Patents Examined by Thuy N. Pardo
  • Patent number: 12046035
    Abstract: An enhanced vision system includes a first optic subsystem and a transparent photodetector subsystem disposed within a common housing. The first optic subsystem may include passive devices such as simple or compound lenses, active devices such as low-light enhancing image intensifiers, or a combination of passive and active devices. The transparent photodetector subsystem receives the visible image exiting the first optic subsystem and converts a portion of the electromagnetic energy in the visible image to a signal communicated to image analysis circuitry. On a real-time or near real-time basis, the image analysis circuitry detects and identifies structures, objects, and/or individuals in the visible image. The image analysis circuitry provides an output that includes information regarding the structure, objects, and individuals to the system user contemporaneous with the system user viewing the visible image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: EOTech, LLC
    Inventors: Jon Burnsed, Stephen Styonavich, Michael Iosue
  • Patent number: 12048227
    Abstract: A display device having a function of sensing light is provided. The display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a light-receiving element, a light-emitting element, a resin layer, and a light shielding layer. The light-receiving element, the light-emitting element, the resin layer, and the light shielding layer are each positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate. The light-receiving element includes a first pixel electrode over the first substrate, an active layer over the first pixel electrode, and a common electrode over the active layer. The light-emitting element includes a second pixel electrode over the first substrate, a first light-emitting layer over the second pixel electrode, and the common electrode over the first light-emitting layer. The resin layer and the light shielding layer are each positioned between the common electrode and the second substrate. The resin layer includes a portion overlapping with the light-emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Hatsumi, Taisuke Kamada, Daisuke Kubota, Rai Sato, Hiroki Adachi, Ryo Yamauchi, Kazunori Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12035601
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a display panel partitioned into a display region and a non-display region, and an input sensing unit including a sensing pad in a pad region overlapping the non-display region, a sensing electrode overlapping the display region, and a signal line electrically connecting the sensing pad and the sensing electrode, wherein the display panel has a spacer overlapping the non-display region, and defining an opening in which a first portion of the signal line is located, the first portion of the signal line having a greater width than a second portion adjacent thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eunyoung Kim, Wonkyu Kwak
  • Patent number: 12032774
    Abstract: A combination touch and transducer input system is provided, which facilitates user input into an electronic system with a finger and/or a transducer (e.g., a stylus). The system includes a transducer configured to generate an electric field, and a sensor including an array of electrodes and a controller. The transducer is configured to transmit digital data, such as pen pressure data and switch status data, to the sensor. For example, the transducer comprises electronic circuitry configured to encode the digital data in a signal for transmission to the sensor. The sensor controller is configured to operate both in a touch sensing mode and in a transducer sensing mode. During the touch sensing mode, the controller determines a position of a proximate object (e.g., a finger) by capacitively sensing the object with the array of electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Oliver P. King-Smith, Bernardus H. Smit, Peyman Hadizad
  • Patent number: 12032734
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for providing XR experiences to multiple users. A plurality of XR devices might participate in a group XR experience. Physical environment data may be determined for each XR device. Virtual play areas for each of the XR devices may be determined. The different virtual play areas may be fit into different areas of a predefined virtual play area, and/or may be combined to form a combined virtual play area. Each XR device might be provided a different portion of the virtual play area. The XR devices may be sent different virtual map positioning data to provide the group XR experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Chen
  • Patent number: 12026617
    Abstract: A processor-implemented method of performing a convolution operation is provided. The method includes obtaining input feature map data and kernel data, determine the kernel data based on a number of input channels of the input feature map, a number of output channels of an output feature map, and a number of groups of the input feature map data and a number of groups of the kernel data related to the convolution operation, and performing the convolution operation based on the input feature map data and the determined kernel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Songyi Han, Seungwon Lee, Minkyoung Cho
  • Patent number: 12019942
    Abstract: A method includes: A source device sends, to a destination device, application information of at least one source device application installed on the source device. The destination device displays an icon of the at least one source device application in a first interface, and displays, in the first interface, an icon of at least one destination device application installed on the destination device. In response to an operation on an icon of a first application in the source device application, the destination device obtains first display data generated during running of the first application on the source device. The destination device displays an application window of the first application based on the first display data. In response to an operation on an icon of a second application in the destination device application, the destination device starts the second application, and displays an application window of the second application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaomin Li, Puliang Luo, Liang Lei, Qianqiao Hu, Ruishuai Guo
  • Patent number: 12020630
    Abstract: The technology of this disclosure relates to a stacked structure, a display screen, and a display apparatus. The stacked structure includes a substrate, a drive chip, and a pixel unit that are stacked. The substrate has a first surface. A line layer is disposed on the first surface, the drive chip is disposed on a surface that is of the line layer and that faces away from the first surface, and the pixel unit and a corresponding drive chip are stacked. A sub-pixel located in each pixel unit is separately electrically connected to the line layer and the corresponding drive chip to form a light-emitting loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dapeng He, Wenjin Huang
  • Patent number: 12022689
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device comprises a display panel having a display region and a non-display region, wherein the display panel is bent along a first bending line extending in a first direction and a second bending line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, an outer profile of the non-display region forms a corner portion of the display panel, and the corner portion is symmetrical with respect to an extension line that bisects an angle formed by the first bending line and the second bending line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Hwan Cho, Young Cheol Jeong, Jong Hyun Choi, Gyung Soon Park
  • Patent number: 12013537
    Abstract: Techniques for operating an optical system are disclosed. World light may be linearly polarized along a first axis. When the optical system is operating in accordance with a first state, a polarization of the world light may be rotated by 90 degrees, the world light may be linearly polarized along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, and zero net optical power may be applied to the world light. When the optical system is operating in accordance with a second state, virtual image light may be projected onto an eyepiece of the optical system, the world light and the virtual image light may be linearly polarized along the second axis, a polarization of the virtual image light may be rotated by 90 degrees, and non-zero net optical power may be applied to the virtual image light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Ravi Kumar Komanduri, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Chulwoo Oh
  • Patent number: 12016202
    Abstract: A display panel includes a transmission area, a boundary area adjacent to the transmission area, a display area adjacent to the boundary area, an overcoat layer in the boundary area, a light emitting element in the display area, a first refractive layer on the light emitting element and including the same material as the overcoat layer, and a second refractive layer on the first refractive layer and having a refractive index less than a refractive index of the first refractive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jungi Kim, Jin-Su Byun, Woongsik Kim, Jeong Won Kim
  • Patent number: 11989047
    Abstract: A user input device may provide variable (e.g., adjustable and/or adaptive) feedback. Some embodiments can include a controllable magnetic system that can be configured to selectively resist rotation of a control stick about a first and second axis. The resistance applied by the magnetic system can be adjusted based on a user input, adjusted based on an input from a computer application, dynamically based on events occurring in an application (such as feedback from events in a gaming application), or a combination of these and other feedback controls. In at least one aspect, an input device includes a shaft configured to rotate about a first axis and a second axis, the shaft having a first end and a second end opposite the first end; a first magnet configured to emit a controllable magnetic field; and a second magnet interposed between the first magnet and the first end of the joystick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventor: Jason Scott Morrison
  • Patent number: 11984062
    Abstract: Displays, systems, and methods may be utilized in applications including, but not limited to, projectors, head-up displays, and augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and virtual reality (VR) systems or devices, such as headsets or other near-eye devices or systems. Tiled or Tile-able displays and methods, in accordance with the present invention, provide displays of varying sizes, and as such, a Tiled or Tile-able display is configured to accommodate the display size needed for various wearable and mobile devices that require or incorporate displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Kyles, Clive David Beech
  • Patent number: 11977236
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to display systems and, more particularly, to augmented reality display systems. In one aspect, an adaptive lens assembly includes a lens stack configured to exert polarization-dependent optical power to linearly polarized light. The lens stack includes a birefringent lens and an isotropic lens contacting each other to form a conformal interface therebetween. The adaptive lens assembly is configured to be selectively switched between a plurality of states having different optical powers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Ravi Kumar Komanduri, Chulwoo Oh
  • Patent number: 11968338
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display unit, a first detection unit that detects a position of an object located in a vertical direction with respect to the display unit and that interacts with the display unit in a contactless manner, wherein detecting the position results in detecting an instruction associated with the at least one input object that is displayed on the display unit and corresponds to the position of the object, a second detection unit configured to detect confirmation of the instruction detected by the first detection unit, and an input unit configured to input data corresponding to the at least one input object in a case where the second detection unit detects confirmation of the instruction associated with the at least one input object in a state where the first detection unit detects the instruction associated with the at least one input object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akitomo Fukui
  • Patent number: 11957025
    Abstract: Provided is a touch display panel. The touch display panel includes a drive back plate; a light-emitting device, disposed on the drive back plate; an encapsulation layer, disposed on a side of the light-emitting device distal from the drive back plate; and a touch layer, disposed on a side of the encapsulation layer distal from the light-emitting device, wherein the touch layer includes a first touch electrode layer and a second touch electrode layer laminated in sequence, and the touch layer further includes a touch insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiwen Chu, Bo Zhang, Hongwei Ma, Qian Ma, Tingliang Liu
  • Patent number: 11955096
    Abstract: A display method of a display panel, a display device, and a server are disclosed. The display method divides an initial image into a plurality of sub-frame images having a same frequency, and the frequency of the sub-frame images is a multiple of a frequency of the initial image. The sub-frame images are input into the display panel in sequence and are combined to obtain a target image. The target image is used to drive the display panel to display the initial image, thereby reducing a refresh rate of the display panel for inputting data. Therefore, the display panel can realize low frequency input and prevent frame loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changwen Ma, Zhou Zhang, Guowei Zha
  • Patent number: 11950466
    Abstract: A display substrate, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display apparatus are provided. Multiple subpixels in the display substrate include first and second subpixels. Each subpixel includes a power signal line pattern and a light-emitting element. The power signal line pattern includes first and second power line portions. At least a part of the first power line portion extends in a second direction. The light-emitting element includes an anode pattern. In the display substrate, an overlap between the anode pattern of the first subpixel and the power signal line pattern is larger in area than an overlap between the anode pattern of the second subpixel and the power signal line pattern, an overlap between the anode pattern of the first subpixel and the first power line portion is larger in area than an overlap between the anode pattern of the first subpixel and the second power line portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengfei Yu, Haigang Qing, Tinghua Shang, Jie Dai, Lu Bai, Chenxing Wan, Yang Zhou
  • Patent number: 11941220
    Abstract: An input device includes: an operation surface that receives an operation from an operating body that is in close proximity thereto; and first detection electrodes that are arranged along the operation surface and that extend parallel to each other in a first direction. Each of the first detection electrodes has first detection surfaces that are provided side by side in the first direction and a first current path portion that extends linearly in the first direction and via which the first detection surfaces are connected to each other; and each of the first detection surfaces has one or more second current path portions and a pair of first connection portions via which the one or more second current path portions and the first current path portion are connected in parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11935478
    Abstract: The OLED voltage of a selected pixel is extracted from the pixel produced when the pixel is programmed so that the pixel current is a function of the OLED voltage. One method for extracting the OLED voltage is to first program the pixel in a way that the current is not a function of OLED voltage, and then in a way that the current is a function of OLED voltage. During the latter stage, the programming voltage is changed so that the pixel current is the same as the pixel current when the pixel was programmed in a way that the current was not a function of OLED voltage. The difference in the two programming voltages is then used to extract the OLED voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Jaimal Soni, Ricky Yik Hei Ngan, Gholamreza Chaji, Nino Zahirovic, Joseph Marcel Dionne