Patents Examined by Chineyere D Wills-Burns
  • Patent number: 11582433
    Abstract: A system for measuring speckle contrast includes: a head up display (HUD) system configured to output a predetermined image and having a first pixels per degree (PPD); an imaging colorimeter: having a field of view; positioned such that the predetermined image is in the field of view; having a second PPD that is at least 2.2 times greater than the first PPD of the HUD system; and configured to capture an image including the predetermined image; and a speckle contrast module configured to determine a speckle contrast of the HUD system based on the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Kai-Han Chang, Thomas A. Seder
  • Patent number: 11561111
    Abstract: A sensing apparatus comprising a displacement sensor element arranged to sense a separation between a first element (2) and a second element (3) movably mounted with respect to the first element; an acceleration sensor element configured to sense an acceleration associated with the first element; displacement measurement circuitry (4A) configured to make a measurement indicative of separation on the basis of the sensed separation; acceleration measurement circuitry (4C) configured to make a measurement of acceleration on the basis of the sensed acceleration; and a processing element (4D) configured to output a signal to indicate there is determined to be a change in the separation of the second element relative to the first element on the basis of the measurement indicative of separation and the measurement of acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: TouchNetix Limited
    Inventor: Stephen William Roberts
  • Patent number: 11557106
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and system for testing a wearable device. The method includes: performing an angle acquisition process for at least two times, and calculating an optical imaging parameter value of a target virtual image on the basis of angle variation values acquired in the at least two angle acquisition processes. With the method and system according to the present disclosure, the finally calculated optical imaging parameter value is more objective and more accurate than that acquired by means of the human eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Heliang Di
  • Patent number: 11543667
    Abstract: In an example in accordance with the present disclosure, a display system is described. The display system includes a head-mounted display device to display visual content on a display panel. An input port receives external visual content to be displayed on the head-mounted display device from a connected computing device. The display system includes an input device on the head-mounted display device to receive input regarding a condition at the head-mounted display device. The display system includes a memory device on the head-mounted display device to store a database which holds a number of status messages related to a detected condition at the head-mounted display device. The display system also includes an image processing integrated circuit on the head-mounted display device to present the status messages on the head-mounted display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Yow Wei Cheng, Kuanlin Li
  • Patent number: 11532280
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device supporting a variable frame mode includes an OLED display panel, a data driver configured to provide a data signal to the OLED display panel, a scan driver configured to provide a scan signal to the OLED display panel, an emission driver configured to provide an emission control signal to the OLED display panel, and a controller configured to control the data driver, the scan driver and the emission driver, to count a time of a current frame, and to control the emission driver to decrease an off period ratio of the emission control signal as the counted time of the current frame increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Woo Noh, Yun Ki Bae, Kwang Suk Shin
  • Patent number: 11528953
    Abstract: A helmet mounted display is embedded in a visor assembly. The visor assembly comprises two molded sections that define portions for receiving waveguides. The optical components are disposed in a portion of the visor assembly and the entire assembly is attached by a hinge to the helmet. The visor assembly includes lateral clips to secure the visor assembly to the helmet, and a night-vision goggle attachment point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher A. Keith, Andrew M. Jarrett, Ryan Chenevert, Garrett Graham
  • Patent number: 11526015
    Abstract: A head-mounted display may include a frame for supporting an electronic display for viewing by an intended user donning the head-mounted display. The frame may include a flange disposed on a perimeter area of the frame and a facial interface configured to abut against an intended user's face wherein the facial interface comprises a foam body and an undercut region in the foam body that is sized and shaped for detachably engaging with the flange of the frame. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shane Michael Ellis, Peter Wesley Bristol, Joseph Patrick Sullivan, Brian Lawrence Chuang, David Michael Pickett, Kristen Renee Hayenga, Xiao Xiong Qin
  • Patent number: 11527194
    Abstract: An electronic device including a plurality of light-emitting units, a driving circuit, and a controlling circuit is provided. The driving circuit is configured to drive at least one of the light-emitting units. The controlling circuit is configured to control the driving circuit. The plurality of light-emitting units, the driving circuit, and the controlling circuit are respectively disposed on different substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Ker-Yih Kao, Ming Chun Tseng, Liang-Lu Chen, Li-Wei Mao, Shun-Yuan Hu
  • Patent number: 11520153
    Abstract: An image capturing and display apparatus includes a plurality of image capturing units, a plurality of display units, and a signal processing unit. The plurality of image capturing units includes a first image capturing unit and a second image capturing unit configured to output a signal corresponding to an incident light quantity higher than that of the first image capturing unit. The signal processing unit generates a single third image signal based on a first image signal from the first image capturing unit and a second image signal from the second image capturing unit, and the plurality of display devices displays images based on the third image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Kobayashi, Takeshi Ichikawa, Akira Okita
  • Patent number: 11513359
    Abstract: According to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a lens is disclosed. The lens is located remotely from a display device, and the lens includes: a liquid crystal layer variably oriented according to a voltage so as to have a variable refractive index; and an optical unit accommodated inside the liquid crystal layer, in which the refractive index of the liquid crystal layer is varied, so that the liquid crystal layer may modulate a speed of a change of an image that is being displayed on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventor: Min Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 11513362
    Abstract: An example optical assembly includes a display, a light source for illuminating the display, and a first diffraction type polarizing beam splitter (DT-PBS) configured to direct light from a first light director, wherein the first DT-PBS is polarization sensitive and configured to direct, based on polarization, a first portion of light towards the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Fenglin Peng, Ying Geng, Oleg Yaroshchuk
  • Patent number: 11512952
    Abstract: The techniques disclosed herein detect sensor misalignments in a display device by the use of sensors operating under different modalities. In some configurations, a near-to-eye display device can include a number of sensors that can be used to track movement of the device relative to a surrounding environment. The device can utilize multiple sensors operating under multiple modalities. For each sensor, there is a set of intrinsic and extrinsic properties that are calibrated. The device is also configured to determine refined estimations of the intrinsic and extrinsic properties at runtime. The refined estimations of the intrinsic and extrinsic properties can then be used to derive knowledge on how the device has deformed over time. The device can then use the refined estimations of the intrinsic and extrinsic properties and/or any other resulting data that quantifies any deformations of the device to make adjustments to rendered images at runtime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Navid Poulad, Rayna Demaster-Smith, Georg Klein, Jeffrey Neil Margolis
  • Patent number: 11506904
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a presentation content update method, a head-mounted display device and a computer-readable medium. One specific embodiment of the method includes: determining three-axis attitude angles of a target device and three-axis attitude angles of a head-mounted display device based on first sensor data with respect to the target device sent by a first sensor and second sensor data with respect to the head-mounted display device sent by a second sensor; determining whether the three-axis attitude angles of the target device and the three-axis attitude angles of the head-mounted display device meet an attitude angle deviation detection condition; and updating presentation content on a display screen of the head-mounted display device in response to determining that the three-axis attitude angles of the target device and the three-axis attitude angles of the head-mounted display device meet the attitude angle deviation detection condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HANGZHOU LINGBAN TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Zeng
  • Patent number: 11507219
    Abstract: A touch panel apparatus including a first detector detecting a first operation of a touch operation unit, a second detector detecting a second operation of a rotating operation unit disposed close to the touch operation unit, and a microprocessor performing making a determination whether to prioritize the first or second operation, and outputting an operation command corresponding to the first or second operation in accordance with the determination. The second detector includes six or more touch sensors disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the rotating operation unit, and the microprocessor performs outputting the operation command corresponding to the first operation when the first operation is detected, while not outputting the operation command corresponding to the first operation even if the first operation is detected when the touch operation over a predetermined area on the outer peripheral surface is detected by the touch sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA ACCESS CORP.
    Inventor: Takahiro Mitsunari
  • Patent number: 11500210
    Abstract: A method is provided for adjusting a luminance profile of an image displayed on a look-through display to a user. The method comprises: determining a field of view of the user based on a spatial configuration of the user's head. Determining one or more lighting conditions in the field of view. Adjusting the luminance profile for the image based on the field of view, wherein, as a result of the adjusted luminance profile, the image is reconciled with the field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLC
    Inventors: Ian Thomas Macken, Rory Thomas Alexander Mills
  • Patent number: 11493773
    Abstract: An optical subsystem of a near-eye display system provides for projecting light of a virtual image of image content to an eye location, and provides for collecting light of the virtual image onto an exit pupil on a surface proximate to an outer surface of an eye when at the eye location. A subpupil modulator within an aperture in cooperation with the optical subsystem provides for forming a plurality of subpupils within the exit pupil, and provides for less than all of the light of the virtual image associated with one or more less than all of the plurality of subpupils to be projected to the eye location. In various independent aspects: at least two subpupils overlap by at least 20 percent; and the intensities of the subpupils are individually and independently controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: PANAMORPH, INC.
    Inventor: Shawn L. Kelly
  • Patent number: 11487391
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch sensing device reducing the touch driving time and the signal to noise ratio (SNR) by a multi-driving using driving signals that can be distinguished from each other by their frequencies and codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mohamed Gamal Ahmed Mohamed, Jun Seop Lee, Mun Seok Kang
  • Patent number: 11487125
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods provide for the prevention of laser light escaping a foldable wearable heads-up display (WHUD) when the WHUD is folded. For a WHUD that adopts the form factor of conventional eyeglasses or sunglasses, enabling the WHUD to fold “like glasses” can cause an interruption in the optical path of display light and enable display light to escape into the external environment. This can be hazardous when laser light is used to provide display light. Systems, devices, and methods that automatically detect, sense, and/or respond to the fold configuration state of a WHUD are described. When the WHUD is unfolded a laser-based display operates normally. When the WHUD is folded the laser-based display is disabled to prevent laser light from projecting out of the WHUD through the folded region. Proximity sensors and laser light containing mechanisms also may be employed as alternative or supplementary safety elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Stuart James Myron Nicholson, Andrew S. Logan
  • Patent number: 11480940
    Abstract: A control system controls an industrial machine, and each of controllers includes a screen generation unit which generates a controller screen that is displayed on a controller display unit and which generates a glasses screen that is displayed on s glasses-type display device based on a variation in an internal state of the controller screen and the glasses-type display device includes: a transmissive glasses display unit which is arranged so as to correspond to the positions of the eyes of a wearer and which can display the generated glasses screen; a glasses side transmission/reception unit which acquires specific information for specifying the controller that is connected; and a display control unit which displays the glasses screen and the specific information on the glasses display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 11480799
    Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a display device configured to display an image, a diopter adjustment device configured to adjust a diopter, and a correction processing circuit serving as an image correction device configured to correct a display image in accordance with a degree of diopter adjustment. In the adjustments made on a left side and a right side, respectively, after diopter adjustment, the display image is corrected in accordance with the degree of diopter adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Takagi, Akira Komatsu, Takashi Takeda, Toshiaki Miyao, Tokito Yamaguchi