Patents Examined by Ibrahim Khan
  • Patent number: 11493357
    Abstract: A guide object for proposing a guide target point is displayed when there is a guide target point that is to be proposed, ahead of a vehicle in a traveling direction. In contrast, when displaying the guide object, the guide object is displayed in a form in which an occupant visually recognizes the guide object with a relative position of the guide object with respect to the vehicle fixed, when a distance from the vehicle to the guide target point is equal to or more than a threshold. Further, the guide object is displayed in a form in which the occupant visually recognizes the guide object as being superimposed with a relative position of the guide object with respect to the guide target point fixed, when the distance from the vehicle to the guide target point is less than the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Kawai, Toshinori Takeuchi, Kenji Watanabe, Hiroyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 11493998
    Abstract: A region of space may be monitored for the presence or absence of one or more control objects, and object attributes and changes thereto may be interpreted as control information provided as input to a machine or application. In some embodiments, the region is monitored using a combination of scanning and image-based sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventor: David S. Holz
  • Patent number: 11495034
    Abstract: A device for recognizing a motion in a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a camera for acquiring a user image, and a controller that divides the user image into a first region, a second region, and a third region in which the first region and the second region overlap each other, and recognizes a motion of a user occurring in at least one of the first region, the second region, or the third region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Se Min Oh, Young Sung Joo
  • Patent number: 11485230
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle control panel (15) that comprises:—at least one clickable key (20) to which is assigned at least one function, said key (20) being configured to move at least between an inactive position and an active position in which said function is activated;—a screen (25) for displaying the current function of the key (20). The function is automatically assigned to the key (20) depending on a current parameter of the vehicle equipped with said control panel (15) or on a current context-related parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Volvo Truck Corporation
    Inventors: Frédéric Balain, Remi Barrellon, Jerome Vigneron
  • Patent number: 11488516
    Abstract: Provided are a circuit, a method of driving the panel, and a display device. The driving circuit includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of clock signal connecting lines, a time controller and a multiple shift register unit. The input end of the shift register unit is correspondingly connected to the other end of the clock signal connecting line to receive clock signals of the time controller, and the output ends of the shift register units are connected with the scanning lines in one-to-one correspondence; Starting from the first shift register unit, the adjacent two shift register units are taken as a shift register group, and the clock signals sent by the time controller to the two shift register units in the same group via the clock signal connecting line have the same waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: BEIHAI HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Chiayang Cheng, Chongwei Tang
  • Patent number: 11481035
    Abstract: System and method for managing a user interface for a foldable device are disclosed. The method includes: determining a folding state of the foldable device based on a folding angle of the foldable device; detecting an input gesture on one or more touch-sensitive display segments of a flexible display screen of a foldable device; determining a gesture type corresponding to the detected input gesture; determining whether the detected input gesture is a valid gesture or invalid gesture; and responsive to determining that the detected input gesture is a valid gesture, providing the gesture type corresponding to the detected gesture, the folding state of the foldable device, and display information to a software application or an operating system of the foldable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Thu Ha Trinh, Wei Li, Jin Tang, Marcello Giordano, Ghazaleh Saniee-Monfared, Chenhe Li, Siwen Yang, Zhou Xuan
  • Patent number: 11483569
    Abstract: Dynamic transcode throttling methods and devices for processing resource management and thermal mitigation in electronic devices such as eyewear devices. An electronic device monitors its temperature and, responsive to the temperature, configures a transcoding service to operate at different rates. A frame delay module is configured to add a delay between read frames prior to the transcoding service. This enables the electronic device to consume less power when temperatures are too high in order to provide thermal mitigation and can be performed without powering down the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Jonah Hephzibah Okike
  • Patent number: 11481008
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels and an upper signal line providing a data signal to the pixels. The upper signal line includes a first upper signal line including a first metal material, a second upper signal line including a second metal material which is different from the first metal material, and a third upper signal line including the first metal material. The first, second and third upper signal lines are arranged in order and respectively electrically connected to a plurality of connection lines including the second metal material. The connection lines are connected to a plurality of lower signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jihye Kong, Jeong-Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 11475859
    Abstract: A display device includes: pixel electrodes including a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode adjacent to the first pixel electrode in a first direction; switching elements including a first switching element coupled to the first pixel electrode and a second switching element coupled to the second pixel electrode; gate lines including a first gate line coupled to the first switching element and a second gate line coupled to the second switching element; a gate driver supplying a gate signal to the gate lines; and drive electrodes including a first drive electrode and a second drive electrode adjacent to the first drive electrode in the first direction. The first drive electrode overlaps the first and second pixel electrodes, and the second gate line. The second drive electrode overlaps the first gate line. The gate driver supplies the gate signal to the first and second gate lines simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kohei Kinoshita, Chihiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11460945
    Abstract: An electronic device including a body, a controller, a first touch layer and a second touch layer is provided. The body includes a first operating region and a second operating region. The second operating region is divided into a first touch region, a second touch region and a third touch region located between the first touch region and the second touch region. The controller, the first touch layer and the second touch layer are disposed in the body, and the first touch layer and the second touch layer are electrically coupled to the controller. In a first mode, the controller controls the first touch layer to switch from a detection status to a working status. In a second mode, the controller controls the second touch layer to switch from the detection status to the working status. A control method of an electronic device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Hsin-Chieh Fang, Wang-Hung Yeh, Shu-Hung Lin
  • Patent number: 11460954
    Abstract: A touch sensor panel driving method of applying a touch driving signal to a touch sensor panel according to a display synchronization signal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes synchronizing the touch driving signal applied to the touch sensor panel with the display synchronization signal and applying the touch driving signal, in which the touch driving signal includes a first touch driving signal and a second touch driving signal having a 180°-inverted phase to the first touch driving signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HIDEEP INC.
    Inventors: Jae Bum Jun, Young Ho Cho
  • Patent number: 11455060
    Abstract: A detection apparatus includes a cover, touch sensors that output a detection signal based on contact on the cover, and a controller that acquires the detection signal. The controller detects contact on the cover based on the detection signal and judges whether input of a predetermined pattern is provided based on time variable data of the detection signal outputted by each touch sensor from when the contact on the cover starts until the contact on the cover ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Masahito Tsukano
  • Patent number: 11451763
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a directional pixel for a high-angular resolution, wide field of view, multiple view display. The design teaches a directional pixel comprising a substrate, one or more pixel driving circuits, one or more nano- or micro-scale subpixels, and one or more directional optical guiding surfaces, wherein each of said one or more subpixels is comprised of a light emitting device emitting a light beam and an optical microcavity housing said light emitting device. The optical microcavity is comprised of a plurality of reflective surfaces to specifically manipulate and tune said light beam, wherein one or more of said reflective surfaces is a light propagating reflective surface which propagates said light beam out of said microcavity, and said light propagating reflective surface is connected to said one or more directional optical guiding surfaces to direct said light beam at a specific angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Avalon Holographies Inc.
    Inventors: Wally Haas, Jennifer Campbell-Correa, Matthew Hamilton, Stephen Hill, Jordan Peckham, Chuck Rumbolt
  • Patent number: 11442581
    Abstract: A method for displaying at least one additional item of display content on a display panel which is arranged in an interior of a vehicle, in which at least one sensor is used, using which a spatial corridor in the interior of the vehicle is optically monitored. The spatial corridor is delimited by two virtual boundary surfaces. At least one spatial virtual reference surface is defined in the spatial corridor between the virtual boundary surfaces, to which the at least one additional item of display content is assigned. The at least one sensor is used to detect whether a hand of a user is located in the corridor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Berndt, Timo Schaschek
  • Patent number: 11442556
    Abstract: A joystick control system for a refuse vehicle includes multiple joystick input devices, and a single controller. The single controller is configured to receive a user input from one or more of the multiple joystick input devices. The controller is also configured to identify which of the joystick input devices provide the user input. The controller is also configured to generate control signals, in response to receiving the user input, for one or more controllable elements of the refuse vehicle based on which of the joystick input devices provides the user input and the user input. The controller is also configured to provide the control signals to the one or more controllable elements of the refuse vehicle to operate the one or more controllable elements of the refuse vehicle according to the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Oshkosh Corporation
    Inventors: Cody D. Clifton, Vincent Hoover, Joshua Rocholl, Joseph Nelson
  • Patent number: 11442582
    Abstract: A method includes: detecting, at a computing device coupled to an image sensor, an input request; in response to detecting the input request, capturing a reference image via the image sensor, the reference image containing a virtual keypad having a set of virtual keys; detecting, in the reference image, the set of virtual keys; capturing, via the image sensor, a key-press image of the virtual keypad; detecting, in the key-press image, a subset of the virtual keys; comparing the set of virtual keys and the subset of virtual keys to identify a key-press obscuring one of the virtual keys; and returning input data corresponding to the obscured virtual key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Chakraborty, Ankit Kumar, Mukesh Prabhakar, Akashdeep Parida
  • Patent number: 11442806
    Abstract: A vehicle display apparatus has a display and a control unit. The control unit detects whether or not an error recognizable by users of the vehicle has occurred in an image on the display on the basis of the result of matching between a first error detection code, which is generated on the basis of image data transmitted to a display drive unit, and a second error detection code, which is generated on the basis of the image data received by the display drive unit, to determine whether notification is required or not, and provides notification on deterioration in the reliability of the image on the display by controlling light-emitting elements and sound output units provided on the vehicle display apparatus or by way of a superordinate device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Takano, Yuya Iwata
  • Patent number: 11442579
    Abstract: A method for accidental touch prediction using machine learning (ML) classification is provided. The method includes determining, by an electronic device, a mutual data index of a sensor data using a first ML model. Further, the method includes recognizing whether the sensor data corresponds to an object touch or a non-object touch based on the mutual data index. Further, the method includes performing, by the electronic device, one of detecting that the electronic device is in a pocket mode and providing an object touch notification on a touch screen of the electronic device in response to determining that the sensor data corresponds to the object touch, and recognizing whether the sensor data corresponds to an accidental touch or a non-accidental touch using at least one second ML model based on touch data in response to determining that the sensor data corresponds to the non-object touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ankit Agarwal, Sunil Rathour, Harshit Oberoi, Nitesh Goyal, Nitin Kishorbhai Tanwar, Vipin Khushu, Choice Choudhary
  • Patent number: 11435851
    Abstract: One variation of a method for characterizing inputs includes: scanning an array of sense electrodes at a first resolution to generate a first force image; detecting a first force input in the first force image; in response to a first geometry dimension of the first force input exceeding a first threshold, characterizing the first force input as a non-stylus input type; in response to the first geometry dimension of the first force input remaining below the first threshold: scanning the array of sense electrodes at a second resolution; detecting a second force input in a second force image; and, in response to a ratio of a force magnitude of the second force input to a geometry dimension of the second force input exceeding a second threshold, characterizing the first force input as a stylus input type; and outputting a location and a type of the first force input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sensel, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, John Aaron Zarraga, Tomer Moscovich
  • Patent number: 11429195
    Abstract: The present subject matter relates to self-healing keyboards. In an example implementation, a self-healing keyboard of an electronic device comprises a self-healing film having a self-healing layer disposed over a keyboard. The self-healing layer is composed of polyurethane, epoxy vinyl ester, epoxy, polyurethane microcapsules filled with silane compound, and a polysiloxane mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kuan-Ting Wu, Hung-Ming Chen, Chih Chen Hung