Patents Examined by Cory A Almeida
  • Patent number: 11245879
    Abstract: An information processing device which controls one projector and another projector includes: a display unit which displays a first operation screen for managing the one projector and a second operation screen for managing the another projector; an input unit which accepts an operation on the first operation screen and the second operation screen; and a control unit which controls the one projector and the another projector, based on the operation accepted by the input unit. When the information processing device is switched from a first state where the first operation screen is operable to a second state where the second operation screen is operable, the control unit causes the second operation screen where an item corresponding to a predetermined item selected on the first operation screen in the first state is selected, to be displayed in the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Sakai
  • Patent number: 11221458
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device according to the present disclosure includes an optical system for generating light to implement an image and a display part for emitting the light provided from the optical system. The optical system includes an image source panel, a first projection lens for projecting light provided from the image source panel onto the display part, a second projection lens for projecting the light provided from the image source panel to the display part, wherein the second projection lens has a angle of view wider than a angle of view of the first projection lens, and a position changing part for switching positions of the first projection lens and the second projection lens to selectively match the first projection lens and the second projection lens to a path of the light provided from the image source panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Changkyu Hwang, Seungyong Shin
  • Patent number: 11209648
    Abstract: An optical system guides a light beam from a display element, the optical system comprising a plurality of lenses and an optical element. The optical element includes an entrance surface which the light beam from the plurality of lenses enters, a reflection surface configured to reflect the light beam, and an emission surface from which the light beam is emitted toward an exit pupil. The light beam from the display element enters the optical element via the plurality of lenses, is reflected a plurality of times inside the optical element, and heads for the exit pupil. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Yamamoto, Keiichiro Ishihara
  • Patent number: 11204504
    Abstract: The disclosed head-mounted display assemblies may include a first eyecup and a second eyecup that are configured for positioning in front of intended locations of a user's eyes. The first eyecup and the second eyecup may be movable relative to each other to adjust for an interpupillary distance of the user's eyes. The head-mounted display assemblies may also include a single near-eye display screen configured for displaying an image to the user through the first eyecup and the second eyecup. A flexible shroud may be positioned to provide a seal between a first interior volume of the first eyecup, a second interior volume of the second eyecup, and the single near-eye display screen. Various other methods, devices, systems, and assemblies are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joel Bernard Jacobs, Evan Lawrence Coons, Jeffrey Taylor Stellman, Mark Alan Tempel
  • Patent number: 11199717
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a head mounted display comprising: a body mounted on a user's facial region and including a display for providing image information; and a wearable member configured to support the body and be mounted on the user's head, wherein the wearable member comprises: a front band part formed to have a rounded shape so as to be stably placed on the front of the user's head; hinge members supporting both ends of the body and allowing the body to be pivoted upward/downward or slid forward/backward; and a rear band part formed to surround the back of the user's head, fixed to both sides of the front band part, and configured to support the hinge members when the hinge members move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sumin Yoon, Bupsung Jung, Hoon Hur
  • Patent number: 11181747
    Abstract: A wearable display apparatus has a headset for display from left-eye and right-eye near-eye catadioptric pupil-forming optical systems, each defining an exit pupil. Each optical system has an image generator to direct image-bearing light for a 2D image from an emissive surface. A curved reflective surface along the view axis is partially transmissive and defines a curved intermediate focal surface. A beam splitter reflects light toward the curved reflective surface. An image relay optically conjugates the formed image with a curved aerial image formed in air at the curved intermediate focal surface. The image relay has a prism having an input surface facing the emissive surface of the image generator, an output surface facing the curved intermediate focal surface, and a folding surface between input and output surfaces for folding the optical path for light generated by the image generator. An aperture stop for the relay is within the prism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Raytrx, LLC
    Inventors: David Kessler, Michael H. Freeman, Jordan Boss, Mitchael C. Freeman, Steven Yeager
  • Patent number: 11170718
    Abstract: A display panel, a display device, and a compensating method are disclosed. The display panel includes: a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in rows and columns, a plurality of data lines connected to the plurality of sub-pixels, and a plurality of sensing driving lines connected to the plurality of sub-pixels, each of plurality of the sub-pixels includes a pixel circuit; the plurality of sub-pixels constitute a plurality of pixel units, the plurality of pixel units are arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and each of the plurality of pixel units includes four sub-pixels; pixel circuits of the four sub-pixels are connected to a same data line of the plurality of data lines; and the pixel circuits of the four sub-pixels are connected to four sensing driving lines of the plurality of sensing driving lines in a one-to-one correspondence manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Cheng Lin, Quanhu Li, Cuili Gai, Yu Wang, Mingi Chu, Chien Pang Huang
  • Patent number: 11163396
    Abstract: Methods for uplink-based zero activation force are performed by systems and devices. A touch instrument interfaces with a touch device, and includes antennas that receive communication signals from the touch device. The touch instrument also includes a processing circuit that is electrically coupled to the antennas. The processing circuit determines an orientation of the touch instrument with respect to the touch device. A distance between the touch device and the touch instrument is then determined based on the orientation and a communication signal from the touch device received by the antennas, and an activation command is generated when the distance indicates a touch/contact. The activation command, transmitted to the touch device, causes the touch device to perform an inking operation. When the distance determined indicates a hover, and not touching/contact, a deactivation command is generated. Distance is also determined based on touch instrument orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Ahia Perez, On Haran
  • Patent number: 11157227
    Abstract: A switching control device, a control method, and a display device are provided. The switching control device includes: a main control circuit and switch control circuits in one-to-one correspondence with display screens. The main control circuit is configured to output a display control voltage, and output in a time-division manner a display switching instruction in one-to-one correspondence with each of the display screens. For each of the display screens, the display switching instruction includes: a switch control signal, a data signal, a lighting signal, and an extinguishing signal. The main control circuit is configured to output a lighting signal to the corresponding display screens, and to output an extinguishing signal to the corresponding display screens. The switch control circuits are configured to receive a display control voltage and a switch control signal, and supply a display control voltage to the corresponding display screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanfei Ren, Jigang Sun, Wanhua Yang, Weixing Shan, Shaolei Zong
  • Patent number: 11150759
    Abstract: A book (1) is described. The book has front and back covers (2, 3) and a plurality of pages (5) bound between the covers. The book includes capacitive touch elements (9) disposed on the inside (10, 14) of the back cover and/or the front cover. The book also includes at least one output device (7), such as a speaker, and a controller (18). The controller is configured to cause the or at least one of the output devices to output a signal in dependence upon position of a user's digit (31: FIG. 6) on a page overlying the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventor: Kate Stone
  • Patent number: 11144150
    Abstract: A tactile sensation providing apparatus and method facilitate avoidance of the feeling of strangeness and includes a touch sensor, a load detection unit configured to detect a pressure load on a touch face of the touch sensor, a tactile sensation providing unit configured to provide a click sensation and a release sensation to the touch face, and a control unit configured to control that the tactile sensation providing unit. The click sensation is provided when detecting the pressure load satisfying a pressure load provided within a button object for providing the click sensation in a button object. The release sensation is provided when detecting the pressure load satisfying a pressure load provided within a button object for providing the release sensation in a button object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Kono
  • Patent number: 11137610
    Abstract: A wearable display apparatus has an image generator that is energizable to form a 2D image; a partially transmissive mirror having a curved reflective surface; a beam splitter disposed to reflect light toward the curved mirror surface; and an optical image relay that is configured to relay the formed 2D image at the image generator to a curved focal surface of the partially transmissive mirror, wherein the curved focal surface is defined between the curved reflective surface of the partially transmissive mirror and the beam splitter, wherein the relay, curved mirror, and beam splitter are configured to form an exit pupil for viewing the generated 2D image as an optical virtual image; and a spatial light modulator configured with addressable array of pixels for selectively changing opacity for visible light from the object field according to dimensions of the generated 2D image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Raytrx, LLC
    Inventors: David Kessler, Michael H. Freeman, Jordan Boss, Mitchael C. Freeman, Steven Yeager
  • Patent number: 11138915
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for displaying an image by a rotating structure are provided. The rotating structure can comprise blades of a fan. The fan can be a cooling fan for an electronics device such as an augmented reality display. In some embodiments, the rotating structure comprises light sources that emit light to generate the image. The light sources can comprises light-field emitters. In other embodiments, the rotating structure is illuminated by an external (e.g., non-rotating) light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Guillermo Padin Rohena, Ralph Remsburg, Adrian Kaehler, Evan Francis Rynk
  • Patent number: 11132937
    Abstract: A display driver for driving a display panel includes a first driving circuit configured to output a first image signal to a first output pad, and a second driving circuit configured to output a second image signal to a second output pad; and the first driving circuit is further configured to output a reference image signal to the second driving circuit in response to a power down signal, and the second driving circuit is further configured to output the reference image signal output from the first driving circuit to the second output pad in response to the power down signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: MagnaChip Semiconductor, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Jo Shin, Hyung Pil Kim
  • Patent number: 11112611
    Abstract: A display has an image generator; a partially transmissive mirror having a curved surface; a beam splitter to reflect incident light toward the curved surface; and an optical image relay that defines a path to relay light to a curved focal surface of a partially transmissive mirror, the curved focal surface is between a curved reflective surface of the partial mirror and the beam splitter. A prism has a folding surface in the optical path for light from the image generator, wherein an aperture stop for the relay lies within the prism. A first plano-aspheric lens, against the prism input surface, guides light from the image generator toward the folding surface; a second plano-aspheric lens, in optical contact against the prism output surface, directs light to the curved focal surface. The relay, curved mirror, and beam splitter form an exit pupil for viewing the scene with a 2D image superimposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Raytrx, LLC
    Inventors: David Kessler, Michael H. Freeman, Jordan Boss, Mitchael C. Freeman, Steven Yeager
  • Patent number: 11107389
    Abstract: Disclosed is a data driving apparatus for a display device, which controls drivers to share operation data stored in a memory. The data driving apparatus can improve a routing environment of an EEPROM on an FPCB, thereby simplifying a process of transferring operation data to the drivers and reducing the time required for a reset mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young Gi Kim
  • Patent number: 11106246
    Abstract: A device includes an enclosure and logic. The enclosure includes a plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays disposed at least on two of a top side, a bottom side, a left side, a right side, a front side, and a back side of the device. The enclosure also includes a first display on the front side of the device. The logic receives touch interaction information from the plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays and initiates an action based at least in part on the touch interaction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Min Liu, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, David L. Graumann, Jameson H. Williams, Miriam K. Selvaraj, Bryan R. Peebler, Wendy A. March, Brian K. Vogel, Wenbo Shen, Sihua Tian, Lijuan Xiao, Tao Wang, Xiaoyan Dang, Nithyananda S. Jeganathan, Sunil A. Kulkarni, Sherman Chan Wai Lee, Kaining Yuan
  • Patent number: 11106322
    Abstract: A touch screen panel includes: a flat panel display including an upper substrate, a lower substrate, and pixels arranged on a display region of the lower substrate in a stripe arrangement; first sensing cells arranged in a first direction on the upper substrate and second sensing cells arranged in a second direction on the upper substrate; first connection patterns electrically connecting adjacent ones of the first sensing cells to each other in the first direction, and second connection patterns electrically connecting adjacent ones of the second sensing cells to each other in the second direction, wherein at least one of the first connection patterns and the second connection patterns is inclined so that it partially overlaps with the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do-Youb Kim, Won-Kyu Kwak, Brent Jang
  • Patent number: 11107442
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a plurality of scan lines, k signal lines, a pixel that is disposed corresponding to each of intersections between the plurality of scan lines and the k signal lines, an image signal circuit configured to sequentially supply the image signal to each of the k signal lines in a horizontal scanning period, a pre-charge circuit configured to supply, in the horizontal scanning period and in a prescribed order, a pre-charge signal to a signal line of the k signal lines to which the image signal circuit has not supplied the image signal yet; and a control circuit configured to set a first supply period of the k supply periods, during which the image signal is sequentially supplied to each of the k signal lines, to be longer than prescribed supply periods excluding the first supply period of the k supply periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinsuke Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 11094257
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a pixel driving circuit, a pixel driving method and a display apparatus. A pixel driving circuit for driving a light emitting element, comprising: a first control sub-circuit providing a data signal terminal signal to a first node based on a first signal control terminal signal; a second control sub-circuit providing a first power source terminal signal to a fourth node based on a third signal control terminal signal, and a signal of the fourth node to a second node based on a second signal control terminal signal; a third control sub-circuit providing a second power source terminal signal to a third node based on a fourth signal control terminal signal; an energy storage sub-circuit storing a potential difference between the first node and the second node; and a driving sub-circuit transmitting a driving current for driving the light-emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qi Hu, Hui Jing, Weijing Liao