Patents Examined by Stephen G. Sherman
  • Patent number: 11735082
    Abstract: A method of driving a display device includes: sensing characteristic information of pixels by outputting sensing voltages to sensing lines; and operating an external compensation of the pixels based on the characteristic information. The sensing of the characteristic information of pixels includes: detecting a capacitance deviation of sensing capacitors of first sensing lines connected to the sensing lines; and sensing the characteristic information of the pixels by replacing at least one of the first sensing lines with a second sensing line based on the capacitance deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiyoung Eom, Sang-Won Lee, Dong-Sung Im, Seonghwan Choi
  • Patent number: 11735112
    Abstract: A display device according to the present disclosure includes: a pixel array unit (30) in which pixel circuits (20A) are disposed in a matrix form, the pixel circuits each including a light emission unit (21), a write transistor (23) that writes a signal voltage (Vsig) of a video signal, a retention capacitor (24) that retains the signal voltage (Vsig) written by the write transistor (23), a drive transistor (22) that drives the light emission unit (21) on the basis of the signal voltage (Vsig) retained by the retention capacitor (24), and an auxiliary capacitor (25) of which one terminal is connected to a source node of the drive transistor (22); and a control unit (90) that provides a potential change to a source electrode of the drive transistor (22) by coupling through the auxiliary capacitor (25) to set an operation point of the drive transistor (22) as a cut-off region after the threshold value correction process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Naobumi Toyomura, Katsuhide Uchino, Yuki Seo
  • Patent number: 11727841
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving backplane, a display panel and a display device. The driving backplane comprises: a base substrate having a plurality of first conductive vias; a pixel circuit layer disposed on the base substrate and comprising a plurality of pixel circuits and a plurality of signal lines; a conductive portion, at least part of which is disposed in one first conductive via; a conductive pattern layer disposed on the base substrate and comprising a plurality of first conductive patterns; and a shielding layer disposed between the pixel circuit layer and the conductive pattern layer and having a plurality of hollow areas; wherein each of the plurality of signal lines is coupled to one first conductive pattern through at least one of the conductive portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minghua Xuan, Haoliang Zheng, Liang Chen, Qi Qi, Jing Liu, Dongni Liu
  • Patent number: 11726613
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for operating the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a housing which includes a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface, a display which is disposed on at least a part of the first surface, a proximity sensor which is disposed between the display and the second surface, an illuminance sensor, and a processor which is operably connected to the display and the illuminance sensor, wherein the processor is configured to activate the display and the illuminance sensor in response to the occurrence of an event, measure, by using the illuminance sensor, illuminance of a region where the electronic device is disposed, confirm the characteristic of an input occurring on the display by an external object, and determine, based on the measured illuminance and the characteristic of the input, whether or not to inactivate a touch input reception function of at least a partial region of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wooyoung Kim, Daehyun Jo
  • Patent number: 11719940
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device including a projection device and an optical waveguide is provided. The projection device has an optical pupil located on a second surface of the optical waveguide, and includes a light source, a first MEMS mirror element, a second MEMS mirror element, and a relay optical element group. The relay optical element group has a first axis equivalent focal length corresponding to a first parallel light beam and has a second axis equivalent focal length corresponding to a second parallel light beam. The first parallel light beam and the second parallel light beam travel along an optical axis of the relay optical element group, and a value of the first axis equivalent focal length is different from a value of the second axis equivalent focal length. The head-mounted display device may provide good image quality and a large field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Fu-Ming Chuang, Hsin-Hsiang Lo
  • Patent number: 11715324
    Abstract: A method for extracting a signature of a fingerprint shown on a source image is described. For this purpose, the source image is transformed into the frequency domain. One or more ridge frequencies are next determined by means of a convolutional neural network applied to said transformed image, n being an integer greater than or equal to 1. The source image is normalized in response to said n ridge frequencies determined. One or more signatures of said fingerprint are finally extracted from said n normalized images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE
    Inventors: Emilie Niaf, Laurent Kazdaghli, Anthony Cazasnoves
  • Patent number: 11714512
    Abstract: A touch sensor module according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a touch sensor layer including a visual area, a bending area and a pad area, a flexible circuit board electrically connected to the touch sensor layer on the pad area of the touch sensor layer, supporting structure covering the touch sensor layer on the bending area, and an optical layer disposed on the visual area of the touch sensor layer. The optical layer partially covers the supporting structure on a portion of the bending area adjacent to the visual area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Jin Son, Beom Cheol Kim
  • Patent number: 11716412
    Abstract: Head-mounted display systems and methods of operation that allow users to couple and decouple a portable electronic device such as a handheld portable electronic device with a separate head-mounted device (e.g., temporarily integrates the separate devices into a single unit) are disclosed. The portable electronic may be physically coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device can be worn on the user's head. The portable electronic device may be operatively coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device and head mounted device can communicate and operate with one another. Each device may be allowed to extend its features and/or services to the other device for the purpose of enhancing, increasing and/or eliminating redundant functions between the head-mounted device and the portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Quin C. Hoellwarth
  • Patent number: 11710759
    Abstract: One or more systems and/or methods are disclosed for building a relief print generator with no bezel. An electrode layer having more than one electrode can be used in an electrode-based, electro-luminescence component of the relief print generator. The respective electrodes may be connected to power sources with different voltage phases. An electrical circuit can be created between a biometric object and more than one electrode in the electrode layer when the biometric object contacts a surface of the generator. The electro-luminescent component can be activated by electrical charge and emit light indicative of a relief print of the biometric object. A contact electrode outside the electrode layer may not be used, which may allow for the removal of a bezel from an example device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Integrated Biometrics, LLC
    Inventors: David A. Hardinger, Spencer R. Canizales, Sang Hoon Chae, Frederick Frye, Dong Hyuk Jang, Robert A. Kimball
  • Patent number: 11710028
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating smart convolution in machine learning environments. An apparatus of embodiments, as described herein, includes one or more processors including one or more graphics processors, and detection and selection logic to detect and select input images having a plurality of geometric shapes associated with an object for which a neural network is to be trained. The apparatus further includes filter generation and storage logic (“filter logic”) to generate weights providing filters based on the plurality of geometric shapes, where the filter logic is further to sort the filters in filter groups based on common geometric shapes of the plurality of geographic shapes, and where the filter logic is further to store the filter groups in bins based on the common geometric shapes, wherein each bin corresponds to a geometric shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Dhawal Srivastava
  • Patent number: 11706964
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a supporting substrate, a flexible substrate disposed on the supporting substrate, a plurality of electronic units and a conductive pattern layer. The flexible substrate is bent from a front side to a back side of the supporting substrate, and a portion of the flexible substrate is disposed on the back side of the supporting substrate. The electronic units are disposed within a display region of the flexible substrate. The conductive pattern layer extends from the display region to the portion of the flexible substrate, and the conductive pattern layer electrically connects at least two of the electronic units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Jui-Jen Yueh, Kuan-Feng Lee
  • Patent number: 11699085
    Abstract: Logic may determine a specific performance of a neural network based on an event and may present the specific performance to provide a user with an explanation of the inference by a machine learning model such as a neural network. Logic may determine a first activation profile associated with the event, the first activation profile based on activation of nodes in one or more layers of the neural network during inference to generate an output. Logic may correlate the first activation profile against a second activation profile associated with a first training sample of training data. Logic may determine that the first training sample is associated with the event based on the correlation. Logic may output an indicator to identify the first training sample as being associated with the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Glen J. Anderson, Rajesh Poornachandran, Ignacio J. Alvarez, Giuseppe Raffa, Jill Boyce, Ankur Agrawal, Kshitij Arun Doshi
  • Patent number: 11693242
    Abstract: A Head-Mounted Display system together with associated techniques for performing accurate and automatic inside-out positional, user body and environment tracking for virtual or mixed reality are disclosed. The system uses computer vision methods and data fusion from multiple sensors to achieve real-time tracking. High frame rate and low latency is achieved by performing part of the processing on the HMD itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Simon Fortin-Deschênes, Vincent Chapdelaine-Couture, Yan Côté, Anthony Ghannoum
  • Patent number: 11694469
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate and a pixel layer disposed on the substrate. The pixel layer includes a circuit element layer having an opening. The circuit element layer includes a first semiconductor layer and a first conductive layer that includes a first scan line pattern and an emission control line. A second conductive layer is disposed on the first conductive layer and includes a first initialization line, a second scan line pattern and a third scan line pattern. A second semiconductor layer is disposed on the second conductive layer. A third conductive layer is disposed on the second semiconductor layer and includes fourth and fifth scan line patterns. The first initialization line includes a first portion and a second portion each extending in a first direction, and a third portion disposed therebetween. The second portion extends diagonally with respect to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki June Lee, Tae Hoon Yang, Dae Young Lee, Sun Hwa Lee, Ki Hyun Pyo
  • Patent number: 11694471
    Abstract: A biometric identification apparatus is provided to include a light-transmissible plate, a light filtering module, a display member and a photodetection member. The display member is configured to emit light, and the light is reflected by a surface of the light-transmissible plate and formed as an original reflected light. The light filtering module is configured to filter the original reflected light to obtain a light with a traveling direction in a predetermined angle range, and the photodetection member is configured to receive the light filtered by the light filtering module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI HARVEST INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiandong Huang
  • Patent number: 11687174
    Abstract: A method may be executed by one or more active capacitive styluses and a sensor controller connected to sensor electrodes. The method includes: a discovery step, executed by the sensor controller, of repeatedly sending out a discovery packet for detecting any of the active capacitive styluses; a discovery response step, executed by a first active capacitive stylus among the one or more active capacitive styluses, by which the discovery packet is detected, of returning a response packet to the discovery packet; a configuration step, executed by the sensor controller, of transmitting a configuration packet including time slot designation information that designates a first time slot to the first active capacitive stylus; and a data transmission step, executed by the first active capacitive stylus, of transmitting operation state data indicative of an operation state of the first active capacitive stylus using the designated first time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11681364
    Abstract: An image processing system may receive image data from a camera of a user device and perform gaze prediction processing of the image data to predict one or more gaze patterns. The gaze prediction processing may include processing the image data using a neural network to detect faces and/or objects and generate an image feature map. The gaze prediction processing may include performing gaze direction prediction operations using the feature map and detected faces and/or objects to determine gaze direction probability data. The gaze prediction processing may include predicting a gaze pattern based on the gaze direction probability data and the image feature map. The gaze pattern may be short-term (e.g., atomic-level) or long-term (e.g., event-level).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xu Zhang, Yue Wu, Varsha Hedau, Shih-Fu Chang, Pradeep Natarajan
  • Patent number: 11675431
    Abstract: A line of sight of a driver is detected based on an image of the driver obtained by image-capturing; whether the driver is viewing the image display unit or viewing an outside of the image display unit is judged based on the detected line of sight; glare is detected based on the image of the driver; and a luminance level of the image displayed by the image display unit is determined based on the glare at the time of viewing the image display unit and the glare at the time of viewing the outside of the image display unit. The visibility of the displayed image can be improved even when the driver feels glare because of external light falling upon the driver's eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki Kubo, Hayato Kikuta
  • Patent number: 11675197
    Abstract: Systems and methods for auto-calibrating a virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) head-mounted display to a given user with a refractive condition without adding corrective lenses to optical elements of the head-mounted display and without requiring subjective refraction procedures. A method comprises projecting a grid onto an eye of a user using a light source of a head-mounted display worn by the user, capturing the grid as-reflected from the eye using a camera of the head-mounted display, determining a pattern of a reflection of the grid based on the grid as-reflected, generating an aberration map based on a difference between the pattern as-reflected and the grid as-projected, and determining a correction to apply to at least one viewing lens of the head-mounted display worn by the user based on the aberration map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventor: Amanda D. Fernandez
  • Patent number: 11669241
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch control method. The method includes obtaining attitude information and/or holding information of an electronic device; determining a target area located in a first display area of the electronic device and/or a second display area of the electronic device, and presenting a control mark in the first display area or the second display area based on the attitude information and/or the holding information; generating a touch parameter based on size information of the target area; and controlling the control mark to execute an operation instruction corresponding to a touch operation based on the touch parameter in response to the touch operation for the target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventor: Helin Zhu