Patents Examined by Vijay Shankar
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Patent number: 11699383Abstract: A display is created using “smart pixels.” A smart pixel is a pixel of a display that integrates the pixel pipeline as part of the pixel, rather than using separate integrated circuits. A smart pixel may be based on an integrated stack that includes light emitting elements, an external data contact for receiving digital data for that pixel, and also the pixel pipeline from the digital data to the light emitting elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Tectus CorporationInventors: Paul Scott Martin, Naamah Argaman, Michael West Wiemer
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Patent number: 11694639Abstract: The present invention provides a backlight module and a method for calculating viewing angle for an unknown backlight module. In the present invention, brightness-viewing angle values of the unknown backlight module can be calculated according to the color saturation-viewing angle data of the unknown backlight module at specific viewing angles, and thus are taken to deploy the brightness-viewing angle values of a produced backlight module to be as the same as the brightness-viewing angle values of the unknown backlight module.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Bo Hai
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Patent number: 11693240Abstract: A three-dimensional display device includes a display panel, a barrier panel, and a controller that controls the display panel and the barrier panel. The controller defines multiple first image areas and multiple second image areas in the display panel, causes the first image areas to be at first intervals in a first direction, causes displaying of a first image viewable by a first eye of a user in the first image areas and a second image viewable by a second eye of the user in the second image areas, defines, in the barrier panel, multiple first transmissive areas transmissive to the image light at a first transmissivity and multiple second transmissive areas transmissive to the image light at a second transmissivity, causes the first transmissive areas to be at second intervals in the first direction, and performs an irregular process at third intervals in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignees: KYOCERA Corporation, UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKAInventors: Kaoru Kusafuka, Hideya Takahashi, Goro Hamagishi
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Patent number: 11694585Abstract: A display apparatus includes: an irradiation section to be irradiated with image light while being driven to cause a three-dimensional image be displayed based on reflected image light in a manner visible to a user using an afterimage effect; a driver that drives the irradiated section; circuitry that acquires two-dimensional image data generated according to at least one of an angle or a position of the irradiation section being driven; and an irradiation device that irradiates the irradiated section with the image light based on the two-dimensional image data that is acquired.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Masaru Kumagai, Takehisa Kitakawa, Ryosuke Kasahara, Kohei Watanabe, Tomokazu Namiki
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Patent number: 11694608Abstract: A calibrating device includes a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store at least one computer readable instruction. The processor is electrically coupled to the memory, and configured to access and execute the at least one computer readable instruction to: analyze an image of a target region which a seam between two LED panels disposed side by side is in, to obtain characteristic data associated with the seam; compare the characteristic data associated with the seam with a predetermined value to generate a comparison result; and adjust grayscale data of pixels which are arranged in two lines of the two LED panels and adjacent to the seam, based on the comparison result, for adjusting luminance-chromaticity of the pixels, wherein the two lines are in a first direction or a second direction, and the first direction is perpendicular to the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Po-Yuan Hsieh, Yu-Yi Chien, Wen-Lung Hung
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Patent number: 11687311Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITEDInventors: Xiao Liu, Wei Zheng, Li Liu, Yanan Tian, Longfei Liu
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Patent number: 11681392Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Disolav Co.. Ltd.Inventor: Kouichi Anno
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Patent number: 11681367Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 6, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventor: Ryan Michael Ebert
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Patent number: 11681390Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 4, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Inventors: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Patrick Troy Gray
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Patent number: 11682157Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Inventors: Wade I. Lagrone, Edwin Angkasa, Bullit Sesariza, Indra Madyasiwi, Ali Alhabsyi, Cecylia Wati, Joseph Chamdani
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Patent number: 11675190Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 3, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Liang Yuan, John Avery
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Patent number: 11676953Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Andreas Bibi, Kapil V. Sakariya, Vikram Pavate
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Patent number: 11670643Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Dongni Liu, Liang Chen, Minghua Xuan, Haoliang Zheng, Qi Qi, Jing Liu
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Patent number: 11663895Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: KYNDRYL, INC.Inventors: Mauro Marzorati, Jeremy R. Fox, James Edward Regan, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Patent number: 11665307Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Arnold & Richter Cine Technik GmbH & Co. Betriebs KGInventor: Michael Koppetz
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Patent number: 11656657Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Guy M. Therien, David W. Browning, Joshua L. Zuniga
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Patent number: 11650700Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Gerald R. Pelissier, Peng Lip Goh, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
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Patent number: 11650424Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: DISPELIX OYInventors: Juuso Olkkonen, Antti Sunnari
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Patent number: 11650668Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 17, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventor: Fabrice Casset
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Patent number: 11651558Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: 31 INC.Inventors: Kevin Nathanael Santoso, Ken Kim, Ji Wuck Jung