Patents Examined by Duane N Taylor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10930186
    Abstract: Provided are an image display apparatus and an image display element that are capable of achieving excellent visual effects. The image display apparatus of the present invention includes a first transparent member, a second transparent member, and an emission section. The first transparent member includes a diffusion surface for diffusing light incident on respective points. The second transparent includes a control surface and is integrated with the first transparent member, the control surface being disposed in a manner that the control surface faces the diffusion surface, controlling propagation directions of light diffused at the respective points on the diffusion surface, and forming a virtual image of the diffusion surface. The emission section emits image light to the diffusion surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoya Yano
  • Patent number: 10928891
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for calibrating a camera of a head-mounted display, HMD. The method comprises providing a calibration target in front of a lens of the HMD. Each of the calibration target and the lens basically extend in a corresponding two-dimensional plane. The method further comprises determining a lateral position of the calibration target. The lateral position relates to a position of the calibration target in the two-dimensional plane. The method even further comprises determining a lateral position of the lens. The lateral position relates to a position of the lens in the two-dimensional plane. The method yet even further comprises determining a calibration target misalignment based on the determined lateral position of the calibration target and based on the determined lateral position of the lens. The method also comprises performing a hardware calibration of the HMD. The hardware calibration is adapted for the calibration target misalignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Tobii AB
    Inventor: Mikael Rosell
  • Patent number: 10921854
    Abstract: An electronic device may have an elongated sensing strip. Control circuitry may use the sensing strip to gather air gesture input from the fingers or other body part of a user. The electronic device may have a housing. The housing may have portions such as upper and lower portions that rotate relative to each other about an axis. A hinge may be used to couple the upper and lower portions together. The sensing strip may extend parallel to the axis and may be located on the lower portion between keys on the lower portion and the axis or on the upper portion between the edge of a display in the upper portion and the axis. The sensing strip may have a one-dimensional array of sensor elements such as capacitive sensor elements, optical sensor elements, ultrasonic sensor elements, or radio-frequency sensor elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Adam T. Garelli, Dinesh C. Mathew, Senem E. Emgin
  • Patent number: 10915768
    Abstract: A vehicle includes: a user interface including a display and a speaker; a capturer configured to capture a passenger's image; and a controller configured to obtain emotion information representing the passenger's emotion based on the image, to determine content corresponding to the emotion information, to control the user interface to output the determined content, to obtain circumstance information representing the passenger's circumstances based on the image after the determined content is output, to modify the determined content based on the circumstance information, and to control the user interface to output the modified content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jimin Han, Seok-young Youn, Jia Lee, Kye Yoon Kim, Seunghyun Woo
  • Patent number: 10916188
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies, and more particularly, to a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a drive transistor and an OLED light-emitting element. A first switching element transmits an initialization signal to the drive transistor in response to a reset signal. A second switching element transmits a data signal to the drive transistor in response to a scanning signal. A third switching element transmits the data signal to a coupling capacitor in response to the scanning signal. A fourth switching element is connected to the drive transistor in response to the scanning signal. A fifth switching element transmits a first power signal to the first terminal of the drive transistor in response to a control signal. A sixth switching element transmits, in response to the control signal, an output current of the drive transistor to the OLED light-emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignees: Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Long Han
  • Patent number: 10916209
    Abstract: A compensation device, a display device and a method for compensating common electrode voltage are provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure. A compensation device for a display panel according to an embodiment includes a compensation circuit, a comparison circuit, and an adjustment circuit. The compensation circuit generates a common electrode compensation signal to be provided to the display panel based on a common electrode input signal for providing a common electrode voltage to the display panel and a common electrode feedback signal from the display panel. The comparison circuit compares the common electrode compensation signal with the common electrode feedback signal. The adjustment circuit adjusts the common electrode compensation signal according to the comparison result of the comparison circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianjun Wang, Long Yan, Chunyang Nie, Ke Dai
  • Patent number: 10901677
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a multi-screen display method and a display device including a curved surface display screen. The method is applied to the display device and includes the following steps. Position information of a preset folding line in the curved surface display screen is obtained when screen is bent according to the preset folding line, wherein the preset folding line is a boundary between the two adjacent sub-curved surface display screens formed thereby. A display interface of the screen is divided into a plurality of display sub-interfaces according to the position information, wherein a screen splitting line between two adjacent display sub-interfaces coincides with the preset folding line. The display contents selected by the user in the plurality of display sub-interfaces are obtained; and the selected display contents are displayed in the display sub-interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 10884531
    Abstract: A digitizer, a signal transmission device, a digitizer device and control methods thereof are provided. The digitizer includes an operating panel and a first processor. The operating panel is provided with multiple photoelectric sensors. The multiple photoelectric sensors receive an external optical signal, convert the optical signal into an electric signal, and transmit the electric signal to the first processor. The first processor is configured to determine, in accordance with the electric signal, a location where the optical signal is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huaiwei Yang, Dandan Li, Chaozhi Yu
  • Patent number: 10885303
    Abstract: An optical fingerprint sensing module for sensing a fingerprint pattern of a finger placed on an upper surface of a display panel module is provided, wherein light is generated by the display panel module and reflected by the finger. The optical fingerprint sensing module includes a substrate, an image sensor disposed above the substrate, a collimating layer disposed above the image sensor, a light permeable layer disposed above the collimating layer, and a pinhole layer disposed above the light permeable layer. The collimating layer has a plurality of collimating holes, and the pinhole layer has a plurality of pinholes, wherein the number of collimating holes is greater than the number of pinholes. Light is reflected by the finger and then sequentially propagates through the pinholes, the light permeable layer, and the collimating holes to reach the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: EGIS TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Chen-Chih Fan, Tong-Long Fu, Yu-Hsiang Huang
  • Patent number: 10872438
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence (AI) device capable of being controlled according to a user's gaze includes a communication unit, a camera configured to capture an image of a user, and a processor configured to acquire user state information from the image of the user, acquire a gaze position of the user based on the acquired user state information, calculate a distance between the acquired gaze position and the camera, receive, from one or more external AI devices, one or more distances between gaze positions of the user respectively acquired by the external AI devices and cameras respectively provided in the external AI devices through the communication unit, and compare the calculated distance with the received one or more distances to select a controlled device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Taeju Hwang
  • Patent number: 10866650
    Abstract: Provided is a method and device for recognizing a pointing location by using a radar. A device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a weight value space generation unit for generating a weight value space comprising a plurality of unit spaces in a space in front of the screen, and setting weight values in proportion to intensity of clutter-removed reception signals of the plurality of radars to the unit spaces; a hand area detection unit for adding up the set weight values for each of the unit spaces of the weight value space; an effective radar selection unit for selecting, as an effective radar, a radar having a shortest distance to the detected hand area among the plurality of radars; and a finger position determination unit for detecting a first location (first path) exceeding a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: WRT LAB CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Ho Cho, Dae Hyeon Yim
  • Patent number: 10859861
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a dual-mode augmented reality and virtual reality viewer (AR/VR viewer) includes a device configured to provide AR and VR effects, the device including a display screen, a VR shield, and a transparency control unit coupled to the VR shield. The AR/VR viewer also includes a computing platform for generating the AR and VR effects communicatively coupled to the device. The display screen has a user facing first surface for receiving the AR and VR effects, and a second surface opposite the user facing first surface. The display screen or a transmissive layer adjoining the display screen is configured to have a variable transparency. The VR shield is configured to be one of substantially transparent in an AR mode and substantially opaque in a VR mode under the control of the transparency control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall Davis, Nathan Nocon
  • Patent number: 10854148
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a method and a system of controlling backlight driving. The method includes receiving an initial-pulse-width modulating signal and outputting a corresponding pulse-width modulating signal according to the initial-pulse-width modulating signal. The pulse-width modulating signal is used to control a corresponding LED string to illuminate. A cycle of each of the pulse-width modulating signals is the same with a predetermined phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Inventor: Xianming Zhang
  • Patent number: 10846502
    Abstract: A sensor device comprising a two-dimensional array of ultrasonic transducers, wherein the two-dimensional array of ultrasonic transducers is substantially flat, a non-uniform contact layer overlying the two-dimensional array of ultrasonic transducers, and a sensor processor is described. The sensor device is configured to: transmit ultrasonic signals using the two-dimensional array of ultrasonic transducers for reflection from an object in contact with the non-uniform contact layer, wherein the ultrasonic signals traverse the non-uniform contact layer, receive reflected ultrasonic signals at the two-dimensional array of ultrasonic transducers, obtain non-uniformity data characterizing the non-uniform contact layer, control operating parameters of the sensor device based on the non-uniformity data, and generate an image of the object in contact with the non-uniform contact layer based on the reflected ultrasonic signals, wherein the image is corrected for non-uniformity of the non-uniform contact layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: InvenSense, Inc.
    Inventor: Hao-Yen Tang
  • Patent number: 10817081
    Abstract: A qualified electronic signature device in the form of stylus and method of its use wherein a smart stylus contains a stylus tip, a smart card chip, a processing unit with memory, motion sensor, pressure sensor, a RF transceiver, power control button, LED diode, integrated battery and real-time clock module. The device further contains an external computing device and an electronic dataset. A smart stylus enables qualified electronic signature by means of identifying the signatory via hand written characteristics and behavioural features. At least one characteristic trait of a person who signs an electronic dataset is captured for evaluation. Subsequently, to authenticate the signatory, the captured electronic dataset is evaluated against behavioural templates stored in smart stylus prior to authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Inventor: Peter Kolarov
  • Patent number: 10809963
    Abstract: A vehicle display control apparatus for controlling at least one display of a vehicle may include: a processor configured to: calculate a display control resource distribution ratio of the at least one display based on at least one of: an autonomous driving state of the vehicle, a gaze direction of a user, and a characteristic of content displayed by the at least one display, and control operation of the at least one display by allocating a control resource to each of the at least one display based on the calculated display control resource distribution ratio; and a storage configured to store the calculated display control resource distribution ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Jae Wan Lim
  • Patent number: 10802658
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for determining a proximity status between electrodes may include detecting an amount of electrical charge an electrode among other electrodes that are communicatively coupled to an artificial reality device. The method may further include determining, based on the detected amount of electrical charge at the electrode, a mutual capacitance measurement that indicates an amount of mutual capacitance between the other electrodes. The method may also include determining, based on the mutual capacitance measurement, a relative proximity status between the electrodes, where the relative proximity status indicates a degree to which the electrodes are in proximity with each other. The method may further include providing the determined relative proximity status between the electrodes as an input to the artificial reality device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Ahne, Brian Cox, Andrew Doxon, Genevieve Walker, Morgan de Faye Timblin, Cailyn Austin Embring
  • Patent number: 10788905
    Abstract: Provided are touch-fingerprint complex sensors, operating methods thereof, and electronic apparatuses including the touch-fingerprint complex sensors. A touch-fingerprint complex sensor may include a plurality of first electrodes extending in a first direction in a touch pad, and a plurality of second electrodes extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The plurality of first electrodes may include a plurality of first touch electrodes disposed at regular intervals and a plurality of first sub-electrodes between adjacent ones of the plurality of first touch electrodes. The plurality of second electrodes may include a plurality of second touch electrodes disposed at regular intervals and a plurality of second sub-electrodes between adjacent ones of the plurality of second touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinmyoung Kim, Dongkyun Kim, Seokwhan Chung
  • Patent number: 10788941
    Abstract: A method for detecting contact of a capacitive sensor includes transferring charge quantities in multiple successive cycles from the capacitive sensor to an integration capacitor having a known capacitance value. A voltage of the integration capacitor is measured. The measured voltage is processed to generate a sensor amplitude that is indicative of a capacitance value of the capacitive sensor. Contact of the capacitive sensor is detected based on a temporal behavior of the sensor amplitude. For instance, contact of the capacitive sensor is detected based on the rate of change of the sensor amplitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: KOSTAL Automobil Elektrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Uwe Borgmann
  • Patent number: 10770027
    Abstract: An image color cast compensation method, an image color cast compensation device and a display device are provided. The image color cast compensation method includes: inputting a 3D reference image, driving a display panel to display the 3D reference image, and determining pixels with color cast in the 3D reference image as target pixels; with respect to each of target pixels, determining a color cast value for a to-be-displayed image corresponding to the target pixel in accordance with the 3D reference image; determining an inverted color corresponding to the color cast value in accordance with the 3D reference image, and taking the inverted color as a complementary color for the target pixel; and compensating a to-be-outputted 3D image signal in accordance with the complementary color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chunmiao Zhou