Patents Examined by Nan-Ying Yang
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Patent number: 11412205Abstract: In a vehicle display device, in a case of displaying an outside information virtual image in a right monocular viewing region and a left monocular viewing region, a controller performs a display image control for a display image displayed by an image projection unit by using a viewability display form with a more excellent viewability than in a case of displaying the outside information virtual image in a binocular viewing region. In a case of displaying the outside information virtual image in the binocular viewing region, the controller performs a display image control by using the identifiability display form that provides a more excellent recognizability of the outside information virtual image for the driver than in a case of displaying the outside information virtual image in the right monocular viewing region and the left monocular viewing region.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Tetsuya Sugiyama
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Patent number: 11402934Abstract: A touch sensor module according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a touch sensor layer including sensing electrodes and traces branching from the sensing electrodes, a flexible circuit board electrically connected to the traces at one end portion of a top surface of the touch sensor layer, a supporting structure commonly and partially covering the flexible circuit board and the touch sensor layer, and an adhesive layer formed on at least one surface of the touch sensor layer. The adhesive layer has a flexural rigidity in a range from 0.01 to 5 N·nm. Damages and delamination of electrodes and wirings included in the flexible circuit board and the touch sensor layer are prevented by the supporting structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.Inventors: Hye Rim Kwon, Tae Bong Kim, Dong Jin Son, Sung Woo Yu, Min Ho Lim
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Patent number: 11397322Abstract: An image providing system for vehicles includes an imaging unit; a display unit which generates a virtual image of a person; a communication unit which connects for communication to an apparatus outside a vehicle; and a seat occupancy detection unit which detects a seat occupancy state in the vehicle, wherein the display unit controls a display mode of the virtual image on the basis of the seat occupancy state in the vehicle detected by the seat occupancy detection unit in an operating state of the communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
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Patent number: 11379051Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate, generally, to directionally oriented keyboards for interfacing with a virtual workspace, including applications executing therein, and related systems, methods, and devices. A selectable object of an invoked directionally oriented keyboard may be selected responsive to directional information. Directional information may be provided by a user input device such as a thumbstick device or video capture device. A selectable object and/or information associated with the selectable object may be provided to a business application that is associated with an invoked directionally oriented keyboard.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: vSpatial, Inc.Inventors: David Levon Swanson, Jared William Schrock
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Patent number: 11373623Abstract: In some examples, an apparatus includes a light source. The light source is configured to operate in a first mode by emitting light during a first period of time during which a display screen reflecting the light is substantially opaque. The light source is also configured to operate in a second mode by not emitting light during a second period of time during which the display screen is substantially transparent. The light source is also configured to repeatedly alternate between the first mode and the second mode to create a perception of an image resulting from the display screen reflecting the light being displayed on a transparent screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventor: Zhongyan Sheng
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Patent number: 11373430Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided, and a technical field in displays is related. The display panel includes an array substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a color filter layer, a sensor layer, a glass substrate, and a collimator mechanism. The sensor layer includes a plurality of fingerprint recognition units. The collimator mechanism is disposed on a side of the sensor layer away from the color filter layer. The display device includes the display panel. Display function, touch function, and fingerprint recognition function are integrated into one, by manufacturing the fingerprint recognition units on the glass substrate on the display panel. The cost and the module thickness are further optimized. A fingerprint recognition area is realized as a full-screen area, and fingerprints can be recognized at any position on the screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Li Hu
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Patent number: 11373818Abstract: The present invention provides a touch device, including a cover plate, a circuit board, a bracket, and a noise reduction layer group. The circuit board is fixed below the cover plate. The circuit board is provided with a trigger zone located on a bottom surface, and includes an elastic sheet located in the trigger zone. The bracket is disposed below the circuit board. The noise reduction layer group is disposed between the bracket and the elastic sheet.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignees: LITE-ON ELECTRONICS (GUANGZHOU) LIMITED, Lite-On Technology CorporationInventor: Cheng-An Lu
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Patent number: 11364804Abstract: A display system for a vehicle is provided. The display system includes a display device, and control circuitry that is coupled to a user input device and the display device. The control circuitry controls the display device to display a user interface (UI) having a UI element and changes a first opacity level of a first mode text for an outgoing mode of the vehicle, up to a first value so as to mask the first mode text within the UI element. The control circuitry further controls the display device to change a second opacity level of a second mode text for an incoming mode of the vehicle, up to a second value so as to unmask the second mode text within the UI element.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Sudoh, Andrew R. Hoover, David Justin Brewer, Cody D. Grebe, Jerome L. Piche
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Patent number: 11366326Abstract: A relative movement of a head-wearable electronic display device is determined with respect to a vehicle interior of a vehicle by way of a recording device arranged on the electronic display device and a virtual perspective of a wearer of the electronic display device is adapted to virtual content according to the determined relative movement. A recording range of the recording device is limited to the vehicle interior in order to eliminate distortions, resulting from a relative movement of the vehicle with respect to the vehicle surroundings, with regard to the recording of the relative movement of the electronic display device with respect to the vehicle interior.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Marcus Kühne, Daniel Profendiner
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Patent number: 11348514Abstract: A display apparatus including: image renderer including light-emitting diodes that are to be employed as sub-pixels of image renderer; liquid-crystal device including liquid-crystal structure and control circuit, wherein liquid-crystal structure is arranged in front of light-emitting diodes of image renderer, wherein liquid-crystal structure is to be electrically controlled, via control circuit, to shift light emanating from light-emitting diode to target positions on image plane according to shifting sequence in repeated manner; and processor(s) configured to render output sequence of output image frames via image renderer, wherein shift in light emanating from light-emitting diode to target positions causes resolution of output image frames to appear higher than display resolution of image renderer.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2021Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Varjo Technologies OyInventors: Klaus Melakari, Oiva Arvo Oskari Sahlsten
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Patent number: 11347062Abstract: There is provided a method of operating a wearable heads-up display (WHUD). The WHUD may include a light source, a spatial modulator, and a display optic. The method may include generating, by the light source, an output light to form an image viewable by a user of the WHUD. The method may also include receiving a position of a pupil of the user relative to an eyebox of the WHUD, and obtaining an image correction map based on the position of the pupil. Moreover, the method may include adjusting the output light to form an adjusted output light. The adjusted output light may be adjusted based on the image correction map to reduce at least one of an intensity non-uniformity and a color balance non-uniformity of the image. The method may also include directing, by the display optic, the adjusted output light into a field of view of the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Timothy Paul Bodiya, Shreyas Potnis, Stuart James Myron Nicholson, Bergen Fletcher
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Patent number: 11334157Abstract: A wearable device and system for detecting data generated by a user's contact with a surface and using that data to determine that a user contacted the surface and, in some examples, the location of the contact. The location of the contact may then be used by another device, such as an artificial reality headset, to select a user interface element, activate a function or perform a task in an artificial reality environment, or execute another type of function typically performed in response to an input to a user interface. In one example, the wearable device includes an ultrasound transmitter (Tx) and an ultrasound receiver (Rx). In some embodiments, the wearable device may also include a processing element capable of processing the signals detected or received by the receiver to determine that a contact occurred.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Jun Gong, Aakar Gupta, Hrvoje Benko
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Patent number: 11327564Abstract: An eye-tracking apparatus includes a first lens group, a light splitting device, a display, an image sensor, a second lens group, and a plurality of light sources. The light splitting device receives a first beam, generates a second beam, and transmits the second beam to a second surface of the first lens group. The display projects a reference mark to a target area through the light splitting device and the first lens group. The image sensor captures a detection image on the target area through the first lens group, the light splitting device, and the second lens group. The second lens group is disposed between the light splitting device and the image sensor. The light sources are disposed around the image sensor and project a plurality of beams to the target area through the first lens group, the light splitting device, and the second lens group.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Meng-Che Tsai, Kuei-Chun Liu, Ching-Chia Chou, Sheng-Le Wang, Chung-Hsiang Chang
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Patent number: 11320926Abstract: A key setting method is performed by a terminal, wherein a pressure sensing area is provided on at least one side of the terminal with respect to a screen display region, and the method includes: detecting a grip posture of a user gripping the terminal by using a touch sensor distributed on a surface of the terminal; determining a key setting mode corresponding to the grip posture, wherein the key setting mode indicates a key function corresponding to a target side of the at least one side; and in the pressure sensing area on the target side, setting a pressure sensing key corresponding to the key function.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yu Chen, Changyu Sun
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Patent number: 11320908Abstract: The invention relates to an operating unit for a vehicle, comprising a touchscreen, an actuator for mechanically exciting the touchscreen upon detection of a valid manual actuation of the touchscreen when an operating command is input, and a counterweight. The actuator is designed as a drive unit with a stator and a translator which move in opposite directions either away from each other or towards each other, namely into an end position, starting from a rest position when the drive unit is actuated and which move back into the rest position from the end position after the actuation has ended, in particular in an automatic manner. The stator is coupled to the touchscreen, and the translator is coupled to the counterweight or vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: BEHR-HELLA THERMOCONTROL GMBHInventors: Pasi Kemppinen, Vesa Teikari
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Patent number: 11314346Abstract: Disclosed herein is a control device. The control device includes an interface unit physically connected to a display unit, a control board receiving an input of an occupant, and a camera capturing an image of an area of a body of the occupant and the surroundings of the control board, and a processor exchanging information with the control board, the display unit, and the camera through the interface unit, wherein if it is determined that the occupant is present in the driver's seat through the camera and a first input is received from the occupant through the control board, the processor controls the display unit to display a display area corresponding to a position to which the first input is input on the control board, and when the display area is displayed in the display unit and a second input is received from the occupant through the control board, the processor selects or controls contents displayed in the display area.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jaehoon Cho, Heejeong Heo
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Patent number: 11317065Abstract: A scan display system includes a picture receiving unit, a scan needle, a picture display screen having first and second opposing surfaces, and a driving unit. The picture receiving unit is configured to receive picture data and transmits the picture data to the scan needle. The driving unit is configured to perform a picture scanning process by moving the scan needle to scan in a horizontal direction relative to the first of the picture display screen at a predetermined frequency. The scan needle is configured to emit light, representative of the picture data, to the first surface of the picture display screen to project image lines, each image line being formed by the scan needle during the scan. The picture display screen is configured to receive the emitted light on the first surface and display an image comprising the image lines on the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: JADE BIRD DISPLAY (SHANGHAI) LIMITEDInventors: Qunchao Xu, Qiming Li
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Patent number: 11315288Abstract: An eye tracking system can include an eye-tracking camera configured to obtain images of the eye at different exposure times or different frame rates. For example, longer exposure images of the eye taken at a longer exposure time can show iris or pupil features, and shorter exposure, glint images can show peaks of glints reflected from the cornea. The shorter exposure glint images may be taken at a higher frame rate (than the longer exposure images) for accurate gaze prediction. The shorter exposure glint images can be analyzed to provide glint locations to subpixel accuracy. The longer exposure images can be analyzed for pupil center or center of rotation. The eye tracking system can predict future gaze direction, which can be used for foveated rendering by a wearable display system. In some instances, the eye-tracking system may estimate the location of a partially or totally occluded glint.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Farmer, David Cohen, Bradley Vincent Stuart
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Patent number: 11315508Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel including a color film substrate and an array substrate, and a plurality of input terminals, a scan line, and a data line. Wherein each of the input terminals is respectively connected to at least two data lines, a signal screening unit in series between at least part of the data lines and the corresponding input terminal. The input terminal is connected to an alternating current signal, and the signal screening unit is used for screening the alternating current signal to select a positive voltage signal or a negative voltage signal to the data lines.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Inventor: Ningbo Yi
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Patent number: 11308900Abstract: In a display apparatus, a liquid-crystal structure, arranged in front of an image renderer, is controlled to shift light of a given sub-pixel to target positions according to a shifting sequence in a repeated manner, while output image frames are displayed. To generate a given output image frame, a given target position to which the light is to be shifted is determined based on the shifting sequence. An input colour value of the given sub-pixel provided in a given input image frame is then adjusted to generate an output colour value of the given sub-pixel for the given output image frame, based on an output colour value of at least one other sub-pixel whose light overlaps with the given target position during display of a previous output image frame, and a retention coefficient between a colour of the at least one other sub-pixel and a colour of the given sub-pixel.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Varjo Technologies OyInventors: Mikko Strandborg, Klaus Melakari, Ville Miettinen