Patents Examined by Lisa S Landis
  • Patent number: 11210993
    Abstract: In one example, a head mounted display system includes at least one memory; and at least one processor to execute instructions to: detect a first position and a first view direction of a head of a user based on sensor data generated by at least one of an accelerometer, at least one camera, or a gyroscope at a first point in time; determine a latency associated with a time to cause an image to be presented on the display; determine a predicted position and a predicted view direction of the head of the user at a second point in time based on the latency; render, prior to the second point in time, the image for presentation on the display based on the predicted position and the predicted view direction of the head of the user; and cause the display to present the rendered image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuo Kuwahara, Deepak S. Vembar, Paul S. Diefenbaugh, Vallabhajosyula S. Somayazulu, Kofi C. Whitney
  • Patent number: 11194468
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to enable users to interact with user terminals having a touch screen interface without requiring the user to physically contact a surface of the touch screen interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventors: Aron Ezra, Slav Kulik
  • Patent number: 11188173
    Abstract: An interactive input system, a tool and a method for detecting the tool's identity in the interactive input system are provided, in which a touch location of the tool is detected. The system comprises a plurality of antennas. A set of selected antennas associated with the touch location are activated to generate electromagnetic field, thereby activating the tool to send out a unique identifier associated with an attribute of the pen tool. The unique identifier is received and detected by the interactive input system to determine the attribute of the pen tool. The pen tool comprise at least one coil, and at least one NFC transponder, wherein the at least one coil is activated by electromagnetic field to power the NFC transponder for transmitting the unique identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SMART TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventors: Rola Baki, Trevor Wellington, Colin Gowen
  • Patent number: 11182031
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device which facilitates to prevent a remaining film for a process of forming a metal pattern, wherein the display device may include a substrate including a display area having pixels, and a non-display area having pads to surround the display area, a dam between the display area and the pads, an encapsulation film for covering the dam and the pixels in the display area, a first metal pattern disposed in the non-display area and patterned on the encapsulation film, an insulating layer provided on the first metal pattern, and a second metal pattern disposed in the non-display area and patterned on the insulating layer, wherein the first metal pattern is not provided in a dam area with the dam, and the second metal pattern is provided on the dam area while being in contact with the first metal pattern via a contact hole penetrating through the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeonghoon Lee, JaeWon Lee, Sungjin Kim, Jaehyung Jang, Hyangmyoung Gwon
  • Patent number: 11182014
    Abstract: A touch control auxiliary apparatus, protective casing, touch screen and mobile terminal. The touch control auxiliary apparatus comprises: a main body having a touch screen contact surface and a finger sliding surface; a plurality of control lines insulated from one another, the plurality of control lines are in the main body, orthogonal projections of the plurality of control lines onto the touch screen contact surface are parallel to one another, the plurality of control lines are in a same plane, and the plane where the plurality of control lines are located is not coplanar with the finger sliding surface; and a plurality of touch lines insulated from one another, wherein the plurality of touch lines are in the finger sliding surface and the plurality of touch lines are parallel to one another, and the plurality of touch lines are connected to the plurality of control lines in a one-to-one correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yao Liang
  • Patent number: 11170734
    Abstract: A color profile adjustment method adapted to an electronic device includes: obtaining a first current color profile of a first screen which is externally connected to the electronic device; determining whether the first current color profile is the same as a second current color profile of a second screen of the electronic device; and when it is determined that the first current color profile is different than the second current color profile, outputting an adjustment command to the first screen, so that the first screen adjusts the first current color profile according to the adjustment command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ming-Yu Chien, Ling-Fan Tsao, Hsin-Yu Chen, Jun-Liang Lu
  • Patent number: 11165837
    Abstract: A system for augmented reality viewing generates a unique code corresponding to a user device. Information corresponding to the unique code is broadcast from the user device and the unique code is displayed on the user device. The information is configured to be received by an augmented reality device. A camera of an augmented reality device is activated upon receiving the information broadcast from the user device. The camera is configured to scan for the unique code. The user device is joined to an augmented reality session of the augmented reality device in response to the camera scanning the unique code displayed on the user device and by transmitting identification information to the user device based on the unique code. The simplified joining process improves the user experience and allows the user to more quickly view an augmented reality environment directly on a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Escudero, Toby Gilbert, Jose Antonio Santano Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11163406
    Abstract: A system and method for capacitive sensing comprises driving a first sensor electrode of a plurality of sensor electrodes with a first sensing signal to acquire a first resulting signal with the first sensor electrode during a period and driving a second sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes with the first sensing signal to acquire a second resulting signal with the second sensor electrode during the period. Further, a third sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes is driven with a reference signal during the period. Rotational information for an input object is determined at least partially based on the first resulting signal and the second resulting signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: David Hoch, Guozhong Shen
  • Patent number: 11163407
    Abstract: An input device is provided. The input device includes a communicator for communicating with an electronic device, a pen tip provided on one end portion of the input device, an electrode part provided at a position spaced apart at a predetermined interval from the pen tip, and a processor configured to apply a predetermined frequency signal to the electrode part, and control the communicator so as to transmit, to the electronic device, the signal of which frequency changed according to a capacitance formed between the electrode part and the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung-sun Lee, Kang-yoon Lee, Sung-hun Cho, Gwan-hyung Kim, Sang-yun Kim, Ho-chul Ryu, Sang-ho Kim
  • Patent number: 11163365
    Abstract: Method of providing vibro-tactile feedback to a user of a user interface device comprising at least one actuator adapted to provide vibro-tactile feedback to the user and communicatively coupled to an application device, a vibro-tactile feedback providing device and vibro-tactile feedback providing system as well as a computer program product for carry out said method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Force Dimension Sarl
    Inventors: Patrick Helmer, Francois Conti, Sébastien Grange, Patrice Rouiller
  • Patent number: 11158281
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a driving method thereof. The display panel includes an array substrate, the display panel including a display region and a peripheral region. In the peripheral region, a common voltage wiring, a voltage feedback wiring, a periodic signal wiring, and a decoupling wiring are disposed on the array substrate at intervals; the common voltage wiring is configured to transmit a common voltage signal for display to a pixel array in the display region, the voltage feedback wiring is configured to transmit a voltage feedback signal for monitoring changes in the common voltage signal, the periodic signal wiring is configured to provide the pixel array with a periodic signal for display, the decoupling wiring is located between the periodic signal wiring and the voltage feedback wiring, and is configured to transmit a decoupling signal for reducing coupling distortion of the voltage feedback signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignees: FUZHOU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yaochao Lv, Hao Cheng, Zongxiang Li, Jiamin Liao, Wenchang Tao, Guichun Hong, Zhendian Wu, Linlin Lin, Zuwen Liu, Jin Wang, Xinmao Qiu, Changhong Shi, Zihua Zhuang, Min Zhou, Yawen Huang, Yao Liu, Jingguang Zhu, Jiantao Lin, Xi Chen
  • Patent number: 11157114
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to project an icon onto a surface having a pattern, capture an image of the icon and the pattern, identify a change between the pattern in the image and a default pattern, identify a user input based on the change from the default pattern, and actuate a component based on the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: David Michael Herman, Nicholas Alexander Scheufler, Nunzio DeCia
  • Patent number: 11152441
    Abstract: Disclosed are an array substrate, a display panel, a display device and a manufacturing method of an array substrate. The array substrate includes: a driving array layer, a first insulating layer, an auxiliary trace layer, a second insulating layer and a first electrode layer, which are disposed in sequence. The driving array layer includes multiple thin film transistors. The first insulating layer includes first via holes, and the first electrode layer includes multiple first electrodes. The auxiliary trace layer includes multiple auxiliary traces which correspond to the multiple first electrodes one by one. An auxiliary trace is electrically connected to an electrode of a corresponding thin film transistor through a first via hole. The second insulating layer includes second via holes, and an auxiliary trace is electrically connected to a respective first electrode through a second via hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nana Xiong
  • Patent number: 11150727
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media to detect and track a user's eye gaze and head movement are described. In general, techniques are disclosed for identifying a user's pupil location and using this information, in conjunction with a three dimensional (3D) model of the user's head, perform gaze tracking operations. More particularly, techniques disclosed herein utilize pupil gradient information to refine an initial pupil location estimate. Once identified, the pupil's location may be combined with 3D head pose information to generate an accurate and robust gaze detection mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Matheen M. Siddiqui, Soumitry Jagadev Ray, Abhishek Sundararajan, Rishabh Bardia, Zhaoyi Wei, Chang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11144148
    Abstract: Provided are a touchscreen display device, a touch driving circuit, and a pen touch sensing method. Sensing processing on a pen signal is performed in a different manner, depending on whether or not a gate line, through which a gate signal having a variable voltage is applied, overlaps with a common electrode selected as a sensing target. Even in the case in which an abnormal noise voltage is induced in the common electrode by panel interior noise while pen touch sensing is being performed during display driving, pen touch sensitivity is prevented from being reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HoonBae Kim, SungChul Kim, SunYeop Kim, Seongkyu Kang
  • Patent number: 11137856
    Abstract: A sensing device comprises sensor electrodes arranged in an array of rows and columns, and vias. A first vias is arranged in a first direction, and corresponds to a first column of sensor electrodes adjacent to a first side edge of the sensing device. A second via is arranged in a second direction different than the first direction, and corresponds to a second column of the sensor electrodes adjacent to a second side edge of the sensing device. Each of the sensor electrodes is configured to be coupled to a routing trace through one of the vias. In a first row of the plurality of sensor electrodes, a two vias are different distances from the first side edge and in a second row of the plurality of sensor electrodes, two vias are different distances from the second side edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Petr Shepelev, Tetsuo Tanemura, HaThanh Nguyen, Takayuki Noto, Hiroshi Takeyama, Takeshi Hashimoto, Tsuyoshi Kuroiwa, Arnulf Graf
  • Patent number: 11126303
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises driver circuitry, an analog-digital (AD) converter, and processing circuitry. The driver circuitry is configured to supply a drive signal to a sensor array in a sensing frame comprising 2N bursts, N being an integer of two or more. The mixer circuitry is configured to modulate a plurality of carrier waves with a plurality of sensing signals corresponding to capacitances of a plurality of sensing electrodes of the sensor array, respectively, to output a plurality of mixer outputs. A number of the plurality of sensing electrodes is 2N?1 or 2N. The AD converter is configured to perform AD conversion on a sum signal of the plurality of mixer outputs. The processing circuitry is configured to detect an object based on the output of the AD converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Xueyong Yang, Tetsuo Tanemura, Nobukazu Tanaka, Takayuki Noto
  • Patent number: 11127371
    Abstract: A display system for extending a brightness dimming range of a display substrate is disclosed. In embodiments, the display system includes a display device including a display substrate configured to display at least one image. In embodiments, the display system further includes a controller communicatively coupled to the display substrate, the controller including one or more processors configured to execute a set of program instructions stored in a memory. The one or more processors may be configured to acquire a video stream including a plurality of image frames; selectively modify one or more characteristics of one or more image frames of the plurality of image frames to generate a modified video stream; and generate one or more control signals configured to cause the display device to display the modified video stream via the display substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher A. Keith, Michael A. Ropers
  • Patent number: 11093099
    Abstract: The present application discloses a first display substrate including a plurality of core-coil assemblies configured to detect a touch. Each of the plurality of core-coil assemblies includes a first base substrate; a core layer on the first base substrate and including a plurality of magnetic permeable cores substantially along a first direction and spaced apart from each other, each of the plurality of magnetic permeable cores substantially along a second direction; and a conductive coil wound around the plurality of magnetic permeable cores for multiple turns and insulated from the core layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Duolong Ding, Huafeng Liu, Shengwei Zhao, Chaochao Sun, Chao Wang, Jingping Lv, Meng Yang, Lei Yang, Chongliang Hu, Bule Shun, Lin Xie
  • Patent number: 11093089
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a glass substrate having a touch surface and a first touch electrode formed of a fine metal wire formed on a surface of the glass substrate opposite to the touch surface, the glass substrate contains an Si atom, an Al atom, and a K atom, a content of the Si atom is 25.0% to 35.0% by mass with respect to the total mass of the glass substrate, a content of the Al atom is 5.0% to 16.0% by mass with respect to the total mass of the glass substrate, and a content of the K atom is 3.0% to 10.0% by mass with respect to the total mass of the glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masaya Nakayama