Patents Examined by Chineyere D Wills-Burns
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Patent number: 11480940Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi Miyoshi
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Patent number: 11480799Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Takagi, Akira Komatsu, Takashi Takeda, Toshiaki Miyao, Tokito Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11480807Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Fenglin Peng, Ying Geng, Oleg Yaroshchuk
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Patent number: 11474358Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Nizan Meitav, Barak Freedman, Ori Weinstein, Asaf Pellman, Chulwoo Oh, Frédéric Montfort
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Patent number: 11460946Abstract: An electronic device includes an input device. The input device has an input/output module below or within a cover defining an input surface. The input/output module detects touch and/or force inputs on the input surface, and provides haptic feedback to the cover. In some instances, a haptic device is integrally formed with a wall or structural element of a housing or enclosure of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Qiliang Xu, Alex J. Lehmann, Ming Yu, Xianwei Zhao, Xiaonan Wen, Shan Wu, Xiaofan Niu
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Patent number: 11454816Abstract: A device having a see-through display including a segmented light source configured to provide additional control of an illumination level of an image display. The individual light segments of the light source are individually controlled to together produce a light beam that illuminates the image display to provide an additional range of control of the illumination level. An N number of light segments allow the minimum light level of the light beam to be 1/N of the minimum light the light source can generate. The maximum light level of the beam is N time brighter than a light source with only one light segment. The dynamic level of the image generated is matched to the ambient light about the device such that the image is visually acceptable to a user. The device can be eyewear in one example.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventor: Adam Greengard
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Patent number: 11448884Abstract: An image from a camera on, e.g., a VR HMD is identified of a hand grasping a computer game controller. The image may be cropped to a region containing the controller and the hand to simplify processing, and a virtual representation of the hand is presented on a display such as the HMD, with the virtual representation being generated based on both image analysis of the region and a touch signal from the controller.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Yutaka Yokokawa
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Patent number: 11435289Abstract: An optical distortion measurement method that including receiving target field of view information; processing the target field of view information using a coordinate conversion model to obtain screen coordinates of a target angle of view, wherein the coordinate conversion model may be configured to convert image plane coordinates of the target angle of view to screen coordinates of the target angle of view; and outputting at least the screen coordinates of the target angle of view.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hongzhen Xue, Fuqiang Ma, Yali Liu, Lili Chen, Jiankang Sun, Shuo Zhang
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Patent number: 11409360Abstract: A method comprising determining a set of position parameters for an inertial measurement unit (IMU) on a headset worn by a user. The set of position parameters includes at least a first yaw measurement and a first roll measurement. The set describes a pointing vector. The method further comprises calculating a drift correction component that describes a rate of correction. The drift correction component is based at least in part on the set of position parameters. The method further comprises applying the drift correction component to one or more subsequent yaw measurements for the IMU. The drift correction component forces an estimated nominal position vector to the pointing vector at the rate of correction.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: William Owen Brimijoin, II, Andrew Lovitt
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Patent number: 11402638Abstract: An augmented reality apparatus for use in a hazardous area comprises a display unit for providing information within a user's field of view. The augmented reality apparatus also comprises a controller configured to control the display. The controller is configured modify the mode of operation of the display unit in dependence of location information indicating that the augmented reality apparatus is in the hazardous area.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: MAERSK DRILLING A/SInventors: Jakob Valentin Jensen, Andreas Tycho, Kristian Andreasen
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Patent number: 11391953Abstract: A specific posture is set as a standard posture of the head of a user wearing a display device, and a movement from the standard posture is detected. The detected movement of the head is associated in advance with a first mode and a second mode that are display modes of the image display unit, and the image display unit performs display in the first mode when the detected movement of the head is a movement in a predetermined first direction and exceeds a predetermined first threshold value and performs display in the second mode when the movement is a movement in a second direction that is different from the first direction and exceeds a predetermined second threshold value. An input is received in an input mode associated in advance with the first mode or the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11392240Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display, a touch sensor disposed on a screen of the display unit detects an input position by an input medium on the screen, a main controller, and an embedded controller. The embedded controller predicts a subsequent input position of the input medium based on detected input positions of the input medium detected by the touch sensor at predetermined detection intervals, and output, to the main controller, the predicted subsequent input position as part of the detected input positions detected by the touch sensor. The main controller, based on the plurality of detected input positions received from the embedded controller, display a movement trajectory of the input medium on the screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Qiang Yao, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Ryohta Nomura, Seiichi Kawano
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Patent number: 11385742Abstract: A position detection method of detecting a position in an operation surface pointed by a pointing element, the method including irradiating with infrared light toward the operation surface, obtaining a first and second taken image calibrated with respect to the operation surface by imaging the operation surface with a first and second camera configured to take an image with the infrared light, forming a difference image between the first taken image and the second taken image, extracting an area in which an amount of disparity between the first taken image and the second taken image is within a predetermined range out of the difference image as a candidate area in which an image of the pointing element is included, detecting an area corresponding to a tip position of the pointing element from the candidate area extracted based on a shape of the pointing element, and outputting, based on the area corresponding to a tip position, information representing a pointing position of the pointing element in the operatType: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takayuki Kitazawa, Kensuke Ogasawara, Yuma Iwahara
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Patent number: 11379081Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch system. The touch system includes a window glass having a touch area and a display apparatus spaced apart from the window glass and having a display area corresponding to the touch area of the window glass. A plurality of subareas are defined on the touch area. The display apparatus includes a planar invisible light source configured to emit a first invisible light toward the touch area of the window glass. The touch system further includes a camera device configured to detect a second invisible light reflected from a subarea of the plurality of subareas. The touch system further includes a processor electrically connected to the camera device and configured to retrieve an electrical information of the detected second invisible light. If the electrical information of the detected second invisible light exceeds a threshold, the processor determines that a position on the display area corresponding to the subarea of the plurality of subareas is touched.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: DYNASCAN TECHNOLOGY CORP.Inventors: Tsun-I Wang, Ching-Chun Wu, Chih-Chin Hsu
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Patent number: 11374054Abstract: An inorganic EL element including: an anode; a hole transporting layer; a light emitting layer; an electron transporting layer; and a cathode, the anode, the hole transporting layer, the light emitting layer, the electron transporting layer, and the cathode being stacked, wherein the hole transporting layer is an oxide film, the light emitting layer is an oxide film, and the electron transporting layer is an oxide film.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Naoyuki Ueda, Yuki Nakamura, Yukiko Abe, Shinji Matsumoto, Yuji Sone, Ryoichi Saotome, Sadanori Arae, Minehide Kusayanagi, Yuichi Ando
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Patent number: 11372249Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that includes a recognition unit that recognizes, based on a result of sensing by a sensor unit corresponding to a viewpoint position of a user, a hand gesture performed by the user to move, closer to a first object, a second object so that the positional relation between the first object and the second object becomes a first positional relation. The information processing device further includes a correction unit that corrects the user's interocular parameter related to virtual object display on a display unit based on a result of recognition of the hand gesture when it is determined that a predetermined end condition is satisfied. At least one of the first object and the second object is a virtual object.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Kimura, Kasumi Takeda, Tomohiro Ishii
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Patent number: 11366543Abstract: Implementations of the subject matter described herein relate to sensors including piezoelectric micromechanical ultrasonic transducer (PMUT) sensor elements and arrays thereof. The PMUT sensor elements may be switchable between a non-ultrasonic force detection mode and an ultrasonic imaging mode. A PMUT sensor element may include a diaphragm that is capable of a static displacement on application of a force and is capable of a dynamic displacement when the PMUT sensor element transmits or receives ultrasonic signals. In some implementations, a PMUT sensor element includes a two dimensional-electron gas structure on the diaphragm. The sensors may further include a sensor controller configured to switch between a non-ultrasonic force detection mode and an ultrasonic imaging mode for one or more of the PMUT sensor elements, wherein an applied force is measured in the non-ultrasonic force detection mode and wherein an object is imaged ultrasonically during the ultrasonic imaging mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Firas Sammoura, David William Burns, Ravindra Vaman Shenoy
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Patent number: 11366319Abstract: This patent provides a novel set of stereoscopic imaging techniques. Such techniques allow extremely large field of view datasets capable of stereoscopic display, such as greater than 270° horizontal field of view and 180° vertical field of view. Thus it is possible to record data in a way that is larger than a user could visualize. A user can thus select which subset of the dataset he/she wants to view. Then, allow the user to view naturally via head tracking and eye tracking to allow one to see and inspect a scene as if one were naturally there viewing it in real time.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: DOUGLAS LABS, INC.Inventors: Robert Edwin Douglas, Kathleen Mary Douglas, David Byron Douglas
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Patent number: 11367374Abstract: Disclosed is data communication between a microcontroller and a source readout circuit, in which the clock circuit of a slave is not needed, and the size of a slave circuit and the amount of power consumed may be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yong Woo Choi, Sung Chun Kim, Byoung Sun Ahn
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Patent number: 11360595Abstract: A touch display device, including a substrate and multiple light-emitting units bonded to the substrate, is provided. Each of the multiple light-emitting units includes at least one light-emitting element. A first light-emitting unit of the multiple light-emitting units includes at least one sensing element. In the first light-emitting unit, the at least one sensing element is located between the at least one light-emitting element and the substrate. The orthographic projection of the at least one sensing element on the substrate overlaps the orthographic projection of the at least one light-emitting element on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Guan-Wu Chen, Chun-Yen Kuo