Patents Examined by Vijay Shankar
  • Patent number: 11928309
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of provisioning a collaborative virtual experience to two or more users, in accordance with some embodiments. The method may include transmitting an interactive 3D model data to two or more follower user devices associated with two or more followers. Further, the method may include receiving two or more follower state data from the two or more follower user devices. Further, the method may include generating a collaborative view data based on the interactive 3D model data and the two or more follower state data. Further, the method may include transmitting the collaborative view data to a leader user device operated by a leader associated with the two or more followers. Further, the leader user device may be configured for presenting the collaborative view data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SY Interiors Pvt. Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunder Jagannathan, Vivek Agarwal, Hitesh Singla, Piyush Bothra
  • Patent number: 11928251
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method comprising the steps of: receiving an input of content motion data included in VR content; transmitting, to a motion device, motion control data corresponding to the input content motion data to control movement of the motion device; receiving, from a predetermined sensing apparatus, motion detection data corresponding to a movement state of the motion device; selecting a motion sickness-causing section by using a difference between the motion control data and the motion detection data; generating final motion control data according to a preset algorithm such that the level of motion sickness in the selected motion sickness-causing section is minimized during a preset content reproduction section, and storing the generated final motion control data; and when 3D VR content is reproduced, transmitting, to the motion device, the final motion control data stored in the previous step so as to control the movement of the motion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: 3D INTERACTIVE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Hyuk Kim, Bok-Dong Choi, Jong-Deok Lee
  • Patent number: 11928755
    Abstract: Integrating virtual tours on digital resources is provided. A system receives a call generated by a client application executed on a client device responsive to a refresh of a digital resource. The system identifies a request for content for display in a content slot on the digital resource having a content slot size. The system transmits, to the client device, a viewer application configured to execute a priority caching function in the content slot. The viewer application downloads, based on the priority caching function and a computing characteristic of the client device, a first portion of a virtual tour. The viewer application renders the first portion of the virtual tour via the content slot. The viewer application establishes a controller that controls rendering of the virtual tour in response to a detection of an interaction on the digital resource outside the content slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Threshold 360, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Kraus, Sean Kovacs
  • Patent number: 11914917
    Abstract: A tiled display apparatus includes a main display driving board and display modules. Each display module includes a system board. The main display driving board is coupled to a first stage system board. The main display driving board is configured to receive a display signal, acquire a main screen region display signal, and transmit the main screen region display signal to the first stage system board. The system board is configured to receive the main screen region display signal, and extract a group of main screen region display data corresponding thereto from the main screen region display signal to control a display module to which the system board belongs to display an image according to the main screen region display data. Except for a last stage system board, remaining system boards are each further configured to transmit the received main screen region display signal to a next stage system board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shou Li, Enliang Zhang, Jiakun Qi, Zhankun Meng, Hengyu Yan, Junning Su, Hanzhang Niu
  • Patent number: 11915629
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of display modules; a memory storing information on an arrangement relation of the plurality of display modules; and a processor configured to: based on receiving a user command selecting any one of the plurality of display modules in a mode for adjusting a set value of the display panel, identify a first display module corresponding to the user command among the plurality of display modules, identify at least one second display module adjacent to the first display module among the plurality of display modules, based on the information on the arrangement relation, and control the display panel such that the first display module and the at least one second display module display a test image, and remaining display modules among the plurality of display modules display an image different from the test image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangjun Park, Kwansik Yang
  • Patent number: 11907738
    Abstract: An image processing method applied to a display device having a processing circuit and a screen and includes: receiving a first image from one of a plurality of electronic devices; detecting whether the first image has a black border area; and if the first image has the black border area, performing a first display operation, wherein performing the first display operation includes: removing the black border area of the first image, to generate a second image; adjusting the size of the second image according to the size of a display area of the screen; calculating a first blank area of the screen based on the adjusted second image; requesting a third image from another one of the electronic devices according to the size of the first blank area; and filling the display area of the screen with the adjusted second image and the third image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Yuh-Wey Lin, Chun-Hao Huang
  • Patent number: 11907737
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments of the disclosure may includes a display and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to identify a first object and first data for content constituting the first object, receive an input for selecting a second object, generate a third object by synthesizing the second object based on the first object, display, on the display, third data for the generated third object and content constituting the third object, execute the second object on the displayed third object in case of detecting an occurrence of a predetermined event, and map a control of second data for content constituting the executed second object onto the third object and the third data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonbyeong Park, Sangheon Kim, Jeonghoon Kim, Junyoung Kim, Yeunwook Lim
  • Patent number: 11907464
    Abstract: A signal to be used to propagate a propagating signal through a propagating medium with a touch input surface is sent. The propagating signal has been allowed to propagate through the propagating medium to a plurality of receivers coupled to the propagating medium. A received signal affected by a contact contacting the touch input surface is received. At least a portion of the received signal is compared with one or more reference signal signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sentons Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel W. Sheng, Shih-Ming Shih, Shirish A. Altekar, Lapoe E. Lynn, Yenyu Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11906756
    Abstract: A light emitting diode display panel may comprise a substrate, a plurality of light emitting diodes located over the substrate, and an optical assembly located over the plurality of light emitting diodes. The optical assembly may include a lens array and a diffuser. An inner surface of the lens array may define a plurality of inner curves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Danielle L. Grolman, Jose-Rodrigo Castillo-Garza, Dustin D. Caldwell, Brigid A. Blakeslee
  • Patent number: 11910068
    Abstract: A method is provided. The method includes: reading video information of a 3D video to be rendered; determining an image format of the 3D video according to the video information; generating a first spherical model and a second spherical model according to the image format; reading a frame image of the 3D video, where the frame image includes a first sub-image and a second sub-image; obtaining angle-of-view rotation data and image sealing data; rendering the frame image according to the angle-of-view rotation data and the image scaling data, where the first sub-image is rendered to the first spherical model to obtain a first spherical image, and the second sub-image is rendered to the second spherical model to obtain a second spherical image; and outputting images in a viewport area of the first spherical image and the second spherical image to a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai Bilibili Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lin Fu, Hui Chen
  • Patent number: 11900852
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device for obtaining display compensation information, a display compensation method and a display compensation device. The method includes: obtaining target data in a pure-color image displayed by a display panel, the display panel including a plurality of pixels, each pixel includes a plurality of monochromatic light-emitting elements in various colors, each monochromatic light-emitting element in a corresponding color being configured to display an image at a highest grayscale value when the pure-color image is displayed by the display panel; determining a conversion matrix for a target gamut of the display panel and a pixel conversion matrix for each pixel in accordance with the target data; and determining a uniformity conversion matrix for performing brightness and chromaticity uniformity compensation on each pixel in accordance with the pixel conversion matrix and the conversion matrix for the target gamut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiangjun Peng, Tiankuo Shi, Chenxi Zhao, Yifan Hou, Xiaomang Zhang, Wei Sun, Shuo Zhang, Yan Sun
  • Patent number: 11893695
    Abstract: A VR (Virtual Reality) simulator projects or displays a virtual space image on a screen installed at a position distant from a user in a real space and not integrally moving with the user. More specifically, the VR simulator acquires a real user position being a position of the user's head in the real space. The VR simulator acquires a virtual user position being a position in a virtual space corresponding to the real user position. Then, the VR simulator acquires the virtual space image by imaging the virtual space by using a camera placed at the virtual user position in the virtual space, based on virtual space configuration information indicating a configuration of the virtual space. Here, the VR simulator performs adjusts a focal length of the camera such that perspective corresponding to a distance between the real user position and the screen is cancelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Wataru Kaku
  • Patent number: 11892568
    Abstract: A depth map sensor includes a first array of first pixels, each first pixel having a first photodetector associated with a pixel circuit that comprises a plurality of first bins for accumulating events. A clock source is configured to generate a plurality of phase-shifted clock signals. A first circuit has a plurality of first output lines coupled to the first array of first pixels. The first circuit is configured to receive the plurality of phase-shifted clock signals. The first circuit includes a first block and a second block. The first block is configured to propagate the plurality of phase-shifted clock signals to the second block during a first period determined by a first enable signal and the second block configured to select to which of the plurality of first output lines each of the plurality of phase-shifted clock signals is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: STMICROELECTRONICS (GRENOBLE 2) SAS, STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) LIMITED
    Inventors: Ivelina Hristova, Pascal Mellot, Neale Dutton
  • Patent number: 11887529
    Abstract: A pixel array is provided. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixels, wherein each of the pixels includes a light emitting diode, a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, and a fifth transistor. The first transistor receives a first data signal and a first scan signal. The second transistor is coupled to the first transistor and an anode of the light emitting diode. The third transistor receives a system high voltage and a first control signal, and is coupled to the second transistor. The fourth transistor is coupled to an anode of a light emitting diode of an adjacent pixel, a control terminal of the third transistor, and a cathode of the light emitting diode. The fifth transistor is coupled to the cathode of the light emitting diode, and receives a second control signal and a system low voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ya-Jung Wang, Jing-Wun Jhang, Rong-Fu Lin, Nien-Chen Li, Hsien-Chun Wang, Che-Chia Chang, June Woo Lee, Hsin-Ying Lin, Chia-Ting Hsieh, Chien-Fu Huang, Sung-Yu Su
  • Patent number: 11886696
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing application hotspots on an endpoint device are presented. A computing device may provide an endpoint device with access to a remote application. The remote application may be hosted on the computing device and displayable on the endpoint device in a form of a user interface. The computing device determine an adjustment to the user interface based on coordinates of a feature of user interface and a screen size of the endpoint device. The computing device may provide data to the endpoint device to render the user interface thereon. The user interface may include an element different than the feature and configured to initiate the determined adjustment to the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventors: Peng Yao, Tianyu Xiao, Yang Wang
  • Patent number: 11880505
    Abstract: A method for modulating a position of a movable command input image displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) based on a user viewing direction relative to graphical user interface comprises capturing real time images of the user's face, eyes and irises. The general eye orientation of the user is determined based on the real time images. A first position of the movable command input image displayed on the GUI is determined. The GUI is separated into portions. A real-time correlation between the general eye orientation and one or more of the interface portions is determined thereby determining a viewing direction of the user and one or more real-time viewed interface portions. The movable command input image is moved from the first position to a second position on the GUI. The second position is at the one or more real-time viewed interface portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: APP-POP-UP INC.
    Inventors: Rajeev Kumar, Rakesh Kumar
  • Patent number: 11861159
    Abstract: A method is performed at a mobile device with a display. The method includes displaying a first mode of a plurality of modes of the device. The first mode of the device is active when a first set of time and/or device location criteria are met and the second mode of the device is active when a second set of time and/or device location criteria are met. While the first set of time and/or device location criteria are met and the first mode of the device is active, the mobile device detects a first input that overrides the first mode of the device. In response to detecting the first input, the mobile device activates the second mode of the device. The mobile device detects a second input and, in response to detecting the second input, performs an operation in the second mode of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Marcel van Os, Donald W. Pitschel
  • Patent number: 11853527
    Abstract: While displaying a first view of a three-dimensional environment corresponding to a first viewpoint, a computer system detects user inputs specifying a navigation target in the three-dimensional environment and triggering a navigation operation toward the navigation target. The computer system displays an updated view of the three-dimensional environment corresponding to a second viewpoint closer to the navigation target than the first viewpoint, but the second viewpoint is spaced apart from the navigation target and the second viewpoint is selected in accordance with a predefined characteristic of the navigation target in conjunction with the respective position of the navigation target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Philipp Rockel, William A. Sorrentino, III, Stephen O. Lemay, Peter D. Anton
  • Patent number: 11847985
    Abstract: The present application proposes a display device and a driving method thereof. The display device includes a display panel and a driving control module. The display panel includes first data lines and second data lines. The driving control module controls each of the first data lines and each of the second data lines to output a first data signal and a second data signal. A high electric potential period of the first data signal is within a low electric potential period of the second data signal. A high electric potential period of the second data signal is within a low electric potential period of the first data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wenfang Li
  • Patent number: 11832560
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for detecting and aligning the orientation of a displayed irrigation system. According to first preferred embodiment, the method preferably may include the steps of: initializing a controller; polling sensors and initiating the detection of a center pivot location; detecting the position of an outer drive tower; calculating the relative orientation between the center pivot and the outer drive tower; detecting and recording the position of magnetic north; calculating image display data for the irrigation span; transmitting image display data to a display device; displaying the irrigation span at a user selected azimuth and displaying other displayed items at an angle offset from the user selected azimuth; monitoring changes to orientation; recalculating image display data if any orientation change is detected; and retransmitting the image display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventors: Tracy A. Thatcher, Mark Moeller