Patents Examined by Nitin Patel
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
  • 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: 12198628
    Abstract: A light emitting display device includes: a light emitting element including an anode connected to a first line; a first transistor; a second transistor including a first electrode connected to a data line, and a second electrode connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor; a third transistor including a first electrode connected to the first line, and a second electrode connected to a first electrode of the first transistor; a fourth transistor including a second electrode connected to the gate electrode; a sixth transistor including a first electrode connected to a second electrode of the first transistor, and a second electrode connected to a second line; a first capacitor including a first electrode connected to the gate electrode and a second electrode connected to the second electrode of the first transistor; and a second capacitor including a second electrode connected to the second electrode of the first transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Hoon Chung, Byung Chang Yu
  • Patent number: 12196952
    Abstract: A wearable device may include a head-mounted display (HMD) for rendering a three-dimensional (3D) virtual object which appears to be located in an ambient environment of a user of the display. The relative positions of the HMD and one or more eyes of the user may not be in desired positions to receive, or register, image information outputted by the HMD. For example, the HMD-to-eye alignment may vary for different users and may change over time (e.g., as a user moves around and/or the HMD slips or is otherwise displaced). The wearable device may determine a relative position or alignment between the HMD and the user's eyes. Based on the relative positions, the wearable device may determine if it is properly fitted to the user, may provide feedback on the quality of the fit to the user, and may take actions to reduce or minimize effects of any misalignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Lionel Ernest Edwin, Zachary C. Nienstedt, Ivan Li Chuen Yeoh, Samuel A. Miller, Yan Xu, Jordan Alexander Cazamias
  • Patent number: 12197648
    Abstract: A brain-computer interface system includes a video processor for producing a display signal, a temporal controller for producing a plurality of repetitive visual stimulus (RVS) signals with different respective temporal aspects, a display device that receives the display signal and displays a corresponding image on a plurality of different display regions and receives the RVS signals and displays corresponding RVS in respective ones of the display regions, an electroencephalographic (EEG) sensor for sensing a visually-evoked cortical potential (VECP) signal in a user with eyes fixated on a viewed one of the display regions, and a VECP processor for processing the VECP signal to identify the respective temporal aspect of the respective RVS of the viewed display region to estimate the eye fixation location. The RVS are generated independently of the display update/refresh rate and at sufficiently high frequencies to avoid flicker perceptible to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
    Inventors: Michael E. Miller, Brett J. Borghetti, Kellie D. Kennedy, Chad L. Stephens, Alan T. Pope
  • Patent number: 12197672
    Abstract: A method of adjusting recognition sensitivity for a touch recognition and an electronic device performing the method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a touch interface including a touch screen and configured to measure a current change value of a touch sensing electrode by a touch input of a user, a sensor, and a processor, and the processor is configured to control to obtain first information corresponding to the current change value through the touch interface and second information corresponding to a touch area value of the touch input through the sensor, in response to the touch input, and adjust a threshold value for a touch recognition based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seonghun Kim, Kwangtaek Woo, Ganghyun Goo, Changho Lee, Jaeho Choi, Jinwan An
  • Patent number: 12198638
    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: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongkoo Her, Youngdo Kim, Hyunchang Shin, Woonbo Yeo, Minwoo Lee, Songhee Jung
  • Patent number: 12197638
    Abstract: Disclosed is an extended-reality (XR) device with pose-tracking means; light source(s) for displaying XR images to a user; and a processor configured to: send, to a server a network address of an XR device; send, to the server, request to provide a network address of a computing device; receive, from the server, the network address of the computing device; establish a direct communication link between the XR device and the computing device, using the network address of the computing device; send, to the computing device, information indicative of a pose of XR device or of a head of the user, via the direct communication link; receive, from computing device, XR image(s) generated according to the pose, via direct communication link; and display XR image(s) via light source(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Varjo Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Ari Antti Erik Peuhkurinen