Patents Examined by Robert J Michaud
  • Patent number: 11830397
    Abstract: The present exemplary embodiments provide a stretchable display which controls an appropriate resolution by disposing a hidden cell below a layer in which an open cell is located using a morphable three-dimensional structure in which LED chips are vertically disposed, rather than a two-dimensional platform of the existing plane, sensing a current change in accordance with a mode switching between a folded mode and a stretched mode while maintaining a state in which an open cell is exposed and the hidden cell is hidden in a folded mode, to automatically turn on/off the hidden cell, and activating the hidden cell in the stretched mode and a manufacturing method thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei University
    Inventors: Jong-Hyun Ahn, Yongjun Lee, Beom Jin Kim, Luhing Hu, Juyeong Hong
  • Patent number: 11823600
    Abstract: A display system and vehicle that have novel structures are provided. The display system includes a display panel, a correction circuit, and a memory circuit. The display panel is flexible. The display panel includes a display region and a non-display region. The memory circuit has a function of storing first data about the display region and second data about the non-display region. The non-display region has a region which overlaps with the display region when the display panel is bent. The correction circuit has a function of generating image data to be written to pixels in the display region on the basis of the first data and the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yoshiyuki Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 11823639
    Abstract: Disclosed are a driving circuit, a multi-stage driving circuit and a display panel. The driving circuit includes an input circuit, a pull-down circuit and an output circuit. The output circuit includes at least two sub-output circuits, the control terminals of the two adjacent sub-output circuits are connected through at least one isolation switch. Each sub-output circuit receives a control signal and a corresponding input signal output by the input circuit and outputs a corresponding output signal. An output terminal of each sub-output circuit is connected with the pull-down circuit and receives a pull-down signal. By arranging the isolating switch between the adjacent sub-output circuits, the mutual influence between the sub-output circuits is reduced, the problem that the output signal is abnormal is solved, the output signal is more stable on the basis of narrowing the frame of a display, and the competitiveness of the display is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhaoyang Lu, Byung Hoon Kim, Rongrong Li
  • Patent number: 11810375
    Abstract: A transaction processing system of the present disclosure includes processing circuitry configured to acquire image data of an image displayed on a display apparatus for displaying a content of a transaction; extract, from the image data, a character or graphic displayed on the display apparatus; analyze a content represented by the character or graphic; and generate instruction information, based on the analyzed content, for controlling a money processing apparatus to perform processing relating to the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishino, Yukiya Tanaka, Minoru Higashiyama
  • Patent number: 11804005
    Abstract: This application is directed to system and methods that facilitate communications within virtual environments. Types of communications contemplated include non-verbal, pictographic communications. For example, the inventive subject matter can facilitate allowing users to use gesture-based inputs to apply writing to aspects of a virtual environment. When writing is applied to, e.g., a wall within a virtual environment, systems and methods of the inventive subject ensure that writing can be made visible to other users within that virtual environment, thereby facilitating a wide variety of new modes of in-game communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Otherside Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Seegert, Paul Neurath
  • Patent number: 11782568
    Abstract: According to aspects of the present disclosure, when a PC and a MFP are remotely connected through an network IF, a CPU of the MFP selects still images, which constitutes an animation, one by one and display the animation on a panel of the MFP by displaying the selected one image with sequentially switching the selected one image. Then, in a case where the same animation is continuously displayed on the panel of the MFP, after generating a plurality of pieces of screen data, which constitute the animation, to be displayed on the PC, the CPU of the MFP stops to repeatedly generate screen data same as the plurality of pieces of screen data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yutaka Urakawa
  • Patent number: 11776502
    Abstract: Techniques for using variable refresh rate to seamlessly adapt to arbitrary and variable video frame rates are described. According to some embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a media player, a video entirely encoded at a fixed frame rate, decoding the encoded video into a rendered video at the fixed frame rate with a video decoder of the media player, setting a display and a display interface that is to output the rendered video to the display to a variable refresh rate mode that synchronizes a refresh rate of the display to a varying frame rate of rendered frames, sending the rendered video at the fixed frame rate from the media player to the display interface, sending the rendered video from the display interface to the display at the fixed frame rate when the display interface is in the variable refresh rate mode, and displaying the rendered video on the display at the fixed frame rate when the display is in the variable refresh rate mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Benjamin Waggoner
  • Patent number: 11769835
    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: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Sik Joo, Seok Je Seong, Kyung Hyun Baek, Hyeon Woo Shin
  • Patent number: 11762210
    Abstract: A wearable device includes a front portion configured to engage a front portion of a head of a user, and a rear portion configured to engage a rear portion of the head of the user. The rear portion includes a telescoping arm guide, a telescoping arm slidably coupled to the telescoping arm guide such that the telescoping arm is moveable relative to the telescoping arm guide, a cable guide coupled to the telescoping arm guide, and a connector. The device includes an optical fiber coupled to the telescoping arm at a first point, coupled to the connector at a second point, and slidably coupled to the cable guide between the first point and the second point, such that the optical fiber includes a medial portion between the first point and the second point, the medial portion including a bend that is greater than or equal to a minimum bend radius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Seth Moczydlowski
  • Patent number: 11763778
    Abstract: A graphics processing unit (GPU) includes a timing reference one or more processors configured to generate and provide, based on the timing reference, frames to a display system that supports variable refresh rates. The frames include a vertical blanking region having a first duration. The display system transmits information indicating an operation to be performed by the display system during the vertical blanking region of one or more subsequent frames. The one or more processors are configured to increase the first duration to a second duration in response to receiving the information indicating an operation to be performed by the display system during the vertical blanking region of at least one subsequent frame. In some cases, the first duration of the vertical blanking region is a minimum duration that corresponds to a maximum refresh rate supported by the display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventor: David I. J. Glen
  • Patent number: 11762491
    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: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: YeonGyeong Bae, Jonghyun Han
  • Patent number: 11762457
    Abstract: Some implementations disclosed herein present multimedia content to a user, identify a comfort state of the user (e.g., happy, unhappy, distressed, etc.) based on body data of the user (e.g., facial expressions, hand movements, physiological data, etc.), and update the multimedia content based on the identified comfort state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Akiko Ikkai, Grant H. Mulliken, Izzet B. Yildiz, Sterling R. Crispin
  • Patent number: 11752873
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a vehicle. The display device includes a knob and a display panel; the knob includes a first magnetic adhering piece; the display device further includes a second magnetic adhering structure, and the second magnetic adhering structure is disposed on a non-light exiting side of the display panel; the second magnetic adhering structure includes a plurality of first magnetic adhering regions, and at least two first magnetic adhering regions are not overlapped; when the knob is magnetically adhered to any one of the plurality of first magnetic adhering regions, the knob is disposed on a light exiting side of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai AVIC Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Wang, Feng Qin
  • Patent number: 11745589
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a vehicle. The display device includes a knob and a display panel; the knob includes a first magnetic adhering piece; the display device further includes a second magnetic adhering structure, and the second magnetic adhering structure is disposed on a non-light exiting side of the display panel; the second magnetic adhering structure includes a plurality of first magnetic adhering regions, and at least two first magnetic adhering regions are not overlapped; when the knob is magnetically adhered to any one of the plurality of first magnetic adhering regions, the knob is disposed on a light exiting side of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai AVIC Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Wang, Feng Qin
  • Patent number: 11750017
    Abstract: A projection system includes a power supply device, a wireless charging transmission device, a projection system control assembly, a storage unit, and an optical system. The projection system control assembly controls a light valve thereof to convert illumination beam into image beam. A projection lens thereof projects the image beam to be a projection image. A user operation information is stored in the storage unit. The projection image includes an operation menu related to the user operation information. The projection system control assembly turns on or turns off the wireless charging transmission device according to the user operation information to wirelessly charge electronic device. A wireless charging method of the projection system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventor: Hui-Chung Hung
  • Patent number: 11747891
    Abstract: A system and method of selectively outputting content on a head mounted wearable computing device is provided. The system may determine a context associated with the operation of the head mounted wearable computing device, and selectively output content on the head mounted wearable computing device, or delay the output of content, based on the context. The content may be displayed in one or more designated portions of the display of the head mounted wearable computing device so as to reduce distraction to the user, and enhance situational awareness and situational safety during use of the head mounted wearable computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Walter Johan Silvester Hermsen, Gregory Malcolm John Fitch
  • Patent number: 11720313
    Abstract: A display system includes an HMD mounted on a head of a user, and a control device coupled to the HMD, the HMD includes an image display unit, with an outside scene being visible, for displaying a display image overlapping the outside scene, and a main control unit for causing an image display unit to display a display image, and the control device includes a touch panel, and a CO control unit for causing a related image related to a display content of the display image to be displayed on the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakizaki, Hiroaki Baba, Shinya Sato
  • Patent number: 11720174
    Abstract: A system may include one or more finger-mounted devices such as finger devices with U-shaped housings configured to be mounted on a user's fingers while gathering sensor input and supplying haptic output. The finger devices may have power receiving circuitry configured to receive power from a power source. The power source may be incorporated into an electronic device such as a battery case, a head-mounted display, or a wireless charging mat or stand. The power source may supply power through terminals that form ohmic contacts with mating terminals in the finger device or may transmit power wirelessly using capacitive coupling or inductive charging arrangements. A finger device may have hinge structures that allow portions of the device to rotate relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Paul X. Wang
  • Patent number: 11711945
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed that may include a first active layer disposed on a substrate, a scan line disposed on the first active layer, extending in a first direction and including a first protruding portion protruding in a second direction crossing the first direction, a first compensation control line disposed on the first active layer, extending in the first direction and spaced apart from the scan line in the second direction, and a second active layer disposed on the scan line and the first compensation control line, overlapping the scan line and the first compensation control line and including a second protruding portion protruding in the first direction. The first protruding portion may be positioned outside the second active layer in the first direction in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyeonwoo Shin, Seokje Seong, Yunsik Joo
  • Patent number: 11710457
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate including first and second display regions and first and second non-display regions; a plurality of first pixels in the first display region; a plurality of second pixels in the second display region; a plurality of first scan stage circuits in the first non-display region, the first scan stage circuits configured to provide a scan signal to the first pixels; a plurality of second scan stage circuits in the second non-display region, the second scan stage circuits configured to provide a scan signal to the second pixels; a plurality of dummy scan stage circuits in the second non-display region, the dummy scan stage circuits being between the second scan stage circuits; and a scan bridge line in the second non-display region, the scan bridge line connecting one second scan stage circuit among the second scan stage circuits and a dummy scan stage circuit adjacent thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Taeg Jung, Hyun Chol Bang, Ju Hee Hyeon