berliner, Tomer Kahan
  • Patent number: 11846778
    Abstract: A thin transparent layer can be integrated in a head mounted display device and disposed in front of the eye of a wearer. The thin transparent layer may be configured to output light such that light is directed onto the eye to create reflections therefrom that can be used, for example, for glint based tracking. The thin transparent layer can be configured to reduced obstructions in the field of the view of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Nizan Meitav, Fahri Yaras, David Carl Jurbergs
  • Patent number: 11847967
    Abstract: A display substrate, including: a display region and a peripheral region located on the periphery of the display region. A scan driver circuit is disposed in the peripheral region. A plurality of sub-pixels, and a plurality of first signal lines that are connected to the scan driver circuit and extend in a first direction, are disposed in the display region. The display region includes: a substrate, and a semiconductor layer, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer and a third conductive layer that are sequentially disposed on the substrate. The third conductive layer comprises: a plurality of first signal lines, and first electrodes and second electrodes of a plurality of transistors. An insulating layer between the third conductive layer and the first conductive layer is provided with first via holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mengyue Fan, Wenbo Chen, Zhongliu Yang, Bing Zhang, Chenyu Chen, Shuang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11842694
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed that includes: a display panel on which a plurality of pixels are disposed; a data driver configured to receive a sensing voltage from a reference voltage line connected to the plurality of pixels, convert the reference voltage into sensing data, and supply the data voltage to the plurality of pixels; a gate driver configured to supply a scan signal to the plurality of pixels; and a timing controller configured to output a data control signal for controlling an output timing of the data voltage and output a gate control signal for controlling an output timing of the scan signal, wherein one of the output timing of the data voltage and the output timing of the scan signal is adjusted based on the sensing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: MooKyoung Hong
  • Patent number: 11842693
    Abstract: A light-emitting display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image, a data driving circuit configured to apply a data voltage to the display panel, and a signal applying circuit configured to apply a data voltage output from a first channel of the data driving circuit to one of at least two data lines disposed on the display panel, in which the signal applying circuit includes a compensation circuit configured to prevent a data voltage increase due to signal coupling when the data voltage output from the first channel is applied to one of the at least two data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeong Ho Kim, Dae Kyu Kim
  • Patent number: 11837176
    Abstract: A display device can include a display panel including a plurality of subpixels configured to display an image; a data driving circuit configured to supply a data signal to the plurality of subpixels; a gate driving circuit configured to supply a gate signal to the plurality of subpixels; and a timing controller configured to receive image data of a subsequent frame of an image of a current frame being displayed on the display panel, and differently control the data driving circuit during a blank period between the current frame and the subsequent frame based on a gray value of at least one edge subpixel among a plurality of edge subpixels in the image data of the subsequent frame. the plurality of edge subpixels are subpixels among the plurality of subpixels that are located adjacent to the gate driving circuit or at an edge of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: SangHyun Park, MookYoung Hong
  • Patent number: 11836304
    Abstract: An example electronic device includes an active digital pen sensor surface to generate analog position information, wherein the active digital pen sensor surface includes a projective capacitive sensor layer with a variance of sheet resistance of less than plus or minus 20 percent. The electronic device also includes a controller, including a sigma-delta analog-to-digital (A-to-D) converter, to generate digital pen position information based on the analog position information, and perform a triangulation based on the digital pen position information to determine a pen position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Fred Charles Thomas, III, Paul Mazurkiewicz, Bruce Eric Blaho
  • Patent number: 11837175
    Abstract: A display apparatus for reducing a booting time includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a timing controller configured to drive the display panel; and a at least one controller configured to control the timing controller to perform a sensing process for sensing electrical characteristics of the plurality of pixels based on power-on of the display panel, wherein the at least one controller is further configured to determine whether to perform the sensing process or skip the sensing process based on a power-off period of the display panel before the display panel is powered on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungjin Lim, Seungjun Jeong, Junghyun Yoon
  • Patent number: 11835729
    Abstract: An example optical assembly includes a display, a light source for illuminating the display, and a diffraction type polarizing beam splitter (DT-PBS) configured to direct light from a light director, wherein the DT-PBS is polarization sensitive and configured to direct, based on polarization, a first portion of light towards the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fenglin Peng, Ying Geng, Oleg Yaroshchuk
  • Patent number: 11830433
    Abstract: A drive circuit, a drive method, a display panel, and a display device. The drive circuit includes: a drive transistor (M0), a first pole of the drive transistor (M0) being electrically connected to a first power supply end (ELVDD), a second pole of the drive transistor (M0) being electrically connected to an element to be driven (L); a first control circuit (1), a first end of the first control circuit (1) being electri-cally connected to a data detection end, a control end of the first control circuit (1) being electrically connected to a control signal end (CS); a stabilizing capacitor (CLC), a first pole of the stabilizing capacitor (CLC) being electrically connected to a second end of the first control circuit (1), the second pole of the stabilizing capacitor (CLC) being electrically connected to the first power supply end (ELVDD): a second control circuit (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tian Dong
  • Patent number: 11828944
    Abstract: To accommodate variations in the interpupillary distances associated with different users, a head-mounted device may have left-eye and right-eye optical modules that move with respect to each other. Each optical module may have a display that creates an image and a corresponding lens that provides the image to an associated eye box for viewing by a user. The optical modules each include a lens barrel to which the display and lens of that optical module are mounted and a head-mounted optical module illumination system. The illumination system may have light-emitting devices such as light-emitting diodes that extend along some or all of a peripheral edge of the display. The light-emitting diodes may be mounted on a flexible printed circuit with a tail that extends a lens barrel opening. A stiffener for the flexible printed circuit may have openings that receive the light-emitting diodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marinus Meursing, Keenan Molner, Chengyi Yang, Florian R. Fournier, Ivan S. Maric, Jason C. Sauers
  • Patent number: 11828946
    Abstract: A head mounted display system configured to project light to an eye of a user to display augmented reality images can include a frame configured to be supported on a head of the user, a camera disposed temporally on said frame, an eyepiece configured to direct light into said user's eye to display augmented reality image content to the user's vision field, a reflective element disposed on the frame, and at least one VCSEL disposed to illuminate said eye, wherein the camera is disposed with respect to the reflective element such that light from the VCSEL is reflected from the user's eye to the reflective element and is reflected from the reflective element to the camera to form images of the eye that are captured by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Nizan Meitav, Barak Freedman, Ori Weinstein, Asaf Pellman, Chulwoo Oh, Frédéric Montfort