Patents Examined by Nelson M Rosario
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Patent number: 11852812Abstract: Incorporating camera through (CT) or augmented-reality (AR) vision into a display of a headset, including: displaying the CT or AR vision on a view screen of the display of the headset, when the CT or AR vision is selected by a user; prompting the user to enter or select at least one object to be highlighted on the view screen in a CT or AR vision mode; and highlighting the at least one selected object on the view screen.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Hee Gyung Sun, Benjamin Andrew Rottler
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Patent number: 11847265Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling an onboard system includes determining, using a sensor mounted in a steering wheel, a track of a current gesture of a driver in a process of holding, by the driver, the steering wheel; determining a type of the current gesture from preset gesture types based on the track of the current gesture; and controlling the onboard system to perform an operation corresponding to the type of the current gesture.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xinyu Zhao, Chengping Liu, Heshuai Si, Yongfang Su, Zeshi Zhang
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Patent number: 11846774Abstract: A pupil-replicating lightguide includes a slab of transparent material, a switchable out-coupling grating for out-coupling portions of image light to propagate towards an eyebox, and a switchable tracking grating for redirecting tracking light carrying an eye image towards an eye tracking camera. One of the two gratings may be turned ON while the other is turned OFF, in a time-sequential manner, allowing the combined use of the pupil-replicating lightguide for carrying image light and eye tracking light.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Sihui He, Jacques Gollier, Maxwell Parsons, Babak Amirsolaimani, Wanli Chi, Daniel Guenther Greif, Renate Eva Klementine Landig, Xiayu Feng, Zhimin Shi, Nicholas John Diorio, Yang Yang, Giuseppe Calafiore, Fenglin Peng, Tanya Malhotra, Andrew John Ouderkirk
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Patent number: 11847259Abstract: Techniques of providing continual augmented reality navigation include combining first and second 6DoF poses from, respectively, a localization from a map in a vicinity of a location to an image and from predicted 6DoF poses based on IMU data.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Qiyue Zhang, Luca Ballan, Hongsheng Yu, Fengtao Fan, Mahesh Ramachandran, Chao Guo
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Patent number: 11848899Abstract: An electronic reader is implemented in a mobile computing device by downloading electronic reader computer instructions to be stored resident in the mobile computing device to permit the mobile computing device to be configured as a stand-alone electronic reader. One or more electronic books are downloaded and temporarily stored in a memory of the electronic reader. Chatroom functionality is integrated into the electronic reader to permit a user to communicate directly from an electronic book to a chatroom to thereby permit communication with selected parties. The user can communicate with other readers in the chatroom, with the author of the book, or with one or more subject matter experts designated by the author or publisher of the book. The integrated chatroom functionality combined with the stand-alone reader functionality provide a quality reading experience for the user as well as interactive capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: IP Investment Holdings, LLCInventor: Gary Bernard Jabara
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Patent number: 11847955Abstract: The present application discloses a shift register and a method for driving the shift register, a light-emission control circuit and a display panel. The shift register includes an input module, a control module, a pull-up module, an output module and a maintenance module. The input module is connected to an input end, a first clock end, a first level end, a first node and a second node. The control module is connected to the first node, a third node, and a second clock end. The pull-up module is connected to the second node, a second level end, and the third node. The output module is connected to the second node, the third node, the first level end, and the second level end. The maintenance module is connected to the second node, the first level end and the second level end.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: WUHAN TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Suping Xi
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Patent number: 11847968Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. By making a number of first gate strobe circuits of a same stage, a number of second gate strobe circuits of a same stage, and a number of third gate strobe circuits of a same stage electrically connected to a plurality of pixel driving circuits located in a same pixel row to be at most two, which is conducive to realizing a narrow bezel design when the dynamic refresh rates are adopted in the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenlong Peng, Tao Chen
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Patent number: 11841510Abstract: Point to point transmission holograms are used to provide a scene camera for an augmented reality glasses display system. A glass or plastic substrate acts as spectacle style lens. A holographic medium is applied to a surface of the substrate, within which is recorded a series of point to point transmission holograms. The construction points of the holograms are arranged at the eye and at the pupil of a camera placed, ideally, to the temple side of the user's eye. The recorded transmission holograms act by diffracting a portion of the light from the scene surrounding the user that is heading for the user's eye towards the scene camera. The hologram efficiency is balanced so that the user is still able to see the surrounding scene. The perspective of the view seen by the scene camera is substantially identical to that seen by the user through the lens.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Richard J. Topliss, Michael David Simmonds
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Patent number: 11836287Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide retinal imaging-based gaze tracking. In some implementations, a user's gaze is tracked based on based on a retinal imaging technique that corrects for misalignment between content display components and tracking components. In some implementations, misalignment is detected by providing a light pattern (e.g., IR light sources embedded in a display) within or adjacent to displayed content and assessing the image of the light pattern on the retina.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Eran Tal
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Patent number: 11835718Abstract: One or more environmental vibrations that originate from a vibration source are detected by a wearable display device. The wearable display device is worn by a user. The vibration source is located in an environment that is proximate to the wearable display device. An alert condition related to the vibration source is identified, based on the one or more environmental vibrations. An augmented notification for the wearable display device is generated in response to the alert condition. The augmented notification provided, by the wearable display device, to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Atul Mene, Jeremy R. Fox, Tushar Agrawal, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Patent number: 11836328Abstract: The present disclosure relates to eye tracking technology to detect when a user's attention has shifted to a different screen. Once this is detected, the mouse pointer can be positioned on that screen. For example, one approach can include a first display and a second display. Sensor data, indicative of a radial gaze direction of a user, can be received. Display of a cursor can be manipulated, such as between the first display and the second display, based on the sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Inventors: Dean Olliphant, Sabrina Olliphant
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Patent number: 11829521Abstract: In a virtual reality (VR) multi-screen display method, an electronic device receives a first operation from a user in an application that supports VR and the electronic device starts a VR multi-screen display mode in response to the first operation. Then, the electronic device receives a second operation from the user on a first application icon, and receives a third operation from the user on a second application icon. The electronic device creates a first virtual screen corresponding to a first application and a second virtual screen corresponding to a second application in response to the second operation and the third operation and displays content of the first application on the first virtual screen and displays content of the second application on the second virtual screen.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Junxiong Sun, Wei Feng, Pei Xia, Fenglin Lv, Zhimin Zhou
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Patent number: 11829529Abstract: When a notification is to be shown, an artificial reality notification system can add the notification to a pre-defined location in the user's field of view (e.g., top, side, or bottom) where it stays as a head leashed virtual object until the user's gaze is direct to the notification. When the user's gaze is directed at the notification, the artificial reality notification system make the notification world locked, allowing the user to move her head to bring the notification to the center of her field of view, move closer to the notification to make it larger, move around the notification to see aspects from different angles, etc. The notification can be dismissed if the user never directs her gaze at it for a first threshold amount of time or when the user looks away from the world-locked version for a second threshold amount of time.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventor: Hayden Schoen
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Patent number: 11831976Abstract: A display apparatus that includes a first imaging unit that images a user, a first distance detector that identifies an eye of the user and measure a first distance that is a distance from the identified eye to the first imaging unit, a second imaging unit that images an object, a second distance detector that measures a second distance that is a distance from the second imaging unit to the object, an image processor that processes the images, and a display unit, the image processor calculating a display imaging range, extracting the calculated display imaging range from the image imaged by the second imaging unit, and causing the display unit to display it, and the display imaging range being such a range that the object displayed and an external scenery not interrupted by the display unit seen from a viewpoint of the user have the same size.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Ikuya Arai, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Tomonori Nomura, Osamu Kawamae, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Naohisa Takamizawa
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Patent number: 11822716Abstract: According to various implementations, a method is performed at an electronic device including one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, and a display. The method includes displaying, on the display, a virtual agent that is associated with a first viewing frustum. The first viewing frustum includes a user avatar associated with a user, and the user avatar includes a visual representation of one or more eyes. The method includes, while displaying the virtual agent associated with the first viewing frustum, obtaining eye tracking data that is indicative of eye behavior associated with an eye of the user, updating the visual representation of one or more eyes based on the eye behavior, and directing the virtual agent to perform an action based on the updating and scene information associated with the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Mu Qiao, Dan Feng, Bo Morgan, Mark E. Drummond
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Patent number: 11823334Abstract: 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: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Virtuix Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Jan Goetgeluk, Benjamin John Drakes
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Patent number: 11816805Abstract: The subject technology receives, at a client device, a selection of a first selectable graphical item, the first selectable graphical item comprising a first augmented reality content generator corresponding to a particular geolocation. The subject technology causes display, at the client device, of a graphical interface comprising a plurality of selectable augmented reality content items, each selectable augmented reality content item corresponding to a particular activity based at in part on the particular geolocation. The subject technology receives, at the client device, a second selection of a particular selectable augmented reality content item from the plurality of selectable augmented reality content items.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventors: Kaveh Anvaripour, Ilteris Kaan Canberk, Virginia Drummond, Jean Luo, Alek Matthiessen, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis
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Patent number: 11817052Abstract: Disclosed are an organic light-emitting display panel and a display method thereof. The temperature of the organic light-emitting display panel can be detected in a pre-set detection period by arranging a temperature detection and compensation module, when it is determined that the temperature of the organic light-emitting display panel is not within a pre-set temperature range, a temperature compensation voltage corresponding to the organic light-emitting display panel is determined according to the detected temperature of the organic light-emitting display panel; and when each light-emitting device emits light, the determined temperature compensation voltage is applied to an anode of the light-emitting device that emits light so as to carry out voltage compensation on an anode voltage of the light-emitting device.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventor: Lijun Zhao
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Patent number: 11817026Abstract: A screen control apparatus of a vehicle and a method thereof are provided. The screen control apparatus includes: a sensing device that measures illumination; a brightness determining device that determines a brightness degree corresponding to the illumination from one or more illumination measurement data; and a controller that controls a screen brightness of a display depending on the determined brightness degree. The controller controls the screen brightness of the display, whenever the brightness degree is changed.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Hyun Woo Koo, Mun Jun Hur, Tae Ho Lee, Hyeo Jin Kim, Kwang Seung Heo, Kyowoong Choo
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Patent number: 11809619Abstract: A head-mounted device may have catadioptric lenses that each include a partial mirror, a quarter wave plate, and a polarizer. An optical system in the head-mounted device may have an infrared light-emitting device and an infrared light-sensing device. The optical system may illuminate a user's eyes in eye boxes and may gather measurements from the illuminated eye boxes for eye tracking and other functions. The optical system may operate through the catadioptric lenses. To enhance optical system performance, the polarizers may be wire grid polarizers that are formed from conductive lines that exhibit enhanced infrared transmission and/or the quarter wave plates may be formed from cholesteric liquid crystal layers that serve as quarter wave plates at visible wavelengths and that do not serve as quarter wave plates at infrared wavelengths.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yoshihiko Yokoyama, John N. Border, Naoto Matsuyuki, Serhan O. Isikman, Wei-Liang Hsu