Patents Examined by Dmitriy Bolotin
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Patent number: 11754846Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may determine, determine an estimated distance of an eye of a user to a display plane of a display. The system may access correction maps corresponding to a number of reference distances to the display plane of the display. The system may select a first reference distance and a second reference distance based on the estimated distance. The system may generate a custom correction map for the user based on an interpolation of a first correction map corresponding to the first reference distance and a second correction map corresponding to the second reference distance. The system may adjust an image to be displayed on the display using the custom correction map. The custom correction map may correct non-uniformity of the display as viewed from the eye of the user. The system may display the image adjusted using the custom correction map on the display.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Edward Buckley, Bennett Sampson Wilburn, Kavitha Ratnam, Shuang Wang, Pravin Rao
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Patent number: 11750285Abstract: A display apparatus comprises an at least partially transparent display, the display configured to generate light to form an image for display to a user positioned in front of the display, and at least one light-transmitting and/or light-receiving device positioned behind the display, wherein the at least one light-transmitting and/or light-receiving device is configured to transmit and/or receive light through at least part of the display, wherein the at least one light-transmitting and/or light-receiving device comprises or forms part of an optical wireless communications (OWC) apparatus configured to transmit and/or receive the light through the at least part of the display.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: PURELIFI LIMITEDInventors: Dobroslav Tsonev, Istvan Phillipe Bernard Csajaghy, Duncan John William Walker, Ivan Alf Karlsson, Artur Witold Wieczorek
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Patent number: 11740477Abstract: An electronic device according to the present invention includes: a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to: detect an inclination of a display surface; receive a user operation; and perform control to display, as a display range, a portion of an image on the display surface, change a position of the display range in response to a change in the inclination of the display surface, and change the position of the display range in response to a user operation, wherein a second movement amount in which the display range moves in response to the change in the inclination of the display surface is corrected based on a first movement amount in which the display range is moved by the user operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shunichi Yokoyama
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Patent number: 11741862Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes a frame, a transparent member, a leg member, a display module, a camera, and a light emitter configured to emit infrared light toward a user's eye. The electronic device also includes a lens member configured to switch between a reflective mode reflecting infrared light and a transmissive mode allowing visible light to pass. The lens member is disposed such that infrared light reflected from the user's eye to the lens member in the reflective mode is incident on the camera. The electronic device further includes a processor that controls the camera to receive visible light, which passes through the lens member in the transmissive mode, in order to generate first image information, and to receive infrared light, reflected by the lens member in the reflective mode of the lens member, in order to generate second image information.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Inventors: Jungkeun Lee, Yeotak Youn, Jina Jeon, Byounghee Lee, Seungnyun Kim
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Patent number: 11733531Abstract: An active heads up display system includes a driver monitoring system, a gateway circuit, and a heads up display. The driver monitoring system tracks a gaze direction of a user, calculates track values in response to a field of view of the user based on the gaze direction, and transmits the track values on a first bus. The gateway circuit receives the track values from the first bus, translates the track values to command values, and transmits the command values on a second bus. The heads up display receives the command values from the second bus, generates a graphical presentation viewable by the user, projects the graphical presentation at a current position in front of the user, and adjusts the current position to an updated position centered within the field of view of the user in response to the command values.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Tessa E. Benjamin, Jeffrey P. Dinakar, Andrew Wassef
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Patent number: 11727677Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user request from a first user from a client system associated with a first user, wherein the user request comprise a gesture-input from the first user and a speech-input from the first user, determining an intent corresponding to the user request based on the gesture-input by a personalized gesture-classification model associated with the first user, executing one or more tasks based on the determined intent and the speech-input, and sending instructions for presenting execution results of the one or more tasks to the client system responsive the user request.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Xiaohu Liu, Paul Anthony Crook, Francislav P Penov, Rajen Subba
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Patent number: 11727837Abstract: A self-monitoring method of a display and a display are disclosed. The self-monitoring method of a display includes: inputting a first image test signal including a predetermined image test signal; acquiring a display parameter of the predetermined image test signal; dividing at least one frame of image outputted into a plurality of areas, in which the plurality of areas of the image include a predetermined area and a remaining area; acquiring a first display parameter of the predetermined area; comparing the display parameter of the predetermined image test signal with the first display parameter, determining whether or not an image displayed by the display is matched with the first image test signal to acquire a first match result; and determining whether or not display abnormality presents in the display based on the first match result. The method can determine whether or not display abnormality presents in the display.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jianting Wang, Rui Guo
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Patent number: 11726334Abstract: A contact lens system (110) for placing in an eye for augmented reality systems is disclosed. The contact lens system (110) comprises a display (111) comprising a matrix of display elements; a driver unit (112) configured to receive data from a host (120) and to present the data on the display (111) and a set of sensors (113) integrated on the display (111) for measuring pupil size. The driver unit (112) is further configured to read outputs from the set of sensors to determine the pupil size and adjust a size of an active area of the display.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Alexander Hunt, Hector Caltenco
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Patent number: 11719939Abstract: Devices and methods for dynamic power configuration (e.g., reduction) for thermal management (e.g., mitigation) in a wearable electronic device such as an eyewear device. The wearable electronic device monitors its temperature and, responsive to the temperature, configures the services is provides to operate in different modes for thermal mitigation (e.g., to prevent overheating). For example, based on temperature, the wearable electronic device adjusts sensors (e.g., turns cameras on or off, changes the sampling rate, or a combination thereof) and adjusts display components (e.g., adjusted rate at which a graphical processing unit generates images and a visual display is updated). This enables the wearable electronic device to consume less power when temperatures are too high in order to provide thermal mitigation.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Sumant Hanumante, Bernhard Jung, Matthias Kalkgruber, Anton Kondratenko, Edward Lee Kim-Koon, Gerald Nilles, John James Robertson, Dmitry Ryuma, Alexander Sourov, Daniel Wolf
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Patent number: 11714508Abstract: An accidental touch prevention method and apparatus, and a storage medium, relating to the field of intelligent terminals, and used for solving the problem in the prior art of input focus movement or loss caused by an accidental touch on a screen. The method is applied to an intelligent terminal having a folding screen. In the method, when one screen of the intelligent terminal is in an editing state, event monitoring is carried out on other screens, and if it is detected that a click event occurs on the other screens, the event is intercepted, so that when a user edits content in one screen, if the user accidentally touches the other screens, the input focus is not changed, normal editing f the user is guaranteed, and user experience is improved.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAIInventors: Baixiang Luo, Haoyu Tian
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Patent number: 11709645Abstract: A wearable terminal device capable of wirelessly communicating with a mobile terminal device having a display unit, the wearable terminal device comprising receiving status information of the mobile terminal device from the mobile terminal device when status of the mobile terminal device changes, determining whether or not to select display of the wearable terminal device based on the status information, and controlling the display of the wearable terminal device based on a determination result by the determining.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tsuyoshi Kaneko
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Patent number: 11693241Abstract: An optical system for transmitting a source image includes a light guide, which defines a light transmission channel, an optical coupling arrangement and an optical decoupling arrangement, the coupling arrangement being designed to couple light emerging from the source image into the light guide arrangement in such a way that the light can propagate in the light guide arrangement by total reflection, and the decoupling arrangement being designed to decouple light that has propagated in the light guide arrangement from the light guide arrangement. The light guide arrangement comprises an optical deflection device, which, as viewed in the direction of propagation of the light in the light guide arrangement, is arranged between the coupling arrangement and the decoupling arrangement and is designed to deflect light ray bundles, emerging from the coupling arrangement at different beam angles and impinging divergently on the deflection device, in bundled manner towards the decoupling arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: tooz technologies GmbHInventors: Matthias Hillenbrand, Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Artur Degen, Holger Muenz
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Patent number: 11687165Abstract: A method includes displaying an artificial reality environment to a user, determining a context in which the user is interacting with the artificial reality environment, and determining, based on the context, that the user intends to use a hand gesture to interact with a target virtual object within the artificial reality environment. The method further includes monitoring, while the user is attempting to interact with the target virtual object, motional patterns of the hand gesture performed by the user with respect to the target virtual object, and generating a motion-stabilization profile associated with the user based on the motional patterns. The motion-stabilization profile is configured to be utilized to stabilize the hand gesture performed by the user during subsequent user interactions within the artificial reality environment.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Eldad Yitzhak, Asaf Nitzan, Matthew Longest, Brandon Furtwangler
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Patent number: 11681159Abstract: Optical devices and cognitive prosthetics based on novel components for enhanced human vision, selective video/television display, digital processing and/or unique image analysis to modify the image that a user sees and significantly improve the perception of that user are disclosed. What the user sees is responsive to specific perceptual and informational needs of the user in real time. Devices from the parent patents are herein made both more useful in practical day-to-day use and are more widely applicable to improving the ability of a user to perceive visual stimuli.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Inventor: John Castle Simmons
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Patent number: 11681149Abstract: This method, implemented in a mounted information display device, which incorporates a main sensor and an inertial sensor, and which determines the positioning by a hybrid inertial method including determining a calculated position by a main method using data acquired by the main sensor and determining a succession of estimated positions using the calculated position and data acquired by the inertial sensor, includes: obtaining at a first calculation time instant T1 a first estimated position of the device at a reference time instant, calculated by the hybrid inertia method; obtaining at a second time instant T2 a second estimated position of the device at the same reference time instant, calculated by the main method; comparing a difference between the first and second positions and a tolerance threshold; and, if the difference is less than the threshold, validating the positioning calculation by the hybrid inertial method, otherwise raising an alert.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: THALESInventors: Matthieu Grossetete, Siegfried Rouzes, David Deceneux
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Patent number: 11681144Abstract: A method system an apparatus to convert an image to a pseudo-stereoscopic image comprising receiving an image through a video source, duplicating the captured image, cropping the captured image and the duplicated image by applying an offset to the images, outputting the images to a display be displayed to a user in a manner such that user perceives depth in the images due to the applied offset and displaying the images on a stereoscopic display.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Inventors: Maurissa Suzanne D'Angelo, Nicholas Braniff
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Patent number: 11681361Abstract: A method for improving the startup time of a six-degrees of freedom tracking system is described. An augmented reality system receives a device initialization request and activates a first set of sensors in response to the device initialization request. The augmented reality system receives first tracking data from the first set of sensors. The augmented reality system receives an augmented reality experience request and in response to the augmented reality request, causes display of a set of augmented reality content items based on the first tracking data and simultaneously activates a second set of sensors. The augmented reality system receives second tracking data from the activated second set of sensors. The augmented reality system updates the display of the set of augmented reality content items based on the second tracking data.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Jeroen Diederik Hol, Matthias Kalkgruber, Erick Mendez Mendez, Niall Murphy, Gerald Nilles, Mathieu Emmanuel Vignau
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Patent number: 11669156Abstract: Techniques for employing augmented reality or virtual reality information are presented. An information management component (IMC) of an augmented reality device (ARD) can monitor and detect user activities and conditions in area in proximity to ARD. Based on user activities and conditions, IMC can determine augmented reality information that can enhance user experience, performance of user activities, or security and safety of user. IMC can present, via an interface component of ARD, the augmented reality information to the user. The augmented reality information can relate to user location; navigation by the user; tasks to be performed by the user; product assembly; maintenance work; system or product design or configuration; remote control of assembly, maintenance, design, or configuration; environmental and/or hazardous conditions; security, identification, and authentication of users; or training the user to perform tasks. IMC can translate information from a language to a different language of the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Thong T. Nguyen, John M. Van Hecke, Alex L. Nicoll, Paul D. Schmirler, Mark Bjerke
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Patent number: 11670248Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first data line, a second data line, and a pixel, the pixel including a first sub-pixel coupled to the first data line, and a second sub-pixel coupled to the second data line, a light stress compensator configured to generate a first data voltage control signal for the first sub-pixel based on a second data value of input image data for the second sub-pixel, in response to a first data value of input image data for the first sub-pixel being equal to or less than a first reference value, and a data driver configured to generate a first data signal based on the first data value for the first sub-pixel, to provide a first data voltage to the first data line, and to vary the first data voltage based on the first data voltage control signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Hoon Lee, Hyun Bo Byun, Kyoung Ho Lim
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Patent number: 11662588Abstract: A user may interact and view virtual elements such as avatars and objects and/or real world elements in three-dimensional space in an augmented reality (AR) session. The system may allow one or more spectators to view from a stationary or dynamic camera a third person view of the users AR session. The third person view may be synchronized with the user view and the virtual elements of the user view may be composited onto the third person view.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.Inventors: Thomas Marshall Miller, IV, Takashi Kuribayashi, John Monos