Patents Examined by Eboni N Giles
  • Patent number: 11954245
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for displaying representations of physical input devices and overlaying visual features on the representations of physical input devices in a computer-generated reality (CGR) environment. The techniques include displaying a virtual application in a CGR environment and, in response to detecting an input field in the displayed virtual application, displaying at least a portion of the displayed application on a representation of a physical input device. The at least a portion of the displayed application includes the detected input field. In response to detecting an input received at the physical input device, the input field is updated with the input, and the updated input field is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Pol Pla I. Conesa, Earl M. Olson, Aaron P. Thompson
  • Patent number: 11953619
    Abstract: Radar-based sensing includes, at an electronic device that includes one or more radar-based transmitters and one or more radar-based receivers, transmitting, from one or more of the radar-based transmitters, radio waves into an area in a vicinity of the electronic device and receiving, at one or more of the radar-based receivers, radio waves reflected off one or more objects in the vicinity of the electronic device. The radio waves, as reflected off the one or more objects, can be processed using a radar imaging module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Santiago Ortega Avila, Cody Wortham, Sajid Sadi
  • Patent number: 11936927
    Abstract: A multimedia signal transmission control system is provided, which includes a transmitter control circuit and a receiver control circuit coupled with each other. The transmitter control circuit packs a control signal and at least one of multimedia signals into first hybrid data packets in an active video period of a video frame, and packs the control signal and another at least one of the multimedia signals into second hybrid data packets in a vertical front porch and a vertical back porch of the video frame. The receiver control circuit receives the first hybrid data packets in the active video period, and receives the second hybrid data packets in the vertical front porch and the vertical back porch. The receiver control circuit unpacks the first hybrid data packets and the second hybrid data packets to provide the control signal and the multimedia signals to a display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Yun-Hung Lin, Po-Hsien Wu, Li-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11928960
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for alerting passenger vehicles of approaching emergency vehicles is implemented by an alert management computing device. The method includes receiving an emergency vehicle alert request message from an emergency vehicle transmitter, receiving passenger vehicle location data from a plurality of passenger vehicle user computing devices located in a plurality of passenger vehicles, wherein the passenger vehicle location data includes a present passenger vehicle location and a present passenger vehicle trajectory, identifying an alert zone for the emergency vehicle based on the present emergency vehicle location and the present emergency vehicle trajectory, identifying a vehicle zone for each of the plurality of passenger vehicles, identifying a subset of the passenger vehicles within the alert zone by comparing each vehicle zone to the alert zone, and transmitting a warning to the subset of passenger vehicles via the passenger vehicle user computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Invent F & W, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Walsh, Virginia E. Foster, Ryan McNeely
  • Patent number: 11916582
    Abstract: Systems and methods of determining a noise-robust acquisition configuration for a sensor or communication system are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises a noise scan with: obtaining a sensor receive signal from the sensor system; determining a digital receive signal from the sensor receive signal by A/D conversion of the sensor receive signal at a predefined noise scan frequency; determining a plurality of decimated digital receive signals by integer decimation of the digital receive signal using two or more decimation rates that differ from each other, wherein each of the two or more decimation rates is associated with a respective candidate acquisition configuration; determining one or more noise measures for multiple of the candidate acquisition configurations using one or more of the plurality of decimated digital receive signals; and using the one or more noise measures, determining the acquisition configuration for operation of the sensor system from the candidate acquisition configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventor: Axel Heim
  • Patent number: 11900891
    Abstract: A backlight unit of the present disclosure includes: a backlight including a plurality of light-emitting devices that are allowed to emit light at mutually different timings and include a first light-emitting device and a second light-emitting device; and a controller that controls a light emission operation of the backlight to cause the first light-emitting device and the second light-emitting device to emit light with mutually different average light emission intensities in a first sub-frame period of a plurality of sub-frame periods provided corresponding to a frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventors: Norimasa Furukawa, Shingo Kimura, Kazuhiro Horiuchi, Kenichi Nakaki
  • Patent number: 11867989
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel including a substrate and a plurality of scan lines disposed on the substrate and extending in a first direction, a backlight module disposed under the display panel, and an optical film disposed above the backlight module and including a plurality of light-blocking portions and a plurality of light-transmission portions which are arranged alternately. The light blocking portions extend in a second direction, and the first direction and the second direction are not parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hong-Sheng Hsieh, Hao-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11871624
    Abstract: A display device includes a first semiconductor layer disposed on a substrate; a first insulating layer disposed on the first semiconductor layer; a scan line disposed on the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer on the scan line; an inverted scan line on the second insulating layer; a third insulating layer disposed on the inverted scan line; a second semiconductor layer disposed on the third insulating layer; a fourth insulating layer disposed on the second semiconductor layer; an initializing voltage line disposed on the fourth insulating layer and overlapping the scan line; a first transistor including a channel disposed in the first semiconductor layer and receiving a gate signal through the scan line; and a second transistor including a channel disposed in the second semiconductor layer and receiving a gate signal through the inverted scan line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se Wan Son, Moo Soon Ko, Kyung Hyun Baek, Seok Je Seong, Jae Hyun Lee, Jeong-Soo Lee, Ji Seon Lee, Yoon-Jong Cho
  • Patent number: 11843487
    Abstract: A receiver, which is compatible with a mobile industry processor interface (MIPI) C-PHY physical layer, includes a plurality of variable-gain amplifiers responsive to respective multi-level signals (e.g., 3-level signals), and a plurality of filters having variable cutoff frequencies. The plurality of filters are responsive to respective signals generated by the plurality of amplifiers. An array of comparators is provided, which is responsive to signals generated by the plurality of filters. A jitter detection circuit is provided, which is configured to set respective gains of the plurality of variable-gain amplifiers and respective cutoff frequencies of the plurality of filters (e.g., high-pass filters), in response to signals generated by the array of comparators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Inventors: Seongkwan Lee, Minho Kang, Cheolmin Park
  • Patent number: 11823614
    Abstract: A novel display device where a light-emitting element is turned on by a triangle wave is provided. One embodiment of the present invention is a method for driving a display device including a first pixel, a second pixel, a first wiring, a second wiring, and a third wiring. The first wiring is electrically connected to the first pixel and the second pixel. The second wiring and the third wiring are electrically connected to the first pixel and the second pixel, respectively. At a first time, the first pixel reaches the maximum luminance corresponding to first display data and the second pixel reaches the maximum luminance corresponding to second display data. The first pixel and the second pixel are initialized at a second time different from the first time by input of a reset signal to the first wiring to stop light emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Watanabe, Kei Takahashi, Koji Kusunoki, Takahiro Fukutome
  • Patent number: 11794694
    Abstract: Utilizing an access device is provided. A command mapping of user input to RKE commands is utilized to identify a RKE command based on the user input to one or more motion or orientation sensor of the access device. Responsive to the environmental input from one or more environmental sensors of the access device being indicative of command entry, a transceiver of the access device is activated, the RKE command is sent, and the transceiver is deactivated. Otherwise, the user input of the RKE command is ignored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Vivekanandh Elangovan, Jochen Schubert
  • Patent number: 11765006
    Abstract: A device includes an analog to digital converter configured to convert voltages into a digital signal by sampling the voltages at a fixed sampling time; a first multiplier configured to multiply the digital signal with in-phase coefficients, the in-phase coefficients generated to produce a demodulated in-phase signal at a demodulation signal frequency; a first adder configured accumulate the demodulated in-phase signal to output in-phase magnitude values; a second multiplier configured to multiply the digital signal with quadrature coefficients, the quadrature coefficients generated to produce a demodulated quadrature signal at the demodulation signal frequency; and a second adder configured to accumulate the demodulated quadrature signal to output quadrature magnitude values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: Ade Putra, Kusuma Adi Ningrat, Mythreyi Nagarajan
  • Patent number: 11721260
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a first display portion including, the first display portion including a first area and a second area alternately arranged in one direction, a first emission device being disposed in the first area and the second area being located adjacent to the first area and configured to transmit external light, an electronic component facing one surface of the display panel and arranged corresponding to at least the second area, and a transmittance control component between the display panel and the electronic component and configured to control transmittance of the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joohyuk Bang, Sungjin Ma, Yijoon Ahn, Inho Cho
  • Patent number: 11657760
    Abstract: A light emission driver includes a plurality of stages outputs a light emission control signal. Each of the stages includes an input circuit controlling voltages of a first node and a second node, an output circuit supplying a voltage of first power or a second power to an output terminal, a first signal processor controlling a voltage of a fourth node based on a signal supplied to a third input terminal and a voltage of a fifth node, a second signal processor controlling the voltage of the fourth node in response to the voltage of a third node, a first stabilizer limiting voltage drops of the first node and the second node, and a second stabilizer controlling an electrical connection between the third node and the first node in response to the voltage of the fourth node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Hyun Park, Bon Yong Koo, Yu Jin Lee, Kyung Hoon Chung
  • Patent number: 11644927
    Abstract: A display device is capable of sensing a user's touching or inputting by a laser pointer on a display panel, by means of arranging a photo transistor in some pixels of the display panel to sense off-current of the photo transistor according to a change in the quantity of external light. In addition, a common electrode overlapping a data line is arranged separately from a common electrode overlapping a read-out line from which a sensing signal is detected, thereby improving the sensing performance carried out simultaneously with the display driving, owing to reduced influence of noise caused by the display driving to the sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SeungHwan Shin, DaeYoung Seo
  • Patent number: 11621743
    Abstract: Embodiments contemplate methods and systems for determining and communicating channel state information (CSI) for one or more transmission points (or CSI reference signal resources). Embodiments further contemplate determining transmission states may include applying at least one transmission state parameter to channel state information (CSI). Embodiments also contemplate reporting CSI based on the transmission state and/or at least one transmission state parameter applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Marinier, Afshin Haghighat, Guodong Zhang, Diana Pani, J. Patrick Tooher, Marian Rudolf, Ghyslain Pelletier, Christopher R. Cave, Yan Li, Allan Y. Tsai, Pascal M. Adjakple
  • Patent number: 11615744
    Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display device comprises a substrate, and a plurality of sub-pixels disposed on the substrate and including alight emitting element and a sub-pixel circuit driving the light emitting element. The sub-pixel circuit comprises a driving transistor controlling a driving current flowing through the light emitting element, a first transistor and a second transistor connected in series between a first node, which is a drain electrode of the driving transistor, and a second node, which is a gate electrode of the driving transistor, to receive the same scan signal, and a gate auxiliary electrode disposed on a gate electrode of the first transistor or the second transistor. The gate auxiliary electrode is connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor or the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventors: Keun Woo Kim, Tae Wook Kang, Doo Na Kim, Han Bit Kim, Jae Seob Lee, Jae Hwan Chu
  • Patent number: 11592873
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a display stack includes a set of light-emitting elements, and a display backplane that includes a set of conductors and is electrically coupled to the set of light-emitting elements. A conductor in the set of conductors has a length, and a curved edge extending along at least a portion of the length. In some embodiments, a display stack includes a set of light-emitting elements; a set of transistors, electrically coupled to the set of light-emitting elements; and a set of conductors, electrically coupled to the set of transistors. The set of transistors may be electrically coupled to the set of conductors at a set of conductive pads. A plurality of conductive pads in the set of conductive pads is coupled to a single conductor in the set of conductors. The single conductor approaches different conductive pads in the plurality of conductive pads at different angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Xiao Xiang, Tong Chen, Fan Gui, Mark T. Winkler, Ran Tu, Tsu-Hui Lin, Wenrui Cai, Yun Wang
  • Patent number: 11587485
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel has a display area and a non-display area. The display panel includes pixels arranged in H columns and H*x data lines arranged in the display area and DEMUX circuits arranged in the non-display area. Each pixel includes x sub-pixels, and the data line is electrically connected to the sub-pixel. Each DEMUX circuit includes signal output terminals electrically connected to the data lines. The DEMUX circuits include M first DEMUX circuits and N second DEMUX circuits. Each first DEMUX circuit includes a first signal input terminal and al first signal output terminals. Each second DEMUX circuit includes a second signal input terminal and b1 second signal output terminals. H*x=M*a1+N*b1, where H, x, M, N, a1, and b1 are positive integers, M>N, a1>2, b1?2, a1>b1, and (M+N) is an even number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD. SHANGHAI BRANCH
    Inventors: Yana Gao, Xingyao Zhou, Yue Li, Xinzhao Liu
  • Patent number: 11579475
    Abstract: A method of controlling a display apparatus includes: when the display apparatus is in a privacy display mode, obtaining, by an image processor, a plurality of frames of display images according to a frame of original image, transmitting, by the image processor, the plurality of frames of images to a display controller; controlling, by the display controller, the display panel to display the plurality of frames of display images in sequence within a display time of the frame of original image, and controlling, by the display controller, the grating panel to form light-transmitting regions and non-light-transmitting regions that are alternately arranged when the display panel displays each frame of display image, so as to limit an exit angle of light exiting from the display side of the display apparatus, the exit angle being within a range of a privacy viewing angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: BOE MLED TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yinwei Chen, Haiwei Sun