Patents Examined by Insa Sadio
  • Patent number: 10950188
    Abstract: The preset disclosure provides a driving method of a backlight, a backlight driving device, a backlight, a display assembly and a virtual reality apparatus. The backlight includes multiple rows of light sources arranged in an array. The driving method includes: after a preset time has elapsed from receipt of a synchronous display signal for each frame of image, lighting the light sources row by row, wherein each row of light sources is successively lit at least twice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tiankuo Shi, Lingyun Shi, Zhihua Ji, Chuanjun Liu, Guangquan Wang, Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 10950170
    Abstract: A display panel, a driving method thereof, and a display device. The display method includes: upon displaying each frame, determining an initial gray scale value corresponding to each sub-pixel according to image data corresponding to the frame; controlling display brightness of the sub-pixels in the second display region and the third display region according to the initial gray scale values corresponding to the sub-pixels, and reducing a display brightness difference between the sub-pixels in the second display region and the sub-pixels in the third display region so as to enhance the brightness uniformity of the regions of a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Zhenzhen Li
  • Patent number: 10950035
    Abstract: Systems and methods for rendering items with a user interface of an electronic device are described. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may detect its orientation and render, in a user interface, a physical item using a rendering effect determined from the orientation. As a user of the electronic device reorients the electronic device, the electronic device may automatically and dynamically update the rendering with an updated rendering effect to reflect the updated orientation. In embodiments, the user may use the electronic device to complete an order for the physical item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Ramon Harrington, Jon Gaudette, Jarongorn Manny Lertpatthanakul
  • Patent number: 10942385
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a first side including a display area configured to emit light and a second side opposite the first side, an auxiliary layer disposed on the second side of the display area and including an opening, a sensor overlapping the opening, and an adhesive layer connected between the sensor and the auxiliary layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Min Wang, Beohm Rock Choi, Yong Ho Yang
  • Patent number: 10936082
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to relates to providing command input to a machine under control. It further relates to gesturally interacting with the machine. The technology disclosed also relates to providing monitoring information about a process under control. The technology disclosed further relates to providing biometric information about an individual. The technology disclosed yet further relates to providing abstract features information (pose, grab strength, pinch strength, confidence, and so forth) about an individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Kevin A. Horowitz, Matias Perez, Raffi Bedikian, David S. Holz, Gabriel A. Hare
  • Patent number: 10936166
    Abstract: A user terminal device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The user terminal device includes a display configured to be divided into a first area and a second area which is larger than the first area with reference to a folding line, a cover disposed on a rear side of the display, a detector configured to detect a user interaction on the display and the cover, and a controller configured to, in response to the display being folded along the folding line such that the first area and the second area face each other, control the detector to detect a user interaction through an exposure area, which is an exposed part of the second area, and the cover, and, in response to the display being folded such that the two parts of the cover face with each other with reference to the folding line, control the detector to detect a user interaction through the first area and the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-goo Kang, Yun-kyung Kim, Yong-yeon Lee, Ji-yeon Kwak, Hyun-jin Kim
  • Patent number: 10928985
    Abstract: A user terminal device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The user terminal device includes a display configured to be divided into a first area and a second area which is larger than the first area with reference to a folding line, a cover disposed on a rear side of the display, a detector configured to detect a user interaction on the display and the cover, and a controller configured to, in response to the display being folded along the folding line such that the first area and the second area face each other, control the detector to detect a user interaction through an exposure area, which is an exposed part of the second area, and the cover, and, in response to the display being folded such that the two parts of the cover face with each other with reference to the folding line, control the detector to detect a user interaction through the first area and the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-goo Kang, Yun-kyung Kim, Yong-yeon Lee, Ji-yeon Kwak, Hyun-jin Kim
  • Patent number: 10921659
    Abstract: A pixel structure and a driving method thereof, a display panel and a display device are provided. The pixel structure includes a pixel electrode, a gate line, a data line, a first thin film transistor and a second thin film transistor. A gate electrode of the first thin film transistor is electrically connected with the gate line, a first electrode of the first thin film transistor is electrically connected with the data line; a gate electrode of the second thin film transistor is electrically connected with a first electrode of the second thin film transistor, the first electrode of the second thin film transistor is electrically connected with the pixel electrode, and a second electrode of the second thin film transistor is electrically connected with a second electrode of the first thin film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donghui Zhang, Xiaoye Ma, Rui Yin, Xiuli Si
  • Patent number: 10921909
    Abstract: An input touch pen includes a digitizer refill contained inside a shaft tube and including a contact tip and a stepped tip portion rearward thereof, and a knock member protruding from an opening at a rear end of the shaft tube. The contact tip can protrude and retract through an opening at a tip end of the shaft tube. The stepped tip portion has a larger diameter than the opening at the tip end. A relationship A>X>Y is satisfied, wherein X represents a knock stroke of the digitizer refill, A a distance from the stepped tip portion to an inner surface at the tip end side when the contact tip is sunken inside the opening, and Y a distance that the contact tip is moved by operation of the knock member from a state of protruding from the opening to a state of being sunken inside the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinichi Ushiku, Tsuyoshi Nishida, Kyo Nakayama, Satoru Okabe
  • Patent number: 10904518
    Abstract: A goggle system is provided. The goggle system includes a computing device, a goggle device configured to be worn by a user and including a detector configured to simultaneously acquire image data of a subject in a first image mode and a second image mode, at least one eye assembly configured to display at least one of an image in the first image mode, an image in the second image mode, and a hybrid image including pixels of image data from the first image mode and pixels of image data from the second image mode, and a communications module configured to transmit acquired image data from the goggle device to the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Washington University
    Inventors: Samuel Achilefu, Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 10901606
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a processor of the mobile computing device may receive an input for performing a function with respect to content at the mobile device in which the content at the mobile device is segmented into at least a first command layer having one or more objects and a second command layer having one or more objects. The processor may determine whether the received input is associated with a first object of the first command layer or a second object of the second command layer. The processor may determine a function to be performed on one of the first or second objects based on whether the first command layer or the second command layer is determined to be associated with the received input, and the processor may perform the determined function on the first object or the second object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jonathan Kies, Robyn Teresa Oliver, Robert Tartz, Douglas Brems, Suhail Jalil
  • Patent number: 10896658
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for generating a virtual display using a unidirectional communication channel. In one embodiment, a system may comprise a transmitting device including a processing subsystem to generate a representation of an encoded signal comprising information to be displayed on a virtual display. A virtual display transmission subsystem may transmit the encoded signal. A receiving device may comprise a virtual display reception subsystem to receive the encoded signal. A processing subsystem may extract the information to be displayed on the virtual display from the encoded signal and generate a representation of the virtual display. A virtual display subsystem may display the representation of the virtual display. The virtual display transmission subsystem and the virtual display reception subsystem may create a unidirectional communication channel from the transmitting device to the receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Edmund O. Schweitzer, III, Tony J. Lee, Krishnanjan Gubba Ravikumar, Lisa Gayle Nelms
  • Patent number: 10884553
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light guide comprising a frame defining a central space, at least first reflective surface formed on a bottom side of the frame and at least second reflective surface formed on a top side of the frame. A light emitted by a light emitting element is capable of being reflected by the at least first reflective surface and the at least second reflective surface to a light receiving element. The present disclosure also provides a touch screen assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Katherine Weilbacher, Jeffrey Lueschen, Lawrence J Gutkowski, Maria Del Carmen Tate, Ethan Bret Nusbaum
  • Patent number: 10878755
    Abstract: A pixel compensating circuit comprises an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), a first transistor, a compensating transistor, a storage capacitor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a seventh transistor. If a present-stage scan signal is at a low voltage potential, the second transistor is turned on, the gate of the first transistor and the drain of the first transistor are short-circuited. A data signal is transmitted to a source of the first transistor after the third transistor is turned on. A third reference voltage is transmitted to the source of the first transistor after the seventh transistor is turned on. An aging phenomenon and the uniformity of the driving transistor are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventor: Jun Li
  • Patent number: 10878759
    Abstract: A display device including a light-emitting diode, a first transistor configured to supply a driving current to the light-emitting diode, a second transistor configured to transmit a data signal to the first transistor, a third transistor configured to transmit the data signal compensated with a threshold voltage to a gate electrode of the first transistor, a first scan line connected to a gate electrode of the second transistor, a second scan line connected to a gate electrode of the third transistor and insulated from the first scan line, and a conductive pattern connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor and insulated from the first scan line and the second scan line. The conductive pattern overlaps the first scan line and the second scan line, and the conductive pattern includes a stem part extending in one direction and a branch part branching from the stem part and overlapping the first scan line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang Mi Kang, Ji Sun Kim, Mu Kyung Jeon
  • Patent number: 10871932
    Abstract: An embodiment modular light-emitting diode (LED) display panel includes attachment points for use in attachment as part of a multi-panel modular LED display, a printed circuit board including a first side and an opposite second side, and a plastic casing attached to the opposite second side of the printed circuit board. A perimeter of the plastic casing is substantially rectangular and has a height and a width. The modular LED display panel further includes a display surface including a plurality of LEDs arranged as pixels and attached to the first side of the printed circuit board. The pixels are arranged in a rectangular array including at least fifty pixels. Each of the pixels of the rectangular array is spaced from each respective adjacent pixel of the rectangular array by a pitch. The pitch is a predetermined constant number. The pitch does not depend on the height and the width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: ULTRAVISION TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: William Y. Hall
  • Patent number: 10872542
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a stereoscopic display panel, a stereoscopic display device, and a stereoscopic display method. The stereoscopic display panel includes a flexible self-luminous display thin film, and a depth-adjustment controllable drive board located below the flexible self-luminous display thin film, which is configured to be capable of adjusting respective depths of different parts thereof, thereby adjusting the depths of corresponding parts of the flexible self-luminous display thin film to implement a stereoscopic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jie Yu, Dae Keun Yoon, Qing Ma, Yangbing Yu, Qin Tan, Pai Sun, Pengtao Li, Tingfeng Huang, Yaoyao Wang
  • Patent number: 10871824
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, a binocular system for entering commands includes a computer and a binocular eyepiece. The computer generates a virtual graphical user interface (GUI) with one or more graphical elements, where each graphical element corresponds to a command. The binocular eyepiece includes of eyepieces. Each eyepiece has an optical path that directs an image of an object towards a corresponding eye of a pair of eyes. The optical path of at least one eyepiece directs the virtual GUI towards the corresponding eye. At least one eyepiece is associated with an eye-tracker that tracks movement of the corresponding eye relative to the virtual GUI to yield a tracked eye. The computer interprets movement of the tracked eye relative to the virtual GUI as an interaction with a selected graphical element, and initiates the command corresponding to the selected graphical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Inventor: Martin Eil
  • Patent number: 10866683
    Abstract: A device includes a housing defining part of an interior volume and an opening to the interior volume; a cover mounted to the housing to cover the opening and further define the interior volume; a display mounted within the interior volume and viewable through the cover; and a system in package (SiP) mounted within the interior volume. The SiP includes a self-capacitance sense pad adjacent a first surface of the SiP; a set of solder structures attached to a second surface of the SiP, the second surface opposite the first surface; and an IC coupled to the self-capacitance sense pad and configured to output, at one or more solder structures in the set of solder structures, a digital value related to a measured capacitance of the self-capacitance sense pad. The SiP is mounted within the interior volume with the first surface positioned closer to the cover than the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Pavan O. Gupta, Andrew W. Joyce, Benedict Drevniok, Mo Li, David S. Graff, Albert Lin, Julian K. Shutzberg, Hojjat Seyed Mousavi
  • Patent number: 10854165
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a device having a first sensor and a second sensor. The method includes capturing sensor data using the first sensor and the second sensor. The device maintains a calibration profile including a translation parameter and a rotation parameter to model a spatial relationship between the first sensor and the second sensor. The method also includes determining a calibration level associated with the calibration profile at a first time. The method further includes determining, based on the calibration level, to perform a calibration process. The method further includes performing the calibration process at the first time by generating one or both of a calibrated translation parameter and a calibrated rotation parameter and replacing one or both of the translation parameter and the rotation parameter with one or both of the calibrated translation parameter and the calibrated rotation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Tseh Chi, Jean-Yves Bouguet, Divya Sharma, Lei Huang, Dennis William Strelow, Etienne Gregoire Grossmann, Evan Gregory Levine, Adam Harmat, Ashwin Swaminathan