Patents Examined by Ryan A Lubit
  • Patent number: 12200950
    Abstract: An electronic device having an eye tracking function is provided. The electronic device includes a display device and an optical system. The display device includes a first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element, a sensor portion, and a driver circuit portion. The sensor portion includes a light-receiving element. The first light-emitting element has a function of emitting infrared light or visible light. The second light-emitting element has a function of emitting light of a color different from that of light emitted from the first light-emitting element. When the first light-emitting element emits infrared light, the light-receiving element has a function of detecting the infrared light that is emitted from the first light-emitting element and reflected by an eyeball of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Godo, Yoshiyuki Kurokawa, Kouhei Toyotaka, Kazuki Tsuda, Satoru Ohshita, Hidefumi Rikimaru
  • Patent number: 12189903
    Abstract: A touch frame assembly and an interactive white board are provided. The touch frame assembly includes: an infrared touch frame, including a frame body and a PCB assembly arranged in the frame body; a glass cover plate, located on an inner side of the PCB assembly; a fixing structure configured to fix the glass cover plate to the infrared touch frame, wherein the glass cover plate controls an inward concave of the glass cover plate through a curvature of the frame and/or the fixing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: GUANGZHOU SHIYUAN ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED, GUANGZHOU SHIRUI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiabin Yuan
  • Patent number: 12189870
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for controlling a particular computer to execute a task is described. The method includes receiving a control input comprising a visual input, the visual input including one or more screen frames of a computer display that represent at least a current state of the particular computer; processing the control input using a neural network to generate one or more control outputs that are used to control the particular computer to execute the task, in which the one or more control outputs include an action type output that specifies at least one of a pointing device action or a keyboard action to be performed to control the particular computer; determining one or more actions from the one or more control outputs; and executing the one or more actions to control the particular computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Deep Mind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Peter Conway Humphreys, Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Tobias Markus Pohlen, Adam Anthony Santoro
  • Patent number: 12189888
    Abstract: Detecting a touch includes receiving image data of a touching object of a user selecting selectable objects of a target surface, determining a rate of movement of the touching object, in response to determining that the rate of movement satisfies a predetermined threshold, modifying a touch detection parameter for detecting a touch event between the touching object and the target surface, and detecting one or more additional touch events using the modified touch detection parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lejing Wang, Benjamin R. Blachnitzky, Lilli I. Jonsson, Nicolai Georg
  • Patent number: 12182325
    Abstract: Some examples of the disclosure are directed to systems and methods for displaying and interacting with a representation of a user interface of an electronic device in a three-dimensional environment. While presenting a first user interface, a first electronic device presents a representation of a second user interface of a second electronic device based on display data representing the second user interface. In response to detecting a respective event corresponding to user input, if a gaze of a user of the first electronic device is directed to the representation of the second user interface, the first electronic device causes the second electronic device to perform a first operation directed to the second user interface based on the respective event. Alternatively, if the gaze is directed to the first user interface, the first electronic device performs a second operation directed to the first user interface based on the respective event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler R. Calderone, Sean L. Seguin, Lorena S. Pazmino, Aryan Sharifian
  • Patent number: 12165602
    Abstract: An electro-optical device is provided with a plurality of data lines, a plurality of potential lines supplied with a predetermined potential, a driving transistor controlling a current level according to the voltage between the gate and the source, a first storage capacitor which holds the voltage between the gate and a source of the driving transistor, and a light-emitting element. One data line among the plurality of data lines and one potential line among the plurality of potential lines are arranged to be adjacent to each other, and a second storage capacitor holding the potential of the one data line is formed by the one data line and the one potential line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kasai, Takeshi Nomura
  • Patent number: 12159573
    Abstract: Provided is a display system with high display quality and high resolution. The display system includes a first layer and a display portion. The display portion is positioned in a region overlapping with the first layer. The first layer includes a semiconductor substrate containing silicon as a material, and a plurality of first transistors and a plurality of second transistors whose channel formation regions contain silicon are formed over the semiconductor substrate. The first layer includes a first circuit and a second circuit; the first circuit includes a driver circuit for driving the display portion; and the second circuit includes a memory device, a GPU, and an EL correction circuit. The display portion includes a pixel, and the pixel includes a light-emitting device containing organic EL and is electrically connected to the driver circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Tatsuya Onuki, Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 12160540
    Abstract: An electronic device, method, and computer program product expedite authentication of a user by capturing a palmprint, without necessarily requiring a dedicated user action. The electronic device monitors for detection of an image via a palmprint scanner, positioned by a translation mechanism, in response to identifying a requirement to authenticate the user. The translation mechanism slides a blade assembly relative to the device housing between extended and retracted positions. The blade assembly includes a blade, a flexible display, and the palmprint scanner sized to cover at least a portion of a back side of the device housing for receiving the palmprint while the blade assembly is at least in the retracted position. The electronic device authenticates the user in response to identifying a palmprint in the image corresponding to an authorized user and presents visual content via the flexible display positioned on a front side of the display housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Amal Chandran, Kolli Kishor
  • Patent number: 12153471
    Abstract: A foldable device includes a housing and a foldable display device coupled to the housing. The foldable display device includes a foldable display layer, a foldable glass layer on a first side of the foldable display layer, and a sensing device on a second side of the foldable display layer. The sensing device includes a strain gauge layer. The strain gauge layer includes an array of resistors arranged on a piezoresistive substrate. Changes in resistance levels measured by the array of resistors are used to detect faults such as scratches, punctures, cracks and the like in the foldable glass layer. The foldable device may output an alert in response to detection of a fault in the foldable glass layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Kiarash Vakhshouri
  • Patent number: 12153739
    Abstract: A gesture-recognition (GR) device is disclosed that includes a capacitive touch sensor panel and a controller. The capacitive touch sensor panel comprises a plurality of sensing pads arranged in a cylindrical pattern inside a handle of the GR device and detects a multi-factor touch assertion at a set of sensing pads of the plurality of sensing pads. The controller transmits a driving signal to each of the plurality of sensing pads for the detection of the multi-factor touch assertion, generates an assertion signal, determines a signal sequence based on the assertion signal, and converts a current inactive state of the GR device to an active state based on a validation of the determined signal sequence corresponding to the multi-factor touch assertion and an inferred user intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Nocon, Tom McWilliams
  • Patent number: 12147034
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for interaction between a user and a machine. In one implementation, a system is provided that receives an input from a user of a mobile machine which indicates or describes an object in the world. In one example, the user may gesture to the object which is detected by a visual sensor. In another example, the user may verbally describe the object which is detected by an audio sensor. The system receiving the input may then determine which object near the location of the user that the user is indicating. Such a determination may include utilizing known objects near the geographic location of the user or the autonomous or mobile machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick S. Piemonte, Wolf Kienzle, Douglas Bowman, Shaun D. Budhram, Madhurani R. Sapre, Vyacheslav Leizerovich, Daniel De Rocha Rosario
  • Patent number: 12130689
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for touch detection of computing device position. A touch filter monitor signals generated by one or more touch input devices for a signature of one or more other input devices proximate to the touch input device, which may indicate a user physically manipulated the computing device to render the input device(s) inoperable, such as by closing a portable computer. The touch filter controls the computing device to enter or remain in a power saving mode based on detection of one or more signatures of one or more other input devices in a signal generated by the monitored touch input device(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Anatoly Tsvetov, Idan Wolf, Omer Kasher-Hitin, Oren Istrin
  • Patent number: 12118141
    Abstract: This document relates to employing physiological feedback to aid a user in targeting objects using a computing device. One example relates to a method or technique that can include receiving a user attention signal conveying where a user directs attention. The method or technique can also include, based on the user attention signal, identifying a predicted object that the user intends to target with a targeting mechanism and outputting a visual identification of the predicted object. The method or technique can also include receiving a user reaction signal conveying a physiological reaction of the user to the visual identification of the predicted object. The method or technique can also include, in an instance when the physiological reaction of the user indicates an error, identifying another predicted object that the user intends to target with the targeting mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Micrsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yu-Te Wang, Jen-Tse Dong
  • Patent number: 12118145
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus according to the present invention, includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire right line-of-sight information on a line-of-sight of a right eye of a user; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire left line-of-sight information on a line-of-sight of a left eye of the user; and a control unit configured to control such that right eye calibration is performed on a basis of right line-of-sight information which is acquired by the first acquisition unit at a first timing, and left eye calibration is performed on a basis of left line-of-sight information which is acquired by the second acquisition unit at a second timing which is different from the first timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Mizuo
  • Patent number: 12112701
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first pixel, a second pixel, and a connection line connecting the first pixel and the second pixel. Each of the first pixel and the second pixel includes a light emitting element, a first transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode electrically connected to the light emitting element, and a gate electrode, a second transistor connected between a first driving voltage line and a connection node and including a gate electrode connected to an emission line, a third transistor connected between a second driving voltage line and the connection node and including a gate electrode connected to the emission line, and a capacitor connected between the gate electrode of the first transistor and the connection node. The connection node of the first pixel is electrically connected to the connection node of the second pixel through the connection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Danwon Lim, Hyunjoon Kim, Bon-Yong Koo
  • Patent number: 12105284
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and system for implementing a platform for providing offline information to smart glass. A computer device for implementing an information platform may include an information manager configured to manage service information to be exposed on smart glass based on service configuration information to be broadcasted through an information broadcasting device (IBD) registered by an information owner, and a content manager configured to distribute content, generated based on the managed service information, in a format configured in the smart glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: PIAMOND CORP.
    Inventor: Doo Geon Hwang
  • Patent number: 12093592
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a picture displaying method and apparatus, an electronic device, a storage medium and a computer program product. The method includes: acquiring a first resolution of a display screen of a client; adjusting, according to the first resolution, a to-be-output picture to obtain an effective display picture, where the effective display picture is displayed at a same ratio as a ratio of the first resolution; and transmitting the effective display picture to the client for display. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, for clients of different resolutions, with an assurance that no black edge or distortion appears in a picture displayed in the client, an effect of one server terminal being capable of supporting clients of various different resolutions is achieved, thereby reducing the complexity of server terminal management, and improving the device utilization of the server terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bang Peng, Wangbang Wu
  • Patent number: 12093596
    Abstract: The present application provides a distributed system on panel (SOP) display panel and a display system. The distributed SOP display panel includes a plurality of display modules and a plurality of functional modules. Each display module includes a plurality of display units. The functional modules include first functional modules and a second functional module. The first functional modules are electrically connected to the display units in adjacent display modules, the second functional module is electrically connected to the plurality of display modules, in order to alleviate a technical problem of improper layout of system functions of a conventional SOP display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zemin Hu, Guowei Zha, Guanghui Liu, Zhifu Li, Xiaolin Yan, Wanliang Feng
  • Patent number: 12085721
    Abstract: This optical waveguide detection element includes a substrate, an optical waveguide layer formed on the substrate, and a photodetector. The optical waveguide layer includes a first optical waveguide in which visible light having a wavelength of 380 nm to 800 nm propagates, a second optical waveguide in which near-infrared light having a wavelength of 801 nm to 2000 nm propagates, and a third optical waveguide in which light propagates to a light receiving surface of the photodetector. A visible light output port of the first optical waveguide from which the visible light is output, a near-infrared light output port of the second optical waveguide from which the near-infrared light is output, and a reflected light input port of the third optical waveguide to which the near-infrared light is reflected and returned are arranged on one end surface of the optical waveguide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Fukuzawa, Tomohito Mizuno, Tetsuya Shibata, Tsuyoshi Komaki
  • Patent number: 12083406
    Abstract: A bicycle simulator includes: a base portion; a frame support portion connected to the base portion to be movable in a direction and configured to support a frame of a bicycle docked, the frame connecting a front wheel with a rear wheel of the bicycle; a first sensor portion configured to obtain sight information of a rider riding on the bicycle; a processor configured to generate a virtual image that is changed according to the sight information of the rider obtained by the first sensor portion; and a display displaying the virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: REAL DESIGN TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Joong Sik Lee