Patents Examined by Richard J Hong
  • Patent number: 11766967
    Abstract: A display apparatus used for a vehicle is provided. The display apparatus may include a display unit configured to show an external environment around the vehicle and having flexibility, and a housing configured to support the display unit, in which the display unit is folded when the display apparatus is not used, the display unit is unfolded when the display apparatus is used, and an operation of the display unit is performed by a drive unit embedded in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Han-Jun Kim, Un-Tae Kim
  • Patent number: 11756274
    Abstract: A method for managing power resource in an augmented reality (AR) device is described. In one aspect, the method includes configuring a low-power mode to run on a low-power processor of the AR device using a first set of sensor data, and a high-power mode to run on a high-power processor of the AR device using a second set of sensor data, operating, using the low-power processor, a low-power application in the low-power mode based on the first set of sensor data, detecting a request to operate a high-power application at the AR device, in response to detecting the request, activating the second set of sensors of the AR device corresponding to the high-power mode, and operating, using the high-power processor, a high-power application in the high-power mode based on the second set of sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Alex Feinman, Daniel Harris, Tejas Bahulkar, Dunxu Hu
  • Patent number: 11749153
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display screen including a display screen body and a display screen edge part, at least one edge of the display screen being bent toward a back side of the display screen to form the display screen body and the display screen edge part; a first light sensor arranged on a back side of the display screen body and configured to detect a brightness of ambient light of a front side of the display screen body; a light source arranged on a front side of the display screen edge part and configured to emit light according to a preset brightness; and a second light sensor arranged on a back side of the display screen edge part and configured to detect a brightness of the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhongbo Wang
  • Patent number: 11743598
    Abstract: A clipping mitigation circuitry includes a light valve configured to reduce an amount of light captured by a camera and a controller configured to receive sensor feedback indicative of a light levels of an image captured by the camera, identify potential clipping in the image based on the light levels, and adjust the light valve based on the potential clipping to reduce the amount of light captured by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NBCUNIVERSAL MEDIA, LLC
    Inventor: Arley Christopher Seeger
  • Patent number: 11740689
    Abstract: An electronic device may include an ambient light sensor that measures ambient light color, a projector that projects ambient-light-matching illumination onto a surface, a user input device such as a microphone that gathers user input, and a position sensor that measures a position of the surface, a user, and/or a real-world object relative to the device. The ambient-light-matching illumination may create illuminated regions on the surface that blend in with the surrounding ambient light. Certain pixels in the projector may be turned off to create one or more unilluminated regions within the illuminated regions. The unilluminated regions may form apparent shadows. Control circuitry in the electronic device may adjust characteristics of the unilluminated regions by dynamically adjusting which pixels are turned off based on voice input, gesture input, and/or other sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J Verplaetse, Clark D Della Silva
  • Patent number: 11725680
    Abstract: An adjusting mechanism of a box and a light emitting diode (LED) box assembly are provided. The adjusting mechanism of a box includes: a first adjusting structure which includes a first base, a rotating member, an adjusting lock hook movably arranged on the rotating member and a driving member arranged in the rotating member and driving the adjusting lock hook to move, where the rotating member can drive the adjusting lock hook to rotate when rotating such that the adjusting lock hook has a locking position and an unlocking position; and a second adjusting structure which includes a second base and an adjusting rod, where the adjusting lock hook is in the locking position when the adjusting lock hook cooperates with the adjusting rod, and the adjusting lock hook is in the unlocking position when the adjusting lock hook is separated from the adjusting rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: LEYARD OPTOELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guoliang An, Zhiyong Liu
  • Patent number: 11726654
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a memory and circuitry. The memory that stores one or more display components. The circuitry receives an input of hand drafted input data. The circuitry displays at least one display component of the one or more display components, the at least one display component corresponding to a shape of the hand drafted input data whose input is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Koshiro Hori
  • Patent number: 11710433
    Abstract: A display apparatus is disclosed that includes a display panel and a controller. The display panel includes a first edge extending in a first direction, a second edge extending in a second direction that intersects the first direction, and a display area where an image is displayed. The controller is configured to obtain information to bend the display panel and, in response, to bend the display panel to a bent display panel. In the bent display panel, the first edge has a first display-panel curvature and the second edge has a second display-panel curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byeonghee Won, Jungtae Park, Youngseok Seo
  • Patent number: 11705748
    Abstract: A wearable medical screening device using electrical impedance tomogram and associated operation method. The wearable medical screening device includes electrodes, signal generator, and signal processor. The electrodes are arranged to be arranged on a body part of a wearer. The signal generator is arranged to provide a signal to at least one of the electrodes for transmission of a respective excitation signal to the body part of the wearer. The signal processor is arranged to process respective response signal received by at least one of the remaining electrodes as a result of the respective excitation signal, for determination of an electrical impedance tomogram for real-time preliminary medical screening of a disease associated with body part on which the wearable medical screening device is worn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventor: Russell Wade Chan
  • Patent number: 11705030
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems provide for technology to identify a communication that is to be presented to a user. The technology controls a first plurality of actuators to press a first portion of a light emitting element (LEE) layer against a deformable layer to deform the deformable layer into a shape that represents the communication to be presented to the user, and controls the LEE layer to emit light from the first portion of the LEE layer that is pressed against the deformable layer to illuminate the shape of the deformable layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Frankie B. Reed, John C. Rafferty
  • Patent number: 11699370
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and an image processor. The display panel includes pixels, each pixel among the pixels including sub-pixels. The image processor is configured to process image data for image display via the display panel. An arrangement of sub-pixels of a pixel in an odd-numbered pixel column of the display panel is different from an arrangement of sub-pixels of a pixel in an even-numbered pixel column of the display panel. The image processor includes an edge determiner and a sub-pixel renderer. The edge determiner is configured to determine an edge from the image data. The sub-pixel renderer is configured to perform sub-pixel rendering on pixel data about sub-pixels configured to display a same color in adjacent pixels in the odd-numbered pixel column or the even-numbered pixel column located at the edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woo-Young Cheon, Soyoung Kwon, Jaeun Lee
  • Patent number: 11699372
    Abstract: An operating method of an electronic device is provided. The method includes measuring an external temperature of the electronic device by using at least one sensor. The method may calculate, from an entire region of a flexible display, a fixed region that is visually exposed to an outside regardless of a screen size of the electronic device, and a variable region that is visually exposed at least in part to the outside in a screen expansion or screen size change state of the electronic device. The method may compare the external temperature with a preset first threshold temperature, thereby determining heating of the variable region in response to the external temperature being less than the first threshold temperature. The method may heat the variable region by controlling at least one of a luminance or a driving frequency of the variable region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jookwan Lee, Youngmin Kang, Myunghoon Kwak, Youngrog Kim, Songyi Lee, Jihyung Jung, Hoyoung Jeong, Baekeun Cho, Hyunju Hong
  • Patent number: 11693233
    Abstract: A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) scanner having actuator pairs adjacent to sides of a scanning mirror. Actuator pairs include individual actuators that are physically located adjacent to opposite sides of the scanning mirror and that, upon activation, induce angular rotation into the scanning mirror. Torsional beam flexures suspend the scanning mirror from a frame structure and facilitate rotation of the scanning mirror about a rotational axis. During operation of the MEMS scanner, a drive signal may be applied to the actuator pair to cause each individual actuator, of the actuator pair, to deform in unison, thereby generating some degree of tip deflection. Since the torsional beam flexures are connected to the tips of the actuators via the lever arms, this tip deflection serves as actuator stroke that induces torsional deformation into the torsional beam flexure—thereby causing rotation of the scanning mirror about the rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Utku Baran
  • Patent number: 11681376
    Abstract: An interactive display includes a transparent display panel configured to simulate a windowpane. The interactive display also includes a motion-tracking device located behind the transparent display panel and configured to perform tracking of movement of a device directed at a front of the transparent display panel, wherein the device is configured to be manipulated by a user. The transparent display panel is configured to display feedback indicative of the tracked movement of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventors: Joli Madonna Hellmer, David Gerard Majdali
  • Patent number: 11675437
    Abstract: A system includes at least one wearable device having a housing, at least one sensor disposed within the housing, at least one output device disposed within the housing, and at least one processor operatively connected to the sensors and output devices, wherein one or more sensors are configured to detect electrical activity from a user's facial muscles and to transmit a data signal concerning the electrical activity of the user's facial muscles to one of more of the processors. A method of controlling a wearable device includes determining facial muscular electrical data of a facial gesture made by a user, interpreting the facial muscular electrical data to determine a user response, and performing an action based on the user response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: BRAGI GMBH
    Inventors: Julius Friedrich Rüdiger, Peter Vincent Boesen
  • Patent number: 11675449
    Abstract: An input sensor includes: a first sensing electrode including first sensing patterns and a first pattern disposed between the first sensing patterns; a second sensing electrode disposed on the same layer as the first sensing patterns; and a floating pattern including a plurality of segments each overlapping the first pattern and insulated from the second sensing electrode, wherein at least one of the plurality of segments is surrounded by a portion overlapping the first pattern among the second sensing electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeri Jeong, Tae Yong Eom, Kicheol Kim, Youngbae Jung
  • Patent number: 11662828
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Tien-Chung Yang, Chia-Kai Chen, En-Feng Hsu, Chen-Lung Liu
  • Patent number: 11657745
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungmin Baek, Seungsoo Choi, Sanghoon Park
  • Patent number: 11656832
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tushar Agrawal, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Raghuveer Prasad Nagar
  • Patent number: 11645987
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SeulKi Nam, Jeonggoo Kang, Taehyung Kim