Patents Examined by Joseph P Fox
  • Patent number: 11360632
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing system including an application unit that applies a voltage to an application site of a user's body and a detection unit that detects a change in potential at a detection site of the user's body that is different from the application site in a state where the voltage is applied to the application site, and the information processing system determines a contact between a site of the user's body and another object on the basis of the change in potential detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Arimatsu, Yoshinori Ohashi
  • Patent number: 11360622
    Abstract: A stack structure includes: a substrate, a copper layer disposed on the substrate, a migration-proof layer disposed on the copper layer, and a silver-nanowire layer disposed on the migration-proof layer, wherein the migration-proof layer is made of materials between copper and silver in galvanic series. A touch sensor includes the stack structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Cambrios Film Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Chung-Chin Hsiao, Siou-Cheng Lien, Yi-Wen Chiu, Chia-Yang Tsai
  • Patent number: 11360607
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch device. The touch device includes a frame, a substrate, an infrared emitting unit, and an infrared receiving unit. The infrared emitting unit and the infrared receiving unit are disposed on the frame and located above the substrate. The touch device also includes: a connecting block which is connected at an edge region on a lower surface of the substrate, and an adjusting member which connects the connecting block and the frame and adjusts a lateral tensile force applied by the adjusting member to the substrate. The touch device of the present disclosure ensures the flatness of the substrate by the connecting block in cooperation with the adjusting member, avoiding the influence of the substrate on the infrared light, and has a simple structure and is convenient to assemble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Anhui Hongcheng Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tingfeng Chen, Junde Dai, Xinyi Liu
  • Patent number: 11347054
    Abstract: Methods and systems for triggering presentation of virtual content based on sensor information. The display system may be an augmented reality display system configured to provide virtual content on a plurality of depth planes using different wavefront divergences. The system may monitor information detected via the sensors, and based on the monitored information, trigger access to virtual content identified in the sensor information. Virtual content can be obtained, and presented as augmented reality content via the display system. The system may monitor information detected via the sensors to identify a QR code, or a presence of a wireless beacon. The QR code or wireless beacon can trigger the display system to obtain virtual content for presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Janusz Woods, Andrew Rabinovich, Richard Leslie Taylor
  • Patent number: 11347325
    Abstract: In some examples, a controller is to track markings of an input element in a content area defined on a medium without electronic input capability, and track an input made with the input element in a file handling control area defined on the medium, the input made with the pen in the file handling control area comprising information relating to a file and is to cause saving of a representation of the markings made in the content area according to the information relating to the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: David Quijano, Scott Rawlings, Bruce E. Blaho
  • Patent number: 11341931
    Abstract: A projector includes a projection section, a first connector to which an image outputting apparatus that outputs first image information is connectable, an activation instructor that instructs activation of the image outputting apparatus, a detector that detects that the activation of the image outputting apparatus has been completed, an image storage that stores second image information, and a display controller that causes the projection section to display a second image corresponding to the second image information when the detector does not detect that the activation of the image outputting apparatus has been completed and causes the projection section to display a first image corresponding to the first image information when the detector detects that the activation of the image outputting apparatus has been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Kumamoto
  • Patent number: 11340744
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a base layer including a first to third sensing region and a non-sensing region surrounding the first to third sensing region; a plurality of touch electrode rows provided in the first to third sensing regions and including a plurality of first touch electrodes connected in a first direction; and a plurality of touch electrode columns including a plurality of second touch electrodes connected in a second direction crossing the first direction. At least one of the first to third sensing regions has an area larger than that of other sensing regions. The non-sensing region includes an additional non-sensing region disposed between the second sensing region and the third sensing region and a bridge line provided in the additional non-sensing region and electrically connecting the first touch electrodes of the second sensing region to the first touch electrodes of the third sensing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventors: Sung Jae Moon, Hwan Hee Jeong, Won Kyu Kwak
  • Patent number: 11281292
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected to a first device fixed to a left hand of a user and a second device fixed to a right hand of the user: detects positions of the first device and the second device; and calculates information associated with sizes of the hands of the user on the basis of the difference between the detected positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Yoichi Nishimaki, Yasushi Okumura
  • Patent number: 11282478
    Abstract: An image data correcting device included in a display device includes a correction data memory and a correction calculator. The correction data memory stores sampling window select information indicating a sampling window selected from a plurality of sampling windows that are different from each other, and correction data obtained utilizing the selected sampling window with respect to the display device. The correction calculator receives image data, and corrects the image data based on the correction data for pixels at positions corresponding to the selected sampling window indicated by the sampling window select information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byoung Seok Yoo, Hoi Sik Moon, Jeongwoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11269427
    Abstract: An optical navigation device comprising: a first optical sensing region, having a first power consumption rate; and a second optical sensing region, having a second power consumption rate higher than the first power consumption rate. The optical navigation device applies the first optical sensing region to sense first optical data when the optical navigation device moves for a first speed, and the optical navigation device applies the second optical sensing region to sense second optical data when the optical navigation device moves for a second speed higher than the first speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventor: Chun Heap Leow
  • Patent number: 11269428
    Abstract: The disclosure herein describes changing a mode of operation of a computing device using signals from a pen device. The pen device obtains gesture input data from at least one sensor of the pen device and the obtained gesture input data is compared to at least one gesture pattern. Based on the gesture input data matching the at least one gesture pattern, the pen device transitions to an active state. The pen device detects, via an electrostatic communication channel, an uplink signal from the computing device and sends a signal to change a mode of operation of the computing device by at least one of a network interface or a communication channel, other than the electrostatic communication channel. Changing modes of operation of a computing device provides a flexible, stream-lined way to enhance the user experience of using a computing device with a pen device (e.g., performing an initial pairing process).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ilan Geller, Nadav Linenberg, Eran Arbel, Uri Ron, Amir Zyskind
  • Patent number: 11249611
    Abstract: A touch panel, a touch display panel, and a display device are provided, and relate to the field of display technology. The touch panel may include a substrate, and a first touch electrode pattern and a second touch electrode pattern that are stacked on the substrate. The first touch electrode pattern includes a plurality of first touch traces and the second touch electrode pattern includes a plurality of second touch traces. A width of at least one end portion of at least one touch trace is less than a width of a part other than the end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Taofeng Xie, Qin Zeng, Xianhua Wang, Qidi Wu
  • Patent number: 11250809
    Abstract: A configuration information setting method including: receiving a user-triggered information setting indication; generating, according to the information setting indication, an information setting instruction including setting indication data, the setting indication data configured to instruct the source driver to set configuration information of the source driver according to the setting indication data; and transmitting the information setting instruction to the source driver via the first signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yifang Chu, Hao Zhu, Xin Duan, Jieqiong Wang, Ming Chen, Xibin Shao
  • Patent number: 11237397
    Abstract: A scanning display includes a light source and a scanning assembly. The light source is configured to emit source light from a plurality of rows of emitters that are arranged parallel to a first dimension. The scanning assembly includes at least one optical element that conditions the source light. The scanning assembly is configured to scan the conditioned source light along a second dimension that is orthogonal to the first dimension. The scanning assembly configured to output the scanned light over a portion of a target area of an output waveguide. And a brightness of the scanned image light offsets dimming caused by the output waveguide expanding the scanned light in at least one dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wanli Chi, Yijing Fu, Pasi Saarikko
  • Patent number: 11232759
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel, a first layer, a signal applying unit, and a controller. The display panel displays an image. The first layer is formed on a first surface of the display panel. A shape of the first layer is changed when a first signal is applied to the first layer. The signal applying unit applies the first signal to the first layer. The controller controls the display panel to display the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaejoong Kwon, Youngjun Seo, Hyesog Lee, Hyosun Kim, Byungchoon Yang, Chio Cho
  • Patent number: 11226693
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a touch sensor which is disposed on the display panel. The display panel includes a display unit including a pixel, a driving circuit unit disposed outside the display unit, and a first static electricity blocking layer disposed on the driving circuit unit. The touch sensor includes sensing electrodes disposed on the display unit and a second static electricity blocking layer disposed overlapping the first static electricity blocking layer outside of the sensing electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Jae Park
  • Patent number: 11221683
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling a Graphical User Interface (GUI) manipulation using hand gestures over a hovering keyboard are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: detect a hand gesture using proximity sensors disposed on a hovering keyboard coupled to the IHS, and manipulate a task map rendered on a display coupled to the IHS in response to the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Srinivas Kamepalli, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 11200852
    Abstract: Provided herein may be a display device, which may include a display panel including a pixel column having a first pixel and a second pixel, a first data line coupled to the first pixel, and a second data line coupled to the second pixel, a data driver configured to output a data signal for the pixel column to an output line, a signal distribution circuit configured to receive the data signal through the output line, and to alternately transmit the data signal to the first data line and to the second data line, and a signal transmission circuit coupled between the data driver and the output line, and configured to transmit the data signal to the output line during a first period and a second period, and to block transmission of the data signal during a third period that is between the first period and the second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ok Kwon Shin, Bong Ho Bae, Chong Guk Lee, Myeong Bin Lim, Hyun Ho Lim, Se Hui Jang
  • Patent number: 11158698
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display is disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a plurality of pixels formed in a plurality of intersection areas of a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines. Each of the pixels includes a storage capacitor configured to store a data voltage, at least one target transistor having one end electrically connected to a current path of the storage capacitor, an organic light emitting layer, and a first electrode of an OLED formed over the organic light emitting layer. The first electrode includes a first electrode extension configured to block at least a portion of the target transistor from light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee Rim Song, Mu Kyung Jeon, Chong Chul Chai
  • Patent number: 11107399
    Abstract: A display device includes power lines, first driving transistors on a first side of each of the power lines, second driving transistors on a second side of each of the power lines, light-emitting elements of a first color, a second color and a third color. A first driving transistor of a first power line drives a light-emitting element of the first color. A second driving transistor of the first power line drives a light-emitting element of the second color. A first driving transistor of a second power line drives a light-emitting element of the third color. A second driving transistor of the second power line drives a light-emitting element of the second color. A first driving transistor of a third power line drives a light-emitting element of the first color. A second driving transistor of the third power line drives a light-emitting element of the third color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA JAPAN, LTD.
    Inventors: Jiro Yanase, Yojiro Matsueda, Yoshihiro Nonaka