Patents Examined by Ibrahim A. Khan
  • Patent number: 10928938
    Abstract: A touch module comprises a substrate, the substrate includes a central region and a peripheral region, the peripheral region is surrounding the central region. A first material layer is formed on a surface of the substrate by vapor deposition. The first material layer is etched to obtain a circuit layer. The circuit layer is located in the peripheral region. A composite material layer is laid down, the composite material layer comprises a second material layer. The second material layer is positioned in the central region. The composite material layer is etched by the photo-etching. The second material layer is etched to obtain a transparent conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignees: Interface Technology (ChengDu) Co., Ltd., INTERFACE OPTOELECTRONICS (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., GENERAL INTERFACE SOLUTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Jin-Li Wang
  • Patent number: 10930202
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a driving substrate and a plurality of micro light-emitting devices (LEDs). The driving substrate has a plurality of pixel regions. The plurality micro LEDs are disposed in in each of the pixel regions and electrically connected to the driving substrate. Orthogonal projection areas of the micro LEDs in each of the pixel regions on the driving substrate are equal. At least two micro LEDs in each of the pixel regions have different effective light-emitting areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tzu-Yang Lin, Mi-Hung Lai, Pei-Hsin Chen, Yi-Chun Shih, Yi-Ching Chen, Yu-Chu Li, Ying-Tsang Liu
  • Patent number: 10921977
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to perform a first operation for a first object that is displayed on a screen. The processor is configured to display a third object on the screen in association with the first object after performing the first operation for the first object, wherein the third object represents the first operation. The processor is configured to superimpose the third object on one of at least one second object that is displayed on the screen. The processor is configured to apply the first operation to the one of at least one second object after superimposing the third object on the one of at least one second object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Koki Hatada
  • Patent number: 10921653
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first common electrode layer and a pixel electrode layer. The first common electrode layer is configured to receive a first common voltage signal to form a first electric field with the pixel electrode layer. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate, and includes a second common electrode layer. The second common electrode layer is configured to receive a second common voltage signal to form a second electric field with the pixel electrode layer. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Qin, Cheng Zuo, Kangpeng Dang, Yang Rao, Bo Wang, Hong Chen, Lihua Jiang, Zhongli Luo
  • Patent number: 10921603
    Abstract: A wearable device includes a load-carrying device and an optomechanical device detachably mounted at a side of the load-carrying device. The optomechanical device includes a display screen configured to display an image and an optical assembly configured to project the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shaojun Yan
  • Patent number: 10915174
    Abstract: A system may have one or more electronic devices that include user input sensors such as force sensors, touch sensors, motion sensors, and other input devices. To provide a user with output, devices may have visual output components such as displays, audio output components, and haptic output components. Haptic output components may be used to apply an apparent force in a given direction relative to a device housing surface such as a sidewall surface or other device surface. Control circuitry in a device may direct a haptic output component to produce the apparent force in a direction perpendicular to the housing surface or tangential to the housing surface. The apparent applied force may be provided as feedback while the control circuitry is directing a display in the device or in an external device to provide a user with visual content based on the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul X. Wang, Michael Y. Cheung
  • Patent number: 10909902
    Abstract: Display systems with a single plate optical waveguide and independently adjustable micro display arrays and related methods are provided. A method includes coupling: a first light portion received from the first micro display array to a first input grating region of the optical waveguide, a second light portion received from the second micro display array to a second input grating region of the optical waveguide, and a third light portion received from the third micro display array to a third input grating region of the optical waveguide. The method further includes directing: a first diffracted portion of the first light portion to a first expansion grating, a second diffracted portion of the second light portion to a second expansion grating, and a third diffracted portion of the third light portion to a third expansion grating. The method further includes using a single output grating outputting combined light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Inventor: David D. Bohn
  • Patent number: 10908815
    Abstract: Systems and methods for distinguishing between a gesture tracing out a word and a wiping motion on a touch-sensitive keyboard are disclosed herein. In one aspect, a method includes: displaying a plurality of keys on the touch-sensitive keyboard. The method also includes: detecting a contact at the plurality of keys, followed by a sliding movement of the contact. The method also includes: automatically determining whether the user is tracing out a word. In accordance with a determination that the user is tracing out a word, the method includes: displaying one or more characters. In accordance with a determination that the sliding movement corresponds to a wiping motion, forgoing display of characters contacted during the sliding movement of the contact. The wiping motion includes an input that simultaneously contacts multiple keys and moves as the input remains in contact with multiple keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Randal J. Marsden
  • Patent number: 10908456
    Abstract: A backlight module for a liquid crystal display includes: LEDs; LED drivers; a controller that outputs data and the latch signal to the LED drivers; data lines for transmitting the data; and latch signal lines for transmitting the latch signal. The latch signal lines are wired according to each of a plurality of first groups obtained by dividing LED drivers. The data lines are wired according to each of a plurality of second groups, which are constructed with a collection of at least one LED driver selected from each of the plurality of first groups without duplication, and each data line is commonly connected to at least one LED belonging to the corresponding second group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoharu Notoshi, Yasuyuki Doi
  • Patent number: 10901499
    Abstract: A method is performed at a computing system for rendering a content preview in a virtual space based on user locations. The computing system is communicatively connected to a head-mounted display wore by a user. The method includes: rendering a user interface panel in the virtual space, wherein the user interface panel includes multiple content posters, each having a unique location in the virtual space; measuring the head-mounted display's location in a physical space using a position tracking system adjacent the user; determining the user's location in the virtual space according to the head-mounted display's location in the physical space; and in accordance with a determination that the user's location and at least one of the multiple content posters' location in the virtual space satisfy a predefined condition, replacing the user interface panel with a content preview associated with the corresponding content poster in the virtual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Dhaval Jitendra Joshi, Jingzhou Chen, Xiaomei Chen, Wenjie Wu
  • Patent number: 10901213
    Abstract: Whether a similarity between a frame image and an immediately preceding frame image that is a frame image one frame before the frame image is not less than a predetermined value is determined. A corrected frame image in which the frame image is corrected in accordance with the determination result is generated. One of the frame image and the corrected frame image is displayed, according to the determination result, as a display image on a display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10891714
    Abstract: In various implementations, a method includes obtaining a first frame that is characterized by a first resolution associated with a first memory allocation. In some implementations, the method includes down-converting the first frame from the first resolution to a second resolution that is lower than the first resolution initially defining the first frame in order to produce a reference frame. In some implementations, the second resolution is associated with a second memory allocation that is less than a target memory allocation derived from the first memory allocation. In some implementations, the method includes storing the reference frame in a non-transitory memory. In some implementations, the method includes obtaining a second frame that is characterized by the first resolution. In some implementations, the method includes performing an error correction operation on the second frame based on the reference frame stored in the non-transitory memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Tobias Eble, Jim C. Chou, Jian Zhou, Moinul Khan, Hariprasad Puthukkootil Rajagopal
  • Patent number: 10885846
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pixel driving circuit, a display device and a driving method. The pixel driving circuit is configured to control on and off of a pixel unit, and includes: a first control sub-circuit, a first output sub-circuit, a second control sub-circuit, a second output sub-circuit, a third control sub-circuit, and a fourth control sub-circuit. Specifically, the fourth control sub-circuit is configured, if turned on, to cause a voltage drop of the first level signal input at the first level signal input terminal and to output the first level signal with the voltage drop to the third control node, such that a voltage at the third control node is less than or equal to a voltage at the first control node, thereby maintaining the third control sub-circuit off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minghua Xuan, Shengji Yang, Pengcheng Lu, Jie Fu, Lei Wang, Li Xiao
  • Patent number: 10866652
    Abstract: A system and method enable an electronic device to determine six-degree of freedom (6DOF) of a hand-held controller. The device includes one or more tracking devices and a processor. The one or more tracking devices are configured to indicate a first three-degree of freedom (3DOF) orientation information regarding an orientation tracker device, and indicate a second 3DOF orientation information regarding the hand-held controller. The processor is configured to determine a six-degree of freedom (6DOF) orientation information of the hand-held controller as a function of the first 3DOF orientation information and the second 3DOF orientation information, wherein the orientation tracker device is different than the hand-held controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Christopher Peri
  • Patent number: 10867574
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display (LCD) device having a touch panel function, power consumption is reduced in the standby state. The display section is divided into blocks each of which is formed of a plurality of display lines. The counter electrode is disposed for each block. A driving circuit selectively supplies, to the counter electrode of each block, the voltage used for the liquid crystal display and the voltage used for the touch panel scanning. The driving circuit has a source amplifier that supplies the video voltages to the video lines. The driving circuit reduces the current in the source amplifier, such that the current is lower than current at the time of a normal operation, to lower the power consumption, and stops the operation of the source amplifier and supplies the GND voltage to the video lines to further lower the power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Shouji Nagao
  • Patent number: 10860090
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for performing localization of a handheld device with respect to a wearable device. At least one sensor mounted to the handheld device, such as an inertial measurement unit (IMU), may obtain handheld data indicative of movement of the handheld device with respect to the world. An imaging device mounted to either the handheld device or the wearable device may capture a fiducial image containing a number of fiducials affixed to the other device. The number of fiducials contained in the image are determined. Based on the number of fiducials, at least one of a position and an orientation of the handheld device with respect to the wearable device are updated based on the image and the handheld data in accordance with a first operating state, a second operating state, or a third operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary C. Nienstedt, Samuel A. Miller, Barak Freedman, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Eric C. Browy, William Hudson Welch, Ron Liraz Lidji
  • Patent number: 10852830
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, by a mechanical offset controller, input data; detecting, by the mechanical offset controller, a waveform command in the input data; responsive to the detecting, generating, by the mechanical offset controller, an unparking command; receiving, by a closed-loop controller, the unparking command; and moving, by the closed-loop controller, a mass in a haptic module from a mechanical resting position to a sensor reference position in accordance with the unparking command. The method further comprises: detecting, by the mechanical offset controller, that the input data does not include the waveform command; responsive to the detecting, generating, by the mechanical offset controller, a parking command; receiving, by a closed-loop controller, the parking command; and moving, by the closed-loop controller, the mass in the haptic module from the sensor reference position to the mechanical resting position in accordance with the parking command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan A. Gordon, Matthew Thomas Metzler, Adam I. Papamarcos, Michael Yiu Ka Diu
  • Patent number: 10831289
    Abstract: A method of handling event invocation in a device using a stylus pen and the device are provided. The method includes identifying the event invocation at a touchscreen of the device; determining if the event invocation is performed using a distal end of the stylus pen; retrieving an assigned predefined action with respect to the event invocation using the distal end of the stylus pen; receiving a confirmation that the action is acceptable; and performing the action for the event invocation by the distal end of the stylus pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Vijay Bollineni
  • Patent number: 10830412
    Abstract: A first light emitter of a light emitting device includes a first lens for making first light wide-angle from a first diffusion center as a starting point, and a second light emitter includes a second lens for making second light wide-angle from a second diffusion center as a starting point. A cover lens disposed downstream of the first lens and the second lens includes a first curved surface and a second curved surface. A first curvature center as a curvature center of the first curved surface overlaps the first diffusion center of the first lens when viewed from a front-back direction, and a second curvature center as a curvature center of the second curved surface overlaps the second diffusion center of the second lens when viewed from the front-back direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Otani
  • Patent number: 10824268
    Abstract: A method of providing a user defined user keypad and a mobile terminal supporting the same are provided. The method includes displaying guide information when entering a user keypad setting mode, determining a designation range for the user keypad according to a user interaction inputted based on the guide information, computing a key arrangement of the user keypad in response to the determined range, and configuring the user keypad according to the computed key arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Ram Nam Goong, Hwang Joon Lee