Patents Examined by David D. Davis
  • Patent number: 11826103
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein that are capable of tracking an eye of a user using multiple lasers. Light from the lasers is scanned across respective partially overlapping portions of a region that includes an eye of a user during respective time periods. Portion(s) of the light that are reflected from the eye are detected by respective photodetector(s). In an example implementation, a signal corresponding to the detected portion(s) is provided in a pixel of a frame buffer based at least in part on a current angle of a mirror used to scan the light across the region. In a second implementation, digital state(s) are provided based at least in part on difference(s) between a reference signal and signal(s) corresponding to the detected portion(s), and a time value indicating a time at which a glint is detected by a photodetector is provided when a digital state triggers an interrupt handler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Theodore Gibson, Joshua Owen Miller
  • Patent number: 11829557
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method of operating the same are provided. The electronic device includes a touch screen, and at least one processor configured to determine, as any one of a first touch type or a second touch type, a type of a user input inputted on the touch screen, output a user interface (UI) corresponding to the first touch type based on the type of inputted touch being determined as the first touch type, correct the determined type as the second touch type based on an error being determined to be present in determining the type of inputted touch as the first touch type, and output a UI corresponding to the second touch type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungheon Lee, Jeonghun Kim, Keehyon Park
  • Patent number: 11830883
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate having a display area and a peripheral area; a first wiring layer to transfer a gate signal in the display area; a second wiring layer to transfer a data voltage in the display area; a data fan-out having a first data fan-out wire connected to the second wiring layer; and a data flexible printed circuit board electrically connected to the first data fan-out wire in the peripheral area. The first data fan-out wire includes a first zigzag portion having a zigzag shape and a first straight portion that extends from the first zigzag portion. A width of the first straight portion is larger than a width of the first zigzag portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sun Kwun Son
  • Patent number: 11822743
    Abstract: A user interface unit having first and second input devices arranged on both surfaces of a display device is provided. The hardware processor of a terminal apparatus body determines whether a touch operation has been performed on only one of the first and second input devices or has been simultaneously performed on both the first and second input devices on the basis of respective detection signals output from the first and second input devices, and selectively performs the first processing and the second processing according to a determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya Tamaru, Shinichiro Eitoku, Akira Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11822763
    Abstract: An orthogonal or multi-dimensional fabric user interface is described herein. A remote server executes an operating system that stores content in a multi-dimensional fabric. Multiple users can access a common virtual space to view content that is stored in the multi-dimensional fabric at a specific location and time. The users request the specific location and time. The remote server accesses the multi-dimensional fabric to anchor content within the common virtual space based on the specific location and time. In this way, multiple users experience location and time driven content together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: PEER INC
    Inventor: Thinh Tran
  • Patent number: 11815968
    Abstract: A stylus for a touchscreen may comprise a barrel extending in a longitudinal direction, the barrel comprising a first end comprising an opening and a second end, the first end and the second end being, in the longitudinal direction, opposite to one another, and a first part and a second part, the first part including the first end and the second part including the second end, a first electronic tip received at least in part in the barrel and configured to have at least an in-use configuration in which the first electronic tip protrudes from the first part of the barrel through the opening, and an energy harvesting device comprising at least two of an energy harvesting element, a transducer, or an energy storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignees: SOCIETE BIC, BIC Violex Single Member S.A.
    Inventors: Franck Rolion, Loïc Folgoas, Etienne Roudaut, Ludovic Fagu, Georgios Georgakis
  • Patent number: 11797131
    Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus is used for processing a first image projected toward a target. The apparatus includes a processing unit for detecting that an object exists between a projector unit and the target, wherein when an object exists between the projector unit and the target, the apparatus determines an area of the object and generates a modified first image, based on the area of the object, for projection toward the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mizunuma, Ikuo Yamano, Shunichi Kasahara, Ken Miyashita, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11797087
    Abstract: Methods and systems used in calibrating the position and/or orientation of a wearable device configured to be worn on a wrist or forearm of a user, the method comprises sensing a plurality of neuromuscular signals from the user using a plurality of sensors arranged on the wearable device, and providing the plurality of neuromuscular signals and/or signals derived from the plurality of neuromuscular signals as inputs to one or more trained autocalibration models, determining based, at least in part, on the output of the one or more trained autocalibration models, a current position and/or orientation of the wearable device on the user, and generating a control signal based, at least in part, on the current position and/or orientation of the wearable device on the user and the plurality of neuromuscular signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Alexandre Barachant
  • Patent number: 11789554
    Abstract: Techniques for task invocation based on control actuation, fingerprint detection, and gaze detection are described, and may be implemented via a mobile device to verify that a task associated with an actuatable control is to be executed. Generally, the described techniques assist in preventing inadvertent (e.g., unintended) user actuation of a control from invoking a task associated with the control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal, Gautham Prabhakar Natakala
  • Patent number: 11778446
    Abstract: A gate driving unit includes an input terminal, a latch node control circuit, a first node potential maintenance circuit, and a latch node reset circuit, the latch node control circuit is configured to control a voltage of the latch node through a charging voltage inputted by the latch charging terminal under the control of an input signal provided by the input terminal, the first node potential maintenance circuit is configured to control the connection between the first node and the latch enable terminal under the control of a voltage of the latch node, to maintain a potential of the first node; and the latch node reset circuit is configured to control to reset the potential of the latch node under the control of the latch node reset signal inputted by the latch node reset terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shaolei Zong, Wei Sun, Jieqiong Wang, Jigang Sun
  • Patent number: 11768535
    Abstract: A method is performed at an electronic device including one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, and a first input device. The method includes detecting, via the first input device, an input directed to a first location within a physical environment. The first location is identified by an extremity tracking function based on the input. The method includes determining an interaction event based on a function of a semantic identifier that is associated with a portion of the first location. The method includes presenting computer-generated content that is a function of the interaction event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Bart Colin Trzynadlowski, Gregory Patrick Lane Lutter, Thomas G. Salter, Rahul Nair, Devin William Chalmers
  • Patent number: 11766972
    Abstract: A low-profile, backlit panel assembly and a controller for displaying images and/or data within a passenger compartment of a vehicle are provided. The assembly includes a substrate panel perforated with a two-dimensional array of closely-spaced holes. The panel is configured to be attached to a support structure of the vehicle. The assembly further includes a plurality of semiconductor-based, lighting devices supported at a back surface of the panel. Each of the lighting devices includes at least one lighting element. Each of the lighting elements is individually addressable by the controller to control luminous intensity of the light emitted by the at least one lighting element. Each of the lighting devices is aligned with one of the holes so that light emitted by each of the lighting devices travels through its hole to the passenger compartment in the form of a pixel of a two-dimensional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: JVIS-USA, LLC
    Inventors: David Donovan Hinchman, Darius J. Preisler, Jason T. Murar, Rachel Elisabeth Schmidt, Ryan Richard Lucas, Cedric Alves, James Wagner
  • Patent number: 11768566
    Abstract: A touch screen panel including a substrate having an effective area and a pad area, sensing electrodes disposed in the effective area, pads disposed in the pad area, wirings connecting the sensing electrodes and the pads, respectively, the wirings each having different lengths, and an electrostatic dispersion pad disposed adjacent to a sensing electrode disposed closest to the pad area among the sensing electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: In Cheol Kim, Il Ho Lee, Byoung Won Choi, Jin Woo Park
  • Patent number: 11751795
    Abstract: Provided are a disease prediction apparatus and a disease prediction method using the same, which may easily learn a biosignal, may easily make a diagnosis, and may perform analysis in real time, in order to determine a disease using a biosignal via deep learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION
    Inventors: Seonho Kim, Hong-Woo Chun, Jungjoon Kim, Byoung-Youl Coh
  • Patent number: 11755270
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technique capable of displaying an appropriate display image corresponding to a position of an observer. A display device includes a detection electrode, a first screen, and a second screen on a side opposite to the first screen. A distance between the detection electrode and the first screen is longer than a distance between the detection electrode and the second screen, or a dielectric constant between the detection electrode and the first screen is lower than a dielectric constant between the detection electrode and the second screen, or the distance between the detection electrode and the first screen is longer than the distance between the detection electrode and the second screen and the dielectric constant between the detection electrode and the first screen is lower than the dielectric constant between the detection electrode and the second screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takaaki Kono, Yoshio Owaki, Makoto Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11758759
    Abstract: A novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. The display panel includes a first region and a second region. The second region is provided with a first component, and the second region can be bent with the first component facing outward. The first component includes a first elastic body and a second elastic body. The second elastic body includes an end portion part or the whole of which is covered with the first elastic body. The second elastic body has a higher elastic modulus than the first elastic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hiroki Adachi, Shingo Eguchi
  • Patent number: 11747918
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a touch pen capable of being used in electronic devices. The touch pen includes a pen body having an accommodation space extending in a longitudinal direction, a pen tip coupled to one end of the pen body, a plurality of weight members disposed inside the accommodation space of the pen body, and a buffer material disposed between adjacent weight members among the plurality of weight members to prevent movement of the plurality of weight members in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Pil Seo, Dong Keun Kang, Dong Oh Kim, Sung Jun Kim, You Sub Lee, Yoong-Kwan Cho
  • Patent number: 11726737
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program for identifying a user of a display unit. The apparatus comprises a processor configured to receive a physiological measurement for a first user; compare the received physiological measurement with a plurality of time series of physiological measurements, each time series corresponding to one of a plurality of users; and determine, based on the comparison, an identity of the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Maarten Van Den Boogaard, Robert Godlieb
  • Patent number: 11678924
    Abstract: An intraoperative monitoring module (IMM) for assessing strength of screw attachments to bone and detecting breaches includes a torque sensor on a rotatable tool receptacle and a variable-output current source. The IMM provides concurrent monitoring of rotational torque applied to a screw and stimulus current passing through the screw into bone for evoked electromyography. A motor housing configured to drive in rotation a tool receptacle on the IMM, a screw driver modified for carrying the stimulus current, and a screw attached to the screw driver are optionally included. Cooperative anti-rotation features on the motor housing and IMM support accurate torque measurements and prevent the outer housing of the IMM from rotating with the tool receptacle while a screw is being driven. The motor housing optionally provides electrical power to the IMM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventor: Henry E. Aryan
  • Patent number: 11682230
    Abstract: A fingerprint signal processing circuit for a fingerprint sensor configured to sense light from a display panel touchable by a finger includes an analog front-end (AFE) circuit and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The AFE circuit is configured to receive an image signal from at least one sensing pixel of the fingerprint sensor and generate an analog output signal. The AFE circuit includes a gain circuit, which is configured to receive a compensation signal and process the image signal according to the compensation signal to generate the analog output signal, wherein a signal value of the compensation signal corresponds to a touched position of the finger in the fingerprint sensor. The ADC, coupled to the AFE circuit, is configured to convert the analog output signal into a digital code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Tsen-Wei Chang