Patents Examined by Kenneth Bukowski
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Patent number: 11495187Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to acquire image data including color information, acquire color information of a formed image, the formed image being an image formed on a recording medium on a basis of the image data, acquire light transmittance information expressing a degree of light transmittance of an image-carrying medium, the image-carrying medium being the recording medium on which the formed image is formed, and associate first color information, second color information, and the light transmittance information with each other, the first color information being the color information included in the image data and the second color information being the color information of the formed image.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Jungo Harigai, Yoshitaka Kuwada, Takashi Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 11482167Abstract: Systems and methods for an ambient light sensor (ALS) disposed under a display layer. In some implementations, an ALS reading is adjusted by compensating for light leakage in a display environment. In some aspects, a display leakage component may be determined based on image content driven onto a display pixel array during the ALS reading. An ambient light measurement may be generated by subtracting the display leakage component from the ALS reading and then adjusting a display brightness of the display pixel array in response to the ambient light measurement.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Jiangtao Kuang, Zhang Jia
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Patent number: 11474695Abstract: A portable electronic device having a touch screen display performs a set of operations, including displaying a plurality of key icons, each having an adjustable size hit region, and receiving a sequence of individual touch points input by a user on the touch screen display. The operations performed by the device further include processing the received individual touch points by: forming a user-input directed graph for the sequence of individual touch points received so far, determining a character corresponding to a last received individual touch point in accordance with the adjustable hit regions of the displayed key icons, displaying a sequence of characters corresponding to the sequence of individual touch points, and updating sizes of the adjustable hit regions for a plurality of the key icons in accordance with the sequence of individual touch points input by the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Kocienda, Greg Christie, Bas Ording, Scott Forstall, Richard Williamson, Jerome René Bellegarda
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Patent number: 11475855Abstract: A backlight module and a display device are provided. The backlight module includes a backlight source and a driving circuit for driving the backlight source. In the driving circuit corresponding to at least one backlight unit of the backlight source, a driving module is connected to a data signal input module and a compensation module through a first node, and is connected to the backlight unit through a second node. The compensation module is configured to pull down a potential of the first node to be less than a potential of the second node during a blank frame phase to make the threshold voltage of the driving module negatively biased.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Xingyi Liu
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Patent number: 11468816Abstract: The present application discloses a driver circuit and a display device, where the driver circuit includes a gamma circuit, the gamma circuit includes a gamma voltage generation chip and a gamma voltage output chip, the gamma voltage output chip includes a plurality of gamma voltage output circuits, and voltage maintenance circuits that are in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of gamma voltage output circuits; and the gamma voltage generation chip generates different gamma voltages, which are output through corresponding gamma voltage output circuits.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignees: BEIHAI HUIKE PHOTOELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHONGQING IIKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hang Zhong, Zhi Xiong
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Patent number: 11462145Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel displaying an image based on an input image data, a data driver outputting a data voltage to a data line, and a driving controller determining a driving frequency of the display panel based on the input image data. The driving controller includes a flicker value storage configured to store flicker values for grayscale values corresponding to the input image data, a voltage drop determiner configured to adjust a flicker value of the flicker values based on a voltage drop of the display panel, a still image determiner configured to determine whether the input image data is a still image or a video image, and a driving frequency determiner configured to determine the driving frequency of the display panel using the flicker value based on the input image data being the still image.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Inventors: Suk Hun Lee, Sangan Kwon, Hong Soo Kim, Jin Young Roh, Sehyuk Park, Hyo Jin Lee
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Patent number: 11462161Abstract: Methods of compensating for common unwanted signals present in pixel data measurements of a pixel circuit in a display having a plurality of pixel circuits each including a storage device, a drive transistor, and a light emitting device. First pixel data is measured from a first pixel circuit through a monitor line. Second pixel data from the first pixel circuit or a second pixel circuit is measured through the monitor line or another monitor line. The first measured pixel data or the second measured pixel data or both are used to clean the other of the first measured pixel data or the second measured pixel data of common unwanted signals to produce cleaned data for parameter extraction from the first pixel and/or second pixel.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.Inventor: Gholamreza Chaji
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Patent number: 11449158Abstract: Some aspects of the invention provide an interactive, touch-sensitive user interface device. A user interface device for a data processing system is provided, which includes a sensor having a surface configured to contactingly receive a pointing device and further configured to detect physical contact by a living human and to differentiate between said physical contact and movement of the pointing device when the pointing device is engaged with the surface. The user interface device is operable to transmit information corresponding to said physical contact to the data processing system.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2006Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Dwayne R. James, William G. O'Farrell, Alexander S. Ross
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Patent number: 11448554Abstract: A method for estimating ambient light at a display screen of a device. The method comprises determining one or more expected colour values of display screen output light, detecting light with a sensor positioned behind the display screen, determining one or more colour values of the detected light, determining a difference between the one or more expected colour values of the display screen output light and the one or more colour values of the detected light, and, from the determined difference, estimating a first portion of the detected light corresponding to the display screen output light and a second portion of the detected light corresponding to ambient light.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: ams International AGInventors: David Harlow Sin, George Richard Kelly, Pradeep Hegde, Ryan Owen
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Patent number: 11449178Abstract: A meta projector includes an edge emitting device configured to emit light through a side surface thereof, a meta-structure layer spaced apart from the upper surface of the edge emitting device that includes a plurality of nanostructures having a sub-wavelength shape dimension smaller than a wavelength of the light emitted from the edge emitting device, and a path changing member configured to change a path of the light emitted from the edge emitting device so as to direct the path toward the meta-structure layer. The meta projector may thus be configured to emit a light pattern of structured light, based on directing the light emitted from the edge emitting device through the meta-structure layer, while having a relatively compact device size.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seunghoon Han, Byunghoon Na, Jangwoo You
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Patent number: 11443679Abstract: A display device and a display method are provided. The display device includes a board, a sensing circuit, and a feedback control circuit. The board includes a display array formed by a plurality of pixels. The sensing circuit includes a test pixel and a light sensor. The light sensor receives light emitted by the test pixel to generate a corresponding sensing signal. The feedback control circuit receives the sensing signal and generates a pulse width adjusting signal to adjust a pulse width at which the pixels are operated for display.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Pei-Fen Lai, Hung-Chi Wang, Ya-Fang Chen, Chih-Hsiang Yang
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Patent number: 11436962Abstract: A display driver includes control circuitry and image processing circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to store first and second predetermined gamma curve defined for first and second regions of a display panel, respectively, the first region having a different pixel layout than the second region. The control circuitry is further configured to determine first and second modified gamma curves by scaling the first and second predetermined gamma curves with a common scale factor. The image processing circuitry is configured to apply a first gamma transformation based on the first modified gamma curve to a first graylevel defined for a first pixel circuit located in the first region to determine a first output voltage level and apply a second gamma transformation based on the second modified gamma curve to a second graylevel defined for a second pixel circuit located in the second region to determine a second output voltage level.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Hirobumi Furihata, Masao Orio, Takashi Nose, Akio Sugiyama
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Patent number: 11429203Abstract: Methods and systems are provided that are directed to automatically adjusting a user interface based on tilt position of a digital drawing board. The digital drawing board has a tiltable screen with a sensor. The tiltable screen may be fixed in a stable tilt position. A sensor is used to determine that the digital drawing board has a first tilt position. The digital drawing board displays a first user interface associated with the first tilt position. The first user interface may be associated with a first use mode. The first user interface may also be based on an application running on the digital drawing board. When the sensor senses that the digital drawing board has moved from the first tilt position to a second tilt position, it automatically displays a second user interface associated with a second tilt position. The second user interface has different functionality than the first user interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kenneth Paul Hinckley, Hugo Karl Denis Romat, Christopher Mervin Collins, Nathalie Riche, Michel Pahud, Adam Samuel Riddle, William Arthur Stewart Buxton
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Patent number: 11393406Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor integrated circuit for driving a display, and more particularly, to a semiconductor integrated circuit for driving a display to supply gamma voltages to respective DACs through a gamma bus to which a plurality of gamma voltage circuits are connected.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.Inventor: Young Sun Na
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Patent number: 11393435Abstract: A display device is mounted on and/or inside the eye. The eye mounted display contains multiple sub-displays, each of which projects light to different retinal positions within a portion of the retina corresponding to the sub-display. The projected light propagates through the pupil but does not fill the entire pupil. In this way, multiple sub-displays can project their light onto the relevant portion of the retina. Moving from the pupil to the cornea, the projection of the pupil onto the cornea will be referred to as the corneal aperture. The projected light propagates through less than the full corneal aperture. The sub-displays use spatial multiplexing at the corneal surface. Various electronic devices interface to the eye mounted display.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Tectus CorporationInventors: Michael F. Deering, Alan Huang
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Patent number: 11385467Abstract: A system includes an eyewear device, and a neckband device. The neckband device includes a power source and a processor communicatively coupled to the eyewear device. The system includes a bracelet device, which includes at least one sensor configured to determine a position signal in response to movement of the user's hand, the bracelet device communicatively coupled to the processor. A display device is configured to present content to a user, and is also configured to couple to and be removable from the eyewear device.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Jacques Gollier, Ying Geng, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Brian Wheelwright
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Patent number: 11380241Abstract: A display device according to some embodiments includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a timing controller for correcting an input image signal, and for transmitting the input image to the display panel, a memory for storing model correction data for correcting a gray value, the model correction data corresponding to respective models of a plurality of timing controllers, and for storing image quality correction data for correcting a gamma deviation of the display panel, and a correction controller for generating final correction data by using the model correction data and the image quality correction data, and for transmitting the final correction data to the timing controller.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Min Gyu Kim, Hee Joon Kim, Si Hun Jang, Hoi Sik Moon
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Patent number: 11366518Abstract: Techniques and architectures for establishing and/or evaluating a communication session that enables users from the same physical environment, different physical environments, or a combination to interact in a virtual coordinate system and perceive each other as being present are described herein. In some examples, representations of users may be aligned within a coordinate system while maintaining spatial alignment of the user in a physical environment and/or spatial alignment of the representations in another coordinate system. In some examples, a representation of a user may be output to another user in a manner that is aligned to input for the user. In some examples, a human model may be created for a user and used to provide representations of users that map to a human. In some examples, a representation of a user may be evaluated to determine if the representation is properly aligned to the user and/or a coordinate system.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: PlutoVRInventors: Mark Gibson, Jared Cheshier, Jean-Luc Rene Bouthemy, Brian Douglas
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Patent number: 11367388Abstract: 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 first pixel unit includes a plurality of first sub-pixels, and each second pixel unit includes a plurality of second sub-pixels. A number of first sub-pixels included in the first pixel unit is equal to that of second sub-pixels included in the second pixel unit. A number of at least one first sub-pixel of the first pixel unit that displays a color is equal to that of at least one second sub-pixel of the second pixel unit that displays a same color, and light-emitting areas of a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel that display a same color are equal.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenjing Tan, Kuo Sun, Yu Feng
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Patent number: 11355075Abstract: A display device (300) comprises a display panel (310), a backlight module (320), and a driving circuit (330). The backlight module (320) comprises a backlight source and a partition control unit. The partition control unit is used to partition the backlight source into a plurality of regions, and to independently control the luminance of each colored light source at each region. The driving circuit (330) is used to: acquire an input signal of each given image to be displayed; display said image by means of two sub-frames at the front and the back thereof; determine, according to a driving voltage of pixels corresponding to each region, a magnitude of a backlight brightness compensation signal of each region; and adjust, according to the backlight brightness compensation signal, the luminance of each region.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Chih Tsung Kang