Patents Examined by Nitin Patel
  • Patent number: 12292572
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display module that produces light having an image, a lens that directs the light to a waveguide, and a waveguide that directs the light to an eye box. The lens may produce a foveated image in the light by applying a non-uniform magnification to the image in the light. The non-uniform magnification may vary as a function of angle within a field of view of the lens. This may allow the foveated image to have higher resolution within the central region than in the peripheral region. Performing foveation using the lens maximizes the resolution of images at the eye box without increasing the size of the display module. Control circuitry on the device may apply a pre-distortion to the image that is an inverse of distortion introduced by the lens in producing the foveated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Inventors: Vikrant Bhakta, David A. Kalinowski, Hyungryul Choi, Nathanael D. Parkhill, Stanley K. Melax, Byron R. Cocilovo
  • Patent number: 12279992
    Abstract: The invention relates to a guidance assistance system having a peripheral rim defining a peripheral field of vision and a guidance information display device on the peripheral rim. The guidance information display device includes light sources which can be controlled by a control unit. The display device includes a sensor of spatial information relating to a position and/or an orientation of the visualisation window and a circuit for processing the spatial information according to the zone of interest in order to determine guidance information. The control unit is configured to control the light sources on the basis of the guidance information in order to display, in the field of vision, a direction to be followed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: PERIPHERAL
    Inventor: Aymar De La Choue De La Mettrie
  • Patent number: 12276805
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for actively adjusting diopter of a head-mounted display, and a head-mounted display. The method includes the following steps: adjusting a relative distance between a displaying component of the head-mounted display and an optical component by a motor driving component; presetting a mapping relationship between a diopter value and a motor pulse number; accordingly converting into a control signal for the motor driving component according to the mapping relationship; and actively adjusting the relative distance between the displaying component of the head-mounted display and the optical component by the motor driving component according to the control signal. A target diopter value is inputted and converted into a corresponding control signal. The motor driving component actively adjusts the relative distance between the displaying component of the head-mounted display and the optical component according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Shenzhen NED Optics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Weihui Gan, Jiangfeng Chen, Donghua Liu, Zaiyue Yang, Huajun Peng
  • Patent number: 12256597
    Abstract: A novel functional panel that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The functional panel includes a base material and a pair of pixels, and the base material covers the pair of pixels and has a light-transmitting property. The pair of pixels includes one pixel and another pixel, and the one pixel includes a light-emitting device and a first microlens. The light-emitting device emits light toward the base material, and the first microlens is interposed between the base material and the light emission and converges light. The first microlens includes a first surface and a second surface; the second surface is closer to the light-emitting device than the first surface is; and the second surface has a smaller radius of curvature than the first surface. The other pixel includes a photoelectric conversion device and a second microlens. The second microlens is interposed between the base material and the photoelectric conversion and converges external light incident from the base material side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Daiki Nakamura, Ryo Hatsumi, Rai Sato, Shingo Eguchi, Koji Kusunoki
  • Patent number: 12254822
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a display device, including: a plurality of sub-pixel areas, each including a pixel circuit, each pixel circuit including: a diode, configured to be in a forward-biasing state during a display phase of the pixel circuit for light-emitting and configured to be in a reverse-biasing state in a sensing phase of the pixel circuit for light-sensing; a driving transistor for driving the diode during the display phase and serving as a source follower in the sensing phase; first to sixth transistors, applied to the gates of the first to sixth transistors respectively so that the pixel circuit switching between the display phase and the sensing phase; and a capacitor for storing a data voltage to be written to the diode in the display phase and storing the charge accumulated by the diode in the sensing phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Guangzhou Tyrafos Semiconductor Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ping-Hung Yin, Jia-Shyang Wang, Dean Wang
  • Patent number: 12254842
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for driving a plurality of display areas of a display at different driving frequencies are provided. The electronic device can determine a first driving frequency of a first application, and the position of a first portion on which a first execution screen of the first application is to be displayed, determine a second driving frequency of a second application, and the position of a second portion on which a second execution screen of the second application is to be displayed, determine a third driving frequency of a third application, and the position of a third portion on which a third execution screen of the third application is to be displayed, and drive a first area of the display panel based on a first partial scan rate, and drive a second area of the display panel based on a second partial scan rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongkoo Her, Youngdo Kim, Hyunchang Shin, Woonbo Yeo, Minwoo Lee, Songhee Jung
  • Patent number: 12248146
    Abstract: A system includes a head-up display (HUD) system including a display; a combiner; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to at least one image sensor of at least one tracking system and to the display. The at least one processor configured to: receive image data from one or more of the at least one image sensor, wherein the image data is (i) for performing eye tracking and/or head tracking operations and (ii) for monitoring the displayed images; and detect the at least one malfunction of the HUD system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramon Correa, Jr., Christopher A. Keith
  • Patent number: 12242671
    Abstract: In some aspects, a controller may obtain a back electromotive force (BEMF) signal associated with a haptic feedback component, wherein the BEMF signal is generated by movement of the haptic feedback component. The controller may determine a time length for the BEMF signal to cross an amplitude-based window. The controller may determine, based on the time length, a braking amplitude for a control signal to reduce an energy level of the haptic feedback component. The controller may control the control signal according to the braking amplitude. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Joseph Dale Rutkowski, Joshua Zazzera, Milind Sawant, Shivaprakash Halagur
  • Patent number: 12236812
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a three-dimensional display device, a driving method and manufacturing method therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junxing Yang, Chunmiao Zhou, Jinye Zhu, Sen Ma, Jing Yu, Tianyang Han
  • Patent number: 12235444
    Abstract: In a linked display system in which wireless communication connection between a first information device and a second information device has been established, when the first information device transmits text data to the second information device in a state of displaying content containing the text data and image data, the second information device displays the text data while the first information device stops displaying the text data and enlarges and displays the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Megumi Kurachi, Masuo Oku, Hirokazu Ishii, Osamu Kawamae, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 12230190
    Abstract: A micro-light emitting diode (micro-LED) display backplane includes a plurality of macro-pixels. Each macro-pixel includes: a contiguous two-dimensional (2-D) array of bitcells storing display data bits for driving a set of micro-LEDs of a 2-D array of micro-LEDs; and drive circuits configured to generate, based on the display data bits stored in the contiguous 2-D array of bitcells, pulse-width modulated (PWM) drive signals for driving the set of micro-LEDs of the 2-D array of micro-LEDs. In one example, the plurality of macro-pixels is grouped into a plurality of sub-arrays, where each sub-array of the plurality of sub-arrays includes a set of macro-pixels and a local periphery circuit next to the set of macro-pixels. The local periphery circuit includes, for example, a buffer, a repeater, a clock gating circuit for gating an input clock signal to the sub-array, and/or a sub-array decoder for selecting the sub-array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Henry Morris, Michael Yee
  • Patent number: 12228733
    Abstract: When a head-mounted display acquires data of a display image generated on the basis of position/posture information of a head of a user at time and given a distortion corresponding to the distortion of an eyepiece lens, the head-mounted display corrects the image on the basis of position/posture information of the head at time t for display. Then, the head-mounted display corrects chromatic aberrations on the basis of actual distortion coefficients of the lens, and outputs the image to a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Akio Ohba, Tetsugo Inada, Yoshinori Ohashi, Kazuyuki Arimatsu
  • Patent number: 12229357
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed, which includes: a substrate including a biometric sensing region and a non-sensing region; a biometric sensing module disposed corresponding to the biometric sensing region; a display layer disposed on the substrate; a light altering member at least partially disposed in the biometric sensing region; a touch sensing layer disposed on the display layer; and a supporting element disposed between the substrate and the biometric sensing module, wherein the light altering member includes a first insulating layer and a micro-structure layer disposed on the first insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chandra Lius, Kuan-Feng Lee, Tsung-Han Tsai, Pai-Chiao Cheng
  • Patent number: 12217879
    Abstract: A system includes a load-following nuclear power generator including a nuclear reactor configured to generate variable amounts of electricity. The system also includes an electric drive and a propeller controlled by the electric drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Carbon Free Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Claudio Filippone
  • Patent number: 12216858
    Abstract: One or more examples relate, generally, to a method for capacitive touch sensing that includes: performing first self-capacitance measurement of an electrode of a touch sensor while a driven shield-signal is provided to at least a portion of shielding of the electrode; determining a first touch sensing result at least partially responsive to determining that a value representing performing first self-capacitance measurement exceeds a first threshold value; performing second self-capacitance measurement of the electrode of the touch sensor while a ground signal is provided to at least the portion of shielding of the electrode; determining a second touch sensing result at least partially responsive to determining that a value representing performing second self-capacitance measurement exceeds a second threshold value, the second threshold value different from the first threshold value; and determining a touch result responsive to both the first touch sensing result and the second touch sensing result being indi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Feargal Cleary, Rian Whelan
  • Patent number: 12217658
    Abstract: A display panel has functional component regions arranged along a first direction and a display region at least partially surrounding the functional component regions. The display panel includes first signal lines located in the display region. One of the first signal lines has a least one part extending in the first direction, and the first signal lines are arranged in a second direction intersecting with the first direction. The first signal lines include a first-type signal line and a second-type signal line, and the first-type signal line at least partially surrounds the functional component regions. In the first direction, at least one second-type signal line is broken at two sides of one of the functional component region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch, Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xingyao Zhou, Qibing Wei, Peng Zhang, Mengmeng Zhang, Wei Liu, Kang Yang, Gaojun Huang, Yana Gao
  • Patent number: 12210263
    Abstract: An optical path control member according to an embodiment comprises: a first substrate; a first electrode disposed on the first substrate; a second substrate disposed on the first substrate; a second electrode disposed below the second substrate; and a light conversion unit disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the second substrate and the second electrode comprise at least one hole penetrating the second substrate and the second electrode, and a sealing part is disposed inside the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Gyeong Park, Jong Sik Lee, Byung Sook Kim
  • Patent number: 12210699
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an electronic device comprises: a housing including a through hole formed outside of the housing, and a seating part connected to the through hole, and the seating part accommodating insertion of an electronic pen through the through hole; a seating part cover surrounding at least of a part of the seating part; a cantilever disposed in the seating part, the cantilever including an elastic part extending to have a distance from the seating part cover that increases along an insertion direction of the electronic pen; wherein the cantilever includes a connection part connecting the seating part cover and the elastic part and a support part protruding from one surface of the elastic part facing the seating part cover and extending in a direction away from the connection part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soohyun Lee, Jaeshik Kim, Sungjin Lee, Jongchul Choi
  • Patent number: 12204111
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a face model for a user of a head-mounted device are disclosed. The head-mounted device can include one or more eye cameras configured to image the face of the user while the user is putting the device on or taking the device off. The images obtained by the eye cameras may be analyzed using a stereoscopic vision technique, a monocular vision technique, or a combination, to generate a face model for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Gholamreza Amayeh, Adrian Kaehler, Douglas Lee
  • Patent number: 12205540
    Abstract: A shift register unit, a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit and a display panel are provided. The shift register unit includes an input circuit, a reset circuit, a first output circuit and a second output circuit; the input circuit is configured to control a level of a first node in response to a first input signal; the reset circuit is configured to reset the first node in response to a reset signal; the first output circuit is configured to output a shift signal under control of the level of the first node; and the second output circuit is configured to, in a first phase, under control of the level of the first node, output a plurality of sub-pulses at the first output terminal as a first output signal in a case where the shift output terminal outputs a first level of the shift signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiangnan Lu, Guangliang Shang, Xinshe Yin, Libin Liu, Jianchao Zhu, Hao Zhang, Ke Feng