Patents Examined by Kenneth Bukowski
  • Patent number: 11723465
    Abstract: A display board, for writing and drawing with an interchangeable whiteboard, blackboard, or electronic surface that is pressure sensitive to a marker, chalk, or stylus through the use of a pressure sensitivity matrix. A software system implemented with the pressure sensitive matrix will be able to learn from the user's natural writing behavior, natural spaces and pauses in writing, and their writing size, and with these metrics, will be able to identify or predict a long pause in the action of writing. When this pause happens, the surface physically shifts upwards through the use of two linear actuators; the shift amount being determined by the user's writing size. The board is also able to shift upwards once the writer progresses to the opposite vertical edge of the drawing surface or can shift either upwards or downwards manually with two buttons on the side of the board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventor: Nadun Gajapala
  • Patent number: 11715406
    Abstract: A display device includes: a data driver for supplying a data signal to output lines; a demultiplexer connected to each of the output lines, the demultiplexer to supply the data signal supplied to each output line to a first data line and a second data line; first pixels disposed in a (2j?1)-th column and a (2k?1)-th row, the first pixels being connected to the first data line, wherein j and k are positive integers; second pixels disposed in the (2j?1)-th column and a (2k)-th row, the second pixels being connected to the second data line; third pixels disposed in a (2j)-th column and the (2k?1)-th row, the third pixels being connected to the first data line; and fourth pixels disposed in the (2j)-th column and the (2k)-th row, the fourth pixels being connected to the second data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se Hyuk Park, Jin Young Roh, Woo Mi Bae, Hae Kwan Seo, Young Ha Sohn, Jin Wook Yang
  • Patent number: 11715405
    Abstract: A method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, and a see-through display. The method includes determining a light superposition value that quantifies ambient light from a physical environment. The method includes obtaining image data that is associated with a color characteristic vector. The color characteristic vector includes a first chroma value. The method includes determining, via a color correction function, a second chroma value based on the color characteristic vector and the light superposition value. The first chroma value is different from the second chroma value. The method includes generating, from the image data, display data that is associated with the second chroma value. The method includes displaying the display data on the see-through display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventors: Sivalogeswaran Ratnasingam, Anselm Grundhoefer, Ralf Habel
  • Patent number: 11710461
    Abstract: A gamma measurement method of a display device includes: storing a current value that is measured during gamma tuning of a display panel; resetting a target current of global current management (GCM) by referring to the current value; and measuring gamma of the display panel while applying the target current of the GCM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Geon Hwi Park, Jung Eon An, Ki Hyun Pyun
  • Patent number: 11703951
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing gesture recognition. In one embodiment of the invention, the method includes the steps of receiving one or more raw frames from one or more cameras, each of the one or more raw frames representing a time sequence of images, determining one or more regions of the one or more received raw frames that comprise highly textured regions, segmenting the one or more determined highly textured regions in accordance textured features thereof to determine one or more segments thereof, determining one or more regions of the one or more received raw frames that comprise other than highly textured regions, and segmenting the one or more determined other than highly textured regions in accordance with color thereof to determine one or more segments thereof. One or more of the segments are then tracked through the one or more raw frames representing he time sequence of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Edge 3 Technologies
    Inventors: Tarek A. El Dokor, Joshua T. King
  • Patent number: 11699379
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel which displays an image, a panel driving block which provides a data signal to the display panel, and a temperature measuring part which measures a temperature of the display panel and provides a measurement temperature to the panel driving block. The panel driving block includes a first memory which stores a reference gamma voltage corresponding to a predetermined reference temperature, a temperature difference calculating part which calculates a temperature difference between the reference temperature and the measurement temperature, and a compensation part which generates a correction gamma voltage by correcting the reference gamma voltage based on the temperature difference between the reference temperature and the measurement temperature. The data signal is generated based on the correction gamma voltage and the image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Si-Beak Pyo
  • Patent number: 11694591
    Abstract: A display device includes: a timing controlling part generating an image data, a data control signal and a gate control signal; a data driving part generating a data voltage using the image data and the data control signal; a gamma part transmitting the data voltage corresponding to the image data; a gate driving part generating a gate voltage using the gate control signal; a display panel including subpixels, gate lines, left data lines at a left side of the subpixels and right data lines at a right side of the subpixels; and first MUX switches, second MUX switches, third MUX switches, fourth MUX switches, fifth MUX switches and sixth MUX switches sequentially transmitting the data voltage to the left data lines and the right data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soon-Hwan Hong, Dae-Seok Oh, Seong-Yeong Kim
  • Patent number: 11688363
    Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display including display pixels to display an image based on compensated image data. The electronic display may also include a stressed reference pixel to exhibit burn-in related aging in response to one or more stress sessions and a non-stressed reference pixel configured to not undergo the one or more stress sessions. Additionally, the electronic device may include image processing circuitry to determine a panel-specific aging profile based on a comparison between one or more properties of the stressed reference pixel and the one or more properties of the non-stressed reference pixel. The image processing circuitry may also generate one or more gain maps based on the panel-specific aging profile and generate the compensated image data by applying the one or more gain maps to input image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Maofeng Yang, Jiayi Jin, David A. Doyle, Yifan Zhang, Weijun Yao, Jiye Lee, Tae-Wook Koh, Mathew K. Mathai, Chuang Qian, Tsung-Ting Tsai, James P. Landry, Kiran S. Pillai, Injae Hwang, Yongjun Li
  • Patent number: 11688320
    Abstract: Disclosed is a gamma amplifier which includes a first amplification device that receives a first input signal during a first track period in a first time period, compensates for a first offset voltage from the first input signal during a first compensation period in the first time period, and generates a first output signal during a second time period after the first time period based on a control signal, and a second amplification device that receives a second input signal during a second track period in the second time period, compensates for a second offset voltage from the second input signal during a second compensation period in the second time period, and generates a second output signal during a third time period after the second time period based on the control signal and processing circuitry configured to generate the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: In-Suk Kim, Yeonjeong Lee
  • Patent number: 11688338
    Abstract: A display device, a luminance compensation circuit thereof and a luminance compensation method are provided. In the luminance compensation method, the display device includes a display region and a peripheral region located on a periphery of the display region, where the display region includes a first pixel region and a second pixel region, a pixel density of the second pixel region is lower than a pixel density of the first pixel region; the luminance compensation method includes: adjusting a power supply signal of the first pixel region and/or a power supply signal of the second pixel region, respectively, according to the first light-emitting luminance information of the first pixel region and the second light-emitting luminance information of the second pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Feng, Guoqiang Wu, Chenghao Liao, Yanni Jiang, Chungkee Cheng
  • Patent number: 11681154
    Abstract: A wearable device which is lighter, relatively safer at the time of breakage, and smaller than a wearable device having a lens substrate that is a glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Hye Min Kim, Yong Suk Kim, Boo Kyung Kim, Yeong Rae Chang, Bu Gon Shin, So Young Choo
  • Patent number: 11670229
    Abstract: The pixel structure includes a plurality of first pixel units disposed in a first region and at least one second pixel unit disposed in a second region. A distribution density of the plurality of first pixel units is greater than that of the at least one second pixel unit. Each second pixel unit includes a first color sub-pixel, a second color sub-pixel, and at least two third color sub-pixels. In the second region, the at least one first color sub-pixel and the at least one second color sub-pixel are located in a same row, and the at least two third color sub-pixels are located in a same column. A straight line where geometrical centers of the at least two third color sub-pixels are located intersects with a straight line where geometrical centers of the at least one first color sub-pixel and the at least one second color sub-pixel are located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjing Tan, Kuo Sun, Yu Feng
  • Patent number: 11669199
    Abstract: Acoustic touch and/or force sensing system architectures and methods for acoustic touch and/or force sensing can be used to detect a position of an object touching a surface and an amount of force applied to the surface by the object. The position and/or an applied force can be determined using time-of-flight (TOF) techniques, for example. Acoustic touch sensing can utilize transducers (e.g., piezoelectric) to simultaneously transmit ultrasonic waves along a surface and through a thickness of a deformable material. The location of the object and the applied force can be determined based on the amount of time elapsing between the transmission of the waves and receipt of the reflected waves. In some examples, an acoustic touch sensing system can be insensitive to water contact on the device surface, and thus acoustic touch sensing can be used for touch sensing in devices that may become wet or fully submerged in water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marduke Yousefpor, Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost, Aaron Scott Tucker, Marcus Yip, Ehsan Khajeh, Brian Michael King, Giovanni Gozzini
  • Patent number: 11662813
    Abstract: A method, system, computer readable media and cloud systems are provided. In one example a method includes generating a virtual reality (VR) environment to be rendered for a head mounted display (HMD) of an HMD player during a session. The HMD player is provided with an HMD view that is controlled by movement of a character in the VR environment by the HMD player. The method includes providing a spectator view into the VR environment. The spectator view is associated with a viewing spot directed into the VR environment. Then, automatically moving said viewing spot of the spectator view to other viewing spots that follow the character in the VR environment. Moving the viewing spot of the spectator view has a delay in movement to follow the HMD view, and said delay in movement does not delay time progress for the session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Marks, Steven Osman
  • Patent number: 11663951
    Abstract: Provided is a technology for resolving a mura phenomenon in a display panel to which gamma is applied, in which demura compensation values are generated in a log domain to improve a problem of nonlinearity due to gamma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Young Park, Do Yeon Kim, Min Ji Lee, Gang Won Lee, Young Kyun Kim, Ji Won Lee
  • Patent number: 11656712
    Abstract: An example a method of detecting a force applied to a side of an input device including sensor electrodes, the method including: detecting first capacitive responses corresponding to a first plurality of sensor electrodes disposed near the side of the input device; detecting second capacitive responses corresponding to a second plurality of sensor electrodes disposed near a center of the input device; and determining a magnitude of the force applied to the side of the input device based on at least one of: a number of the second capacitive responses satisfying a first threshold; or magnitudes of the second capacitive responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tanemura, Shunsuke Araki
  • Patent number: 11650733
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a method is performed at a first device with one or more processors, non-transitory memory, and a display. The method includes displaying, on the display, a device control transfer affordance while operating the first device based on user input from an input device that is in communication with the first device. The method includes receiving a device control transfer user input from the input device selecting the device control transfer affordance that is displayed on the display of the first device. In response to receiving the device control transfer user input, the method includes configuring a second device to be operated based on user input from the input device and ceasing to operate the first device based on user input from the input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Brian Fleizach, Clare T. Kasemset, Darren Christopher Minifie, Gregory F. Hughes, Ibrahim G. Yusuf, James Nathan Cartwright, James Plowden Craig, Patti P. Hoa
  • Patent number: 11645963
    Abstract: A gamma correction method is disclosed that performs gamma correction for a display device. A plurality of correction matrices respectively corresponding to a plurality of spectrums of different test display devices is obtained. A spectrum of the display device is measured. A correction matrix corresponding to the spectrum of the display device is selected from the plurality of correction matrices. Tristimulus data of the display device are measured and the measured tristimulus data are converted into perception tristimulus data by using the selected correction matrix. The gamma correction for the display device is performed based on the perception tristimulus data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Jun Seo, Yongwoo Yi, Eunjung Lee, Sungchan Jo
  • Patent number: 11626057
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display assembly with color calibration for improving accuracy of displayed colors under thermal shifts. A data processing circuit of the display assembly determines color compensation coefficients corresponding to an operating temperature of a display panel, each color compensation coefficient accounting for a thermal shift of a respective color component at the operating temperature. The data processing circuit applies the color compensation coefficients to color transform elements corresponding to an initial temperature to determine a corrected version of the color transform elements corresponding to the operating temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yongmin Park, Haomiao Jiang, Zhang Jia, Xiaobo Tian, Agnes Lee
  • Patent number: 11626055
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a gate line, a data line, and a pixel electrically connected to the gate line and the data line and that displays an image based on input image data, a gate driver which outputs a gate signal to the gate line, a data driver which outputs a data voltage to the data line, and a driving controller which controls the gate driver and the data driver. The pixel includes a first pixel that emits light in a first mode and does not emit light in a second mode and a second pixel that emits light in both the first mode and the second mode, where the second pixel has a narrower viewing angle than the first pixel. The gate line includes a first gate line connected only to the first pixel and a second gate line connected only to the second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Seok Jeong, Jungkook Park