Patents Examined by Mihir K Rayan
  • Patent number: 11978374
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a housing; a display; a roller accommodated in the housing to rotate and roll or unroll the display; and a processor configured to in response to receiving a command to display content, control the roller to rotate and unroll the display from the housing so the display is drawn out and extended from the housing, and control the display to display an entire image of the content while simultaneously expanding a size of the entire image of the content as the display is being extended from the housing so a partial portion of the content is not blocked from being viewed as the display is drawn out and extended from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sungeun Kim, Woojin Choi
  • Patent number: 11972728
    Abstract: A light emitting display device includes a display panel including a subpixel, and a driver configured to drive the display panel, and in the subpixel, initialization of both ends of an organic light emitting diode is performed simultaneously with writing of a data voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Woo Lee, Yi Yeon Hwang, Hee Young Chae
  • Patent number: 11966508
    Abstract: A survey system is provided which includes a surveying instrument capable of making distance and angle measurements of a target attached to a pole, and an eyewear device including an eye sensor configured to detect an eye motion, and an input unit for inputting a command corresponding to an eye motion detected by the eye sensor into the surveying instrument, and capable of displaying an image superimposed on a landscape. Measurement points are displayed on the eyewear device by being synchronized with and superimposed on a landscape of a survey site, and from the eyewear device worn by a worker, according to an eye motion, a command is input into the surveying instrument and distance and angle measurements of the target are made. A worker can perform a work while keeping a posture gripping the pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11960078
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that has control so that, when detected a status transition of a user including a rising motion or a moving motion of the user during reproduction of a wide-angle image covering the entire field of view of the user, a real-space image acquired by an outward-facing camera provided on a display device that is worn on the head of the user and has a display unit covering the entire field of view is displayed on the display unit in real-time and a 2D image corresponding to a portion of the wide-angle image is displayed on the real-space image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mari Saito, Kenji Sugihara, Soichiro Inatani
  • Patent number: 11960644
    Abstract: A system and method for inferring operator intent by detecting operator focus incorporates cameras positioned within a cockpit or control space of a vehicle and oriented at an operator of the vehicle. The cameras capture images of the operator in a control seat; the images are analyzed (either individually or sequentially) to determine a gaze and/or body pose of the operator (including, e.g., a position and orientation of the torso and limbs). By comparing the determined gaze and/or body pose to the positions and orientations of potential focus targets within the control space (e.g., windows, display units, and/or control panels that the operator may engage with visually and/or physically), the system predicts the most likely future focus target or targets: what the operator is most likely to visually and/or physically engage with next. Operator intent may be further analyzed to identify potentially abnormal or anomalous behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Peggy Wu, Ahmad F. Osman
  • Patent number: 11954250
    Abstract: An eye tracking device and an eye tracking method are provided. The eye tracking device includes a sensor and multiple signal transmitting units. The sensor is disposed on an eyeball of a user. The sensor has multiple signal receiving units. The signal transmitting units are disposed around the sensor and surround the sensor. The signal transmitting units respectively transmit multiple transmitting signals. The signal receiving units receive the transmitting signals to respectively generate multiple sensing signals. The eye tracking device calculates a position of the eyeball according to the sensing signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Lun-Kang Lin, I-Han Tai
  • Patent number: 11954247
    Abstract: Provided regarding a technique of an HMD is a technique capable of realizing high functionality and weight reduction in a well-balanced manner and improving usability for a user. An HMD of an embodiment is a head mounted display apparatus, includes: a head attached part that is attached to a user's head and has a display screen for displaying an image; and a body trunk attached part communicating with the head attached part and attached to a portion of the user's body trunk, measures a relatively positional relationship between the head attached part and the body trunk attached part and grasps states including a position and a direction of the head attached part states including a position and a direction of the body trunk attached part based on the positional relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Mayumi Nakade, Hitoshi Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11947722
    Abstract: A device has a content processing component operable in a content processing state, and a content transducer configured to provide augmented reality data to a user of the device based on an output of the content processing component. The device has a receiver operable to receive captured data indicative of a health condition of a user of the device. The device has a processor configured to process the captured data to identify a trigger indicative of a possible change in the health condition of a user, and in response to the trigger, modify the content processing state of the content processing component such that at least one characteristic of the augmented reality data is modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Daren Croxford, Laura Johanna Lähteenmäki
  • Patent number: 11947717
    Abstract: Embodiments described systems and method to estimate user gaze comprising receiving a target image data associated with the user from a camera coupled with the display, wherein the target image data includes a target eye patch image data associated with the user; and determining, using a neural network, the target point of regard associated with the target image data based on: the target eye patch image data, a plurality of aggregated gaze reference vectors, and a plurality of reference image data associated with the user, respectively associated with the plurality of aggregated gaze reference vectors. In embodiments, the target point of regard is determined within a predetermined threshold. In embodiments, the target point of regard is mapped onto the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BLINK TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Gilad Drozdov, Oren Haimovitch Yogev, Igor Nor
  • Patent number: 11939744
    Abstract: A display system includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires each of a first image of a work site imaged by a first camera and a second image of the work site imaged by a second camera; a viewpoint position calculation unit that calculates a viewpoint position of worker; a luminance adjustment unit that adjusts luminance of at least one of the first image and the second image based on the viewpoint position; and a display control unit that combines the first image and the second image having the luminance adjusted and causes a display device to display the combined image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Komatsu Ltd., Osaka University
    Inventors: Youjirou Ohbatake, Taro Maeda, Masahiro Furukawa, Daisuke Kondo, Masataka Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 11934572
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for extended reality (XR) operations. An XR system displays virtual content using a display according to display settings. The display settings can identify, for instance, a position, orientation, and/or size of the virtual content as displayed. The environment can be viewable using the display as the virtual content is displayed by the display, for example using a see-through display or a pass-through display. The imaging system can determine, based on one or more attributes of one or both eyes of the user of the imaging system, an extent of perception of the virtual content that is displayed using the display by the user. The attributes can identify, for instance, eye position, eye movement, pupil dilation, saccades, fixations, blinking, and/or squinting. The XR system can determine, based on the extent of perception of the virtual content by the user, a modification to the display settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bijan Forutanpour, Jonathan Kies
  • Patent number: 11927985
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device accommodatable in an external electronic device may include a communication circuit, and at least one processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myeongjae Hong, Hyunmo Yang, Seungnyun Kim, Junwhon Uhm, Yongseob Yun, Jongmin Yoon, Junmyeong Jeong
  • Patent number: 11914162
    Abstract: An eye-tracking system includes two mirrors. A first mirror is positioned to transmit light, received at a first incident angle, reflected off an eye of a user toward a second mirror. The first mirror is also positioned to reflect the light, reflected from the second mirror, at a second incident angle. The second mirror is inclined from the first mirror so that the light transmitted through the first mirror is reflected by the second mirror toward the first mirror at a first reflection angle. The light reflected by the second mirror is reflected by the first mirror toward the second mirror at a second reflection angle greater than the first reflection angle. The eye-tracking system also includes one or more sensors positioned to detect the light reflected by the first mirror and the second mirror for determining a gaze direction of the eye of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Evan Mark Richards, Cina Hazegh
  • Patent number: 11914142
    Abstract: A method for generating virtual reality images and used in a light field near-eye display includes steps of: shifting a display image according to at least one change vector of a plurality of eye movement parameters, and calculating a compensation mask according to a simulated image and superimposing the compensation mask on a target image to generate a superimposed target image, wherein brightness distributions of the simulated image and the compensation mask are opposite to each other. The light field near-eye display is also provided. In this way, the light field near-eye display for generating virtual reality images and the method thereof can achieve the purpose of improving the uniformity of the image and expanding the eye box size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Hung Lu, Jui-Yi Wu
  • Patent number: 11914762
    Abstract: A system having at least a first component and a second component positioned at different locations on a user's body (e.g., on the user's head and held on the user's hand). Each component includes at least one inertial measurement unit (IMU) configured generate measurements indicating acceleration and angular rate data. The generated measurements of the IMUs are used with ground truth information indicating the positions of the first and second component to generate a set of training data to train a neural network configured to predict a relative position between the first and second components based on IMU measurements received over a predetermined time period. Because the neural network is trained based upon movements of a human user, the neural network model takes into account physiological constraints of the user in determining how the set of potential positions of the different components may change over time, reducing potential error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Doruk Senkal, Sheng Shen
  • Patent number: 11904102
    Abstract: A method for applying adapted colour rendering in relation to intensity of light of wavelengths relevant to the circadian rhythm of a user, a computer program, a carrier, a system and a head-mounted device is disclosed. The method comprises receiving gaze tracking information identifying a gaze vector of the user of the system, and determining a respective location of a first area of the display and a second areas of the display based on the identified gaze vector. A first colour rendering mode is applied in the first area of the display, and a second colour rendering mode is applied in the second area of the display. The first colour rendering mode and the second colour rendering mode differ in relation to a degree of selective adaptation of intensity of light of wavelengths relevant to the circadian rhythm of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Tobii AB
    Inventor: Andrew Ratcliff
  • Patent number: 11899853
    Abstract: To enable fast beam tracking and/or low latency a first communication device comprising a sensing circuitry configured to sense motion of the first communication device and to generate motion information representing the sensed motion, the motion information comprising rotation information indicating rotation and/or orientation of the first communication device, and a communication circuitry configured to transmit the motion information to a second communication device within a layer of a hierarchical layer model lower than a transport layer. A second communication device comprises a communication circuitry configured to receive motion information from a first communication device within a layer of a hierarchical layer model lower than a transport layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Nabil Sven Loghin, Felix Fellhauer, Dana Ciochina, Daniel Schneider
  • Patent number: 11899845
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one sensor and at least one processor configured to identify a gesture identification request from a first application being executed by the at least one processor, in response to the identification of the gesture identification request, identify a gesture using at least one sensing data from at least one first sensor module activated, among the at least one sensor, based on a gesture application, provide the identified gesture to the first application, and perform at least one operation corresponding to the identified gesture based on the first application. Other various embodiments are possible as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonsuk Chung, Yongsang Cho, Byungwook Yoo, Sungjin Park, Chaiman Lim
  • Patent number: 11886636
    Abstract: An HMD includes a display unit that transmits an outside scene, a line-of-sight detection unit that detects a line-of-sight direction of a user, a determination unit that calculates a risk level of the first target object, and determines an attention level for the first target object by correcting the risk level of the first target object based on the line-of-sight direction, and calculates a risk level of the second target object and determines an attention level for the second target object by correcting the risk level of the second target object based on the line-of-sight direction, and a display control unit that a display unit to display a first image related to the first target object when the attention level for the first target object is higher than the risk level of the second target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yutaka Fujimaki
  • Patent number: 11880042
    Abstract: A detachable projection device, a sealing housing thereof, and a wearable apparatus are provided. The sealing housing includes a first cover, a second cover, a first waterproof and dustproof gasket having an enclosed loop-shape, and a transparent case. The first cover and the second cover respectively have two sealing edge portions corresponding in shape to each other. The second cover is detachably fastened to the first cover, and the first waterproof and dustproof gasket is gaplessly sandwiched between and abutted against the two sealing edge portions, so that the first cover, the second cover, and the first waterproof and dustproof gasket jointly define an accommodating space. The transparent case is connected to the second cover and has an insertion slot that is in spatial communication with an optical area of the accommodating space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: MEGAFORCE COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Makoto Masuda, Han-Chiang Wu, Nobuhiro Shirai