Patents Examined by Roy P Rabindranath
  • Patent number: 11567330
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display control apparatus including an image producing part that produces an image of a virtual space to be displayed on a head-mounted display, a display control part that causes the head-mounted display to display thereon the image of the virtual space, and a position selecting part that accepts a selection instruction for a position in the virtual space displayed on the head-mounted display, through an input apparatus used by a user. When the position selecting part accepts the selection instruction for the position from the user, the position selecting part causes the head-mounted display to display thereon an image of the input apparatus, and accepts the selection instruction for the position from a plurality of selectable positions in accordance with an input position relative to a touch pad included in the input apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Mihee Kang, Masashi Nakata
  • Patent number: 11568829
    Abstract: An electronic device and a display image compensation method thereof are provided. The display image compensation method includes: receiving a first image signal and a second image signal sequentially at different time points, and displaying the first image signal by using a display unit; calculating current temperature information according to a display time length of the first image signal on the display unit and pixel data of the first image signal, and calculating a variation between the current temperature information and reference temperature information; and generating pixel compensation data corresponding to the current temperature information when the variation is greater than a preset value, compensating the second image signal according to the pixel compensation data, and outputting the compensated second image signal to the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Yi-Ching Chen, Chin-An Tseng, Chia-Lei Yu
  • Patent number: 11561397
    Abstract: A head-up display (HUD) device includes a plurality of backlight units (BLUs); a base including a base plate and a base body, the base plate being configured to support the plurality of BLUs, and the base body protruding upward from the base plate; a head detachably connected to the base; a sheet of glass disposed on an upper side of the head; and a thin film transistor disposed on a top surface of the sheet of glass, wherein the head includes a material with a higher thermal conductivity than the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Samjintech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chanhee Lee, Young Bae Seo, Yoonsun Choi, Jinho Lee
  • Patent number: 11556008
    Abstract: An optical apparatus includes an image source, a relay optical system, and an optical processing system. The image source is configured to display an image. The relay optical system is configured to project the image displayed by the image source to the optical processing system, and to image at infinity. The optical processing system is configured to project incident light from the relay optical system in a same direction to at least two preset directions sequentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: JOURNEY TECHNOLOGY, LTD.
    Inventors: Wuwen Ding, Yu Zheng
  • Patent number: 11545064
    Abstract: A display device includes circuitry to determine, based on a display data length and a display area length, whether display data including one or more display components fits within a display area of a screen on which the display data is to be displayed. In case that a determination result indicates that a part of the display data is out of the display area, the circuitry displays the display data including the one or more display components that are reduced based on a difference between the display data length and the display area length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11545096
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving method of a display module, a driving system thereof, and a display device. The driving method of the display module includes a display panel driving process, and a backlight module driving process driven synchronously with the display panel driving process. The display panel driving process includes steps: performing a color saturation adjustment; and obtaining second color signals to drive the display panel by converting. The backlight module driving process includes steps: using the light source adjustment coefficient to adjust a first brightness value to obtain a second brightness value; determining a dominant hue light source; and driving the dominant hue light source by the second brightness value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Chih Tsung Kang
  • Patent number: 11538393
    Abstract: Disclosed are a text boundary processing method, a display panel and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a grayscale value of each sub-pixel in a display panel; determining a current sub-pixel is a text boundary according to a grayscale value of the current sub-pixel and grayscale values of sub-pixels adjacent to the current sub-pixel; and interchanging grayscale values of a red sub-pixel and a blue sub-pixel in a sub-pixel group where the current sub-pixel is located, where, the sub-pixel group consists of the current sub-pixel and two sub-pixels adjacent to the current sub-pixel in a same row where the current sub-pixel is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignees: BEIHAI HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhi Xiong
  • Patent number: 11531213
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for displaying an image are disclosed. The apparatus includes independently-controllable microLED unit cells including sets of microLEDs each emitting light and at least one lens to control an emission angle and emission profile of the light emitted by the microLED unit cells. A display controller controls an intensity distribution of the microLED unit cells in accordance with a video data signal such that a first portion of the emitted light is emitted at a first emission angle with a first emission profile and a second portion of the emitted light is emitted at a second emission angle with a second emission profile. The first and second light portions form three-dimensional stereoscopic images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Charles André Schrama, Erno Fancsali
  • Patent number: 11532878
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device. The electronic device includes a display module having a grounding element disposed under the display module and an antenna pattern. The grounding element is configured to function as a reference ground of the antenna pattern. A wearable device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventors: Yuanhao Yu, Wei Fan Wu, Feng Chuan Tsai, Mingjhih Tsai, Shih Yuan Ho
  • Patent number: 11527209
    Abstract: A display system may include a memory external to a pixel that stores a first digital data value, a memory internal to the pixel that stores a second digital data signal, where a combination of the first digital data signal and the second digital data signal may indicate a target gray level assigned to the pixel for a particular image frame. The pixel may be driven for a first duration of time according to the first digital data signal and for a second duration of time according to the second digital data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bilin Wang, Tien-Chien Kuo, Kanghoon Jeon, Chun-Yao Huang
  • Patent number: 11521566
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and an electronic device. In the display panel, a contact area between a support pillar and a bottom layer is increased, without changing a size of a single sub-pixel, thereby alleviating a technical problem that the support pillar easily peels off in an existing 8K ultra-high-resolution electronic device. Moreover, by adjusting voltage drop values of clock input transistors in different GOA units, the voltage drop value between each of the GOA units and clock driving chips is approximately the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventors: Huihua Liao, Juncheng Xiao, Bin Zhao, Xin Zhang, Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11513648
    Abstract: The present invention relates to touch-sensor detector systems and methods incorporating an interpolated variable impedance touch sensor array and specifically to such systems and methods for force-aware interaction with handheld display devices on one or more surfaces of the device. An exemplary embodiment includes a method for receiving a flexing gesture formed on a sensor panel of the handheld device including determining two or more pressure inputs at the sensor panel and determining a relative pressure between the two or more pressure inputs. The method further includes correlating the relative pressure inputs to the flexing gesture, associating the flexing gesture with a UI element and providing an input to the UI element based on the gesture and the relative pressure between the two or more pressure inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Sensel, Inc.
    Inventors: John Aaron Zarraga, Alexander Meagher Grau, Bethany Noel Haniger, Bradley James Bozarth, Brogan Carl Miller, Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, James Frank Thomas, Mark Joshua Rosenberg, Peter Hans Nyboer, Reuben Eric Martinez, Scott Gregory Isaacson, Stephanie Jeanne Oberg, Timothy James Miller, Tomer Moscovich, Yibo Yu
  • Patent number: 11513413
    Abstract: An electro-optic device comprising electrophoretic medium including a dispersion of a plurality of particles in a fluid configured to migrate within the fluid in a direction responsive to an applied electric field. The plurality of particles include a first type of particles having a first charge of a first charge polarity, a second type of particles having a second charge of a second charge polarity, and a third type of particles having a third charge of the second charge polarity. The first charge polarity is opposite to the second charge polarity, and the third type of particles are configured to migrate within the fluid in a direction responsive to an applied magnetic field gradient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Michael D. McCreary, Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Stephen J. Telfer, Samantha Morrill
  • Patent number: 11500451
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for augmenting data via data crowd sourcing. Local data are acquired by one or more sensors deployed on a first device. Augmented data are obtained where such augmented data are generated based on the local data and remote data from at least one second device and are rendered on the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Perkins
  • Patent number: 11487124
    Abstract: A method, medium and system for auto-aligning displays of a head/helmet mounted display. The method, medium and system may provide for an auto-alignment of components of a headband, headgear, or a helmet. The method, medium and system may provide for a first sensor mounted to the helmet of a user and configured to communicate and transfer align with a vehicle comprising an inertial navigation system (INS). The method, medium and system may provide for display comprising a second sensor configured to communicate with the first sensor and transfer align the second sensor with the first sensor based on the transfer alignment of the first sensor with the vehicle. The method, medium and system may provide for wherein the first sensor and the second sensor comprise an inertial measurement unit (IMU). Further, the method, medium and system may also provide for the aligning of two displays on the head/helmet relative to each other in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: THALES DEFENSE & SECURITY, INC.
    Inventors: Robert B. Atac, Richard Madison, James E. Melzer
  • Patent number: 11482184
    Abstract: Disclosed are a row drive circuit of array substrate and a display device. The row drive circuit includes N row drive units (10) arranged in cascade and auxiliary circuit units. The Nth row drive unit (10) is configured to output Nth gate driving signal to pre-charge and charge the Nth row of sub-pixels, when its signal input end receives the gate driving signal output by (N?2)th row drive unit (10). The Nth auxiliary circuit unit (20) is configured to control Nth row drive unit (10) skip pre-charging the sub-pixels, when (N?1)th timing control signal received by the first timing signal input end of Nth auxiliary circuit unit and (N+1)th timing control signal received by the second timing signal input end of Nth auxiliary circuit unit are high level. N is positive integer greater than or equal to two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Huailiang He
  • Patent number: 11482152
    Abstract: A display system includes a source device and a sink device. The source device generates red-color display data, green-color display data, and blue-color display data and transmits first packet data including the red-color display data and a red-color display reference gamma-set, second packet data including the green-color display data and a green-color display reference gamma-set, and third packet data including the blue-color display data and a blue-color display reference gamma-set. The sink device converts the red-color display data, the green-color display data, and the blue-color display data into red-color display data-voltages, green-color display data-voltages, and blue-color display data-voltages and displays an image using the red-color display data-voltages, the green-color display data-voltages, and the blue-color display data-voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gwangsoo Ahn, Keunoh Kang, Kihyun Pyun, Moonshik Kang
  • Patent number: 11481176
    Abstract: A display system includes: a divided image generator grouping divided images obtained by dividing a specific image according to the number of display devices, and generating a plurality of group images; a first image output processor that outputsoutputting, to a predetermined one of the display devices, each of the plurality of group images; a second image output processor outputting a second group image to one of the display devices on a latter stage when a first group image output from a video output device and the second group image output from one of the display devices on a former stage are input; a synthesized image generator extracting, from at least one of the first group image and the second group image, a plurality of the divided images to be displayed by a corresponding one of the display devices, and generating a synthesized image; and a display processor displaying the synthesized image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mamoru Takaya
  • Patent number: 11455056
    Abstract: A position input device includes a position detecting electrode, a position detecting wire, a first spare position detecting wire, a plurality of second spare position detecting wires, and a plurality of connectable portions. The position detecting electrode detects an input position. The position detecting wire transmits at least a position detection signal. The plurality of second spare position detecting wires are connectable to the first spare position detecting wire. The plurality of connectable portions are provided separately at each of sites of intersection of the position detecting wire and the plurality of second spare position detecting wires and are disposed to overlap each other via an insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11443705
    Abstract: Provided is a device that displays a moving image with high dynamic range. A control unit controls drive of at least one of a light source unit, a phase modulation unit, or an intensity modulation unit in accordance with an image signal. The light source unit applies first illumination light to a phase modulation panel of the phase modulation unit, which modulates a phase of the first illumination light applied from the light source unit, divides second illumination light for each predetermined phase modulation pixel group of the phase modulation panel, and applies the second illumination light to the intensity modulation panel for each predetermined intensity modulation pixel group of the intensity modulation panel, and the intensity modulation panel modulates an intensity of the second illumination light applied from the phase modulation panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Sato, Takahiro Mochizuki