Patents Examined by Richard J Hong
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Patent number: 11662828Abstract: A method for identifying an object, an optical sensing apparatus and a system are provided. A controller of the system drives multiple light sources of the optical sensing apparatus to emit the multiple light beams with different beam angles, controls a light sensor to sense the lights reflected by the object, and performs the method for identifying the object. In the method, the light sensor is used to sense a first light emitted by a first light source with a first beam angle reflected by the object, and sense an intensity of the reflected first light. The light sensor is also used to sense a second light emitted by a second light source with a second beam angle reflected by the object and sense another intensity of the reflected second light. Therefore, the object can be identified by integrating information of the intensities obtained by the light sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.Inventors: Tien-Chung Yang, Chia-Kai Chen, En-Feng Hsu, Chen-Lung Liu
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Patent number: 11656832Abstract: Computer implemented methods involving mechanical configuration of a mechanically configurable display device, with the methods variously involving, more specifically: (i) providing instructions for an optimal mechanical configuration; (ii) determining what content objects (for example, text portions, graphic images) can be displayed on a given mechanical configuration; and/or (iii) determining which computer programs (for example, apps) are compatible with the various possible configurations of the display device.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tushar Agrawal, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Raghuveer Prasad Nagar
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Patent number: 11657745Abstract: A curved and flat combined display device includes a display panel having a flat area and a curved area, a compensation value generator configured to compare curved area data of an image data input from an external system with curved area data of imaged data generated by capturing the display panel, and generate compensation value data for the curved area of the display panel, based on the comparing result, and a controller configured to compensate for the curved area data of the image data input from the external system based on the compensation value data, and control the display panel to display the compensated curved area data of the image data.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Seungmin Baek, Seungsoo Choi, Sanghoon Park
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Patent number: 11645987Abstract: An apparatus includes a vibration member and a first cover disposed at a rear surface of the vibration member. The apparatus also includes a first vibration apparatus disposed at a rear surface of the first cover and configured to vibrate the vibration member. The apparatus includes a first enclosure member disposed at the rear surface of the first cover and at the rear surface of the vibration member. The apparatus also includes a first rear vibration member disposed at the first enclosure member.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: SeulKi Nam, Jeonggoo Kang, Taehyung Kim
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Patent number: 11644897Abstract: Described are various embodiments of a pupil tracking system and method, and digital display device and digital image rendering system and method using same. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for improving a perceptive experience of light field content projected via a light field display within a light field viewing zone comprises sequentially acquiring a user feature location, and comparing a velocity computed therefrom with a designated threshold velocity. Upon the velocity corresponding with a transition from a relatively dynamic to a relatively static state, a rendering geometry of the light field content is adjusted to project the light field content within an adjusted light field viewing zone in accordance with a newly acquired user feature location.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: EVOLUTION OPTIKS LIMITEDInventors: Khaled El-Monajjed, Guillaume Lussier, Faleh Mohammad Faleh Altal, Daniel Gotsch
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Patent number: 11636792Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program are described to determine a configuration of a reconfigurable screen of a user device, identify potentially problematic sources of reflection from a scene around a user device based, at least in part, on the determined configuration, and compensate for the potentially problematic sources of reflection.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Harry Cronin, Christopher Wright, Phil Catton, William Schnabel
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Patent number: 11636791Abstract: An electronic device comprises a display having a display area, a size of the display area visually exposed in a first state is reduced and a size of the display area visually exposed in a second state is enlarged, and a processor, the processor configured to acquire state information of the electronic device, successively display a first and a second preview images on the display, based on the state information of the electronic device, the first preview image includes a first area of a specified image and corresponds to a preview image of a background screen in the first state, the second preview image comprises a second area including the first area and a further area extending from the first area, and corresponds to a preview image of a background screen in the second state, and specify the image as a background screen, based on a first user input.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gyeongtae Park, Jooyoung Kang, Youngseong Kim, Yangsoo Choi, Sungmin Hong, Changryong Heo
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Patent number: 11635823Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an input device and corresponding method which digitizes and transforms minute hand movements and gestures into user interface commands without interfering with the normal use of one's hands. The device and method may, for example, determine user actions based on detected user action characteristics from a plurality of sensors, where the sensors are preferably of different types.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Port 6 OyInventors: Jamin Hu, Ville Klar, Eemil Visakorpi, Lauri Tuominen
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Patent number: 11619994Abstract: A system includes an electronic contact lens that can detect eye gestures for initiating various actions. The electronic contact lens includes integrated sensors for obtaining sensor measurements characterizing eye motion. The sensor measurements are processed to detect gestures mapped to specific actions such as changing a power state of the electronic contact lens, activating or deactivating a user interface or other feature, or selecting an item from a virtual menu. The eye gestures may involve the user sequentially stabilizing at a starting pitch, executing a first motion that crosses a first pitch threshold, executing a second motion that crosses a second pitch threshold in an opposite direction from the starting pitch, and stabilizing at an ending pitch.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Tectus CorporationInventors: Abhishek Deepak Bhat, Dominic Philip Haine, Ben Rafael Kimel Green, Ramin Mirjalili
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Patent number: 11610544Abstract: An electronic device capable of efficiently recognizing a handwritten character is provided. The electronic device includes a first circuit, a display portion, and a touch sensor. The first circuit includes a neural network. The display portion includes a flexible display. The touch sensor has the function of outputting an input handwritten character as image information to the first circuit. The first circuit has the function of analyzing the image information and converting the image information into character information, and a function of displaying an image including the character information on the display portion. The analysis is performed by inference through the use of the neural network.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shintaro Harada, Yoshiyuki Kurokawa, Takeshi Aoki, Yuki Okamoto, Hiroki Inoue, Koji Kusunoki, Yosuke Tsukamoto, Katsuki Yanagawa, Kei Takahashi, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11609652Abstract: A computing device configured for screen-to-screen (STS) communication, the computing device comprising an interface, memory and a processing module coupled to the memory and the interface. The processing module is configured to determine, for an interaction between a user computing device and an interactive computing device, an interaction type associated with the interaction and determine one or more data types for supporting the interaction. The processing module is further configured to determine available communication types for supporting the interaction and determine data type communication restrictions for the one or more data types, where a first data type is restricted to an STS communication via a transmission medium that includes one of a body as a network, a close proximity and a physical surface. The processing module is further configured to determine whether the available communication types allow for the interaction and when allowed, set up communications for executing the interaction.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: SigmaSense, LLC.Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Gerald Dale Morrison, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Timothy W. Markison
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Patent number: 11600238Abstract: A display device includes a light source, a light modulator, and a control apparatus, the light modulator includes a digital micromirror array including micromirrors and is arranged on a light path of light emitted by the light source and configured to modulate the light emitted by the light source based on a target image and luminance of the light source to obtain a grayscale image. The control apparatus is configured to control a driving current of the light source to adjust the luminance of the light source in different periods within a frame image, and to cause a driving current overdrive pulse of the light source during at least one of the periods, so that a display bit depth of the grayscale image increases from n to n+i and the periods correspond to bitplanes of the grayscale image in one-to-one correspondence, i?1 and i is an integer.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Chen Chen, Fei Hu, Xin Yu, Zuqiang Guo, Yi Li
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Image generation apparatus and image generation method using frequency lower than display frame rate
Patent number: 11592668Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for generating an image by way of acquiring information relating to at least one of a position and a rotation of a camera operated by a user. The image is generated for display on a display unit viewed by the user. A rate at which the image is generated is at a first frequency, which is lower than a second frequency corresponding to a frame rate of the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignees: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiro Oto, Simon Mark Benson, Ian Henry Bickerstaff -
Patent number: 11592938Abstract: A display device includes a display driving controller receiving input image data, a synchronization signal, and a voltage control signal, and generating image data based on the input image data and the synchronization signal, a display panel including pixels disposed on a display area and displaying an image on the display area based on the image data, and a touch sensor including sensing electrodes on a sensing area, and detecting a touch input generated in the sensing area by driving the sensing electrodes. The display driving controller generates a second level of the synchronization signal by changing a voltage level of the synchronization signal having a first level based on the voltage control signal, and provides the synchronization signal having the second level to the touch sensor. The touch sensor deactivates at least a partial area of the sensing area in response to the synchronization signal having the second level.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Soo Won Kim, Ye Rin Oh
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Patent number: 11586035Abstract: A laser projection device includes at least one first reflector element, which is linearly movable. A period of the at least one first reflector element corresponds to a period of time for reproducing a single. The laser projection device includes at least one second reflector element, which is movable in a sinusoidal manner, a semiperiod of a sine corresponding to one line. The at least one first reflector element and the at least one second reflector element are movable about two axes at least substantially perpendicular to each other. The laser projection device includes at least one control and/or regulating unit, which is configured to control and/or regulate the at least one first reflector element.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Alexander Ehlert
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Patent number: 11580886Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first partial panel region and a second partial panel region, and a panel driver which drives the display panel. The panel driver determines a first driving frequency for the first partial panel region and a second driving frequency for the second partial panel region. In a case where the first driving frequency and the second driving frequency are different from each other, the panel driver sets a boundary portion including a boundary between the first partial panel region and the second partial panel region, and determines a third driving frequency for the boundary portion to be between the first driving frequency and the second driving frequency.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sangan Kwon, Soon-Dong Kim, Taehoon Kim, Hui Nam, Eun Sil Yun, Changnoh Yoon
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Patent number: 11574571Abstract: A display panel includes a second display region and a first display region arranged side by side in a direction in which data signal lines extend, and a source driver provided in a picture-frame region close to the second display region. The display panel further includes a switching signal line disposed between the second display region and the first display region, and a plurality of switches provided at intersecting portions of the data signal lines and the switching signal line. Each of the plurality of switches is connected at a control terminal thereof to the switching signal line, connected at a first conductive terminal thereof to a data signal line disposed in the first display region, and connected at a second conductive terminal thereof to a data signal line disposed in the second display region.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki Nishio, Noriyuki Tanaka, Kazuo Nakamura, Hongbing Weng
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Patent number: 11562672Abstract: A liquid crystal projector includes a liquid crystal panel, a shift device and a display control circuit. The liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of panel pixels. The shift device shifts projection positions of the plurality of panel pixels. The display control circuit controls the liquid crystal panel to cause one of the panel pixels to represent k (k is an integer equal to or more than 3) display pixels that are in a non-adjacent relationship in k unit periods in a frame period, and the display control circuit controls the shift device to vary the projection position for each of the k unit periods.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki Hosaka
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Patent number: 11550469Abstract: Devices, methods and systems for controlling an electronic device using force-based gestures are described. Force data from one or more force sensors, representing a force input to the electronic device, is monitored to determine any force data exceeding a defined first magnitude threshold. In response to determining force data from at least one force sensor exceeding the first magnitude threshold, an edge location or a corner location of the force input is determined. The force input is processed as a force gesture in accordance with the determined edge location or the determined corner location. Haptic feedback is generated concurrently with processing the force gesture.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Da-Yuan Huang, Wei Li, Pourang Polad Irani
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Patent number: 11551594Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a module layer and a protective layer, a stiffness of the protective layer corresponding to a non-display area of the display panel is greater than a stiffness of the protective layer corresponding to a display area, and the display panel is further provided with a reinforcing layer in the non-display area at a same time. The present disclosure can effectively support the protective layer in the non-display area and prevent dents of the display panel by the reinforcing layer, thereby improving reliability and quality of the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hai Huang