Patents Examined by Rodney Amadiz
  • Patent number: 11049457
    Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels, where each pixel in the array includes an organic light-emitting diode coupled to a drive transistor and other associated thin-film transistors. The array may be grouped into column pairs, where each column pair includes a first pixel column and a second pixel column that is mirrored with respect to the first pixel column. The drive transistors within each column pair may be formed towards the center of that column pair, whereas the data lines associated with that column pair may be formed along the outer peripheral edges of that column pair. Configured in this way, parasitic coupling between the data lines and any sensitive/floating nodes of the drive transistor may be substantially reduced, which mitigates pixel column crosstalk and ensures luminance uniformity across the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shinya Ono, Chin-Wei Lin, Chen-Ming Chen, Chun-Chieh Lin, Gihoon Choo, Hassan Edrees, Zino Lee
  • Patent number: 11040622
    Abstract: An operating device for controlling functions of a motor vehicle, includes an operator control element which can be displaced from a rest position beyond a first actuating position into a second actuating position. The operating device has a control unit which is designed to actuate, in accordance with a function which is assigned to the operator control element, a display device for displaying information associated with the function if the operating element is positioned in the first actuating position. The control unit is configured to trigger the function if the operator control element is positioned in the second actuating position. The operating device is configured to output a tactilely perceptible feedback in at least one of the positions of the operator control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Guenter Horna
  • Patent number: 11036055
    Abstract: A wearable device for augmented media content experiences can be formed with a mountable physical structure that has removably mountable positions and component devices that are removably mounted through the removably mountable positions. The component devices can be specifically selected based on a specific type of content consumption environment in which the wearable device is to operate. The mountable physical structure may be subject to a device washing process to which the component devices are not subject to, after the wearable device including the mountable physical structure and the component devices is used by a viewer in a content consumption session in the specific type of content consumption environment, so long as the component devices are subsequently removed from the mountable physical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Ajit Ninan, Neil Mammen
  • Patent number: 11030952
    Abstract: A display panel driver drives pixels based on first power having at least three voltage levels, second power having a constant voltage, and third power having two voltage levels. Each pixel includes a first transistor connected between first and second nodes and including a gate electrode to receive a scan signal, a second transistor connected between the second node and a third node in series with the first transistor and including a gate electrode to receive the third power, and a driving transistor connected between a source of the first power and the third node and including a gate electrode connected to the first electrode to control a driving current for an organic light emitting diode. A first capacitor is connected between a source of the third power and the first node, and a second capacitor is connected between the second node and one of the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun-Hyun Park, Young-Wan Seo, An-Su Lee, Bo-Yong Chung, Kang-Moon Jo, Chong-Chul Chai
  • Patent number: 11022802
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a transceiver and a controller in communication with the transceiver. The controller is configured to determine a target lighting condition in a room relative to a current lighting condition in the room. The controller is also configured to generate a control signal with instructions to adjust an ambient lighting peripheral in the room based on the determined target lighting condition. The control signal is provided to the transceiver for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel L. Iglesias, In Young Yang, Timothy R. Oriol, James C. McIlree
  • Patent number: 11024238
    Abstract: A high dynamic contrast image display method and device based on a partitioned backlight is disclosed. The method includes steps of: S1: obtaining a brightness information of an arbitrary pixel of an image, S2: obtaining a low-frequency illumination signal of the arbitrary pixel by gaussian filtering, S3: according to a space division of a partitioned backlight, diving the low-frequency illumination signals as same M*N partitions, S4: for anyone of the M*N partitions, calculating a maximum value of the low-frequency illumination signals of a current partition, and S5: performing a linear compression to the low-frequency illumination signal in the current partition. In the invention, the low-frequency illumination signals are subjected to a linear compression according to the luminance range that covered by the actual backlight. Contrast spatial adaptation can be performed within the backlight brightness range, while spatial details corresponding to high-frequency reflected signals are reserved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Guowei Zha
  • Patent number: 11024698
    Abstract: A display device of the present disclosure includes: a circuit unit including a semiconductor substrate and a capacitative element, in which the capacitative element includes, a dielectric layer which is formed in the semiconductor substrate, and extends in a substrate depth direction, a first electrode formed on one surface side of the dielectric layer to face the dielectric layer, and a second electrode formed on the other surface side of the dielectric layer to face the dielectric layer. An electronic device of the present disclosure includes the display device having the configuration described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Tamura
  • Patent number: 11016562
    Abstract: A user input system for controlling a viewpoint within displayed content includes a user profile obtaining unit operable to obtain a user profile having information about head motion and eye motion for a user, an input unit operable to receive user inputs relating to a change in viewpoint within displayed content, the user inputs including the user's head motion, and a viewpoint modification unit operable to modify the viewpoint in the displayed content in dependence upon received inputs and the user profile, where the modification to the viewpoint includes a greater motion than the head motion received as an input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew William Walker, Richard James Forster, Matthew William Sanders, Patrick John Connor, Jessica Rose Grant, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Ludwig Sidenmark
  • Patent number: 11009987
    Abstract: One variation of a method includes: defining a first capacitance gradient of capacitance thresholds spanning a capacitive touch sensor; defining a first pressure gradient of pressure thresholds spanning a pressure sensor; reading a capacitance value from the capacitive touch sensor proximal a first location; detecting presence of a first input at the first location in response to the capacitance value exceeding a capacitance threshold assigned to the first location; reading a pressure value from the pressure sensor proximal the first location; detecting presence of a second input proximal the first location in response to the pressure value exceeding a pressure threshold; in response to detecting the first input and detecting the second input: merging the first input and the second input into a confirmed touch input; and generating a first touch image representing the first location and the pressure value of the confirmed touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Sensel, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, John Aaron Zarraga
  • Patent number: 11007874
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a conversion block that converts, based on correction data stored in a memory, an imaging pixel value of a specific pixel portion captured on a near side of at least one of a vanishing point or a horizon line in a camera image acquired by an outside camera into a correction pixel value in accordance with outside brightness detected by a brightness sensor, and a display control block that controls a virtual image display luminance of a display image displayed by a head-up display in correspondence with the correction pixel value converted from the imaging pixel value by the conversion block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoichi Naruse
  • Patent number: 10976818
    Abstract: A system of an amusement park attraction includes an optical sensor configured to detect light and provide optical data based on the detected light and a controller having circuitry communicatively coupled to the optical sensor. The controller is configured to receive the optical data, process the optical data to detect a first movement of a user and a second movement of a handheld or wearable object, detect a correlation between the first movement and the second movement, and associate the handheld or wearable object with the user based on the correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Lin
  • Patent number: 10976835
    Abstract: An operation input device includes a knob for operations, disposed in a display region of a touch display; a plurality of conductor columns provided in the knob; a touch point detecting unit that detects a touch point corresponding to at least one of the plurality of conductor columns; a location determining unit that determines a location of at least one of the plurality of conductor columns, using a result of the detection by the touch point detecting unit; and a location estimating unit that estimates, when there is a conductor column that has not been detected as a touch point by the touch point detecting unit, a location of the conductor column that has not been detected as a touch point by the touch point detecting unit, using positional relationship information indicating a positional relationship between the plurality of conductor columns in the knob and location history information indicating a history of locations of the respective plurality of conductor columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Hori, Yuichi Sasaki, Daisuke Kisara
  • Patent number: 10963059
    Abstract: One variation of a system for interfacing a computer system and a user includes: a touch sensor defining a touch sensor surface and extending over an array of sense electrode and drive electrode pairs; a vibrator coupled to the touch sensor surface; and a controller configured to: detect application of an input onto the touch sensor surface and a force magnitude of the first input at a first time; execute a down-click cycle in response to the force magnitude exceeding a threshold magnitude by driving the vibrator to oscillate the touch sensor surface; map a location of the input on the touch sensor surface to a key of a keyboard represented by the touch sensor surface; and output a touch image representing the key and the force magnitude of the input on the touch sensor surface at approximately the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Sensel Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, John Aaron Zarraga, Tomer Moscovich
  • Patent number: 10950320
    Abstract: A shift register unit including a first output circuit configured to transfer a clock signal at a clock signal terminal to a signal output terminal as an output signal in response to a first node being at an active potential, a second output circuit configured to transfer the clock signal at the clock signal terminal to a carry output terminal as a carry output signal in response to the first node being at the active potential, and a delay circuit configured to generate a delayed version of a carry input signal in response to the carry input signal at a carry input terminal being active, and to transfer an inactive voltage at a first voltage terminal to the signal output terminal in response to the delayed version of the carry input signal being active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongxian Xie, Hui Wang, Yifeng Zou
  • Patent number: 10936112
    Abstract: One variation of a method for interfacing a computer to a human includes: detecting application of a first input onto a touch sensor surface and a first force magnitude of the first input; in response to the first force magnitude exceeding a first threshold magnitude, actuating a vibrator coupled to the touch sensor surface during a first click cycle and triggering an audio driver proximal the touch sensor surface to output a click sound during the first click cycle; detecting retraction of the first input from the touch sensor surface and a second force magnitude of the first input; and, in response to the second force magnitude falling below a second threshold magnitude less than the first threshold magnitude, actuating the vibrator during a second click cycle distinct from the first click cycle and triggering the audio driver to output the click sound during the second click cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Sensel, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, John Aaron Zarraga, Brogan Miller, Charles Watson, Tomer Moscovich, Alexander Grau
  • Patent number: 10935793
    Abstract: A head mounted display comprises a light sensor, a first light source, a second light source, a transflective mirror, a lens, a display and a filter. The first light source is used for generating a first light beam. The second light source is used for generating a second light beam. The transflective mirror is provided on the light paths of the first light beam and the second light beam. The first light source is provided at the periphery of the lens or the light sensor. The first light beam is reflected by a first object, and enters the light sensor via the lens and the transflective mirror in sequence. The second light source is provided at the periphery of the filter. After leaving the second light source, the second light beam is reflected by a second object outside the head mounted display first, and then enters the light sensor via the filter and the transflective mirror in sequence. A using method of the head mounted display is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Bo-Wen Xiao, Fu-Cheng Fan
  • Patent number: 10928900
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a body, an arm, a camera, a support arm, an indicator support, and a plurality of indicators. The body is configured to mount to an eyeglass arm. The arm extends from the body. The camera is coupled to the arm and configured to capture images of at least one eye of a user. The support arm extends from the body. The indicator support is coupled to the support arm such that, when the body is mounted to the eyeglasses and the user is wearing the eyeglasses, the indicator support is positioned in the user's field of view. The plurality of indicators are coupled to the indicator support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: TECHNOLOGY AGAINST ALS
    Inventors: Sandeep Rajaram Tungare, Milind Shrikrishna Gupte, Amitabh Patil, Bert Haberland
  • Patent number: 10916198
    Abstract: A display pixel is provided that is operable to support hybrid compensation scheme having both in-pixel threshold voltage canceling and external threshold voltage compensation. The display may include multiple p-type silicon transistors with at least one n-type semiconducting-oxide transistor and one storage capacitor. An on-bias stress phase may be performed prior to a threshold voltage sampling and data programming phase to mitigate hysteresis and improve first frame response. In low refresh rate displays, a first additional on-bias stress operation can be performed separate from the threshold voltage sampling and data programming phase during a refresh frame and a second additional on-bias stress operation can be performed during a vertical blanking frame. The display pixel may be configured to receive an initialization voltage and an anode reset voltage, either of which can be dynamically tuned to match the stress of the first and second additional on-bias stress operations to minimize flicker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Shinya Ono, Zino Lee, Yun Wang, Fan Gui
  • Patent number: 10916592
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display device includes a substrate having a plurality of pixels; first electrodes disposed on the substrate, each of which is connected to a respective one of the pixels; organic emissive layers disposed on the first electrodes; a second electrode disposed on the organic emissive layers; a touch sensing unit disposed on the second electrode; and color filters disposed on the touch sensing unit, each of which is disposed above a respective one of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eon Joo Lee, Hyoeng Ki Kim, Jun Hyuk Woo, Kwang Woo Park, Hyeon Bum Lee, Jin Whan Jung
  • Patent number: 10916184
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an array substrate and a driving method thereof, a display panel as well as a display device. The array substrate comprises: m rows and n columns of subpixels, wherein m and n are positive integers; a plurality of gate lines, wherein if m is an even number, when i<(m+1)/2, the ith gate line is connected to the subpixels in the (2i?1)th row and the 2ith row, and wherein if m is an odd number, when i<(m+1)/2, the ith gate line is connected to the subpixels in the (2i?1)th row and the 2ith row and when i=(m+1)/2, the ith gate line is connected to the subpixels in the mth row, wherein i is a positive integer less than or equal to (m+1)/2; and a plurality of data lines, wherein each column of subpixels corresponds to two data lines coupled to the subpixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minghua Xuan, Lei Wang, Li Xiao, Shengji Yang, Pengcheng Lu, Xiaochuan Chen