Patents Examined by Ricardo Osorio
  • Patent number: 11061521
    Abstract: A system and method for capacitive sensing comprise acquiring first capacitive sensor data and second capacitive sensor data from a plurality of sensor electrodes, and determining positional information from one or more input objects based on the first capacitive sensor data and the second capacitive sensor data. The plurality of sensor electrodes are driven with transcapacitive sensing signals for capacitive sensing during one or more transcapacitive sensing blocks to acquire the first sensor data. Each of the transcapacitive sensing signals is based on a respective one of a plurality of codes. Further, the plurality of sensor electrodes are operated for absolute capacitive sensing during one or more absolute capacitive sensing blocks to acquire the second capacitive sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Nickolas V. Fotopoulos, Katayoun Goudarzi, Tracy Scott Dattalo, Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Jonathan Losh, Renuka Vidyut Shenoy, Derek Solven
  • Patent number: 11042192
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the disclosure, an electronic device, comprising, a housing, a flexible display slidably coupled to the housing, and at least one processor configured to control the flexible display to display an execution screen of a first application on a first region of the flexible display which is exposed to an outside based on a first mode, detect a pull-out of the flexible display from the housing, and in response to detecting the pull-out of the flexible display, control the flexible display to display the execution screen of the first application on at least a portion of the first region, and control the flexible display to display an execution screen of a second application different from the first application on at least another portion of the first region and a second region of the flexible display which is exposed to the outside by the pull-out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngin Choi, Jungchul An, Sungho Lee, Hanchul Jung, Jungyeob Oh, Bonghak Choi, Donghyun Yeom, Minwoo Yoo
  • Patent number: 11042244
    Abstract: An information processing including a display; a first sensor configured to detect a first object that comes into contact with or approaches the display based on a change in a magnetic field; and a second sensor configured to detect a second object that comes into contact with or approaches the display based on a change in capacitance or resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji Ide
  • Patent number: 11043183
    Abstract: Certain IHSs (Information Handling Systems) may utilize displays that are foldable. Foldable displays may utilize OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display technology, which is particularly susceptible to screen burn-in. Embodiments implement procedures for mitigation of screen burn-in of a foldable display. When folded, a foldable display is logically divided into screen portions based on the locations of the folds. Embodiments mitigate screen burn-in separately in each these screen portions that are created by folding the display. A gap may be displayed along the length of the folds of a folded display, thus separating the different screen portions. Embodiments may implement procedures for mitigating screen burn-in from displaying such a gap. Embodiments may also determine screen portions of a folded display that are actively in use and may implement procedures for mitigating screen burn-in in inactive portions of the folded display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Vivek Viswanathan Iyer, Philip M. Seibert
  • Patent number: 11004400
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a gray group data generator configured to receive current line data for pixels in a current row, and to generate current row gray group data based on the current line data, a horizontal crosstalk determiner configured to determine whether horizontal crosstalk occurs in the current row, a horizontal crosstalk compensator configured to compare the current row gray group data with adjacent row gray group data when the horizontal crosstalk is determined to occur in the current row, and to selectively adjust a plurality of gamma reference voltages according to a result of the comparison between the current row gray group data and the adjacent row gray group data, and a data driver configured to generate and provide data voltages corresponding to the current line data based on the selectively adjusted plurality of gamma reference voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changnoh Yoon, Soon-Dong Kim, Jin-Wook Yang
  • Patent number: 10996755
    Abstract: A device comprising: a device housing defining a space for accommodating one or more electronic components, the device housing comprising: a first panel bounding the space and having an exterior surface facing away from the space, and a second panel bounding the space and including a touch-sensitive display having a display surface facing away from the space, the display surface and the exterior surface being opposite surfaces; a haptic feedback module supported by and conforming to at least a portion of the exterior surface, the haptic feedback module comprising a haptic response layer, the haptic response layer comprising a piezoelectric material and electrodes and configured to couple vibrations to a user body member in contact with the haptic feedback module to provide a haptic response to the user during operation of the device; and an electronic control module accommodated in the space and coupled to the electrodes of the haptic response layer, the electronic control module being programmed to receiv
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Diego Rivas Constante
  • Patent number: 10990205
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a display area and a non-display, an input sensing unit overlapping the display panel, a cover window overlapping the input sensing unit, a first electrode overlapping the non-display area and disposed between the cover window and the input sensing unit, a second electrode disposed between the cover window and the first electrode, a pressure-sensitive member disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a first spacer and a second spacer both disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. A first minimum thickness of the pressure-sensitive member corresponds to the first spacer. A second minimum thickness of the pressure-sensitive member corresponds to the second spacer and is unequal to the first minimum thickness of the pressure-sensitive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Inventor: Choon Hyop Lee
  • Patent number: 10969592
    Abstract: Eye-tracked head-mounted displays are provide which, in one aspect, may utilize the same optics for eyetracking and image viewing, with a selected portion of the optics used for an eyetracking optical path and a selected portion of the display optics used for an image viewing optical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, AUGMENTED VISION, INC.
    Inventors: Hong Hua, Chunyu Gao
  • Patent number: 10950685
    Abstract: A tiled electronic device includes a first electronic device and a second electronic device adjacent to each other. The first electronic device includes a first substrate having a first upper surface, a first lower surface, and a first side surface; and a first flexible substrate including a first upper portion, a first lower portion, and a first connection portion. The first upper portion is disposed corresponding to the first upper surface. The first lower portion is disposed corresponding to the first lower surface. The first connection portion is disposed corresponding to the first side surface. The second electronic device includes a second substrate having a second upper surface, a second lower surface, and a second side surface. The second side surface is opposite and adjacent to the first side surface. The first connection portion is located between the first side surface and the second side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chien-Chih Chen, Shan-Hung Tsai, Chin-Der Chen, Cheng-Fu Wen, Chin-Lung Ting
  • Patent number: 10935795
    Abstract: Eye-tracked head-mounted displays are provide which, in one aspect, may utilize the same optics for eyetracking and image viewing, with a selected portion of the optics used for an eyetracking optical path and a selected portion of the display optics used for an image viewing optical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, AUGMENTED VISION, INC.
    Inventors: Hong Hua, Chunyu Gao
  • Patent number: 10915213
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes: a plurality of first sensor electrode columns disposed in a sensing area, the plurality of first sensor electrode columns each including one or more first sensor electrodes; a plurality of second sensor electrode columns alternately disposed with the first sensor electrode columns in the sensing area, the plurality of second sensor electrode columns each including a plurality of second sensor electrodes having a length defined by a longitudinal axis and a width extending in a direction across the length; and a plurality of lines connected to the first sensor electrode columns and the second sensor electrode columns. An outline length of at least some of the second sensor electrodes facing the first sensor electrodes varies along the longitudinal axis of its respective second sensor electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gwang Bum Ko, Hyun Jae Na, Hyoung Wook Jang, Ye Ri Jeong, Jeong Yun Han
  • Patent number: 10915180
    Abstract: Systems are presented herein, which may be implemented in a wearable device. The system is designed to allow a user to edit media images captured with the wearable device. The system employs eye tracking data to control various editing functions, whether prior to the time of capture, during the time of capture, or after the time of capture. Also presented are methods for determining which sections or regions of media images may be of greater interest to a user or viewer. The method employs eye tracking data to assign saliency to captured media. In both the system and the method, eye tracking data may be combined with data from additional sensors in order to enhance operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Lewis James Marggraff, Eliot Francis Drake
  • Patent number: 10908929
    Abstract: Various implementations related to human versus bot detection using gesture fingerprinting are described. In one such implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving an input associated with an application presented on a display device, capturing sensor data associated with the input, detecting a variance in the sensor data, comparing the variance with variance criteria, determining whether the input is provided by a human user or mimicked by a programmed device based on the comparison of the variance with the variance criteria, and storing the determination as analytics data in association with the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Famous Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark H. Lu, Steven E. Newcomb
  • Patent number: 10902800
    Abstract: Controlling privacy on a display includes a light-emitting diode (LED) pixel rotatably coupled to a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) and a controller to control the MEMS, the MEMS to rotate the LED pixel in response to a command issued by the controller to modify a viewing angle of the LED pixel such that the privacy on the display for that LED pixel is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kuan-Ting Wu, Wei-Chung Chen, Xuan-Fang Shi
  • Patent number: 10901519
    Abstract: Methods and systems for processing input from an image-capture device for gesture-recognition. The method further includes computationally interpreting user gestures in accordance with a first mode of operation; analyzing the path of movement of an object to determine an intent of a user to change modes of operation; and, upon determining an intent of the user to change modes of operation, subsequently interpreting user gestures in accordance with the second mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventor: David S. Holz
  • Patent number: 10896641
    Abstract: In one embodiment, there is a method for compensating for distortion on a display of an electronic device. The method comprises reading from a first memory first information for performing first compensation of pixel data, acquiring second information for performing second compensation of the pixel data, providing the second information to the display, and generating third information based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suyeon Kim, Youngman Lee, Seungjae Lee, Namhyeon Jeon, Kwangtai Kim, Hyungsup Byeon
  • Patent number: 10884490
    Abstract: A method includes presenting an image in a head-mounted display (HMD) controlled by a user. The image is rendered with a transfer function that defines one or more presentation characteristics of voxels in the image. Eye sensors in the HMD are used to determine a region of interest being viewed by the user for longer than a predetermined amount of time. The region of interest comprises a subset of voxels included in the image. The transfer function is automatically adjusted to modify one or more of the presentation characteristics of at least the subset of voxels in response to the region of interest. The presentation of the image in the HMD is modified to present the subset of voxels with modified presentation characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Sandra Sudarsky
  • Patent number: 10877780
    Abstract: Various implementations related to visibility detection using gesture fingerprinting are described. In one such implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving an input triggering a visible application to be presented on a display device, capturing visibility data associated with the visible application and the input, determining a visibility of the visible application by comparing the visibility data with visibility criteria, and storing the determined visibility of the visible application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: FAMOUS INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Mark H. Lu, Steven E. Newcomb
  • Patent number: 10877611
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes a plurality of drive electrodes that face a plurality of pixel electrodes in an orthogonal direction to the surface of the substrate, and extend in a direction parallel to the direction in which a plurality of signal lines extend. The display device with a touch detection function also includes a scan driving unit that applies a touch drive signal to a signal line that faces, in an overlapping manner in the orthogonal direction, a drive electrode to which the touch drive signal is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshitoshi Kida, Koji Noguchi, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kohei Azumi
  • Patent number: 10852769
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for display management for a multi-form factor Information Handing System (IHS) are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: identify a posture of a first display relative to a second display, where the second display is coupled to the first display via a hinge; and based on the identification, produce a work area on an external display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Yagiz Can Yildiz, Rex W. Bryan, Philip M. Seibert