Patents Examined by Towfiq Elahi
  • Loupe display
    Patent number: 11179136
    Abstract: A system and method for providing image guidance for placement of one or more medical devices at a target location. The system can determine one or more intersections between a medical device and an image region based at least in part on first emplacement data and second emplacement data. Using the determined intersections, the system can cause one or more displays to display perspective views of image guidance cues, including an intersection indicator in a virtual 3D space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: InnerOptic Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Luv Kohli, Sharif Razzaque, Andrei State, Brian Heaney, Kurtis Keller, Caroline Green
  • Temperature and ultrasonic sensor fusion for biometric sensing
    Patent number: 11182026
    Abstract: An example method of operation may include detecting a user touch in a first area based upon sensor data from one or more sensors of a first type, waking up one or more sensors of a second type configured to measure across some or all of the first area in response to the detecting, obtaining additional sensor data from the one or more sensors of the second type, and determining a location associated with the user touch based in part upon the sensor data from the one or more sensors of the second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yue Liang, Yipeng Lu, Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh, Jessica Liu Strohmann, Changting Xu
  • Input device, touch panel control device, and touch panel control method
    Patent number: 11175775
    Abstract: A knob (30) includes a hold portion (31) made of a conductor and to be operated by a user, and a conductive portion (32a) that can be electrically connected to the hold portion (31) and is mounted on the hold portion (31), and that is in contact with a touch panel (10) to cause a change of capacitance of the touch panel (10). A control device (2) includes a signal value detecting unit (3) for detecting the capacitance of the touch panel (10) as a signal value, and a confirmation determining unit (4) for determining whether or not a confirmation operation on the touch panel (10) by using the knob (30) has been inputted on the basis of a change of the signal value resulting from contact of the conductive portion (32a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimika Ikegami, Yuki Furumoto
  • Organic light emitting diode touch display panel and method for driving time division multiplexing
    Patent number: 11169631
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode touch display panel and a method for driving time division multiplexing are disclosed. The OLED touch display panel with a patterned cathode uses a pixel definition layer of a LTPS array substrate to form sensor pads. By adding a time division multiplexing circuit unit to each voltage signal traces outside the display area of the touch display panel, the power signal traces of the source and drain layer of the LTPS array substrate are multiplexed, and peeling during the flexible screen bending process can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Inventors: Wenqi Li, Caiqin Chen
  • Display device
    Patent number: 11164518
    Abstract: A display device includes a light emitting element. A first transistor transmits a driving current to the light emitting element. A second transistor is connected to a first electrode of the first transistor to transmit a data signal. A third transistor has a first electrode connected to a second electrode of the first transistor. An auxiliary transistor is connected between a second electrode of the third transistor and a gate electrode of the first transistor to transmit the data signal to the gate electrode of the first transistor. Each of the first transistor, the second transistor and the auxiliary transistor is a first-type transistor, and the third transistor is a second-type transistor different from the first-type transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Su Na, Min Woo Byun, Seung Kyu Lee
  • Electronic device
    Patent number: 11157046
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided, including a main body, a cover movably connected to the main body, a biasing element connected to the cover and the main body, a movable member movably disposed on the main body, and a magnetic element disposed on the movable member. When the cover is located in a closed position relative to the main body, the cover is attracted by the magnetic element and restricted in the closed position. When the movable member is pushed by an external force to move from its initial position to a first position, the movable member and the magnetic element separate from the cover, and the biasing element drives the cover to move from the closed position to an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ting-Wen Pai, Wen-Chieh Tai, Cheng-Nan Ling, Chih-Chun Liu, Yu-Shih Wang
  • Display backlighting systems and methods for adaptive pulse width modulation and modulo pulse width modulation
    Patent number: 11145260
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to an electronic device with a display. The display includes an array of light-emitting diodes. The array includes a plurality of subarrays of the light-emitting diodes. At least one driver circuit is coupled to the array of light-emitting diodes. The at least one driver circuit is configured to generate an adaptive pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal to control at least one subarray of the plurality of subarrays of the light-emitting diodes. The adaptive PWM signal is designed with each pulse of a group having a pulse width W, each pulse width being reduced until reaching a threshold pulse width, and one pulse being removed from the group of pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vehbi Calayir, James E. Brown, Venkataraman V. Iyer, Bret Rothenberg
  • Field recalibration of displays
    Patent number: 11145246
    Abstract: Aspects described herein include a method and associated processing system for a display having a plurality of pixels. The method comprises driving, using display circuitry, a plurality of pixels of a display device to display one or more test patterns. The display device is integrated into a manufactured input device. The method further comprises receiving field-set mura compensation data that is based on one or more images of the plurality of pixels. The one or more images are acquired responsive to displaying the one or more test patterns. The method further comprises writing the field-set mura compensation data to a memory of the input device. The field-set mura compensation data replaces or is stored along with factory-set mura compensation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Xi Chu, Joseph Kurth Reynolds
  • Information display method and information display system
    Patent number: 11132068
    Abstract: An information display method for a computer having a keyboard. The method includes selecting a first system information among a plurality of system information, wherein the system information is configured to respectively indicate statuses of a plurality of devices of the computer; selecting a first display pattern among a plurality of display patterns according to the first system information; selecting a first keyboard region for applying the first display pattern; and showing the first system information in real-time by a plurality of first buttons corresponding to the first keyboard region of the keyboard according to the selected first display pattern, the first keyboard region and the first system information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Yu-Chuan Cheng, Ling-Fan Tsao, Cheng-Tsung Wu
  • Head-up display apparatus
    Patent number: 11130404
    Abstract: A head-up display apparatus 200 includes: a projection optical system 30 that projects a virtual image; an environment monitor portion 72 as an object detection part that detects an object present in a detection region and detects a distance from the projection optical system 30 to the object as a target distance; an arrangement change apparatus 462 as a projection distance change part that periodically changes a projection distance of a virtual image from the projection optical system 30; and a main control apparatus 90 and a display control portion 18 as an image addition part that adds a related-information image as a virtual image by the projection optical system 30 to the detected object at timing when the target distance substantially matches the projection distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Norihide Yamada, Junji Hashimura, Osamu Tannai, Toshiyuki Kojima, Kazuhiro Sugawara
  • Electronic device with optical sensor interference mitigation structures
    Patent number: 11119312
    Abstract: An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have a transparent member supported by head-mounted support structures. Optical sensors such as time-of-flight sensors and other optical sensors may have light-emitting components and light-detecting components. A stray light blocking structure may be formed in the transparent member. The stray light blocking structure may be configured to block stray light that is traveling laterally through an interior portion of the polymer layer. This prevents the stray light from being received by the light-detecting detecting device. The stray light blocking structure may formed by providing the polymer layer with light redirecting structures such as protrusions and/or recesses. Light-absorbing coatings and/or patterned surfaces such as textured surfaces may be incorporated into the stray light blocking structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anna V. Mirabella, James R. Wilson
  • Display device and display system including the same
    Patent number: 11112864
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel configured to display a first image having a first resolution; and a display panel driving circuit configured to drive the display panel, wherein the display panel driving circuit is configured to receive image data corresponding to a second image having a second resolution that is higher than the first resolution, to receive gaze data indicating a user's gaze, to select partial image data which reflects the user's gaze from the image data based on the gaze data, and to drive the display panel to display the first image based on the partial image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyungman Kim, Donggyu Lee
  • Flexible device and method operating the same
    Patent number: 11093040
    Abstract: A flexible device includes: a display that may be bent by an external force; a sensor configured to sense at least one motion from the group consisting of a bending motion and a folding motion of the flexible device; and a controller configured to determine outer form information about the flexible device, which is obtained when the flexible device is deformed by the at least one motion, and control an object in a screen, displayed on the display, to be moved based on the outer form information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dae-myung Kim, Shi-yun Cho
  • Display device and display driving method
    Patent number: 11074873
    Abstract: A display device and a display driving method are provided. The display device includes a display panel and a timing controller. A timing controller is configured to drive the display panel. A memory is configured to store previous image data. The timing controller sequentially receives a plurality of current image data during an image update period, and compares the plurality of current image data to the previous image data to sequentially generate a plurality of driving signals. The timing controller sequentially outputs the plurality of driving signals to the display panel during the screen update period to update a display screen of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Shu-Cheng Liu, Hsiao-Lung Cheng, Pei-Lin Tien, Chi-Mao Hung
  • Input device
    Patent number: 11073923
    Abstract: The disclosed apparatus reduces necessary electric power for moving a touch pad of an input device to a predetermined height and maintaining the touch pad at the height, the touch panel creating a sense of touch when operated. The input device includes: a contact member to be in contact with a contact body; a housing for supporting the contact member in a movable manner; and a drive device for moving the contact member with respect to the housing, wherein the drive device is equipped with a rotatable rotary body, first magnets disposed on the rotary body, and second magnets disposed on the contact member, and wherein the first magnets and the second magnets are arranged so as to be able to face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Abe, Takeru Miki, Atsushi Kudo, Masakazu Takahashi
  • Value-added remote display service wireless routing server device and method
    Patent number: 11074029
    Abstract: A value-added remote display service wireless routing server device includes one or more user-end image medium transmission electronic devices, a value-added routing server, a destination-end image medium display device and an actuation device connected to each user-end image medium transmission electronic device and having actuateable operation buttons. Each user-end image medium transmission electronic device transmits image data through a wired or wireless local area network to the value-added routing server, which, based on network band width and data processing capability, presets magnification/reduction resolution and designated displaying location to the image data transmitted from each user-end image medium transmission electronic device and transmits corresponding image display screen data to the destination-end image medium display device for displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Control Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Pei-Chung Liu
  • Touch apparatus and touch detection integrated circuit thereof
    Patent number: 11036952
    Abstract: A touch apparatus and a touch detection integrated circuit (IC) thereof are provided. The touch detection IC includes a driving signal generation circuit and a receiving circuit. The driving signal generation circuit is configured to control a touch panel to perform touch sensing operation and control a fingerprint sensor to perform fingerprint sensing operation. The receiving circuit receives and processes a touch signal of the touch panel during a first period when the driving signal generation circuit transmits the first driving signal for controlling the touch panel to perform touch sensing operation. The receiving circuit receives and processes a fingerprint signal of the fingerprint sensor during a second period when the driving signal generation circuit transmits the second driving signal for controlling the fingerprint sensor to perform fingerprint sensing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ching-Ho Hung, Jiun-Jie Tsai, Ting-Hsuan Hung, Wei-Lun Shih
  • Display array with distributed audio
    Patent number: 11030940
    Abstract: A wallpaper-like audio/visual system includes a display array of display pixels to emit an image, an array of speakers to emit audio, and driver circuitry coupled to the display array and the array of speakers to drive the display pixels and the speakers with the first and second signals, respectively, in response to receiving audio and visual input signals. The speakers are interspersed amongst the display pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Philip Watson, Raj B. Apte
  • Actuation for a focus adjusting head mounted display
    Patent number: 10994196
    Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) includes an electronic display configured to display a virtual scene to a user, an optics block, an eye tracking system, and a varifocal actuation that mechanically changes a distance between the optics block and the electronic display. The varifocal actuation block is configured to change a location of an image plane of the HMD and includes a motor, a power screw coupled to the actuating motor configured to turn responsive to actuation of the motor, and a nut sled on the power screw that is coupled to the electronic display. The nut sled is configured to move back and forth along a length of the power screw responsive to the power screw being turned by the motor that results in movement of the electronic display relative to the optics block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Ryan Michael Ebert
  • Display apparatus and control device
    Patent number: 10990340
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of display panels arranged in a matrix, each of the image display panel includes a plurality of drive electrodes extending in a first direction and a plurality of detection electrodes extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, wherein an AC voltage is sequentially applied to the plurality of drive electrodes of a first display panel, and the plurality of detection electrodes of a second display panel adjacent to the first display panel detect a signal output from the plurality of drive electrodes of the first display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shinya Iuchi, Hayato Kurasawa, Masahiro Togashi, Tsutomu Harada, Yuji Suzuki