Patents Examined by Nitin Patel
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Patent number: 12248146Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 12, 2024Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventors: Ramon Correa, Jr., Christopher A. Keith
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Patent number: 12242671Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Joseph Dale Rutkowski, Joshua Zazzera, Milind Sawant, Shivaprakash Halagur
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Patent number: 12236812Abstract: The present disclosure provides a three-dimensional display device, a driving method and manufacturing method therefor.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junxing Yang, Chunmiao Zhou, Jinye Zhu, Sen Ma, Jing Yu, Tianyang Han
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Patent number: 12235444Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 14, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Megumi Kurachi, Masuo Oku, Hirokazu Ishii, Osamu Kawamae, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 12229357Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 27, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Chandra Lius, Kuan-Feng Lee, Tsung-Han Tsai, Pai-Chiao Cheng
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Patent number: 12230190Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 2, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Daniel Henry Morris, Michael Yee
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Patent number: 12228733Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akio Ohba, Tetsugo Inada, Yoshinori Ohashi, Kazuyuki Arimatsu
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Patent number: 12216858Abstract: 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 indiType: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Microchip Technology IncorporatedInventors: Feargal Cleary, Rian Whelan
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Patent number: 12217879Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Carbon Free Holdings LLCInventor: Claudio Filippone
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Patent number: 12217658Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignees: 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
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Patent number: 12210263Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Gyeong Park, Jong Sik Lee, Byung Sook Kim
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Patent number: 12210699Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Soohyun Lee, Jaeshik Kim, Sungjin Lee, Jongchul Choi
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Patent number: 12205540Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jiangnan Lu, Guangliang Shang, Xinshe Yin, Libin Liu, Jianchao Zhu, Hao Zhang, Ke Feng
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Patent number: 12204111Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 30, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Gholamreza Amayeh, Adrian Kaehler, Douglas Lee
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Patent number: 12198628Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 27, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyung Hoon Chung, Byung Chang Yu
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Patent number: 12196952Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 28, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Lionel Ernest Edwin, Zachary C. Nienstedt, Ivan Li Chuen Yeoh, Samuel A. Miller, Yan Xu, Jordan Alexander Cazamias
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Patent number: 12197648Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 2, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASAInventors: Michael E. Miller, Brett J. Borghetti, Kellie D. Kennedy, Chad L. Stephens, Alan T. Pope
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Patent number: 12197672Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 18, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seonghun Kim, Kwangtaek Woo, Ganghyun Goo, Changho Lee, Jaeho Choi, Jinwan An
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Electronic device for driving plurality of display areas of display at different driving frequencies
Patent number: 12198638Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 26, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yongkoo Her, Youngdo Kim, Hyunchang Shin, Woonbo Yeo, Minwoo Lee, Songhee Jung -
Patent number: 12197638Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 29, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Varjo Technologies OyInventor: Ari Antti Erik Peuhkurinen