Patents Examined by Doon Y. Chow
  • Patent number: 12197069
    Abstract: A display system includes a backlight configured to project light. A first display unit is disposed proximate the backlight. A second display unit is disposed proximate the first display unit. A microcontroller is in communication with one or more of the backlight, the first display unit and the second display unit. The microcontroller executes instructions to adjust the first display unit between a first transmissive state and a second transmissive state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Fredrick Luther Weindorf, David Whitton
  • Patent number: 12197641
    Abstract: A method of smoothly transitioning between input devices with respect to a virtual reality environment is disclosed. A probable user input action is determined based on input data from a plurality of input devices. A best device is selected from the plurality of input devices based on a quality of a signal of the best device relative to qualities of signals of other devices of the plurality of input devices. Based on a determination that the selected best device is not the same as a previously selected best device from the plurality of devices, a transition between the previously selected device and the best selected device is determined and the transition is used to drive the probable user input action based on input data from the selected best device and input data from the previously selected best device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Unity Technologies ApS
    Inventors: Gregory Lionel Xavier Jean Palmaro, Dylan Charles Urquidi-Maynard, Eric Provencher, Ryan Goodrich
  • Patent number: 12190816
    Abstract: Provided are a display substrate, a display panel, and a display device. The display substrate includes a base substrate, pixel circuits, groups of data lines, and first power lines. At least one column of pixel circuits is electrically connected to at least one group of data lines and includes first and second pixel circuits alternately arranged in the second direction. The at least one group of data lines includes first and second data lines. For the at least one column of pixel circuits, input transistors of first and second pixel circuits are electrically connected to first and second data lines, respectively. In the first direction, the first data line, the first power line and the second data line are arranged in sequence, and input transistors of first and second pixel circuits are respectively located on a side of the first power line close to the first and second data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Feng, Jianchao Zhu
  • Patent number: 12190050
    Abstract: An ink data modification or correction method, and an information processing device and a program for implementing the method are provided, which allow automatic correction of ink data including a spelling error in a handwritten character string. An ink data modification method according to the present disclosure includes determining a modification method of ink data by detecting a spelling error included in a handwritten character string represented by the ink data, and modifying the ink data by manipulating the ink data on the basis of the determined modification method. For example, the determined modification method may be to add a missing character, or to delete a superfluous character, or to correct a typo by replacing an erroneous character with a correct character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lachezar Sashov Dodov
  • Patent number: 12183296
    Abstract: A display, a method for controlling the display, and a display system are provided. The method for controlling the display includes the following steps. analyzing an image after receiving image information to determine whether there is at least one object in the image; obtaining a block corresponding to each object in each of multiple frames of the image, and identifying object information in each block, wherein the object information includes an object type, reference point coordinates, and a frame time; obtaining a number of a target object according to the object type; calculating a moving speed of each target object according to the frame time and the reference point coordinates; and controlling brightness of a light source of the display according to the number and the moving speed. The disclosure can dynamically adjust the brightness of the light source according to different conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Optoma Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng-Feng Chang, Ya-Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 12175938
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, an energy storage circuit, a driving circuit, a data writing-in circuit, a compensation control circuit, an initialization circuit and a light emitting control circuit. The compensation control circuit is configured to control to connect the control terminal of the driving circuit and the first terminal of the driving circuit under the control of a first control signal. The driving circuit is configured to generate a driving current for driving the light emitting element to emit light under the control of a potential of the control terminal of the driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuewei Tian, Bo Yang, Shuai Xie
  • Patent number: 12147604
    Abstract: A touch feedback device includes an optical imaging module, an air supplying module, a sensing module, and a signal processing module. The optical imaging module generates a first floating image. The air supplying device forms an airflow field at the outline and/or around the first floating image. The sensing module is configured to sense the change of the airflow field, including the amount of airflow, the air pressure or the speed of airflow caused by the detected object to correspond to a position information. The signal processing module is configured to determine when the position information is inside the preset trigger area of the first floating image outline area, generates at least one feedback command, wherein the at least one feedback command is sent to the optical imaging module to let the optical imaging module generate a second floating image that is different than the first floating image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hung Tsou, Szu-Wei Wu, Yi-Hsiang Huang
  • Patent number: 12136177
    Abstract: In an example in accordance with the present disclosure, an extended reality system is described. The extended reality system includes an imaging system to present virtual objects to a user. The extended reality system also includes a machine vision tracking system. The machine vision tracking system includes a camera to capture images of a user's hand a tool grasped in the user's hand. The machine vision tracking system also includes a processor. The processor 1) tracks a position and orientation of the user's hand in physical space, 2) identifies the tool grasped in the user's hand, and 3) tracks a position and orientation of the tool in physical space. The extended reality system also includes an XR controller to manipulate the XR environment based on the position and orientation of the tool and the position and orientation of the hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jon Danielson, Adolfo Adolfo Gomez, Mark Lessman
  • Patent number: 12125448
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of lookup tables, and a luminance information calculation circuit configured to calculate luminance information indicating a luminance of light reaching a target pixel of a display panel from a backlight. The first lookup table is associated with a first light source element provided at a first position, and indicates a first attenuation rate distribution of the first light source element. The second lookup table is associated with a second light source element provided at a second position, and indicates a second attenuation rate distribution of the second light source element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsunori Nakahara
  • Patent number: 12114103
    Abstract: A projector having a curved field lens and a displaced light modulating display. The system includes at least one light source configured to generate colored light beams, and a prism routing the light beams to the display. The curved field lens is coupled to a face of the prism, and the prism and curved field lens together decenter the light beam from the prism face and uniformly illuminate the display. A center of the display is displaced from the projection lens optical axis. The decentered light beam and the displaced display together generate a favorable shifted boresight of the created image. Dimensions of components of the projector are a function of a curvature of the curved field lens. The greater the curvature of the curved field lens, the smaller the dimensions of the components and the overall projector. The projector may be used in eyewear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Matthew Bates, David G. Fliszar
  • Patent number: 12112666
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate including a display area, a peripheral area surrounding the display area, a hole area positioned inside the display area, and a pad area; a crack detection line including a first part in the pad area and extending to the peripheral area and a second part connected to the first part, disposed to surround the hole area, and extending to the pad area; a printed circuit board in the pad area; first transistors in the pad area and connected in series between the printed circuit board and the first part, where each of gate electrodes of the first transistors is connected to a first signal line; and second transistors in the pad area and connected in series between a constant voltage line and the first part, where each of gate electrodes of the second transistors is connected to a second signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hae-Yeon Lee, Sukyoung Kim, Hwayoung Song, Kwangsae Lee, Il-Joo Kim
  • Patent number: 12105949
    Abstract: A touchpad device is to be operated by using a stylus pen, and includes a touchpad and a controller that are connected to each other. The controller is connected to an electronic device that includes a display panel, and operates in a stylus-pen mode where a handwriting area is presented on the display panel. When it is determined that a distance between the stylus pen and the touchpad is less than a preset pen-hover distance but is non-zero, the controller operates in a hover-move sub-mode where the controller outputs a control signal to enable the electronic device to present, in the handwriting area, the cursor moving, without presenting a trace of the cursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SUNREX TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Chih-Cheng Lee
  • Patent number: 12100325
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a gate driver circuit and a plurality of driving wires. By disposing gate driver circuits with different distribution density in non-bending frame regions and adjusting corresponding driving wires wired from an output end of the gate driver circuit to a bending displaying region, normal driving of the bending displaying region can be achieved and simultaneously damages to the gate driver circuit during folding can be mitigated or obviated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ningning Zhou, Yanan Wang, Zengjian Jin, Rui Ju, Jihui Li, Qiaoya Zhang, Zhenbo Song, Tengfei Ge
  • Patent number: 12094379
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises measuring a current drawn by a display panel, determining whether the current exceeds a threshold value, and upon determining that the current exceeds the threshold value, causing a light source associated with the display panel to shut off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Junghoon Seo, Chulmin Lee, Kugjin Cho, Daehyoun Byoun
  • Patent number: 12093083
    Abstract: An electronic device and a control method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes: a screen (100), where the screen (100) includes a bendable flexible screen portion (110); and a cam (200), where the cam (200) is provided on a back side of the flexible screen portion (110) and is configured to support the flexible screen portion (110), and the cam (200) is able to rotate between a first state and a second state; in a case that the cam (200) is in the first state, the flexible screen portion (110) is curved; and in a case that the cam (200) is in the second state, the flexible screen portion (110) is flat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xianhe Du, Fen Wang
  • Patent number: 12094068
    Abstract: Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for presenting a virtual experience using the display of an eyewear device in augmented reality. A content delivery application implements and controls the detecting of beacons broadcast from beacon transmitters deployed at fixed locations and determining the current eyewear location based on the detected beacons. The method includes retrieving content and presenting a virtual experience based on the retrieved content, the beacon data, and a user profile. The virtual experience includes playing audio messages, presenting text on the display, playing video segments on the display, and combinations thereof. In addition to wireless detection of beacons, the method includes scanning and decoding a beacon activation code positioned near the beacon transmitter to access a beacon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Alex Feinman
  • Patent number: 12085829
    Abstract: A method for driving electro-optic displays including a layer of electro-optic material disposed between a common electrode and a backplane including an array of pixel electrodes, each coupled to a pixel transistor. The method for driving includes apportioning a displayable region of the electro-optic display into N BRAID line groups, where each of the N BRAID line groups is associated with a frame buffer. The method also includes receiving first image data comprising optical state data for the entire displayable region of the electro-optic display, and sequentially writing subsets of the first image data to each of the N frame buffers, wherein each of the N frame buffers is written with data corresponding to the corresponding BRAID line group. The method also includes sequentially updating portions of the displayable region of the electro-optic display based on the data in each of the N frame buffers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: E INK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bryan Hans Chan, Craig Lin
  • Patent number: 12079039
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display panel including a folding area foldable with respect to a folding axis and a non-folding area which is adjacent to the folding area, a support plate facing the display panel, and a digitizer which faces the display panel with the support plate therebetween and detects a first external input. The digitizer includes a plate including a reinforcing fiber, a first conductive layer on a first surface of the plate, and a second conductive layer on a second surface of the plate which is opposite to the first surface of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Kishimoto, Dasom Gu, Yonghyuck Lee, Hongkwan Lee, Yongchan Jeon, Chul Ho Jeong, Hyunjun Cho, Eungil Choi, Sohra Han
  • Patent number: 12039900
    Abstract: A method of calibrating a head-up display system includes training a neural network to predict warp maps for an occupant perspective of a single graphical image projected onto a windshield of the vehicle, projecting, with a digital light projector, a graphical image onto the windshield, capturing, with a camera in proximity to the digital light projector, the graphical image projected onto the windshield, locating, with an occupant monitoring system, an occupant eye ellipse position, predicting, with the neural network, a warp map for an occupant perspective of the projected graphical image based on the location of the digital light projector, the occupant eye ellipse position and a shape of the windshield, applying, with the controller, the warp map to the graphical image projected by the digital light projector, and projecting, with the digital light projector, a corrected graphical image based on the predicted warp map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Manoj Kumar Sharma, Joseph F. Szczerba, Thomas A. Seder, John P. Weiss
  • Patent number: 12039935
    Abstract: A pixel circuit can include a driving element connected to a first node, a second node and a third node; a first switch element supplying an initialization voltage to the second node; a second switch element supplying a data voltage to a fourth node; and a capacitor connected between the third node and the fourth node. Also, the pixel circuit can further include a third switch element supplying a reference voltage to the third node; a fourth switch element supplying a pixel driving voltage to the first node; a fifth switch element electrically connecting the fourth node with the second node; a light emitting element driven to emit light based on a current supplied through the driving element; and a sixth switch element configured to electrically connect the third node with a fifth node connected to an anode electrode of the light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyu Jin Kim, Dong Hyun Lee