Patents Examined by Towfiq Elahi
  • Patent number: 11971552
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a display configured to display an image, an ocular optical system for viewing the display, and a control unit configured to control the display unit so as to change a display area of the display based on a distance from the ocular optical system to an eye of a user looking into the ocular optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Saki Nakamichi
  • Patent number: 11960654
    Abstract: Conventional gesture detection approaches demand large memory and computation power to run efficiently, thus limiting their use in power and memory constrained edge devices. Present application/disclosure provides a Spiking Neural Network based system which is a robust low power edge compatible ultrasound-based gesture detection system. The system uses a plurality of speakers and microphones that mimics a Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) setup thus providing requisite diversity to effectively address fading. The system also makes use of distinctive Channel Impulse Response (CIR) estimated by imposing sparsity prior for robust gesture detection. A multi-layer Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has been trained on these distinctive CIR images and the trained CNN model is converted into an equivalent Spiking Neural Network (SNN) via an ANN (Artificial Neural Network)-to-SNN conversion mechanism. The SNN is further configured to detect/classify gestures performed by user(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Gigie, Arun George, Achanna Anil Kumar, Sounak Dey, Arpan Pal
  • Patent number: 11948510
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a first driving transistor including a gate electrode connected to a first node, a first electrode to receive a first power voltage, and a second electrode connected to a second node, a second driving transistor including a gate electrode and a second electrode connected to the second node, a first electrode to receive the first power voltage, and a back gate electrode connected to the first node, a write transistor including a first electrode to receive a data voltage and a second electrode connected to the first node, an initialization transistor including a gate electrode to receive an initialization gate signal, a first electrode to receive an initialization voltage, and a second electrode connected to the second node, a storage capacitor connected to the first and second nodes, and a light emitting element connected to the second node and configured to receive a second power voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soojung Chae, Seokhwan Bang, Seokje Seong, Jinseok Oh, Woobin Lee, June Whan Choi
  • Patent number: 11942020
    Abstract: Disclosed is a driving circuit including an input circuit, a first output circuit, a second output circuit and a pull-down circuit. Control terminals of the first output circuit and the second output circuit are connected with an output terminal of the input circuit and receive a control signal from the input circuit, and output terminals of the first output circuit and the second output circuit are connected with the pull-down circuit and receive a pull-down signal. Thus, two stages of driving signals output by one stage driving circuit is realized. As compared with the existing architecture under which the two stage driving circuit is needed to output two stages of driving signals, one input circuit and one pull-down circuit are removed. This application also discloses a four-stage driving circuit and a display panel. The number of used components is reduced, and the frame of the display product is narrowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Byung Hoon Kim, Zhaoyang Lu, Sahng Ik Jun, Rongrong Li
  • Patent number: 11933982
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for using a user's line of sight (LOS) and/or gaze direction to enhance displayed data and control various displays and instruments. The user's LOS is tracked, corresponding element(s) in a scene at which the user gazes are identified, e.g., in a database, and respective displayed data are enhanced or otherwise manipulated with respect to the identified element(s). The database may be multilayered and may comprise data layers which are conformal to a scene representation. Users may also select, using their LOS, among multiple layers of information and among multiple displayed parts to enhance or attenuate respective layers or parts. Designated elements may be real-world elements, displayed elements or instruments in the operational surroundings of the user. Identification of elements at which LOSs of multiple users are aimed at may be used for exchange of information among the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Itamar Nocham, Avner Shahal
  • Patent number: 11929044
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a backlight module. The backlight module has a first light-emitting region and a second light-emitting region encircling the first light-emitting region. The backlight module further includes at least one first light-emitting module and at least one second light-emitting module, the at least one second light-emitting module is arranged on a peripheral side of the first light-emitting module, the at least one first light-emitting module is located in the first light-emitting region, and the at least one second light-emitting module is located in the second light-emitting region. The first light-emitting module includes multiple first light strings, the second light-emitting module includes multiple second light strings, and the multiple first light strings has a layout density greater than the multiple second light strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Bin Qiu, Rongrong Li
  • Patent number: 11922007
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods and systems are disclosed for interacting with an electronic device, including inputting letters. One embodiment of the apparatus includes buttons and a text output field displayed on a touch-sensitive display screen. Each button is assigned one or more letters. The text output field displays text and tentative letter selection indicators. In one embodiment of the method, the device records button actuations that ambiguously identify letter selections. With each actuation, a tentative letter selection indicator becomes appended to the end of the contents of the text output field. Upon activation of a button such as a spacebar button, or in response to an event such as expiration of a time period, a language algorithm disambiguates the recorded ambiguously identified letter selections and returns a word suggestion. The returned word replaces a sequence of appended tentative letter selection indicators displayed in the text output field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventor: Michael William Murphy
  • Patent number: 11922856
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is provided a light transmissive display device including a conductor to which a voltage for changing transmittance of the dimming element and a voltage outputting an electromagnetic wave for communication are applied in a time division manner, and a light transmitting member that is provided with a conductor and transmits light passing through the dimming element. This configuration makes it possible to suppress a space occupied by the dimming element and the antenna in a configuration including the dimming element and the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki Ato
  • Patent number: 11922845
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a shift register unit, a driving method, a driving circuit and a display device. The shift register unit includes a first node potential adjustment circuit, a first tank circuit, a second node control circuit, a second tank circuit, a third node control circuit, a first node control circuit, and an output circuit; the first node potential adjustment circuit changes the potential of the first node according to the adjustment clock signal under the control of the potential of the first node; the first tank circuit is used to maintain the potential of the first node; the third node control circuit controls the potential of the third isolation node and the potential of the fourth node; the second node control circuit controls the potential of the second isolation node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingsong Xu, Zhenhua Zhang, Qian Ma, Xilei Cao, Changlong Yuan, Jingyi Feng, Weiyun Huang, Benlian Wang
  • Patent number: 11908381
    Abstract: A display driver device (210) receives a downloadable “sequence” for dynamically reconfiguring displayed image characteristics in an image system. The display driver device comprises one or more storage devices, for example, memory devices, for storing image data (218) and portions of drive sequences (219) that are downloaded and/or updated in real time depending on various inputs (214).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Howard V. Goetz, Glen Sands
  • Patent number: 11907016
    Abstract: A portable electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and a display positioned in the aperture. The portable electronic device can include a number of components that can provide desired functionalities and levels of performance. For example, the device can include one or more couplers that interconnect various portions of the housing together. Additionally or alternatively, the portable electronic device can include one or more millimeter-wave antennas. Additionally, or alternatively, the electronic device can include one or more grounding elements or layers that reliably and electrically ground the display to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Thomas O. Henry, Trevor M. Cardiff, Jason A. U. De Souza, Sayooj R. Pillai, Jason Bakhshi, Erik A. Uttermann, Wei Lv, Wenyong Zhu, Lee B. Hamstra, Daniel J. Hoff
  • Patent number: 11892287
    Abstract: An input device includes: a first electrode including a reference potential electrode and two or more sets each including a transmission electrode and a reception electrode; and a second electrode that approaches and recedes from the two or more sets by rotating while facing the first electrode with a predetermined space being provided therebetween. The reference potential electrode faces at least a portion of the second electrode as a result of the second electrode approaching at least one set out of the two or more sets. A phase when a first set of first transmission and reception electrodes disposed in a first region approaches and recedes from the second electrode is different from a phase when a second set of second transmission and reception electrodes disposed in a second region approaches and recedes from the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Araki, Sohui Jeon, Hiroaki Nishiono, Satoshi Yoshihara
  • Patent number: 11886559
    Abstract: In various aspects, systems and methods are described for a biometric identification and control for providing customizable security through authentication of biosignal representations and control. The biometric identification and control systems and methods comprise hardware and software components that are used to detect, via a biometric detection device, biometric signals of a user. These biosignals are analyzed by a processor communicatively coupled to the biometric detection device. After analyzation of the biosignals, a biometric profile is created and used with a security interface to access a secure resource or device or to output a command to another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventor: Blair Andrew Lock
  • Patent number: 11886089
    Abstract: A tintable window is described having a tintable coating, e.g., an electrochromic device coating, for regulating light transmitted through the window. In some embodiments, the window has a transparent display in the window's viewable region. Transparent displays may be substantially transparent when not in use, or when the window is viewed in a direction facing away from the transparent display. Windows may have sensors for receiving user commands and/or for monitoring environmental conditions. Transparent displays can display graphical user interfaces to, e.g., control window functions. Windows, as described herein, offer an alternative display to conventional projectors, TVs, and monitors. Windows may also be configured to receive, transmit, or block wireless communications from passing through the window. A window control system may share computational resources between controllers (e.g., at different windows).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitesh Trikha, Stephen Clark Brown, Dhairya Shrivastava, Robert T. Rozbicki
  • Patent number: 11880526
    Abstract: A method of maintaining a pressure input path in a sensing array is described. The sensing array comprises a plurality of sensing elements, and the method involves activating a first sensing element to determine a first location data point and activating a second sensing element to determine a second location data point. The state location (x,y) and state velocity (Vx, Vy) are calculated based on the first and second location data points to create a state vector. A predicted path of further location data points is determined from the state vector to avoid drop out problems with pressure inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Peratech Holdco Limited
    Inventor: Timothy Peter Wiles
  • Patent number: 11881150
    Abstract: A display device including: a power management integrated circuit (IC) including a feedback terminal for receiving a feedback voltage that corresponds to an input voltage and an output terminal for supplying a first voltage; a display driver IC electrically connected to the power management IC, the display driver IC including an input terminal for receiving the input voltage that corresponds to the first voltage; and a frequency compensation circuit connected to the input terminal, the feedback terminal, and the output terminal, the frequency compensation circuit including a feedback capacitor and a feedback resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Uk Nam, Sung Chun Park
  • Patent number: 11880530
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a chip-on-film, a display substrate, a display device and a driving method. The display substrate includes a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of cascaded shift register units coupled to the scanning lines. The display substrate further includes an output control signal line electrically coupled to each shift register unit for providing an enable signal for the shift register unit. The output control signal lines include at least two output control signal lines for providing different enable signals, and two adjacent cascaded shift register units are coupled to different output control signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yinlong Zhang, Shulin Yao, Wenpeng Ma, Pengfei Hu, Qi Li, Zhihua Sun, Yanping Liao, Xibin Shao
  • Patent number: 11881149
    Abstract: The signal processing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a frame buffer to store an input image and output an output image, an output synchronization signal calculator to calculate an output synchronization signal based on an input synchronization signal and a size or a position of the output image in comparison with the input image, and an output synchronization signal output interface to output a variable output synchronization signal of which a start timing changes based on a signal from the output synchronization signal calculator, wherein a difference between a start timing of the input synchronization signal and a start timing of the output synchronization signal changes based on the size of the output image. Accordingly, a delay time may be reduced in response to the output image having a size different from a size of the input image being output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunchul Noh, Kyejong Yim
  • Patent number: 11874964
    Abstract: A glove includes a body, a hand-back base, a fingertip base, an elastic element, a control wire, a shape memory alloy element, a braking element and a processor. The body is used for wearing on a hand of a user. The hand-back base is disposed on a hand-back part of the body. The fingertip base is disposed on a fingertip part of the body. The elastic element is connected between the hand-back base and the control wire. The control wire is connected between the fingertip base and the elastic element. The processor is disposed on the body and is used for electronically controlling the shape memory alloy element to actuate the braking element to brake the control wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Li-Hsun Chang, Kuan-Ying Ou
  • Patent number: 11868569
    Abstract: A system for interacting with a screen without touching it, comprising a source of radiating energy directed into a predefined area, at least one directionally sensitive sensor that detects the radiation when it's reflected off of an object within the predefined area, and a processor that calculates position and motion information of the object and generates therefrom image information, which it sends to a screen where it is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Stephen H. Lewis