Patents Examined by Muhammad N. Edun
  • Patent number: 11380247
    Abstract: A display apparatus of the disclosure includes a first light emitting diode (LED) module including a first driving assembly; a second LED module including a second driving assembly; a connector configured to connect the first driving assembly and the second driving assembly; and a processor connected to the first driving assembly. The processor may be configured to transmit image data and a control signal to the first driving assembly. The first driving assembly may be configured to operate based on the image data, and to transmit the image data and the control signal to the second driving assembly through the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dooyoung Kim, Jaewon Jung
  • Patent number: 11372473
    Abstract: It is desirable to enhance the human-like motion of an object. Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a motion control unit configured to control, when an abnormality of a signal input for controlling a motion of an object is detected, the motion of the object such that the object continues a predetermined motion until a normality of the signal input is detected, the signal input responding to a motion of a user, in which until the motion of the object transitions to the predetermined motion after the detection of the abnormality of the signal input, the motion control unit controls the object such that the object performs at least one first intermediate motion, the at least one first intermediate motion being different from the motion of the object at the detection of the abnormality of the signal input and the predetermined motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayoshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11366523
    Abstract: A portable computer includes a display portion comprising a display and a base portion pivotally coupled to the display portion. The base portion may include a bottom case and a top case, formed from a dielectric material, coupled to the bottom case. The top case may include a top member defining a top surface of the base portion and a sidewall integrally formed with the top member and defining a side surface of the base portion. The portable computer may also include a sensing system including a first sensing system configured to determine a location of a touch input applied to the top surface of the base portion and a second sensing system configured to determine a force of the touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Christiaan A. Ligtenberg, Brett W. Degner, Ron A. Hopkinson, Asif Hussain, Dinesh C. Mathew, Mikael M. Silvanto, Chang Zhang, Zheng Gao, Robert Y. Cao, Keith J. Hendren, Bryan W. Posner, Simon R. Lancaster-Larocque, Alex J. Lehmann
  • Patent number: 11366331
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a beam converting optical system that is small and has high divergence angle, and provides a light source device. Beam converting optical system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes first optical element and second optical element. First optical element is a cylindrical lens. The cylindrical lens of first optical element has first optical surface and second optical surface. First optical surface has positive refractive power. Second optical element is a cylindrical lens. The cylindrical lens of second optical element has third optical surface and fourth optical surface. Third optical surface has negative refractive power. Laser beam converges at focal area. Focal area is between first optical element and second optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryo Haseyama
  • Patent number: 11348555
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels. The device may have an array of components such as an array of light sensors for capturing fingerprints of a user through an array of corresponding transparent windows in the display. A capacitive touch sensor, proximity sensor, force sensor, or other sensor may be used by control circuitry in the device to monitor for the presence of a user's finger over the array of light sensors. In response, the control circuitry can direct the display to illuminate a subset of the pixels, thereby illuminating the user's finger and causing reflected light from the finger to illuminate the array of light sensors for a fingerprint capture operation. The display may have display driver circuitry that facilitates the momentary illumination of the subset of pixels with uniform flash data while image data is displayed in other portions of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Koorosh Aflatooni, Minhyuk Choi, Mohammad Ali Jangda, Sang Y. Youn, Yafei Bi, Jean-Pierre Guillou, Wei H. Yao
  • Patent number: 11340488
    Abstract: An information display device attachable to a structure includes a display panel and a surface member. The display panel has a display surface and is configured to display information on the display surface. The surface member is a surface member disposed on a display surface side of the display panel, and has a larger surface area than the display panel. When the display panel is turned on, only the information displayed on the display surface of the display panel becomes visible through the surface member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Matsumoto, Takeshi Hatakeyama
  • Patent number: 11341904
    Abstract: A LED driving apparatus with clock embedded cascaded LED drivers is introduced, including: a plurality of LED drivers, wherein the first stage LED driver receives an original data signal and outputs a first data signal, the Nth stage LED driver receives a (N?1)th data signal and outputs a Nth data signal. The Nth stage LED driver includes a clock data recovery circuit generating a recovery clock signal and a recovery data signal according to the (N?1)th data signal; and a first transmitter outputting the Nth data signal according to the recovery clock signal and the recovery data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Che-Wei Yeh, Keko-Chun Liang, Yu-Hsiang Wang, Yong-Ren Fang, Yi-Chuan Liu
  • Patent number: 11341519
    Abstract: Example metering apparatus and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a stencil and a housing having a display area. The display area has a recessed cavity defining a front surface of the display area. A front surface of the stencil is to be flush mounted relative to the front surface of the display area defined by the recessed cavity when the stencil is positioned in the display area of the housing. A cover is removably coupled to the housing to enable access to the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Scott Cooper, James Joseph Vitt, Douglas Brent Turnbow, Christen V. Nielsen, Marko Usaj, Andrej Barbis, Saso Vranek
  • Patent number: 11335248
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel driving circuit including a data writing unit, a light emitting unit and a compensation unit. The data writing unit includes first and second capacitors. A first terminal of the first capacitor is coupled to a first node, and a second terminal of the first capacitor is coupled to a second node. A first terminal of the second capacitor is coupled to the first node. The light emitting unit includes a first switch and a light emitting element. A control terminal of the first switch is coupled to the second node, and a first terminal of the first switch is coupled to a second terminal of the second capacitor. The compensation unit includes a second switch. The second switch is coupled to the second node and a second terminal of the first switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shu-Hao Huang, Hsien-Chun Wang, Sung-Yu Su
  • Patent number: 11336986
    Abstract: A user content audio signal is converted into sound that is delivered into an ear canal of a wearer of an in-ear speaker, while the in-ear speaker is sealing off the ear canal against ambient sound leakage. An acoustic or venting valve in the in-ear speaker is automatically signaled to open, so that sound inside the ear canal is allowed to travel out into an ambient environment through the valve, while activating conversion of an ambient content audio signal into sound for delivery into the ear canal. Both user content and ambient content are heard by the wearer. The ambient content audio signal is digitally processed so that certain frequency components have been gain adjusted, based on an equalization profile, so as to compensate for some of the insertion loss that is due to the in-ear speaker blocking the ear canal. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Scott C. Grinker
  • Patent number: 11327596
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments of a self-capacitance device that is configured to be detectable by a known touchscreen without the need for human contact. Such a device has a device body, a capacitance structure disposed within the body, and at least three contacts disposed on one side of the body and electrically coupled to the capacitance structure. Further disclosed herein are systems having at least two such self-capacitance devices and a software application configured to recognize each of the at least two self-capacitance devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: iSO-FORM LLC
    Inventor: Russell W. Adams
  • Patent number: 11328656
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit, a pixel driving method and a display device are provided. the pixel driving circuit includes a driving circuit and a light-emitting duration control circuit, a first end of the driving circuit is connected to a first voltage end, a second end of the driving circuit is connected to the light-emitting element, and the driving circuit is configured to control the first end and the second end to connect to each other; the light-emitting duration control circuit is configured to switch on or switch off a connection between the second end of the driving circuit and the light-emitting element, according to a control data voltage input by a control data line and a control initial voltage input by a control initial voltage end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengji Yang, Xiaochuan Chen, Hui Wang, Pengcheng Lu, Kuanta Huang
  • Patent number: 11328658
    Abstract: A stretchable display device is disclosed, which is able to be operated with three states of a non-stretched state, a transition state and a stretched state, and the stretchable display device includes a stretchable substrate and a plurality of light emitting units. The plurality of the light emitting units are disposed on the stretchable substrate, and the plurality of the light emitting units are in a mode of ON or in a mode of OFF. The light emitting units being in the mode of ON are in a number of N1 while in the non-stretched state, the light emitting units being in the mode of ON are in a number of N2 while in the transition state, and the light emitting units being in the mode of ON are in a number of N3 while in the stretched state, wherein N3?N2>N1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan-Lin Wu, Chan-Feng Chiu, Kuan-Feng Lee
  • Patent number: 11328632
    Abstract: A display control apparatus comprises a display device that is a display device to be provided in a moving object that can travel, and outputs image information such that a visible direction from the outside of the moving object is restricted. The display control apparatus detects an image information presentation target that is present around the moving object, and controls the visible direction in the display device to a predetermined direction. The display control apparatus controls the predetermined direction such that an output of the display device is visible to the detected image information presentation target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Komori, Satoshi Onodera
  • Patent number: 11330691
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display (1) comprising—a casing (10), —an image generation unit (20), and—a light sensor (30), disposed in the interior (INT) of said casing (10), suitable for delivering a signal representative of a light intensity received by same, the display (1) being adapted such that the luminosity of an image generated by the image generation unit (20) is controlled as a function of said signal. According to the invention, the display (1) further comprises a light guide (50) situated in the interior (INT) of the casing (10) of the display (1), having an inlet face (51) and being shaped to collect at the input face (51) of same a light ray coming from outside the casing (10) of the display, and for guiding said light ray to said sensor (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: VALEO COMFORT AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE
    Inventors: François Grandclerc, Pierre Mermillod
  • Patent number: 11315481
    Abstract: Disclosed includes an apparatus, a drive method, a display panel, and a display device. The apparatus may comprise a drive transistor, a light emitting device driven by the drive transistor and a comparator. The comparator may have a first input coupled to a pixel voltage, a second input coupled to a reference voltage, a first control terminal coupled to a first control voltage, a second control terminal coupled to a second control voltage, and an output coupled to a gate of the drive transistor. The comparator may be configured to output the first control voltage to the output during a first time period in which the pixel voltage is not smaller than the reference voltage and output the second control voltage to the output during a second time period in which the pixel voltage is smaller than the reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: BOE MLED Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yankai Gao, Ming Chen, Lingyun Shi, Xin Duan, Yuxin Bi, Hong Liu, Mingjian Yu, Guofeng Hu
  • Patent number: 11315479
    Abstract: An array substrate including a plurality of pixel units arranged in a matrix is provided. Each pixel unit at least includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel that emit light of different colors, the first sub-pixel has a lower luminous efficiency than the second and third sub-pixels. The array substrate further comprises a plurality of first gate lines and a plurality of second gate lines that correspond to respective rows of pixel units of the plurality of pixel units. The first sub-pixel in each row of pixel units of the plurality of pixel units is coupled to a first gate line of the plurality of first gate lines, and the second sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel in the row of pixel units of the plurality of pixel units are both coupled to a second gate line of the plurality of second gate lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning Cong, Minghua Xuan, Han Yue, Ming Yang, Xiaochuan Chen, Can Zhang, Can Wang, Liang Chen, Detao Zhao
  • Patent number: 11315907
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a full-color display module and display device. The full-color display module includes at least two light-emitting layers. Any one of the at least two light-emitting layers includes a substrate and a plurality of light-emitting portions encapsulated on the substrate. A type of any one of the plurality of light-emitting portions is one of a red light-emitting portion, a green light-emitting portion, and a blue light-emitting portion. The at least two light-emitting layers are successively laminated in a laminating direction and form a plurality of pixel points. Any one of the plurality of pixel points is a surrounding area on the full-color display module, which is surrounded by a surrounding curved surface. The surrounding area of the any one of the plurality of pixel points includes at least one red light-emitting portion, at least one green light-emitting portion, and at least one blue light-emitting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: FOSHAN NATIONSTAR OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kailiang Fan, Kuai Qin, Heng Guo, Qiang Zhao, Zongxian Xie, Chungan Jiang
  • Patent number: 11309368
    Abstract: A display device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed, which may prevent a crack from occurring on an inorganic film constituting an encapsulation film and prevent a residual film from occurring. The display device comprises a substrate including a display area on which pixels area arranged, and a non-display area surrounding the display area; an encapsulation film covering the display area and including an organic film; a first dam arranged to be in contact with the encapsulation film, having a second side which is an opposite side of a first side facing the organic film and has an inclination smaller than 90°; and a metal pattern pattern-formed on the first dam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyangmyoung Gwon, Byonghoo Kim, Sangheun Lee
  • Patent number: 11301062
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a stylus pen including: a body; a conductive tip configured to be exposed from an inside of the body to an outside thereof; and a resonance circuit connected to the conductive tip to resonate an electrical signal transferred from the conductive tip. An inductor unit of the resonance circuit includes a ferrite core and a coil wound in multiple layers over at least a portion of the ferrite core. The ferrite core includes nickel, and the coil can be formed by a litz wire with adjacent winding layers that are wound to be inclined in a zigzag form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HIDEEP INC.
    Inventors: Seyeob Kim, Hyoungwook Woo, Kiryoung Jung, Bonkee Kim