Patents Examined by Emily J Frank
  • Patent number: 10481685
    Abstract: A method of controlling an operation of a display device using eye movements and a device for performing the method are provided. The method includes receiving eye movement information of a user; receiving blinking information of the user; generating a control command corresponding to the eye movement information and the blinking information; and controlling an operation of the display device based on the generated control command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun-seok Lee, Kyung-hwa Yu, Sang-won Leigh, Jin-yong Chung, Sung-goo Cho
  • Patent number: 10459233
    Abstract: A display includes a projector configured to provide light of a virtual image, a waveguide into which the light of the virtual image is injected at an injection angle by the projector, and a combiner disposed along the waveguide and configured to redirect the light of the virtual image. The waveguide is configured to emit the light at a point established by the injection angle. The combiner is further configured to allow ambient light from beyond the waveguide to pass through the combiner. The waveguide constrains the light of the virtual image through total internal reflection along a curved path for the light between the projector and the combiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Adrian Travis, Joel S. Kollin, Andreas Georgiou
  • Patent number: 10459541
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at each of at least four receivers of a stylus, a signal from an electrode line oriented along a first axis of a touch-sensing device and determining, by a processor of the stylus, a signal strength of the signal at each of the at least four receivers of the stylus. The received signal has a different signal strength at each of the at least four receivers. The method includes determining, by the processor of the stylus, a tilt direction of the stylus based on the determined signal strength at a plurality of the at least four receivers, and providing, by a transmitter of the stylus, a response signal to the touch-sensing device. The tilt direction includes a direction of the stylus along a second axis of the touch-sensing device and the second axis is oriented in a different direction than the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: WACOM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Thomas Bell
  • Patent number: 10460653
    Abstract: A graphical display device includes a plurality of color-specific subpixels spatially distributed across a display region. Subpixel wear compensation is performed for some or all of the color-specific subpixels. For each color-specific subpixel, the compensation may include sampling one or more display signals directed to the color-specific subpixel to obtain a time-series of sampled values. The compensation may further include storing, in non-volatile storage, compensation data for the color-specific subpixel derived from the time-series of sampled values. The compensation may further include driving the color-specific subpixel based on the compensation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Morris, Ying Zheng, Minhyuk Choi, Rajesh Manohar Dighde
  • Patent number: 10444825
    Abstract: The technology disclosed can provide capabilities such as using motion sensors and/or other types of sensors coupled to a motion-capture system to monitor motions within a real environment. A virtual object can be projected to a user of a portable device integrated into an augmented rendering of a real environment about the user. Motion information of a user body portion is determined based at least in part upon sensory information received from imaging or acoustic sensory devices. Control information is communicated to a system based in part on a combination of the motion of the portable device and the detected motion of the user. The virtual device experience can be augmented in some implementations by the addition of haptic, audio and/or other sensory information projectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventor: David S. Holz
  • Patent number: 10437349
    Abstract: A display device includes a display; a communication device which communicates with a remote controller that includes a first button group having at least one button, and a second button group having at least one other button. A processor highlights and displays at least two key objects on the keypad from among a plurality of key objects arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, upon receiving a first control signal according to manipulation of the at least one button of the first button group from the remote controller, and recognizes, as an input key, one key object, which corresponds to a second control signal according to manipulation of the at least one other button of the second button group, among the at least two key objects, upon receiving the second control signal from the remote controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Wook Jeong, Hyo Seung Park, Kyung Jin Kim, Min Hyung Kim, Ga Min Park, So Yon You, Sang Joon Lee, Jun Woo Lee, Kyung Hwa Jung
  • Patent number: 10440317
    Abstract: A video processing device generates a display video signal to be supplied to a liquid crystal display unit that is driven by a frame inversion scheme. The video processing device includes a controller and a video signal processor. The controller controls a vertical synchronizing signal included in an interlace video signal input from outside the video processing device so that a display invalid section having a predetermined number of fields is set for the interlace video signal at a predetermined period. The video signal processor i) generates the display video signal based on the interlace video signal in which the display invalid section has been set by control of the vertical synchronizing signal and ii) outputs the display video signal to the liquid crystal display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Takeo Matsumoto, Kohji Ohnishi, Takayuki Ozasa, Tomoyuki Fujimoto, Teruhiko Kamibayashi
  • Patent number: 10423267
    Abstract: A conductive thin film, a touch panel and a manufacturing method for the same, and a display device are provided. Material for forming the conductive thin film comprise topological insulator, the conductive thin film has a two-dimensional nanostructure, which solves the technical problem that the resistance of electrodes of the touch panel is relatively harge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongchun Lu, Yong Qiao, Hongfei Cheng, Jianbo Xian
  • Patent number: 10416725
    Abstract: A wearable device is disclosed. The wearable device may include a display, a lens, an illuminator, an image sensor, and at least one processor. The display may be configured to present images. The lens may be configured to provide a view of the display to an eye of a user. The illuminator may be configured to illuminate the eye. The image sensor may be configured to detect illumination reflected by the eye. The at least one processor may be configured to cause the display to present an image, receive data from the image sensor, determine a gaze direction of the eye based at least in part on the data from the image sensor, and cause at least one of the display or the lens to be moved until the gaze direction is directed toward the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Tobii AB
    Inventors: Henrik Eskilsson, Mårten Skogö
  • Patent number: 10410579
    Abstract: What is disclosed are systems and methods of compensation of images produced by active matrix light emitting diode device (AMOLED) and other emissive displays. Anomalies in bias currents produced by current biasing circuits for driving current biased voltage programmed pixels are corrected through calibration and compensation while re-using existing data or other lines that can be controlled individually to perform said calibration and compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventor: Gholamreza Chaji
  • Patent number: 10402009
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for decreasing latency between an acquisition of touch data and processing of an associated rendering task in a touch sensitive device having a touch sensing system capable of producing touch data at a touch sampling rate and having a display system that displays frames at a refresh rate. In an embodiment, the system estimates at least one of (a) a period of time for sampling touch data from the touch sensing system, (b) a period of time for computing touch event data from sampled touch data, and (c) a period of time for rendering of a frame to a frame buffer. The system determines a period of time Tc for (a) sampling touch data from the touch sensing system, (b) computing touch event data from sampled touch data, and (c) rendering of a frame to a frame buffer, based at least in part on the estimate. The system determines a point in time Tr at which the display system will be refreshed from the frame buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.
    Inventors: Bruno Rodrigues De Araujo, Clifton Forlines, Ricardo Jorge Jota Costa
  • Patent number: 10388214
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, wherein each of the pixels includes: an organic light emitting element; a first transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a scan line, a first electrode coupled to a data line, and a second electrode coupled to a first node, a second transistor configured to drive the organic light emitting element according to a data voltage provided through the first transistor; a third transistor including a first electrode coupled to the first node and a second electrode coupled to a second node; a first capacitor between the first node and a third node configured to have an initialization voltage applied; and a second capacitor between a fourth node coupled to a gate electrode of the second transistor and the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ji Su Na
  • Patent number: 10379601
    Abstract: A head mount display (HMD) includes a processor and a memory. The memory includes code as instructions that cause the processor to send an indication that a view perspective has changed from a first position to a second position in a streaming video, determine a rate of change associated with the change from a first position to a second position, and reduce a playback frame rate of the video based on the rate of change for the view perspective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Charles Robert Armstrong
  • Patent number: 10373554
    Abstract: What is disclosed are systems and methods of compensation of images produced by active matrix light emitting diode device (AMOLED) and other emissive displays. Anomalies in luminance produced by pixel circuits and bias currents produced by current biasing circuits for driving current biased voltage programmed pixels are corrected through calibration and compensation while re-using existing data or other lines that can be controlled individually to perform said calibration and compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Gholamreza Chaji, Yaser Azizi
  • Patent number: 10354596
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a drive method therefor, and an active matrix organic light-emitting display. The pixel circuit initializes an anode of an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) through a seventh thin-film transistor (M7), so that the aging of the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) is slowed down and the service life of the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) is prolonged. The current output by a first thin-film transistor (M1) serving as a drive element is determined by a data voltage provided by a data line (Dm) and an initialization voltage (Vref) provided by a third power supply and has nothing to do with external supply voltages and a threshold voltage of the first thin-film transistor (M1), and therefore brightness non-uniformity caused by the deviation in the threshold voltage of the thin-film transistor and the change in the supply voltages can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: KUNSHAN GO-VISIONOX OPTO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiuzhan Zhang, Xiujian Zhu
  • Patent number: 10345945
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a pressure sensing method for the same, which belongs to the field of pressure sensing technology for display panel, and can solve the problem that the existing pressure sensing technology for the display panel needs to change the overall structure of the display device and has poor accuracy. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate, which are opposed to each other; a constant voltage electrode, which is applied with a constant voltage, and disposed on one of the first substrate and the second substrate; and a pressure sensing electrode, which is disposed to be opposite to the constant voltage electrode, configured to sense a pressure applied on the display panel in accordance with a distance thereof from the constant voltage electrode, and disposed on the other one of the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingming Liu, Xue Dong, Hailin Xue, Xiaochuan Chen, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Shengji Yang, Weijie Zhao, Lei Wang, Ming Yang, Changfeng Li, Wei Liu, Pengpeng Wang
  • Patent number: 10338884
    Abstract: In one example, a method includes receiving, by a computing device, an indication of a detected force applied to the computing device. The method further comprises determining, by the computing device, that the detected force matches a corresponding input that the computing device associates with a corresponding function that is executable by the computing device. The method further comprises generating, by the computing device and in response to determining that the detected force matches the corresponding input and, a non-visual output based on the corresponding function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ullas Gargi, Richard Carl Gossweiler, III
  • Patent number: 10331222
    Abstract: In one or more implementations, a static geometry model is generated, from one or more images of a physical environment captured using a camera, using one or more static objects to model corresponding one or more objects in the physical environment. Interaction of a dynamic object with at least one of the static objects is identified by analyzing at least one image and a gesture is recognized from the identified interaction of the dynamic object with the at least one of the static objects to initiate an operation of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: David Kim, Otmar D. Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, Patrick L. Olivier, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Pushmeet Kohli, David G. Molyneaux, Stephen E. Hodges, Andrew W. Fitzgibbon
  • Patent number: 10331244
    Abstract: A navigation device including an image sensor, a processor and a memory is provided. The memory stores a lookup table of a plurality of moving speeds each corresponding to one frame period. The image sensor captures image frames successively. The processor calculates a current speed according to a current image frame and a previous image frame, reads a frame period from the lookup table according to the calculated current speed, wherein the read frame period is multiplied by a ratio, which is smaller than 1, when an acceleration is confirmed by the processor according to the captured image frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Zi-Hao Tan, Kevin Len-Li Lim
  • Patent number: 10324556
    Abstract: A touch display apparatus a display unit and a touch unit. The display unit displays images and the touch unit which is overlapped on the display unit can sense independently a touch action applied on the touch unit and also the pressure applied in such touch. The touch display apparatus virtually simultaneously operates under a display period and a touch period in one frame for improving accuracy of determining the aspects of a touch function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Fu Weng, Chia-Lin Liu, Chien-Wen Lin