Patents Examined by Parul H Gupta
  • Patent number: 11705083
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including scan lines and pixels connected to the scan lines, a first scan driver disposed outside the display panel, first scan output lines including a first terminal connected to the first scan driver and a second terminal connected to a corresponding scan line of the scan lines, and crossing the scan lines, and a first inspection line including a first receiving terminal connected to the first scan driver and a first feedback terminal connected to the first scan driver, extending from the first receiving terminal to the first feedback terminal, and crossing the scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Jun Kim, Sung Hee Lee, Deok Hwan Kim, Yong Su Lim
  • Patent number: 11703938
    Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising a first processing core configured to generate first control signals and to control a display by providing the first control signals to the display via a first display interface, a second processing core configured to generate second control signals and to control the display by providing the second control signals to the display via a second display interface, and the first processing core being further configured to cause the second processing core to enter and leave a hibernation state based at least partly on a determination, by the first processing core, concerning an instruction from outside the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Suunto Oy
    Inventor: Erik Lindman
  • Patent number: 11693485
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for improving quality of a visual content, a host, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: determining a first gesture of a first hand and accordingly providing a first hand object in the visual content; determining a second gesture of a second hand and accordingly providing a second hand object in the visual content; in response to determining that the first gesture and the second gesture respectively correspond to a first predetermined gesture and a second predetermined gesture, determining a specific distance between the first gesture and the second gesture; and in response to determining that the specific distance is smaller than a distance threshold, refining the first hand object and the second hand object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Ting-Wei Lin, Min Chia Wei, Chien-Min Wu
  • Patent number: 11670231
    Abstract: A display driving circuit including: a data driver configured to supply driving signals to a plurality of pixels of a display panel and sense electrical characteristics of each of the plurality of pixels; and a degradation compensation circuit configured to generate and store an accumulated degradation value by, accumulating degradation values for each of a plurality of pixel blocks for a unit time, based on driving data corresponding to the driving signals, correct the accumulated degradation value of a first pixel block, based on sensing data received from the data driver, and perform data compensation to compensate for pixel degradation, based on the accumulated degradation values and a degradation model, wherein each pixel block includes at least one pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiheon Ok, Yoonho Ko, Taekon Yu, Hwahyun Cho
  • Patent number: 11662774
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate, a touch layer and a cover window layer. The touch layer includes a plurality of touch units on the substrate. The cover window layer is disposed on the touch layer, wherein the cover window layer includes a plurality of structures disposed on the substrate. At least one of the touch units partially overlaps with at least two of the structures of the cover window layer, and at least one of the structures is directly touchable from outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan-Lin Wu, Kuan-Feng Lee
  • Patent number: 11645988
    Abstract: A pixel driving method is provided and the method includes following steps: acquiring a pixel signal of each unit pixel in a pixel block, acquiring a first average pixel signal of the pixel block according to the pixel signal of each of the unit pixels in the pixel block, and if a signal determination interval corresponding to the first average pixel signal is a first-type interval, determining that the pixel signal of the pixel block meets a first condition; and loading first-type gray-scale signals to a part of unit pixels of the pixel block and loading second-type gray-scale signals to the remaining unit pixels of the pixel block based on a preset rule. The display quality is improved by controlling the unit pixel proportion loaded with the first-type gray-scale signal and the second-type gray-scale signal and reducing the difference among pixel signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Chih Tsung Kang
  • Patent number: 11636816
    Abstract: A display device incudes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; and a dimming panel that is disposed between the display panel and a light source of light to be emitted to the display panel and includes a plurality of dimming pixels. When one of the pixels produces an output at highest luminance and the other pixels produce an output at lowest luminance to the display panel, the light is transmitted through a predetermined one of the dimming pixels located on an optical axis of the light that is emitted to the one of the pixels and through the other dimming pixels arranged around the predetermined dimming pixel. A degree of transmission of the light through the other dimming pixels decreases as the light is away along one direction from the predetermined dimming pixel, and there are a plurality of directions having different degrees of the decrease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ishihara, Junji Kobashi
  • Patent number: 11630521
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to an electronic device for supporting a finger pinch interaction using a return loss of a radio frequency signal and an operating method thereof. The electronic device is configured to measure a return loss of an antenna while radiating a radio frequency signal through the antenna and to detect whether a thumb and a finger touch each other within a predetermined distance from the antenna based on the measured return loss. Accordingly, there can be provided an interaction for the touch between the thumb and the finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Geehyuk Lee, Daehwa Kim, Keunwoo Park
  • Patent number: 11625101
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to identifying three-dimensional-human-gesture input. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure can: receive from one or more sensors, data describing one or more three-dimensional motions comprising a three-dimensional-human-gesture input; generate, based at least in part on the data describing the one or more three-dimensional motions, two-dimensional data at least partially describing at least one motion of the one or more three-dimensional motions; and identify, based at least in part on the two-dimensional data, the three-dimensional-human-gesture input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Alejandro Kauffmann
  • Patent number: 11600245
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method includes providing an interactive device having at least one of a display screen and an audio component, pairing the interactive device with a user device, transferring data to the interactive device, and displaying images via the display screen or emitting sound via the audio component based on the transferred data. The interactive device is a non-transmitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: National Christmas Products LLC
    Inventor: Michael M. McRae
  • Patent number: 11587505
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display region including a first pixel region, a second pixel region, and a third pixel region; a dummy region including a first dummy region disposed between the second pixel region and the third pixel region; first, second, and third pixels respectively arranged in the first pixel region, the second pixel region, and the third pixel region in a matrix of vertical lines and horizontal lines; a data converter configured to: receive first image data including effective data corresponding to the display region and dummy data corresponding to the dummy region; and generate second image data by converting a gray scale value of dummy data corresponding to at least one region of the first dummy region in the first image data into a predetermined first gray scale value, the first gray scale value being between a lowest gray scale value and a highest gray scale value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Hyun Ka, Tae Hoon Kwon, Ki Myeong Eom, Chung Yi, Se Byung Chae, Deok Jun Choi, Moon Sang Hwang
  • Patent number: 11586294
    Abstract: A video display apparatus according to an embodiment includes a video display unit configured to display a video image in a field of view of a user in a state in which the user is wearing the video display apparatus, an image pickup unit configured to take a video image of an outside state, a switching unit configured to selectively perform switching as to whether to display a video image of a certain content or a video image taken by the image pickup unit, and a switching control unit configured to control the switching unit. The switching control unit switches the video image displayed on the video display unit when an object with a predetermined identification pattern is included in the video image taken by the image pickup unit and the switching control unit has detected that a user's hand has made a predetermined gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Ibaraki
  • Patent number: 11579693
    Abstract: An electronic device, while the electronic device is worn over a predefined portion of the user's body, displays, via a display generation component arranged on the electronic device opposite the predefined portion of the user's body, a graphical representation of an exterior view of a body part that corresponds to the predefined portion of the user's body. The electronic device detects a change in position of the electronic device with respect to the predefined portion of the user's body. The electronic device, in response to detecting the change in the position of the electronic device with respect to the predefined portion of the user's body, modifies the graphical representation of the exterior view of the body part that corresponds to predefined portion of the user's body in accordance with the detected change in position of the electronic device with respect to the predefined portion of the user's body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Thomas S. Hulbert, Karlin Y. Bark, Alfred B. Huergo Wagner, Felipe Bacim De Araujo E Silva, Seung Wook Kim, William A. Sorrentino, III
  • Patent number: 11579704
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include detecting, by a computing system, a gesture that appears to be intended to trigger a response by the computing system, identifying, by the computing system, a context in which the gesture was performed, and adjusting, based at least on the context in which the gesture was performed, a threshold for determining whether to trigger the response to the gesture in a manner that causes the computing system to perform an action that is based on the detected gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Lafreniere, Tanya Renee Jonker, Stephanie Santosa, Hrvoje Benko, Daniel John Wigdor
  • Patent number: 11574600
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a display panel including a first display area, a second display area, and a third display area between the first and second display areas, each of the first, second, and third display areas including a plurality of pixels, and a sensor which is between the substrate and the first display area of the display panel and senses an external object through the first display area. A first pixel density of the first display area is less than a second pixel density of the second display area, and a pixel density of the third display area varies with relative distances from the first display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Ho Hyun, Chang Woo Kahng
  • Patent number: 11573642
    Abstract: Wearable devices, methods and processor-readable media for multi-finger mid-air gesture recognition are described. A smart ring wearable device having an array of proximity sensors located about the circumference of the ring is used, in conjunction with a motion sensor such as an accelerometer, to sense and recognize multi-finger mid-air gestures. The proximity sensors may be used to sense the relative positions and shapes of the fingers of the user's hand. The motion sensor may be used to detect gross movements of the finger, hand, and arm, and to detect other movements such as finger collisions using high-frequency sampling of accelerometer data to sense bio-acoustic vibrations. A gesture-sensing system may be operated by the wearable device, a gesture-controlled device, or another device to recognize the gestures based on the sensor data using a trained support-vector machine as a classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huang Da-Yuan, Wei Li
  • Patent number: 11574960
    Abstract: An array substrate and an electronic device are disclosed. The array substrate includes a plurality of repeating regions, each repeating region includes a plurality of block groups, in each repeating region, the second base edge of the second color sub-pixel block and the third base edge of the third color sub-pixel block in the second block group are located on a first virtual line, the second base edge of the second color sub-pixel block and the third base edge of the third color sub-pixel block in the first second block group are located on a second virtual line, the first color sub-pixel block in the first block group and the first color sub-pixel block in the second block group are located between the first virtual line and the second virtual line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongli Wang, Lujiang Huangfu
  • Patent number: 11573631
    Abstract: The present invention provides improved methods and systems for assisting a user when interacting with a graphical user interface by combining gaze based input with gesture based user commands. The present invention provide systems, devices and method that enable a user of a computer system without a traditional touch-screen to interact with graphical user interfaces in a touch-screen like manner using a combination of gaze based input and gesture based user commands. Furthermore, the present invention offers a solution for touch-screen like interaction using gaze input and gesture based input as a complement or an alternative to touch-screen interactions with a computer device having a touch-screen, such as for instance in situations where interaction with the regular touch-screen is cumbersome or ergonomically challenging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Tobii AB
    Inventors: Markus Cederlund, Robert Gavelin, Anders Vennström, Anders Kaplan, Anders Olsson, Mårten Skogö
  • Patent number: 11562705
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a sensor substrate including a first area and a second area; a plurality of sensors at the first area and not at the second area; a display panel on the sensor substrate, the display panel including a first display area corresponding to the first area, and a second display area corresponding to the second area, the first display area including a pixel area and a non-pixel area; at least one subpixel at the pixel area and no subpixels at the non-pixel area; and a display panel driver to control a driving signal of the first display area and a driving signal of the second display area according to a ratio between the pixel area of the first display area and the non-pixel area of the first display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seongheon Cho
  • Patent number: 11561651
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for implementing a virtual paintbrush are provided. The method includes: acquiring a real shooting scene by a camera of a terminal device; forming, based on an operation performed on the terminal device, a handwriting area of the virtual paintbrush in the real shooting scene; and forming handwriting of the virtual paintbrush based on the handwriting area, where the handwriting is fused with the real shooting scene and a fused image is displayed on the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yi Chen