Patents Examined by Gloryvid Figueroa-Gibson
  • Patent number: 11054895
    Abstract: A method of display user movement in a computing device of a virtual reality system is disclosed. The method comprises generating a first image in a first-person perspective with a first-person control, simulating an avatar according to a first control signal received from a controller of the virtual reality system, and generating a second image including the avatar in the first-person perspective with a third-person control, wherein the first-person perspective indicates that a user sees images as if seen through the avatar's eyes, and a field of view of the avatar is controlled by the user, the first-person control indicates that a user's movement is displayed by a relative position between the avatar and a scene of the images, and the third-person control indicates that the user's movement is displayed by different locations of the avatar in the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Yi Ho, Yu-Chun Lin, Chuan-Hung Chung, Yang-Chen Fan
  • Patent number: 11003282
    Abstract: A touch controller and a noise detection method that are capable of accurately detecting noises in a sensing signal are introduced. The touch controller may include a demodulator that is configured to receive a sensing signal and demodulate the sensing signal with a first frequency during a touch detection period. The demodulator may include a first filter that is configured to perform a noise detection operation on the sensing signal to output a first noise detection signal with a second frequency range adjacent to the first frequency. The first filter may have a plurality of peak frequencies different from the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Ching Huang, Fang-Chun Lan
  • Patent number: 10976545
    Abstract: A display device used in a vehicle for displaying virtual images includes: a display including a light source to emit image light and a screen on which the image light is projected; and a controller to adjust positions at which the virtual images are displayed. Images displayed on the screen are projected as the virtual images. The virtual images include first and second virtual images displayed at different positions. The display displays, on the screen, a first adjustment image that is projected to a display area of the first virtual image and a second adjustment image that is projected to a display area of the second virtual image. The controller adjusts a position of the display area of the first virtual image and a position of the display area of the second virtual image on a basis of the first adjustment image and the second adjustment image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomo Kishigami, Nobuo Takeshita, Atsushi Michimori, Shota Nakahara
  • Patent number: 10942597
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a touch sensing unit, and a touch driving circuit. The touch sensing unit includes a transmission touch line. The touch driving circuit provides a touch driving signal to the transmission touch line. The touch driving circuit may include a switch group and a control switch group. The switch group may include a plurality of switch devices, each of which has one end connected to the transmission touch line. The control switch group may be connected to the other end of at least a portion of the switch devices, include a plurality of control switch devices and a capacitor device, and receive a driving voltage and a ground voltage. The touch driving signal has N voltage levels, where N is a natural number of 3 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Deog-Kyoon Jeong, Youngmin Park, Sangjin Pak, Jiheon Park, Jonghyun Oh, Sanghun Park
  • Patent number: 10923053
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a liquid crystal display device, which includes: a backlight component, including a light guide plate, a light source, a fluorescent film, a reflective sheet, a light compensating layer, and a light absorbing layer; a liquid crystal display panel in which the pixels are divided into a plurality of pixel groups; each pixel group includes an even number of pixels arranged into matrices; a control component including a computing unit and an acquiring unit; the computing unit is configured to receive an image input signal, and compute an average grayscale value of the blue sub-pixels in each pixel group, and obtain two sets of target grayscale value pairs; the acquiring unit is configured to obtain the corresponding two sets of driving voltage pairs; and, a driving component, configured to drive the blue sub-pixels in the corresponding pixel group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 10901526
    Abstract: An image display control device according to the present invention includes a display control unit, an obtaining unit, a drawing unit, a deleting unit, and an operating unit. The display control unit displays an image on a display device. The obtaining unit obtains contact position information or proximity position information of a drawing device, which is relative to a display area of the display device. The drawing unit generates a drawn image, compose a display image of an information processing apparatus with the drawn image, and displays the composite image on the display device. The deleting unit deletes the drawn image from the displayed image, and display on the display device. The operating unit operates the information processing apparatus. The drawing device switches and specifies a generation and deletion of the drawn image, and an operation of the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Omura
  • Patent number: 10901525
    Abstract: An image display control device according to the present invention includes a display control unit, an obtaining unit, a drawing unit, a deleting unit, and an operating unit. The display control unit displays an image on a display device. The obtaining unit obtains contact position information or proximity position information of a drawing device, which is relative to a display area of the display device. The drawing unit generates a drawn image, compose a display image of an information processing apparatus with the drawn image, and displays the composite image on the display device. The deleting unit deletes the drawn image from the displayed image, and display on the display device. The operating unit operates the information processing apparatus. The drawing device switches and specifies a generation and deletion of the drawn image, and an operation of the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Omura
  • Patent number: 10892435
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display device capable of improving light extraction efficiency and lifetime is disclosed. In the OLED display device, a protective layer having a convex shaped protruding pattern is arranged in a light emitting area at a central portion of a substrate, so that only the light emitting area has a selectively convex protruding shape. Accordingly, in the OLED display device, in a process of forming an organic light emitting layer, the protruding pattern can artificially offset the organic light emitting layer arranged at the central portion of the substrate being sagged, by a protective layer having a convex shaped protruding pattern. As a result, the OLED display device can improve a problem of thickness non-uniformity of the central portion and an edge portion of the substrate due to a sagging phenomenon of the organic light emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongyoon Lee, Inyeong Kong, Jongsin Park
  • Patent number: 10867573
    Abstract: Provided in the embodiments of the disclosure are a common voltage control circuit and method, a display panel and a display device. The control circuit includes a temperature sensing circuit and a voltage adjusting circuit. The temperature sensing circuit is configured to sense the ambient temperature. The voltage adjusting circuit is coupled to the temperature sensing circuit and the common electrode, and is configured to provide a corresponding common voltage to the common electrode based on a temperature signal from the temperature sensing circuit. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the common voltage may be changed according to the ambient temperature to improve the image sticking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE SPECIAL DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaolong Liu, Shihao Wang, Zhicheng Wang, Shenglin Sun, Junguo Liu
  • Patent number: 10859830
    Abstract: Embodiments generally relate to adjusting images for an eye tracking system. In some embodiments, a method includes presenting one or more images to a user. The method further includes obtaining gaze tracking data relating to a gaze of the user with respect to the one or more images presented to the user. The method further includes detecting one or more first gaze characteristics from the gaze tracking data, wherein the one or more first gaze characteristics indicate a first state of the gaze of the user. The method further includes reducing a brightness of at least a portion of the one or more images presented to the user based on the one or more first gaze characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
    Inventor: Chris Norden
  • Patent number: 10860092
    Abstract: An interface interaction method and apparatus for actively interacting with a virtual interface only by rotating a user head, and pertaining to the field of augmented reality technologies. The disclosure includes obtaining rotation parameters of the user head, where the rotation parameters include a rotation direction, a rotation angle, and a rotation angular acceleration, determining an interaction instruction according to the obtained rotation parameters and a preset instruction determining rule, and executing the determined interaction instruction to implement interaction control of interfaces displayed by a display component. Hence, a virtual interface interaction manner is expanded, and user experience is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianming Dong, Weixi Zheng, Zhe Sun
  • Patent number: 10838562
    Abstract: A touch panel detects contact of one of a finger and a pointing device with the touch panel. A controller performs a process in accordance with a touch operation based on contact with the touch panel. A sensor senses attachment of a second device to and detachment of the second device from a first device. When the touch panel detects that one of a finger and a pointing device is brought into contact with the touch panel while the sensor is sensing one of the attachment of the second device to and the detachment of the second device from the first device, the controller stops acceptance of input into the touch panel. After having stopped the acceptance, the controller resumes the acceptance of the input into the touch panel when the touch panel detects that the one of the finger and the pointing device is separated from the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunsuke Saito
  • Patent number: 10817079
    Abstract: In some examples, a computing device may receive stylus sensor data from one or more sensors in a stylus that is used to interact with the computing device. The computing device may determine, based on the stylus sensor data, (i) a stylus height of a tip of the stylus from a display device and (ii) one or more stylus angles of the stylus relative to the display device. The computing device may display, on the display device, a virtual shadow of the stylus at a location based at least in part on the stylus height, the stylus angles, and a location of a virtual light source. The computing device may display, on the display device, one or more virtual shadows of content items corresponding to the stylus acting as a virtual light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Mark R. Ligameri, Michiel S. Knoppert, Jace W. Files
  • Patent number: 10809850
    Abstract: A touch event processing method, comprising: virtualizing a standard HID pen apparatus and a touch apparatus in an operating system; intercepting touch information sent by a physical touch apparatus so that the touch information is not directly received by the operating system; classifying the touch information, and sending, by using different virtual apparatuses based on the classification, the touch information to the operating system for processing. A user can directly touch, write and erase in the software based on past experience and impressions, does not need to search a toolbar for a required functional icon, and even does not need to open the toolbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Shenzhen Hitevision Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yen-Hao Han, Hsiu-Fang Cheng
  • Patent number: 10809960
    Abstract: The invention regards a method for reproducing visual and/or audio data synchronously by a group of devices, as well as a system for realizing such method. According to the invention first, a spatial location of each of the devices of the group is determined. Then, the visual and/or audio content is partitioned into content parts, each part dedicated to be reproduced by one device of the group respectively, based on the spatial location of the device. The dedicated portions are transmitted to their associated devices together with a time stamp, and the group of devices reproduces commonly and synchronously the transmitted portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBH
    Inventors: Nils Einecke, Stefan Menzel
  • Patent number: 10798351
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide apparatus, method and system for location based touch, which can implement location based touch on the image of the projection display apparatus without the requirement of operation of the computing device by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kun Li, Tao Ma
  • Patent number: 10782803
    Abstract: A control system configured with ergonomic hand grips is disclosed. The control system may be configured with the steering device of a vehicle and may include control buttons that may be programmed to control different aspects of electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Inventor: Dillon Markey
  • Patent number: 10768415
    Abstract: A display device and a light source are provided. The display device includes a display panel and a first photonic crystal layer arranged at a light-emitting side of the display panel. The first photonic crystal layer is configured to enable incident light to exit along a Z direction, the Z direction being a thickness direction of the first photonic crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weipin Hu, Jun Wu, Lianjie Qu, Yinglong Huang
  • Patent number: 10755657
    Abstract: Disclosed are a data driver, a display, and a method of driving a display. The data driver for driving a data line which is a capacitive load having one end electrically connected to a unit pixel includes an energy retrieving unit configured to drive the data line by applying a voltage to the data line, and a data driving unit configured to finely tune a voltage and drive the data line with an end voltage. The energy retrieving unit retrieves energy charged up in the data line in stages by driving the data line with voltages from a start voltage to the end voltage through an intermediate voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: INNOAXIS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Hwi-Cheol Kim
  • Patent number: 10732773
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving one or more sense signals from a touch sensor of a device, comparing a value associated with the one or more sense signals to a first threshold, and determining, based on comparing the value to the first threshold, whether an object has come within a pre-determined proximity of a first pre-determined location at a surface of the device. The method further includes comparing the value associated with the one or more sense signals to a second threshold and determining, based on comparing the value to the second threshold, whether the object has come within a pre-determined proximity of a second pre-determined location at the surface of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: NeodrĂ³n Limited
    Inventors: Trond Pedersen, Steinar Myren, Vemund Bakken, Rune Watn