Patents Examined by Michael J Eurice
  • Patent number: 11510743
    Abstract: A tiered multi-display control scheme may provide various communication control options for a surgeon-controlled secondary display and primary operating room display. A powered surgical tool may be in operative communication with a local display and at least one main monitor within the operating room outside the sterile field for displaying multiple data and/or imaging sources. The local display may be interactable by the surgeon within the sterile field. The display outside the sterile field may show an image of an aspect of the laparoscopic scope and may contain superimposed other data streams from other devices besides the scope. The secondary display could be used to direct from its displayed content up onto the primary display or remove it from the display. The added or removed data streams may be originated from the secondary display, passed through the secondary display, or be networked with the secondary display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris
  • Patent number: 11514860
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including scan lines, first signal lines connected to the scan lines in a first pixel block, second signal lines connected to the scan lines in a second pixel block, third signal lines connected to the scan lines in a third pixel block; a first scan driver supplying a first output signal to the first signal lines based on a first sub-clock signal; a second scan driver supplying a second output signal to the second signal lines based on a second sub-clock signal; a third scan driver supplying a third output signal to the third signal lines based on and a third sub-clock signal; and a timing controller. Changes in pulse widths of the first to third output signals are different in one frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Jang Hoon Kwak, Won Jin Seo
  • Patent number: 11513631
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive display device includes one or more touch-sensitive displays each including a plurality of touch-sensitive electrodes. A free touch-sensitive electrode is identified on the one or more touch-sensitive displays that is (1) at least temporarily unaffected by proximity of one or more input objects to the one or more touch-sensitive displays, and (2) affected by an electrical noise caused by display of image content on the one or more touch-sensitive displays. The electrical noise affecting the free touch-sensitive electrode is measured. Based at least in part on the measured electrical noise affecting the free touch-sensitive electrode, and using a trained neural network, an amount of electrical noise caused by the display of image content that is affecting an occupied touch-sensitive electrode is estimated, the occupied touch-sensitive electrode being affected by proximity of the one or more input objects to the one or more touch-sensitive displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gilad Pundak, Nadav Linenberg
  • Patent number: 11508308
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a scan driver, a data driver and a timing controller. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels that are connected to a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines having different lengths. The scan driver apply a plurality of scan signals to the plurality of scan lines. The data driver apply a plurality of data voltages to the plurality of data lines, and receive a plurality of sensing data that represent operating characteristics of all of the plurality of pixels from a plurality of sensing lines. The timing controller controls operations of the scan driver and the data driver, generates output image data considering the operating characteristics of all of the plurality of pixels and supply the output image data to the data drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Shin, Kyung Man Kim
  • Patent number: 11500459
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes processing circuitry to generate at least one of video content and audio content for a virtual reality environment, input circuitry to receive gaze data for two or more users indicative of a gaze point for each user with respect to the virtual reality environment, and selection circuitry to select at least one object in the virtual reality environment in dependence upon a number of the gaze points corresponding to the object, in which the processing circuitry is configured to adapt at least one of the video content and the audio content in response to the selection of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Fabio Cappello, Alexei Smith, Maria Chiara Monti
  • Patent number: 11493992
    Abstract: Invoking one or more previously dormant functions of an automated assistant in response to detecting, based on processing of vision data from one or more vision components: (1) a particular gesture (e.g., of one or more “invocation gestures”) of a user; and/or (2) detecting that a gaze of the user is directed at an assistant device that provides an automated assistant interface (graphical and/or audible) of the automated assistant. For example, the previously dormant function(s) can be invoked in response to detecting the particular gesture, detecting that the gaze of the user is directed at an assistant device for at least a threshold amount of time, and optionally that the particular gesture and the directed gaze of the user co-occur or occur within a threshold temporal proximity of one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Yuan Yuan, Kenneth Mixter, Tuan Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11494072
    Abstract: An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface and display can execute a messaging application. In the messaging application, swipe options can be displayed for messages and threads. Swipe options correspond to actions that can be taken on the messages or threads. Messages and threads can be associated with notification rules as well as be ignored. Composition interfaces and messages can be displayed simultaneously in the messaging application. The messaging application can display a conversation view of a message thread with a common header that can include subject information and names of participants in the threads. The messaging application allows for adding and removing participants to the conversation view. The messaging application allows for grouping search results from a search of messages using a search term. The grouping can be based on the location of the search term within the messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Y. Yang, Stephen O. Lemay, Tiffany S. Jon, Mohammed N. Jisrawi, Cristobal Baray, Chanaka G. Karunamuni
  • Patent number: 11487491
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a screen projection method, a screen projection apparatus and a storage medium. The method includes: determining, in response to a meeting screen projection request of a user, at least one candidate meeting reservation notification that meets a preset condition from current meeting reservation notifications of the user; obtaining and displaying meeting prompt information corresponding to each candidate meeting reservation notification; obtaining a first screen projection code corresponding to the meeting prompt information; and performing, in response to detecting a screen projection instruction of the user for a target meeting prompt information of the meeting prompt information, a screen projection connection with a screen projection device based on the first screen projection code and the target meeting prompt information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhilin Li, Xingbiao Li, Qiuyan Luo, Huimin Fan, Meiyuan Ding, Lina Hu, Huibin Zhao
  • Patent number: 11480798
    Abstract: Exemplary light control devices and methods provide a regional variation of visual information and sampling (“V-VIS”) of an ocular field of view that improves or stabilizes vision, ameliorates a visual symptom, reduces the rate of vision loss, or reduces the progression of an ophthalmic or neurologic condition, disease, injury or disorder. The V-VIS devices and methods generate a moving aperture effect anterior to a retina that samples and delivers to the retina environmental light from an ocular field of view at a sampling rate between 50 hertz and 50 kilohertz. Certain of these V-VIS devices and methods may be combined with augmented or virtual reality, vision measurement, vision monitoring, or other therapies including, but not limited to, pharmacological, gene, retinal replacement and stem cell therapies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Aperture in Motion, LLC
    Inventors: Olivia Serdarevic, Edward Yavitz
  • Patent number: 11468847
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a plurality of data lines extending in a first direction and coupled to the plurality of pixels, a plurality of first scan lines extending in a second direction different from the first direction and coupled to the plurality of pixels, and a plurality of second scan lines extending in the first direction and coupled to the plurality of first scan lines, a data driver which provides data voltages to the plurality of pixels through the plurality of data lines, and a scan driver which sequentially provides a scan signal to the plurality of pixels on a row-by-row basis through the plurality of second scan lines and the plurality of first scan lines. The data driver and the scan driver are implemented with a data-scan integration chip which outputs the data voltages and the scan signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiwoong Kim, Jaekeun Lim
  • Patent number: 11462172
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel part including a plurality of pixels; a first scan driver to provide a first scan signal to each of the pixels; and an initialization controller to control the first scan driver. Each of the pixels includes a pixel circuit including a plurality of transistors, and a light emitting element connected to the pixel circuit, an anode of the light emitting element is to be initialized to a first initialization voltage in response to the first scan signal having a gate-on level, and the initialization controller is to determine whether to provide the first scan signal having the gate-on level to each of the pixels for each frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se Hyuk Park, Ji Youn Kim, Hong Soo Kim, Jin Young Roh, Hyo Jin Lee, Jae Keun Lim
  • Patent number: 11462168
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, a light-emitting control circuit, a driving method of a pixel circuit, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes an enabling module, a light-emitting control module, a first reset module, and a light-emitting element connected in series between a power voltage terminal and a common voltage terminal. The first reset module is electrically connected to a first terminal of the light-emitting element. The enabling module is configured to generate driving current, and the light-emitting control module is configured to transmit the driving current to the light-emitting element. The first reset module is configured to reset the first terminal of the light-emitting element. A control terminal of the light-emitting control module is configured to receive a first light-emitting control signal, and a control terminal of the first reset module is configured to receive a second light-emitting control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Hubei Yangtze Industrial Innovation Center Of Advanced Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuan Liu, Zhihua Yu
  • Patent number: 11462173
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area; pixels connected to first scan lines, second scan lines, third scan lines, and emission control lines; a first scan driver supplying a first scan signal to the first scan lines; a second scan driver supplying a second scan signal to some of the second scan lines and supplying a third scan signal to the third scan lines; an emission driver supplying an emission control signal to the emission control lines; a first pad and a second pad provided in the non-display area; a first power line connected to the first pad, the first power line transferring a first voltage to the first scan driver and the emission driver; and a second power line connected to the second pad, the second power line transferring a second voltage to the second scan driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Hoon Kwon, Ji Hyun Ka, Nack Hyeon Keum, Jae Jin Song, Kwang Sae Lee
  • Patent number: 11461068
    Abstract: A display device includes one or more sensors configured to obtain sensing data, a display, a communication interface configured to perform short-range wireless communication with a mobile terminal, and a processor configured to detect proximity of an object based on the obtained sensing data, perform automatic connection with the mobile terminal when the proximity of the object is detected, and display, on the display, information received from the connected mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Donghee Lee, Taeyoung Kim, Daegun Park, Hyosung Kim
  • Patent number: 11455938
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels coupled to first scan lines, second scan lines, emission control lines, and data lines; a first scan driver to supply a scan signal to each of the first scan lines at a first frequency to drive the display device at a first driving frequency, and to supply the scan signal to each of the first scan lines at a second frequency to drive the display device at a second driving frequency lower than the first driving frequency; a second scan driver to supply a scan signal to each of the second scan lines at the first frequency to drive the display device at the first driving frequency, and to supply the scan signal to each of the second scan lines at the second frequency to drive the display device at the second driving frequency; an emission driver to supply an emission control signal to each of the emission control lines at the first frequency; and a data driver to supply a data signal to each of the data lines in response to the scan signal supplied to each of the first scan lines
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyong Hwan Oh, Ji Hyun Ka, Ki Myeong Eom, Hai Jung In, Jin Jeon, Won Kyu Kwak, Hyun Lee, Hwan Soo Jang, Jin Tae Jeong
  • Patent number: 11450274
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel, a driving method of the display panel, and a display device. A switching module of a pixel circuit in the display panel includes a first transistor and a second transistor. A second electrode of the first transistor is electrically connected to a first electrode of the second transistor at a first node. A second electrode of the second transistor is electrically connected to a gate electrode of a driving transistor at a second node. The driving transistor is configured to provide a driving current for a light emitting module according to a potential of the second node in a light emitting phase. An input end of each potential adjustment module is electrically connected to the second node of one pixel circuit, and an output end of each potential adjustment module is electrically connected to the first node of at least one pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD., WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD. SHANGHAI BRANCH
    Inventors: Mengmeng Zhang, Xingyao Zhou
  • Patent number: 11442620
    Abstract: Conventional input mechanisms available are built considering majority users but face usability and security challenge when used by special users or when used in challenging environments. Embodiments herein provide a method and device for multimodal input mechanism. The device is preconfigured for a plurality of modalities and provides an option to a user to select an input modality pair for entering a sequence of characters into the device. A first modality among the pair enables selection of a character set among a plurality of character sets and the second modality enables selecting a character from the selected character set. The plurality of modalities comprise a touch mode defined by a set of touch based gestures, a motion keyboard mode defined by a set of device tilt based gestures, an air gesture mode defined by a set of virtual gestures and a voice mode defined by a set of voice commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Charudatta Jadhav, Shubham Agarwal
  • Patent number: 11430410
    Abstract: A display system modifies display cycles of one or more displays to perform a system operation while avoiding visual perturbations at the one or more displays. The display system modifies, synchronizes, or both, blanking periods of the one or more displays such that blanking periods equal or exceed a blackout duration and overlap for at least the blackout duration. Then the system performs the system operation during an overlapping portion of the one or more blanking periods, where the system operation reduces availability of display data at the one or more displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventors: Jun Lei, Syed Athar Hussain, David I. J. Glen, Rajeevan Panchacharamoorthy, Fatemeh Amirnavaei, David Galiffi, Arshad Rahman, Boris Ivanovic
  • Patent number: 11416091
    Abstract: A touch display device includes a display unit including pixels disposed in an active area, an encapsulation unit disposed on the display unit, and a touch-fingerprint fusion sensor unit having a touch sensor function and a fingerprint sensor function in the active area on the encapsulation unit. The touch-fingerprint fusion sensor unit includes first fingerprint sensor electrodes disposed in a fingerprint sensor area on the encapsulation unit, a first touch insulating layer disposed on the first fingerprint sensor electrodes, second fingerprint sensor electrodes disposed in the fingerprint sensor area on the first touch insulating layer, a second touch insulating layer disposed on the second fingerprint sensor electrodes, and a plurality of first and second touch electrodes disposed on the second touch insulating layer. The first fingerprint sensor electrodes, the second fingerprint sensor electrodes, and the first and second touch electrodes overlap the non-emissive area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seon-Hee Lee, Min-Joo Kim, Sang-Hyuk Won
  • Patent number: 11410607
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and a panel driver configured to drive the display panel. Each pixel includes a driving transistor, a compensating transistor including first and second compensating sub-transistors coupled in series between a gate node and a drain of the driving transistor, a storage capacitor, and an organic light emitting diode. The panel driver calculates an average representative gray level of input image data in a plurality of frame periods, determines a voltage level of a node controlling voltage based on the average representative gray level, and provides the node controlling voltage to each of the plurality of pixels to control a voltage of a node between the first and second compensating sub-transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinyoung Roh, Hongsoo Kim, Sehyuk Park, Hyojin Lee, Jaekeun Lim