Patents Examined by Robert J Michaud
  • Patent number: 12271569
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch panel, an operation section that receives an operation, an NW communicator that communicates with a server device, a storage storing firmware, and a controller. After update information providing a notification of an update to the firmware has been received from the server device, the controller causes an update guidance icon providing a notification of a firmware update to be displayed on a home screen when the home screen is displayed on the touch panel. The home screen is displayed if the time period during which no operation is received by the operation section is greater than a predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kikuo Ueno
  • Patent number: 12271547
    Abstract: A display device with a touch panel includes a touch panel including a pixel electrode, and a control unit executing a write process of writing a data signal on the pixel electrode and a touch detection process by the touch panel. The control unit determines an executable number of times of the touch detection process based on the length of the pause period, alternately executes the touch detection process and the write process in the display period, and executes the touch detection process a number of times equal to or less than the determined executable number of times in the pause period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Daiji Kitagawa, Jin Miyazawa, Yousuke Nakamura, Daisuke Suehiro
  • Patent number: 12266290
    Abstract: A system and method for control of user interfaces on electronic devices. The system and method display still and/or video images, in an orientation-agnostic manner that is independent of a physical orientation of the display screen. This provides an interesting visual display effect whereby the image appears to remain in a fixed orientation (e.g., upright) relative to three-dimensional space, (e.g., earth level), untethered to any position or orientation of the display screen and/or device, while the display screen and/or device is changed in position and/or orientation, such that the portion of the viewed image changes according to the dimensions and orientation of the screen relative to an apparent fixed orientation and/or position of the underlying image. Such a system and method for control of user interfaces provides for more efficient use of a display screen having a relatively limited size, as is common for smartphones and tablet computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: OVERPLAY GAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel Projansky
  • Patent number: 12260012
    Abstract: One or more example embodiments of the present invention describes a method for monitoring a person in an environment, including integrating the person into the environment, wherein the person has a task to solve in the environment, measuring with a sensor system a number of physical conditions of the person while the person interacts with the environment, the sensor system providing a sensor-dataset including measured physical values about the person from which mental conditions of the person can be inferred, generating assessment-data from the sensor-dataset, the assessment-data reflecting at least one of an ability of the person to accomplish the task or the mental load of the person while solving the task, repeating the measuring and the generating a plurality of times and outputting the generated assessment-data or data based on the generated assessment-data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG
    Inventors: Anton Ebert, Mathias Kraemer
  • Patent number: 12254839
    Abstract: A pixel of a light-emitting display device includes a capacitor, a first transistor, a second transistor including a gate receiving a gate writing signal, a third transistor including a gate receiving a scan signal, a fourth transistor including a gate receiving a gate initialization signal, a fifth transistor including a gate receiving a first emission signal, a sixth transistor including a gate receiving a second emission signal, and a light-emitting diode. The scan signal and the gate writing signal may be provided at a first frequency, and the first emission signal, the second emission signal and the gate initialization signal may be provided at a second frequency higher than the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Joon Kim, Jun Ki Jeong
  • Patent number: 12254141
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to a user interaction system having a head unit for a user to wear and a totem that the user holds in their hand and determines the location of a virtual object that is seen by the user. A fusion routine generates a fused location of the totem in a world frame based on a combination of an EM wave and a totem IMU data. The fused pose may drift over time due to the sensor's model mismatch. An unfused pose determination modeler routinely establishes an unfused pose of the totem relative to the world frame. A drift is declared when a difference between the fused pose and the unfused pose is more than a predetermined maximum distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Sheng Wan
  • Patent number: 12249267
    Abstract: A method for controlling a display apparatus, including calculating at least one of a complexity or an average picture level (APL) of the received image signal, determining a final shift time of pixels based on the at least one of the calculated complexity or APL of the image signal, and shifting the received image signal in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction and outputting the shifted image signal, based on track coordinate information stored in a memory and the determined final shift time of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeon Woon Shin, Jin Han Yoon, Ho Min Lim
  • Patent number: 12242689
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The touch display substrate includes a base substrate and a touch layer, the touch layer includes a plurality of touch units, the plurality of touch units includes a plurality of first touch units with complete touch patterns and a plurality of second touch units with incomplete touch patterns, at least a part of the plurality of second touch units is arranged in an outer edge region of the touch layer, a ratio of an area of the touch pattern of the second touch unit to an area of the touch pattern of the first touch unit is greater than 0 and less than or equal to a first threshold, and/or greater than or equal to a second threshold and less than 100%, and the first threshold is less than the second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Shun Zhang, Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: 12235456
    Abstract: A lens system for a head-mounted display includes a first lens, a second lens, a first waveplate, a partial reflector, and a second waveplate. The partial reflector is between the first lens and the second lens. The first waveplate is between the first lens and the partial reflector. The second waveplate is between the second lens and the partial reflector. Reflective polarizers are on curved surfaces of the first lens and the second lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Hudman, Doug VanderWel
  • Patent number: 12236907
    Abstract: The invention discloses an optoelectronic system may include an array of pixel circuits connected to optoelectronic devices. There can be different types of optoelectronic devices (for example, red, green and blue). These devices can be sensors, or light emitting devices or other types of devices. These devices may be optimized differently and to program the pixel circuits, a configuration of dataline for columns and address lines for rows is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: VueReal Inc.
    Inventor: Gholamreza Chaji
  • Patent number: 12230172
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having favorable display quality is provided. The semiconductor device is provided with a display portion, a line-of-sight sensor portion, a control portion, and an arithmetic portion. The line-of-sight sensor portion has a function of obtaining first information showing a direction of a user's line of sight. The arithmetic portion has a function of determining a first region including a gaze point of the user on the display portion with use of the first information and a function of increasing a definition of an image displayed on the first region. Light emitted from the display portion may be used to obtain the first information showing the direction of the line of sight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yosuke Tsukamoto, Koji Kusunoki, Hisao Ikeda, Akio Endo, Yoshiaki Oikawa, Hideki Uochi
  • Patent number: 12223155
    Abstract: A printer includes a communication interface, a display, and a controller. The controller is configured to generate screen data corresponding to a screen displayed on the display and transmit the screen data to an information processing device. The screen data is used to display a virtual screen same as the screen on the information processing device. The controller is configured to display a screen including an animation by switching a plurality of still images. When the animation is displayed, the controller generates a plurality of pieces of screen data corresponding to the plurality of still images, and when the animation is not displayed, the controller generates screen data corresponding to a screen, which does not include the animation. Then, the controller transmits the generated screen data to the information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yutaka Urakawa
  • Patent number: 12223900
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a display area provided with pixel circuits arranged in an array and a non-display area provided with M light emitting driving circuits, M control driving circuits and M reset driving circuits. Odd-numbered light emitting driving circuits are electrically connected with first and second light emitting clock signal lines, and even-numbered light emitting driving circuits are connected with third and fourth light emitting clock signal lines; and/or, odd-numbered control driving circuits are electrically connected with first and second control clock signal lines, and even-numbered control driving circuits are connected with third and fourth control clock signal lines; and/or, odd-numbered reset driving circuits are electrically connected with first and second reset clock signal lines, and even-numbered reset driving circuits are connected with third and fourth reset clock signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhidong Yuan, Yongqian Li, Can Yuan, Liu Wu, Xiuting Liu, Luke Ding, Cheng Xu, Miao Liu, Xing Yao
  • Patent number: 12216856
    Abstract: A floating image display device comprises a floating image display module and a signal processing module. The floating image display module has a first upper assembling surface and a first lower assembling surface, and comprises a first pin located on the first lower assembling surface. The floating image display module is configured to form a floating image. The signal processing module has a second upper assembling surface and a second lower assembling surface, and comprises a plurality of second pins located on the second upper assembling surface. One of the plurality of second pins is detachably connected to the first pin. The signal processing module is configured to identify the floating image display module according to the position of the first pin corresponding to the plurality of second pins, and transmit a display signal associated with the floating image to the floating image display module through the first pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Szu-Wei Wu, Yi-Hsiang Huang, Hung Tsou
  • Patent number: 12210739
    Abstract: A device and method for recommending a custom function to the user in an electronic device. The electronic device may obtain information of a user gesture that repeatedly occurs based on interaction of the user detected by at least one sensor and determine one or more customized functions to be suggested to the user, among functions of the electronic device including a plurality of accessibility functions, in consideration of the information of the user gesture. The electronic device may execute a target customized function selected by the user from among the one or more customized functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miyoung Lee, Youngchan Woo, Seungjoon Lee
  • Patent number: 12211458
    Abstract: A display device and a method for adjusting a viewing angle thereof are disclosed. The display device includes a display panel and a direct-lit backlight module. The direct-lit backlight module includes a backplate disposed opposite to the display panel, at least one first rotating assembly fixed to a side of the backplate facing the display panel, at least one light source assembly disposed between the backplate and the display panel and connected to the at least one first rotating assembly, and a first rotation control center. The first rotating assembly controls the light source assembly to rotate and tilt relative to the display panel thus adjusting an angle between a light emitting surface of the light source assembly and the display panel. The first rotation control center is connected to the first rotating assembly to control the operation of the first rotating assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Hongsong Wang, Miao Geng, Baohong Kang
  • Patent number: 12204708
    Abstract: A touch panel and a touch device with the touch panel are provided. Each of plurality of touch electrodes of a substrate of the touch panel is led by a corresponding one of plurality of touch wires, and each row and each column of the plurality of touch electrodes share one detection channel through a corresponding one of the plurality of touch wires, and can detect a touch signal sensed by each of the plurality of touch electrodes, thereby increasing an area of the touch panel that can detect the touch signal, and enhancing a detection accuracy and a linearity of the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zengjian Jin, Yalong Ma, Yanan Wang
  • Patent number: 12199185
    Abstract: A display device includes a first transistor including a gate electrode, a second transistor including a lower gate electrode, an upper gate electrode, and a first end portion electrically connected to an end portion of the first transistor, a lower gate signal line extending in a first direction, an upper gate signal line disposed on the lower gate signal line and extending in a first direction, and a first connection pattern disposed on the upper gate signal line, electrically connecting the gate electrode and a second end portion of the second transistor, and intersecting the lower gate signal line and the upper gate signal line. An entirety of the upper gate signal line overlaps a part of the lower gate signal line in an overlapping area in which the lower gate signal line or the upper gate signal line overlaps the first connection pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Sik Joo, Seok Je Seong, Kyung Hyun Baek, Hyeon Woo Shin
  • Patent number: 12198636
    Abstract: A pixel of a light-emitting display device includes a capacitor, a first transistor, a second transistor including a gate receiving a gate writing signal, a third transistor including a gate receiving a scan signal, a fourth transistor including a gate receiving a gate initialization signal, a fifth transistor including a gate receiving a first emission signal, a sixth transistor including a gate receiving a second emission signal, and a light-emitting diode. The scan signal and the gate writing signal may be provided at a first frequency, and the first emission signal, the second emission signal and the gate initialization signal may be provided at a second frequency higher than the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Joon Kim, Jun Ki Jeong
  • Patent number: 12189878
    Abstract: A light emitting display device with an integrated touch screen includes: a substrate which includes a display area in which a plurality of display pixels is disposed and a non-display area around the display area; a light emitting diode in the display area; an encapsulation unit which covers the display area and the non-display area; a touch electrode line on the encapsulation unit; a touch routing line which is disposed in the non-display area and is connected to the touch electrode line; a plurality of blocking structures which is disposed in the non-display area and is configured to enclose the display area; and a step compensation layer disposed between the encapsulation unit and the touch routing line; wherein the step compensation layer reduces a step caused by the plurality of blocking structures to reduce irregularities of a surface of the encapsulation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: YeonGyeong Bae, Jonghyun Han