Patents Examined by Eugene Yun
  • Patent number: 11575980
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a memory storing complex command information including a plurality of functions and the order information of the plurality of functions, a communication interface, and a processor configured to control the communication interface to perform Bluetooth communication with a remote control apparatus, and based on a control signal being received from the remote control apparatus, acquire a plurality of function informations included in the control signal, and based on identifying that the plurality of function informations correspond to the plurality of functions included in the complex command information, perform control operations corresponding to the plurality of function informations continuously based on the order information included in the complex command information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taehwan Hwang, Daedong Kim, Jisoo Yeh, Jihyouk Choi
  • Patent number: 11558836
    Abstract: One example discloses a near-field wireless communications device, including: a near-field antenna; a near-field noise detector coupled to receive a first set of near-field signals from the near-field antenna; wherein the near-field noise detector is configured to identify a set of attributes of the near-field noise within the first set of near-field signals; a controller configured to generate at least one synchronization signal based on at least one of the attributes of the near-field noise; and a transmitter circuit configured to transmit a second set of near-field signals in response to the synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Anthony Kerselaers, Liesbeth Gommé
  • Patent number: 11550269
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes a radio wave receiver, a communication unit, a memory and a processor. The radio wave receiver receives radio waves from positioning satellites. The communication unit communicates with an external device. The memory stores a program and predicted positional information on the positioning satellites. Based on the program stored in the memory, in response to a predetermined condition for an elapsed time from a valid period of the stored predicted positional information being satisfied, the processor causes the communication unit to receive predicted positional information with other information from the external device when the communication unit receives the other information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuki Oshita, Kazuho Kyou
  • Patent number: 11546718
    Abstract: A method including enabling a first user having a first user device to communicate with one or more second users having one or more second user devices via a network, wherein each user has a spatial position within a virtual space, such that, for each user within the virtual space, all other users within the virtual space have a relative spatial position; providing spatial audio data from the first user device to the one or more second user devices and receiving spatial audio data at the first user device from the one or more second user devices, such that each user is provided with audio from the other users in the respective relative spatial positions of the other users; and enabling a third user having a third user device to communicate with the first user and the one or more second users via the first user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppanen, Mikko-Ville Laitinen
  • Patent number: 11537163
    Abstract: An information display apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first display unit configured to display information, a placement part including a noncontact charging unit configured to charge the placed portable terminal apparatus, an orientation determination unit configured to determine an orientation of the placed portable terminal apparatus, a first display control unit, and a charging control unit. The charging control unit controls the noncontact charging unit so as to perform a process for charging the portable terminal apparatus when the portable terminal apparatus is placed on the placement part. The first display control unit displays information to be displayed in the first display unit while changing the information according to whether the orientation of the portable terminal apparatus determined by the orientation determination unit is a first orientation or a second orientation different from the first orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Shigetoshi Kanda
  • Patent number: 11539343
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a silicon support substrate that includes first and second main surfaces opposing each other, a piezoelectric structure provided on the first main surface and including the piezoelectric layer, an IDT electrode provided on the piezoelectric layer, a support layer provided on the first main surface of the silicon support substrate and surrounding the piezoelectric layer, a cover layer provided on the support layer, a through-via electrode that extending through the silicon support substrate and the piezoelectric structure, and a first wiring electrode connected to the through-via electrode and electrically connected to the IDT electrode. The piezoelectric structure includes at least one layer having an insulating property, the at least one layer including the piezoelectric layer. The first wiring electrode is provided on the layer having an insulating property in the piezoelectric structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuzo Kishi, Yutaka Kishimoto, Makoto Sawamura, Seiji Kai
  • Patent number: 11539342
    Abstract: The multiplexer includes a plurality of IDT electrodes on a substrate, an insulating cover located on the substrate so as to configure one or more spaces above the plurality of IDT electrodes, an antenna terminal, transmission terminal, and reception terminal which are all located on the substrate and pass through the cover, and a reinforcing layer which is located on the cover and is made of metal. By the plurality of IDT electrodes, a transmission filter located in a signal path connecting the antenna terminal and the transmission terminal and a receiving filter located in a signal path connecting the antenna terminal and the reception terminal. The reinforcing layer includes a first area part facing the transmission filter and a second area part which faces the receiving filter and is separated from the first area part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Hamatani, Hiroyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11533081
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes: transmitting, by a first near-field communication (NFC) device, a field emission burst; comparing a characteristic property of a signal of the field emission burst to a detection threshold; determining a presence of a detection error based on the comparing; and adjusting the detection threshold based on a number of determined detection errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
    Inventors: Alexandre Tramoni, Pierre Rizzo, Guillaume Jaunet
  • Patent number: 11528353
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a housing including a window facing in a first direction and a rear plate facing in a second direction; a display including a first layer disposed on the window, a second layer disposed on the first layer and having a first opening, and a conductive layer disposed on the second layer and having a second opening corresponding to the first opening; an FPCB disposed on the display and having a third opening corresponding to the second opening; a frame structure disposed between the FPCB and the rear plate and having a fourth opening corresponding to the third opening; a fingerprint sensor having at least a portion inserted into the fourth opening and facing in the first direction; and a dustproof member disposed between the display and the frame structure within a region formed by the third opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bongsuk Choi, Sungjoo Cho, Daeyoung Noh, Jongchul Choi
  • Patent number: 11516638
    Abstract: A vehicle management server configured to manage information on a control device mounted on a vehicle, and information on a plurality of information terminals connectable with the control device is provided. The vehicle management server includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a positional relationship between the information terminals and the control device; a determination unit configured to determine, based on the information indicating the positional relationship, whether or not there is a first information terminal that is out of a setting range that includes the control device among the information terminals; and a notification unit configured to transmit, based on whether or not there is the first information terminal, a first message to at least one second information terminal different from the first information terminal among the information terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takanori Ariga, Tomoyasu Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11510042
    Abstract: A game controller for a mobile device is provided. The game controller includes a control module, a first audio module, and a second audio module. The mobile device includes a first wireless communication module. The first audio module is wirelessly connected to an audio device. The second audio module is electrically connected to the mobile device, so as to control the mobile device to be wirelessly connected to the audio device. A pairing between the audio device and the first audio module and a pairing between the audio device and the first wireless communication module of the mobile device are performed before the audio device is used. The control module generates a control command according to a category of audio information of the mobile device, so as to output the audio information to the audio device through the first audio module or the second audio module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: DEXIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ho-Lung Lu, Yuan-Jung Chang
  • Patent number: 11503570
    Abstract: A wireless communication device may receive with one of N antennas a signal processing message indicating a number up to N signals to process. Each of the N antennas may used to receive a communication. The indicated number of up to N signals may be processed and data from the indicated number of up to N signals recovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: III Holdings 1, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Warner, Jack Winters, James June-Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 11489556
    Abstract: A communication apparatus that comprises a second coupler to be coupled to a first coupler of a different communication apparatus by electric field coupling and/or inductive coupling, a termination resistor connected to the second coupler and having a resistance value larger than a predetermined value is provided. The communication apparatus receives a signal comprising (i) an output signal that is output from the second coupler in response to input of a transmitted signal to the first coupler, (ii) a signal obtained by performing amplification processing on the output signal, or (iii) a signal obtained by shaping, via a comparator, a signal obtained by performing amplification processing on the output signal, and processes the received signal as a signal that is obtained by reproducing the transmitted signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitoshi Asai, Yuki Shoji
  • Patent number: 11490276
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to more stably perform communication. [Solution] There is provided a communication control device including: a communication status grasping unit configured to grasp a communication status of wireless communication of image information between an image shooting device and a surgical site image information acquiring unit on the basis of an operating room image showing a situation of an operating room, the image shooting device capturing an image of a surgical site of a patient, the surgical site image information acquiring unit acquiring information on a surgical site image captured by the image shooting device for display control of the surgical site image; and a communication method deciding unit configured to decide a communication method between the image shooting device and the surgical site image information acquiring unit on the basis of the grasped communication status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Hirayama, Hiroshi Ichiki, Masahito Yamane
  • Patent number: 11482982
    Abstract: A through-hole that extends from an upper surface of a cover opposite a support to a lower surface of the support facing a substrate is provided in the support and the cover. The through-hole overlaps a portion of a wiring line in a plan view. An acoustic wave device further includes an electrode film that is electrically connected to the wiring line in the through-hole, and a protective layer that includes an insulating material and that covers a portion of the electrode film. The protective layer is connected to the cover and the support in the through-hole. Differences in thermal expansion coefficients between the protective layer and the cover and between the protective layer and the support are smaller than a difference in thermal expansion coefficients between the protective layer and the electrode film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazunori Inoue
  • Patent number: 11483031
    Abstract: Methods and systems for wireless switching are provided. Aspects include receiving, by a transceiver, a first activation signal from an activation device, responsive to receiving the first activation signal, transmitting, by the transceiver, network credentialing data to the activation device, receiving, by a first controller of a first device, a second activation signal from the activation device, the second activation signal comprising an activation request and the network credentialing data, responsive to receiving the second activation signal, transitioning the first device from a low power state to a high power state, and broadcasting, by the first device, a wireless network, wherein the first device comprises an access point for the wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joshua Varghese, Phani Pavan Kumar Mangaiahgari
  • Patent number: 11483688
    Abstract: A vehicle management server configured to manage information on a control device mounted on a vehicle, and information on a plurality of information terminals connectable with the control device is provided. The vehicle management server includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a positional relationship between the information terminals and the control device; a determination unit configured to determine, based on the information indicating the positional relationship, whether or not there is a first information terminal that is out of a setting range that includes the control device among the information terminals; and a notification unit configured to transmit, based on whether or not there is the first information terminal, a first message to at least one second information terminal different from the first information terminal among the information terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takanori Ariga, Tomoyasu Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11476828
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a silicon oxide film, a piezoelectric body, and an interdigital transducer electrode laminated on a support substrate made of silicon. Where a wave length that is determined by an electrode finger pitch of the interdigital transducer electrode is ?, a thickness of the support substrate is greater than or equal to about 3?. An acoustic velocity of the first higher mode that propagates through the piezoelectric body is an acoustic velocity Vsi=(V1)1/2 of bulk waves that propagate in the support substrate, which is determined by V1 out of solutions V1, V2, and V3 of x derived from the mathematical expression Ax3+Bx2+Cx+D=0, or higher than Vsi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Koyanagi, Hideki Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 11476895
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments may include: a housing; a communication module comprising circuitry coupled to at least one surface of the housing configured to be connected to an external device including multiple near field communication (NFC) antennas; and a processor, wherein the processor may be configured to: obtain device information of the external device from the external device based on the external device being coupled; generate antenna setting information for setting the multiple NFC antennas of the external device based on at least one of the device information of the external device and device information of the electronic device; and control the electronic device to transmit the generated antenna setting information to control the setting of the multiple NFC antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Geonwoo Kim, Youngil Nam, Wonho Lee, Sungjae Cho, Kyuhui Han
  • Patent number: 11470463
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a processor executing a communication control process of performing vehicle-to-vehicle communication, a data reception process of receiving and saving, in a storage unit, file data transmitted from a communication destination vehicle by the vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and an incompletely received file data management process of, in a case where the vehicle-to-vehicle communication is disconnected after reception of the file data by the data reception process is started and before the reception of the file data completes, setting, in accordance with a state of a predetermined parameter, at least one of an upper limit of a period for saving in the storage unit and a priority level for deleting from the storage unit for partial data of the file data saved in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Otaka, Ryusuke Tamanaha, Shohei Tsukahara, Ryo Saiki, Takahiro Iijima, Yusuke Oi, Naoko Imai