Patents Examined by Doon Y. Chow
  • Patent number: 12387641
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes determining a size of a display area of a display panel on which one or more images are being displayed, determining a threshold current value based on the size, measuring a first current drawn by the display panel, determining whether the first current exceeds the threshold current value, and upon determining that the first current exceeds the threshold current value, causing a second current providing power to a light source associated with the display panel to be shut off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Junghoon Seo, Chulmin Lee, Kugjin Cho, Daehyoun Byoun
  • Patent number: 12380849
    Abstract: Display panel, display module and driving method are provided. The display panel includes a power management chip, a power signal line loading an electrical signal based on the power management chip, a current detection module, a gate control module, and an optional load module. The gate control modules is connected between the optional load module and the power signal line, and the optional load module is controlled by the gate control module and connected to the power signal line. The current detection module is configured to detect a first current loaded on the power signal line and control the gate control module to be turned on to connect the optional load module to the power signal line when the first current is less than a set threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Hubei Yangtze Industrial Innovation Center of Advanced Display Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Xigang Liu, Entong Wang
  • Patent number: 12373033
    Abstract: Described is a method for instilling the haptic dimension of texture to virtual and holographic objects using mid-air ultrasonic technology. A set of features is extracted from imported images using their associated displacement maps. Textural qualities such as the micro and macro roughness are then computed and fed to a haptic mapping function together with information about the dynamic motion of the user's hands during holographic touch. Mid-air haptic textures are then synthesized and projected onto the user's bare hands. Further, mid-air haptic technology enables tactile exploration of virtual objects in digital environments. When a user's prior and current expectations and rendered tactile texture differ, user immersion can break. A study aims at mitigating this by integrating user expectations into the rendering algorithm of mid-air haptic textures and establishes a relationship between visual and mid-air haptic roughness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: ULTRAHAPTICS IP LTD
    Inventors: David Beattie, Rory Clark
  • Patent number: 12367823
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display substrate and a display apparatus, the display substrate includes a display region and a non-display region, the display substrate includes a base substrate and a circuit structure layer disposed on the base substrate, the circuit structure layer includes multiple pixel circuits arranged in an array and located in the display region and multiple drive circuits located in the non-display region. At least one pixel circuit includes multiple transistors and the multiple drive circuits are configured to provide drive signals to the multiple transistors; the circuit structure layer further includes: a high-level power supply line and a low-level power supply line located in the non-display region, at least one drive circuit is electrically connected with the high-level power supply line and the low-level power supply line respectively, and the high-level power supply line and the low-level power supply line extend along a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yujing Li, Ming Hu, Xiangdan Dong, Cong Fan, Rong Wang, Zhenhua Zhang, Kemeng Tong
  • Patent number: 12367808
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a data line, a sensing line, and a pixel electrically connected to the data line and the sensing line; a data driver including a sensing part, and for applying a data voltage to the data line, wherein the sensing part is for receiving a signal of the sensing line and to output sensing data; a temperature sensor sensing a current temperature; and a timing controller for selecting a correction lookup table for the current temperature from among correction lookup tables for temperatures, correcting an output deviation of the sensing part based on the correction lookup table for the current temperature, and compensating for input image data based on the sensing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiyoung Eom, Moonju Kim, Yong-Ju Jeong, Seonghwan Choi
  • Patent number: 12354524
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a display device and a display panel. A display panel includes a plurality of subpixels, a plurality of data lines comprising a first data line group disposed in a first area corresponding to a data driving circuit and a second data line group disposed in a second area located on outside of the first area, a plurality of gate lines, a first data link line group having a linear structure connected to the first data line group and disposed in a bezel area, and a second data link line group having a bending structure in which (2-3)th data link lines having the same length are connected to the second data line group through a display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minji Han, Soohoon Ham
  • Patent number: 12354534
    Abstract: The driving device includes a starting-position adjustment circuit and a pulse-width modulation (PWM) circuit. The starting-position adjustment circuit shifts a PWM counting value according to a starting-position setting to generate an adjusted counting value of a first channel. The starting-position setting is configured to indicate which subframe period in a same display frame period a starting value of the adjusted counting value is located in. The PWM circuit compares grayscale data of the first channel with the adjusted counting value and generates a PWM signal of the first channel according to a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yu-Shun Tang, Siao-Siang Liu, Shih-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 12347921
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a display and an electronic device. The display has a plurality of pixels arranged in an array, each pixel includes a light-transmitting region and a light-shielded region, and each light-transmitting region is provided with a plurality of micro light-emitting diodes. The display includes a plurality of antenna elements, and the plurality of antenna elements are arranged in light-shielded regions of the plurality of pixels. The antenna elements of the display can perform communication in space above the display and have sufficient clearance space during communication, and therefore can obtain good communication quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huajun Cao, Guozhong Ma
  • Patent number: 12340136
    Abstract: Provided are a display apparatus and a method of operating the display apparatus. The display apparatus is configured to convert an input signal from a device controller into a control signal, identify an operation mode of the display apparatus as one of a menu mode for changing settings of the display apparatus and a content play control mode for controlling content displayed on the display, identify a control target device based on the identified operation mode; process the control signal based on the identified control target device and transmit the processed control signal to the control target device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jongin Lee, Sehyun Kim, Yongwoo Shin, Junyoung Choi, Hyeeun Park, Kilsoo Choi
  • Patent number: 12320980
    Abstract: Techniques for updating a position of overlaid image content using IMU data to reflect subsequent changes in camera positions to minimize latency effects are disclosed. A “system camera” refers to an integrated camera that is a part of an HMD. An “external camera” is a camera that is separated from the HMD. The system camera and the external camera generate images. These images are overlaid on one another and aligned to form an overlaid image. Content from the external camera image is surrounded by a bounding element in the overlaid image. IMU data associated with both the system camera and the external camera is obtained. Based on that IMU data, an amount of movement that the system camera and/or the external camera have moved since the images were originally generated is determined. Based on that movement, the bounding element is shifted to a new position in the overlaid image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Bleyer, Sudipta Narayan Sinha, Christopher Douglas Edmonds, Raymond Kirk Price
  • Patent number: 12315085
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating an interactive artificial-reality activity. A method includes, after a user of a head-wearable device has opted-in to using an artificial-reality application to facilitate connecting with other participating users, determining, based on user-specific suggestion criteria, that a suggested user is located in an approved common space with the user and has opted-in to use the artificial-reality application. The method includes causing the head-wearable device to present an user interface (UI) element for linking the suggested user and the user. Upon the user selecting the UI element for linking the suggested user with the user, the method includes automatically causing the head-wearable device to provide visual-guidance UI elements to navigate the user to an interactive-activity location where the user and the suggested user will perform an artificial-reality activity while also displaying information about the artificial-reality activity to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Cody James Char, Holly Howson-Watt, Andrew James Forchione, Radhika Bhargava, Stephen Marshall
  • Patent number: 12300131
    Abstract: A method for managing a head-mounted display having a predetermined field of view and a predetermined axis of sight and configured to display a plurality of graphic messages, the method comprising the following steps implemented when the head-mounted display is being worn by a user in a predetermined environment comprising a plurality of information interfaces: A1. determining a first datum (D1) relating to a position and orientation of a head of the user with respect to the environment based on information relating to a spatial arrangement of the environment; B. modifying a brightness of the head-mounted display and/or adjusting the graphic messages, depending on a dataset containing the first datum and containing information relating to the interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Louis Nomine, Eric Gaulue, Jean-Michel Francois
  • Patent number: 12271223
    Abstract: A portable electronic device includes a foldable housing; a display; an illuminance sensor; a state detection sensor; a memory; and a processor. Based on data received from the state detection sensor, the portable electronic device is recognized to be in the folded state. Responsive to the portable electronic device being in a calibration trigger state which includes the folded state, a first image is displayed in a sensor area of a first display area located on the illuminance sensor, and a second image is displayed in an area of the second display area facing the sensor area. An illuminance value is calculated based on data received from the illuminance sensor while the first image and the second image are displayed, and then compared to a reference value stored in the memory to calculate a calibration value for calibrating measured illuminance values of the illuminance sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gwangho Choi, Jongah Kim, Heewoong Yoon, Kihyuk Lee, Donghan Lee, Jeongho Cho
  • Patent number: 12272314
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display substrate including a display region and a non-display region. The non-display region is provided with a gate drive circuit, the gate drive circuit includes a plurality of cascaded shift register units, and a shift register unit is connected with at least one power supply line. The shift register unit includes a first output circuit and a second output circuit. The first output circuit is connected with a first group of clock signal lines, and the second output circuit is connected with the first group of clock signal lines and a second group of clock signal lines. In a first direction, the first group of clock signal lines and the at least one power supply line are located between the first output circuit and the second output circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Long Han, Guangliang Shang, Libin Liu
  • Patent number: 12267966
    Abstract: The present application relates to a spliced box and a spliced display screen. In the process of splicing and assembling a plurality of boxes, when there is a height difference between a second surface of a certain box and a second surface of other boxes, the first adjusting member at the box is adjusted to raise or lower the box so that the height of the second surface of the box is adjusted. As a result, the second surface of the box is on the same plane as the second surface of other boxes so that the display units on the second surface of the boxes are on the same plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guangnan Zou
  • Patent number: 12250474
    Abstract: Tracking an eye characteristic (e.g., gaze direction or pupil position) of a user's eyes by staggering image capture and using a predicted relationship between the user's eyes between eye captures to predict that eye's eye characteristic between those eye captures. Images of a user's eyes are captured in a staggered manner in the sense that the images of second eye are captured between the capture times of the images of the first eye and vice versa. An eye characteristic of the first eye at the capture times is determined based on the images of the first eye at those times. In addition, the eye characteristic of that first eye is predicted at additional times between captures based on a predicted relationship between the eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mehmet N. Agaoglu, Andrew B. Watson
  • Patent number: 12236076
    Abstract: Provided is a display system including a position indicating device and an information processing apparatus having a display screen and a sensor that detects a position indicated by the position indicating device. The position indicating device includes a casing, an interaction circuit disposed inside the casing, where the interaction circuit exchanges a signal with the sensor, and a securing member that secures the casing to the display screen. The information processing apparatus includes a position detection circuit that detects the position indicated by the position indicating device that is secured to the display screen through the securing member, based on the signal exchanged by the interaction circuit, and a control circuit that performs control to display a given display image on the display screen with the position indicated by the position indicating device and detected by the position detection circuit used as a reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Nomi, Hideki Fujimaki
  • Patent number: 12230212
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device which includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a voltage generator providing a driving voltage to the plurality of pixels, and a driving controller. The driving controller includes an overcurrent protecting circuit. The overcurrent protecting circuit includes a first logic circuit comparing a limit current with a sensing current to generate a first comparison result, a second logic circuit comparing a load with a limit load to generate a second comparison result and comparing the driving voltage with a limit voltage to generate a third comparison result. When the first comparison result indicates the sensing current is greater than or equal to the limit current, the second comparison result indicates the load is greater than the limit load and the third comparison result indicates the driving voltage is greater than the limit voltage, a driving voltage controller maintains the driving voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kihyun Pyun, Sung-Mo Yang
  • Patent number: 12217675
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a first display region and a first region at least partially surrounding the first display region; the first display region includes first light-emitting elements, the first region includes first pixel circuits and at least one first capacitance compensation structure, and the display substrate includes transparent wiring lines extending from the first region to the first display region; the first pixel circuit is electrically connected to the first light-emitting element through the transparent wiring line, and is configured to control a driving current flowing through the first pixel circuit, the transparent wiring line, and the first light-emitting element; and the first capacitance compensation structure is coupled to the transparent wiring line, and is configured to compensate for a parasitic capacitance caused by the transparent wiring line coupled to the first capacitance compensation structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanyou Qiu, Yao Huang, Qiwei Wang
  • Patent number: 12217663
    Abstract: A light sensor status control method, includes: a processor (110) determines a display time period and a non-light-emitting time period in a image refresh cycle (501); and the processor (110) controls an optical transmitter of a light sensor (180G) to transmit an optical signal when pixels in a display area that is of an OLED display screen (194) and that corresponds to the light sensor do not emit light in the image refresh cycle, and the processor (110) controls the optical transmitter not to transmit an optical signal when the pixels in the display area that is of the OLED display screen (194) and that corresponds to the light sensor (180G) emits light (502). Therefore, a problem that the screen blinks because the light sensor emits infrared light is alleviated, and a display effect of the screen is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jicun Fan, Li Kang, Wei Wang, Haowei Jiang, Ying Li