Patents Examined by Matthew A Eason
  • Patent number: 12112673
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes p pixel unit groups, and each of the p pixel unit groups includes q rows of pixel units, both p and q being integers greater than or equal to 2. Pixel units in a same group are simultaneously supplied with a gate scan signal by a same shift register, and pixel units in a same group and in a same column are supplied with data voltage signals through different data lines, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chongyang Zhao, Yingmeng Miao, Zhihua Sun, Feng Qu, Xiaochun Xu
  • Patent number: 12111964
    Abstract: A power wheelchair [4] includes moveable components, motors, a drive controller [6] operatively connected to the motors, and a drive manager device [8] operatively connected to the drive controller [6]. The drive manager device [8] is configured to communicate with an input collection/display unit (IC/DU) 10 via a first communication interface, the IC/DU [10] operable by a user in the power wheelchair. The drive manager device [8] is configured to communicate with a caregiver unit [12] via a second communication interface, the caregiver unit [12] operable by a caregiver. The drive manager device [8] is configured to determine a command made by the user or the caregiver by processing command data received in a communication with the IC/DU [10] or the caregiver unit [12]. The drive manager device [8] is configured to cause voltage to be applied to the drive controller [6] to cause the drive controller [6] to interact with the motors to actuate at least one of the moveable components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Life Drive LLC
    Inventors: John Patrick Sexton, Shawn Patrick Sexton, Mary Kathryn Bryson Sexton
  • Patent number: 12111478
    Abstract: A facial interface for a head-mounted display, which is to be worn on a head of a user, includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion engages an upper facial region above eyes of the user. The lower portion that engages a lower facial region below the eyes of the user. The lower portion has a lower shear compliance in that is greater than an upper shear compliance of the upper portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Dustin A. Hatfield, Kristi E. Bauerly
  • Patent number: 12106699
    Abstract: A display system supporting a privacy function and a display control method are disclosed. The method includes the following. A first light source driving signal is provided to a display through a first signal path of a switch circuit to drive the display to display a first image in a first display mode. A trigger signal is generated in response to a user operation. A second light source driving signal is provided to the display through a second signal path of the switch circuit in response to the trigger signal to drive the display to display a second image in a second display mode. The first signal path is different from the second signal path. A screen brightness of the display in the second display mode is lower than a screen brightness of the display in the first display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventor: Fang-Wei Chang
  • Patent number: 12093474
    Abstract: Provided is a pen data storage apparatus that stores pen data including at least coordinate data regarding a position instructed and input by an electronic pen, in units of the pen data, in which each piece of the stored pen data includes function identification information that identifies a processing function for the pen data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ipei Hung, Akiyuki Kake, Kizuku Ishimaru
  • Patent number: 12092832
    Abstract: A device for adjusting the degree of tightness is provided. The device is for a first strap element and a second strap element. The device includes an outer adjustment element, an inner adjustment element, and an intermediate adjustment element. The inner adjustment element is disposed inside the outer adjustment element. The intermediate adjustment element is disposed between the inner adjustment element and the outer adjustment element. The first strap element includes a first hollow region, and the second strap element includes a second hollow region. The inner adjustment element passes through the first hollow region and the second hollow region to adjust the degree of overlapping of the first hollow region and the second hollow region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Chun-Feng Yeh, Chun-Lung Chen, Chun-Nan Huang, Bing-Kai Huang, Jia-Cheng Chang
  • Patent number: 12086349
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a touch device, and a main controller that processes a pen input and a touch input. The touch device includes a touch sensor for detecting a contact position of a finger and a contact position of a pen on a screen of a display, a wireless communication for detecting an approach of the pen and a position of the pen on the screen, and a detection controller operable, in a state where an approach of the pen is detected and the pen is not in contact with the screen and the finger is in contact with the screen, to detect in a first mode in which pen input detection and touch input detection are performed in a time-division manner, and to change the mode to a second mode in which the pen input detection is performed for an entire detection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Asahi Tokyo
  • Patent number: 12087226
    Abstract: Display panel and driving method thereof, and display device are provided. The display panel includes sub-pixels. Each sub-pixel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a data input module, a threshold compensation module, and a bias adjustment module. First electrode of the driving transistor is connected to the data input module and the bias adjusting module. First terminal of the data input module is connected to a data signal, a second terminal of the data input module is connected to the first electrode of the driving transistor. First terminal of the bias adjustment module is connected to a bias adjustment signal, a second terminal of the bias adjustment module is connected to the first electrode of the driving transistor. The threshold compensation module is connected between a gate of the driving transistor and a second electrode of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignees: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd., Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
    Inventors: Mengmeng Zhang, Gaojun Huang, Yana Gao, Xueqi Tian, Xingyao Zhou
  • Patent number: 12073028
    Abstract: Techniques of identifying gestures include detecting and classifying inner-wrist muscle motions at a user's wrist using micron-resolution radar sensors. For example, a user of an AR system may wear a band around their wrist. When the user makes a gesture to manipulate a virtual object in the AR system as seen in a head-mounted display (HMD), muscles and ligaments in the user's wrist make small movements on the order of 1-3 mm. The band contains a small radar device that has a transmitter and a number of receivers (e.g., three) of electromagnetic (EM) radiation on a chip (e.g., a Soli chip. This radiation reflects off the wrist muscles and ligaments and is received by the receivers on the chip in the band. The received reflected signal, or signal samples, are then sent to processing circuitry for classification to identify the wrist movement as a gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Shahram Izadi, David Kim, Sofien Bouaziz, Steven Benjamin Goldberg, Ivan Poupyrev, Shwetak N. Patel
  • Patent number: 12072751
    Abstract: A wearing state detection method, a wearing state detection device, and a wearable device are provided. The method detects a wearing state of the wearable device and includes: emitting, by the light emitting unit, light of at least two different wavelengths to a subject in a time division manner; receiving, by the light receiving unit, reflected light corresponding to light of each wavelength after being reflected by the subject; obtaining intensity of reflected light corresponding to the light of each wavelength respectively; calculating a fluctuation range of a light intensity ratio, which is a ratio between intensity of the reflected light corresponding to light of the at least two different wavelengths received by a same light receiving unit; and determining that the device is in a wearing state when the fluctuation range is greater than or equal to a first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wanruonan Zhao
  • Patent number: 12061830
    Abstract: The invention disclosed provides a novel solution to the problems of the prior art. The device provides a low-cost active display system capable of use in many free-standing configurations. The device incorporates a modular design that has both reusable and non-reusable elements. The modular design further accommodates specially designed display screens which are electronically modified to match different battery configurations to maximize battery life. The device incorporates various sensors to recognize certain ambient conditions, customer proximity and customer approach direction. In one embodiment, the display largely remains dormant until a first long range trigger signal is detected, at which time the device reactivates the modified display and a second short range trigger signal is detected which then retrieves content from the memory to display it. The result is drastically extended battery life and reduced maintenance cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Glass-Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Corey Black, Nic Joseph Logan, Andrew Bernett Davis
  • Patent number: 12051360
    Abstract: A display device includes a luminance correction unit that corrects input data based on a dimming code value and outputs correction data, a gamma correction unit that corrects the correction data and generates output data, a gamma voltage generator that generates gamma voltages depending on a first voltage code value, a data driver that converts the output data into data voltages based on the gamma voltages, and a controller that supplies the dimming code value and the input data to the luminance correction unit and provides the first voltage code value to the gamma voltage generator. The controller compares a highest dimming compares a highest dimming grayscale value of the output data determined by the dimming code value with a highest reference grayscale value and updates the first voltage code value with a second voltage code value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dowon Kim, Min-Weun Kim, Sung-Yeol Baek
  • Patent number: 12050833
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for screen display are provided. The method is adapted to an electronic apparatus including a processor and a memory. The method includes the following steps: installing a virtual display card driver; making one or more network connections with one or more selected apparatuses in an adjacent area; creating one or more virtual screens corresponding to the one or more selected apparatuses through the virtual display card driver; encoding one or more pictures of the one or more virtual screens to generate one or more encoded videos; and transmitting the one or more encoded videos to the corresponding one or more selected apparatuses respectively through the one or more network connections, to display the one or more pictures of the corresponding one or more virtual screens on one or more screens of the one or more selected apparatuses respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventor: Po-Wei Chou
  • Patent number: 12046171
    Abstract: The electronic display board system with a modified Ethernet network according to the present invention comprises a main controller 1 provided with a main Ethernet switch 10 comprising a first main port 101 and a second main port 102; and first to Nth display units D1, D2, . . . , DN (N is an integer of 2 or more) sequentially connected with each other by an Ethernet network to receive image data transmitted from the main controller 1 to output the data on a display module 21 or transmit the data to a neighboring display unit or the main controller 1, wherein the first to Nth display units D1, D2, . . . , DN each comprise a first sub-port 201 and a second sub-port 202 to receive a first image data transmitted from the second main port 102 to transmit the data in a forward direction and to receive a second image data transmitted from the first main port 101 to transmit the data in a reverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: ASONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeong Jae Lee, Jeong Yong Lee
  • Patent number: 12041835
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a first, a second, and a third sub pixel that are disposed in a vertical direction. A first pixel of the plurality of pixels includes: a first sub pixel of the first pixel, a second sub pixel of the first pixel, which is disposed to be spaced apart from the first sub pixel of the first pixel by a first distance, and a third sub pixel of the first pixel, which is disposed to be spaced apart from the second sub pixel of the first pixel by the first distance. A second pixel of the plurality of pixels also includes a first sub pixel and a second sub pixel, which are separated apart by a second distance that is different from the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangkyun Im, Joowhan Lee
  • Patent number: 12039686
    Abstract: A method of dynamically displaying a three-dimensional image object in a volumetric display apparatus is provided. The method includes rotating a display plate about an axis to display a volumetric three-dimensional image; displaying a first three-dimensional image of a first three-dimensional image object according to first coordinates in a first image coordinate system in the volumetric display region; sensing a position or a movement of an external real-world object within a sensing zone; and displaying a second three-dimensional image of a second three-dimensional image object according to second coordinates in a second image coordinate system in the volumetric display region. The second three-dimensional image object is obtained by reorienting the first three-dimensional image object from an initial orientation to a target orientation; and the reorientation is correlated with a position or the movement of the external real-world object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xi Li, Longhui Wang, Xuefeng Wang, Jinghua Miao
  • Patent number: 12032759
    Abstract: An information handling system touchpad includes an application area with a display to present control icons of an application executing on the information handling system, such as camera and microphone icons to control camera and microphone functions of a videoconference application. The touchpad dynamically adjusts touchpad display brightness and color based upon ambient light conditions detected by an ambient light sensor. Touchpad display brightness control is set independent of main display and keyboard backlight illumination brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Andelon Xuan Tra, Barry Paul Easter, Frank Quintanilla, Julia A. Ogbevoen, Daniel L Hamlin
  • Patent number: 12027099
    Abstract: A shift-register unit includes a first circuit including a first input circuit coupled via a first node to a first output circuit, and a second circuit including a second input circuit coupled via a second node to a second output circuit. The first input circuit is configured to control a voltage level of the first node in response to a first input signal. The first output circuit is configured to output a shift-register signal and a first output signal in response to the voltage level of the first node. The second input circuit is configured to control a voltage level of the second node in response to the first input signal. The second output circuit is configured to output a second output signal in response to the voltage level of the second node. The first input circuit and the second input circuit have a same circuit structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li, Xing Zhang
  • Patent number: 12026418
    Abstract: A collective display and intelligent layout system and processes are disclosed for automatically updating and collectively synchronizing multiple device screens as a single collective graphical output image. The collective display and intelligent layout system and processes perform automatic intelligent layout and alignment of the multiple device screens to form an intended layout for the collective graphical output image. The collective display and intelligent layout system and processes automatically updates the single graphics output in real-time to account for added and removed device screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Inventor: Angelina Yejin Kim
  • Patent number: 12026297
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device is disclosed. The wearable electronic device may include a display, a main frame to secure the display, a first support frame and second support frame connected to opposite ends of the main frame, and being mountable on a user's ears, a motion sensor installed to at least one of the first support frame and the second support frame, and a protrusion structure formed on one surface of at least one of the first support frame and the second support frame, the protrusion structure including first protrusion patterns disposed at a first interval, and second protrusion patterns disposed at a second interval wider than the first interval. Certain contacts to the protrusion patterns are detectable as inputs by a processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunmo Yang, Juhwan Yun