Patents Examined by Mihir K Rayan
  • Patent number: 11507179
    Abstract: A computing system may receive sensor data from one or more sensors coupled to a user. Based on this sensor data, the computing system may generate an upper body pose that corresponds to a first portion of a body of the user, which may comprise a head and an arm of the user. The computing system may process the upper body pose of the user using a machine learning model to generate a lower body pose that corresponds to a second portion of the body of the user, which may comprise a leg of the user. The computing system may generate a full body pose of the user based on the upper body pose and the lower body pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Antoine Georges Lefaudeux, Samuel Alan Johnson, Carsten Sebastian Stoll, Kishore Venkatehsan
  • Patent number: 11493994
    Abstract: An input device, method, and system enabling a switch input operation of various equipment by moving a body part other than hands and feet. Input by body movement, such as a wink, is achieved by an input device including: a detector which includes a first contact electrode placed at a first position of a body part and a second contact electrode placed at a second position of the body part, the detector configured to measure a biological signal between the first contact electrode and the second contact electrode, and to detect a low-frequency component inclusive of the biological signal; and a discrimination processor configured to determine, based on a signal from the detector, presence or absence of an input movement of the body part in a vicinity of the first position, and/or presence or absence of an input movement of the body part in a vicinity of the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventor: Ryohei Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11487382
    Abstract: A display device includes a base substrate and an input detection unit. The base substrate includes a front surface and a rear surface that face each other, an active area, a peripheral area adjacent to the active area, a module hole in the active area, a routing area that surrounds the module hole, and a depression pattern that surrounds the module hole between the routing area and the module hole. The input detection unit includes first touch sensor units along a first direction, a first connection part that connects adjacent first touch sensor units, second touch sensor units arranged in a second direction that intersects the first direction, a second connection part that connects adjacent second touch sensor units; and a bridge line disposed in the routing area and connected to second touch sensor units adjacent to each other in the second direction with the module hole therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junhyun Park, Dongwoo Kim, Sunkwang Kim, Kangmoon Jo
  • Patent number: 11481960
    Abstract: A method includes a computing system tracking motions performed by a hand of a user, determining one or more anchor locations in a three-dimensional space, and generating a virtual surface anchored in the three-dimensional space. An image of a real environment is captured using a camera worn by the user, and a pose of the camera when the image is captured is determined. The computing system determines a first viewpoint of a first eye of the user and a region in the image that, as viewed from the camera, corresponds to the virtual surface. The computing system renders an output image based on (1) the first viewpoint relative to the virtual surface and (2) the image region corresponding to the virtual surface, and displays the output image on a first display of the device, the first display being configured to be viewed by the first eye of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alessia Marra, Gioacchino Noris, Panya Inversin
  • Patent number: 11474659
    Abstract: A system and methods are provided to manage gestures and positional data from a pointing device, considering an attention sensing device with known accuracy characteristics. The method uses the state of the user's attention and the pointing device data as input, mapping them against predefined regions on the device's screen(s). It then uses both the mapping results and raw inputs to affect the device, such as sending instructions or moving the pointing cursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Mirametrix Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Sullivan, Martin Gamsby
  • Patent number: 11474614
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and processor-readable media for adjusting the control-display gain of a gesture-controlled device are described. Adjusting the control-display gain may facilitate user interaction with content or UI elements rendered on a display screen of the gesture-controlled device. The control-display gain may be adjusted based on a property of how a mid-air dragging gesture is being performed by a user's hand. The property may be the location of the gesture, the orientation of the hand performing the gesture, or the velocity of the gesture. A hand that becomes stationary for a threshold time period while performing the dragging gesture may adjust the control-display gain to a different level. Control-display gain may be set to a different value based on the current velocity of the hand performing the gesture. The control-display gain levels may be selected from a continuous range of values or a set of discrete values. Devices for performing the methods are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Li, Wei Zhou, Sachi Mizobuchi, Ghazaleh Saniee-Monfared, Juwei Lu, Taslim Arefin Khan, Rafael Veras Guimaraes
  • Patent number: 11468288
    Abstract: Method of analyzing eye tracking data for estimating user's cognitive and emotional level of consumption of visual information. A training machine learning model is trained using a data set containing gaze information of known training users, their known cognitive levels and their EEG signal measurements. A calibrating machine learning model is trained using a data set of calibrating visual information displayed to a user, calibrating gaze tracks of that user, calibrating actions data of that user, and calibrating session data related to the session environment. The device displays to that user a target visual information and records target eye tracking data of that user in response to consuming the target information. The recorded target eye tracking data is calibrated via the calibrating machine learning model. The calibrated target eye tracking data is fed into the training machine learning model, which estimates the cognitive levels of consumption of the target visual information of that user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventors: Victor Nikolaevich Anisimov, Konstantin Leonidovich Chernozatonskiy, Maxim Kirillovich Raykhrud, Arsen Revazov
  • Patent number: 11467660
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking the position of a head-mounted display (HMD) system component. The HMD component may carry a plurality of angle sensitive detectors that are able to detect the angle of light emitted from a light source. The HMD component may include one or more scatter detectors that detect whether light has been scattered or reflected, so such light can be ignored. Control circuitry causes light sources to emit light according a specified pattern, and receives sensor data from the plurality of angle sensitive detectors. The processor may process the sensor data and scatter detector data, for example using machine learning or other techniques, to track a position of the HMD component. An angle sensitive detector may include a spatially-varying polarizer having a position-varying polarizing pattern and one or more polarizer layers that together are operative to detect the angle of impinging light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Mark Hudman, Kameron Wade Rausch
  • Patent number: 11462596
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and an infrared sensing module. The display panel includes an active region in which a pixel that emits light based on a data signal is disposed. The infrared sensing module transmits a first infrared light that passes through the active region and receives a second infrared light that passes through the active region to recognize an object. The wavelength of the first infrared light may have a wavelength greater than a predetermined value so that a luminance of light emitted by the pixel is not affected by operation of the infrared sensing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinwoo Park, Hyunduck Cho, Wonkyu Kwak
  • Patent number: 11454810
    Abstract: A method of reducing a chance of interference between operations of two electromagnetic systems (e.g., AR/VR systems) is provided. The method includes determining one or more first frequencies at which a first electromagnetic system is operating, identifying one or more second frequencies that do not interfere with the determined one or more first frequencies, and setting a second electromagnetic system to operate at the identified one or more second frequencies. Each of the first and the second electromagnetic systems includes a respective magnetic transmitter configured to generate magnetic fields, and a respective magnetic sensor configured to generate signals based on characteristics of the magnetic fields received at the magnetic sensor (e.g., from the respective magnetic transmitter).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Northern Digital Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Koole, Marc Cameron, Joel McCartney
  • Patent number: 11449138
    Abstract: A method of saccade-based positioning of a radial user interface includes performing operations while a first radial user interface is displayed on a display. The operations include (a) detecting a saccade movement based on eye-tracking data received from an eye-tracking system; (b) determining whether the saccade movement crosses a first region border corresponding to a first region of the first radial user interface; (c) determining a velocity of the saccade movement based on the eye-tracking data; and (d) dynamically determining a location for a subsequent radial user interface in response to the velocity and in response to determining that the saccade movement crosses the first region border. The method also includes displaying, on the display, the subsequent radial user interface at the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Marcello Giordano, Mark Parent, Daniel John Wigdor, Stephanie Santosa, Tovi Samuel Grossman, Sunggeun Ahn
  • Patent number: 11435822
    Abstract: An estimation method includes first acquiring information of an eyeball motion of a user on the basis of a measurement value of an eye potential of the user, second acquiring positional information of an interaction target on a screen that corresponds to an interaction performed on a device through an operation of the user, third acquiring information regarding a relative motion of sight of the user on the basis at least of the information of the eyeball motion of the user, and estimating a sight position of the user on the screen on the basis of the information regarding the relative motion of the sight of the user and the positional information of the interaction target on the screen, by processing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Jumpei Yamashita, Hidetaka Koya, Hajime Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11435824
    Abstract: A prompt method for an eye-protection mode and apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: recognizing a collected face to determine an age status of a user corresponding to the face; acquiring at least two types of parameter information collected by a terminal which is in use by the user, where the at least two types of parameter information are used to represent eye-protection mode-related information; obtaining prompt information for the eye-protection mode according to the age status and the at least two types of parameter information; displaying the prompt information for the eye-protection mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD
    Inventor: Junqi Liu
  • Patent number: 11431917
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may acquire, via a camera associated with an information handling system (IHS), a first digital image; determine, from the first digital image, that a person is within a field of view of a display associated with the IHS; determine a first brightness level of first multiple light emitting diode (LED) pixels associated with a central zone associated with the display; set a brightness level of the first multiple LED pixels to the first brightness level; determine, based at least on the first brightness level, multiple second brightness levels for respective multiple zones associated with the display outside the central zone; and for each zone of the multiple zones, set a brightness level of LED pixels associated with the zone to a respective one of the multiple second brightness levels for the zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Asim Mukarram Siddiqui, Jongseo Lee, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 11417274
    Abstract: A display device according to the disclosure includes a display unit including a plurality of electro-optical elements as display elements, luminance and transmittance of which are controlled by a current, a luminance measurement unit configured to measure luminance of the display elements of the display unit in a blocked state, and a correction value arithmetic operation unit configured to compensate a data signal provided to each of pixels of the display elements on the basis of a measurement result obtained by the luminance measurement unit. This enables accurate compensation in units of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi Ueno, Masaaki Moriya, Naoki Shiobara
  • Patent number: 11417258
    Abstract: Provided is a drive module. A main control unit in the drive module is configured to determine, according to the output voltage of the electrical energy storage unit, an optimal analog reference voltage output efficiency value of a power supply chip, determine, according to the output voltage of the electrical energy storage unit and the optimal analog reference voltage output efficiency value of the power supply chip, a voltage value of an analog reference voltage, and generate, according to the voltage value of the analog reference voltage, a control instruction corresponding to pulse signal information. A pulse signal generation unit is configured to generate a corresponding pulse signal according to the control instruction. An analog reference voltage unit in the power supply chip is configured to receive an electrical signal output by the electrical energy storage unit, and generate, according to the pulse signal, a corresponding analog reference voltage signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Yang, Xiangzi Kong, Bojia Lv
  • Patent number: 11409116
    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: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Evan Mark Richards, Cina Hazegh
  • Patent number: 11402897
    Abstract: A position estimation apparatus, a position estimation method, and a program that can estimate a position of a tracker with high accuracy while the power consumption is reduced is provided. An estimation result storage section (50) stores a result of estimation of a position of a tracker (12). An acceleration data acquisition section (52) repeatedly acquires acceleration data indicative of an acceleration of the tracker (12) from a sensor that detects an acceleration of the tracker (12). An estimation result updating section (56) updates the result of estimation on the basis of the result of estimation of a position of the tracker stored in the estimation result storage section (50) and the acquired latest acceleration data. A velocity information acquisition section (54) acquires information of the velocity of the tracker (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Ohashi
  • Patent number: 11402901
    Abstract: In various examples, a plurality of reference points may be generated by processing an image of an eye of a user from a vision sensor. The plurality of reference points may correspond to, for example, a boundary between a sclera of the eye and an eyelid of the user, a boundary between a pupil and a cornea, etc. Based on the reference points corresponding to the boundary between the sclera and the eyelid, a measure of the eye of the user may be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Nouri, Eric Bokides
  • Patent number: 11398107
    Abstract: A sensor for recognizing a fingerprint and sensing a touch is provided. The sensor includes a touch sensing area in which a first touch electrode and a second touch electrode are arranged to provide touch sensing nodes at which touch sensing is performed; and a fingerprint-touch sensing area comprising a fingerprint recognition area in which a first fingerprint electrode and a second fingerprint electrode are arranged and electrically separated from the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode, the first fingerprint electrode and the second fingerprint electrode being configured to provide fingerprint sensing nodes at which a fingerprint is recognized in a fingerprint recognition mode, wherein in the fingerprint recognition area, a portion of the first fingerprint electrode and the second fingerprint electrode is used for fingerprint recognition and, as the touch sensing nodes, the touch sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunjoon Kim, Jinmyoung Kim, Seogwoo Hong