Patents Examined by Stacy Khoo
  • Patent number: 11251248
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including, a panel having a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix and each including a self-luminous element for emitting light, the panel including first to third conductive layers laminated in order on a supporting substrate, a first contact portion between the first and second conductive layers and a second contact portion between the second and third conductive layers being disposed at the same position in a planar direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Omoto, Masatsugu Tomida
  • Patent number: 11249571
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and an input sensing panel which includes sensing electrodes disposed on the display panel and which sense an input, sensing lines electrically connected to the sensing electrodes and which include a transparent conductive line disposed on the display panel and a metal line disposed on the transparent conductive line, and an insulating layer disposed between the transparent conductive line and the metal line. A plurality of contact holes are formed which penetrate through the insulating layer and expose the transparent conductive line, and some of the plurality of contact holes are arranged in a widthwise direction of the transparent conductive line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Jin Yang, Taeik Kim, Hyunsik Park, Chungi You, Sungho Cho
  • Patent number: 11226714
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, interfaces, and methods for visualizing time progressions in VR/AR/MR/XR environments, wherein the systems include a processing unit or a processor, a display device, and at least one VR/AR/MR/XR input device, wherein the systems, apparatuses, interfaces, and methods display projects or structures that have tasks, goals, targets, and/or events that have or will occur in a given time sequence along a time line, wherein the systems and methods also display a selection and control object and a temporal direction and speed control object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: QUANTUM INTERFACE, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Josephson, Robert W. Strozier
  • Patent number: 11216080
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, including acquiring information related to foot gesture features, and sending the acquired information related to the foot gesture features to an electronic device for a foot gesture detection. The foot gesture features include foot pointing direction(s), foot touch state(s), foot tilt angle(s), and foot movement levels. A button pad device that can be placed in shoe sole or insole for effective foot touch state detection is also disclosed. The disclosure also provides a method for cursor control using foot touch state, foot pointing angle, foot tilt angle from a foot gesture feature information acquisition device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Inventor: Xin Tian
  • Patent number: 11211002
    Abstract: An electrooptical device and apparatus are disclosed. In one example, an electrooptical device includes a scanning line, a signal line, a feed line to which a low potential is supplied, a pixel circuit, a drive circuit for driving the pixel circuit, a level shift block connected to the signal line, a first capacitor on the level shift block, and a second capacitor formed by a parasitic capacitance between the signal line and the feed line. A video signal voltage is written into the pixel circuit by capacitive coupling between the first capacitor and the second capacitor. The signal line is formed of a first metal layer. The feed line is formed of a second metal layer that is approximately equal in width to the first metal layer. The first metal layer and the second metal layer form the first capacitor and the second capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Naobumi Toyomura
  • Patent number: 11211006
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display driver module, a display apparatus and a voltage adjustment method. The display driver module comprises a source driving unit and a power supply unit. The source driving unit is configured to generate a voltage control signal according to an acquired brightness control factor, the power supply unit is configured to adjust an operating voltage output to a cathode of a light emitting device according to the voltage control signal, the operating voltage decreases or maintains unchanged as display brightness corresponding to the brightness control factor increases, and the operating voltage output by the power supply unit in response to the brightness control factor corresponding to minimum display brightness is greater than the operating voltage output by the power supply unit in response to the brightness control factor corresponding to maximum display brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Zhang, Jingni Wang, Kun Guo
  • Patent number: 11204503
    Abstract: An image display system can include a plurality of light sources configured to emit uncollimated light, and an eyepiece waveguide having an input port configured to receive beams of light at differing angles. The image display system also includes a scanning mirror having a surface with positive optical power configured to receive light emitted by the plurality of light sources. The surface with positive optical power is configured to collimate light emitted by the plurality of light sources to form a plurality of collimated light beams and direct the plurality of collimated light beams to the input port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Barak Freedman, Asaf Pellman, Ori Weinstein
  • Patent number: 11200842
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a pixel driving circuit and a driving method thereof, a display panel, and a display device. The pixel driving circuit comprises: a driving transistor connected to a first node, a first power supply voltage terminal and one end of a light emitting unit; a switching subcircuit connected to a first scanning terminal, the first node and a data voltage terminal; and a compensation subcircuit connected to the first node, a second scanning terminal, a first voltage terminal and a reference voltage terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tian Dong
  • Patent number: 11200846
    Abstract: Provided are a pixel circuit, a silicon-based display panel, and a display device. The pixel circuit includes a pixel drive circuit and a pixel compensation circuit; the pixel drive circuit includes a drive transistor and an organic light-emitting element; the drive transistor includes an output terminal and a body terminal, where the output terminal is connected to an anode of the organic light-emitting element, and a cathode of the organic light-emitting element is connected to a cathode signal input terminal and configured to receive a cathode potential inputted from the cathode signal input terminal, the cathode potential being fixed; the body terminal is connected to the pixel compensation circuit at a first node, and a potential of the first node is a body potential; and the cathode potential Vcom, a crossover voltage Voled of the organic light-emitting element, and the body potential Vbody satisfy that Vcom+Voled>Vbody.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SEEYA OPTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ping-lin Liu, Chang-ho Tseng, Tong Wu
  • Patent number: 11189225
    Abstract: A pixel circuit that drives a light-emitting device employs a diode-connection compensation scheme that compensates for threshold variations of the diode connecting switch that diode connects the drive transistor during a threshold compensation phase. The pixel circuit operates to reduce the impact of threshold voltage variations of the diode connecting switch to improve brightness uniformity and picture quality. The pixel circuit includes two compensation capacitors in addition to the storage capacitor for data programming to control the flow and magnitude of a rebalancing current through the diode connecting switch in such a way to cancel excess or deficit of charge caused by threshold voltage variations of the diode connecting switch due to capacitive coupling between the gate node of the switch and the storage capacitor. Therefore, the circuit configuration employs a triple-capacitor structure to significantly improve compensation performance and reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Adnan Heganovic, Tong Lu
  • Patent number: 11175767
    Abstract: An optical touch-sensitive device is able to determine the locations of multiple simultaneous touch events on a surface. The optical touch-sensitive device includes multiple emitters and detectors. Each emitter produces optical beams which are received by the detectors. Touch events on the surface disturb the optical beams received by the detectors. Based on the disturbed beams, a map of the touch activity on the surface is generated. Touch characteristics and touch types for each touch event are determined from the map. By applying the touch characteristics and touch types to contextual information, a machine learned model, or a set of predefined rules, touches can be classified as wanted or unwanted touch events. Unwanted touch events may be ignored to improve user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Beechrock Limited
    Inventors: Owen Drumm, Niall O'Cleirigh
  • Patent number: 11173391
    Abstract: A system includes a mobile device having one or more cameras to take images; a sensor detecting reflected light from one or more lasers and a diffuser to detect object range or dimension; code for motion tracking, environmental understanding by detecting planes in an environment, and estimating light and dimensions of the surrounding based on the one or more lasers; code to estimate a three-dimensional (3D) volume of an object from multiple perspectives and from projected laser beams to measure size or scale and determine locations of points on the object's surface in a plane or a slice using time-of-flight, wherein positions and cross-sections for different slices are correlated to construct a 3D model of the object, including object position and shape; the device receiving user request to select a content from one or more augmented, virtual, or extended reality contents and rendering a reality view of the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventor: Naveen Kumar
  • Patent number: 11170714
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a pixel circuit, a method for driving the same, a display panel and a display device. The pixel circuit includes: a first switching transistor, a second switching transistor, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a driving transistor, and a light emitting device; where a gate electrode of the first switching transistor is connected with a scanning signal end, a first electrode of the first switching transistor is connected with a reference signal end, and a second electrode of the first switching transistor is connected with a gate electrode of the driving transistor; and a gate electrode of the second switching transistor is connected with a light emitting control signal end, a first electrode of the second switching transistor is connected with a first power supply end, and a second electrode of the second switching transistor is connected with a first electrode of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sheng Hu, Ziyang Yu
  • Patent number: 11170707
    Abstract: A shift register unit, a gate driving circuit, a display device, and a driving method. The shift register unit includes a blanking input circuit, a display input circuit, an output circuit, and a compensation selection circuit. The blanking input circuit inputs a blanking input signal to a control node, and a blanking signal to a first node in a blanking period of a frame; the display input circuit inputs a display signal to the first node in a display period of the frame in response to a display input signal; the output circuit outputs, under the control of a level of the first node, a composite output signal to an output terminal; the compensation selection circuit is electrically coupled to the output terminal, and charges, in response to a compensation selection control signal, the control node using the composite output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuehuan Feng, Yongqian Li
  • Patent number: 11158126
    Abstract: Redirected walking methods are described that may be implemented in virtual reality (VR) systems for guiding or redirecting users' movements within constrained physical environments or in unconstrained physical environments, while the users perceive that they are freely moving about within virtual worlds provided by the VR systems. The methods may involve rendering views of a VR world based at least in part on a user's movements in the real environment, adjusting the views according to the user's position and movements with respect to objects in and boundaries of the real environment, and displaying the adjusted views to the user. In response to visual cues introduced by the methods, the user may adjust their path in the real world environment. For example, a rotation of the VR environment introduced by a shift of one or more views may cause the user to turn in a direction opposite to the rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yury A. Petrov, Julius G. Krumbiegel
  • Patent number: 11158255
    Abstract: A display driving method, a display driving device, and a display device are provided. The display driving method includes: providing a first voltage, which is lower than a first reference voltage, to a first voltage terminal of a pixel circuit to drive the pixel circuit, wherein a voltage reduction amplitude of the first voltage relative to the first reference voltage is a first amplitude; and providing a second voltage, which is lower than a second reference voltage, to a second voltage terminal of a source driving circuit to control the source driving circuit to generate a data signal which is lower than a data reference voltage, and to provide the data signal to the pixel circuit, a voltage reduction amplitude of the data signal relative to the data reference voltage is the first amplitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hasieerdun Han, Chichang Liu
  • Patent number: 11144271
    Abstract: Systems for moveable computer display devices are provided. A computer display system includes a base member that provides stability and includes an input device. The system further includes a support member attached to a first terminus of the base member. As part of the system, the support member includes an actuator to change support member length based upon an input received at the input device. The system also includes a display device attached at a second terminus of the support member opposite the first terminus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Inventor: Deborah Joyce
  • Patent number: 11144133
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a keyboard comprising light emitting devices, each respectively disposed below a key to lighten the top surface of the key; and a micro controller unit transmitting signals generated by each key to the computer, having switches for controlling the light emitting devices, and controlling switches according to signals transmitted from the computer, and a method of selecting the colors of the keys of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Corsair Memory, Inc.
    Inventors: Tae-Kyung Yoo, Min-Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 11138928
    Abstract: A screen brightness adjustment method includes determining target brightness, determining a quantity of pixel rows controlled by each pulse in an emission (EM) signal required for implementing the target brightness, adjusting a pulse width of a pulse in a current EM signal based on the quantity of pixel rows controlled by each pulse in the EM signal required for implementing the target brightness to change a duty cycle of the EM signal, where the duty cycle reflects a quantity of pixel rows that are lit up and controlled by the EM signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiufeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11132977
    Abstract: An eyewear device includes an image display and an image display driver coupled to the image display to control a presented image and adjust a brightness level setting of the presented image. The eyewear device includes a user input device including an input surface on a frame, a temple, a lateral side, or a combination thereof to receive from the wearer a user input selection. Eyewear device includes a proximity sensor to track a finger distance of a finger of the wearer to the input surface. Eyewear device controls, via the image display driver, the image display to present the image to the wearer. Eyewear device tracks, via the proximity sensor, the finger distance of the finger of the wearer to the input surface. Eyewear device adjusts, via the image display driver, the brightness level setting of the presented image on the image display based on the tracked finger distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Jonathan M. Rodriguez, II, Yu Jiang Tham