Patents Examined by Christopher E Leiby
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Patent number: 11738646Abstract: In an information display apparatus displaying information onto a vehicle, an information display apparatus capable of acquiring a lot of pieces of image information while reducing point-of-view motion of a viewer is provided. An information display apparatus displaying information onto a vehicle includes a first information display apparatus displaying image information of a virtual image by allowing a windshield glass of a vehicle to reflect light, a second information display apparatus acquiring a practical image by scanning the windshield glass with laser light using a MEMS element and a third information display apparatus using an instrument panel of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Koji Hirata, Yasuhiko Kunii
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Patent number: 11715373Abstract: A method for capturing, by a host vehicle camera, an image of a leading vehicle, estimating a leading vehicle dimension and a first distance between a host vehicle and the leading vehicle in response to the image, receiving a data indicative of a traffic signal location and a traffic signal cycle state, determining a second distance between the host vehicle and the traffic signal, estimating a traffic signal view obstruction in response to the leading vehicle dimension, the first distance, and the second distance, and generating a graphical user interface indicative of the traffic signal cycle state in response to the traffic signal view obstruction.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Mohammad Naserian, Feiyu Cong, Jie Zhu, Curtis L. Hay, Priya B. Abraham
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Patent number: 11710436Abstract: The present application provides a GOA circuit and a display panel. In the GOA circuit, one of two GOA units of a same stage in GOA sub circuits at left and right sides of the display panel is deployed only with an all-on module and the other one of the two GOA units is deployed only with an all-off module. In such a way, both the number of the all-on modules and the number of the all-off modules required in the GOA unit are halved, thereby reducing the area occupied by the GOA circuit. It is beneficial for realizing a display panel with a narrow bezel.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Inventor: You Pan
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Patent number: 11698689Abstract: A sensor panel is overlaid on a display apparatus and connected to an integrated circuit that detects a position of an active pen in an active region of the display apparatus. The sensor panel includes first electrodes that extend in a first direction. The sensor panel also includes second electrodes that extend in a second direction. The first electrodes include first and second outer electrodes that are located at the outermost edges of the first electrodes and first inner electrodes disposed between the first and second outer electrodes. A width of at least one of the first and second outer electrodes in the second direction is smaller than a width of each of the first inner electrodes in the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jun Kadowaki
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Patent number: 11697346Abstract: A head-up display system for a vehicle includes at least one light source adapted to project an image upon an inner surface of a windshield of the vehicle, a driver monitoring system adapted to track a position of a driver's eyes, at least one non-visual sensor adapted to detect objects within an environment surrounding the vehicle, at least one image capturing device adapted to capture images of the environment surrounding the vehicle, and, a controller in communication with the at least one laser, the at least one non-visual sensor and the at least one image capturing device, the controller adapted to identify lane markers and objects within the environment surrounding the vehicle, determine the position of the vehicle within a lane of a roadway the vehicle is traveling upon, and, display, with the at least one light source, a lane position alert.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: John P. Weiss, Joseph F. Szczerba, Thomas A. Seder, Kai-Han Chang
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Patent number: 11697345Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an interaction system for a first vehicle is provided, which comprises a processor and a memory storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the latter to implement steps comprising: receiving a first input from the first vehicle and displaying a first avatar on a display; and receiving a second input from a second vehicle and displaying a second avatar on the display, wherein the first input and the second input are updated in real time, and the first avatar and the second avatar dynamically change accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jiang Yao, Qiong Shang
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Patent number: 11688358Abstract: A semiconductor device where delay or distortion of a signal output to a gate signal line in a selection period is reduced is provided. The semiconductor device includes a gate signal line, a first and second gate driver circuits which output a selection signal and a non-selection signal to the gate signal line, and pixels electrically connected to the gate signal line and supplied with the two signals. In a period during which the gate signal line is selected, both the first and second gate driver circuits output the selection signal to the gate signal line. In a period during which the gate signal line is not selected, one of the first and second gate driver circuits outputs the non-selection signal to the gate signal line, and the other gate driver circuit outputs neither the selection signal nor the non-selection signal to the gate signal line.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Atsushi Umezaki
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Patent number: 11688395Abstract: An avatar interface of a virtual assistant is presented to a user in a motor vehicle and a predefined set of accessible elements is provided to be selected by the user. The accessible elements may be operating functions and/or information data. When at least one user statement of the user is received over the avatar interface; a question-answering logic is operated in the virtual assistant for determining at least one of the accessible elements that the user requests by the at least one user statement; and the at least one identified accessible element is made available to the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: AUDI AGInventor: Anil Thurimella
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Patent number: 11667196Abstract: A vehicle is configured to enable precise control while minimizing distractions during driving and improving user convenience by receiving a user input that combines the user's gaze or speech with a physical operation. The vehicle includes a first input device configured to receive a first user input by at least one of the user's speech or user's gaze; a second input device configured to receive a second user input by the physical operation of the user; and a controller configured to determine a control item corresponding to the first user input among a plurality of control items when the first input device receives the first user input, and to determine a sub-control item for the determined control item based on the second user input when the second input device receives the second user input.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: Seunghwan Lee, Sean Follmer, Inrak Choi
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Patent number: 11669195Abstract: A method and an apparatus for displaying an operating interface, and a touchscreen terminal, where the method includes: receiving a touch operation that is input by a user in a first set area on a touchscreen; and when it is detected that the touch operation ends in a second set area, displaying, on the touchscreen, a second operating interface corresponding to the second set area. An operating interface can be obtained by means of one touch operation, and without complex operation steps to switch between operating interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.Inventors: Jie Yi, Kai Qian
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Patent number: 11670201Abstract: A method and a system for influencing an optical output of image data on an output device in a vehicle. A viewing direction of a driver of the vehicle is determined. If the determined viewing direction is directed to the output device, the optical output of the image data is faded down with an average fading out rate DOWN. The fading out rate DOWN defines a temporal decrease in the optical perceptibility of the output image data by a human. If the determined viewing direction is directed towards the output device and is directed away from the output device, the optical output of the image data is faded up with an average fading in rate UP. The fading in rate UP defines a temporal increase of the optical perceptibility of the output image data by a human.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AGInventors: Thomas Schmid, Holger Enzmann, Christian Patzelt, Gerd Gulde, Nina Hallier
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Patent number: 11669240Abstract: A method of controlling a mobile apparatus to display an end effect is provided. The method includes displaying at least one object on a first layer on a touch screen, converting the at least one object in response to a first gesture that converts the at least one object, detecting that the conversion for the at least one object is ended, and displaying an end effect, which represents a message saying that the at least one object to be converted does not exist anymore or represents additional information, on the touch screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ho-Young Lee, Jee-Yeun Wang, Jae-Myoung Lee, Chul-Ho Jang, In-Won Jong
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Patent number: 11662699Abstract: An upper-arm computer pointing apparatus, comprising: at least one orientation measurer, deployable on at least one area of an upper arm of a user, configured to measure orientation of the upper arm, at least one pressure meter, deployable on at least one area of the upper arm, configured to measure pressure applied by muscle of the upper arm, a computer processor, associated with the orientation measurer and pressure meter, configured to derive control data from the measured orientation and pressure, and a data transmitter, associated with the computer processor, configured to transmit the control data to a computing device.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2012Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: 6DEGREES LTD.Inventors: Aryeh Haim Katz, Miri Berger katz
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Patent number: 11665788Abstract: A transparent display system includes a transparent display, a touch-sensitive layer, and a heater layer. The touch-sensitive layer is connected to the transparent display and is configured to detect a touch-based input to the transparent display. The heater layer is connected to the transparent display and includes a trace array and one or more electrodes operable to activate the trace array to generate heat to heat at least a portion of the transparent display based on the touch-based input.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Ercan Mehmet Dede, Sean P. Rodrigues
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Patent number: 11639105Abstract: An information provision system mounted on a vehicle includes: a visual device configured to visually provide information to an occupant of the vehicle; and a controller configured to control the visual device. The controller is further configured to: cause the visual device to provide first information in a first period; cause the visual device to provide second information different from the first information in a second period later than the first period; and set at least one of a luminance and a saturation of the visual device in at least a part of an information switching period between the first period and the the second period to be lower than that in the first period and the second period.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Sayaka Ono
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Patent number: 11639107Abstract: A display assembly for a vehicle includes an electronic display and an adjustment mechanism. The electronic display is configured to be mounted to an instrument panel of the vehicle. The electronic display includes multiple screens and at least one hinge disposed between the screens. The electronic display is configured to be folded at the at least one hinge by pivoting at least one of the screens about the at least one hinge to adjust a viewing angle of an occupant in the vehicle relative to the at least one screen. The adjustment mechanism is configured to maintain the at least one screen in any one of a plurality of positions when the electronic display is folded at the at least one hinge by pivoting the at least one screen about the at least one hinge to adjust the at least one screen to the one position.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Joseph F. Szczerba, Xinyu Du, Paul E. Krajewski
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Patent number: 11634029Abstract: A display device for an interior of a motor vehicle has an opaque decorative layer with a display side and a rear side. The opaque decorative layer has at least one opening which extends through the opaque decorative layer from the rear side as far as the display side and which is filled with a light-guiding filling material. At least one illumination source is arranged in the region of the rear side of the opaque decorative layer in such a way that the illumination source emits light through the opening with the light-guiding filling material from the display side of the opaque decorative layer into the interior.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Johannes Bachmeier, Matthias Lindner, Florian Miedl, Thomas Tille
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Patent number: 11623524Abstract: A transparent pixel matrix, a screening layer, and a control circuit are included in a display apparatus. The control circuit displays a graphic object on the pixel matrix. The screening layer includes individually switchable segments arranged behind the pixel matrix and the segments are switchable with respect to their transparency between a minimum value and a maximum value. The control circuit selects the graphic object based on an input by the user. The control circuit signals the graphic object is selected by operating a first segment among the segments arranged behind the selected graphic object as a selection segment, with the minimum value of transparency or with the maximum value of transparency, and by operating a second segment among the segments as a background segment in a complementary fashion with respect to the selection segment, with the maximum value of transparency or the minimum value of transparency.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Jacques Helot, Ulrich Mueller, Carolin Koeberle, Jens Granitza
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Patent number: 11626472Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a base substrate having an active area and a peripheral area adjacent to the active area. A plurality of pixels is disposed on the active area. The electronic apparatus also includes a plurality of power lines connected to the pixels. A power pad is disposed on a peripheral area and is configured to receive a power voltage. A power pattern is disposed on the peripheral area and connecting the power lines to the power pad. A plurality of sensing electrodes is disposed on the pixels in the active area. A plurality of sensing pads is disposed on the peripheral area and is electrically connected to the sensing electrodes. The sensing pads overlap with the power pattern.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Youngjin Cho, Yangwan Kim, Joong-Soo Moon, Minwoo Byun, Changkyu Jin
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Patent number: 11623525Abstract: An electronic apparatus disposed in a vehicle is provided. The electronic apparatus includes an input device including a body configured to be rotatable and pushable and a display disposed on the body; and a processor configured to acquire profile data of a user including preset information for function of the vehicle, control the display to display basic user interface (UI) corresponding to the function of the vehicle based on the acquired profile data of the user, and control a function of the vehicle corresponding to the basic UI in response to receiving an input on the input device.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Youngseok Lee, Taewon Um, Jaehoon Kim, Hyewon Kim, Seungwoo Shin, Yuhyeon Jun, Yongjin Choi, Wooseok Hwang