Patents Examined by Stephen G. Sherman
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Patent number: 11610536Abstract: An embodiment relates to an LED driving technique. The embodiment provides a technique of measuring a forward voltage reaching time of a currently driven LED by comparing a forward voltage sensed in a previous scan line and an LED voltage sensed in a current scan line, and compensating an ON period of a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal by the measured forward voltage reaching time.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: LX SEMICON CO., LTD.Inventors: Ji Hwan Kim, Jang Su Kim
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Patent number: 11604958Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing layers in a neural network fetch Input Feature Map (IFM) tiles of an IFM tensor and kernel tiles of a kernel tensor, perform a convolutional operation on the IFM tiles and the kernel tiles by exploiting IFM sparsity and kernel sparsity, and generate a plurality of OFM tiles corresponding to the IFM tiles.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Saptarsi Das, Sabitha Kusuma, Sehwan Lee, Ankur Deshwal, Kiran Kolar Chandrasekharan
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Patent number: 11604957Abstract: Systems and methods for designing a hybrid neural network comprising at least one physical neural network component and at least one digital neural network component. A loss function is defined within a design space composed of a plurality of voxels, the design space encompassing one or more physical structures of the at least one physical neural network component and one or more architectural features of the digital neural network. Values are determined for at least one functional parameter for the one or more physical structures, and the at least one architectural parameter for the one or more architectural features, using a domain solver to solve Maxwell's equations so that a loss determined according to the loss function is within a threshold loss. Final structures are defined for the at least one physical neural network component and the digital neural network component based on the values.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Martin Friedrich Schubert, Brian John Adolf, Jesse Lu
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Patent number: 11600100Abstract: An image sensing method, applicable to the anti-spoofing recognition of under screen optical fingerprint sensing, is provided, including: dividing the image sensor into sensing blocks, dividing the display area of the display device correspondingly according to the sensing area, and the display area including the light-emitting area; defining the luminous color of each display area and the color coordinate value of each luminous color; each sensing block sensing the light intensity of the image reflected to the sensing block from the display block emitting the light onto the reference object and the test object to be measured; calculating the anti-spoofing reference color information of the reference object and registering in the system; when sensing the fingerprint image, first obtaining the light intensity of each block, then calculating the color information of the test object; and finally, comparing the color information with the registered anti-spoofing reference color information.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Guangzhou Tyrafos Semiconductor Tech. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ping-Hung Yin, Jun-Wen Chung, Hua Chen, Fu-Kuo Lin, Hsu-Wen Fu
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Patent number: 11600093Abstract: Embodiments relate to a sensor system for a brain computer interface (BCI) that enable detection and decoding of brain activity by optical tomography. The sensor system includes an array of pixels arranged as grouped pixel units to provide increased dynamic range. One or more of the grouped pixel units can operate in a saturated mode while providing information useful for decoding brain activity. Furthermore, the grouped pixel units are arranged to enable fast readout by a pixel scanner, thereby increasing detection and decoding ability by systems implementing the sensor design. The grouped pixel units of the sensor system are aligned with optical fibers of an interface to a body region of a user, where the optical fibers can be retained in position relative to the grouped pixel units by an optically transparent substrate that provides mechanical support while minimizing factors associated with divergence of light transmitted through optical fibers.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventor: Tobias Gerard Tiecke
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Patent number: 11592909Abstract: This document describes techniques for fine-motion virtual-reality or augmented-reality control using radar. These techniques enable small motions and displacements to be tracked, even in the millimeter or sub-millimeter scale, for user control actions even when those actions are small, fast, or obscured due to darkness or varying light. Further, these techniques enable fine resolution and real-time control, unlike conventional RF-tracking or optical-tracking techniques.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ivan Poupyrev, Patrick M. Amihood
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Patent number: 11594168Abstract: A display device includes a pixel unit including first pixels in a first pixel area, second pixels in a second pixel area, and third pixels in a third pixel area; a first scan driver including first multiplexers configured to operate in response to a first mode and a second mode different from the first mode, and to supply first scan signals to first scan lines connected to the first pixels; a second scan driver configured to supply second scan signals to second scan lines connected to the second pixels; and a third scan driver including second multiplexers configured to operate in response to the first mode and the second mode, and to supply third scan signals to third scan lines connected to the third pixels.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Sic Lee, Min Woo Byun, Jae Du Noh, Min Kyu Woo, Seung Yeon Cho
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Patent number: 11594852Abstract: Technologies pertaining to accounting for pulse history effects are described herein. In connection with accounting for pulse history effects, an amount of time between a first current pulse and a second current pulse that are to be transmitted to a pulsed laser is determined. Based upon such an amount of time, a determination is made as to whether a porch pulse is to be prepended to the second current pulse. When the porch pulse is to be prepended to the second current pulse, an amplitude and duration of the porch pulse are computed based upon the amount of time. The porch pulse is transmitted to the pulsed laser immediately followed by the second current pulse, wherein the porch pulse pre-charges the pulsed laser for emitting a pulse of light based upon the second current pulse.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Thomas Hamish Barter, John Allen Tardif
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Patent number: 11594065Abstract: An optical image recognition device and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed. The device includes a flexible printed circuit board, an image sensor, a glue, an optical collimator, a supporting ring, a sealant, and an optical filter. The top of the flexible printed circuit board is provided with a recess, the image sensor is located in the recess, the sidewalls of the image sensor and the recess are separated from each other, and the image sensor is coupled to the flexible printed circuit board through conductive wires. The glue adheres to the flexible printed circuit board and the image sensor and covers the conductive wires. The optical collimator is disposed on the image sensor. The supporting ring, disposed on the flexible printed circuit board, surrounds the glue and the optical collimator. The optical filter, disposed on the sealant, shields the optical collimator and the image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignees: Interface Technology (Chengdu) Co., Ltd., Interface Optoelectronics (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., General Interface Solution LimitedInventors: Chun Te Chang, Chung Wu Liu, Ming Chiang Yu, Chia Yuan Wu
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Patent number: 11592952Abstract: At an electronic device with a touch screen display, display a user interface, where the user interface includes at least two windows of an application, a first icon displayed in association with a first window of the at least two windows, and a second icon at a location different from the at least two windows. While displaying the at least two windows, detect a gesture on the touch screen display. In response to detecting the gesture: in accordance with detecting the gesture on the first icon associated with the first window on the touch screen display, remove from the display the first window of the at least two displayed windows corresponding to the gesture; and in accordance with detecting the gesture on the second icon at the location different from the at least two windows of the application, display a new window of the application on the touch screen display.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Scott Forstall, Chris Blumenberg, Andre M. J. Boule, Imran Chaudhri, Gregory N. Christie, Stephen O. Lemay, Marcel Van Os, Richard J. Williamson
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Patent number: 11578852Abstract: Control instructions are transmitted to receivers by modulating light sources to generate light beams that are modulated with digital data streams for inducing control instructions in the light beams. Each light beam is applied to a pixel shaper element of a pixel shaper assembly to produce a light pixel, each light pixel carrying the control instructions of the light beam, each light pixel having a perimeter defined by the pixel shaper element. The pixel shaper assembly combines the light pixels into an image without significant overlap or voids between the light pixels. The light pixels are directed toward a projector lens for transmission toward the receivers. In a receiver, an optical receiver detects a light pixel. A controller decodes the control instructions received in the detected light pixel and uses the control instructions to control a function of the receiver.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Inventors: Bassam Jalbout, Brian Wong
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Patent number: 11582358Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a display device, a first detection unit, a second detection unit, a first acquisition unit, and an output unit. The display device displays at least one image for display. The first detection unit detects a user's selection of an image for display in at least one image for display. The second detection unit detects an input to a drawing region of drawing indicating an image quality abnormality with respect to a target image corresponding to the selected image for display. The first acquisition unit acquires drawing information based on the input of the drawing detected by the second detection unit. The output unit outputs the drawing information acquired by the first acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Haru Hikita, Sou Miyazaki, Hiroyo Tanaka, Kazuhiro Ogura, Satoshi Oyama, Tatsuya Inagi, Masaki Narahashi
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Patent number: 11579727Abstract: An input device is described which comprises a touch-sensitive surface and a force sensor, wherein the force sensor is adapted to detect a force applied to the touch-sensitive surface. The input device further comprises a vibration sensor and a control unit, wherein the control unit is coupled with the force sensor, the touch-sensitive surface and the vibration sensor. The control unit is adapted to validate a force detected by the force sensor as an input in dependence on a touch of the touch-sensitive surface and in dependence on a vibration detected by the vibration sensor. There is further described a motor vehicle which comprises such an input device. A method of detecting an input at an input device is further described.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: E.SOLUTIONS GMBHInventors: Thomas Franke, Thomas Fuessinger, Michael Beck
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Patent number: 11574694Abstract: A method for multiple copies of a set of multi-kernel set operations in a hardware accelerated neural network includes a word line for receiving a pixel value of an input image. A bit line communicates a modified pixel value. An analog memory cell including a first capacitor stores a first kernel weight of a first kernel in one of a plurality of kernel sets such that the pixel value is operated on by the first kernel weight to produce the modified pixel value. A charge connection connects the first capacitor to at least a second capacitor storing a second kernel weight of a related kernel of a second one of the plurality of kernel sets such that charge is shared between the first capacitor and at least the second capacitor to normalize the first kernel weight and the second kernel weight.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Effendi Leobandung, Tayfun Gokmen, Xiao Sun, Yulong Li, Malte Rasch
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Patent number: 11567572Abstract: A processing system having at least one processor may detect a first object in a first video of a first user and detect a second object in a second video of a second user, where the first video and the second video are part of a visual communication session between the first user and the second user. The processing system may further detect a first action in the first video relative to the first object, detect a second action in the second video relative to the second object, detect a difference between the first action and the second action, and provide a notification indicative of the difference.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: James Pratt, Jason Decuir, Terrel Lecesne, Eric Zavesky
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Patent number: 11561403Abstract: A layout of Micro LED for augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) is provided in the present invention, including multiple display cells arranging into a cell array, multiple micro LEDs set on the edge region of each display cell and exposing the transparent region surrounded by the edge region, and pixel driver circuits set on the edge region right under the Micro LEDs.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.Inventor: Zhibiao Zhou
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Patent number: 11562694Abstract: A pixel circuit 16(n) and a pixel circuit 16(n?1) acquire a data signal from a data line 14. A selector 30(n) supplies the data signal acquired from the pixel circuit 16(n) to a light emitting element selected from the light emitting elements 18(n?1), 18(n), and 18(n+1). A selector 30(n?1) can select at least the light emitting element 18(n?1), and supplies the data signal acquired from the pixel circuit 16(n?1) to the selected destination. In a sub-frame B, the selector 30(n) selects the light emitting elements 18(n) and 18(n+1), and the selector 30(n?1) selects the light emitting element 18(n?1). In a sub-frame A, the selector 30(n) selects the light emitting elements 18(n?1) and 18(n).Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Koshihara, Hitoshi Ota, Takumi Kodama
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Patent number: 11551471Abstract: A display screen module includes a display screen and a fingerprint identification unit. The display screen includes a front display area and a side display area. The side display area at least partially covers the fingerprint identification unit, and the fingerprint identification unit is configured to obtain a fingerprint image. As the fingerprint identification unit is at least partially covered by the side display area, it can reduce or even needs not to occupy under-screen space of the front display area, and arrangement of the components can be optimized. When the user directly holds the side display area to which the fingerprint identification unit corresponds, fingerprint unlocking can be executed directly, which brings new fingerprint unlocking experience to the user, and also makes the unlocking process easier.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Yanshun Guo
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Patent number: 11550471Abstract: An electronic device with a touch screen display displays content of an electronic document, including text, and a cursor is displayed at a line of text within the electronic document. A multi-finger swipe gesture is detected, and in accordance with a determination that the multi-finger swipe gesture is in a direction at least partially parallel to the line of text and towards an edge of the touch screen display, the cursor is moved to a distal point of the text.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Imran A. Chaudhri, Nicholas K. Jong, Craig M. Federighi
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Patent number: 11544958Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light detection apparatus and application thereof. The apparatus includes: a nonopaque cover plate, a display, and a photosensor, and further including a processor configured to transmit a display driving signal to the display when the apparatus detects a touch signal on the apparatus; wherein the display includes a plurality of display pixels configured to emit an optical signal when receiving the display driving signal transmitted by the processor, and the optical signal is reflected on an upper surface of the nonopaque cover plate to form a reflected optical signal; and wherein the reflected optical signal is received by the photosensor. By some embodiments of the present disclosure, obtained physiological feature information can be more accurate and identification precision can be effectively improved.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: SHANGHAI HARVEST INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheng Feng, Tianyang Wang, Fengjun Gu, Jiandong Huang