Patents Examined by Robert M Stone
  • Patent number: 11157120
    Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels disposed in a display region; a pressure sensor disposed to overlap with the display panel, the pressure sensor including a plurality of sensor electrodes disposed in a touch region; a bump structure disposed on at least one of a first surface and a second surface of the pressure sensor to be separated from the sensor electrodes; and a housing supporting the display panel, the pressure sensor, and the bump structure. The bump structure includes a plurality of bumps distributed on respective coordinate points at which the sensor electrodes are disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Ki Hong, Tae Hee Lee, Rang Kyun Mok, Won Sang Park
  • Patent number: 11137613
    Abstract: An adjusting apparatus and a head-mounted display device, which includes: a runner, an interpupillary distance adjusting component and an object distance adjusting component; where, the interpupillary distance adjusting component includes: a first screw, and an interpupillary distance adjusting actuator engaged with the first screw; the object distance adjusting component includes: a second screw, and an object distance adjusting actuator engaged with the second screw; a through hole is formed on a center of the runner, the through hole, and the first screw and the second screw are coaxial; when the runner moves onto the first screw, the runner is connected with the first screw through a connection structure, and the runner drives the first screw to rotate together; when the runner moves onto the second screw, the runner is connected with the second screw through a connection structure, and the runner drives the second screw to rotate together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: GOERTEK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiangdong Lan
  • Patent number: 11126392
    Abstract: A display apparatus capable of omitting a device discovery process and a service discovery process and simplifying a W-Fi Direct connection procedure includes a memory; a display; communication circuitry configured to communicate with the server and the source device; and a controller configured to execute the screen mirroring service with the source device. The controller is configured to, when a start command of the screen mirroring service is input by a user, control the display to display the source device connected to a cloud account, in response to an input of the user who selects the source device, to perform the Wi-Fi Direct connection with the source device based on first Wi-Fi Direct configuration information stored in the memory and second Wi-Fi Direct configuration information obtained from the server, and to control the display to output a screen of the source device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Wha Seob Sim, Je Ik Kim
  • Patent number: 11125998
    Abstract: An apparatus including an internal optical projection element configured to project light internally towards an eye of a user of the apparatus; an external optical projection element configured to project light externally away from an eye of the user of the apparatus; and one or more optical engines configured to provide light to the internal optical projection element and the external optical projection element. The apparatus preferably further includes a light guide with diffractive in and out-coupling elements and is configured as a head mounted display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Toni Jarvenpaa, Erika Reponen, Andres Lucero, Akos Vetek
  • Patent number: 11119598
    Abstract: A piezoelectric touch device is provided. According to a first aspect, a piezoelectric touch device comprises: a conductive support structure comprising an inseparable section as a bridge separated by a first opening; a piezoelectric element configured to provide a touch sensing and a haptic feedback; connection pads configured to form an electrically connected circuit for the piezoelectric element, wherein the piezoelectric element is electrically connected to the connection pads, and wherein the bridge comprises one of the connection pads and the conductive support structure comprises another of the connection pads; a second opening next to the another connection pad allowing the piezoelectric element to bend freely. The piezoelectric touch device for touch sensing and haptic feedback may be consequently manufactured with an improved manufacturability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Aito BV
    Inventors: Pauli Laitinen, Jockum Lönnberg, Ferdinand Van Der Neut, Jari Heikki Antero Toropainen
  • Patent number: 11106034
    Abstract: A head-mounted display includes an optical assembly and an actuator. The actuator includes a movement mechanism configured to adjust a position of an optical component within the optical assembly, a locking-release mechanism configured to modify operation of the movement mechanism upon detection of a dynamic event, and a dampening mechanism configured to control positional changes of the optical component during the dynamic event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jia Tao, Aidan N. Zimmerman, Phil M. Hobson, Jeremy C. Franklin, Ivan S. Maric, Jason C. Sauers, Jan K. Quijalvo, Eric N. Vergo
  • Patent number: 11094270
    Abstract: A display device and a drive method, the display device including: an edge-lit backlight module; a liquid crystal display panel positioned on the light-emergent side of the edge-lit backlight module; and a polymer liquid crystal film positioned between the liquid crystal display panel and the edge-lit backlight module, and including a plurality of closely arranged independent dimming areas, each dimming area being configured for independent control of light transmittance. The present display device takes advantage of the characteristics of the polymer liquid crystal film, loading different driving voltages in different dimming areas and changing the transmittance of the polymer liquid crystal film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignees: Chongqing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xianyong Gao, Qiang Yu, Fanjian Zeng, Siqing Fu, Xu Lu, Liang Gao, Sijun Lei
  • Patent number: 11094897
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flexible display device including: a housing comprising an accommodating chamber, a first opening is formed at one end of accommodating chamber; a flexible display screen accommodated in the accommodating chamber, the flexible display screen includes a substrate, a first infrared receiving circuit formed on one side of the substrate, and an anode formed on a side of the first infrared receiving circuit away from the substrate; a hole through are formed on the anode, orthographic projections of the hole, onto the substrate cover an orthographic projection of the first infrared receiving circuit onto the substrate; an infrared transmitting circuit arranged in the first opening; a reel is arranged in the accommodating chamber; a control circuit signal-connected with the first infrared receiving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignees: Chongqing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shicheng Sun, Jonguk Kwak, Dawei Shi, Weixin Meng, Kai Zhang, Wei Zhang, Shuang Hu
  • Patent number: 11087555
    Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a system for enabling two or more users to interact within a virtual world comprising virtual world data, comprising a computer network comprising one or more computing devices, the one or more computing devices comprising memory, processing circuitry, and software stored at least in part in the memory and executable by the processing circuitry to process at least a portion of the virtual world data; wherein at least a first portion of the virtual world data originates from a first user virtual world local to a first user, and wherein the computer network is operable to transmit the first portion to a user device for presentation to a second user, such that the second user may experience the first portion from the location of the second user, such that aspects of the first user virtual world are effectively passed to the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel A. Miller, Rony Abovitz
  • Patent number: 11067809
    Abstract: The disclosed display system may include (1) a display element that is transparent and includes a first surface facing a viewing region and a second surface opposite the first surface, the second surface facing an external environment, (2) a light-blocking shutter that faces and overlaps at least a portion of the second surface of the display element, (3) a display-driving subsystem that displays images visible to a user at the viewing region via display light emitted from the first surface of the display element during active display intervals, and (4) a shutter-driving subsystem that alternately switches the state of the light-blocking shutter between a blocking state during the active display intervals and a pass-through state during inactive display intervals when the display light is not emitted from the display element. Various other systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jasmine Soria Sears, Gareth Valentine
  • Patent number: 11064274
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display panel, and a vibration generator including a plurality of sound-generating modules configured to vibrate the display panel, the plurality of sound-generating modules being configured as touch sensors for sensing a touch pressure applied to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: SeYoung Kim
  • Patent number: 11061237
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a left portion corresponding to a left eye of a user and a right portion corresponding to a right eye of the user, each portion includes at least one image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a physical space, and a display unit configured to display a video image based on a captured image obtained by the image capturing unit. The image capturing unit is arranged on an inside of an angle formed by lines extending from the pupil of the corresponding eye to each side of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihito Taketani
  • Patent number: 11054942
    Abstract: A processing system is disclosed. The processing system includes an amplifier configured to generate a feedback signal by amplifying each of multiple reduced noise signals based on a gain value and a cardinality of the reduced noise signals. The processing system also includes multiple charge integrators configured to obtain resulting signals from capacitive sensor electrodes coupled to a noise source and generate the reduced noise signals by mitigating noise in the resulting signals using the feedback signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Chunbo Liu
  • Patent number: 11042193
    Abstract: A foldable mobile terminal and related products include: a flexible display screen; a housing assembly including a first housing and a second housing, the flexible display screen being provided on the first housing and the second housing; a first rotating assembly that is at least partially received in the first housing and can extend or retract with respect to the first housing in a sliding manner, the first rotating assembly being provided with a first groove; a second rotating assembly that is at least partially received in the second housing and can extend or retract with respect to the second housing in a sliding manner; and a first roller and a first spring provided between the first rotating assembly and the first housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yugui Lin
  • Patent number: 11030927
    Abstract: There is provided a method of performing a sensing operation in an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device including a plurality of pixels, the method including performing a one-line sensing operation for pixels in one line among the plurality of pixels, determining whether a sensing error occurs based on a result of the one-line sensing operation, when the sensing error is determined not to occur, performing a frame-sensing operation for all of the plurality of pixels, detecting an abnormal sensing-data line from among frame-sensing data generated by the frame-sensing operation, and replacing the abnormal sensing-data line by a data line generated based on at least one sensing-data line that is adjacent to the abnormal sensing-data line in the frame-sensing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyungman Kim, Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 11016619
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a touch panel a method of manufacturing the touch panel and a touch display panel. The touch panel includes a touch substrate; and a plurality of touch electrodes on the touch substrate, the plurality of touch electrodes being spaced apart from each other in a first direction and extending in a second direction different from the first direction, wherein a width of each of the touch electrodes gradually increases or decreases in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Xie, Tsungchieh Kuo, Jing Wang, Tengfei Zhong, Yaying Li
  • Patent number: 11011095
    Abstract: The present application relates to the technical field of display and provides a display panel and an image control device and an image control method thereof; wherein, the image control device includes a high-voltage gamma module, a low-voltage gamma module and a first selection module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignees: CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Wenqin Zhao
  • Patent number: 10990195
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a structure and an optical navigation circuit. A first end of the structure is located inside the electronic apparatus and its second end corresponds to a user's control. The structure can be moved forward/backward in a specific direction and/or rotated in another direction. The optical navigation circuit captures reflection of a light emitting to the structure to detect displacement of the image along a specific axis of the structure, and determines the user's operating behavior as a specific operation according to a change of the sensed displacement of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Lin Chung, Kai-Ho Tsai
  • Patent number: 10989972
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: common electrodes that are opposed to pixel electrodes respectively; a detection circuit that detects a waveform of a common potential at the plurality of common electrodes; and a determination circuit that determines abnormality of the liquid crystal display device based on the waveform detected by the detection circuit. A plurality of pixels are divided into a plurality of segments, the common electrodes are provided corresponding to the plurality of segments, and the detection circuit detects the waveform of the common potential at each of the common electrodes when a predetermined data signal is input to at least one of data signal lines whiled a predetermined gate signal is input to at least one of gate signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Hirata, Masashi Kuno
  • Patent number: 10991324
    Abstract: An overdrive method and device, a controller, a display apparatus, and a storage medium is provided. The method includes: acquiring a first grayscale value and a second grayscale value, the first grayscale value being a grayscale value of a first image displayed by a target sub-pixel and the second grayscale value being a grayscale of a second image to be displayed by the target sub-pixel; acquiring a hold duration that the target sub-pixel holds the first grayscale value in response to the first grayscale value being not equal to the second grayscale value; determining a target overdrive compensation voltage according to the first grayscale value, the second grayscale value, and the hold duration; and applying an overdrive pixel voltage to the target sub-pixel in response to the target sub-pixel displaying the second image, the overdrive pixel voltage being obtained according to the target overdrive compensation voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yujie Gao, Zhihua Sun, Shulin Yao, Yinlong Zhang, Wenpeng Ma, Tong Lu, Pengfei Hu, Ning Zhang