Patents Examined by Nelson M Rosario
  • Patent number: 11800665
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display module divided into a bending area and a non-bending area arranged in a first direction and having a front surface and a rear surface opposing the front surface, a cover member covering a portion of the bending area and disposed on the front surface, a first protection member disposed on the rear surface overlapping the non-bending area, a second protection member disposed on the rear surface overlapping the bending area and spaced apart from the first protection member, a driving element disposed on the front surface overlapping the bending area, and a stiffener disposed between the cover member and the driving element on the front surface. The bending area is bent along a virtual bending axis extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the cover member and the stiffener expose a portion of the front surface through a space therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jinyoung Ro
  • Patent number: 11797085
    Abstract: An eye tracking system includes an imaging device, a memory, and a controller. The imaging device is configured to be mounted on a wearable device. The wearable device includes at least a first lens that is light transmissive and is positioned in front of at least a first eye of a user that is wearing the wearable device. The imaging device has a field of view that captures an inner surface of the first lens and a reflection of the first eye on the inner surface. The memory is configured to store program instructions. The controller is operably connected to the memory and the imaging device. The program instructions are executable by the controller to analyze image data generated by the imaging device and to detect a position of a pupil of the first eye in the reflection based on the analysis of the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Inna Zolin, Matthew Fardig, Lindsay Nelson, Joshua Smith
  • Patent number: 11789548
    Abstract: An input mouse may include a top button, a first wall rearward of the top button to underlie a palm of a user and a second wall forming an exterior of the input mouse. The first wall is formed from a material composition comprising a first polymer encapsulating thermally conductive particles. The second wall is formed from a thermally conductive material. A solid-state Peltier heat pump has a first face thermally coupled to the first wall and a second face thermally coupled to the second wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Hsiao-Jou Lin, Kuan-Ting Wu, Alexander Williams
  • Patent number: 11782268
    Abstract: A near-eye display device and an eye tracking system for the near-eye display device are provided. The eye tracking system includes a processor, a control analysis device, an LED illuminating device, a DMD display device and an IR camera. The processor outputs a video signal corresponding to a video displayed on the near-eye display device to the control analysis device. The control analysis device generates an LED synchronization signal and a corresponding subfield display signal. The LED illuminating device drives an LED to emit light, and transmits the light emitted from the LED into the DMD display device. The DMD display device reflects the light into a lens to form an image, and projects the image onto an eye. The IR camera captures an eye image. The control analysis device acquires the eye image and analyzes the eye image to obtain gaze point information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventors: Hongen Ren, Bin Jiang, Xiaoyu Chi
  • Patent number: 11775054
    Abstract: Systems and methods for interactions between an autonomous vehicle and one or more external observers include virtual models of drivers the autonomous vehicle. The virtual models may be generated by the autonomous vehicle and displayed to one or more external observers, and in some cases using devices worn by the external observers. The virtual models may facilitate interactions between the external observers and the autonomous vehicle using gestures or other visual cues. The virtual models may be encrypted with characteristics of an external observer, such as the external observer's face image, iris, or other representative features. Multiple virtual models for multiple external observers may be simultaneously used for multiple communications while preventing interference due to possible overlap of the multiple virtual models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Debdeep Banerjee, Ananthapadmanabhan Arasanipalai Kandhadai
  • Patent number: 11768379
    Abstract: A system may include a head-mounted device. The head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing that includes a display. The display is configured to display an image for viewing by a user when the user's eyes are located in eye boxes adjacent to the head-mounted housing. The head-mounted housing may have a compressible opaque light seal. The light seal may have a ring shape and may block stray ambient light around the periphery of the head-mounted housing, thereby ensuring that stray light does not interfere with viewing of the image by the user. Sensors may be provided in the light seal to measure facial expressions and gather other measurements. Information on a measured facial expression of a user can be transmitted to external devices so that the external devices can update corresponding facial expressions on an avatar to reflect the user's current facial expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad F. Hossain, Samuel A. Resnick
  • Patent number: 11770962
    Abstract: A display configuration to extend the light emitting and touch sensitive portion of a display panel into areas normally reserved for other light devices is disclosed. In the configuration, light devices and the display panel are configured to operate together. The display panel may include an aperture through the display panel to provide an unobstructed light path to a light device. The display panel may also include a routing area to provide space for data lines feeding pixels to be rerouted around the aperture. The routing area is partially obstructed by data lines but otherwise transparent. Accordingly, some display devices may be positioned behind the routing area and still operate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sangmoo Choi, Sun-il Chang, Jyothi Karri, Ion Bita
  • Patent number: 11768650
    Abstract: An input unit receives a signal relating to an object. A generation unit generates first information and second information relating to the object based on the signal received by the input unit. A control unit displays the first information that has been generated on a first display device and displays the second information that has been generated on a second display device. The control unit changes the display mode of the first information with the passage of time according to the first regularity and the display mode of the second information with the passage of time according to the second regularity corresponding to the first regularity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masataka Kato, Koichi Emura
  • Patent number: 11762464
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for inputting characters with eye gazes, a host, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: providing a character inputting interface, wherein the character inputting interface comprises a first character set, and the first character set comprises a plurality of first characters; obtaining a first eye gaze position on the character inputting interface; and in response to determining that the first eye gaze position triggers a first specific character among the first characters, inputting the first specific character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Si-Huai Kuo
  • Patent number: 11756463
    Abstract: Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) displays, novel pixel circuits therefor, and methods of programming the pixel circuit and measuring the current of the pixel circuit and OLED thereof are disclosed. One pixel circuit includes four TFT transistors, a storage capacitor and an OLED device and is programmed with use of voltage supplied through a data line. One method measures currents of the OLED and the pixel circuit through the data line by a readout circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: IGNIS INNOVATION INC.
    Inventors: Arash Moradi, Jafar Talebzadeh, Junhu He, Shuenn-Jiun Tang
  • Patent number: 11747646
    Abstract: A time multiplexed, selectively updated, sub-pixel less, self-aligning, electrically and optically dual addressed, multi directional pixel is provided. This can potentially greatly increase the performance of an automultiscopic display and reduce the complexity. In one embodiment, an automultiscopic display can simply be provided by a plurality of directional OLED pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Realfiction Lab ApS
    Inventors: Steen Svendstorp Krener-Iversen, Michael Rasmussen, Peter Allan Simonsen, Morten Corell
  • Patent number: 11740852
    Abstract: Eyewear providing an interactive augmented reality experience between two users of eyewear devices to perform a shared group task. During a shared group task session, each eyewear user can manipulate virtual objects displayed in a respective virtual scene that is viewable to each use to perform collaboration. The virtual objects can include many different types of objects, such as a building structure that can be jointly created and edited by the eyewear users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Shin Hwun Kang, Dmytro Kucher
  • Patent number: 11741899
    Abstract: A display panel, a display driving method and a display pixel driving circuit therefor are provided. In the display driving method, the light emitting signal includes multiple pulse signals, and the variation trend of the pulse-off durations of the pulse signals is consistent with the variation trend of the light emitting brightness of the light emitting element during the light emitting period, that is, the pulse-off durations decreases sequentially with the decrease of the light emitting brightness of the light emitting element, or sequentially increases with the increase of the light emitting brightness of the light emitting element. Therefore, the flicker problem in the display panel when emitting light can be solved, and improving the image display quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jieliang Li
  • Patent number: 11740473
    Abstract: A headset for virtual reality imaging is provided. The headset includes a first display configured to generate multiple light beams from a central portion of a field of view in an image provided to a user, a first optical element configured to provide the light beams forming a central portion of the field of view through an eyebox of the headset that limits a volume including a pupil of the user, and a second display configured to provide a peripheral portion of the field of view for the image through the eyebox, wherein the second display includes multiple light emitting pixels arranged in a two-dimensional surface. A system and a method for using the above headset are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Wheelwright, Ying Geng, Kieran Connor Kelly
  • Patent number: 11733952
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device is provided. The wearable electronic device includes a housing including a first housing portion, a second housing portion, and a third housing portion, glasses surrounded by the second housing portion, a display for displaying screens in an inner direction and an outer direction on display areas of the glasses, a sensor module including a first sensor for identifying whether a user is wearing the wearable electronic device, a second sensor for determining a direction where the wearable electronic device is placed, and a third sensor for determining whether the first housing portion or the third housing portion is folded, a camera module including first cameras for tracking a hand gesture of the user and recognizing a space, second cameras for tracking pupils of the user, and a third camera for capturing the outside, and a processor connected with the display, the sensor module, and the camera module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongmin Yoon, Seungnyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11735086
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 11737323
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a first area, a display area surrounding the first area, and a peripheral area surrounding the display area and including a bent area; a display unit including pixels; a driving circuit in the peripheral area; and a fan-out unit in the peripheral area and including a first wiring portion and a second wiring portion apart from each other in the bent area. The first wiring portion includes first wirings. Each of the first wirings includes a first portion extending in a first direction between the display unit and the bent area, and a second portion extending in a second direction. A width of the first portion is greater than a width of the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuhyun Cho, Sora Kwon, Oukjae Lee, Ilryong Cho
  • Patent number: 11735084
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area; an external common voltage line disposed in the non-display area; a plurality of pixels and a common voltage line disposed in the display area; and a driving voltage line connected to each of the plurality of pixels, wherein a subset of the plurality of pixels overlaps the common voltage line in the display area in a plan view, and the external common voltage line and the common voltage line are connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Hoon Kim, Won Kyu Kwak, Han-Sung Bae
  • Patent number: 11733774
    Abstract: The invention relates to an eye tracking arrangement that includes a camera configured to capture images of an eye at a first scanning rate, a laser velocimeter configured to capture an eye velocity of a movement of the eye by laser Doppler velocimetry at a second scanning rate and a control device configured to determine an absolute eye position based on the images, and track a gaze direction of the eye based on the absolute eye position and the eye velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH, TRUMPF PHOTONIC COMPONENTS GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Petersen, Thomas Alexander Schlebusch, Hans Spruit, Jochen Hellmig
  • Patent number: 11727878
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a display device including the pixel circuit are discussed. The pixel circuit can include a driving element including a first electrode connected to a first node to which a pixel driving voltage is applied, a gate electrode connected to a second node, and a second electrode connected to a third node; a first switch element including a first electrode connected to the third node, a gate electrode to which a first light emission control pulse is applied, and a second electrode connected to a fourth node; a second switch element including a first electrode connected to the third node, a gate electrode to which a second light emission control pulse is applied, and a second electrode connected to a fifth node; and a light emitting device including an anode connected to the fifth node, and a cathode electrode to which a low potential power voltage is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Min Son, Chang Hee Kim, Ki Bok Park