Patents Examined by Nan-Ying Yang
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Patent number: 11586039Abstract: Vehicle projection assemblies are described. In particular, vehicle projection assemblies within a housing including a projection module, and selective reflective polarizing element are described. Particular selective reflective polarizing elements may enable advantageous configurations for such vehicle projection assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: William F. Edmonds, Matthew B. Johnson, Carl A. Stover
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Patent number: 11584298Abstract: A vehicle display system is provided in a vehicle. The vehicle display system includes a first display device and a second display device. The first display device is configured to emit a light pattern toward a road surface outside the vehicle. The second display device is located inside the vehicle and is configured to display an image indicating the light pattern as viewed from above.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki Takii, Misako Kamiya
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Patent number: 11586154Abstract: A user-wearable device comprises a device band and a housing section connected to the device band. The housing section comprises a roller and an extendable display spooled around the roller. The extendable display comprises a first end that is attached to the roller. The user-wearable device also comprises an anchor that is attached to a second end of the extendable display and that is located outside the housing section. The user-wearable device comprises a locking mechanism attached to the anchor. Separating the anchor from the housing section causes the extendable display to unspool from the roller and extend out of the housing section.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Subha Kiran Patnaikuni, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Patent number: 11580914Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate, a first data line in a display area, a first input line in a peripheral area, and a first connecting wire electrically connected to the first input line in a peripheral area of the substrate. The first connecting wire transfers a first input signal from the first input line to the first data line. The first connecting wire includes a first connecting line disposed in a display area of the substrate and extending in the first direction, and a second connecting line electrically connected to the first connecting line and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The first connecting line and the second connecting line are disposed on different layers.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Seunghwan Cho, Youngwoo Park, Seokje Seong, Jiseon Lee, Wonsuk Choi, Jonghyun Choi
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Patent number: 11577609Abstract: A vehicle dashboard assembly includes a dashboard panel, a display support, a display and a display cover. The dashboard panel has a display receiving space. The display support is coupled to the dashboard panel. The display is removably and reinstallably attached to the display support. The display cover is movably coupled relative to the dashboard panel between a closed position and an open position. The display cover includes a first cover portion for covering a front side of the display and a second cover portion for covering one edge of the display. The first cover portion surrounds a screen of the display while in the closed position to define a display opening for viewing the screen. The first and second cover portions are movable as a unit between the closed and open positions.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kyle Aurelio Marietta, Zachary Lee Williams
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Patent number: 11575868Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a control unit configured to change a voltage of an input node from a first voltage toward a predetermined voltage during a predetermined time period after the voltage of the input node changes to the first voltage and before the voltage of the input node changes to a second voltage. A method of driving the photoelectric conversion apparatus includes controlling changing of the voltage of the input node from the first voltage toward the predetermined voltage during the predetermined time period.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki Kameyama, Seiichirou Sakai, Kazuo Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11573628Abstract: A smart mat includes a stepping potential generation unit, a computing processor and a transmission processor for sensing the stepping direction of a stepper to control the operation of a device. The stepping potential generation unit includes an upper mat, an isolating airgap layer, a lower mat and at least one high-resistance strips. When the stepper stands on the smart mat to press the stepping potential generation unit, a part of the stepping potential generation unit is pressed by an open-circuit state to form a closed circuit and generate a potential. The computing processor uses the distributed position of each potential and the time sequence of distributing each potential to compute and analyse a potential stepping process distribution area to obtain a stepping direction, so as to control the operation of the device through the transmission processor.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: CERADEX CORPORATIONInventors: Chen-Yuan Su, Liang-Tai Tsai, Wei-Lun Huang
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Patent number: 11561579Abstract: An integrated computational interface device may include a portable housing having a key region and a non-key region; a keyboard associated with the key region of the housing; and a holder associated with the non-key region of the housing. The holder may be configured for selective engagement with and disengagement from the wearable extended reality appliance, such that when the wearable extended reality appliance is selectively engaged with the housing via the holder, the wearable extended reality appliance is transportable with the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: MULTINARITY LTDInventors: Tamir Berliner, Tomer Kahan, Orit Dolev, Oded Noam, Barel Tayouri
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Patent number: 11560057Abstract: An electronic device attachable to a vehicle, according to various embodiments of the present invention, comprises: a communication interface; a memory for storing instructions; and at least one processor connected to the communication interface and the memory, wherein the at least one processor can be configured so as to execute the stored instructions in order to: acquire, from another device embedded in the vehicle, information on a plurality of objects located within a designated distance from the vehicle; identify, among the plurality of objects, a designated object located within a designated distance from the vehicle; generate configuration information of at least one piece of content to be displayed through a head-up display (HUD), on the basis of a state of the designated object; and display, through the HUD, content for guiding the operation of the vehicle, on the basis of the generated configuration information.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Inventors: Kyu Sung Kim, Tae Young Ha, Ju Yeon You, Yong Jun Lim, Jin Young Choi
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Patent number: 11556009Abstract: To address privacy issues with “always on” cameras of an AR headset, the cameras can be muted and content displayed by the headset adjusted to provide a user with a visual indication that the cameras are deactivated. The headset includes a display element configured to display content to a user and an eye tracking system that includes a camera configured to track eye motion of the user. In response to the headset receiving a camera muting event from the user or the external environment, the headset deactivates the camera and adjusts the content displayed on the display element to provide the user with a visual indication that the camera is deactivated. In one embodiment, the visual indication is an adjustment of the display from a default RGB color mode to “monochrome” or other predefined color map.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Brian Kennedy, Sam Sarmast, Fletcher Nelson
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Patent number: 11556005Abstract: The head-up display apparatus includes a display-light emitting unit having a second inclination angle around the axis parallel to the vertical direction so that the first direction side thereof is closer to the user than the second direction side thereof is, and being configured to emit display light forming a rectangular image corresponding to the rectangular virtual image. The head-up display apparatus includes a reflecting mirror having a third inclination angle around the axis parallel to the vertical direction so that the first direction side thereof is closer to the user than the second direction side thereof is, and being configured to reflect the display light and emit reflected light to the virtual-image display unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATIONInventor: Ken Kawamura
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Patent number: 11557234Abstract: A method includes detecting at least one remote vehicle that is within a predetermined distance from the host vehicle, detecting that the light of the remote vehicle that is on, determining a luminous intensity of a light beam emitted by the light of at least one remote vehicle that is within the predetermined distance from the host vehicle, comparing the luminous intensity of the light beam emitted by the light of at least one remote vehicle to a predetermined threshold to determine whether the luminous intensity of the light beam emitted by the light is greater than the predetermined threshold in response to determining the luminous intensity of the light of at least one remote vehicle that is within the predetermined distance from the host vehicle, and dimming at least a portion of the windshield of the host vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Madalyn Theresa Eudy, Joseph F. Szczerba, John P. Weiss, Thomas A. Seder, Kai-Han Chang
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Patent number: 11550528Abstract: An electronic device such as an accessory-mountable robot is provided. The electronic device changes functional properties thereof in accordance with a mounted accessory. In an embodiment, the electronic device detects mounting of at least one accessory and identifies accessory characteristics associated with the at least one accessory. Then, the electronic device determines properties of the electronic device associated with the at least one accessory, based on the accessory characteristics, and changes the properties of the electronic device, based on the determined properties. Also, the electronic device outputs at least one of a visual element, an auditory element, or a tactile element associated with the at least one accessory, based on the changed properties.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kawon Cheon, Hyunjoo Kang, Yeojun Yoon, Jaeyeon Rho, Raekyoung Lee
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Patent number: 11543923Abstract: A touch screen panel including a substrate comprising an active area and a non-active area positioned outside the active area, first and second sensing electrodes formed over the active area, wherein the first sensing electrodes connected along a first direction, and wherein the second sensing electrodes connected along a second direction that intersects the first direction, and outside wiring lines formed in the non-active area to connect the first and second sensing electrodes to an external driving circuit in units of lines and having at least one of slits that cross insides of the outside wiring lines so that widths of conductive paths are reduced in partial sections.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Seung-Jin Lee
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Patent number: 11541754Abstract: In a display unit of the present invention, an instrument frame body (speedometer frame body, power meter frame body) are changed to a map frame body in a process that the road image is stepwise reduced and display to the map image by switching from a road display state to a map display state. Further, the map frame body is changed to the instrument frame body in a process that the map image is stepwise enlarged and displayed to the road image by switching from the map display state to the road display state.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Harutoshi Nakajima
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Patent number: 11545102Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the sub-pixels includes a memory block including a memory configured to store therein sub-pixel data and a sub-pixel electrode coupled to the memory block. The memory includes first and second transistors configured to store therein the sub-pixel data in accordance with an electrical charge of a floating gate, the first and second transistors include respective drains that are coupled to each other, and a coupling point of the drains is coupled to a node. The sub-pixel electrode is coupled to the node, and each of the sub-pixels is configured to display an image based on a potential of the node.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Tatsuya Ishii
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Patent number: 11535378Abstract: A pendant assembly for a rescue hoist may comprise a pendant, an interface box discrete from the pendant, and a display screen discrete from the pendant. The pendant may include a hoist input. The interface box may be configured to receive a control input from the pendant. The display screen may be configured to receive a display command from the interface box.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Goodrich CorporationInventors: Richard Bryson, Robert Humble
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Patent number: 11523091Abstract: A head up display (HUD) system includes: a laser; a liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) panel configured to modulate light output by the laser; a modulator control module configured to, during each predetermined period: apply power to the LCoS panel for a first predetermined ON period; and disconnect the LCoS panel from power for a remainder of the predetermined period; and a laser control module configured to, during each predetermined period: when a temperature of the LCoS panel is less than a predetermined temperature: apply power to the laser for a second predetermined ON period while power is applied to the LCoS panel and after the modulator control module begins applying power to the LCoS panel, where the second predetermined ON period is less than the first predetermined ON period; and disconnect the laser from power for the remainder of the predetermined period.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Thomas A. Seder, Kai-Han Chang
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Patent number: 11507231Abstract: A display device may include a display panel, an input sensing unit, and an alignment structure. The display panel may include a sealing member. The input sensing unit may be disposed on the display panel. The input sensing unit may include first-type sensor electrodes directly contacting a face of a first insulator of the display device, a first-type connector electrically connecting the first-type sensor electrodes, second-type sensor electrodes directly contacting the face of the first insulator of the display device, and a second-type connector electrically connecting the second-type sensor electrodes. The alignment structure may overlap the sealing member and may include a transparent member that directly contacts the face of the first insulator of the display device.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Inventors: Jong Seon Park, Hwan Hee Jeong
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Patent number: 11507208Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to external user interfaces used in connection with head worn computers (HWC).Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: Ralph F. Osterhout