Patents Examined by Prabodh M. Dharia
  • Patent number: 11598967
    Abstract: A head-mounted display system includes a head-mounted display unit and a positioning and stabilising structure structured and arranged to hold the head-mounted display unit in an operational position over a user's face in use. The positioning and stabilising structure includes a rear support structure adapted to contact posterior regions of a user's head and a forehead support connector, which includes a forehead support strap, which extends generally along and in the direction of the sagittal plane and connects the rear support structure to a superior edge region of the head-mounted display unit. The forehead support connector further includes a forehead support rigidiser that provides rigidification to a portion of the forehead support connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: ResMed Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Ian Andrew Law
  • Patent number: 11587504
    Abstract: A driving method includes: generating and outputting a frame image signal to an organic light emitting device, wherein the frame image signal includes an active data region and a blank region based on a time sequence; in the active data region of the frame image signal, using a timing controller to write a data voltage into the gate of the thin film transistor, store it in a storage capacitor, and apply it to the organic light emitting device through the thin film transistor; and in response to reaching the blank region of the frame image signal as determined by the timing controller, changing the first voltage at the cathode of the organic light emitting device to compensate the operating current of the organic light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Everdisplay Optronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Xiangshu Li, JehYen Kang, Fei Shen, Keitaro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11586279
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a display, and a processor configured to identify a user from an image of an external environment of the display apparatus captured by a camera, identify, from the image, a separation distance of the user and a radian of a face of the user, wherein the separation distance of the user is a distance between a position of the user and a preset point, and display content corresponding to the user on the display based on the separation distance and the radian.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gihoon Park
  • Patent number: 11584227
    Abstract: A display device includes a light control film including a first alignment pattern. The display device further includes a display panel including a second alignment pattern. The first alignment pattern and the second alignment pattern are at least partially overlapped with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyang Yul Kim, Jae Hong Kim, Hyun Ho Jung, Hee Seong Jeong, Sun Hwa Kim, Hyo Min Kim
  • Patent number: 11580888
    Abstract: A stretchable display panel, a method for compensating a threshold voltage of a transistor in the stretchable display panel, and a computer readable storage medium. The stretchable display panel includes: a base substrate; a transistor on the base substrate, the transistor includes a gate electrode layer and an active layer that are at least partially stacked; and a voltage compensation layer, the voltage compensation layer is located between the transistor and the base substrate, wherein the voltage compensation layer is applied with a compensation voltage that depends on a stretching amount of the stretchable display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Libin Liu, Qian Yang
  • Patent number: 11574579
    Abstract: Display filters, including color filters, can be enabled in collaborative environments. When a user of an end user device desires to have a color filter applied, a windowing system or other source of graphics data can render a frame via a graphics driver. Once the frame is rendered, the graphics driver can enable a collaboration tool to capture the frame and share it via a collaboration solution. Separately from the rendering of the frame, the windowing system can leverage a color filter module to directly apply a color filter to the frame. Once the color filter is applied, the windowing system can cause the frame to be displayed locally. Because the graphics driver is not used to apply the color filter, the color filter will not be applied to any frame that the collaboration tool captures and shares.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Pawan Singh, Harish Agrawal, Anil Gurumurthy
  • Patent number: 11562684
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, the plurality of pixels respectively including a plurality of sub pixels. The plurality of sub pixels respectively includes a light emitting element, and a PWM pixel circuit configured to control a light emitting duration of the light emitting element, based on a pulse width modulation (PWM) data voltage and a sweep voltage. A plurality of PWM pixel circuits included in the display panel are driven, for each of row lines of the plurality of pixels, in an order of a data setting period for setting the PWM data voltage and then a light emitting period in which the light emitting element emits light during a duration corresponding to the set PWM data voltage according to a change of the sweep voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Shigeta, Jinho Kim, Sangyoung Park, Hoseop Lee
  • Patent number: 11561514
    Abstract: An electronic device including: a positioning module that performs positioning by receiving radio waves from navigation satellites; a movement distance detection sensor that detects movement distance; and a processor that activates the positioning module and, if positioning with the positioning module has not succeeded after a first prescribed period of time has elapsed, suspends the positioning module, wherein if the processor detects that the movement distance detected by the movement distance detection sensor starting from when the positioning module was suspended is greater than or equal to a prescribed distance, the processor reactivates the positioning module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuuki Oshita
  • Patent number: 11552132
    Abstract: A display device includes a base substrate having a main area, a sub-area, and a bending area. The main area includes pixels that each include a thin film transistor having a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode. The display device includes a first insulating layer, a first conductive layer and a second insulating layer. The bending area includes a bending organic layer in a bending open portion. A second conductive layer is disposed on the second insulating layer and includes a source connection electrode. An encapsulation layer covers a light emitting element disposed on the second conductive layer for each of the pixels. A touch layer and a color filter layer are disposed on the encapsulation layer. The color filter layer includes a plurality of first color patterns overlapping the source connection electrode in the bending area that are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeon Bum Lee, Beohm Rock Choi, Jun Hyuk Woo
  • Patent number: 11538376
    Abstract: An apparatus can manage a folding performed on a flexible device. The apparatus includes a foldable display, at least one sensor coupled to the foldable display, and a processor. The at least one sensor includes at least two sensing elements each of the at least two sensing elements is arranged asymmetrically with respect to each other along the foldable display. The processor is configured to determine at least one of a location and an angle of folding of the foldable display based on sensed values detected from the at least two sensing elements. The processor is also configured to render content on the foldable display based on the location and the angle of the folding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gaurav Gupta, Arindam Mondal
  • Patent number: 11537288
    Abstract: A display device, method, computer-readable storage medium and user interface, each of which detects contact to or proximity of an object with respect to a generated image, and responsive to detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, disables any operational functions associated with a first portion of the generated image. Additionally, operation associated with a second portion of the generated image is allowed responsive to the detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, where the second portion of the generated image is different from the first portion of the generated image. An indication corresponding to the second portion of the generated image for which operation is enabled may be displayed on the generated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Hazime Matsuda, Shoji Imamura, Katsuji Miyazawa, Motoki Higashide, Kunihito Sawai
  • Patent number: 11531405
    Abstract: The patent relates to securely storing an input device relative to a computing device. One example can include a housing and a trough defined in the housing and configured to receive at least a portion of an input device. This example can also include a pair of opposing levers that are contained in the trough when the trough is empty and that pivot proud out of the trough around and against the input device installed in the trough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Michael Thome, Aseem Singla, Robyn Rebecca Reed McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 11531203
    Abstract: A near-to-eye display apparatus includes a plurality of pixel island groups. Each pixel island group includes a plurality of pixel islands. Each pixel island corresponds to a micro lens. By adjusting a position of the micro lens relative to the corresponding pixel island in the pixel island group, on a plane where the micro lenses are located, or a position, of the pixel island in the pixel island group relative to the corresponding micro lens, on a plane where the pixel islands are located, imaging points in the imaging regions formed by at least part of different pixel islands in the pixel island groups do not overlap with each other and are arranged alternately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Meng Yan, Wei Wang, Qiuyu Ling, Xiaochuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11532678
    Abstract: A touch display device is provided, which includes an organic light-emitting diode display panel, the organic light-emitting diode display panel includes support pillars and a cathode, a part of the cathode is formed on the support pillars; a touch layer includes an insulation layer and a first conductive layer, the insulation layer is provided with protrusions, a part of the first conductive layer is positioned on a side of the protrusions away from the cathode, and orthographic projections of the protrusions on the touch display device at least partially coincide with orthographic projections of the support pillars on the touch display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jian Ye
  • Patent number: 11531200
    Abstract: A logic circuit that can output a stream of sequential values, representing pixel position values, for a pixelated display device such as a spatial light modulator. The logic circuit may comprise an advanced integrated circuit such as a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) or an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The stream of sequential values that is output by the logic circuit can be used by another logic circuit to calculate corresponding values of a software function, for populating those pixels of the pixelated display device. The software function can be, for example, a lens function or a grating function, which might be combined with a hologram, such as a computer-generated hologram (CGH), for display on the pixelated display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: DUALITAS LTD
    Inventor: Stig Mikael Collin
  • Patent number: 11526044
    Abstract: Systems and methods for modifying display unit operations based on orientation are provided. A controller receives orientation data from an orientation detection device and commands operations of a thermal management system based, at least in part, on the received orientation data. A solar angle relative to the electronic display may be determined based on a location, a date, a time, and the orientation data. Cooling may be modified based on solar angle relative to the electronic display. The orientation data may be used to check installation, determine damage, or position of display unit components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventor: William Dunn
  • Patent number: 11526325
    Abstract: A gateway that projects user device application content (e.g., streaming video) to a connected resource is described. The user device may be an electronic device such as a smart phone, tablet, wearable device, etc. The connected resource may be a device such as a vehicle head unit. Application content may be associated with any applications that may be executed by the user device, such as media streaming services, games, etc. User inputs received at the connected resource may be applied at the user device via the gateway by translating the received user input data, as appropriate, and emulating the received inputs at the user device. Applications may be recognized by the gateway such that application content may be filtered or otherwise processed or managed, as appropriate. Machine learning may be used to train models associated with application or content recognition, rules associated with operating restrictions, and/or other such elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Abalta Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Pavel Stankoulov
  • Patent number: 11515512
    Abstract: A portable information handling system integrates a display film having OLED pixels to a housing with a graphene foam having graphene particles disposed in an intermediary material with varied orientations that promote thermal transfer from the display film. For example, graphene particles disposed in a silicon resin to form the foam couples between a portable housing and a display film to transfer thermal energy to the portable housing from the display film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Deeder M. Aurongzeb, Jong Seo Lee, Travis C. North
  • Patent number: 11516536
    Abstract: A display apparatus capable of correcting an image quality change caused by long-term use is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display panel; a communicator configured to communicate with a service apparatus; and a controller configured to control the communicator to transmit operation information including a total operating time of the display apparatus and an operating temperature of the display apparatus, to the service apparatus; receive an image parameter from the service apparatus through the communicator, and based on the received image parameter data; process image data; and transmit the processed image to the display panel. The image parameter may include at least one of a brightness level, a contrast, a sharpness level, and a color density of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Sung Park, Byung Seok Min, Jong Wook Park
  • Patent number: 11507180
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein for a media guidance application that allows users to associate input schemes with physical objects in an augmented reality environment. Specifically, the media guidance application may recognize physical objects in an augmented reality environment and allow users to identify input schemes to associate with the physical objects, wherein the input schemes are ways in which users may control presentation of media content by interacting with the physical objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Edison Lin