Patents Examined by Shaheda A Abdin
  • Patent number: 11156842
    Abstract: A head-mounted-display assembly may include a knitted layer formed of a plurality of fibers and extending in three dimensions. The knitted layer may include (1) a first region having a first degree of at least one physical property, (2) a second region having a second degree of the at least one physical property, and (3) a transition region extending between the first region and the second region. The transition region of the knitted layer may progressively change in degree of the at least one physical property proceeding from the first region toward the second region. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shane Michael Ellis, Joseph Patrick Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11151961
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one sensor; at least one input interface; at least one output interface; a display; at least one processor electrically connected to the at least one sensor, the at least one input interface, the at least one output interface and the display; and memory electrically connected to the at least one processor, wherein memory is configured to store instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to receive a sound from a user via the at least one input interface, execute an application for interaction with the user based on the received sound, identify the user based on information associated with the user obtained using the at least one sensor, and control the display to display information related to at least one function of the application executed in association with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventors: Mi-Hyun Jeong, Eun-Seok Kim, Do-Hyeong Park, Pyo-Je Cho, Jin-A Choe, Jin-Soo Ha, Dong-Il Son
  • Patent number: 11150762
    Abstract: Techniques for providing multi-user multi-touch projected capacitive touch sensors are disclosed herein. Some embodiments may include a method that includes receiving a first sense signal from a first sensing array, the first sensing array configured to provide the first sense signal indicating a first touch on a first touch surface of a touch substrate as well as receiving a second sense signal from a second sensing array, the second sensing array configured to provide the second sense signal indicating a second touch on a second touch surface of a second touch substrate occurring concurrently to the first touch. The method may further include determining whether the first touch and the second touch share at least one anti-ghost. The method may also include associating the first touch and the second touch with a common touch entity in response to determining that the first touch and the second touch share the at least one anti-ghost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: ELO TOUCH SOLOUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Damien Berget, Kenneth Andrew Feehan, Paul Leonard Futter, David Samuel Hecht, Joel Christopher Kent, Robert William Kitchin, Kenneth John North, James Roney, Kyu-Tak Son, Jung Verheiden, Forrest Kim Wunderlich
  • Patent number: 11126288
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a display area in which an image is displayed and a peripheral area disposed outside of the display area, and a touch sensor disposed on the display panel. The touch sensor includes a plurality of sensor electrodes formed in a repeated arrangement of sensor patterns that forms a touch active area, a plurality of sensor wirings connected to the sensor electrodes and disposed outside of the touch active area, and at least one insulating layer overlapping the display area and the peripheral area. At least a portion of the sensor electrodes is formed over the display area and the peripheral area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Hwa Kim, Il Joo Kim, Deok Joong Kim, Kyung Su Lee
  • Patent number: 11126292
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus with a touch panel including a host controller, an interface unit, and a touch panel control unit is provided. The host controller is used to control an electronic apparatus implemented with the host controller. The touch panel control unit is coupled to the host controller through the interface unit. The host controller transmits an updating information to the touch panel control unit with a format of the interface unit, in which the updating data is used to update the touch panel control unit. The touch panel control unit decodes the updating data to accordingly update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hui-Hung Chang, Meng-Hsiu Wu
  • Patent number: 11120761
    Abstract: A driving substrate includes a substrate, at least one active device, a resistor, a first passivation layer and a second passivation layer. The active device including an oxide semiconductor layer and the resistor coupled to the active device are disposed on the substrate. The first passivation layer covers the active device, wherein a portion of the first passivation layer directly contacts to the oxide semiconductor layer such that the oxide semiconductor layer has a first conductivity. The second passivation layer covers the first passivation layer and the resistor, wherein a portion of the second passivation layer directly contacts to the resistor such that the resistor has a second conductivity. The first conductivity is different from the second conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Tsung Chen, Po-Hsin Lin, Xue-Hung Tsai
  • Patent number: 11112920
    Abstract: An input device includes at least one electrode including multiple detection terminals. The detection terminals are connected to an image data calculation unit. The image data calculation unit detects detection values that vary in accordance with an amount of electric charge detected through the detection terminals. Based on coefficient information values, the image data calculation unit calculates image data values each corresponding to capacitance of each of multiple sections. The coefficient information corresponds to different combinations of one of the multiple sections and one of the multiple detection terminals. The coefficient information represents a ratio of electric charge detected by the one of the detection terminals to an amount of electric charge charged in one of the sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Yamada, Tatsumi Fujiyoshi
  • Patent number: 11107406
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a data signal supply circuit, a first switching element electrically coupled to the data signal supply circuit, a first capacitor disposed in a display region and electrically coupled to the first switching element, a second switching element including a first end electrically coupled to the first switching element, and a second end, a second capacitor disposed in the display region and including a first end electrically coupled to the second end of the second switching element, and a second end, a data line electrically coupled to the second end of the second capacitor, a pixel circuit electrically coupled to the data line, and a first metal layer disposed between the first capacitor and the second capacitor and supplied with a fixed potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hitoshi Ota
  • Patent number: 11099384
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for adjusting display settings of a head-mounted display. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to receive sensor data from one or more sensors operably connected to a head mounted display (“HMD”) unit while a user wears the HMD unit. The code is executable by the processor to determine a user's cognition level based on the sensor data. The code is executable by the processor to adjust one or more display settings of the HMD unit based on the determined cognition level for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Qian, Joseph Vincent Nasti, David Alexander Schwarz, Song Wang
  • Patent number: 11093196
    Abstract: A method, system, and device for selecting and displaying information on a mobile digital display device includes determining preference criteria for local viewers of the mobile digital information display device, selecting digital information to be displayed on the mobile digital information display device as a function of the preference criteria, and displaying the selected information on a display of the mobile digital information device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bradford H. Needham, Edward R. Harrison, Robin L. Jordan
  • Patent number: 11086363
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first display area and a second display area. The first display area includes a planar area and a bending area. The first display area and the second display area are arranged along a first direction. The planar area and the second display area are arranged at opposite sides of the bending area along the first direction. A maximum length of the planar area along a second direction is greater than a minimum length of the second display area along the second direction. The first direction intersects the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Shanghai AVIC OPTO Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shihu Su, Tianqing Hu, Zhaokeng Cao
  • Patent number: 11081085
    Abstract: An on-board information display device can effectively display information by synchronizing a plurality of display units in accordance with information to be provided. The on-board information display device controls a plurality of display units, and includes an on-board information display controller including: a display-execution-processing determination unit that outputs a display-execution-processing determination result indicating whether parts or all of display screens to be displayed on the plurality of display units are to be synchronized, in accordance with on-board information to be displayed on the plurality of display units; and a display data generation unit that receives the display-execution-processing determination result and generates display data to allow the display screens to be displayed on the plurality of display units, in synchronization or without synchronization in accordance with the display-execution-processing determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daiki Niinuma
  • Patent number: 11079860
    Abstract: A system having sensor modules and a computing device. Each sensor module has an inertial measurement unit configured to track its orientation. In a kinematic chain, multiple rigid parts of a user are connected via joints. At least one rigid part is not independently tracked using sensor modules. The computing device computes the estimates of the orientation of the rigid part, separately using an artificial neural network model or using assumed orientation relations. During a sequence of actions performed by the user, orientation estimates produced by one technique can be more accurate than another technique at some time instances, but less accurate at other time instances. An artificial neural network is trained to classify the accuracy the estimates and/or to combine the estimates to provide improved orientation estimates for the duration of the sequence of actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Finch Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Viktor Vladimirovich Erivantcev, Alexander Sergeevich Lobanov, Alexey Ivanovich Kartashov, Daniil Olegovich Goncharov, Ravil Rustemovich Kurbanaev
  • Patent number: 11073910
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a line-of-sight detection apparatus connected to a brain-wave measurement apparatus configured to measure brain waves of a user, a pupil observation apparatus configured to observe a pupil of the user, and a display apparatus. The line-of-sight detection apparatus includes: an attention position identification block configured to identify, by use of measurement results by the brain-wave measurement apparatus obtained when a video having a predetermined pattern is displayed on a screen of the display apparatus, a position of attention of the user inside the screen; and a correlation identification block configured to identify a correlation between a line-of-sight direction of the user and a position inside the screen by use of observation results by the pupil observation apparatus obtained when the attention position is identified and the identified attention position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Onuki
  • Patent number: 11068051
    Abstract: An augmented mirror comprising: a partially silvered mirrored surface; a screen underneath the mirrored surface; a camera; and a computer module for receiving data from the camera and for providing graphical images to the screen, wherein the field of view over which visual information is processed is reduced to visual information from within a visual corridor, the visual corridor corresponding to a subset of the field of view of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven David Benford, Anthony Brown, Nils Jäger, Brian Patrick Newby, Adam Thomas Russell, Louise Mary Schofield, Katharine Jane Shaw, Paul Robert Tennent, Michel François Valstar, Ruediger Zillmer
  • Patent number: 11062653
    Abstract: A display apparatus and an operation method for a display panel thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel and a voltage supply circuit. The display panel includes a pixel circuit and a common voltage line. The pixel circuit includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED), wherein a cathode of the OLED is coupled to the common voltage line. The voltage supply circuit is coupled to the common voltage line of the display panel. The voltage supply circuit supplies a common voltage to the common voltage line during a normal operation period. The voltage supply circuit supplies a reverse bias voltage higher than the common voltage to the common voltage line during a recovery period to reversely bias the OLED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Tse-Yuan Chen, Jung-Hsuan Sung, Chien-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11054900
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an eye movement detecting device comprises first, second, third, fourth and fifth electrodes. A line connecting the first and the third electrodes passes through the right eye and a line connecting the second and the fourth electrodes passes through the left eye on at least one of a front view, a plan view or a side view. A distance between the fifth and the first electrodes is equal to a distance between the fifth and the second electrodes. A distance between the fifth and the third electrodes is equal to a distance between the fifth and the fourth electrodes. The detector respectively detects a horizontal movement of the right eye and a horizontal movement of the left eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hiroaki Komaki
  • Patent number: 11042246
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device having a touch detection function, and relates to a touch pad which is capable of detecting a contact touch and a contactless touch, a method of detecting a touch by using the same, and a display device including the same. According to the touch pad, the method of detecting a touch by using the touch pad, and the display device including the touch pad of the present invention, it is possible to simultaneously detect a contact touch and a contactless touch, and increase touch sensitivity by additionally applying a driving back voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: G2TOUCH Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Woo Yun, Tae Wook Kim, Hwa Joo Noh, Ki Hwan Oh
  • Patent number: 11036296
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a fixing device and an output device. The fixing device is provided for, after the electronic device is worn by the user, maintaining a relative positional relationship between the electronic device and the at least one part of the user's body. The output device is provided for, after the electronic device is worn by the user, responding to an obtained control command and performing an operation causing the user to receive haptic feedback from the electronic device based on the relative positional relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Super Liao, Li Jiang, Zhenghong Chen, Shuisheng Yu, Guangbo Meng
  • Patent number: 11030928
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for sensing a display panel are provided. The apparatus includes a source driving circuit and a sensing circuit. The source driving circuit is coupled to data lines to drive the pixel circuits according to a display period comprising frame periods. The sensing circuit is coupled to a plurality of pixel circuits. The sensing circuit senses characteristics of the pixel circuits in the test data periods of the display period. The test data periods are periodically arranged in the display period. In each of the test data periods, a corresponding pixel circuit receives test data, and the sensing circuit senses the electrical characteristic of the corresponding pixel circuit. In the scan-line periods of each of the frame periods, the corresponding pixel circuit receives display data from a corresponding data line, and the sensing circuit does not sense the corresponding pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Chieh Lin, Shang-I Liu, Hua-Gang Chang