Patents Examined by Vijay Shankar
  • Patent number: 11687311
    Abstract: A screen projection processing method includes obtaining an operation for a first electronic device, responding to the operation by calling a task manager of the first electronic device to display a plurality of application objects managed by the task manager in a display area of the first electronic device, determining a first application object from the plurality of application objects, and projecting a first display content generated by an application program corresponding to the first application object in an operative state to a second display area of a second electronic device in real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiao Liu, Wei Zheng, Li Liu, Yanan Tian, Longfei Liu
  • Patent number: 11682157
    Abstract: Techniques for a motion-based online interactive platform are described. The platform allows a teacher to visualize motions performed by a student in a perspective and how close the motions are in view of an authoritative instructor (model). Depending on implementation, the platform may be implemented as an application, a Teacher App or a student App. Each may be executed in a computer or control computer associated with an instructor or teacher or computing devices associated with students. Each of the computing devices is coupled to or includes a camera, where the camera is used by a student to show his presence or poses he performs. Data streams from the computing devices are received in the control computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventors: Wade I. Lagrone, Edwin Angkasa, Bullit Sesariza, Indra Madyasiwi, Ali Alhabsyi, Cecylia Wati, Joseph Chamdani
  • Patent number: 11681367
    Abstract: A flexure guidance system may be provided for controlling movement of an optical subassembly and/or a connected combiner lens. For instance, the flexure guidance system may include a distal end piece, a proximal end piece, and multiple wire flexures that link the distal end piece to the proximal end piece. The linking wire flexures may be spaced to form an interior cavity between the distal end piece and the proximal end piece. This interior cavity may house various electronic components. One or more actuators in the system may move the electronic components according to input signals along different axes of movement provided by the wire flexures. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Ryan Michael Ebert
  • Patent number: 11681392
    Abstract: A display device with a touch panel includes a display panel, and a touch panel formed above the display panel. The touch panel includes X electrodes which extend in a first direction, and Y electrodes which extend in a second direction different from the first direction. The X electrodes and the Y electrodes respectively include intersection portions each formed where the X electrodes and the Y electrodes overlap each other, and electrode portions each formed between the intersection portions, wherein the electrode portions of one of the X electrodes is smaller in area than the electrode portions of one of the Y electrodes, and wherein floating electrodes are formed close to the electrode portion of the one of the X electrodes or Y electrodes, and over a reduced portion of the X electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Disolav Co.. Ltd.
    Inventor: Kouichi Anno
  • Patent number: 11681390
    Abstract: A circuit includes a function module to detect stimulus of an electronic writing apparatus (EWA) and generate functional data based on the detected stimulus. The circuit further includes a processing module to generate an outbound data signal from the functional data and first transceive circuit coupled to a first conductor of the EWA. The first transceive circuit includes a first reference circuit to generate a first transmit reference signal, and a first drive-sense circuit to regulate the first transmit reference signal on the first conductor. The circuit further includes a second transceive circuit coupled to a second conductor of the EWA. The second transceive circuit includes a second reference circuit to generate a second transmit reference signal, where one of the transmit reference signals includes the outbound data signal. The second transceive circuit further includes a second drive-sense circuit to regulate the second transmit reference signal on the second conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Patrick Troy Gray
  • Patent number: 11676953
    Abstract: A display module and system applications including a display module are described. The display module may include a display substrate including a front surface, a back surface, and a display area on the front surface. A plurality of interconnects extend through the display substrate from the front surface to the back surface. An array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) are in the display area and electrically connected with the plurality of interconnects, and one or more driver circuits are on the back surface of the display substrate. Exemplary system applications include wearable, rollable, and foldable displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Bibi, Kapil V. Sakariya, Vikram Pavate
  • Patent number: 11675190
    Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a picture generation unit producing a light field. An optical element reflects the light field such that the light field is visible to a human driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image. A holographic film is attached to the optical element. A driver monitoring system senses infrared energy reflected by the holographic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventors: Liang Yuan, John Avery
  • Patent number: 11670643
    Abstract: A driving backplane, a display panel and a display device are disclosed. The driving backplane includes: a base substrate; a plurality of pixel driving circuits located on the base substrate; an electrode located on a side of each of the pixel driving circuits facing away from the base substrate and coupled with the pixel driving circuits; and a potential wire located between the electrode and the base substrate and coupled with the pixel driving circuits. Every at least two pixel driving circuits are coupled with a same signal line through a multiplexing controller, an orthographic projection of the controller on the base substrate completely falls into a range of a corresponding micro light emitting diode bonding region, and an orthographic projection of a control wire coupled with the controller on the base substrate completely falls into a range of an orthographic projection of the potential wire on the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongni Liu, Liang Chen, Minghua Xuan, Haoliang Zheng, Qi Qi, Jing Liu
  • Patent number: 11663895
    Abstract: A method includes: determining, by a computing device, an operating condition of a machine in an industrial environment; determining, by the computing device, a hazard based on the operating condition; determining, by the computing device, one or more safety precautions based on the hazard; generating, by the computing device, a virtual three-dimensional holographic safety gate around the machine based on the one or more safety precautions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: KYNDRYL, INC.
    Inventors: Mauro Marzorati, Jeremy R. Fox, James Edward Regan, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11665307
    Abstract: A background display system for a virtual image recording studio comprises a background display device which is configured to display, behind or above a real subject, a representation of a virtual background for a recording by means of an associated camera, and a control device which is configured to control the background display device. The control device comprises a data input for receiving lens data from the associated camera and is configured to adjust the representation of the virtual background in dependence of the received lens data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Arnold & Richter Cine Technik GmbH & Co. Betriebs KG
    Inventor: Michael Koppetz
  • Patent number: 11656657
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to a flexible overlapping display. An embodiment of a mobile device includes a processor to process data for the mobile device, a bendable and foldable display screen, one or more device sensors to sense an orientation of the mobile device, and one or more display sensors to sense a current arrangement of the display screen. The processor is to identify one or more portions of the display screen that are visible to a user based at least in part on data from the one or more device sensors and the one or more display sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Guy M. Therien, David W. Browning, Joshua L. Zuniga
  • Patent number: 11650700
    Abstract: A portable information handling system commands a stylus to vibrate to aid in location of the stylus. The stylus vibrates at a frequency selected from a range of plural frequencies based upon a distance between the portable information handling system and stylus so that an audible noise is generated by the stylus with sufficient sound to be heard by a user of the portable information handling system while minimizing stylus power consumption. In one embodiment, a haptic film at the stylus exterior surface and/or a speaker of information handling system generates an ultrasonic sound detectable by a microphone of the information handling system and/or the stylus for determining a distance between the information handling system and the stylus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gerald R. Pelissier, Peng Lip Goh, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 11651558
    Abstract: Provided is a system and method for providing a virtual space tour, the system including: a plurality of user terminals; and a server configured to provide a virtual space corresponding to a real indoor space to the plurality of user terminals, to receive a plurality of pieces of motion data from the user terminals, to generate a plurality of motion objects corresponding to the plurality of pieces of motion data, and to generate user's tour information based on the plurality of pieces of motion data, wherein the virtual space includes 360-degree images provided at a plurality of points in the real indoor space, and the plurality of user terminals configured to be independently operated in the virtual space at a same point or different points based on the virtual space and individually generate motion data in response to a user manipulation input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: 31 INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Nathanael Santoso, Ken Kim, Ji Wuck Jung
  • Patent number: 11650424
    Abstract: The invention relates to a diffractive waveguide display element comprising a waveguide body (13) having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, an outcoupling-diffractive optical element on said first surface for coupling light propagating inside the waveguide body out of the waveguide body, and a narrow-band reflector element (21) on said second surface. The invention also relates to a display device comprising such element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: DISPELIX OY
    Inventors: Juuso Olkkonen, Antti Sunnari
  • Patent number: 11650668
    Abstract: A flexible haptic interface including a haptic structure defining a touch surface touchable by a user, the structure including a plurality of stiff touch pixels borne by a flexible carrier, at least one actuator that makes contact with each pixel and that is arranged to transmit, to the pixel, a mechanical excitation that leads to an effect perceptible tactilely by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Fabrice Casset
  • Patent number: 11650423
    Abstract: An augmented reality display system. The system can include a first eyepiece waveguide with a first input coupling grating (ICG) region. The first ICG region can receive a set of input beams of light corresponding to an input image having a corresponding field of view (FOV), and can in-couple a first subset of the input beams. The first subset of input beams can correspond to a first sub-portion of the FOV. The system can also include a second eyepiece waveguide with a second ICG region. The second ICG region can receive and in-couple at least a second subset of the input beams. The second subset of the input beams can correspond to a second sub-portion of the FOV. The first and second sub-portions of the FOV can be at least partially different but together include the complete FOV of the input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Messer, Michael Anthony Klug
  • Patent number: 11650678
    Abstract: An augmented reality or virtual reality (AR/VR) device pairs with a companion device to augment input interfaces associated with an AR/VR application at the AR/VR device. In implementations, an AR/VR device determines a portion of a markup file that corresponds to an AR/VR scene of a plurality of AR/VR scenes in an AR/VR environment, and communicates the portion of the markup file to the companion device to cause the companion device to configure a companion user interface associated with initiating an action as part of the AR/VR scene. In response to receiving user input via the companion user interface, the companion device communicates the action to the AR/VR device to initiate the action. The AR/VR device receives input data from the companion device, and initiates the action for the AR/VR scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Reino Timonen, Andrew Chalkley
  • Patent number: 11644898
    Abstract: A method for determining a series of gaze positions of at least one eye over time is provided. The method comprises capturing a video of a user's face simultaneously with displaying a stimulus video on a screen and extracting at least one color component for each one of a plurality of images obtained from the video of the user's face. Based on the at least one color component for each one of the plurality of images, the series of gaze positions of the user's face over the time of the video is determined. A system for determining a series of gaze positions of at least one eye over time is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: INNODEM NEUROSCIENCES
    Inventors: Etienne De Villers-Sidani, Paul Alexandre Drouin-Picaro
  • Patent number: 11640238
    Abstract: A method of controlling a portable device including first and second touch screens is provided. The method includes displaying first information related to a first application on the first touch screen and displaying second information related to the first application on the second touch screen; receiving a first user input moving to the first touch screen on the second touch screen; and replacing the first information and the second information with a third information and a fourth information related to the first application on the first and second touch screens, in response to receiving the first user input, wherein each of the third information and the fourth information is displayed while being slidden from the second touch screen to the first touch screen and the third information is displayed over a boundary between the first and second screens during the sliding of the third and fourth information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon-Kyu Seo, Kyung-A Kang, Ji-Yeon Kwak, Hyun-Jin Kim, Hyun-Jung Song, Sung-Sik Yoo, Ju-Youn Lee, Dong-Seok Ryu, Min-Kyu Park
  • Patent number: 11635932
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of displaying visual information to a user that includes tracking a location of the user within a pre-defined region, determining a current display screen from a plurality of display screens installed in the pre-defined region, based on current user location, determining a current display position on the current display screen based on the current user location, wherein the current display position is at a pre-defined distance from the current user location, and displaying the visual information on the current display position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Everseen Limited
    Inventors: Razvan-Dorel Cioarga, Joe Allen, Raymond Hegarty, Ana Cristina Todoran, Adrian Fit