Patents Examined by Nelson M Rosario
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Patent number: 12108001Abstract: An input device includes a touch panel, a touch button, a first measurement device, a second measurement device, a first detection device that detects a touch position on the touch panel, based on a difference between the electrostatic capacitance measured by the first measurement device and a panel baseline value, a second detection device that detects a touch operation on the touch button, based on a difference between the electrostatic capacitance measured by the second measurement device and a button baseline value, an error decision device that decides that the touch operation is an error, when the touch operation satisfies a predetermined condition, and a controller that sets the button baseline value to an initial value, when the error decision device has identified an error, and sets the panel baseline value to an initial value, when the error decision device has not identified an error.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tomoyoshi Sugihara, Fumiaki Takiguchi
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Patent number: 12100243Abstract: A system and method of detecting display fit measurements and/or ophthalmic measurements for a head mounted wearable computing device including a display device is provided. The system and method may include capturing image data including a face of a user to be fitted for the head mounted wearable computing device. A three-dimensional head pose and gaze measurements may be extracted and a three-dimensional model may be developed from the captured image data. The system may detect display fit measurements and/or ophthalmic fit measurements from the three-dimensional model, and may provide one or more head mounted wearable computing devices that meet the display fit and/or ophthalmic fit requirements.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Idris Syed Aleem, Daniel David Albin Balzerson
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Patent number: 12094378Abstract: A computing device is configured to downsample an image that is displayable at a head-mountable display (HMD) to an image pixel representative of the image. The computing device computes a luminance of the image pixel from a color value of the image pixel to determine image brightness. The computing device is configured to determine the foveal region of the image from eye-tracking information of the user of the HMD. The computing device dowsamples the foveal region of the image to a foveal pixel representative of the foveal region. The computing device is configured to compute a luminance of the foveal pixel from a color value of the foveal pixel to determine foveal region brightness.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Joseph Nouri, Kevin Smathers
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Patent number: 12093471Abstract: A touchpad and a backlight module are provided. The backlight module includes a circuit board, a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element respectively located on two surfaces of the circuit board, a bottom layer, and a second light guide plate having a second microstructure, a middle layer having a light transmitting region and a first light guide plate having a first microstructure sequentially disposed on the bottom layer. A position of the second microstructure corresponds to the light transmitting region. An area of the light transmitting region of the middle layer is smaller than or equal to an area of the first microstructure. The first light emitting element corresponds to a side surface of the first light guide plate. The second light emitting element corresponds to a side surface of the second light guide plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Chicony Power Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chen-Hao Chiu
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Patent number: 12092833Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes a body, a fan, a first valve, and a first shape memory alloy element. The body is configured to be worn on a face of a user. The body has an air channel, an air outlet, and a first air inlet. The first air inlet is communicated with the air outlet through the air channel. The fan is disposed in the air channel and is configured to drive air inside the air channel to flow. The first valve is disposed in the air channel. The first shape memory alloy element is connected between the first valve and the body, and is configured to move the first valve to adjust airflow inside the air channel.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Li-Hsun Chang, Kuan-Ying Ou
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Patent number: 12087198Abstract: Disclosed is a shift register, a gate driving circuit, a display apparatus and a driving method, the shift register including a first input sub-circuit, configured to receive a first input signal from a first input terminal and output an output blanking output control signal; a second input sub-circuit, configured to receive a second input signal from a second input terminal and output a display output control signal; a selection sub-circuit, having a first terminal connected to the second input sub-circuit, a second terminal connected to the first input sub-circuit, and a third terminal connected to a first node, configured to control a potential of the first node according to the display output control signal and the blanking output control signal; an output sub-circuit, configured to output a composite output signal via an output terminal under control of a first node.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
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Patent number: 12086942Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for generating a walkable 360-degree video or virtual reality (VR) environment. 360-degree video data is obtained for a real-world environment and comprises a plurality of chronologically ordered frames captured by traversing a first path through the real-world environment. One or more processing operations are applied to generate a processed 360-degree video, which can be displayed to a user of an omnidirectional treadmill. Locomotion information is received from one or more sensors of the omnidirectional treadmill, wherein the locomotion information is generated based on a physical movement on or within the omnidirectional treadmill. Using the received locomotion information, one or more playback commands for controlling playback of the processed 360-degree video are generated. One or more selected frames of the processed 360-degree video are rendered for presentation and display to the user, based on the one or more playback commands.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Virtuix Holdings Inc.Inventors: Jan Goetgeluk, Benjamin John Drakes
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Patent number: 12086326Abstract: A method, system, apparatus, and/or device for moving or scrolling a virtual object in a virtual or augmented reality environment. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include: detecting, by a first sensor, a first gesture associated with selecting a first virtual object in an augmented reality environment displayed by a head-mounted display; displaying, by the head-mounted display, a first indicator indicating a selection of the first virtual object by a user; detecting, using the first sensor or a second sensor, a first movement of the head-mounted display associated with a first movement command; and in response to detecting the first movement of the head-mounted display, executing the first movement command, where the first movement command is a scrolling function to scroll text or a graphical object of the first virtual object or a movement function to move the text or the graphical object of the first virtual object.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: West Texas Technology Partners, LLCInventors: Yu-Hsiang Chen, Soulaiman Itani
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Patent number: 12080214Abstract: This application discloses a display panel including pixel circuits and light-emitting elements, wherein a first pixel circuit includes a first reset module that is connected to a first light-emitting element and provides a first reset signal to the first light-emitting element under a condition that the first reset module is turned on; a second pixel circuit includes a second reset module that is connected to a second light-emitting element and provides a second reset signal to the second light-emitting element under a condition that the second reset module is turned on; a data writing period of the pixel circuits includes a data writing phase and one or more holding phases; at least one holding phase includes a first reset sub-phase in which the first and second reset modules are turned on, voltages of the first and second reset signals are Vref21 and Vref22 respectively, and Vref21?Vref22.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Di Zhang
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Patent number: 12073013Abstract: A method is provided to control actuation of a click event by a hand-actuated selector moveably mounted to a mount structure, comprising: in a first control state, imparting a maintaining force to the hand-actuated selector; in a second control state, imparting a haptic force to the hand-actuated selector that increases as a function of increasing displacement of the hand-actuated selector from the neutral displacement position; imparting a click event signal to cause an occurrence of the click event at a display system, in a third control state, imparting a haptic force to the hand-actuated selector that decreases in magnitude to a reduced magnitude.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Ehsan Noohi Bezanjani, Keith Watza, Ashwinram Suresh, Brandon D. Itkowitz, Sean Duffy, Sarthak Ghosh
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Patent number: 12072504Abstract: Head-mounted display assemblies may include a first eyecup and a second eyecup that are configured for respectively positioning a first lens and a second lens in front of intended locations of a user's eyes when the head-mounted display assembly is donned. The first eyecup and the second eyecup may be movable relative to each other to adjust for an interpupillary distance of the user's eyes. A single near-eye display screen may be configured for displaying an image to the user through the first and second eyecups. An enclosure over the single near-eye display screen may include a first transparent component positioned between the first lens and the single near-eye display screen and a second transparent component positioned between the second lens and the single near-eye display screen. Various other methods, devices, systems, and assemblies are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Jeffrey Taylor Stellman, Nirav Rajendra Patel, Samuel Redmond D'Amico, Wei Rong, Evan Lawrence Coons, Joseph Patrick Sullivan
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Patent number: 12072496Abstract: The information processing device 4 includes an acquisition unit 41A and a structure matching unit 43A. The acquisition unit 41A is configured to acquire, from a captured image captured by a photographing unit 15A of a display device configured to display a virtual object superimposed on a view, multiple combinations of classification information of a structural feature point that is a feature point, in structure, of a target structure and position information of the structural feature point.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2019Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori Babazaki, Akane Aruga, Katsumi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 12067168Abstract: A method of providing a texture motion effect in a multisensory media system includes generating a texture signal by using linear predictive coding (LPC) filters obtained by applying LPC to each of a column and a row forming a texture image selected from an input image and generating a texture motion by using a visual roughness of the texture signal and a depth speed of a camera.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: POSTECH Research and Business Development FoundationInventors: Seung Moon Choi, Beom Su Lim, Sang Yoon Han
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Patent number: 12067929Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. By setting at least two image capturing regions and providing at least two image capturing components corresponding to the at least two image capturing regions respectively, the at least two image capturing components capture images through the at least two image capturing regions to obtain at least two images, and process the at least two images to eliminate a plurality of diffraction light spots, so as to obtain a final image without the diffraction light spots, thereby improving a display effect.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Yungu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rusheng Liu, Hongrui Li, Rubo Xing
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Patent number: 12061734Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a display control unit that causes a display device to display a mark for a virtual object at an instruction position that is a position determined on the basis of a plurality of directions indicated by a user.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Miwa Ichikawa, Jun Kimura, Ai Nakada, Soichiro Inatani, Takuro Noda, Kunihito Sawai, Shingo Utsuki, Kenji Sugihara
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Patent number: 12061737Abstract: An image processing apparatus displaying an image of an appearance of a virtual object from a virtual camera to a head mounted display. Memories store programs including instructions for obtaining degree information indicating a degree of gaze for the virtual object of a user wearing the head mounted display and changing an optical axis position of the virtual camera. Selectively switching one of the images to another, includes a virtual image corresponding to an appearance of a virtual space from the virtual camera in which the virtual object is arranged, and a mixed image in which a captured image is overlapped by an image corresponding to an appearance of the virtual object, and the head mounted display displays the image as the display image, and changing the position of the virtual camera in the optical axis direction based on the degree information when the plurality of images is selectively switched.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2023Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kina Itakura
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Patent number: 12056292Abstract: A wearable apparatus, including a display; a strap arranged adjacent to the display; at least one sensor configured to acquire posture information of the wearable apparatus; and at least one processor connected with the display and the at least one sensor and configured to control the wearable apparatus, wherein the at least one processor may be further configured to: control the display to provide a user interface (UI) screen, based on identifying that a change in the posture information is greater than or equal to a threshold range, identify that a tap input of a user was received on the strap, and acquire a control command corresponding to the UI screen based on the changed posture information, and control the wearable apparatus based on the control command.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Md. Sazzad Hissain Khan
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Patent number: 12055972Abstract: A control method includes obtaining a first feedback signal from a wearable device in response to a first electronic device, and a first feedback signal from at least one second electronic device in response to the first electronic device; identifying a target electronic device from the first electronic device and the at least one second electronic device, according to at least one first feedback signal based on the first feedback signal from the wearable device and the first feedback signal from the at least one second electronic device; and obtaining and transmitting first information to the target electronic device for the target electronic device to execute the first information. A relative angle between the target electronic device and the wearable electronic device is within a set angle range, and the first information is at least relevant to an output function of the target electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2022Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITEDInventor: Haitao Fan
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Patent number: 12050264Abstract: A mobile computing device includes one or more processors, an emissive display that includes a touchscreen, and a proximity sensor that generates a quantitative output signal. The one or more processors transition, in response to the quantitative output signal decreasing below a low threshold value, operation of the sensor to a high sensitivity state; transition, in response to the quantitative output signal increasing above a high threshold value, operation of the sensor to the low sensitivity state; and deactivate the touchscreen and/or the emissive display when the touchscreen and/or the emissive display is activated and when the quantitative output signal increases above an high threshold value and to activate the touchscreen and/or the emissive display when the touchscreen and/or the emissive display is deactivated and when the quantitative output signal is below a low threshold value, the low threshold value being less than the high threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: YungSheng Chang, YanJang Jiang
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Patent number: 12045383Abstract: Described are virtual AR interfaces for generating a virtual rotational interface for the purpose of controlling connected IoT devices using the inertial measurement unit (IMU) of a portable electronic device. The IMU control application enables a user of a portable electronic device to activate a virtual rotational interface overlay on a display and adjust a feature of a connected IoT product by rotating a portable electronic device. The device IMU moves a slider on the virtual rotational interface. The IMU control application sends a control signal to the IoT product which executes an action in accordance with the slider position. The virtual rotational interface is presented on the display as a virtual object in an AR environment. The IMU control application detects the device orientation (in the physical environment) and in response presents a corresponding slider element on the virtual rotational interface (in the AR environment).Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Lei Zhang, Youjean Cho, Daekun Kim, Ava Robinson, Yu Jiang Tham, Rajan Vaish, Andrés Monroy-Hernández