Patents Examined by Gene W Lee
  • Patent number: 10809797
    Abstract: A system including a computing device receiving a first indication, the first indication indicating that a plurality of sensor modules are positioned in placeholders in a container device, wherein the placeholders are configured to hold the plurality of sensor modules at pre-determined positions and orientations in the container device. In response to the first indication, the computing device calibrates orientation measurements of the plurality or sensor modules relative to a first common reference system based on the pre-determined positions and orientations in the container device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Finch Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Alexey Ivanovich Kartashov, Viktor Vladimirovich Erivantcev, Alexander Sergeevich Lobanov, Iakov Evgenevich Sergeev, Daniil Olegovich Goncharov, Roman Tagirovich Karimov
  • Patent number: 10809796
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for monitoring a user of a head-wearable electronic device with multiple light-sensing assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Joel S. Armstrong-Muntner, Nicholas P. Allec, James E. Stark
  • Patent number: 10802279
    Abstract: A display system including a display device which is used by being mounted on the head of a player, comprising: a virtual camera specifier that specifies a visual axis and/or a position of a virtual camera in a virtual space, according to a direction and/or a position of the display device; and a displayer that displays an object present in the virtual space, on the display device, according to the visual axis and/or the position of the virtual camera, wherein in a case where there is an object on the visual axis specified by the virtual camera specifier, the displayer additionally displays information associated with the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD., GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Naoya Kashima, Yoshihisa Akashi, Robin Boucher, Natsuko Kushida
  • Patent number: 10803804
    Abstract: A pixel circuit for an active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) and other active matrix displays is disclosed. The pixel circuit is programmed by the voltage supplied through a data line. An electrical current through a light emitting device for a known LED voltage and a pixel current for a pixel programmed with a known data signal can be measured by a readout circuit through the data line. A 7T1C implementation enables to pre-charge the drive transistor to a reference voltage in each drive cycle, and to pre-set the light emitting device to a reference voltage prior to emission in each cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Arash Moradi, Jafar Talebzadeh, Junhu He, Hongxin Liu, Shuenn-Jiun Tang
  • Patent number: 10797251
    Abstract: A flexible display apparatus includes a flexible substrate including a display area and a bending area outside the display area, the bending area to be bent around a bending axis; an inorganic insulating layer on the flexible substrate; a cut unit in the inorganic insulating layer in the bending area; a stress relaxation layer filling the cut unit and extending into the display area; a wiring part on the stress relaxation layer in the bending area; a planarization layer covering the wiring part and on the stress relaxation layer; and a display on the planarization layer in the display area and electrically connected to the wiring part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dohyun Kwon, Minjung Lee, Jaeneung Kim, Mi Jang, Haseok Jeon, Changyong Jung
  • Patent number: 10782832
    Abstract: Disclosed is a touch screen, comprising a touch area, provided with a plurality of first conductive lines extending along a first direction and a plurality of second conductive lines extending along a second direction, and the second conductive line is insulated from and overlapped with the first conductive line, and each of the first conductive lines comprises a plurality of first sensing electrodes arranged at intervals and connecting strips, and each of the second conductive lines comprises a plurality of second sensing electrodes arranged at intervals and connecting bridges; a U-shaped notch area is disposed in the touch area, and the U-shaped notch area intercepts at least one first conductive line or/and at least one second conductive line; the first conductive line intercepted by and located at two sides of the U-shaped notch area is connected electrically to achieve connection to the bonding area of the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jian Ye
  • Patent number: 10784323
    Abstract: A display panel, a method for producing the same, and a display device are disclosed. The display panel has: a base substrate; a thin film transistor array, which is on a surface of the base substrate; a UV light shielding layer, which is on a side of the thin film transistor array away from the base substrate; a pixel definition layer, which is on a side of the UV light shielding layer away from the base substrate; a thin film encapsulation layer, which is on a side of the pixel definition layer away from the base substrate, wherein the pixel definition layer has a light conversion material, which emits UV light by excitation of infrared light, and the thin film encapsulation layer has a UV-cured material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chengyuan Luo
  • Patent number: 10775621
    Abstract: A method, a device and a computer-readable storage medium containing instructions for setting a head-up display in a transportation vehicle. A setting device is introduced into a defined position in the transportation vehicle. The setting device has at least one camera and one projection unit. The projection unit is used to project an alignment pattern onto a calibration target positioned outside the transportation vehicle. The calibration target and the alignment pattern are acquired using a calibrated camera installed in the transportation vehicle. A deviation of the setting device from the defined position in the transportation vehicle is determined based on the image data of the calibrated camera. At least one test image displayed by the head-up display is acquired using the camera of the setting device. Setting information for the head-up display is determined based on the at least one acquired test image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Tim Wunderwald
  • Patent number: 10768726
    Abstract: A touch device in spherical or other curved form includes a hollow spherical casing and at least one touch sensing layer. The spherical casing includes an inner surface and an outer surface, the touch sensing layer is attached to the inner surface of the spherical casing, the touch sensing layer includes a core portion and a touch portion. The touch portion extends and diverges outwardly from the core portion. The touch portion comprises a plurality of sub-touch portions, an area of each sub-touch portion is greater than an area of the core portion. The disclosure also includes a curved non-spherical touch device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignees: Interface Technology (ChengDu) Co., Ltd., INTERFACE OPTOELECTRONICS (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., GENERAL INTERFACE SOLUTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Bo-Rong Lin, Hua-Yueh Hsieh, Hsuan-Yun Lee, Ching-Lin Li
  • Patent number: 10747340
    Abstract: A touch pad includes: a center button region; a first button region disposed adjacent to the center button region; a second button region disposed adjacent to the center button region on the opposite side of the first button region; a load sensor configured to detect load at least at the center button region, the first button region and the second button region; and a controller configured to determine a detection by the load sensor of load of a first upper-limit value or higher at least at one of the first and second button regions as a depressed state, and determine a detection by the load sensor of load of a second upper-limit value or higher at the center button region as a depressed state. The second upper-limit value and the first upper-limit value are different. Particularly, the second upper-limit value is larger than the first upper-limit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Fumio Tamura, Hidetoshi Mori
  • Patent number: 10748344
    Abstract: A method includes acquiring, by a camera, an image frame of an object having known geometry in a real scene, and estimating a pose of the object in the image frame with respect to the camera. A cursor is displayed on a display by rendering the cursor at a 3D position in a 3D coordinate system. An output is presented to a user when a predetermined portion of the object falls at the 3D position. The content of the output is based on the predetermined portion of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Xiang Guo
  • Patent number: 10739595
    Abstract: The disclosed waveguide display device may include a waveguide and one or more projector assemblies configured to project image light into the waveguide, where each of the one or more projector assemblies includes a first monochromatic emitter array having a plurality of emitters of a first color disposed in a two-dimensional configuration and a second monochromatic emitter array having a plurality of emitters of a second color disposed in a two-dimensional configuration. The display device may also include at least one application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) configured to drive the first and second monochromatic emitter arrays to emit images of the first and second color along a common axis, with the first color being different from the second color. Various other devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: James Ronald Bonar, Gareth Valentine
  • Patent number: 10732729
    Abstract: A transparent display apparatus and method for displaying information thereon includes sensing a position of an object, sensing a position of a user, determining an area of the transparent display through which the object is viewable by the user, and displaying the information on the transparent display based on the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Il-kook Yun, Geun-ho Lee, Chang-soo Lee
  • Patent number: 10732443
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a first driving circuit configured to operate to display an image through the plurality of pixels, and a shutter panel including a plurality of shutter pixels and configured to be periodically refreshed. The first driving circuit is operated to display a second image corresponding to a second image signal through the display panel when a difference in brightness between a first image signal of a present frame and the second image signal of a previous frame is greater than a predetermined level and to display a first image corresponding to the first image signal through the display panel when the shutter panel is refreshed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myoungseop Song, Myungho Lee
  • Patent number: 10725303
    Abstract: An enhanced panoramic HMD that and related method of displaying an image employs an improved configuration of optical elements to achieve wider field of view as compared to conventional configurations. An HMD type display device includes a first optical element, coupled to the display device, configured to direct a central set of rays and a peripheral set of rays; a second optical element, coupled to the first optical element, configured to direct the central set of rays at a central image point; and a third optical component configured to direct the peripheral set of rays to a peripheral image point. The first optical element may include a microlens array wherein the microlens array comprises a plurality of individual microlenses; the second optical component may include a collimating lens; and the third optical component may include a mirror configured to reflect the peripheral set of rays to the peripheral image point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: William Smith, David James Montgomery
  • Patent number: 10719142
    Abstract: A stylus includes an elongated housing, a tip extending from a first end of the elongated housing and a tri-axial force sensor mounted on a second end. A first wireless transmitter transmits a signal via the tip based on which the tip interacts with a digitizer sensor of a touch screen. The tri-axial force sensor senses contact force applied by a user pressing against the tri-axial sensor. A second wireless transmitter transmits output sensed by the tri-axial force sensor. The stylus further includes a controller that controls transmission of the first wireless transmitter and the second wireless transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ron Kaplan, Timothy A. Jakoboski
  • Patent number: 10713978
    Abstract: A computing device includes memory configured for storing executable instructions, a processor configured for executing the instructions, a foldable display layer configured for displaying information in response to the execution of the instructions, and a bend limit layer coupled to the foldable display layer and arranged substantially parallel to a display surface of the foldable display layer. The bend limit layer is configured to increase its stiffness non-linearly when a radius of a bend of the bend limit layer is less than a threshold radius of curvature of the foldable display layer, the threshold radius of curvature being greater than 1 mm and less than 20 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: William Riis Hamburgen, Yi Tao, Bruce Schena, James Cooper, John Stuart Fitch, Jeffrey Hayashida, Avi Hecht, Lawrence Lam, Andreas Nowatzyk, Jonathan Nivet, Kelvin Kwong, Kiarash Vakhshouri
  • Patent number: 10706792
    Abstract: A light source section 21 includes a red light source 22r, a green light source 22g, and a blue light source 22b, and one frame period is divided into four subfield periods. Light sources of each color respectively emit light in blue, green, and red subfield periods, and the red light source 22r and the green light source 22g emit light in a yellow subfield period. Light emission intensity of the blue light source 22b in the blue subfield period is set to twice light emission intensities of the red light source 22r and the green light source 22g in other subfield periods. Color breakup is reduced by displaying the yellow subfield, and light utilization efficiency improved by setting transmittance of a light modulation element 16 to 100% when a white signal by which each gradation of red, green, and blue becomes maximum is input. With this, a field sequential type display device which can reduce color breakup and has high light utilization efficiency is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ishihara, Masamitsu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10701351
    Abstract: First display elements and first ocular optical systems perform display in a first display region on a front side with respect to an observer, whereas second display elements and second ocular optical systems perform display in second display regions on peripheral sides with respect to the observer. Thus, a superimposed region of the display regions is provided in a position outside a central side of a person's visual field having an excellent information receiving capacity, and a wide angle of view is achieved while preventing the boundary from being visually identified. Further, the whole device is reduced in size and thickness by providing the plurality of display elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Komatsu, Masayuki Takagi, Takashi Takeda, Toshiaki Miyao, Tokito Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10691174
    Abstract: A flexible display device according to example embodiments includes a rollable display panel, a housing accommodating the rollable display panel in a rolled state and including an opening portion through which the rollable display panel is pulled out, an optical sensor disposed at the opening portion and configured to detect luminance of the rollable display panel while the rollable display panel is rolled or unrolled, a controller configured to compensate image data based on detection data generated by the optical sensor, and a display panel driver configured to control a display of rollable display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hai-Jung In, Bo-Yong Chung