Patents Examined by Prabodh M. Dharia
  • Patent number: 11967003
    Abstract: Systems and methods relate generally to drawing are disclosed. In one such method, an object on a page of a digital document is identified by an artificial intelligence determinator. The object is analyzed by the artificial intelligence determinator to determine a color palette in association with the object. The color palette is presented as a user interface for selection therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Neil-Paul Payoyo Bermundo
  • Patent number: 11960667
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit including a plurality of emission areas, a plurality of touch electrodes that sense a touch, a plurality of code patterns formed in a preset code shape on partial areas of front surfaces of the plurality of touch electrodes, a plurality of tilt sensing patterns including a light absorbent disposed in an inner area or a peripheral area of each of the plurality of code patterns, and a main processor. The main processor receives detected image data corresponding to the plurality of tilt sensing patterns from a position input device, and determines arrangement direction information and tilt information of the position input device by comparing the detected image data with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Soon Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11960696
    Abstract: A display method. The method includes dividing at least one underlying graphics sub-resource corresponding to a parameter of a split-screen instruction in an underlying graphics resource; generating at least one virtual display screen based on the parameter corresponding to the split-screen instruction and attribute information of a default virtual display screen of an electronic device; and displaying content in the at least one underlying graphics sub-resource on a display screen of the electronic device based on the attribute information of the at least one virtual display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventor: Ke Wang
  • Patent number: 11960689
    Abstract: A touch-control display panel and a preparation method therefor, and a touch-control display apparatus. The touch-control display panel includes a substrate, a first metal layer provided on the substrate, an insulating layer provided at the side of the first metal layer away from the substrate, and a second metal layer provided at the side of the insulating layer away from the first metal layer, one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer comprises a plurality of connection bridges, and the other one comprises a first electrode, a second electrode and a through hole; at least one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer further comprises compensation electrodes surrounding the through hole; and the compensation electrodes comprise a first compensation electrode and a second compensation electrode, the surface of the first compensation electrode adjacent to the second compensation electrode is a first end face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cong Fan, Fan He, Kemeng Tong, Xiangdan Dong
  • Patent number: 11963414
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a display area on which an image is displayed, a substrate, and an electrode located over the substrate and disposed in the display area; and a camera photographing a front of the display panel without being exposed to the front surface of the display panel, being disposed under the display area of the display panel, and overlapping with a first area in the display area, wherein the electrode overlaps with the first area, and wherein the electrode comprises a semi-transmissive layer positioned over the substrate, an optical path compensation layer positioned on the semi-transmissive layer, and a metal layer positioned on the optical path compensation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoyoung Jeong, Harkjin Kim
  • Patent number: 11947741
    Abstract: Viewing orientation of a display of a mobile device is changed by automatically tagging a change in a dynamic parameter of the device as intended or unintended based on a following change in a dynamic parameter of the device, the following change occurring within a predefined time period. The tagged change is used to train a detector to determine when a change in a dynamic parameter of the device implies a user intended change of viewing orientation. The trained detector is used to provide a determination of intention and a change of viewing orientation of the display is affected based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventor: David Ungarish
  • Patent number: 11947762
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a base substrate and a touch function layer disposed on the base substrate. The touch function layer includes first and second touch units. Each first touch unit includes first touch electrodes, and each second touch unit includes second touch electrodes. The first touch electrodes and the second touch electrodes are insulated from each other. The base substrate has at least two mounting holes and has a gap region at a position corresponding to a region between two adjacent mounting holes. In a first touch unit passing through the gap region, first touch electrodes located in the gap region serve as a first gap electrode and a second gap electrode. In a second touch unit passing through the gap region, second touch electrodes located in the gap region serve as a third gap electrode located between the first and second gap electrodes and a fourth gap electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lingran Wang, Jun Yan, Wenhui Gao, Gukhwan Song
  • Patent number: 11948534
    Abstract: A display system modifies display cycles of one or more displays to perform a system operation while avoiding visual perturbations at the one or more displays. The display system modifies, synchronizes, or both, blanking periods of the one or more displays such that blanking periods equal or exceed a blackout duration and overlap for at least the blackout duration. Then the system performs the system operation during an overlapping portion of the one or more blanking periods, where the system operation reduces availability of display data at the one or more displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Jun Lei, Syed Athar Hussain, David I. J. Glen, Rajeevan Panchacharamoorthy, Fatemeh Amirnavaei, David Galiffi, Arshad Rahman, Boris Ivanovic
  • Patent number: 11941499
    Abstract: Examples of methods for training using rendered images are described herein. In some examples, a method may include, for a set of iterations, randomly positioning a three-dimensional (3D) object model in a virtual space with random textures. In some examples, the method may include, for the set of iterations, rendering a two-dimensional (2D) image of the 3D object model in the virtual space and a corresponding annotation image. In some examples, the method may include training a machine learning model using the rendered 2D images and corresponding annotation images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Qian Lin, Augusto Cavalcante Valente, Deangeli Gomes Neves, Guilherme Augusto Silva Megeto
  • Patent number: 11941893
    Abstract: A virtual traffic line generation apparatus and a method thereof are provided. The virtual traffic line generation apparatus includes a controller that determines reliability of a traffic line detected for each frame and generates a virtual traffic line based on a traffic line with the highest reliability among traffic lines detected in a previous frame when the traffic line is not detected and a storage storing the reliability of the traffic line for each frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Gi Won Park
  • Patent number: 11942056
    Abstract: A display device includes a lighting device, a display panel, a memory, and a correction circuit. The lighting device includes a light exit area defined into light exit sections corresponding to light sources. The display panel includes a display area disposed opposite the light exit area and including pixels. The memory stores data of pixel matrix linked to the display sections. The memory stores position data of the pixels that are not disposed opposite the corresponding light exit sections and deviation data when a position error is caused between the light exit area and the display area. The correction circuit is configured to determine whether the memory stores the position data of the pixels and link new pixel matrix units to the corresponding display sections based on the deviation data if a determination result is affirmative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Tomokawa, Yasutomo Nishihara, Yohji Inui, Kohichi Ohhara, Katsutoshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11929388
    Abstract: A display may be formed by an array of light-emitting diodes mounted to the surface of a display substrate. The light-emitting diodes may be inorganic light-emitting diodes formed from separate crystalline semiconductor structures. An array of pixel control circuits may be used to control light emission from the light-emitting diodes. Each pixel control circuit may be configured to control one or more respective passive matrices. To control partial pixel cells in the display, a donor pixel control circuit in a partial pixel cell may control the pixels in a receptor partial pixel cell without a pixel control circuit. To mitigate the size of an inactive area of the display, fanout signal lines for the display may be formed in the light-emitting active area of the display. The fanout signal lines may be formed between a row of pixel control circuits and a bottom edge of the light-emitting active area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sandeep Chalasani, Steven E Molesa, Anatole Huang, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Xia Li, Yongjie Jiang, Mittul Gupta, Stanley B Wang
  • Patent number: 11922872
    Abstract: In a pixel, a display device including a pixel, and a method of driving the display device, the pixel includes a first transistor connected to a first power source, a fourth node and a first node, a second transistor connected to a third node, a data line and an i-th first scan line, a third transistor connected to the first node, the fourth node, and an i-th third scan line, a fourth transistor connected to the second node, an initialization voltage, and an i-th second scan line, a first capacitor connected between the third node and the first node, a second capacitor connected between the first node and the second node, and an organic light emitting diode connected between the second node and a second power source, wherein I is a natural number and the third transistor is an N-type transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Il Hun Jeong
  • Patent number: 11922900
    Abstract: A method for managing a display of an information handling system includes: monitoring, by a display controller, a usage period of the display indicating a period of time in which the display is in an illuminated state; determining, by the display controller, that the usage period is greater than a threshold usage period; causing, by the display controller, a brightness level of the display to decrease; sending, by the display controller, a signal to a graphics processing unit; receiving, by the graphics processing unit, the signal; determining, by the graphics processing unit, a contrast level associated with one or more images presented to a user; determining, by the graphics processing unit, a gamma level associated with the one or more images; and processing, by the graphics processing unit, the one or more images based on the contrast level and the gamma level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Deeder Aurongzeb, Mandy Christina Phelps, Malathi R
  • Patent number: 11914827
    Abstract: A touch sensor and a display apparatus are disclosed. The touch sensor includes a first opening region, a second opening region, first touch electrodes and second touch electrodes. at least one of the plurality of first touch electrodes includes a first transition touch electrode; each of a first group of second touch electrodes in the plurality of second touch electrodes further includes a second transition touch electrode the first transition touch sub-electrode at least partially surrounds the first opening region, and the second transition touch sub-electrode at least partially surrounds the second opening region; and at least part of the second transition touch electrode is positioned between the first transition touch sub-electrode and the second transition touch sub-electrode, and extends along the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenxiao Niu, Guiyu Zhang, Shiheng Mu, Hongqiang Luo, Xiaolong Zhu
  • Patent number: 11907451
    Abstract: The present application provides a touch electrode structure and a touch display panel, wherein the first touch electrodes include a plurality of main electrodes connected end to end along a first direction and continuously conducted and branch electrodes connected to the main electrodes, each of the branch electrodes includes a first branch portion and a second branch portion which are arranged crosswise; and a plurality of second touch electrodes, such that the RC delay of the first touch electrodes is effectively reduced, the time required for screen scanning is reduced, and the touch report rate is thereby effectively increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: Jian Ye
  • Patent number: 11907486
    Abstract: A touch structure, a touch display panel and an electronic device are provided. The touch structure includes a first metal mesh layer and a second metal mesh layer, the first metal mesh layer includes a first touch electrode and second touch sub-electrodes, the second metal mesh layer includes second connection electrodes spaced apart from each other, and each of the second connection electrodes is electrically connected with an adjacent second touch sub-electrode through via holes in the insulation layer. At least two first metal meshes of the second touch sub-electrodes include multiple vertices overlapping with at least two second metal meshes of the second connection electrodes, the multiple vertices include connection vertices, and the via holes are respectively disposed at the connection vertices; at most one of vertices adjacent to each connection vertex is a connection vertex. The touch structure can effectively reduce capacitance load on the touch electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kemeng Tong, Fan He, Cong Fan, Junxi Wang
  • Patent number: 11908363
    Abstract: A device and method for intuitively optimizing the size of a displayed visual content on a rollable display device, wherein either the visual content is optimally scaled to current dimensions of a front screen, or a touch-sensitive display is rolled to a required extent that optimally displays a best possible aspect ratio for the visual content after obtaining a permission using an input gesture, such as a multi-touch “spread” or “pinch” gesture. The touch-sensitive display can further be rolled manually between a rolled-in and rolled-out state using “shake-to-roll” movement gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Li, Jue Li
  • Patent number: 11908061
    Abstract: Methodologies and architectures are provided for inter-thread sharing of data in a general purpose register (GPR) of a multiprocessor apparatus. The data sharing is performed by a graphics processing unit (GPU) having at least one processing cluster including a plurality of processing cores (PCs) configured for parallel operation. Each PC of a cluster is configured to utilize a dedicated portion of the GPR. The GPU further includes a shared memory for the cluster, and a memory read/write hub coupled to the GPR and shared memory, the hub including a crossbar switch. A PC executes a move data instruction, including operands referencing a destination portion of the GPR and a source portion assigned to the PC, to retrieve data from the source portion. The memory read/write hub writes the data, via the crossbar switch, to the destination portion of the GPR without first writing the data to the shared memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhou Hong, Yufei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11900840
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., client device or a server. The apparatus may receive, from a server, a plurality of data packets corresponding to data for each of a plurality of frames associated with at least one application. The apparatus may also convert the plurality of data packets to content associated with the data for each of the plurality of frames, the content including at least one of monochrome color content or a luminance component. Further, the apparatus may perform a color space conversion on the content associated with the data for each of the plurality of frames, the color space conversion adding at least one chrominance plane to the content. The apparatus may also display, upon performing the color space conversion, the content associated with the data for each of the plurality of frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Olk Idapalapati, Venkata Naga Poleswara Rao Karuchula